Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kaarlo Valkonen (Alfred Lunt) is a scientist strongly opposed to war. But when war comes on the terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...
...only a distinguished scientist, he has long been an active mountain climber and traveller, and became an intimate on such figures as Thomas Hardy. John Masecfield, and Julian Huxley...
...heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding by his scientific colleagues) in American Men of Science for distinguished research in stellar motions, statistics and luminosities, Gustaf Strömberg is nevertheless not the kind of scientist to pore myopically over tables and spectrum slides while taking the stars for granted. During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God. Now he has published...
Thus aired again was an ancient medical controversy which had resulted in starvation for one scientist, insanity for a second, suicide for a third...
...find ourselves today in the ironic position of a young and probably naive college undergraduate in essential disagreement with the views of the president of America's foremost educational institution--views formulated only after years of recognized prominence as a scientist, educator and administrator. Notwithstanding the undoubted meagerness of our experience, we find ourselves compelled to offer, for what they may be worth, a few words in criticism of yesterday's Charter Day address by James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University...