Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Imagine his personal fear and his ire at God when Mozart, "the obscene boy," appears with the music of heaven, sublimely, effortlessly at his fingertips. And what a Mozart! Impudent, abrasively egocentric, silly in behavior, foul of mouth, a wine-bibbing libertine. Tim Curry's Mozart is unforgettable, an imp of the perverse, a strangely vulnerable Pan on a goatish night...
...comically menacing leader of an oil cartel. Perhaps one should say the oil cartel. The movie traffics heavily in this kind of simple-minded paranoia. It insists that evil lurks in a single all-powerful force possessing the power to warp men's minds, condition their behavior and, of course, bump them off wherever they live in the world and whenever, over the course of many years, it suits the conspiracy's purpose...
When it came time for Hemphill to apply for readmission, the CRR notified her that she must first appear before the body, apologize and promise "good behavior" in the future...
...most part Berlow did not spend much time thinking about the CRR, because its goal--the preservation of correct and respectful behavior--seemed irrelevant in light of events in the world outside. "The war," he concluded then and concludes now, "was a hell of a lot more important than behaving in a gentlemanly manner...
...against Wilson's theories. Granted, some of Wilson's colleagues have valid arguments against his work based on his methods and terminology. And, some other sociobiologists do propose theories containing racist implications. However, the theories INCAR attacks bear no resemblance to Wilson sociobiology. Professor Wilson simply suggests that human behavior is determined partially by genetic factors. He applies his theories to humans as a group, not individual races, but all humans. He has never written or spoken anything that would substantiate the claims of racism and sexism made against...