Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reconsideration are heard. Jean Lacouture, the French journalist and biographer of Ho Chi Minh and long an expert on Viet Nam, has now called for "trials" of Communist crimes in Indochina since 1975, when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese army. Guenter Lewy, a University of Massachusetts political scientist, fired what may be the opening shot of a revisionist view of the war in his 1978 book, America in Viet Nam. Lewy examines the process of U.S. involvement and concludes that though the performance was unsuccessful, it was legal and not immoral. Leslie Gelb, now the State Department...
...taught at Princeton, and in 1968 was named McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He has written six books on law and politics, one of which figures as an inside joke in The Vicar of Christ: the Associate Justice narrating the second part cites a title from a certain "vulgar political scientist...
Matthiessen didn't join Schaller as an assistant or as a co-researcher. He is not a scientist per se, but a writer, one of the world's best bird-watchers, and a professional traveller. He has journeyed through South America, lived among a stone age tribe in New Guinea, and with turtlehunters in the Carribbean. The Himalayan trip was more than just another notch in his belt. Matthiessen is a Zen Buddhist and Nepal is the navel of his world...
Nearly as significant is the way the treaty and the long negotiations have drawn the U.S. into Middle Eastern affairs. Says Johns Hopkins Political Scientist Robert W. Tucker: "It's not merely a peace that is backed by the Americans; it's a peace that almost has been created by the Americans. It can only stand up if the Carter Administration is prepared to act accordingly." Tucker favors a Marshall-Carter plan to give Egypt the necessary economic help to preserve its political stability...
Morland's association with the Progressive began last year after he was introduced to Samuel H. Day Jr., the magazine's associate editor and an anti-nuclear campaigner. Ironically, Morland had once intended to become a nuclear scientist, but a few introductory courses at Atlanta's Emory University convinced him otherwise. He majored in economics, spent five years as an Air Force pilot and held down various jobs. His first contribution to the Progressive, a 3,400-word piece on tritium, a form of hydrogen used in H-bombs, appeared in February...