Word: behavioural
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...book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
Contributing mightily to the general excitement and confusion was the erratic behaviour of the Eisenhower train. At Saginaw, Ike had barely opened his mouth to say "Ladies & gentlemen . . ." when the engineer sent the Eisenhower train rolling inexorably away from the assembled crowd. At Lapeer, the next stop, the train again pulled out before Ike could speak, then halted some distance off, where Ike and Mamie began to sign autographs. As the train started up for the second time, Ike caught Mamie in the act of handing a pen down to an autograph-seeker and cried out in anguish...
About the only fact of which the author lets the audience be completely certain is that an earthquake has ravaged a small Italian city, and three of its survivors have migrated to the town where the play's action takes place. Their unconventional behaviour towards one another puzzles the towns-people, and an informal committee sets itself up to find out exactly what the story is. Nothing can be determined except that one of the protagonists is mad. Which one, it is impossible to decide...
...Senator said that regulation and subsidization of industries should be reduced and more reliance placed on "free market behaviour--provided that competition in this area could be restored." He felt that a greater degree of competition might be obtained, particularly in heavy industries, if "we got hot on the anti-trust acts...
According to the current neo-Pavlovian theories, Bauer says, "the 'New Soviet Man' controls his traits and his behaviour. Anything that goes wrong is caused by his failure to adjust to Stalinism, and is not Stalinism's fault." Bauer's book on Soviet psychology. "The New Soviet Man," will be published this spring by the Harvard University Press...