Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrist, Dr. Robert D. Wald, believes that the opposite situation is more common: "The assumption is that people don't want to die. From my experience, I believe that-more often than is generally realized-people reach a point where they are willing to die." To Psychologist Herman Feifel of the University of Southern California, who has edited a book on The Meaning of Death, what the patient is told is less important than how he is told...
...panel discussions and dramatic productions right into the girls' rooms. Teaching methods are mostly experimental. Anthropologist George Park has set out to prove that "education is the destruction of innocence," envisions a race-relations course that will generate an understanding of the motivations behind the White Citizens Councils, Psychologist Ruth Munroe is enthusiastic about a student who is analyzing novels according to whether they observe the Ten Commandments. "I don't know if she'll come out with a statistical study," says Teacher Munroe, "but she will have a different view of social behavior and, perhaps, literature...
Yesterday the most coveted award for literature--the Nobel Prize--was awarded to the French dramatist, novelist, psychologist, critic, and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre was notified of the selection while calmly eating lunch at a side walk cafe in Paris--a perfect set and cast for a production of Les Rhinoceros--but the actual setting for something far more absurd...
...orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well; the term was the title of a 1914 book by British Political Psychologist Graham Wallas, and the idea is as old as Plato's Republic. Equally lackluster is Barry Goldwater's "In your heart you know he is right"-which L.B.J. could not resist parodying in his speech before the Steelworkers Union last month ("You know in your heart that...
...compelling, a slogan must above all be simple. Its acceptance, says University of Houston Psychologist Richard Evans, "is rooted in man's basic intolerance for ambiguity." But it doesn't always work that way. One of the most successful slogans in recent years was a "Vote for clean water" campaign in St. Louis, which led many citizens to believe that a proposed $95 million bond issue would be spent to purify their drinking water. In fact, it was intended to reduce pollution of the Mississippi River downstream from the city, but confused St. Louisans passed the bond issue...