Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in recorded history that a rat has swum toward a sinking ship." Thus did former Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough brutally characterize the conversion of his old Texas antagonist John Connally to the Republican Party last week. But even if the G.O.P. is in trouble because of Watergate, it seemed a shrewd time for Connally to come aboard. If he wants to be captain himself some day, it is helpful to demonstrate that stormy weather does not faze him. He wants Republicans to say in effect: "He came over when we needed him more than he needed...
...easy buck. Army deserters run bars in the coastal cities; honorably discharged veterans turn in their O.D.s for saffron robes and study to become Buddhist monks. Some of the American expatriates are fleeing broken marriages; others simply prefer the style and pace of life in Viet Nam to the rat race back home. Whatever their reasons, it is clear that the "yellow sickness" has now claimed its share of Americans. A sampling...
...Nowhere in Behaviorist B.F. Skinner's voluminous writings does he give evidence of an inability to effectively discriminate between man and rat. However, Skinner and his distinguished students have amassed data that strongly suggest that many of the same principles that parsimoniously explain and govern the behavior of certain animal species, under carefully specified conditions, are also true of human behavior. And for devoting himself to such demanding, yet valuable objectives, he should be scorned? For shame...
...Eastern regional team don't seem to possess the equanimity of Steele and Carter in the agony of defeat, so they continue to invent new competitions. The first annual Avis memorial Mt. Hood-to-Mammoth Mt.-peak-to-shining-peak sprint was completed by rented cars piloted by "Rat Reid" and "Boomer Mumphord" in the phenomenal time of nine hours, ten minutes. The two covered the normally 14-hour jaunt, crossing over two 8000-foot passes with switchback sections, within five minutes of each other; and the winner, whoever he was, got two cases of beer from the losers...
...BEHAVIORIST speaking. In the past four decades the heady belief has grown that people can be molded by simply deciding what they should be and then manipulating their behavior, as though the world were a laboratory and man a rat or a pigeon. No one has done more to advance the notion than B.F. Skinner, Harvard psychology professor and author of the bestselling Beyond Freedom and Dignity (TIME cover, Sept. 20, 1971). Those who claim to leave man "free," Skinner believes, are merely abandoning him to uncontrolled forces in his environment. To Skinner, observable behavior is the only reality...