Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donham brought D. Elton Mayo, a young Australian psychologist, to the school for experimentation in the untried field of human relations. Mayo's pioneering work led eventually to post-war changes in the school's curriculum. Today human relations is a significant topic on the business school campus. It is already the basis of two new post-war courses and is likely to influence the school's curriculum still further...
...psychologists are better equipped to diagnose the complaint than Baltimore's Robert Lindner. He has studied young people as a practicing analyst, as consulting psychologist to Maryland's state prisons as well as to the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Dr. Lindner has reached the startling conclusion that the youth of today is suffering from a severe, collective mental illness. While many parents-and some of Dr. Lindner's own colleagues-will not go along with him all the way, his diagnosis is provocative...
...smooth rough-edged personalities so that they will not rub too harshly on their fellows; also philosophy, recreation and pediatrics: "Each is infused with the rot-producing idea that the salvation of the individual, and so of society, depends upon conformity and adjustment." Thus, in harsher terms, rebellious Psychologist Lindner reaches much the same diagnosis as Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME, Sept. 27), who calls the pattern of the times "other-directedness...
...first play, allowed his anxious emotions to overwhelm him. The Living Room too much batters its theme before the suicide, and again for a whole scene after it. Nor is the production very helpful. Walter Fitzgerald and Michael Goodliffe are good as the priest and the psychologist, but Greene's cold overwroughtness is played up rather than down; and Barbara Bel Geddes. though a charming actress, lacks the right inner simplicity and bewilderment for the heroine...
...play concerns a young Roman Catholic girl who has become the mistress of a middle-aged married psychologist. She is deeply in love with him when, after her mother's death, she goes to live in a sort of religious Bleak House with two devout great-aunts and a paralyzed priest of a great-uncle. Her relatives exist in cramped fright, having sealed off-in their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront...