Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Obviously Candidate Dewey had not hurt his political standing any by his social behavior. Not only had he expressed his feelings about Commies in the bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...
...Albert Leon Guerard, 69, historian, biographer, critic (Art for Art's Sake), onetime professor of general literature at Stanford; fierce, fiery Thomas Reed Powell, 70, once Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor of English composition at Bryn Mawr; Columbia Mathematician Edward Kasner (Mathematics and the Imagination...
...Organizations) got out a booklet quoting some 56 sociologists and psychiatrists to the effect that movies are not really responsible for juvenile delinquency. Sample dubious boost for the industry, from University of Illinois President George Stoddard: "There is little evidence that the motion picture has much effect upon the behavior of children. When a healthy high-school boy chooses to spend three hours on a sunny Saturday in a world of make-believe, the trouble is not with the motion picture but in the quality of home and neighborhood life...
Edmund laughed at Gloucester, saying! "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune-- often the surfeit of our own behavior--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars." Those who subscribe to "Reducators" may be as confused in their thinking as Gloucester, but it's not so easy to laugh at their excellent foppery...
...used his power to render many another shady service to his friends. This week he was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Ashland, Ky., and headed home to Prestonburg, after serving nine months and 13 days of an eight-to-24-month sentence. Grounds for the parole: good behavior, bad health...