Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...threshold for violent action. This threshold is specific for every individual, and is determined by experiences: Past environmental influences are imbedded in the brain in the form of memory, and the effect of these influences on behavior is dependent solely on the functioning of the brain. This point of view suggests several social implications: The rehabilitation of violent criminals assumes that the subjects have normal brains. From evidence presented by Drs. Mark and Ervin, it is quite likely that a high proportion of people arrested for violent behavior have poor impulse control due to malfunctioning of the brain. In such...
...biological orientation towards violence also challenges sociological theories that classify aggressive behavior in man as instinctual. These theories hold that the interaction of ritualized behavioral drives develops into violence because man has "lost" intraspecies inhibitions. This point of view, formulated by Konrad Lorenz and others, is disputed by Drs. Mark and Ervin. The two argue that the internal brain mechanisms which guide the complex behavioral system of aggression are learned, as evidenced by the fact that directed attack behavior can be stopped "in midcharge." Man is violent only unnaturally...
...emphasizes the need for locally relevant programming. "Fly into any city," suggests the BBI promotional pamphlet. "Check into any hotel. Turn on the television. Chances are, at any given hour of the day or night, what-ever channel comes in view, in whatever city, the program will be very much the same as that on any other channel in any other city...
...outcome of today's game depends largely on the ability of one team to rebound from recent injuries to key players. Both Harvard and Yale used second-string quarterbacks last weekend, and several starters on both teams enjoyed a view from the sidelines...
Atkinson went on to explain her view that the women's movement could not progress any further until it was ready to commit itself to active resistance to all forces now oppressing women. She praised the Weathermen for their actions and cited them as "one of the few respectable [groups of] people around...