Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...major university to the detriment of the vast majority of students." Radical domination on campus will continue, the jury said, until citizens and the campus community "take a strong stand." The jury added: "The time has come to detach from university society those who persist in violent behavior. Expel the troublemakers without fear or favor. Evict from the campus those persons bent on disorder...
...civilized society, the most effective curb on a man's behavior may be the scrutiny of his fellow man. It is only behind his mask that the Mardi Gras reveler loses his inhibitions and dares to act as he feels. So it is with today's driver, says one of Germany's leading sociologists. To reduce the slaughter of "that guerrilla war we call traffic," Bielefeld University Professor Helmut Schelsky advocates doing away with anonymity on the highway. How? As a first step, he would put names instead of number plates on cars. At the very least...
Even if a safer car results from Ralph Nader's campaign, Schelsky foresees no significant reduction in accidents without personalization and politicization. It is behavior that must be changed, he says, because it is man, not the machine, that is at fault...
...point of collapse comes when Mrs. Hasseltine withdraws her charges against Millington and turning on the assembled officers, says, "You are scum." Playwright England hasn't prepared the audience for anything like that, either as a Brechtian blast at the military or in terms of the actual behavior of the officers involved. It refutes common sense to make blanket indictments of any group of men, whether they be army officers, policemen or stockbrokers. The person most qualified to know this is Mrs. Hasseltine herself, who has traded on the genuine honor and outrage of most of the officers...
Seale and seven others-the "Chicago Eight"-stood trial last fall and winter on conspiracy charges stemming from disturbances at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Seale was severed from the case by Hoffman for his behavior in the courtroom and given a four-year contempt of court sentence...