Word: alpert
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Participants Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology; Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology; and Winston R. White, lecturer on Sociology, focused upon apathy from widely divergent viewpoints in a session sponsored by the Social Relations Society...
...apathy not as indifference, but as fright," said Alpert. The individual, afraid of standing out, loses any desire to act. "Coolness," according to Alpert, defines another characteristic type of apathy, personified by the failing student who reacts with "Only shlunks sweat...
...three agreed that the American educational system and community encourage widespread intellectual apathy. From first grade through college, the successful student is the one who can "psych out the teacher or exam," in Alpert's opinion. The student is guided not by curiosity or intellectual motivation, but by desire for a superior grade...
...five years that he was president of the hapless New Haven Railroad, Boston Attorney George Alpert moved up and down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies, pretended not to hear. But last week, with the New Haven in bankruptcy and Alpert back at lawyering, the ICC did a roundhouse turn. After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer. Testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee...
...sympathize, perhaps, with the reference to George Alpert of the New Haven Railroad as an "old (63) Boston attorney." His job would bring Peter Pan to senility in no time. But is there no hope for the rest of us-or, for that matter, for TIME itself, which does not stand still and which must now be pushing closely for the designation of an "old (fortyish) newsmagazine...