Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fired for two main reasons: 1) I would not collaborate with the State Un-American Activities Committee, but resisted what I considered to be their improper drive against the foundation of our democracy-civil rights ... 2) as a citizen and social psychologist I have exercised my right to petition, meet, speak, and join with organizations having legitimate aims I support; and I have been undistracted by their being called "Communist fronts" by those who oppose . . . such organizations as Consumer's Union, Spanish Refugee Appeal, and the Progressive Party. Hardly a "penalty for secrecy...
...case of the six professors had begun when a committee of the Washington state legislature investigated the university. Summoned for questioning, Psychologist Ralph H. Gundlach, Philosophy Professor Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth of the English department refused to say whether they were members of the party or not. Three more-E. Harold Eby and Garland O. Ethel of the English department and Anthropologist Melville Jacobs-said that they had been, but were no longer. President Raymond B. Allen and a faculty committee on tenure and academic freedom undertook to investigate further...
Medically, a man may be only as old as his arteries. But an airplane pilot has more complicated problems as he begins to get older. He has to worry about his "functional age." Last week Psychologist Ross A. McFarland of Harvard's School of Public Health told the Gerontological Society in Manhattan that a pilot is as old as his vision, or his "motor skill," or his general ability to adjust to the demands of his job. No exact age limit should be set for pilot retirement, McFarland said, but life in the sky certainly does not begin...
...Accused is well constructed, well acted and less weighted with hokum than most psychological thrillers. It common-sensically concedes that a smart cop who knows crimes and criminals could outwit an equally smart psychologist who doesn't. As the cop, Wendell Corey, a comparative newcomer from Broadway, not only steals scenes from Movie Veterans Young and Cummings, but also makes the semi-villain so real and likable that audiences may feel the heroine has won the second-best...
First Lesson. In London, Psychologist Sir Frederic Bartless broke off his lecture on the mechanics of memory, sheepishly explained that his assistant had forgotten to bring the demonstration equipment...