Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ecologists maintain a watch on the total environment, noting how change in one area triggers change in others. Ethnologists explore ways of dampening human violence before it becomes hopelessly harnessed to all the lethal weapons available. City planners try to bring some order out of the urban sprawl. The research institutes, or think tanks, recruit bold generalists or "futurists" to plot scenarios of the problems ahead. Modern society has produced all sorts of middleman and service jobs-public relations men, travel agents, pollsters and political-campaign experts, to cite a few. At another level federally financed antipoverty work has become...
...Says Michigan Law Review Editor James Martin: "The firms want to make sure that you meet their guys with mustaches and sideburns. They boast about hiring a Negro -or a woman." The universities will probably have to re-emphasize their original function of teaching and reduce the stress on research. Some of the links that have been established with outside business and government may have to be severed. The behavioral-science departments, which have absorbed much of the liberal arts curriculum, might well concentrate more on the moral center of man rather than his peripheral reactions to assorted social stimuli...
Within the confines of two rooms, 25 TV sets glare and blare at one another. The ten artists, all in their 20s or 30s, are sculptors from the Kinetic School, research protégés of Marshall McLuhan or electronics experimenters, united by disgust with usual TV fare...
...they are supposed to keep quite close to that fixed-price target. TPP was designed to end the egregious overruns that had been fairly common under the older system of contracting for each step as it came along. This had encouraged contractors to make unrealistically low bids in the research phase; once entrenched in a project, they could discover "unforeseen" expenses and plead for more money...
...draft several years ago through a Quaker friend. He is now executive chairman of the Selective Service Lawyers Panel, a group of Boston lawyers concerned about the draft. He works with Boston Draft Resistance, and is staff attorney for a Harvard Law School group called The Committee for Legal Research on the Draft...