Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ahead, stare at them. Everybody does it here. In fact, it's one of the best activities Cambridge has to offer. If, like most of us, you have a healthy curiosity about the behavior of your fellow human beings, you'll find Harvard Square a people-watcher's paradise, a sort of wildlife preserve of our own species...
Although this was a small study, and it may not be indicative of behavior in all gay communities, the findings were shocking. They show how far educational efforts still have to go. If society is unwilling to expend the energy and resources necessary to teach its young people to avoid AIDS, then the epidemic could grow ever larger and ever more tragic well into the next century...
Perhaps Beethoven would have cringed at such impetuous behavior, but for Joel--who has been climbing pianos for almost two decades--it was his own way of harkening back to tradition, something he did plenty of during his first of three shows at the Providence Civic Center Wednesday night...
...thumping message in Sue Miller's previous novel, The Good Mother, was that society has a double standard when judging parental behavior. The man who cats around is not necessarily a bad father, but if a woman (even one who is estranged from her spouse) has a sleep-over friend, she is a bad mother. The issue can be overstated or, as was the case with The Good Mother, overprogrammed. Yet the underlying truth cannot be quibbled away...
...chief adviser is a fine comic creation, an American named Glass, who sees a spy lurking on every barstool. On one pub crawl, they meet a pretty German divorcee named Maria, and she and Leonard begin an idyllic affair in which they make up their own rules of behavior. But one night, for reasons quite obscure to him, he acts sadistically, and their romance becomes more conventional...