Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago and then vanished. Today heroes and leaders bred on the earth seem almost as scarce. "There is a very obvious dearth of people who seem able to supply convincing answers, or even point to directions toward solutions," says Harvard President Derek Bok. "Leadership," observes Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti, "is one of those things you don't know you need until you don't have it." In the U.S. and round the world, there is a sense of diminished vision, of global problems that are overwhelming the capacity of leaders. As Journalist Brock Brower wrote three years...
...could also lead to a new sense of concern and commitment. And such a sense could prove to be the crucial ingredient that has been missing from the elusive formula for successful leadership in the modern world. Says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber: "Sore as the public is, there is strong evidence that they are American to the core: uninterested in revolution, increasingly concerned for the civil liberties, ready for sacrifice on an equal basis with the privileged and, above all, watching and waiting for leadership...
Died. Vannevar Bush, 84, eminent scientist, administrator and humanist; of pneumonia; in Belmont, Mass. In 1922, while a Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical-engineering professor, Bush with two friends founded the American Appliance Co., now the mammoth Raytheon Co. On campus, he later developed the differential analyzer, an ancestor of the modern computer, then resigned as engineering dean in 1938 to head Washington, D.C.'s Carnegie Institution, a leading research organization. During the war Bush oversaw work on the atomic bomb, radar and other military devices as director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
Writing of that period in the Los Angeles Times, Edward Jay Epstein, a press critic and a former Harvard political scientist, concluded: "Elements of the press, and in particular the Washington Post and TIME Magazine, did an extraordinary job in bringing these facts to the public's attention. Yet. . . the press cannot be assigned exclusive credit." Why only "elements of the press"? Because at first, the great majority of reporters and editors failed to recognize Watergate's significance...
Monkey Business, an old Howard Hawks comedy about a scientist who invents a youth potion, moves into the Welles on Sunday. This delightful bit of oldfashioned comedy stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and a youngish Marilyn Monroe. It's being shown with Lifeboat, an Alfred Hitchcock suspense story that's not really up to Hitchcock's standard of excellence. Both movies are inordinately superior to the stuff that comes out of Hollywood nowadays. The double-bill goes...