Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation into professors' dealingswith the CIA "does involve individual behavior,"he said. "There may be a role for [new] rules" inthis area...
...most interesting thing about the study is that it is double-blind," another participant recalls. "One doctor knows what drug we've been given, but we don't know, and neither do the people monitoring us--so they don't know what to expect and can't influence our behavior...
...born and raised Black. For the past two decades of my life I have unhappily watched the erosion of the long-time alliance between Blacks and Jews (an erosion I do not have the time or space to get into here). I have been the target of intolerant behavior from both groups, and find distasteful in the extreme any measure of intolerance from a member of an oppressed group; needless to say, I have many days when I despair of social harmony. Still, it is precisely because I am at bedrock an optimist that I am writing this letter...
...that we were flying toward the west. I was pleased because it seemed I was leaving the Soviet Union." When he asked the KGB agents where they were heading, one replied that he was authorized to say Shcharansky was being deprived of his Soviet citizenship because of his "bad behavior" and was being handed over to the U.S. as an American spy. In reply, Shcharansky said he was glad that, 13 years after he had made known his wish to give up his citizenship and leave the Soviet Union, the authorities were granting his request...
...sees it, one man's act of courage inspires another, and that person's inspires a third, forming a chain of ethical defiance. "When I was put on trial after months of complete isolation, I was inspired by the behavior of people who had gone through the same experience and remained the way they were before. They hadn't given in or given up, and that gave me hope." He adds: "I also gained strength from the pages of our Jewish history." Shcharansky cites Judah Maccabee, leader of an Israelite band that revolted and threw off the yoke of Syrian...