Word: seymour
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...Gregory Bateson's concept of the double bind, which holds that schizophrenia arises from a prolonged dose of conflicting instructions, as, say, when a mother tells a child not to eat sweets, yet is constantly rewarding it with candy. But studies of identical twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells' DNA, the master genetic molecules, may possibly be transmitted by viruses. In any case, the new pharmacological researchers no longer regard schizophrenia as a single ailment but, like cancer, as a collection...
...these new biochemical tools may be used analytically. Thus it would become possible to diagnose mental illness from a simple blood, urine or spinal fluid sample. Once imbalances in body chemistry are determined, doctors would be able to adjust them by administering the appropriate drugs. Harvard's Dr. Seymour Kety insists that such tactics are far from mind control: "You can't manipulate an individual's behavior in the way the popular mind would like to think." But Northwestern's Routtenberg is not so sure. Says he: "These techniques are extremely powerful. Some...
Four thousand randomly-chosen faculty members from 138 four-year colleges responded to the survey, which was conducted in 1977, Seymour Lipset, a Stanford sociology professor who helped conduct the study, said yesterday...
...quote Seymour Martin Lipset as saying, "Carter is in the same boat as Nixon, looking good abroad while facing a sea of domestic troubles" [Jan. 1]. Of course Carter faces a sea of domestic troubles, but he does not look good abroad, certainly not in Europe. Americans can play it down or explain it away, but they should not ignore...
With all due respect to Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, may I take the liberty of amending his quote to "nothing disastrous appears lobe happening." Changes are happening at the blink of an eyelash, too quickly for the human mind to perceive...