Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasing emphasis was placed on practical training in psychology in the fifties, a model of the ideal abnormal personality psychologist evolved. Named after the psychology convention where it won acceptance, the Boulder model places equal value on ability in scholarly research and in clinical work. An abnormal personality psychologist must have a command of both personality theory and methods of therapy evaluation in order not only to be an effective therapist but also to develop and test new treatments. He must be a skilled clinician to be a good researcher...
...Boulder model is unique within the academic world. Bucking the current trend toward separating academic from professional work, it stresses the importance of integrating research in abnormal personality with the practical applications of that research. A good abnormal psychologist, then, is both a good researcher and a good clinician...
...Boulder, Colo...
Gradually his photographs moved from dependence on painting into a challenge to it. His later masterpieces are such still-life images as An Apple. A Boulder, A Mountain (1921): one of a series done with tiny stops (down to f. 128) and immensely long exposures (up to 36 hours). The result is density: the image seems weightier, more substantial than any apple could be. It is not an imitation of Cézanne but a photographer's equivalent of those absorbed perceptions of tactility and gravity that Cézanne brought to the study of everything from fruit...
...assigned to a big-city office, his hours are apt to be as regular as a stockbroker's. But assignment to a small city can mean excessive travel, irregular hours and unplanned schedule changes. The ideal assignment is in a middle-sized city like Madison, Wis., or Boulder, Colo., where as agents say, "You can pretty much be your own boss...