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Norman Raymond Frederick Maier is a man who has made his name & fame by driving rats crazy. For his experiments in rat frustration, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1938 awarded him a $1,000 prize. Now Professor Maier, a University of Michigan psychologist, believes that his studies of rats have led him to a solution of the No. 1 contemporary problem in human frustration: how to cure a defeated Germany of the disease of Naziism. Though his plan leaves many a question unanswered, it is a stimulating contribution to the simmering debate on a generous...
...Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
With his mother, wife and two sons, Dr. Maier lives on the campus of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary, a Lutheran stronghold and one of the largest Protestant seminaries in the U.S. He teaches two courses in Old Testament at Concordia. He also edits the Walther League Messenger (circulation: over 50,000) for Lutheran young folk, signs his three monthly editorials "W.A.M." His students call...
Except when he is on tour, Maier broadcasts from a St. Louis studio. He perspires so profusely that he takes off his shirt. When he has to wear shirt and coat before an audience his collar is wilted and his clothes sopping. Even so, he stays to shake hands with his listeners, often standing three hours to do it. He says he likes it, that his hand never gets sore...
...Maier talks for 19½ minutes. He literally shouts into the microphone at a machine-gun pace. Radio engineers have tried all sorts of tricks to modulate the tone. Once or twice they persuaded him to slow down, but it took the punch out of what he said, people wrote in to ask if he was sick and fan mail dropped off 1,000 letters a day. Now Dr. Maier just shouts and lets the engineers worry about...