The Roger Price Theory Of Nomenclature

March, 1960

When i was in grade school back in Charleston, West Virginia, we never heard of Dr. Freud or words like "hostile" or "insecure." But we were still aware of different personality types, and we could define them merely by saying: "So-and-so is a jerk" or "So-and-so is swell" or "So-and-so is a keen first baseman."Later, I began to think seriously about why some of us are different from others. It was right after a girl named Carlotta, the local opt...