Word: psychologist
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...like Boston and Louisville as racist and no different from the Deep South's efforts to block school desegregation in the 1950s and early 1960s. As the title of a bitter N.A.A.C.P. report put it: It's Not the Distance, It's the Niggers. Observes Kenneth Clark, a black psychologist and leading education theorist: "The North is trying to get away with what the South tried. If the North succeeds, and I don't think that it will, it will make a mockery of our courts and laws." But other black leaders are far less certain and wonder whether busing...
Toumanoff is perfectly suited to act as the go-between with the government. A clinical psychologist by training and a Foreign Service officer in Washington and Moscow for 25 years, he seems to express the reverence the practical, experienced man holds for intellectuals. He speaks of Harvard's research facilities, which have been the center's main bait in drawing Soviet scholars from most U.S. state universities and many European schools: "In terms of source material, it's better than anything outside of the Library of Congress--and it's more accessible...
Angry blacks would reply that Boston is indeed more racist than most Northern cities and that in the past blacks have not been able to gain much control over their schools. But as Psychologist Robert Coles has pointed out, the blue-collar population of Boston now feels that it has lost control not only of its schools but also of an important part of its life. The white neighborhoods, once highly influential in both the church and city hall, feel abandoned by city leaders. South Boston lost much of its political clout with the death of Cardinal Cushing...
...Hicks, a former member of the school committee, have thought over the years that desegregation could be prevented. Now they are frustrated. "When a community senses that social change is going to take place come hell or high water, you don't get violence," says Harvard Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew. "But the people in Boston have been told for years that busing is not inevitable, that it will not happen here. Such a constant holding out of hope has a devastating effect...
...president of the American Psychological Association saying nice things about original sin, confession of guilt and the Ten Commandments? Why is he chiding his fellow psychologists for siding with self-gratification over self-restraint and for regarding guilt as a neurotic symptom? Because, after years of study and his "avocational interest in evolutionary theory," he has finally come to believe that religion and other moral traditions are not only useful but scientifically valid. So explained Northwestern Psychologist Donald T. Campbell, 58, in his address at the A.P. A. convention in Chicago last week...