Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change in Iowa's fortunes took place eleven years ago when famed Psychologist Carl Emil Seashore, grand old man of the University, decided that Iowa should go in for creative arts. In came Humanist Norman Foerster to head the School of Letters, Artist Grant Wood to teach in the School of Fine Arts. They believed that the way to learn about art was to produce it. Soon Iowa's husky pupils were enthusiastically painting, sculpting, writing, acting, composing. Scornful of second-hand scholarship, Iowa's teachers let students win their degrees by substituting for a traditional thesis...
Sheltering Arms. Reluctance to accept psychological counsel in hiring workers is not confined to employers, said Psychologist Morris S. Viteles of the University of Pennsylvania. "Labor leaders resist likewise, because they stand for the group protection of its inferior members, which is the tradition of organized labor throughout the world, except perhaps in the Soviet Union. There, under the direction of a so-called proletarian dictatorship, inefficiency is made synonymous with political crime and the trade unions have learned to withdraw from their inferior members the protection still accorded to them by labor unions in capitalistic countries...
...They call me a psychologist," pro tested Dostoevski. "It is not true. I am merely a realist 'in the higher sense of the word, that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul...
...Socio-psychologist Shea suggested a complicated cure. Since hillbillies do not like recreations foisted on them by outside do-gooders, he would persuade community leaders to build their own recreation centres, with movies, dancing, shooting ranges, horseshoe-pitching grounds, pine sticks for whittling, brass cuspidors...
...appearance in the U. S. was in 1931 at Harvard, where he arrived straight from two years' teaching at Tsing Hua University, Peking. His rumpled clothes, backswept curls, glinting, slightly Oriental eyes and catching humor interested undergraduates, but what interested them more was his exploratory teaching. A trained psychologist, Richards had discovered not only that the same piece of writing rarely got the same response from any two readers, but that astounding misinterpretations were quite common. His practical exercises in reading English literature correctly were as fresh to Harvard-and as popular-as they had been in England...