Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Thirty-six percent feel that they need more time for reading, study and private devotions (the daily average: an hour and 38 minutes). But almost 28% feel that a minister should be an "outer-directed person" or "radiant personality." Most galling problem of ministers (29%) was a sense of...
At work, les telephonistes are apt to bolt hysterically from their switchboard positions, burst into tears, faint or have dizzy spells. Pop-offs are not always directed at subscribers. Many operators talk back sharply to the supervisors. The prodding produces fierce competition among the operators to handle the most calls...
¶Horace Mansfield Homer, 52, became board chairman of United Aircraft Corp., succeeding the late Frederick B. Rentschler, who founded the company (TIME, May 7). In as president went William P. Gwinn, 48, who has been general manager of United's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division since 1943. "Jack" Homer...
Parsons' intense absorbtion in his studies may further account for his apparent impersonality. Any questions directed at his personal accomplishments are invariably answered with generalized evaluations of progress in sociology. When asked to pinpoint a significant experience in his life, he brushes over "a few nice and heartwarming honors," and...
Bailey's attack was directed not just against Freudian theory, but against a wide range of psychiatric practices that owe little or nothing to Freud. Psychosurgery, said Bailey, has built a sorry monument of mutilated frontal lobes. "I am frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations...