Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convening scientists* were particularly interested in man's "adjustive struggle." Said Chicago Psychologist Samuel J. Beck: "The presumably all-intellectual, nonemotional, strictly realistic attitude-that attitude traditionally so hallowed in science-is not useful equipment in the adjustive struggle...
Said Manhattan Psychologist Anne Roe: doctors have spent too much time trying to find out why people get emotionally sick, and not enough time trying to find out why they stay emotionally well. Tests may show that a "patient" has a severe neurosis, but he may be prosperous and socially successful. Studying "normal" people, Dr. Roe admitted, has bored too many researchers...
...guest list at Oppie's hotel this year will also include Historian Arnold Toynbee, Poet T. S. Eliot, Legal Philosopher Max Radin-and a literary critic, a bureaucrat and an airlines executive. There was no telling who might turn up next: maybe a psychologist, a Prime Minister, a composer or a painter. Oppenheimer was just working up courage: "If a man is a full professor at Harvard, he may be a fool, but he's a respectable fool. In the world of action, criteria for acceptability are more confused...
...after careful scrutiny, are supplemented by the Tactical Officer in charge of the Company and sent on to the Commandant. Any unfortunate whose desirability seems to be in doubt as a result of these studies is then sent before the Brigade Aptitude Board, consisting of senior officers and a psychologist, who investigate the case thoroughly, and then pass it on to higher channels involving the Commandant, Superintendent, the heads of all academic departments, and finally the Secretary of War. It can only be imagined what sort of shape this process leaves the suspected student in, but one might guess that...
...grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist because "I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction...