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...president of the American Psychological Association saying nice things about original sin, confession of guilt and the Ten Commandments? Why is he chiding his fellow psychologists for siding with self-gratification over self-restraint and for regarding guilt as a neurotic symptom? Because, after years of study and his "avocational interest in evolutionary theory," he has finally come to believe that religion and other moral traditions are not only useful but scientifically valid. So explained Northwestern Psychologist Donald T. Campbell, 58, in his address at the A.P. A. convention in Chicago last week...
...primarily the velocity of the P waves, not the S waves, that changed. Their figures were significant for another reason: the P-wave velocity change was not caused by a quirk of geology in the Garm region or even in the Adirondacks, but was apparently a common symptom of the buildup of dangerous stresses in the earth...
Hackman's performance is fine, though not so Shakespearean as some have claimed. The withdrawal symptom scene (the villians capture him and turn him into an addict) did not turn out to be a spotlight for fancy-pants acting--they don't go on for too long, and at least he talks: Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues just sat and shivered miserably--one's reaction was "why am I watching this?" But Hackman moves through this film without straining--he's done better work before, and he seems to enjoy Doyle's character. His enunciation of various...
...most goods at the lowest prices and forcing even them to keep reinvesting their profits in new products or better operating methods if they want to stay ahead of their rivals. As a result, production keeps rising, pulling up wages ("The liberal reward of labor . . . is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth") and distributing to everyone more of "the necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life...
...BENEFITS. The city has been equally generous with the public employees who provide these services. Although the population of New York has declined slightly over the past ten years, to 7.8 million, the city work force had grown by 37% to 338,000. The figures are approximate, since a symptom of the city's difficulties is that its various bureaucracies cannot agree on whom to count on the payroll. The work force, moreover, has increased unevenly. The line agencies-police, firemen, sanitation men-declined slightly in the past decade. The agencies involved in helping the poor were enlarged...