Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this seems peculiar at a time when the U.S. teems with putative intellectuals-in hospitals, foundations, think tanks, the government, "knowledge industry" corporations. A company of RCA's scope is now involved not only in manufacturing but also in producing novels and doing research in linear algebra. The Pentagon's interests range from high-energy physics to tutoring for school dropouts. The U.S. needs intellectuals for defense, city planning, space exploration, for running computers and training more intellectuals. The intellectual's horizons are almost unlimited. Then why is he so unhappy...
...military, with its enthusiastic contingency plans. Moreover, it was primarily intellectuals who inspired a national dissidence sufficient to drive Lyndon Johnson from office. Still, the war does demonstrate that many scientists and scholars have not yet learned to handle their worldly roles. Some have been blinded by government research, which has transformed the nature of American universities. Yet few modern intellectuals can retreat to ivory-tower isolation. How, then, should intellectuals conduct themselves in what Physicist Max Born calls a "post-ethical" society...
...broaden specialists' minds, Hutchins proposes to halt university expansion whenever enrollment exceeds a few thousand. Instead, he would build smaller universities in which all major disciplines would be in touch, giving both scholars and students badly needed interdisciplinary studies. Many campuses have weighed a curb on secret war research, and last week M.I.T. began turning away new contracts. It seems undesirable to transfer such work entirely to the military, but much of it could well be shifted to independent research centers such as the Rand Corp. The secret work that some scholars perform for the CIA in a university...
...moonmanship follies." John Kennedy's science adviser, Jerome Wiesner, warns that "it would be a mistake to commit $100 billion to a manned Mars landing when we have problems getting from Boston to New York City." Says Physicist Ralph Lapp: "Given a choice between $500 million for basic research and the same amount to bring back a second bagful of rocks from the moon, only a lunatic scientist would take more than a microsecond of decision time...
...time in centuries, representatives of the two major Moslem sects - the Shiite and Sunnite - held a formal dialogue on their doctrine. To their surprise, they found themselves more in accord than apart. One immediate byproduct of this harmony was a resolution to meet again and form an international Islamic research center...