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...Rough English translation: a stocky, extrovert woman and a slender introvert man. * PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN MARITAL HAPPINESS-McGraw-Hill Book...
...found, are: 1) Students who get good marks; 2) individuals with high verbal and mathematical ability; 3) Jews (Protestants were next and Catholics last); 4) individuals who are least selfconscious; 5) radicals; 6) students who are liked by their classmates. Whether an individual is emotional, neurotic, sociable or an introvert apparently has no relation to his ability to influence others in discussion...
...certainly plays the decisive role in Author Fisher's minor cases. A 200-pound English department head is a suppressed rakehell and sadist. Pompous little President Ledwidge launches a one-man anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife...
Famed for his ''introvert'' and "extravert" classifications, Switzerland's great Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung last week branched out into psychopolitical analysis, announced in London: "I have just come from America, where I saw Roosevelt. Make no mistake, he is a force-a man of superior and impenetrable mind, but perfectly ruthless, a highly versatile mind which you cannot foresee. He has the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely...
Bunker Bean (RKO). Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume...