Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true coin of Stendhal's genius; only the edges want milling. It ranks almost with The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the great novels which Stendhal wrote before & after it; and it marks the mid-point in his development from a powerful psychologist who couldn't help laughing at the people he created, to a deadly satirist who couldn't stop creating the people he laughed...
...Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...
Interested by the volume of response, a psychologist made a study of some of the reservations. A few were patently gags, he decided, but most came from people who seemed to be tired of it all and thought the chance of escaping this sorry earth was no joke at all. A woman from Massachusetts was typical. "It would be heaven to get away from this busy earth," she wrote. "I honestly wish God would let me get away . . . and just go somewhere where it's nice and peaceful, good, safe, and secure...
...been doing so for 20 years as part of the work of the physical education department. Most schools said they used the photos to point up posture defects to the student himself. Others-with the University of Washington planning to participate this year-turned the pictures over to Psychologist William H. Sheldon, 50, of Columbia University's medical school...
...Psychologist Sheldon (TIME, July 15, 1940) has never made any mystery of what he was up to: for 25 years he has been studying the relationship, if any, between physique and temperament. Though they probably never knew it, thousands of students from at least 30 colleges and universities have been duly classified as endomorphs (round, soft, usually physically weak), mesomorphs (square, hard, unusually rugged), ectomorphs (fragile, spindly, stringy), or a combination of types. He has written three books on his findings, has two more in the works...