Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later lament that "self-indulgence could turn free universities into a travesty of education in which 'rapping' replaces research, and reason gives way to sensuality." That's not what we want and we doubt that it will happen. But we would like to include some rapping in all research, and we would like to see reason tempered a bit by humanism, if not sensuality. After all, rapping had almost nothing to do with the creation of hydrogen bombs and nerve gas-while reason had absolutely nothing to do with the creation (and procreation) of human beings...
...gather the material for this week's essay on "The Dilemma of Chemical Warfare," Senior Correspondent John Steele spent three weeks traveling across most of the U.S. Despite the secrecy that shrouds most CBW research, Steele managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...MARINE RESEARCH...
Sound Assumption. Myrberg's shark-calling technique is an outgrowth of his studies of fish behavior financed by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. After starting his research on North Bimini in 1965, he proceeded on the assumption that fish communicate better acoustically than by sight or smell. Sound, after all, is carried farther in water than in the air, and three or four times as fast...
...Tenacity. For all this, The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's triumph. His hard-edged elegies for the West come from a life spent absorbing its folkways. Born into a California pioneer family, Peckinpah is a hard liver who has found some of his script ideas by doing research in barrooms and bordellos. Because he is scrappy and unwilling to compromise, he has spent a good deal of his professional time warring with the money men in the front office, who truncated Major Dundee and fired him from The Cincinnati Kid after three days of shooting. "You have...