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...four open tenured slots are in the "softer" areas of personality and perception, and the field of personality has been without a senior scholar since the departure of former Professor of Psychology David C. McClelland in June...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: A Search for Identity | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

...think it's very clear that among the undergraduates, the softer kind of Psych is much more popular," says one professor who asked to remain anonymous. "I would like to see there be more people going into the cognitive science track...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: A Search for Identity | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

...appointees who specialize in the "softer" fields, in particular, may bring new vitality to the part of the department in which students seem most interested. Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, who heads the search committee for the senior post in the field of perception, says six scholars are currently being considered for the position. "We hope to have an offer out this semester," he says...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: A Search for Identity | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

...seemed a little spread out and stretched out, every venue and event had its delights, like the wooden shoes of the little Dutch girls echoing their clomps in the speed skaters' Oval. On Mount Allan, where Zurbriggen and Swiss Teammate Peter Muller drew most of the early glare, a softer scene involved the sport's former custodians, the Austrians. Leonhard Stock, 29, the fifth-stringer who replaced fabled Franz Klammer in 1980, then made it worse by winning the downhill gold, finished an unexpected fourth last week and was finally embraced. Two days later, when Zurbriggen found a gate between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Triumph . . . And Tragedy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient toppled monument in a barren desert, Shelley conceived an epitaph that was both ironic and admonitory: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In a softer temper, Poe allowed the face of a beautiful woman to transport him back in time "To the glory that was Greece,/ And the grandeur that was Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why All Empires Come to Dust THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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