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...brute comic force to Animal House, which pulled down some $150 million at the box office, and he and his buddy Dan Aykroyd were spending off-time starring in Steven Spielberg's home-front destruction derby 1941. Gilda Radner was the country's favorite comedy Kewpie, and Bill Murray, a shambling declension of goofiness, was hoving into view...
...work. The pictures accompanying the article suggest a depressing but improbable future for our discipline in which Dr. Frankenstein would continue to mix up the brains below stairs while reports were rapped out on word processors above stairs. The suggestion that the work of Professor Emeritus Henry Murray had something to do with the pop psychology of the movies is ignorant and insulting to one of the great psychologists of this century. Roger Brown Lindsley Professor of Psychology
Psychology Professor Harry Murray was one of those men. A clinician, Murray treated disorders like those which often make good movie subjects. In the early 1940s, however, the Harvard establishment didn't think those disorders were a good subject for psychology. Murray's colleagues were suspicious of developments beyond their laboratory. In his memoirs Professor Edwin G. Boring, who chaired the department during those years, calls "rescuing psychology from these philosophers," his "mission...
...this tense atmosphere Kluckhohn and Murray found a compatriot with whom they launched a daring endeavor. In 1936, Talcott Parsons had moved into Harvard's Sociology Department after a stint in the Economics Department. Trained as a philosopher and intrigued by several fields within the social sciences, Parsons found his broad interest in the study of man in society stifled in the Economics Department. He wasn't much happier in Sociology. Together with Kluckhohn, Murray and several other scholars, Parsons began considering the benefits of creating a formal alliance of dissatisfied scholars...
BROWN (67): Todd Murray 3-0--6; Patrick Lynch 5-2--10; Jim Turner 9-2--20; Mike Waitkus 5-3--13; Darren Brady 4-0--8; David Visscher 0-0--0; Greg Gore 0-0--0; Marcus Thompson 1-0--2; Tom Chaney 0-1--1; Anthony Katsaros 2-0--4; Sean Moran 0-0--0; Todd Buerk 0-1--1; Domenec Taylor 0-0--0; Ty Smith 0-0--0. Total...