Word: skinnerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communalists were disillusioned radical antiwar protesters. Others were drug culturists seeking freedom from legal hassles, or flower children trying to recapture the euphoria of San Francisco's brief "summer of love." Still others were intellectual Utopians out to build non-nuclear families along the lines of B.F. Skinner's Walden Two. Most of them were urban ex-bourgeois who had frustrating confrontations with agricultural hard labor...
STANFORD has as its most prominent China scholar Mark Mancall, a widely traveled historian of Sino-Soviet relations and a dazzling teacher. Stanford's cadre also includes Political Scientist John Lewis and John Gurley, a well-thought-of older economist with Maoist sympathies. Anthropologist G. William Skinner, by poring over maps, gazetteers and economic records, correctly predicted that Mao would subdivide China's large communes into agricultural units of a more traditional size...
Desensitization. The new method has no more than 100 practitioners, though the number is growing, and its advocates include such prominent psychologists as Harvard's B.F. Skinner and the University of London's H.J. Eysenck. Last month, as the principal developer of behavior therapy in the U.S., Joseph Wolpe conducted a training institute at Temple for 30 American, Canadian and Mexican therapists who wanted to learn his techniques...
...Skinner, professor of Psychology; Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School; Philip Stewart, assistant professor of French; Jack M. Stein, professor of German; Michael J. Tannenbaum, associate professor of Physics; Karl V. Teeter, professor of Linguistics, Department Chairman; James C. Thomson, Jr., lecturer on History; Thomas Von Foerster, assistant professor of Physics; Edward W. Wagner, professor of Korean Studies; Michael Walzer, professor of Government, Chairman of Social Studies; Donald P. Warwick, lecturer in Social Relations; Philip M. Weinstein, assistant professor of English; James D. White, assistant professor of Chemistry; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Thomas H. Wilson, professor...
...Skinner's first appeal before the Zoning Board was put off to a later date. Following his appearance at City Council two weeks ago, the Council sent a letter to the zoning board endorsing his request for a zoning variance to erect bookstands...