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Directed by MEL BROOKS Screenplay by MEL BROOKS, RON CLARK, RUDY DeLUCA and BARRY LEVINSON...
...splashy writer for New York magazine on such eye-catching subjects as hookers and Black Panthers, attended a New York lecture in 1973 that changed her life. Deep in personal crisis at the time and armed with a foundation grant to study genetic engineering, Sheehy heard Yale Psychologist Daniel Levinson outline his theory of adult life stages (TIME, April 28, 1975): that grownups go through life cycles and crises just as predictable as the adolescent stages outlined by Erik Erikson and the childhood stages (terrible twos, noisy nines) charted by Spock, Piaget and others...
...very tentative field for anything like precise study. Such theories, in fact, have been greeted with skepticism by orthodox psychologists, but Sheehy was enthusiastic. She switched her focus from genetics to adult development, talked to Levinson and two other researchers with strikingly similar findings, U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Roger Gould and Harvard Psychiatrist George Vaillant, and plunged into her own life-cycle interviewing. The results: one of the most successful series of articles in New York magazine's history, and a $37,500 advance for a book (Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, due this month from E.P. Dutton...
Several academic researchers are less kind, dismissing Sheehy's work as garbled Pop psychology. Worse yet are charges that the lady has unfairly ripped off her professorial mentors. Says Levinson: "She is incomplete, to put it mildly, in acknowledging her use of my published and unpublished material." Many of Sheehy's findings were indeed reported earlier by academics; where she does cite experts they tend to be introduced as mere spear carriers in her own pageant. Levinson, for example, outlined the "mentor phenomenon"-that in middle age a man feels the need to promote the fortunes...
...Pentagon flap, Jerome Levinson, chief counsel of the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, accused the Defense Department and Northrop Corp. of teaming up to shield the names of high officers who accepted company favors in violation of Defense Department conflict-of-interest rules. The officers accepted invitations to spend weekends shooting duck, geese and quail at Northrop's leased hunting preserve near Easton, Md., even though the company, a major defense contractor, is currently angling for a multibillion-dollar contract to build 800 F-18 jet fighters for the Navy...