Word: psychologistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge University Research Psychologist Margaret Vince had had the opportunity of knowing my grandmother, it would have saved her a great deal of time and expensive equipment in solving the problem of why all quail and poultry eggs hatch out on the same day, nay, the same hour as their siblings [May 27]. It is all very wonderful to know the embryo can "click" prior to hatching, but I am skeptical of the click's effectiveness in communicating the time of emergence. The latter is based entirely on the period of incubation, which is never begun by a smart...
...Timothy Leary, the ex-Harvard psychologist and psychedelic messiah, contends that the drug has "consciousness-expanding" qualities which stimulate "a religious response that is only understandable in terms of mysticism"; he believes that it should be available "for all." Other enthusiasts argue that laws banning possession of LSD would, under present circumstances, be as unenforceable as Prohibition. Though brewing the stuff is delicate and complex, requiring the skills of at least a college chemistry major, it can be concocted in any laboratory containing sufficient equipment. In New York State, which for a year has had a statute making possession...
...feel greater opposition than ever before." The crusade has been ignored by both fundamentalists and progressive theologians; the Archbishop of York issued a lukewarm endorsement, while Canterbury made it publicly and pointedly clear that Billy did not have Anglican sponsorship. Humanists passed out leaflets with the warning headline: "DANGER-Psychologist at Work...
...chorine, sister of a scientific genius who may or may not have been kidnaped by a top-secret U.S. security agency or by a sinister organization linked to "the international black market in brains." As proof of the brain drain, the movie offers more plot. Rock is a society psychologist and boudoir gallant who is afflicted with an obsessional neurosis against long engagements. When he is not carting diamond rings in and out of Tiffany's, he climbs into taxis, trucks and planes and travels, blindfolded, on house calls to a decaying mansion where Claudia's brother displays...
...then, as Psychologist Harold Grier McCurdy relates in this fragmentary but fascinating case history of an infant prodigy, this quick bright thing came to confusion in a spiritual tragedy that culminated in one of the grimmer mysteries of modern letters...