Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though thoroughly initiated by now in the academic world, Karpovich is by no means estranged from the expatriate community that he left in 1927. On the contrary, he is a recognized leader of that community, and helps to mold its opinions through his editorship of the "New Journal," an anti-communist magazine published in New York. In addition he remains in personal contact with many of the New York Russians (Kerensky visited him in Cambridge last month) and often meets fellow exiles in various parts of the Western world. On his last visit to Paris, he relates, it seemed that...
...listener he did not take by storm was Novelist-Playwright J. B. Priestley, who analyzed his first experience of Evangelist Graham (on TV) for the New Statesman & Nation, a journal that distrusts Heaven almost as much as it does the United States of America. Socialist-minded Observer Priestley, who in his stories has shown himself fascinated with the supernatural, found Billy just another example of the made-in-U.S.A. world that Britons are forced to live...
...years sociologists have wondered whether rhythmic movements on the assembly line are a help or a nervous strain on workers. In its last issue, the Journal of the American Medical Association reports a study by British Psychologist P. C. Wason of 15 soap-wrappers working for Manchester soapmaker Cussons, Sons & Co. Ltd., who do a strange little jig to music piped in over the plant intercom. W'ason's findings: jigging on the job is a big help both in speed and efficiency. Wrote Wason: "The movements consisted of a rhythmical swaying of the trunk backwards and forward...
...current A.M.A. Journal, University of California Psychiatrist Frederick G. Worden and Psychologist James T. Marsh supply some of the facts about men who confuse their sex identity. They studied a group of American men of normal male appearance (testes, beard, etc.) who sought to lose their masculinity by surgery. Finding: each of the men really thought that he was a woman who had been given a man's body by mistake...
...difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only persistence but a basic predisposition. Drs. John M. von Felsinger, Louis Lasagna and Henry K. Beecher ran careful tests with 20 young men. The results, reported in the A.M.A. Journal, support their theory...