Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lower Art Form. The year of decision in Guinness' career was 1950. As T. S. Eliot's psychologist in The Cocktail Party, he fetched Broadway quite an intellectual wallop. His third movie, Kind Hearts and Coronets, established him as a world figure, the most famous British zany since Sir Harry Lauder. Alec was not quite sure he liked it. Like most British actors, he looked on cinema as a lower art form.* Besides, he fancied himself rather as a tragedian than as a funnyface. But there it was. And when his cold, existential, matter-of-fact Hamlet...
...Psychologist Ernest Dichter, specialist in motivational research-"MR" to Madison Avenue clients (TIME, May 13)-probed the motives of both doctor and patient, told a forum of 1,000 physicians in Washington that they should abandon the "father image" role of the old-style family doctor. Dichter advised: "Accept the fact that today's patient has grown up and can read current medical articles," and treat him more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees...
...full of notes but no solution. A technical specialist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Robert E. Zider, went to Seaford with a dowsing rod and a theory that water beneath the Herrmanns' house was unsettling things with a freak magnetic field. From Duke University came Dr. J. Gaither Pratt, psychologist and expert on extrasensory perception...
...Psychologist Pratt had a calming effect on the poltergeist-or perhaps on young Jimmy. For Jimmy had been present at most of the mysterious happenings and, as Dr. Pratt pointed out, poltergeist phenomena are commonly associated with adolescents. At any rate, no sooner had Dr. Pratt returned to Duke when back came the poltergeist...
Churchmen should not be shy about showmanship, urged Psychologist Dr. James G. Ranck, lecturer in psychology and religion at Drew University. "The drive-in church, the mobile pulpit, the church in a restaurant, the nightclub for college students which conducts a lecture series on which theological school faculty and other clergy occasionally appear-all these and other psychological equivalents of the soapbox on the corner are suggestive of what can be done to take religion to marginal groups...