Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flaw in style is compounded, in Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about...
Outrage and Acclaim. Political Scientist Barber claims no credentials in behavioral science. His analysis of Nixon, he admits, is not based on personal acquaintance, but only on careful study of the President's upbringing, rhetorical style, ideological evolution and relations with advisers and opponents. To most laymen, such long-distance analysis will seem outrageous, and behavior experts are bound to take issue with Barber's admittedly unscientific methods and conclusions. But the convention delegates acclaimed his technique. President Watcher James MacGregor Burns thought that Barber's paper provided an "excellent link" between studies of presidential personalities...
...authors and artists-Emile Zola and Bonnard, for example-have immortalized their mistresses in their art. For the past 18 years the popular daily newspaper France Soir has run an illustrated serial titled "Famous Love Affairs." And now comes a bestselling survey of 93 French males entitled The Sexual Behavior of the Married Man in France...
...that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead to important changes in the psychological treatment of the elderly and the seriously ill. If further study bears out this hypothesis, Phillips says, it will prove that "dying can be a form of social behavior...
Condon's great and nourishing strength has always been his mania for mania. The mushy midsection of the human-behavior range has no interest for him, and ordinary psychosis not much more. What grips his imagination, and shakes it till splendid words fall out, is the tic of a human bomb. In one novel, a beautiful woman feeds for 20 years on the high-held hope that she will one day, somehow, be able to chop up her lover with a machete. In another, a man sets out, in more sinister fashion, to learn by heart every last scrap...