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Quiet Design. "Behavior mod," as it is familiarly known, evokes flashing images of 1984 and A Clockwork Orange, complete with irresistible mind-bending techniques, drugs and, perhaps, brain surgery. In fact, the broad concept includes even the rudimentary punishment-reward systems long standard for prison guards, or, for that matter, parents, teachers and corporations. But a new legal concern rests on the fact that behavioral scientists have been quietly designing more detailed and sophisticated programs for prisons. Quietly, because behavior mod sets off something of an automatic aversion reaction of its own. Among recent legal actions...
...listener the music could just as easily suggest the drama of collective action or revolutionary opposition to capitalism. Themes by Beethoven have already served both revolution and fascism: the Ninth Symphony, for example, served as a banner both for the Spanish Republic and for Alex of A Clockwork Orange...
...Louis, ten-year-olds suit up for karate class. "This will teach you inner discipline," says their teacher. "Gonna teach 'em not to rip me off," murmurs a disciple. "Like A Clockwork Orange...
What these boys need is understanding and tolerance of the way they behave rather than a Clockwork Orange behavioral alteration...
Actor Burt Lancaster, 59, was ready to play Moses, whose eye at 120, according to the Bible, "was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Announcing his role in a six-part TV series written by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), Lancaster said, "Moses will be very different from the version put on the screen by Cecil B. DeMille." None of that larger-than-life stuff. "My Moses will be a real man," declared Burt, whose son William plays the young Moses in Egypt. "Not a hero, not a leader, but a man who is aware...