Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John L. Kohl, research associate at the Harvard Observatory and principal scientist for the program, conceived the "ultraviolet-light coronagraph." Edmond M. Reeves, lecturer on Astronomy, is directing...
George B. Field, director of the department of Astronomy, said the planned naming is "very appropriate because moon craters are named for great scientists, and Menzel was a great scientist...
Outsiders have always been eager to offer advice on the proper raising of children. But now, Lasch argues, the advisors seek a new kind of legitimacy. They claim to speak as scientists wielding truth, rather than as moralists, as detached rationalists rather than mothers-in-law. By translating social problems into a "religion of health," the experts step righteously into realms of family affairs once considered private and intimate. The social scientist treats his subjects as a doctor would his patients...
Webster is a Christian Scientist who neither drinks nor smokes and stays in shape by playing tennis regularly. He and Wife Drusilla weekend at the family's 265-acre farm in Callaway County, Mo., 90 miles west of St. Louis, where Webster rides horses and breeds Black Angus cattle. The parents of a college-age son and two daughters, the Websters have few qualms about moving East-even though, as Mrs. Webster says with a laugh, "we'll be one of the few in Washington not from Georgia...
...South Carolina Senator Fritz Rollings: "There are many Senators who feel that all they are doing is running around and responding to the staff. My staff fighting your staff, your staff competing with mine. Everybody is working for the staff, staff, staff, driving you nutty." Contends Norman Ornstein, political scientist at Catholic University: "The staffs have vastly increased the work load. The more staff, the more meetings, the more hearings." Admits Indiana Congressman Dan Quayle: "It's very uncomfortable to be so dependent on staff, but I have to be. Seventy-five percent of the votes we cast...