Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oppenheimer set up a director's fund that has provided short-term professorships for such untypical Institute intellectuals as Critic Kenneth Burke and Psychologist Jerome Bruner. But Oppenheimer has resisted pressure to broaden the Institute's scope with the argument that it is better to do a few things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach...
...simplest conversation about new devices and techniques. But many a layman has become convinced that it is only one more irritating and unnecessary obstacle looming between him and a better grasp of scientific accomplishment. In a detailed analysis of space-speak for the magazine Science, University of Michigan Psychologist David McNeill suggests that there is something to be said for both points of view...
...leading American psychedelic guru-and martyr-is Timothy Leary, 45, who began to experiment with the drugs in 1960 when he was a psychologist working at Harvard's Center for Research in Personality. Harvard fired him and an associate when their project seemed to get out of hand. Leary then moved his experiments to the vicinity of Acapulco but was expelled by the Mexican government. Early this year a Texas judge sentenced him tentatively to 30 years in jail and a $40,000 fine for transporting half an ounce of marijuana and failing...
After June Clark, 17, had sneezed every few seconds of her waking day for five months, experts in half a dozen medical specialties were stymied. Nothing helped, not even a trip to the dry air of Phoenix. The doctors could only conclude that her trouble was psychogenic. Psychologist Malcolm Kushner of Coral Gables VA Hospital volunteered to make an electrical attack on June's sneezing...
...very much aware of the role he has been filling. In an old Time article he Clipped out, he has underlined this: "For the most part it is probably a healthy thing to be well behaved,' added Psychologist Barron. But there are times when it is mark of greater health to be unruly.' "Next to it he has written "Dietz...