Word: behaviour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that student leaders, elected from and by a student body, carry with them many of the views and characteristics of their electors. The NSA delegates are, at the least, aware of the trends of student opinion at their schools. It is these opinions which should and do govern their behaviour...
...believe that a code of conduct between nations is in itself important. In time, the existence of this code does begin to affect public opinion and public opinion in its turn has an influence upon the behaviour of governments...
...value of doorbell inging, for instance, should not be underestimated as an educational experience. The party worker, and particularly the college student, learn more about human relations in a night of trying to force propaganda on potential voters, than they could in any course in political or social behaviour...
Kirke Mechem's Rules for Behaviour (1955), with piano obbligato, bore up well on second hearing. Written in a crisp, clean Irving Fine manner, it took its text from some amusing rules for children found in a 1787 church in Williamsburg, Virginia. The concert, like the telecast, ended with Vaughan Williams' robust and lusty antiphon Let all the World in Every Corner Sing...
...college student, single and realistic. I have always considered myself nowise naive of the ways of the world, yet cannot help feeling distressed at this off-hand nourishment given to seeds of infidelity which might otherwise remain dormant. It is all too easy to slip into a pattern of behaviour which, though inherently wrong, has been condoned by "THE modern thinkers." Whether or not the statistics are true, I do not believe that they should be gleefully flouted about as if to say, "Guess what's happening in one out of five marriages! Wise...