Word: jastrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York Edison Co. Fat was the fledgling Century (160 pages) few (6) its pages of paid advertising. Price: 75? the copy, $3 a year...
Genius. "Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again. Few who lead significant lives are hopelessly sane. A genius is a deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...
...Joseph Jastrow...
...Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin replied, not sparing Sir Arthur in his absence. He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness." He was at pains, however, to appreciate the large significance of spiritualism's implications, whether they be baffling truth or "stupendous" error...
...before an ectoplasmic apparition appeared on one of them. The spirits present before that time [i. e. when ectoplasm was first photographed] evidently did not take." He also cited the fact that Britishers have taken "ectoplasm pictures" without special lenses and shutters. But Dr. Prince refuted for spiritualists the Jastrow charge of "wishful thinking," pointing out that a will to disbelieve is no more scientific than a will to believe...