Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What do Americans think of their teachers? Judging by the work of U.S. authors, not much. It is sad but true, says Psychologist Don C. Charles of the University of Nebraska, that in U.S. literature "teachers appear pretty generally as stereotypes-and rather unflattering stereotypes at that": neurotic spinsters, frustrated fops and dull-witted fools. To show what he means, Don Charles has collected a few specimens for the current Educational Forum...
...seriously enough to give it a try. The Institute of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University is considering using it in an extracurricular course. The Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected to the cerebrograph can memorize a list of words...
...study of the Communist Party is being conducted "not only from the point of view of the political scientist but also from those of the economist, psychologist, and sociologist." Thus such studies as "party Policies in Literature" and "An Interpretive Study of Marxist Method" take their place alongside specialized investigations of purely political events...
...suppose that's why they have such things as dog psychologists. After all, a Keeshonden who keeps chasing around wherever there's a show can't lead the normal existence of a plain old household mutt. C. E. Harbison, of Noroton, Connecticut, is a dog psychologist. He was hanging around the Mechanics Building yesterday, and it turned out that he owns eight dogs, five of whom sleep in the same bedroom with the Harbisons. Mr. Harbison has trained this brigade so well that in 15 years only four places of food have been gobbled off the kitchen table...
...This Lady, Right There." Alger Hiss's first trial had ended in a hung jury. In the second, Judge Goddard had proved more lenient than Judge Samuel Kaufman. He had permitted the defense to bring in a psychiatrist and a psychologist to testify that the Government's star witness, ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was a "psychopathic personality," and allowed the prosecution to produce Hede Massing, ex-wife of Gerhart Eisler (she testified to meeting Hiss as a fellow Communist in Washington...