Word: hissing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cross examination of Dr. Henry A. Murray '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, ended yesterday in the Alger Hiss LL.B. '29 trial in New York City as Dr. Murray altered only one minor point in his earlier analysis of Whittaker Chambers, leading accuser of the defendant...
...said that the fact that Chambers once called himself a better Communist than Joseph Stalin was an indication that he had "grandiose ideas." Yesterday, however, Murphy told the psychologist that Chambers' remark was not completely voluntary, but was not completely voluntary, but was made during a cross-examination by Hiss' lawyer...
...judgments? Dr. Binger settled down to explain. Chambers had stolen books from the library when he was a student at Columbia; stealing is one of the characteristic behaviors of a psychopath. In the beginning of the case Chambers had "withheld the significant truth" about his relationship with Alger Hiss-a behavior known to psychiatrists as "withholding truth." Other characteristics revealed to Dr. Binger by Chambers' career: "pathological lying," "insensitivity for the feelings of others," "bizarre behavior," "vagabondism...
Chambers had been an atheist, an Episcopalian, a Quaker: "inability to make stable attachments." He had touched Julian Wadleigh for $20 and Hiss for small sums which he had never repaid: "panhandling...
...Harvard psychologist charged in his earlier testimony that Hiss' accuser had an incurable mental disorder. He said there was a saying "that once a psychopath, always a psychopath." His diagnosis was in agreement with that of Dr. Carl O. Binger '10, New York psychiatrist...