Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In this collection of short stories and essays, the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
WHITE PAPER: THE ORDEAL OF THE AMERICAN CITY (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Cities Have No Limits" is the first of three programs that will examine the nature of the urban crisis. Urbanologist Daniel P. Moynihan, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton and John Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition, discuss the problems with NBC's Frank McGee...
...graph showing that it went up on a curve exactly paralleling that of thalidomide sales-but with an eight-month time lag. Lenz explained that he explored other suggested explanations for the increase in phocomelia, such as X rays, TV radiation, fallout and attempted abortions. As a cautious clinical scientist, he eventually rejected them all. Said Lenz: "There is no doubt that thalidomide caused the malformations...
...accidentally discovered by German researchers in 1936 and were a closely held secret until the end of World War II, when the Allies captured Nazi stores. Releasing a flood of the body chemical acetylcholine, which sets off muscle contractions, nerve gases cause uncontrollable convulsions in their victims. By one scientist's account, according to Hersh, "The pupils, bladder and alimentary canal constrict, the penis erects, the tear and saliva glands secrete and the heart slows." The victim is generally asphyxiated...
...White Rock girl, kneeling on a boulder in a nightgown, either looking for minnows or adoring her own reflection." It is easier to imagine the author of six novels -among them God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Cat's Cradle-as a zany but moral mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine. He is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one 45-year-old writer exploring the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex. In his hands the Silly Putty of contemporary aspirations becomes the exploding plastic that symbolizes civilization...