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Getting the experts to describe the "crisis" often seems like asking them to analyze a Rorschach ink blot: each responds in terms of his own specialty. Most economists feel that the problem is not one of supply but of price-the cost of getting oil and gas to market. Specialists in international finance say that price as such is less important than the fact that consuming countries cannot keep handing over more and more money to the OPEC cartel members without imperiling global financial stability. By year's end the import bill for the U.S. alone will total...
...Evelyn Hooker reported that three psychiatrists could not distinguish differences among 30 matched pairs of gay and straight men, as manifest in Rorschach tests. Miller and Hannum found no differences in MMPI scores (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), between matched groups of heterosexual and homosexuals in a 1963 study. William Horstman found similar lack of difference in MMPI scores nine years later. Mark Freedman reported similar outcomes in lesbian response to the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Using similar personality measures, Siegelman (1972) found no significant differences, and C.G. Watson found no evidence for the paranoia hypothesis in homosexuality. Research by Brenda Dickey...
...Gamesman (285 pages; $8.95), published last week by Simon & Schuster. The gamesman loves glory and winning-not for the sake of wealth or power (though he may acquire both) but for the sheer joy of victory. He detests losing. Maccoby, 43, isolated the type after six years of Rorschach tests, dream analysis and interviews with 250 managers (4% of them women) at twelve elite U.S. companies. As Maccoby's interviews, conducted for the Harvard Project on Technology, Work and Character, took him higher into corporate structures, he found more and more executives who showed gamesman characteristics, though most were...
...those attitudes and his work: he will cheerfully build polluting products, weapons or anything else that will sell. One of his chief goals is to build a skilled team loyal to him. In dealing with its members he is tough and demanding, but not destructive. In one of the Rorschach blots, Maccoby's company man saw coffeepots and the jungle fighter found figures locked in violent combat; the gamesman saw spurting fountains...
...meanings people find in the ink patterns of a Rorschach test reveal their personality. Americans have been intently studying, as they would Rorschach patterns, the images of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter-not to find out about themselves, but about the candidates. The first TV debate failed to bring that one lightning revelation of character that many had hoped for. Thus there is no substitute for studying the candidates through careful reporting and psychological surmise...