Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show a town meeting or a circus? Some observers thought they were seeing an awakened and outraged citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions...
...president's chair and runs all this started out to be a chemist. Later George Stoddard switched to psychology, went to the University of Paris in 1921 and got fascinated by the work of the famous Alfred Binet (intelligence tests). It was as a tester and child psychologist, at the University of Iowa, that Stoddard made his first reputation. In 1942 he switched again, to administration. Before Illinois summoned him to the $20,000-a-year president's job, he was a dean at Iowa and, for four wartime years, New York State's commissioner of education...
This week Clinton Kew, in charge of healing services at Manhattan's Church ot the Heavenly Rest, began work with a new group. At the same time his twin brother Clifton, head psychologist of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, was conducting five similar groups. Psychologist Kew's sessions are frankly secular; Minister Kew, who conducts his sessions wearing a cassock and clerical collar, gets most of his patients from churches or through the special midday services which he conducts for those who are troubled in spirit. Both brothers, however, look upon the church setting as an important...
...each of the subjects agreed to tell an examiner the truth about some embarrassing incident in his life. Then they told a second examiner a "cover" story. After giving each subject a tongue-loosening injection of sodium amytal, the second examiner tried to uncover the facts. A successful female psychologist, for instance, told how she got drunk, invited a man to her room and misbehaved with him. Her cover story: the man did the inviting and then tried unsuccessfully to seduce her. A 22-year-old secretary told how she used to pose as a nude model for artists...
...psychologist, whom the doctors considered a well-balanced individual, stuck to her cover story in spite of the sodium amytal. The ex-model, who was classified as "emotionally labile," i.e., unstable, forgot her cover story and told the truth soon after she got the needle...