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...individual violent act, according to Drs. Mark and Ervin, results from a combination of biological and social factors. The immediate violent impulse comes directly from the brain, and its character is determined by the brain's threshold for violent action. This threshold is specific for every individual, and is determined by experiences: Past environmental influences are imbedded in the brain in the form of memory, and the effect of these influences on behavior is dependent solely on the functioning of the brain. This point of view suggests several social implications: The rehabilitation of violent criminals assumes that the subjects have...
...behavior is functionally determined by brain mechanisms suggests a number of intriguing problems, some of which the book tries to develop. How much of present widespread violence can be attributed to poor impulse control? And how many of these cases are related to brain malfunctions? If an individual's threshold for violent action is low, is it due to a gross cerebral defect, such as a tumor? Or is it the result of progressive environmental influences, such as living in a lower-class urban environment or watching violent television programs, which might create a cerebral predisposition to violence...
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Jill Clayburgh is lovely as the minister's young wife Judith. She is particularly skilful in the long scene in which she is first left alone with Dick. Her gradual progression from flustered fear to the threshold of adultery is a delight to watch. (After the performance I caught, an unfortunote accident obliged her to leave the cast; I hope she will be back in harness again shortly...
...also threatens loneliness and isolation. Each group within the college requires a certain critical mass to allow it to fit with reasonable comfort.... For this reason a smaller male enrollment might force us to eliminate a number of such distinctive groups entirely when their numbers fell below a tolerance threshold... Reduced admission of men would force us into less diversity at a time when we are being asked for more. (This argument has assumed perhaps debatedly, that men and women students are not fully interchangeable within "delegations." This assumption may not be correct, but we believe...