Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough food, sexual freedom and indoor toilets. Why the deuce aren't they happy?" West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light, somewhat like the turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet Nam for a rationale. The West German terrorists, who command no support in the working...
...West Germany, which may partly explain their bitterness. The West German system-capitalism infused with touches of social democracy-has been so successful in gaining its citizens' support that extremists of either left or right have found little social unrest to exploit. Says Irving Fetscher, a political scientist at the University of Frankfurt: "Those students who did try to win over the workers generally failed, and then they turned violent. Either you reshape your view of reality, or you try to punish reality for not conforming to your theories...
...statement by which a scientist doing recombinant DNA research agrees that he or she will only perform the research in accordance with guidelines that the NIH published last year...
...help coordinate nationwide samizdat, a publishing operation has been started by Scientist Miroslaw Chojecki. Called NOWA, an acronym for Independent Publishing House, Chojecki's printing establishment in a Warsaw apartment includes 20 typewriters, six crude presses and a skilled team of 30 people who help print, bind and distribute samizdat books. The workers charge nothing for their labor...
Everett Cherrington Hughes is a sociologist who is a member of both the Brandeis and Boston College faculties. He has done research on multi-ethic societies, especially in Canada. Hughes will speak on "The Social Scientist" as part of the Cambridge Forum's "Great Vocations" lecture series, at 8 p.m. in the First Parish in Cambridge at 3 Church Street...