Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference was called in Moscow to announce the book. Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R. Risking arrest, three other dissidents who contributed to the book were willing to be identified: Scientist Mikhail Agursky, Art Historian Yevgeni Barabanov and Historian Vadim Borisov...
...organic chemicals, some of them known carcinogens. (In New Orleans last week, there was a rush on bottled water, and city officials announced that they would investigate the water supply further.) Actually, the link between chlorination and the formation of these chemicals was confirmed abroad. J.J. Rook, a Dutch scientist, added chlorine to contaminated river water and to relatively pure lake water. The concentration of carbon tetrachloride and chloroform rose sharply in the polluted water, but not in the sample from the lake...
...they are in Muscle and Blood. But in the bureaucratic territory of the large corporation, the governmental agency and the academic institute the technique is the same. A company doctor can diagnose a chemical-related disease as "nervousness" ("go back to work") or "heart disease" ("go away"). A university scientist (serving, say, an "impartial" research foundation financed by corporations) can curiously come up with studies proving that a substance is harmless, even though a quarter of the workers at the factory making the stuff are dying of the same "mysterious" disease...
Father, however, is a scientist, a student of Darwin. He resolves to raise the boy to be a natural man, with the skills and wiles of an animal. As he grows (he is portrayed at an older age by John David Carson), he proves to be more unfettered by convention than Father might have liked. As his mother comments, in what may be the worst single line of dialogue so far this year, "What we've got is a lusting male." Nothing will do but that Junior must have...
Nonetheless, there was disagreement over whether the outcome had any enduring significance. Many shared the view of Columbia University Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau that "it is the result of the policies pursued by the present Administration and the one that preceded it." On the other hand, Theodore H. White, author of The Making of the President series, argued: "The pattern of the '60s, which was interrupted by the Nixon White House, seems to have reasserted itself with vigor. The Democratic Party may have resumed its movement. It will take four or five years to see whether it's real...