Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission's conclusions were couched amid careful clauses that only partly tempered the strong attack on pornography: the panel stated that there is a causal link between violent pornography and aggressive behavior toward women. Furthermore, it said that exposure to sexually explicit material that is not violent but nevertheless degrades women -- a category that "constitutes somewhere between the predominant and the overwhelming portion of what is currently standard fare heterosexual pornography" -- bears "some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence." The Meese panel's findings are diametrically opposed to those of the 1970 report of the President's Commission...
...batch of immigrants become its citizens. More than 30,000 strong, including employees and students, Harvard's a small town with big city morals. While here you'll find a diversity rarely found in a community of this size and a pleasant tolerance of ideas and different modes of behavior...
...Lyndon Johnson, attacked the Democrats' traditional focus on racism as the cause of black poverty and on welfare programs as a way to alleviate it. At last week's session he again charged that the welfare system "may be subsidizing the spread of self-destructive behavior in our poor communities...
...more responsibility for teenage pregnancy and social disintegration within the ghetto. Harvard Government Professor Glenn Loury, one of the leading lights of this new movement, told the Democrats that welfare "makes it possible" for a recipient to remain locked in poverty. Calling for a "frank acknowledgment" of the pathological behavior of some segments of the underclass, he stressed that welfare recipients should be encouraged to develop an "obligation" to improve their situation by taking on the responsibilities of work and family...
...family has aged only 25 years. To make things more confusing, the actors--almost all of whom were in drag in the first act--have played musical roles and are now cast more traditionally according to sex. That is if anything in this play can constitute traditional sexual behavior...