Word: behavior
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...Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...
...Behavior of Mrs. Crane. It is perhaps as trying for an actor as it is for his audience to know that his appearance on the stage will immediately set the hearts of all its other occupants going lippity-lippity-lip, like Peter Rabbit, with love and excitement. If so, the quietly presentable John Marston has indeed been sorely tried this winter. In Behold, the Bridegroom, one taste of his fatal fascination had the effect of arsenic upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon...
...beautiful and perhaps equally capable Isobel Elsom. Its production is lavish in all details. Yet, probably because characters in it are permitted to say, when on the point of departure, "Is it ... for good?" or to remark, brightly, about sugar, "A lump a "day keeps the levers away," The Behavior of Mrs. Crane is not really so very entertaining...
...behaviorists claim that all behavior, no matter how complicated or idealistic, is the effect of the environment on the unconditioned reflexes. Chief exponent of behaviorism-John Broadus Watson...
...example, a man in red flannels might try while brushing his teeth to paddle, with a croquet mallet, a canoe down the diagonal walk at noon. Such behavior, if it became customary, might need very mild and gentle restriction...