Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase. Buckminster Fuller, a chunky little figure in black tie and white jacket, bald head shining, talked to Dr. Thomas Lambo, a towering blue-black Nigerian psychiatrist in flowing tribal robes. The guests ranged from British Economist Austin Robinson and French Geographer Jean Gottmann to American urbanists like Robert Wood of M.I.T. and Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Buffalo. Mingling easily among them all was Dox-iadis, a silvery fox of a man-academic, politician, humanitarian...
...expounded the host. "We must be concerned with the quality of life. Does the grid system of organizing human settlements, for example, give greater opportunity to individuals than the centralized, circular pattern of contacts?" The responses were, at best, tangential. "We can't be godlike," mused Washington, D.C., Psychiatrist Reginald Lourie, "but we have the opportunity to contribute the appropriate inputs." Lord Llewelyn-Davies, the British architect, professed that the rigidity of bricks and mortar was exceeded by the rigidity of human institutions...
DAYTON, OHIO. Kenley Players. A psychiatrist can understand everything about adolescents except his own teen-age daughter, who throws the bull in his court during The Impossible Years, by Robert Fisher and Arthur Marx...
...against the courses. At the lowest level, the attacks consist of nothing more than innuendoes that the teachers involved are degenerates eager to seduce youngsters into a life of blatant immorality. A more serious argument is that such courses are too specific, too early and too stimulating. Miami Psychiatrist James Parsons, for example, actively opposes any sex education in primary schools because "there is a latency period, between the age of six and the time of puberty, of sexual interest." Forcing sex education on children in this period can cause them to "become overstimulated and obsessed" and can "produce perversion...
...problem is posed by the Viet Nam war, which is creating thousands of widows who must grapple with grief. In an effort to help them, a Navy psychiatrist at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has set up a program that uses their common tragedy to turn them toward the future. A teacher of group therapy at U.C.L.A. before entering the service, Lieut. Commander Leonard Zunin launched "Operation Second Life" with the idea that the best help for widows can come from other widows. In a sense, he is simply employing the form of help more "primitive" societies take for granted: letting...