Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor emeritus of history at Columbia, America's razzle-dazzle Bicentennial celebration was a disgrace. "We ended up with a lot of gimmickry, pageantry and tall ships-nothing to do with why the American Revolution was unique," charges Morris. His colleague, James MacGregor Burns, 59, a political scientist at Williams, enjoyed the display-"I rather liked the ships in New York harbor" -but agrees that the Revolution's deeper significance was insufficiently heralded...
Anatoly Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was imprisoned in March 1977 after repeated applications to emigrate to Israel...
...February 21, 1822--that auspicious day sandwiched between the official Washington's Birthday and the true date of Washington's birth--a scientist named Gibbs was born. Though he was not Gibbs-the-scientist, who garnered fame for his free energy equation, this Gibbs also achieved notoriety. This was the Wolcott Gibbs of the Gibbsians, a little known cult of fanatics not unlike the Moonies...
DIED. James Bryant Conant, 84, scientist, diplomat, educational reformer and president of Harvard University for 20 years; of heart disease; in Hanover, N.H. A chemist during World War I and a professor of chemistry at Harvard for 14 years thereafter, Conant was partly responsible for the World War II decision to make an atomic bomb and to use it at Hiroshima in 1945. As president of Harvard (1933-53), the self-effacing but stubborn Conant instituted a number of improvements that changed the character of higher education: he broadened the makeup of the student body, argued for a core curriculum...
...where," asked the 15th century French poet François Villon, "are the snows of yesteryear?" Ruth Kirk knows, and in her newly published Snow, she answers not only Villon's question but any others the reader-be he skier, scientist or snowbound suburbanite-may have about the stuff that delights children, often annoys and inconveniences adults, and, to a greater extent than most people are aware, has influenced the course of history and will continue to do so. As Kirk describes, the snows of yesteryear-and the years before that-have been compressed for thousands of years into...