Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept constantly before her a list of ten to 15 prospects. "If I kept looking at the whole list," she explains, "I would never have slept." And it was not just a question of quantity but quality, because "a fund raiser should be at various times a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a marriage counselor, and even a sort of family doctor. You have to know the family situation at all times. Divorce, illness, death-or just a routine change in the family financial situation-can inhibit contribution." Buff even consults astrology on occasion. She is not a blind believer...
...opposite extreme was a woman psychologist, ordinarily bright and friendly, who had given no thought to a possible catatonic reaction. She had one so severe that Dr. Cohen says "it would have been difficult for a psychiatrist to pick her out of a room full of female catatonic schizophrenics...
Natural Habitat. Bowen's durable predecessor, Rhodes Scholar Virgil M. Hancher, has kept Iowa in the front rank of state universities. The Iowa City campus is home for some of the most adventuresome minds in science and the arts: Physicist James Van Allen, Psychologist Wendell Johnson, Printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, Paul Engle's famed Writers' Workshop. The library, medical and law schools are among the best in the U.S. But Hancher is a corporation lawyer by training and cautious by instinct. "He tended to protect what we already had," says one dean, "but I am more concerned about...
...hopeful response to this knowledge gap is to put "culturally impoverished" children into prekindergartens at the age of four and pour the missing commonplaces into them. Working under near-laboratory conditions, New York City Psychologist Martin Deutsch pioneered teaching concepts for preschoolers; now Ford Foundation-sponsored projects are under way in Oakland, New Haven, New York, Boston, and eastern Pennsylvania. The U.S. Office of Education is backing an experiment in Kalamazoo, Mich., and the Johnson Foundation has financed a program in Racine, Wis. Farthest along of all is Baltimore's "Early School Admissions Project," supported by the city...
Modern skepticism is intensifying the problem of facing death, says the Rev. Joseph T. Alves, head of Boston's Roman Catholic Family Counseling, Inc. A social psychologist, Father Alves is directing a project for training "social volunteers" to help the lonely aged adjust to modern society's pressures and to comfort those who are incurably ill. There is wide public misunderstanding, said Father Alves, of the full purpose of the Roman Catholic "sacrament of the sick." Long called "extreme unction," it is still too generally regarded as simply the last anointing before death. But in modern theology...