Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could be more effective if 36-year-old James Gould Cozzens had a little more clearly outgrown his hero. As a psychologist he has the failing of sometimes being taken in by his subjects. Skilled though he is as a craftsman, Author Cozzens still shows a sophomoric taste for elaborate ironies and facetious quotations from the Oxford Book of English Verse. Result: Cozzens, who continues to perform as if he might some day write a really good novel, is still a quite good entertainment...
Most scientists use jawbreaking words for relatively simple things. A biologist says he has "hypophysectomized" a pigeon when he has removed its pituitary* gland; a psychologist speaks of "tactual-kinesthetic perception" when a blindfolded person indicates a point on his skin which has been stimulated. The opposite is true in mathematics, where ordinary words have fearfully complex meanings-e.g., "fields," "groups," "families," "spaces," "rings," "limits," "domains," "functions." In mathematics, a "simple curve" is a closed curve, no matter how elaborate, which does not cross itself-that is, which has one inside and one outside (see cut). An ordinary figure...
...Psychologists, who breathe statistics as a salamander breathes fire, love to count things. They count and classify words to determine what books children should read, what children's classics should be rewritten, how intelligent grown-up readers are. Last week a Chicago psychologist came up with a word-counting formula for measuring not readers but writers. Goateed, Russian-born Dr. David Pablo Boder, head of the psychology department at Lewis Institute (a technical school) and director of its Psychological Museum, called his formula the Adjective-Verb Quotient...
Irna describes herself as "part mechanic, part psychologist, part dialogist." She regards her fellow-workers in soap-opera vineyard in the same light. Outstanding among them are Mrs. Gertrude Berg (The Goldbergs), who makes $5,000 a week, but has to pay all expenses for her show, acts the leading role too, which drops her below Irna; Elaine Sterne Carrington (Pepper Young's Family), who collects an estimated $2,500 a week; Jane Cruisinberry (The Story of Mary Marling and Jane West (The O'Neills), who pull up fourth with about $1,250 a week each. Although...
Next question for Dr. Fabing: Could a 23-year-old brain, which had not been used for 17 years, respond to education? He sent Eugene last January to live with Psychologist Doris Twitchell Allen, hired as tutor Mrs. Richard B. Freeman...