Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that produce social prejudices against the widow and the unmarried woman. "To be single," writes Hazleton, "is considered the greatest misfortune that can befall an Israeli woman." In primary schools, she says, youngsters absorb "a shocking degree of sex stereotyping" that takes its toll on Israeli females. One kibbutz psychologist finds that girls are consistently more moody, tense, tired and anxious than boys...
Many recall their days of party membership as the most exciting periods of their lives. "The world was all around you all the time, " says a psychologist in her mid-50s. "Every time I wrote a leaflet or marched on a picket line or went to a meeting I was remaking the world." Some had less ambitious goals. Says a California woman: "Of all the emotions I've known in life, nothing compares with the emotion of total comradeship I knew among the fruit pickers in the Thirties, nothing else has ever made me feel as alive, as coherent...
...signs are to be believed-and sociologists are sure to debate their significance-the cool-hip chic that has held sway since the 1960s, with its scorn of sentiment and its do-your-own-thing code, is giving way gradually to something suspiciously like a new romanticism. Says Psychologist Sol Gordon, professor of child and family studies at Syracuse University: "Americans no longer want to be cool; they want...
America's new sentimental journey, believes Psychologist Gordon, may spring from the active efforts of many Americans to find something better than "the depersonalization of sex and relationships" that has occurred in recent years. Others think that, in some mysterious way, it is related to a conservative trend in national politics; even Jimmy Carter, with his homespun ways, kissin'-cousin courtliness and studied gentility, is given credit for restoring some sentiment to the land. To many, the search for form and formality, the yearning for tradition and sentiment, are part of the mysterious emotional process by which...
...physical shape, Berkman concluded that their gregariousness, for unknown reasons, has much to do with the fact that they are more resistant to heart and circulatory diseases, cancer and strokes and less inclined to suicide. Which brings to mind Spinoza's observation, "Man is a social animal." And Psychologist James J. Lynch's new book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness...