Word: gould
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard bigwigs were asked "for the titles of four to six books and the reasons why each book came to mind," as the editors write in their introduction. Some big names, including professors Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith and Stanley Hoffmann even took the time to respond. Alan Dershowitz is not represented, maybe because respondents were not allowed to list their own works...
...previous years, the travails of Stephen Jay Gould and his quest to explain the history of the world--and his role in it--appear under the chapter heading Science B-16. Walter J. Kaiser '54 was supposed to resume his biennial journey through Elizabethan England yesterday accompanied by his ne'er-do-well sidekick Robert Watson, in an adventure entitled Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare." Or so Courses of Instruction led the unwary reader to believe. But Watson was not granted tenure by the University and will henceforth be frolicking in another forest...
...Gould challenged accepted theories and said that human existence was not inevitable. If one organism had not been successful, man might not have evolved, he said...
...play life's tape again, there's no reason to think the winners wouldn't be different," Gould said...
...Gould pointed to the dinosaurs, saying that there was no biological reason for the dinosaur mass extinction, which he said was probably caused by some type of extraterrestrial impact...