Word: productions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American) social scientist is a product of (American) society and he tends to accept its values. This tendency is strengthened when he has to rely on government funds to support his research and when he advises the government on matters of policy...
...attention. Roszak sees the United States as a technocratic society, in which "those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who, in turn, justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge." Technocracy, to paraphrase an important communist concept, is the highest stage of industrialism: the mature product of a society convinced of the necessity for technological progress and deeply imbued with the scientific ethos. It all meshes quite nearly. Technological progress requires rational expertise, efficiency, order, predictability-all the qualities so cherished in the scientific world-view...
Weight watchers and diabetics have used cyclamates as a sugar substitute since the early 1950's. But several researchers have claimed that cyclamates produce changes in the testes, kidneys, adrenals, and livers of laboratory animals. Others have found that a cyclamate breakdown product raises blood pressure and causes chromosome damage...
...problem is in the selling. The company's use of a "give-away" offer to sell its product has caused many complaints from customers and agencies...
...whipping up a petit bourgeois storm of xenophobia by means of innuendo and aspersion. The intimations and half-truths are there, to be sure. But the mood and the mode-the slickness and the manipulation-belong to Madison Avenue. Creating a market that does not exist, pushing a luxury product like revolution fabricated out of cheap verbal plastic: that is Hyland's bag. I for one was disappointed. The issue should have been on glossy paper, and the photos in color...