Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexuals in metropolitan San Francisco, I look forward to the day when California will follow the lead of Great Britain and reform the laws dealing with our behavior [July 14]. The life we homosexuals lead is difficult enough because of prejudice and ignorance. The laws proscribing sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex create a paradise for blackmailers and an inferno for those of us who ask no more than to be accepted on our own merits...
...society are born out of both: violence and gentle cooperation." That is how Psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim defines a paradoxical but inescapable fact touching the whole history of "the children of Cain." How the two forces are balanced in an individual helps determine his behavior, even his sanity. How they are balanced in society helps determine its political organization, the degree and condition of its civilization. In the U.S. today, it seems to many that violence is in the ascendant over cooperation, disruption over order, and anger over reason...
...United States Congress has shown amazing insensitivity and lack of rational behavior in its response to the current racial violence in the cities. It has not acted to alleviate the conditions which have made such outbreaks possible; it has not set priorities for government spending; it has not introduced curative or preventive emergency legislation. Instead, it is hastily pushing anti-riot legislation that can only be characterized as irrelevant, futile, and more irritating than beneficial...
Since the elections, according to Lottman, state and county officials have been much less discreet in their behavior towards Negroes; they have condoned behavior that they discouraged in the days when Negroes were lining up in large numbers to register. "Nobody's afraid of the Negro vote these days," says Lottman. "Nobody's afraid that the federal government is going to do anything...
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This careful sampling of the letters of the tragic poet-genius contains some of his best prose and proves that in his heart he was far less irresponsible than his outrageous behavior indicated...