Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last spring, a hot summer seemed inevitable in some of the nation's ghettos. Little had been done to rehabilitate the inner cities since the desperate rioting in the late 1960s; conditions, in fact, had deteriorated in many cities under the impact of the recession. Black unemployment had reached as high as 10% and the figure was considerably higher for teenagers, who are the ones most likely to go on a rampage. Fund cutoffs and cutbacks were the order of the day at nearly every level of government. It was not surprising that many civil rights leaders and observers...
...priestly garb, smashes the holy vessels, and dances madly on the altar like a curate on a bad LSD trip. As he lashes out and people look at him, he shouts angrily, "What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen an accident?" But his inner state has been defined earlier when he sings: "My spirit falters on decaying altars and my illusions fail." Bernstein's own idea of Communion is achieved at the finale when the entire cast begins to exchange embraces and kisses of peace, and boy sopranos stroll into the auditorium, shake hands with...
...behavior to a person inside," Skinner explains. Mistakenly, we believe that man "initiates, originates and creates, and in doing so he remains, as he was for the Greeks, divine. We say that he is autonomous." But Skinner insists that autonomy is a myth, and that belief in an "inner man" is a superstition that originated, like belief in God, in man's inability to understand his world. With the rise of behavioral science, understanding has grown, and man no longer needs such fictions as "something going on inside the individual, states of mind, feelings, purposes, expectancies and all of that...
...generally an ineffective means of control. "A person who has been punished," he writes in his new book, "is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. Our task is not to encourage moral struggle or to build or demonstrate inner...
After Satchmo. Success there led to an offer to appear on the Dick Cavett Show. That fell through. Enrico's current engagement at Manhattan's Inner Circle came next, as well as a number of tapings for television appearances before the family heads back to England -and school...