Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everyone hoped that Makarios could be persuaded to come around and that a renewal-or heightening-of the crisis could be avoided. But diplomats who remembered Makarios' stubborn and willful behavior toward the British during Cyprus' negotiations for independence were cautious. At week's end the best efforts of the peacemakers were in the hands of a very volatile and unpredictable cleric...
...believe he is a deserving student," one wrote. The admissions committee reads that 10,000 times a year, Peterson says, and "it's hard to keep listening." The other teacher wrote, "Despite his humble and low-class origin, it is clear that he has somehow developed the manners and behavior of a young gentleman." The boy was admitted, despite an academic rating...
Moscow provided baggy civilian suits and political sanctuary for the four, prompting the U.S. to summon Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the State Department, where Deputy Under Secretary of State Foy D. Kohler orally protested the "highly improper" Soviet behavior of "assisting, harboring and exploiting" the men. "Such conduct cannot fail to complicate further the relations between our two countries," said Kohler. At the request of the four men, according to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, access to them was denied U.S. embassy representatives and Western newsmen...
...this fits what Peretz says has become the New Left's Middle East dogma: that "Israel and Israel alone must bear the blame for the past and the responsibility for the future. Not, it should be clear, only for the plight of the Arab refugees, but for the behavior of the Arab regimes as well, and even (how powerful little Israel must have become!) for the policy of the Soviet Union, its sycophants (at least when Jews are in question), and virtually the entire Third World...
...basic plot points are clear enough so that Rooks need not specify detail: we never learn the details of his cure, the motivations or interpretations of his behavior during drug withdrawal, or whether the recurring people in his visions actually exist. When Rooks does add detail, it is always relevant; talking about his life at 18-years-old, he describes himself as a creation of 42nd Street and American movies, this partially explaining two drug experiences where Rooks pictures himself as Al Capone and as Dracula (two sequences film critics have incorrectly found self-conscious and arbitrary...