Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laboratories tp the communes. Defending the Academy of Science from Mao's populist incursions, Teng declared in 1975 that "it is not an academy of cabbage; it is not an academy of beans; it is an academy that deals with science." Teng asserted that even the bourgeois scientist can make a contribution. In his earthy way, he argued that "it is better to allow him to work than to have him sitting in a privy, producing nothing...
...angrier." Before their eyes dance television programs and commercials that show everybody enjoying a cornucopia of consumer goods-as if everybody should have them as a natural right. They feel no stake in a society that seems to deny them the opportunity to acquire those goods. Northwestern Political Scientist Ted Gurr, co-author of the 1969 Eisenhower Commission report on violence in America, argues that "the poor, and especially poor blacks, don't share our middle-class values for other people's property. The goods were there for the taking...
...Hampshire seeks temporary services of a political scientist (Nobel Peace Prize minimum requirement), fiscal troubleshooter (Is New York City too easy for you?) or expert magician (Have you ever levitated Mount Rush-more?) to untie a Gordian knot. The problem: it has no budget. Since midnight June 30, the state has had no legal authority to spend a dime; there is no payroll; the government is now all volunteer...
...least some professors are exercised about public apathy. Says Dr. Jim Ranchino, a political scientist at Arkansas' Ouachita Baptist University: "Our society has gone wild. Nobody has convinced the American people that we have any serious problems. There is no direction, no planning. People are living like tomorrow is going to be just like today. But it is not going...
Toth had apparently been tricked into a street-corner meeting with a Russian scientist who insisted on handing him an article he claimed was on parapsychology and telepathy. Five KGB officers pounced on Toth and accused him of collecting information of a "political and military nature." Toth, who has made use of dissident sources for articles on Soviet science during his three-year stay in Moscow, was later interrogated about gathering information from Anatoli Shcharansky, an imprisoned Soviet human rights activist who has reportedly been charged with treason. This was clearly a warning to both foreign correspondents and dissidents that...