Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given electric shocks when they look at pictures of nude men and granted relief from the shocks when they view female figures (see cut). "What we are doing," explains Reinforcement Therapist Ogden Lindsley of the University of Kansas, "is very similar to what progressive businesses do. We constantly monitor performance. But instead of improving sales, we try to improve behavior." Such a pragmatic approach is seen as one of the major advantages of behavior therapy by its supporters. Instead of searching for the elusive causes of neurosis, as in psychoanalysis, behavior therapy deals solely with neurotic symptoms and tries only...
...electronics-crammed Russian "listening ships" have been stationed about 80 miles off the Israeli coast. >Soviet radar installed on the ground in Egypt can monitor air routes over Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. > Hundreds of Soviet intelligence experts are at work in Middle East evaluation centers in Cairo and Alexandria...
...Times, it became "a matter of keeping a paper or so ahead" of the Government's court actions. Some newspapers were favored because Ellsberg thought they had reported Viet Nam to his taste in the past; others were chosen "rather arbitrarily." He picked the Christian Science Monitor and the Detroit Free Press "because my father reads them." From the inside of government, Ellsberg added, it seemed easy to control news; he wanted newspapers to be tougher to deal with. "I think they will be in the future," he said...
...court's decision a year ago upholding tax exemptions for church property. In Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York, Burger argued that the process of assessing and taxing church-owned property would create an "excessive entanglement" between state and church. Supervisors who monitor teachers in the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island plans might sufficiently restrain pedagogues from advancing religion to meet the Allen test. But ironically, such checks would violate the Walz test by producing "the sort of entanglement that the Constitution forbids"-in this case "dangers of excessive Government direction." The plans would also inevitably...
...share of incipient radicals-both political and cultural. Edwin Randall, Jr., one of the two black men in the class, writes "for the minorities, power is the only answer-first political and then economic, legally acquired and wisely used." Melvin Maddocks of the Christian Science Monitor echoes the confusions of the class of '71 when he writes, "I guess I'm not sure Harvard really exists. But then, I had the same problem when I was there." And, Jacob Leed, an English professor at Kent State University, simply writes...