Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most severe scholarly criticism came from a fellow chronicler of Presidents, Political Scientist Sidney Hyman, who did much of the research for Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, an intimate book about another President, based on his aide's notes and published after both were dead. To Hyman, Schlesinger's use of "the casual chitchat of a dead man" was "the height of historical irresponsibility." Said he: "A husband and wife can quarrel like cats and dogs and then make love and forget it. To build the incident into a historical thesis is unrealistic...
Monday, August 23 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.LE. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Solo and Illya tangle with Thrush's mad scientist, Elsa Lanchester. Repeat...
MICHAEL FARADAY, by L. Pearce Williams. Faraday (1791-1867) was probably the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived; Williams' biography details his laborious efforts to educate himself and his triumphant advances in science-the first induction of electric current and the first dynamo...
...Colorado to the day she sinks her beak into the poisoned carcass of a ewe. Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...
While his superiors haggle over procedure, Palmer slogs through some of London's more picturesque byways and inadvertently slays a CIA agent during a throat-tightening exchange scene in an underground garage, where triggermen and headlights dare each other to blink. The scientist is ransomed, but his memory seems oddly impaired. Soon the hero is fleeing kidnapers, the CIA, and an unknown British traitor or two. After one fracas aboard a boat train to Paris, he wakes up drugged in what appears to be an Albanian prison-actually, it's somewhere in the center of London-and begins...