Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always on the lookout for new acquisitions in the "knowledge industry," the Times Mirror Co. last week announced the purchase of Popular Science, the 95-year-old magazine that mixes some explanations of pure science with practical tips for the man who likes to work with his hands. Along with Popular Science, Times Mirror picked up another magazine called Outdoor Life-plus a producer of audio-visual aids linked to the magazines and two book clubs...
...that the ill-fated Apollo was equipped with a hatch that took 90 seconds to open-much too long to save the astronauts, who died within 20 seconds of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide. Thus it also was that the spacecraft contained materials that had been tested for flammability under pure oxygen at a pressure of 5 Ibs. per sq. in. but not under the more dangerous 16 Ibs. used in the ground test...
Passing the question of area vs. pure disciplinary specalization, what the scholar has to offer here is what the foreign policy professional needs. But even this happy situation does not guarantee a happy relationship between scholars and polciy makers. If this is indeed to be a marriage of true minds, both partners have to learn to respect each other's roles, and to accommodate themselves somewhat to the limiting conditions within which the other fellow works. The policy maker has to realize that he cannot demand and obtain instant scholarship; that objectivity and reflectiveness and depth of perception can only...
Dean Price, however, stresses the Institute's financial independence, the range of views represented in its various visitors and affiliates, and sees little conflict between the Institute and academic disciplines. "There is no doubt that the University must protect its basic strength in the purely academic fields above all things, but I don't believe that activity in applied fields will detract from pure scholarship," he says...
...Institute, however, this seems to avoid a central issue. A substantial portion of the Harvard community simply desires to confront policy-oriented problems. Many feel that the intellectual challenge of confronting issues in this realm is every bit as stimulating as devoting time to pure scholarship. Besides, there are few, if any, members of the Institute who plan to divorce themselves from pure scholarship--they merely want to vary their activities to achieve the maximum intellectual satisfaction...