When I read the book in the nineteen-sixties, thirty years after it was written, these ideals of behavior were just beginning to feel old-fashioned.
These are impulses that in most religious and many intellectual traditions derive value only from being controlled in the pursuit of piety or reason or whatever higher ideal of human behavior you happen to aspire to.
Mr. Gerson later said the best programs set an ideal of sexual behavior, but were realistic about human nature "and deal with young people where they are, and sometimes that includes condoms".
Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies, with their lighthearted elegance, and casually sophisticated songs by Porter, Berlin, the Gershwins and the like certainly conjure a heady ideal of human behavior at its most romantically benign.
Sea lions are polygynous mammals that aggregate at terrestrial breeding sites during the summer reproductive season [25], making them ideal for studies of behavior and demography [26].
The language of civility has always been a code of sorts, a way of holding life's quotidian messiness up against lofty, sometimes elitist ideals of proper behavior.
Or, alternately, as the woman who could not control her gratitude enough to suit public ideals of the behavior of successful women.
(preference v. judgment ideals of voting behavior) and Elster (1986) (the market v. the forum).
Marecek et al. have suggested that increasing non-fatal self-poisoning in women in particular maybe a reflection of the clash between the emergent expectations of young women about their education, relationship and employment, and the more traditional ideals of feminine behavior held by their elders, occurring against a background of development and modernization [ 57].
Some social organizations, such as the International Fellowship of Chivalry-Now, devote themselves to fostering the ideals of chivalrous behavior in their daily lives, as opposed to having their members to dress in armor and swing maces at each other.
