Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...models of personality that children's vicarious participation in film-mediated aggression or the direct expression of aggressive behavior will serve to discharge "pentup energies" and effects. Guided by this catharsis hypothesis, many parents, educators, and mental health workers encourage hyperaggressive children to participate in aggressive recreational actavities, to view highly aggressive televised programs, and to aggress in psychotherapeutic play-rooms and other permissive settings...
...contrast to this "drainage" view, the growing body of research provides considerable evidence that vicarious participation in aggressive activities can be highly effective in modifying observers' aggressive behavior, but not in the direction predicted by the catharsis hypothesis. These findings are perhaps not too surprising. It is highly improbable that even advocates of vicarious drive reduction would recommend community programs in which sexually aroused adolescents are shown libidinous movies at drive-in theatres as a means of reducing sexual behavior, or in which famished persons are presented displays of gourmands dining on culinary treats in order to alleviate hunger pangs...
...confront the established order. In citing the Alabama protests he recognizes the limited aims of particular acts of civil disobedience; he even defends their good results. Thus, by including the civil rights sit-ins in his examples of legitimate protest, Kennedy enlarges on his usually moderate view of political protest...
Edward Kennedy's performance proves his capability as a Senator: that is a record of the past. In January of 1968, Kennedy published a book about the future. In Decisions For A Decade, among other things, he set out a view of the confrontation politics of this year--a view he reiterated in an article on the draft in the November 17 New York Times Book Review: "I believe that widespread change is possible, peacefully, not only in selective service but in other institutions. I am equally convinced that brutal confrontations and violence will make this change more difficult...
Like millions of others, he was awed by the martial atmosphere which brooded over the city during the convention and the brutality of Chicago's police force. But from his professional point of view--as producer of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report -- Northshield was as much disturbed by the violent reaction to NBC's coverage of Chicago...