Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopeless alcoholics in his ward by dominating group therapy and confronting their inadequacies. But he rarely reaches into himself; he is blind to his own shortcomings. He is something of a Cain-figure, lost in a psychological maze of anger and nurtured rejection. Severance, a Pulitzer Prize winning scientist, art critic, and pop intellectual, feels that his status as a celebrity is the source of his troubles. Here Berryman projects his own sense of inadequacy onto Severance. But his strong personal tone doesn't jell with the Rennaissance-man character he creates. Many of Berryman's best poems have been...
Though Brezhnev is not exactly an "economic mendicant dressed up as a military giant"-the acerbic description of him by French Political Scientist Pierre Hassner-he has high personal stakes in the summit. Indeed, they may be higher than Nixon's. As the architect of what he calls a "peace program" of détente, Brezhnev has gone further than any other Moscow ruler since the Bolshevik Revolution in seeking a normal relationship with the West...
...Hell House researchers are a supercilious physical scientist (Clive Revill), his sexually repressed wife (Gayle Hunnicutt), an eager mental medium (Pamela Franklin) and a wary, fearful physical medium (Roddy McDowall...
...should be clear by now that Shepard is less of a scientist than a poet. He dreams of a future in which cities of no more than 50,000 people are located on continental perimeters. No farms, of course. One meets one's needs with microbial food (yeast plus two tons of petroleum equals one ton of pure protein). The heartland becomes a kind of hunting preserve. From earliest years, children are sent into this wilderness to be truly educated about their nature and their relationship to nature. Reading, at first, is "circumscribed and limited...
This instrument of wakefulness, designed by Scientist Karel Montor, was first tested on midshipmen volunteers at the U.S. Naval Academy. When their minds strayed from their assignment to thoughts about a girl friend or their next leave-bong! they were found...