Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago. The skull, labeled "1470" for its Kenya National Museum catalogue number, gave science a new idea of early man's appearance. People of the Lake provides some fresh ideas about how he lived. The book, written in collaboration with Roger Lewin of the British journal New Scientist, also offers some encouraging speculations on why hominids became humans...
...Dutch scientist Van Helsing, I.M. Hobson offers a startling reincarnation of the late Zero Mostel. On opening night, the player of Lord Godalming was not yet secure in his lines. As for the other roles, they are standard summer stock...
...doesn't interest you, a punk-rock star's life won't either-being totally occupied with self and titillating, if at all, only for the offhand candor about living arrangements and drug experiences. A historian, an architect, a playwright, a woman Cabinet member, a Nobel scientist-all of these have lived longer, reflected more, rubbed up against more experience and have more to say. An oddity of this kind of journalism (well known to the unyoung among its readers) is that the most interesting people aren't on the cover, but wait modestly...
...tedious proclamations of selfhood while ignoring the class whose legend is writ in the Social Register. Despite his considerable failings as a novelist, Auchincloss does for that class what John O'Hara did for the country-club set: observes its workings with the tireless zeal of a behavioral scientist...
...double-helix structure: "What's to be gained? A carbon copy of yourself? Oh, if the Shah of Iran wanted to spend his oil millions on cloning himself, that's fine with me. But if either of my young sons wanted to become a scientist, I would suggest he stay away from research in cloning humans. There's no future...