Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are Russian spies, a kidnaped British scientist, a Pakistani Robin Hood, a Soho gay bar and some madness in a Bavarian castle. All of which is typical movie fare for fans of intrepid Inspector Clouseau, the bumbling gumshoe played by Peter Sellers. After a trio of previous successes (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, The Return of the Pink Panther), Sellers and Director Blake Edwards have teamed up for another round of Clouseau capers with The Pink Panther Strikes Again. This time Sellers' co-star is Actress Lesley-Anne Down, formerly Georgina in the Upstairs, Downstairs...
...gazing at these confrontations, the spectator has every right to conclude that anarchy has been loosed in the world of sport, that the center cannot hold-nor can the guard, the forward, the pitcher or the referee. Naked aggression seems on the surface to underline the statement of Political Scientist James Q. Wilson: "People actually get hurt in televised sports programs, and the hurt cannot even be justified by a higher cause. By some standards, it is the most shocking form of violence, done merely for sport...
...inquiring about the disappearances made the junta aware that the news had somehow leaked out. The junta admitted to having detained them for interrogation and assured that they were alive and well. The prompt campaign of telegrams may well have saved their lives. Antonio Misetich, an MIT-affiliated Argentine scientist, was arrested on April 19 (Globe 5/5/76) by army security forces. Others who have been arrested include Osvaldo Sunkeld and Marta Zabaleta, both economists, and Harolda Conti, a writer. Pedro Paz, an economist, has also disappeared. (But recent reports from Argentina suggest that Paz and Sunkeld have been allowed...
...seven or eight days before "the ground in northeastern Italy rose by 7.75 in., according to our instruments. This was a sign that we could expect some sort of tremor." The area along the Tagliamento is earthquake country of a sort. At the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory in Monteporzio, Scientist Mariacecilia Spadea had already measured 20 or 30 minor shocks there this year. But, she said, "there was no history of severe earthquakes there in this century. It would have been impossible to predict a catastrophe like this...
...turned up some engaging anecdotes. Naturalist Thomas Jefferson, for example, had reached the end of his wits in a debate with that skeptical Frenchman Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who did not believe that such a thing as a moose existed. To prove the point, Jefferson, a pragmatic scientist, had a full-grown American moose shipped from New Hampshire to Buffon with his compliments-unique evidence, from the new nation, of a new world...