Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dyson's good cheer seems rigorously earned. For 35 years he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where his colleagues have included the likes of Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kurt Godel and John von Neumann. Dyson has had an intimate look at upheavals of contemporary science ranging from advances in particle physics and molecular biology to space travel and artificial intelligence. His long career in the ivory tower has not made him a reflexive defender of his elite brotherhood. "I detest and abhor," he writes, "the academic snobbery which places pure scientists...
...they passed Holyoke Center, where the University's anti-union strategist Anne H. Taylor has her office, the buses slowed down long enough for the supporters to cheer, sing and wave fists out the window...
Wall Streeters applauded the Fiero's dumping as a decisive move by GM, which has endured sagging profits in the past two years. But the news caused no cheer in Pontiac (pop. 76,715), Mich., where GM will idle the Fiero plant and lay off 1,100 workers...
...Arts and Sciences stems from more than a critic's desire to be a writer. The book was written in "the aftermath of an unhappy love affair to cheer myself up," Mallon says. One of its main themes is the protagonists inability to cope with their feelings about each other and their affair...
...rivalry resumes next year and will continue for at least the next three years. Finally, the Cornell band's "Screw B.U." cheer will have some meaning...