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...acknowledged guru of the computer movement is Philip Meyer, 55, now professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meyer first used a computer as an investigative tool when he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, analyzing the demographics of blacks in Detroit's 1967 riots. He had previously worked on a computer while on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Says Meyer: "Harvard had an IBM 7090, and I learned to apply it to social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired...
...then Sartre was famous as the leading exponent of the creed known as existentialism (Being and Nothingness, 1943) and the chief guru to the postwar denizens of St. Germain des Pres. De Beauvoir was not far behind. She won the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her fourth novel, The Mandarins, an astringent survey of the Paris literary life as well as a memoir of her own affair with ^ Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. More enduring fame came from her monumental manifesto The Second Sex (1949), one of the cornerstones of modern feminism...
...those who value a foreign policy that works for anti-communism, U.S. military bases and the multinational way can rest easy that conservatives will extract a quid pro quo for our withdrawl of support from Marcos. Their argument, as explained by Neo-Conservative guru Charles Krauthammer, is that if the U.S. is going to support democracy in the Philippines, well, then gosh darn we should support it in Nicaragua and Angola...
...remind Simon of her father tend to become trophies, bagged in the act of looking foolish. A free-love guru known as Jones volunteers to help young Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs...
Gallagher is active in the Democratic Socialists of America--more so than Bachrach, who is also a member--and is considered the most leftward of the candidates by many observers. He has received $350 in campaign contributions from Critical Legal Studies guru and Harvard Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, and smaller amounts from Nobel Laureates Professor of Cardiology Bernard Lown and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald...