Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Retreat. It is not an easy time to be a liberal. The criticism, like Pat Moynihan's, is fierce. Today liberals are in retreat, or, as Social Scientist Moynihan puts it, fading back into the culture. They are unmoored and fragmented, a variegated group that has traditionally coalesced around a strong leader and a compelling cause-and now has neither. None of the presidential candidates stirs them the way past heroes like Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy did. No issue even faintly matches the emotion of their stand against the Viet Nam War. On top of that, they...
...substantial basis" for the belief that exposure to erotica causes sex crimes or bad moral character. Yet the commission's ten volumes hardly settled the matter. Says Herbert Abelson, president of the Response Analysis Corporation in Princeton: "You can use studies to demonstrate whatever you want." Harvard Political Scientist James Q. Wilson argues that the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence decided television violence was dangerous, with as little real proof at hand as the obscenity commission had when it decided pornography was harmless. Says Wilson: "In the cases of violence and obscenity, it is unlikely that...
...serenely authoritarian world of Christian Science, rarely had such a challenge been issued against officials of the Mother Church. Its author is Reginald G. Kerry, 62, a straitlaced former restaurateur and police-and fire-commission member in Santa Barbara, Calif, and devout Scientist for 40 years. In 1973, Kerry came to the Boston headquarters as a consultant on security. He learned about other matters, however, and decided to tell...
...aspects of planning while Harvard maintains a more theoretical program. Thus, there is a greater flow of planning students down the river than there is coming up, as students are becoming more concerned for the human aspects of the design professions. Planning students noted the loss of a political scientist, a social historian, and a geographer, as indication that the department is not attempting to become involved in the social/human aspects of planning. A student in urban design, however, saw too great an emphasis on the behavioral sciences in planning and called for a physical planning approach...
...Obviously Bob Trivers is getting to be a well-known young scientist," Wilson said. "We want to review his situation before it gets too late, before he gets snatched away...