Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held a Sloan Foundation Fellowship from 1959 to 1963, and Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in 1966 and 1971. He has been a visiting professor both at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris and at the University of Paris, and a visiting scientist at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires in Saclay, France...
...poet, the novel is a brilliant philosophical thriller about the arrogance of science and the revenge of nature. Seventy years later, in 1886, the point of the Frankenstein story was sharpened by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By combining the scientist and the monster in the same personality, a typical Victorian, Stevenson forced his readers to identify and to ponder...
...abominations." Moynihan argued that the Assembly "has been trying to pretend that it is a Parliament, which it is not," and acidly (but accurately) observed that "most of the governments represented do not themselves govern by consent of their citizens." He then quoted a plea by dissident Russian Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov for a worldwide amnesty for political prisoners. At this, the Soviet delegate, Yakov Malik strode out in protest...
There is much the world's developing states can learn from the First World. But this will require a dialogue rather than the hostility of the past two years. "It could go back to the jungle," warns a Harvard political scientist. "It is a toss-up whether the developing countries opt for economic progress or instead, for winning symbolic points by twitting the industrial states...
BUTTERFLIES by Thomas C. Emmel. 244 pages. Knopf. $29.95. Some of these rare Lepidoptera are so luminescent they produce optical shock. Even the commoner varieties blend the lyrical with the clinical, intriguing both scientist and layman. Accompanying facts are as remarkable as the closeup images. The ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves...