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Usually Dave McClelland's cartoons are about the only thin to rave about, but this issue manages without him. Jonathan Cerf's full-spread cover would make a fairly sophisticated cover for the New Yorker--if he could draw an Ibis; Henry Beard's Arab-fish cartoon is reasonably amusing--which is all that Beard ever attemtps to be. He is a master at plucking the boredom or inanity out of anything or anyone, and for that talent his "Vanitas" is worth reading...
...spectacular standout is David McClelland's "Great Game of Absolution and Redemption," a satire on, of all things, Calvinism-a highly successful satire which not so long ago would have gotten him dunked in every pond in Massachusetts. The Puritan game delights in the fact that wherever the player moves, he can't help but fall into sin, McClelland's apt use of the unexpected turns a good idea into a brilliantly funny piece...
...including the Department of Social Relations. This is important because it means that many of us believe that key parts of clinical psychology training should continue to be in this Department and that instruction in certain clinical areas should remain under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. David C. McClelland Chairman, Department of Social Relations
They will succeed Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government; George A. Miller, professor of Psychology; and David C. Mcclelland, professor of Psychology, who heads the Soc Rel department...
GUMMIDGE: Fine. Now open your textbook to the David Riesman chapter. Here is the eminent sociologist writing about Jargon: "Phrases such as 'achievement-oriented' or 'need-achievement' were, if I am not mistaken, invented by colleagues and friends of mine, Harry Murray and David C. McClelland ... It has occurred to me that they may be driven by a kind of asceticism precisely because they are poetic men of feeling who . . . have chosen to deal with soft data in a hard way." Now then, my boy, is there any better example of flapdoodle than that...