Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Model Behavior. In Manhattan, Detective James Costello, patrolling Broadway in the small hours, noticed a shattered show window displaying four dummies, three nude, one clothed. When the clothed dummy twitched, Detective Costello reached in and arrested one Albert Gibson for burglary...
...hint of just how difficult the postwar German problem may be was given last week by New York Timesman Frederick Graham. Of the behavior of Germans remaining in the villages occupied by U.S. troops he wrote: "As a matter of honest reporting, it must be said that those left behind behave in a manner that is touched with quiet dignity. They do not have the hangdog look, and they do not give the impression that they want, or would even accept, sympathy. They give the appearance of people who have not lost either a belief in themselves or their dignity...
...Hawaii, has come up with a G.I. Hamlet. Moreover, it has come up smiling. With Major Maurice Evans bossing the job and playing the introspective Prince for the first time since 1940, the effect on the dogfaces has been, for Evans, "simply staggering." They even rise above normal behavior by refraining from hollering or whistling when performers go into a clinch. Commented one G.I.: "They certainly must have done a lot of rewriting to bring that play so up to date...
...Good behavior can cut their terms down to one-third. The Secretary of the Navy may soften the punishment after the Judge Advocate General reviews their unprecedented case. Likely to be the heaviest burden for some of them to bear (unless there is clemency) is the fact that when they get out of prison all will be dishonorably discharged...
...remarks painted underneath, and the names of lorries, gave offense. We thought "So this is the American Army." The next batch was duly snubbed, poor fellows, and although they were well-behaved we refused to thaw. The third batch was a fine example of military efficiency and good behavior, and they soon won our friendship. Their lorries, equipment, uniforms were spotless; they nailed tins to every post and tree for the rubbish, dug pits to burn it, swept the roads to keep them neat, were courteous and never rowdy or rude...