Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishingly high standing of anger today can be verified thus: it is not only regarded as moral but as something even better, healthy and therapeutic. A fight a day keeps the doctor away, Psychiatrist Theodore Isaac Rubin suggests in something called The Angry Book. With a burst of earnest lyricism, he asks: "Have you ever experienced the good, clean feel that comes after expressing anger, as well as the increased self-esteem and the feel of real peace with one's self and others?" In The Intimate Enemy, Dr. George R. Bach, a clinical psychologist, turns anger into...
Since 1964, however, the U.S. has increasingly had to share its mare nostrum with a constantly growing Russian fleet. Today the two forces are very nearly equal. The Sixth Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Isaac C. Kidd Jr. (who will shortly move upward to become head of the Naval Material Command and be replaced by Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller), consists of 45 ships, including three aircraft carriers, along with four submarines, 200 planes and 25,000 men. Under Vice Admiral V.N. Leonenkov, the Soviet force, an arm of the Black Sea fleet, consists of 40 to 60 ships...
...thesis begins with a standard radical analysis of the two major world forces: capitalism represented chiefly by America especially after the second World War, and the communism of Bolshevism and Maoism. Horowitz stresses the nature of these ideologies and various misinterpretations and myths. Following the critique of his mentor, Isaac Deutscher, to whom he dedicates the book, Horowitz outlines Bolshevik theory, the interaction with the bostile West, and the ensuing revisions in Russian policy and goals...
...market. But last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced proudly that the Velásquez was theirs, admitting Wildenstein had bid on it by arrangement with them. Met Director Thomas Moving explained that the bulk of the money came from a fund set up back in 1917 by Isaac Fletcher, industrialist-banker, who stipulated that it should be used only for purchases...
More important, critics and reviewers who confer literary status rarely know much about science or technology. Most science-fiction writers, however, browse knowledgeably through specialized journals where many of them find the metaphorical seeds of their novels and short stories. Some, like Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke, are trained scientists. Even journeymen practitioners of SF are likely to know more about literature than most novelists and critics know about science. And in the 20th century, ignorance of the fundamentals-and social implications-of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics constitutes an embarrassing form of illiteracy...