Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no questioning the impact of her argument. But it is precisely the broad sweep of that argument that renders it vulnerable. Millett is no scientist, and scientists, notably Social Anthropologist Lionel Tiger (see box), are quick to point out imperfections. "She's not looking for the truth, but making a case," says Rutgers Anthropologist Robin Fox. He says he is no misogynist, but, he charges, she's "inventing a new mythology to replace the old one . . . She's playing ducks and drakes with the truth, and in the process doing herself and her cause a disservice." Specifically...
...link is fragile. It breaks under the project's pressure as Harold MacLaurin becomes so totally absorbed by his work that he is useless as lover and father. Timmy weakly explores adolescence without a satisfactory guide. After learning that another scientist had thrust her at Harold in order to provide the peace of mind necessary to assure his productivity, Maryann despairingly takes on all comers in a military-police barracks and disappears...
Fetishist. McMahon's novel suffers from problems of technique and plotting. Timmy reads minds and recounts the distant intimate activities of others to an extent that damages credibility. Melodrama intervenes at too strategic moments: a convenient suicide wraps up one subplot, a scientist loses his wallet and laundry with cosmic consequences, an offstage Russian turns out to be a sex fetishist rather than...
...twice in the past year. The specter of the gas escaping to pollute the ocean has been raised by both England and the Bahamas, and indeed, environmentalists are worried. There is no positive proof that the dumping will or will not cause permanent damage. Dr. Howard L. Sanders, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, called the plan "sheer, unbelievable inefficiency and stupidity." Florida Governor Claude Kirk went one step further, promising to "pursue every avenue available to me to see to it that this dangerous substance is not deposited just beyond our shores...
...turned to biochemistry and twice won the Nobel Prize; of pneumonia; in West Berlin. Warburg's first Nobel was in 1931 for his pioneering research into the nature of the respiratory enzyme; his second came in 1944 for equally basic studies of cancer. While Hitler forbade the scientist of Jewish descent from accepting the prize, he did permit Warburg to continue working because of his own dread of the disease...