Word: rorschach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taurum turns the White House putting green into a creeping shoulder-high jungle, Congressman Fairweather has some doubts about John Henry's sanity, but none about his product. At the city's main psychiatric clinic, the "chief head-candler" assures the congressman that John Henry's Rorschach test is "interesting, but not alarming." The congressman then points out to the young scientist that there are millions to be made out of his pay dirt. But John Henry is interested in no quid pro quo, prefers to be "an amicus humani generis-a friend of the human race...
...these translations. Columbia's success in bringing James Jones's bestselling novel to the screen may be due partly to the fact that it was hardly a novel at all; it was an obscene, extravagant blot of ink, pressed between covers into something like a literary Rorschach sample. Every reader saw in it something different, but most agreed that it contained a tremendously vivid and exciting picture of men in the mass, and added, up to as powerful an expression of love-hate for the U.S. Army as had ever been published...
...study of temperament and character structure was carried on by means of the Rorschach (ink-biot) Test and interviews with each boy by a skilled peychiatrist...
somewhat as follows. Shortly after the child enters elementary school the investigation in terms of these three tables would be initiated. A skilled social worker would investigate the child's home, and his realtions with his parents. A psychologist would administer the Rorschach test, and a psychiatrist would carefully interview the child. Each would score him seperately and then compare opinions and add up the ratings. A bad score on one table would be nothing to be alarmed about, but if the child scores badly on all three then he will need considerable help from social worker, psychologist, and psychiatrist...
Even this isn't up to the latest in cereal box design. The new emphasis is on audience participation. What look like multi-colored Rorschach ink-blots with a fringe of tabs on the backs of boxes turn out to be pieces marked out for constructing models. There are Roman chariots (one is advised to use sticks of macaroni for the axles), county fair grounds, and a Northwest Mounted Police Headquarters and Assayers office...