Word: behavioural
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...monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause you to be on time for classes with both eyes open, though the rest of you be closed; when all these things culminate in a full dress uniform, a bridal veil, and a minister ... brother...
...some. Married men will positively be permitted to live off the campus next semester, whether the place is crowded or not. So you can stop the eager counting of heads as new groups arrive aboard. And Wifey, we hope, will soon be readmitted to Cowie Hall, on good behaviour, since no great loss of equipment was suffered in last week's "incident" and repairs are almbost completed...
...must arise from greatness in the composer himself, greatness not defined in terms of talent, fecundity, or energy, but in terms of character. The internal strength, in a sense, the moralness, of music is what binds it fast as an art to the sum-total of human history and behaviour. Like a piece of music, the life of a man is an improvization and development of a period of time. Both, to be great, must pack as much meaning and strength as possible into the time given...
...Sundays he can always be found sitting contentedly on his front lawn, colorfully attired in a pair of bright blue slacks, digging crab grass from his garden with his two lively youngsters. So it is from personal experience that he is able to draw his frequent analogies from child behaviour. But in spite of a busy life of teaching and acquiring knowledge, he envies men of action. "The life of a philosopher," he says, "is the life of the mind...
...greater miracles [than the use of handkerchiefs] have occurred. A wonderful improvement has taken place ... regarding the practice of spitting on floors and sidewalks and in vehicles. Only those who have seen this improvement could believe it possible to influence the public in personal behaviour in so short a time. Transferring a cold to another person is the worst of bad manners...