Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin's champion, Thomas Henry Huxley, and empurpled Bishop Wilberforce. (The difference: Darwin saw discontinuity where modern zoologists and paleontologists read continuity, in the speciation of plants and animals.) Rat. Dr. William McDougall, onetime Oxonian, now Harvard's preeminent psychologist, demonstrated what an intelligent creature is the rat. Into a box with 14 latches the speaker put some cheese. Sniff, scratch, scrabble-plop, and in went a white rat, all the latches flapping open after him, to nibble contentedly. Spectators cheered. Eclipse. Professor H. H. Turner endeared himself...
...mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene is a good metaphor for the practice of sombre Psychologist Wassermann, the eminent German author of Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner; a steady, penetrating eye of consciousness unobserved in its observation of innermost human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this eye-in-a-shadow reports what it beholds...
Though loud, it is essentially passionless. To explain it is as impossible as to plumb the soul. Such words as a psychologist might apply,--envy, anticipation, diversion,--are utterly profane...
Comedian a Psychologist...
...every psychologist knows, one cannot rely upon unanalyzed, unexamined memories. Undoubtedly the memories of many old players when looking back in retrospect are those of enjoyment of the game; but what they really are in love with are their memories, which are enjoyable, while the original experiences may not have been enjoyable...