Word: misbehaviors
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...turmoil had all the more impact because the French under De Gaulle have seemed to be inoculated against the passions of public misbehavior-and, some contend, even against the natural volatility that has marked their past. In the Third or Fourth Republic, last week's troubles would not have seemed too abnormal. But under De Gaulle, it appeared as if France had come to regard disciplined stability as its new norm; never before had the Gaullist government proved ineffectual at suppressing defiance. "I respect only those who resist me," De Gaulle once said, "but I cannot tolerate them." This...
...child; strong feelings vanish not by fiat but rather by the clarification that occurs in a child's mind when a parent "mirrors" or states his problems for him. To spank a tot who says, "I hate you," is to store up his anger that will augment future misbehavior. A skillful mother listens, says, "I know just how you feel," and the child's feeling that someone understands shrinks the anger to a size that he himself can subdue. Reassurance rather than reprimand is often the best medicine for defeat or failure...
...deft and pleasing. The narrator says about his mother: "While she was thinking she wept a little, just so the thinking shouldn't go to waste." And about Sam Gold's lieutenant in the shop, Myrna, a great robust woman who tempts the boss into carnal misbehavior: "Two husbands had already died under her, and one had fled." If that isn't pure gold, it is at least pure Gold...
...should have skipped the part about most Germans washing their cars once a week, though, because Lucille, who is lucky if she is bathed once a month, immediately developed a rattle in the vicinity of her tail gate. In her defense, I must say that her only serious misbehavior, which occurred after I let a friend drive her, was a transmission tantrum violent enough to cause me to rent a car for the weekend. When I took her to the hospital, a team of transmission specialists and consultants was unable to find any organic disorder, leading us to conclude that...
Said dereliction was of great concern to the Federal Bureau of Investigation because the four men in question-roommates all-were then working for the FBI. And, as plainly stipulated to them in the secret handbook issued to them when they were hired, "Personal misbehavior of Bureau employees, reflecting unfavorably on themselves or on the Bureau, and neglect of duty, cannot be tolerated. And such misconduct, or neglect of duty, or allegations of such nature, must be promptly reported to the Bureau by any employee learning...