Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strong & Balanced. Such personalism fails to impress some campus observers. "The big picture is unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have...
Married. Francis Gary Powers, 34, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in May 1960, now a test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Claudia Edwards Downey, 28, CIA psychologist; both for the second time; in Catlett...
...peyote cactus, from which mescaline is derived, is a regular part of the Communion services of the Native American Church, composed of 200,000 U.S. Indians. Novelist Aldous Huxley wrote, in The Doors of Perception, that mescaline produced in him an effect that seemed like seeing the beatific vision. Psychologist Timothy Leary, who was dropped from the Harvard faculty last spring after receiving strong criticism for his freewheeling research in the use of LSD and psilocybin, gave the drugs to 69 "fulltime religious professionals," found that three out of four had "intense mystico-religious reactions, and more than half claimed...
...subjects suffer through agonizing intimations of hell rather than of paradise. Most instant mystics feel that they have been "reborn," and have suddenly been given the key to existence, although their intuition usually appears in the form of an incommunicable platitude, such as "oneness is all." California Prison Psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, for example, imagined himself in a black void in which "God was walking on me and I cried for joy. My own voice seemed to speak of his coming, but I didn't believe it. Suddenly and unexpectedly the zenith of the void was lit up with...
Died. Phyllis Bottome (rhymes with got home), 79, British novelist and disciple of Viennese Psychologist Alfred Adler, who turned out 34 melodramatic novels, including two bestsellers of the 1930s (Private Worlds, The Mortal Storm), climaxed her career with an excellent biography of Adler; after a long illness; in London...