Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear is a discarded crutch, and social conscience must take its place," he said, adding that "in the final analysis, character determines sexual behavior...
...week long, at their Miami convention, the Legion's aging delegates were on their best behavior. Some 700 Legionnaires had been assigned to police duty to help keep order. If water pistols were flourished too carelessly, they were seized. Electric canes were appropriated on sight. Fat and fiftyish, the average delegate spent his time forlornly window-shopping with his wife, listening to assorted oratory. He perked up enough to review the lissome candidates for "Miss Majorette of America for 1948," voted Illinois' Mary Jean Peterson fairest of them all. But the big, 5½-hour parade was marred...
...Journal draws a conclusion: "The remarkable point is that as many as one-quarter think that they practice the highest, transcendent form of love-love of one's enemy . . . These figures are dramatically incompatible with the facts of American behavior as revealed on every level of national existence today...
...difficult now for parents to hand on to children clear-cut standards of what is right and what is wrong in the relations of the sexes . . . The air is blue with insistent voices . . . analyzing behavior as 'normal' which in the past we were accustomed to associate with the gutter...
...endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character and detail...