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...programs, and dozens of variations currently in use, are all based on the principle of behavior modification. Using the carrot-and-stick approach (solitary confinement v. improved treatment) or aversion therapy (the child molester associates his predilection for youngsters with discomfort for himself), the various approaches draw on B.F. Skinner's positive-and negative-reinforcement precepts and are characterized by close and expert attention to even the smallest details of behavior. The programs are all the rage-and outrage- in U.S. penology today...
...sponsored senior hoopla. Outside of Providence's Marvin Barnes (seventh in the East with 41,820 votes), he is the leading New Englander, a good 10,000 votes ahead of B.C.'s Dan Kulcullen (50th), Holy Cross's Malcolm Moulton (53rd), Dartmouth's Bill Raynor (55th), UMass's Al Skinner (57th) and B.U.'s Kenny Boyd (62nd...
There are celebrities--besides Finley, there's Ted Kennedy '54, George Plimpton '48, B.F. Skinner, Walter Jackson Bate '39, Leonard Bernstein '39, Derek Bok, Daniel Steiner '54, Burris Young '55, Alan Heimert, and Alfred Hitchcock (who is rear-projected--he's not really there). And the locations--inside the Library of Congress, the Fogg Museum, Grand Central Station, Harvard courtyards, Quebec City, the Plaza Hotel in New York, the New England Aquarium...
...costs of filming: a sizeable portion of the rest paid for travelling expenses for shooting on location in Washington and Canada and New York. He uses the word "fun" to describe the making of the film a lot, and his audiences have fun too, laughing when, for example, B.F. Skinner briefly enters the picture for no reason but to raise his eyebrows at a couple embracing in his laboratory. Skinner is supposed to be reclusive, but somehow Brown convinced him to appear. Brown spent a great deal of energy making this film full of fun scenes like these--and they...
...spite of the distinctions Fromm tries to make between his approach and Skinner's, he falls victim to his own criticisms of the behaviorists. As with Skinner, his recommendations that society change its "system of production, ownership and consumption" depend on faith in man's manipulability and desire to change...