This she sees as evidence of a selection process, in which well-behaved men were winnowed off while their antisocial buddies were left to the bachelor pad.
Paradoxically, it is precisely our modern propensity for impatience and aggression, our tendency to freak out and then blame others, that could have saved these well-behaved men, women and children.
There has also been, in the life of this well-behaved man, a bit of derring do.
Epictetus: "Look not for any greater harm than this destroying the trustworthy, self-respecting, well-behaved man inside you". Situations of extremity that force people to discover in themselves aspects of what they are capable that they don't wish to see, are what is most harmful.
But, overall, this is a clearly structured, well-behaved piece.
And the senior class valedictorian, Herbert Ruth, a troublemaker when he arrived, may never have become the polite, well-behaved young man he is today.
Which is when Mickey went from being this pie-eyed, really feisty character to more of a well-behaved leading man," Bunker recalled.
It was reported that Anson was impressed by Parrott as a person, calling him a "well-behaved young man" despite some criticism he was getting from the media and fans.
Most were well-behaved, though one man claimed that a kid tried to pull him off his bicycle.
Why, at two o'clock, has a busload of beautiful Asian women, well-behaved children and gently patriarchal men in blue shalwar kameez, all oscillating between Urdu and English, appeared at the coffee counter like a technicolour hallucination?
I humbly add that The Wicker Man is also the opposite of William Friedkin's 1973 The Exorcist: it goes one better than puking pea soup on the priest; and unlike all the increasingly nasty horror movies to come, The Wicker Man seems relatively well-behaved -- but upon contemplation, it will freak you out for years to come.
