Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christmas always turned up 13. "I believed in Santa Claus and hung up my stocking," he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. "But all I would get on Christmas was having my father try and give me a glass of whisky." So, as any child psychologist might have predicted, Joe joined the Cosa Nostra, muscled his way up through the ranks and then, in a long-running 1963 TV series that might have been called 1,000 Days with Bobby Kennedy, transferred his allegiance to the Irish Mafia...
...chance to experiment with some of his theories his first year here, when the Freshman Seminar Program was just beginning. Riesman, working with an anthropologist, a political scientist, and a psychologist, organized one of the first seminars...
...Psychologist George T. Hauty, now at the University of Delaware, designed the FAA project. He was familiar enough with travelers' reports of feeling dreadful for the first few days of a long-awaited European or Hong Kong holiday, but without scientific testing there was no way to know whether the complaints reflected changes in longitude or overindulgence in food and liquor on the plane. What Hauty wanted now was reliable data that might help him predict circadian effects on pilots' performance during long jet flights, on astronauts whose "days" get shortened to less than 100 minutes, and finally...
...next group went to Rome (seven hours' difference). The same tests were performed, and always there was an accompanying psychologist checking reaction times, decision times, concentration and attention capacities-and demanding that the scientists score themselves on a subjective check-off list. A third, 5,000-mile flight southward from Washington, D.C., to Santiago, Chile, which is only an hour off E.S.T., produced negligible changes...
Clearly nobody has taught Keniston how to write. This deficiency would not be so serious if Keniston were an economist, historian, or even a psychologist of ordinary pretensions. But it seems that he would imitate his teachers, that he aspires to the position of free-lance social scientist, unfettered by the disciplinary distinctions usually imposed by the Academy. While the ambition is an hororable one, the plodding prose of The Uncommitted suggests that Keniston may not be the right man for the job--at least...