Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan moved yesterday to ban all U.S. imports from Iran, citing "the continued and increasingly bellicose behavior" of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's government in the Persian Gulf...
...emphasize that we are taking these economic measures only after repeated but unsuccessful attempts to reduce tensions with Iran and in response to the continued and increasingly bellicose behavior of the Iranian government," he said...
...should base itself on a substructure of material detail "that supposedly goes deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual and collective behavior"; mentalite history gives "greater credence to popular beliefs than to the 'elitist' ideas of philosophers...
...Pedersen, 83, now retired from Du Pont, and Donald J. Cram, 68, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and French Chemist Jean-Marie Lehn, 48. The three were cited for their work, dating back as far as the 1960s, in creating artificial molecules that can mimic the behavior of hormones and other organic substances. The lone winner in medicine was Susumu Tonegawa, 48, a Japanese-born molecular biologist at M.I.T. His contribution: showing how a handful of genes in a small number of immune cells turn out a staggering variety of antibodies to protect the body against disease...
...secret ritualistic club, "The Bullshitters of Harvard." After many years of freelancing, the individuals apparently decided to organize in order to accomplish their mutual objective of worldwide annoyance. I attended a recent meeting during which an alumnus returned to give a speech on techniques of Harvard section behavior...