Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most outspoken advocates of the Allied cause was Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a onetime pacifist who had come to see that stance as "utopianism" in the face of Nazism's threat to Western civilization. With a group of like-minded thinkers, Niebuhr founded a biweekly journal of Christian opinion to oppose the prevailing pacifism of church leaders and to relate the Gospel message to problems of war and peace...
Anxious to check their theory, Brooks and Mueller gave 113 University of Michigan professors thorough physical and psychological examinations. Men with a higher than average uric-acid content in their blood, the two researchers report in the Journal of the A.M.A., scored significantly higher than the rest in such qualities as drive (the energy put into daily activities), leadership (the tendency to lead others, to manipulate people rather than things), and achievement (actual accomplishment, plus the degree of pride with which it was reported) -all personality traits, as dis tinct from IQ ratings...
...second issue of the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs is a collection of six stimulating essays on as many topics. In the introduction we are told that the Journal "was conceived originally as a voice for young Negroes and Africans in the Harvard Community," but that as the planning for the first issue progressed, it was decided to make the publication "a discussion among several groups...
...Journal succeeds, however, in its breadth of scope. The authors, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds and educational experiences, have written on topics ranging from Los Angeles to Rhodesia, from suicide to the symbolic meaning of a well-kept lawn, from a study of Negroes' reactions to Harvard to the origins of Pan-Africanism. Although a few of the articles are scholarly, the aim of the Journal does not seem to be erudition; it is a platform for under-represented opinions and theories...
...second issue is definitely worth buying if simply for the quality of the individual essays. I only regret that the Journal was not dedicated to one specific question as seen from a number of different perspectives...