Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under control. But Africa is on the front line of what some researchers are already calling an AIDS pandemic. The African experience suggests the dangers and tenacity of AIDS: how thoroughly it can infect a heterosexual population, how difficult it can be to convince people to change their sexual behavior, even in the face of death...
...Lady C.'s erotic enthusiasm caused D.H. Lawrence's novel to be banned as obscene not so long ago; the book was finally cleared in the U.S. in 1959. By then it could take its place on shelves crowded with explicit fiction that celebrated the new ideal of sexual behavior it had helped to inspire. Freedom, spontaneity, pleasure without guilt became the bywords of the liberated '60s and '70s, as many men and women evolved freewheeling rituals of courtship in singles bars, in casual affairs and in relationships in which the outcomes remained insouciantly negotiable...
Permissive behavior has not disappeared from campus life, but some attitudes are being reconsidered. Monica Feinberg, 22, a heterosexual Yale graduate, maintains that bisexual dating, which was not only accepted but chic among some students at certain Ivy League colleges, is no longer exciting and * fun. "It was mostly experimentation," she stresses. "The students do not consider themselves bisexual . . . They felt that sleeping around was no longer a novelty. They moved on to something else...
Serious charges of racist behavior on the part of the police also remain unresolved. In November, for instance, an Iranian student claims he was assaulted and harassed during an arrest. And the incident that sparked the formation of the body two and a half years ago, the arrest of eight Black youths, has yet to be adequately explained...
...selfless seekers after ultimate truths about the universe. In fact, like ordinary mortals, some researchers are driven as much by ambition and ego gratification as by intellectual curiosity. As the stakes get higher -- especially when the chance of a Nobel Prize looms -- that drive sometimes manifests itself in unseemly behavior...