Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intent man in the desert is Richard Erskine Leakey, heir to one of the greatest surnames in anthropology and, at 32, a formidable scientist in his own right. He and his dusty band are looking, almost lit erally, for footprints in the sands of time, for clues to the mystery of man's origins. Their ambitious goal: to establish the nature of the creatures that veered off from the ancestral line of apes onto the evolutionary path that eventually led to man. In this pursuit, Leakey's team has turned up at the Turkana site alone more than 300 fossilized...
...prayers were not answered. No less a scientist than Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley further espoused the idea in his 1863 Man's Place in Nature. Darwin won many new converts to his concept in 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. Most convincing of all, the fossil record continued to reveal that man had not always existed in his present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern...
Comic book fans should check out CBS's movie version of The Incredible Hulk, Channel 7, 8 p.m., Friday. Bill Bixby plays the weakling scientist who transforms himself into a repulsively ugly creature with superhuman strength by exposing himself to massive amounts of radiation (gamma rays, for all those trivia nuts out there). Aficionados beware: television adaptations of superheroes have a notoriously poor track record. The book is usually much better...
...that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps overcome their ego deficit." What motivates many terrorists, observes University of Munich Political Scientist Kurt Sontheimer, is "a deep hatred of present society. They talk vaguely of socialism, but they offer no political theory. Nobody really knows what kind of society they envision...
...authority by democratic governments since the early postwar years. Many West German observers believe that the 1968 generation of student protesters developed an idealistic hatred of their country's sleek materialism during the "economic miracle." For many, this was a first step toward radicalism. Beyond that, Frankfurt University Political Scientist Irving Fetscher argues, young middle class German rebels were "spoiled by the rapidity of change in a technological world and by a permissive education that created revolutionary impatience." Perhaps so?but the theorists leave unanswered the question of why only a tiny minority of students make the crucial transition...