Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychologist, I cannot refrain from commenting upon "The Carrot and the Stick," the article from the London Economist which you quote approvingly (TIME, July 15) as "some simple, understandable words to the British people...
...chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea in 1940 by coming to life and joining the British Navy...
...know about Sex, Marxism, and God. The nucleus of the groups consists of several current and choice Harvard professors, notably "Puffer" Wiggam, master of Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when it comes to applications to his house; A. R. Boyer, psychologist and professional Westerner; and Harry Keith, selfish and neurotic professor of History and Literature whose ambition, plus his predilection for other women, causes him to abandon his dipsomaniacal wife. If the parallelism is not one to one, quite clearly Miss Howe's Harvard faculty found its inspiration in the real thing...
...found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist, not very interesting...
...Psychologist Oliver Lacey of Cornell University reasoned that a disordered metabolism might have predisposed the rats to jumpy nerves. In follow-up experiments, he proved it by injecting stable rats with adrenalin, which increases blood sugar. Result: all of them became susceptible to fits. Reporting in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Lacey carefully avoided jumping to one possible conclusion: that some of the psychological maladjustments of human beings may be caused by plain faulty metabolism-in short, that unhealthy bodies cause unhealthy minds...