Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and genteel settings, she is as hard-boiled as any writer of detective fiction. Many of Brookner's principals are updatings of that familiar character, the English spinster as connoisseur of other people's behavior. Rachel is not only unattached but detached, a state that suits her analytical intelligence and chilly rectitude...
...selection system dealt harshly with Gary Hart's defective personal behavior. Dick Gephardt, whose candidacy teeters on the brink of destruction, probably lost ground because he came across as having far greater ambitions than convictions. The one candidate who was perhaps disposed of too quickly was Bruce Babbitt, who brought refreshing candor and intellectual rigor to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Yet he too was burdened with a major shortcoming. Until the very end of his campaign, he failed to master a primary presidential skill -- the effective use of television as a tool of leadership...
...talk begins to break the ice between Jewish and non-Jewish Americans, thus displaying exactly how much or how little anti-Semitism is being concealed. Anti-Semites and Jews alike may be shocked to discover that for most Americans, being opposed to one or another aspect of Israel's behavior is just that and no more, having nothing to do with deep- or shallow- seated anti-Jewish feelings...
...Baltimore researchers were disturbed to find that one-third of the men carrying the AIDS virus and nearly half the women had no idea that they had engaged in any behavior that put them at risk. The proposed solutions: more AIDS screening and personal counseling at clinics for sexually transmitted diseases, greater efforts to eradicate syphilis and other diseases that lead to genital ulcerations, and more education about safe sex and the dangers of drug abuse. With AIDS, there will be no quick fixes or startling innovations, just the desperate, backbreaking efforts required to persuade people to make small...
...their controversial new book, Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS, Sex Therapists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson answer yes, and provoke an uproar from the medical community. -- Amid popular confusion about the danger of AIDS, researchers are beginning to learn more about the virus and how it is transmitted during sex between men and women...