Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sole ruler of the emotional territory that he has made uniquely his. And what is he screaming about? Why, the violated constitutional rights of his client, who just happens to be a guilty-as-sin drug dealer. Eddie bullies the jury into an acquittal all right, but behavior like this is not calculated to get an audience rooting...
...Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior. Not that there are any comfortable conclusions. Woods' idealistic young associate (Robert Downey Jr.) keeps hoping that Eddie will rediscover his '60s idealism. A private eye (Margaret Colin) is standing by to offer redemptive love. These easy, familiar motivations are avoided. Eddie Dodd is not going to be anybody's exemplary case. He is a marginal one, a hard...
...ideal world, these legislators-for-life would reward the faithful electorate with an impressive display of bravery and statesmanlike behavior. So much for naive theory. To watch the House at work last week was akin to viewing one of those 1950s science-fiction movies in which the world quakes in dread of invaders from outer space. The climate of fear was that palpable...
...trying to blame the ineffectiveness of the council on Ken Lee alone. There are a number of factors that have contributed. Still, the behavior of the council, and, especially, its chair, influence the way Harvard undergraduates are viewed by the faculty of this institution and the nation at large. Lee's misplaced pride in his vandalism is offensive to us, and in no way improves the student body's standing with the administration. We would hope Lee might cease his behavior to make it more fitting of the chief representative of Harvard undergraduates. William H. Dillon '91 Philip D. Fraissinet...
...been an extension of normal human behavior, more than the '70s and '60s. Then there was a reluctance among educated people to show their affluence -- it was the time of the debutante in blue jeans who worked in a child-care center...