Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gould entered the spotlight with his theories of geology and human evolution. Nozick is a widely read civil libertarian...
Under Whipple's direction, astrophysics at the observatories expanded at an unprecedented rate. Following the world's first human-made satellite launch in 1957--the Soviet Union's Sputnik--the center also received an infusion of government and private funds when previously complacent America plunged into space technology...
...great thing that will make enormous progress for astronomy," says Professor Emeritus Fred L. Whipple, former director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA). The ST would gain the additional range because its view would be free of obscuring, human-produced light and atmospheric pollution, Whipple said...
...minds. And keep an eye out for books by Luke Pontifell. He does not write them but prints them, beautifully, by hand. Last year his Thornwillow Press published Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s J.F.K. Remembered, and in July he will bring out a book by Walter Cronkite on the first human landing on the moon...
...suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work. Their mix of sharp insights, off- center observations and occasional wrong guesses eerily parallels the gradual mental deformation of the afflicted man, while the device of narration allows Congdon to avoid prolonged melodramatics. The script benefited from Roberta Levitow's simple, fluid staging and from...