Word: behaviour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class, then taught school. Evelyn's experiences left him well stocked for his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928): "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour." A young critic named Cyril Connolly spoke of Waugh's "delicious cynicism." Years later it was apparent that the vivacious style had been based on profound disgust...
...ending--a far cry from Green's more ambiguous closing--epitomizes the film's shallowness and belies the realism of the book's title. With its failure to provide any understanding of insanity. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ends up doing little more than exploiting the bizarre behaviour of psychosis for the thrill, with a sensationalism the novel's deeper treatment avoided...
Richard C. Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biology, stands out at Harvard, not for being a brilliant biologist, but for being a radical. He teaches the infamous gut Natural Sciences 36, "Biological Determinism," which is a semester long critique of theories that assert genes are the prime determinants of behaviour and intelligence. The staff teaching Nat. Sci. 36 blatantly stated their relaxed grading policy and the University emasculated the course, offering it only on a pass/fail basis and making it unacceptable for filling the general education requirement. Lewontin also helps teach a biology course on social issues with a similar...
...America to negotiate a reconciliation. An influential Pennsylvanian, and now George Washington's adjutant general, Joseph Reed, wrote to his chief: "To tell you the truth, my dear Sir, I am infinitely more afraid of these commissioners than of their generals and armies. If their propositions are plausible, and behaviour artful, I am apprehensive they will divide us." (As is now believed, Admiral Lord Howe may have got from King George a commission to negotiate; see page...
...from those who are heterosexual. Another member of H.G.S.A., Matt, remembers: "When I was in high school there were rumors going around that I was queer. (He says the word with loathing.) The other kids would persecute me by whispering 'Fag!' as I walked by, or by imitating the behaviour of what they conceived a homosexual to be. They were cruel, yes, but a large part of it stemmed from ignorance. That's why re-education is so important." And Peter, who, in his own words, "just came out of the closet," says: "Anybody who thinks that name calling...