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Presents information on the life and works of American poet Robert Frost. Discussion of the poems written by Frost; View that the characters he presented to the world was not the least admirable of his creations; Fact that he was a man who on the one hand spoke to every acquaintance with the unaffectedness of a lifelong friend; but who on the other hand succeeded in concealing some of the important elements of his life even from his authorized biographer; Opinion of other poets on the works of Frost; Information on Frost's first literary composition that was a brief prose narrative based on one of his own dreams; Description of the family background of Frost; Report that like many American writers Frost had been drawn from the West to the East.

Focuses on the type of family in developed countries. Characteristic features of industrialism that have special relevance for family form such as education and mobility; Performance analysis of a conjugal family in a developed society through patterns of nuptiality in the U.S.; Obligation of a conjugal family to provide emotional support to its members.

Focuses on the issue of desegregation as an integral part in the society in the U.S. Question of human emotions and their frail confines; Concern for the psychological effect of wasted living; Allies of Southern segregationists that are spread all over the country; Mention of the letter written by U.S. novelist William Faulkner to a student from one of the Southern states of the U.S. on the issue of segregation. INSET: Faulkner on Segregation..

Describes the distinction between instinctive love, emotional love and conscious love. Discussion of the relation between love and creation; Comments on the creation of a spiritual child in each of the two lovers; Education that helped people acquire the power of directing their senses; Discussion of the mistimed relations that cause trouble.

Sentimentalist Jean Jacques Rousseau for his part seeks to found a doctrine of the inner light on the ruin of the critical faculties. He reduces everything to conscience, and then sentimentalizes conscience; he abdicates intellect in the hope of finding in feeling and instinct the equivalent of insight. The result is writing that has imaginative prestige and emotional appeal without human reality. The strength of Rousseau in all its varieties is that it satisfies man's deep need for enthusiasm. Its weakness is that the enthusiasm it arouses will not bear critical scrutiny. This uncritical enthusiasm has been defined as the "rapturous disintegration of civilized human nature."

The article features Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the widow of the late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. According to the author, Mrs. Roosevelt has become an international figure of great influence and prestige, both as the widow of Franklin and as a delegate to the United Nations. She is considered a symbol of hope, sanity, and human dignity. In addition, Mrs. Roosevelt is said to be one of the rare humans who have a talent for public life and for living naturally in the public gaze. The family history of Mrs. Roosevelt is discussed.

The article presents information on several recent developments in the U.S. It reports on an incident in which two policemen were killed by two black youths in New York City. In such tragic circumstances, normal emotion rises toward hysteria, and often oversteps the boundary. The root cause of these type of murders is the prevalence of handguns in a country as prone to violence as is the United States. Affidavits filed in the misbegotten Harrisburg conspiracy prosecution make it clear that the case had its genesis in J. Edgar Hoover's appearance before a U.S. Congressional appropriations subcommittee in November 1970. Before he was even sworn in as a witness, he had distributed seventy-five mimeographed copies of his testimony.

The first reaction of Middle America to events like the shoot-out at the San Rafael courthouse is one of horror. This is true even of the liberal sector of Middle America. The seizure of a judge in his courtroom and the speedy death of the judge and his captors in the subsequent firefight makes one's blood run cold. But if that is both the first reaction and the last, what happened in Marin County is beyond understanding, and if it remains incomprehensible, only one thing is certain there will be more of the same.

The article presents information on the book "Marriage," by H.G. Wells. It may be set down at once that in this book Wells has written an old-fashioned novel. In "Marriage" Wells pokes fun at the world-builders. The scientific reason was to make a clean sweep of old habits and prejudices. Marjorie Pope, in "Marriage," is a clear-eyed, clean-limbed, healthy, intelligent modern young woman. Actually, her emotional life is precisely that of any girl in any century who stands wondering on the threshold of the unknown.

The article focuses on the working Housewives in the United States. According to U.S. labor bulletins, there is a increase in the number of working mothers. It was noted that the by the time most women reach their middle thirties, their nursemaid and domestic functions are no longer essential. The life-expectancy of women is found to be seventy years and the leisure time should be utilized A study in Michigan concludes that mothers who work part-time make the best parent-adolescent adjustment. Housewives are necessary for good family relations and fulfilling of emotional needs of children.

The article focuses on Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt. It is said that Sadat is running the most populous and most important Arab nation having higher authority and efficiency. It informs about Sadat's proposal for an agreement between Egypt and Israel on reopening of the Suez Canal. William Rogers, Secretary of State in the U.S., is interested in the proposal of Sadat. The president has announced old age pensions for all Egyptians within a year and has also emphasized on constitutional reform.

The article focuses on the human potential movement, a psychological movement that aims at awakening the full potential of an individual and expanding the individual's self-awareness through group therapy. The movement has influenced major social institutions including church, factory, school and state, with gaining publicity through movies including "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" and books including "Please Touch". Though the movement's advocates deny that the movement is a therapy, people visited the movement centers and attended group sessions seeing the movement as a therapy. The American Psychiatric Association reported that more individuals are seeking help through the movement treating it as a therapy. However the movement was criticized as brainwashing and sedition approach.

Discusses the scientific and ethical considerations in using polygraph lie detectors. Information on physiological and physical manifestations of emotional tension associated with lying; Background on the development of the lie detector polygraph; Issue on the effectivity of investigative polygraph.

The article focuses on the decisive influence of early social experiences on emotional development demonstrated in experiments with infant rats. Researchers used an open-field test in measuring the differences in the emotional behavior of the individual rats. It is shown that mother-infant relation has critical effects on the later emotional development of the infant. Infant-infant relation may also result to a comparable critical effects.

The article discusses the perception of pain. Pain is not a fixed response to a hurtful stimulus. Its perception is modified by past experiences, expectations and by culture. The amount and quality of pain is determined by ability to understand the cause and to grasp its consequences. A research shows that pain is much more variable and modifiable than many people believe in the past.

The article determines how stimuli such as light and pressure converted into nerve impulses. Sensory receptors are transducers that convert from one form of energy into another. The biological transducers have remarkable sensitivity and efficiency. The transducer mechanism in the mechanoreceptor was discovered in 1950 by Bernhard Katz of University College London.

The article investigates affection in young rhesus monkeys. The interest in infant monkey love grew out of a research program that involved the separation of monkeys from their mothers a few hours after birth. Affection in infants was thought to be generated by the satisfaction of feeding. However, the results of the study indicate the love derives mainly from close bodily contact.

The article discusses the tests conducted to know the responses of normal persons and psychiatric patients to cartoons taken from various publications in the U.S. The tests have provided information regarding the general factors that naturally condition reactions to humor, such as age, sex and culture. It has also been found out that the basic themes of humor are the same, and that the significant differences are between individuals, who reflect aspects of personality and emotional development.

The article features U.S. playwright Tennessee Williams who is famous for his works of melodrama and plays full of sexuality and passion. It emphasizes several of his Broadway plays including, "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," and "The Night of the Iguana." It also mentions Williams' accomplishments in theater having bagged several awards and compared to great playwrights' Eugene O'Neill and Sean O'Casey.

The article presents information on United States people their behavior and their attitude in society. The degree to which one individual will fight, attempt to dominate or destroy persons or objects which interfere with his attainment of a goal, is of very great concern in human societies and almost all societies of which one is aware of. The article analyses patterns of aggressive behavior of Americans and finds out when aggression is justified and when is it condemned. The present world scene, calls for the exercise of certain types of aggression.

Focuses on research on psychosomatic medicine. Application of these medicine in the treatment of asthma, peptic ulcer, arthritis and warts; Effect of intense emotions like love, hate, anger and fear on body metabolism; Evaluation of the patient's unconscious emotional conflicts by practitioners of psychosomatic medicine; Theories on psychoanalysis expounded by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud; Discussion of organic and functional diseases; Promotion of research on psychosomatic medicine by physician H. Flanders Dunbar, the Rockfeller Foundation and Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis.

This article examines the question on whether or not retirement adjustment programs are necessary. The article also discusses the evidence presented which suggests that few employees are unhappy in retirement and the worth of retirement programs lying in the public relations value with employees and the general public. Also discussed are mixed motives, the unhappy minority, the difficult adjustment to retirement, and the effectiveness of various programs, which were designed to help individuals adjust to retirement.

Discusses the meaning of suicide to the individual who commits the act. Social conditions of suicidal; Inability to control compulsions; Meaning of suicide based in terms of its emotional causes.

If Enrico Caruso were alive today he would be seventy-two years old. He died in 1921, at the age of forty-eight, the greatest singer of his own and perhaps of all time. To the people who were fortunate enough to hear him from the stage, he remains, after all these years, a unique recollection; but even for those who know his voice only from recording, it is still a present wonder. In Caruso's case there was, first, the anguish simply of being a singer-of having as one's instrument one's own body, so that added to the not uncommon anxieties for the flesh, there was the uncommon invitation to identify flesh and art.

This article discusses the situation in the U.S. aftermath the second world war. Fascism as a system of power and terror is dead. The author is of the views that the Americans are not prepared for victory. To people in the U.S., with their cities unbombed, their shores untouched, the lights cannot appear so bright as to the citizens of London, of Moscow, of Paris. Perhaps the people of the U.S. have supposed too full of horrors: the concentration camps, the pulverized cities, the millions of torn bodies, have used up their imaginative emotions so that the words of victory have lost their meaning.

This article examines the reasons for the increasingly important role that labor reportage has assumed in informing the public, how the American press is covering labor-related news and those who are responsible with it. It asserts that labor reporters have acquired an "objective" and "accurate" eye and that some of them have assumed celebrity status in doing their work. It then states that unlike other areas of the American press, labor reporting is intended to show the emotions and passions that are evident in union negotiations and other labor issues.

The article critically appraises the poetry of E.E. Cummings. He combines images which are so unrelated to each other as to be almost unimages merely because of their associational quality which gives feeling he wants as in Cambridge ladies living in furnished souls or not even the rain has such small hands. The author opined that Cummings must grant the reader some rapport even if he doesn't like because readers are not undead or else his poetry becomes purely subjectivistic which is fine for writing on his table cloth but not necessarily so good for printing in a public place unless he happen to be an anarchist. The author also highlights the problem of Cumming's punctuation.

The article discusses author's comment on the book "The Age of Innocence," by Edith Wharton. According to the author, times and readers change but this novel, written at the height of Edith Wharton's powers, retains a power the gradual release of which one becomes aware of with time, with acquaintance, with a more delicate attuning of the ear and the sensibility to the things Edith Wharton was writing about. One of the graces and delights of the Age of innocence lies exactly in the multifariousness of its thematic material, in its refusal to tie itself down to meaning, the while that it glitters with a density, a hardness of surface that only a truly novelistic eye could have seen and an informing mind recreate.

The article discusses the book "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry," by Richard Aldington. According to the author, Aldington's bad taste and bad judgment are nowhere seen to worse advantage than in the suggestion that the main psychological urge behind British adventurer and writer T.E. Lawrence's adventures in Arabia was a revolt against his mother. The author finds it intolerable that Aldington suspects Lawrence of homosexual perversity and an insane hatred of the female sex. In the author's view Aldington was not the proper person to write about Lawrence as he did not know Lawrence at all and has made little attempt to understand him or even to consult those who did.

Reviews the motion picture "Jules and Jim," directed by Francois Truffaut.

The article focuses on the study by psychoanalyst Harold Greenwald regarding emotional problems and motivations among a group of prostitutes. The study reveals that most of the subjects had depressing childhood experience including such as broken families. It notes that the prostitutes have a minimum income of 20-100 dollars each sexual intercourse, averaging 20,000 dollars annually, but none of them had engaged in prostitution for money,

The article reports on a research conducted at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center wherein a patient with a hole in stomach and no emotions had been studied. The patient was a Louisiana farm worker who was injured in an automobile accident. Those who studied the patient were Doctor Ronald Doig and other members of the New York-Cornell stomach-peeping team. They conducted several tests to find out how an emotionless stomach behaves with certain drugs.

Examines the need for personal education in elementary schools in the U.S. Reformulation of the aims of the school not according to the needs of the future adult but in terms of the present necessities of the child; Argument that the school should be a place where a child's physical and emotional energy may be released for his own purposes; Effort of the educators to create a school environment in which children initiate, create, and function; Suggestion that a child must be allowed to begin and to finish his own experiences as much as is socially possible.