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...suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel reports, in The Gifted Child Quarterly, that...
...neuroses, and the two men themselves sometimes tangle en route. Then, in Act III, Ralph's wife comes back home again, and there is a good deal of crossfire, and there are a great many parleys and commotions in adjoining rooms, till the two men team up to breed cattle and the two women join up with their...
...mother, all this is evidence of deep, cultural differences: "It's simply that they are facing what I am hiding from." And Fabrizio's father, devoted though he is to his fat, pious wife, is unmistakably attracted to Mrs. Johnson. Italian practicality, ruthlessness, an odd breed of unblinkered humaneness, scrapes blatantly against U.S. generosity and naivet...
...Widening Every Minute." Von Foerster does not really believe that the human race will breed itself to universe-filling infinity in 66 years. He uses his equation to illustrate in an attention-getting manner that any population that increases at an accelerating rate (as the human race has been doing) is headed for ultimate trouble. Even the best food technology, he says, cannot race ahead of an ever-steepening curve. But he believes that "there is no need to wait until an external mechanism influences human activity. Since man's environment becomes less and less influenced by 'natural...
...Breed Apart. As the son of one of the richest men in the U.S.-and a millionaire in his own right on his 21st birthday-he might well have become a minted conservative. But the Kennedys were a breed apart: Father Joe Kennedy was a Wall Street nabob and a man of many reactionary convictions, yet he swallowed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal whole. Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain on the eve of war, he broke emphatically with Roosevelt on the issue of U.S. involvement in World War II. In the salad days of the New Deal, Jack...