Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into this amicable stasis Murdoch introduces a favorite character of hers, the mean, mysterious catalyst. This time it is a famous scientist named Julius King, who is a latter-day lago, if not the Devil himself. Arriving in London and finding his friends happy is too much for Julius. Playing on vanity, sowing distrust he labors suavely to link Rupert with Hilda's younger sister and Simon with himself. As the plot unravels, the book shifts from comedy to melodrama, to tragedy-a course few writers could control or sustain. Miss Murdoch nearly manages it, because her presence...
...what of unpredictable moves by the people who make the rules? Despite batteries of computers and mountains of probability charts, Nomad did not count on the sudden defection of its most important employee, Carl Lundquist. An aging social scientist, Lundquist knows all the secrets and strategies of Nomad. He also combines the stature of a Vardis Fisher mountain man with Gunnar Myrdal's scholarship, Saul Alinsky's cogs-and-wheels knowledge of the impoverished and disaffected, and Walt Whitman's passion for undeodorized reality. As a cantankerous, outspoken symbol of the unindexed human spirit, Lundquist...
...earth scientist's dreamland, Afar sits at the meeting place of three such giant rift systems. Two of these cleave the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and geophysicists think that both bodies of water are gradually being widened into oceans at the rate of perhaps an inch or so a year as the lava pours out of the rifts...
...their wedding night and watched a televised boxing match instead. Louwtjie told reporters in Munich that the surgeon "never was a gentleman," adding, "but I always was a lady." She had a final warning for her ex: "You can't become a playboy and a scientist at the same time. One has to give...
Political Scientist Alan F. Westin of Columbia University defines privacy as the right "to determine what information about ourselves we will share with others." In certain primitive tribes, people will not give their names to strangers for fear that they will thereby surrender part of themselves. Foolish as the custom may seem to modern man, it has a point: an individual's information about himself represents a large part of what Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried calls his "moral capital." Some of this information, by right and necessity, he wants to keep to himself. Some of it he will...