Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration will also try to make scientists more aware of their potential role in society and of the ends to which their research is applied...
Obviously, it is the doctor who should guide the patient through the bewildering health-care maze. Yet not enough U.S. doctors today are qualified to fill this role well, and the organization of the profession discourages it. With the discoveries of new and potent "wonder drugs"?insulin, the sulfas and antibiotics, new hormones and vaccines?each succeeding decade after the 1920s should have been a golden age of medicine. But medicine needed the understanding and compassion for the patient that had marked the old-style, unscientific family doctor. The American Medical Association, long the champion of improved medical practice...
...albino rat-a mutant form of the wild brown rat-is a genetic monster of dubious value to research. Caged and bred in captivity for more than a century, it is a man-made abomination-fat and degenerate, faithful neither to its wild ancestry nor to its laboratory role as a distorted mirror of man. "Theories are tested upon it," says Lockard. "Students are trained with it, and generalizations are based upon it. If albinus is misleading, so are many of the products of psychology...
...Century-Fox, but the post is largely honorific. Having sold or given away much of the $6,000,000 interest that the Skourases had in Fox, he laments that "I'm in debt up to my neck because of this shipping business." Translation: he revels in his new role as a maritime...
...foremost authorities on military academies (over 60 are advertised in her magazine), and she would have been an astute adviser on cinema to the National Council of Arts. (Few people know about it, but Miss Rogers has had quite an unsung acting career, culminating with her starring role in Bringing Home the Bacon, an experimental film financed by the Oscar Mayer hot-dog people...