Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hyland, he wrote, insisted that the Japanese be given full credit for their magnificent behavior throughout the crisis, but actually the Colonel himself and his team of 10 officers and 17 men served as the main rallying point for the crushed and stunned natives. (One of Hyland's staff, a young officer who drove an army truck up a blazing driveway where Mydans was shooting pictures, leaped out, tossed some cans of gasoline in the truck and backed out furiously, shouting at Mydans, "looks like you found a story." He turned out to be former TIME circulation department worker...
...affair on Orizaba, however, had only touched off a growing Mexican resentment. The slaughter of precious but aftosa-ridden cattle had been hard to take. And Mexican tempers had long been riled by the behavior of some U.S. members of the anti-aftosa commission. Some of them (one U.S. official described them as having a "Texas mentality") had scoffed at their well-educated but poorly paid Mexican colleagues. Few of the Americans bothered to learn Spanish, few tried to understand Mexican temperament...
...glared at linesmen when they flubbed decisions and took kicks at the ball when he missed easy shots. He fell a great many times and got up very slowly. London's Daily Telegraph tried to be charitable: "Should we not be nearer the truth in regarding his behavior more in the light of an overgrown schoolboy than as a schemer trying to steal a rest...
After the match, the embarrassed chairman of the Nottinghamshire Club apologized to Don Bradman, Australia's cricketing Babe Ruth, for the crowd's behavior. Bradman could afford to be gracious. His bully boys, with the help of bumpers, were leading England (which hadn't had its second innings yet) by 478 runs...
...speech last week to the American Psychopathological Association, in Manhattan, Dr. Kinsey stuck to his guns-arguing, even more emphatically than he has before, that man's sex habits aren't very different from those of other mammals. Most of man's sexual behavior that is now considered abnormal, he said, is "part & parcel of our inheritance as mammals and is natural and normal biologically." It is, he said, scientifically sound to look to mammalian background "as sources of human behavior." He was seconded by Yale Psychologist Frank Beach, who has studied sex habits from shrews* (mouselike...