Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treats of human beings, he is merely a cultivated, steel-hard French Colonial businessman who seems to be unable to write badly. When he describes a primeval, half-witted stowaway he begins to warm up. When he writes of beasts and birds and reptiles, he is a blend of scientist, sensualist and mystic, but above all he is an exact and subtle artist, at ease in a world entirely his own. Demaison plans a series of volumes - for which his over-all title is La Comedie Animale - to do for the animal world what Balzac tried...
Carl Snyder is regarded by his friends and admirers as one of the world's wisest students of political and social phenomena, by his critics as an opinionated old windbag. He regards himself as a social scientist who brings scientific method to political prophecy and economic analysis. Onetime Federal Reserve Bank statistician, onetime president of the American Statistical Association, he is now retired to write about his findings (latest book...
...Haldane's new book of essays, previously published in England under the title of "Keeping Cool," takes up scientific and social problems from a point of view which cannot allow any segregation of the two. Professor Haldane's career as a scientist has been remarkable, both in its scientific and non-scientific aspects; he gave aid to the Spanish Loyalist Government as a consultant in the problem of gas attacks, and as a lecturer in Britain; he has been a consistent fighter against Fascism, at home and abroad; and he is the last man of research who has resisted evacuation...
Last week, however, word came from Stockholm that a Swedish scientist had been building thermal diffusion tubes expected to speed up U-235 production 11,000 times, when he was stopped by the war raging around his beleaguered country. In the U. S. Gano Dunn, president...
...Braxton, N.H., who submits to a great doctor's experiment in "suspending animation'' for a century. Anesthetized in 1940, he wakes up in 2040 -the first, as he later learns, of eight similar sleepers (the doctor hoped at least one would get through). A research scientist assigned to study his reactions encourages him to write a book about his discovery of the world of 2040, for the guidance of the seven other antiques when they wake up. It is, of course, quite a beautiful world-though enough human traits are still in evidence to keep it from...