Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dual role as the Man and particularly as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, is still a strong actor. Obviously, the two poses require completely opposite attitudes. Superman is the focal point of everybody's existence: Lois adores him, the populace sing his praises daily, while a jealous scientist and a columnist for The Daily Planet hate him and drive the plot with their attempts to ruin him. Cohen's super-stance is perfect: standing tall, legs apart, fists on hips, he is a monument to ox-like goodness. But his manner has a depth to it that is hard...
...combat, who must quickly decide who to treat on the basis of chances for recovery. Doctors frequently call for some broad standard to help them make these choices, but any guidelines turn out to be callous and dehumanizing. Who do you save, a father of four or a brilliant scientist? And what if a patient expresses a desire to die: is a cooperative doctor aiding a suicide? Disagreement with the patient, relatives and colleagues forces the physician to make these decisions alone and stand by them. In the absence of sufficient funding or any other guidelines, it is often reduced...
Jesuit politics have also been changing. An order that seemed predominantly conservative two decades ago now nurtures almost every shade of political style and ideology. In the 1950s many Catholics were reading Total Empire, written by Edmund Walsh, a Georgetown political scientist, priest and, according to Author Richard Rovere, the man who gave Senator Joseph McCarthy the idea for his anti-Communist campaign. In his book, Walsh set down moral justifications for a preventive first-strike nuclear attack...
...paper has had four managing editors in less than three years. The current M.E. is Robert Burdock, 45. His predecessor, Wilson Hirschfeld, was fired after a stream of complaints from reporters that he was killing or slanting stories to protect friends in the city administration. Hirschfeld, a Christian Scientist, also tried to reduce the paper's medical coverage. Fraser Kent, a respected medical reporter, quit in disgust, for this and other reasons. There was also bitterness over management's appeal for police assistance when Newspaper Guild members picketed the paper during a strike last October. Since December alone...
...Dallas, Stanley Marcus, the Marcus half of Neiman-Marcus and a former Overseer, noted that he has known four presidents of Harvard. Of the three, Lowell was an egoist, Conant a brilliant scientist, and Pusey a great generalist. But Bok, Marcus said, aside from being an accredited legalist, is the only humanist among the four...