Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Torah, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament, is God's covenant with Moses and his people. The countless minute provisions of the Law, and the later commentaries which Jews say "put fences" around it, gave Jewry a complete guide to religious, social, physical behavior. Thus the Torah, in its ark or shrine, is the focal point in the most solemn synagogue services...
...absolute time (see cut). This week, on the day of the book's publication, Albert Einstein was 60. On his birthday he hinted that he had at last developed a "unified field theory" which would link his picture of the universe with the accepted scientific view of the behavior of the atom...
...power is that it is neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts they can be keen as animals...
...beasts. Famed Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a children's clinic for studying infant feeding and other phases of moppets' development. Psychobiologist Robert Mearns Yerkes brought his famed apes, clapped them into a huge cage atop one wing of the building and continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them up in another wing. With their paraphernalia of rats monkeys, cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists and a few Yale students studying research. Then its 150 savants and their disciples...
...Freud's frustration-aggression hypothesis, i.e., whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists proceeded to apply this theory to social as well as individual behavior. With it they sought to explain strikes, suicides, race prejudice, reformism, lynching, satire, crime, the reading of detective stories, wife-beating, war. They hoped the explanations would provide a formula for predicting and guiding the behavior of social groups...