Word: counselor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year old should not be able to make his own decisions, but his secondary school background may have had such a vast counseling machinery for easing his way that he has failed to assume his proper responsibilities." Because Martin feels that the contrived intimacy of the guidance counselor is largely an illusion, he feels the advising system, at least in theory, should be kept to the primary, limited purpose of helping the student through the confusion and complications of the Harvard machinery. "Last year," he notes, "an advisee asked me three times whether I thought he should go to Florida...
Group advising, if extended too far, can have drawbacks, however. As Von Stade points out: "It is one thing to do this on an informal basis. But if you're going to talk about this wonderful new phrase 'group dynamics," then no one short of a professional counselor should attempt it. It is a serious thing for amateurs to experiment at that level...
...senior biographer of the "normal" child, the white-haired, 75-year-old research consultant of the Gesell Institute of Child Development in New Haven, Conn, has now become so thoroughly entrenched as the parents' guide and counselor that some may well wonder how they ever managed to raise their children without...
Until the Republicans took office in 1952, Schlesinger, a registered Democrat, was active as a government aide. Under Averell Harriman, Schlesinger served as a special counselor in the administration of the Marshall Plan. But after the Republican victory, Schlesinger channeled his political energies into the Americans for Democratic Action, becoming national chairman for 1953-54. In his book, The Politics of Freedom, his analysis of the A.D.A. partially defines his own philosophy. The A.D.A. he says, is dedicated to "...the tradition of liberalism--the tradition of Jackson and Hawthorne, the tradition of responsibility about politics and a moderate pessimism about...
...accepted and fitted to the varied beliefs, yearnings and works of religion and modern society. "They may abuse my doctrines by day," he once declared, "but I am sure they dream of them by night." In a sense he was right. Freud as philosopher and counselor to man will be the subject of argument and doubts for many days and nights to come. But over Freud as the bold explorer of the dark side of the mind, there is no argument left. Said one psychiatrist last week, Swiss Catholic Charles Baudoin: "All modern psychology must be based on the exploration...