Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called in psychiatrists, clergymen and social workers, finally insisted on chopping out eight of the film's most harrowing minutes. Cuts: scenes showing Actress Olivia de Havil-land undergoing shock treatment and a mental lapse; a patient drooling food; another in a strait jacket; several scenes of mad behavior that, the censors feared, might touch off hysterical audience laughter...
Individualism is justify esteemed here at Harvard. But when this individualism infringes upon the rights of an-other person. We feel that it ceases to be a Visine. Such rude behavior as we observed is totally unbefitting anyone who claims academic and social intelligence. We contend that Professor Romans has not "said enough"; that his remarks and those of other faculty members like him should continue to be heard uninterrupted...
...fact that Bill Sykes is as villainous as Fagin any reason to deny the poisonous hate expressed in the picture. For it is well-known that the majority group need never fear lest one of its members misbehave; whilst the persecuted minority is always categorized by the behavior of its worst rather than best, members...
Members of Yale's ivied senior societies are required to stare stonily ahead whenever nonmembers ask them what their societies do. If the questioner persists,* members of such societies as Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key and Berzelius are expected to leave the room. Such behavior has sometimes led irreverent outsiders to suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional...
This skein is thoroughly tangled from the moment Character Wylie comes down to lunch brooding about cancer and finds the botanist's wife, name of Yvonne, who is brooding over Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Wylie quickly recognizes her as "a nice bitch . . . with a father complex" and wins her sympathy by telling her what unkind reviews TIME gives his books. Yvonne tells Wylie all about her experience in the conservatory...