Word: charney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of Careers Today magazine was not money but response. Editor in Chief Nicolas H. Charney and Publisher John J. Veronis lavished more than enough on production costs and advertising. Although it had promised more, the magazine never developed into much more than a job hunter's guide on slick paper. Subscribers were so few that they cost more than they were worth. Last week, after four issues, Careers Today folded. Its demise was not, of course, the end of Charney and Veronis (TIME, Feb. 14), who will continue to publish the successful Psychology Today...
From the start, Charney decided that the way to talk about psychology was to let specialists do the talking. Articles ranged from "The Psychopharmacological Revolution" to "Civilization and Its Malcontents," which argued that the neurotic is deficient in his socialization, not excessive, as Freud believed. M.I.T. Linguist Noam Chomsky has dealt with "Language and the Mind," and others have presented conclusions of research projects in areas ranging from "Fantasy Differences in Men and Women" to "Political Attitudes in Children." The current issue takes on the question of "Does the Law Work for You?" with contributors grappling with the problems...
...launch his venture, Charney formed a corporation in January 1967, after receiving a Ph. D. in biopsychology from the University of Chicago. "About all I knew," he says, "was that I want ed to put out a magazine, a sort of Scientific American of the social sciences. There is psychology behind all acts-eating, going to bed, and so on. People are curious about these things...
...authority of the articles is too often obscured by ponderous writing. Aimed at an unspecialized audience, the magazine needs more translation by competent, middleman journalists. Mary Harrington Hall, a former science writer who was one of the first staffers hired by Charney, comes closest. But even when she tries to inject lightness and broader explanation into her tape-recorded interviews with the likes of Existentialist-Psychotherapist Rollo May and Harvard Behaviorist B. F. Skinner, the transcribed result more often than not sounds like interruptions...
...Chips. Psychology Today was only Charney's first step. For the second, Careers Today, Management