Word: behavioural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music for Karl, then philosophy. But Karl was no genius and joined the army instead. Beethoven was full of advice. In letter after letter, he upbraided the boy: "What distresses me most of all is the thought of the consequences which you will suffer as a result of your behaviour. No one will believe or trust you who has heard what has happened and how you have mortally ruined me." Taking all this to heart, Karl tried to commit suicide in 1826. Beethoven never got over the shock. A year later he died...
...lies in the distasteful and seemingly anachronistic region of class antagonism, which has been perhaps the most striking and most paradoxical social conflict of postwar England. Often enough this antagonism is jovially reduced to terms of differences in class mannerisms (as in a Punch series last summer), yet the behaviour of postwar politicians suggests strongly that it is still to be taken quite seriously...