Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bravo to Psychiatrist Robert Coles [Feb. 14], who has discovered that the troubles of America can be identified by any social scientist but solutions will only come from the heart! Unfortunately the intellectual community remains aloof, intolerant and uncaring about the great majority of Americans. They would rather pick on people's weaknesses than embrace their strengths...
...growing less painful in the field of foreign affairs. One explanation for this may be the general decline in the influence of ideology everywhere, but especially in America. "We don't really have an ideology-any structured, systematic, historic set of deeply rooted values," contends Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns. What Americans do have is an almost visceral, passionate feeling about national friends and enemies, especially in wartime, when each conflict is seen as a crusade. They tend to involve themselves deeply in world affairs when the issues can be posed in simplistic moral terms. There must be villains...
Died. Maria Goeppert Mayer, 65, only woman besides Madame Curie to win the Nobel Prize in physics; of a heart attack; in San Diego. A German-born scientist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, Mayer visualized the atomic nucleus as a series of onion-like layers of neutrons and protons. That insight was developed into the Jensen-Mayer "shell theory" of the nucleus, for which she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with fellow physicists Hans Jensen of Heidelberg and Eugene Wigner of Princeton...
...Hearst-Pulitzer days." He is now dreaming of a transcontinental train race between Rail Buffs Jackie Gleason and Dan Blocker of Bonanza fame. The Enquirer has offered $50,000 rewards for the first hard evidence of the existence of UFOs and the first contact to be made by a scientist with another civilization in the universe...
...Immanuel Velikovsky, scientist and author of World's in Collision will deliver a speech tonight at 8 p.m. entitled "My Star Witnesses." The speech, sponsored by the society of Harvard Engineers and Scientist will be in Lowell Lecture Hall and Admission is free...