Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hofstadter, "that there is nothing much they can do about so many things like radioactive fallout. So today, college students are serious about their careers, and they feel that's about, all they can do." In this sense, students are "more individualistic than anyone would guess," says Amherst Psychologist Robert Birney. "They try to be able to cope with what they can control. They don't worry about what they can't." At Southern Methodist University a discussion group is now engaged in exploring the theme, "I am I." "What this really means," says Coed Annette Robinson...
...Illinois housewife whose metal bed frame somehow picked up the satellite beep ("Three shorts and one long, like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"). Editors strove heroically for local angles. Hearst's New York Journal-American-which let its sleeping anti-vivisectionism lie-tracked down a canine psychologist who reassured animal lovers: "This dog is happy to be part of something important...
...find that the disease is invariably fatal, Zigas hurriedly shipped blood and brain specimens from victims to Melbourne's famed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, hoping that the laboratories would find a virus cause for the disease. They found none. Next a pathologist, anthropologist, dietitian, psychiatrist and psychologist hit the mountain trails. They eliminated emotional factors as causes of kuru, found no clue to a physical cause...
...addition to athletics, editing the college literary magazine, and being class president, McCord also developed his interest in criminality while at Stanford. "I took a job at San Quentin as a psychologist for sex offenders. Nobody else wanted to handle them so there were no qualifications. In fact this was not even my major in college; I majored in history and humanities." While working at San Quentin he counseled a man who had written the TV and radio show Dragnet until he was arrested for forging a $50,000 check...
...Social Relations Department, in many ways, provided the perfect home for a man of McCord's intellectual curiosity and scope. McCord terms himself a social psychologist, but as he points out, social psychology is a diffuse field. Others find more trouble categorizing him, Allport describes him as "A very broad-gauged fellow, I don't know what to call him. He demonstrates the goal of the department...