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...from whom their data are gathered. In this book Dr. Allport holds that psychologists may also arrive at valid generalizations by studying the unique personalities of individuals. "A general law," he says, "may be a law that tells how uniquencess comes about." In pursuing this apporach he introduces the reader to a field of interest new to most Americans, though it has been more thoroughly explored in Germany...
...studying it. Taken as a whole, it is the best available handbook on all aspects of personality and personality study. Yet it is no mere compendium, but an interesting and original approach to a subject which concerns all of us. It is not too technical for the educated reader who has not studied psychology...
...Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, is now before the public. How poetry lovers will take to Mr. Hillyer's latest work is unpredictable, for in his lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing harmony of compassion tinged with soft, self-childing satire so elusive for the reader to hear yet so pleasant when once heard and held in memory. Whether he succeeds without appearing to descend to the prosaic and the trivial depends entirely on the individual reader...
...Reader Champollion is wrong. Krasnaya, which also means red, is to krasivaya as bonny is to pretty. Authority: Moscow-published Russian-English Dictionary compiled by Professors V. Müller & S. Boyanus...
...some parts of this the creaking of the Capek brain is depressingly almost audible, in others-particularly those dealing with the grave struggles of the diplomats to cope with the plethora of newts-the irony is sharp and vigorous. In any case, at book's end the reader will feel that he has pretty much covered the subject of newts...