Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶"Creativity does not result from being reared in a warm, cohesive, supportive home." although such homes do tend to produce good lawyers, humanitarians and politicians. But "ten of eleven famous novelists came from fragmented, stormy homes. Humorists come from tragic homes. Future poets and military leaders are often sickly...
Peace and calm is no way to raise a child to fame and fortune. A home should rock with passion, roll with turbulence, all of it caused by a violently opinionated father who in his own time is a failure. His awed and admiring son will then spend a creative...
So suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel...
¶ Parents of famous people were often hot partisans of unpopular causes. They were revolutionaries, civic reformers, Zionists, free-soilers, agnostics, abolitionists, objectors to infant damnation. Goertzel. riding his thesis hard, concludes that "the children frequently became eminent by adopting a parental point of view,-by fulfilling in action a...
All of this turmoil may have more to do with fostering creativity than does a high IQ, says Psychologist Goertzel. He also argues that "it is not true that traumatic experiences in childhood invariably lead to emotional disturbances and failure." (Only one of his first 77 cases, Cross Founder Clara...