Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Analysts. In the hierarchy of psychiatric treatment, ranging from a single $5 (or free) clinic visit to a $25,000 lifetime course, the luxury trade is psychoanalysis.* Concentrated mainly in neurotic Manhattan, psychoanalysis is split into at least a dozen schools, from orthodox Freudians to socially conscious Horneyans (leader...
Bacteria multiply so fast that they can pack into a few hours or days the equivalent of thousands of generations of the higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed...
Like the dirty, coal-blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford...
The Little Sitwells. That childhood was so sheltered, so beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with...
"Let each social order . . . give the scientist a free hand and provide him with the environment and tools he needs; make him accessible to students, for he is essentially a teacher, make the university his home, and otherwise, for humanity's sake, leave him alone."