Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karl has been a teacher, a friend, and a colleague," reflects Dominguez, "and he's been good in all these roles. He's always stimulating, and one reason why I'm a political scientist is because he can inspire thoughts even when you don't agree with...
Arend Lijphart, professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego muses that "If I had to say who is the best political scientist in the world, it would have to be Karl Deutsch." Lijphart, a former student of Deutsch's at Yale, adds, "He has an enormously penetrating mind and he possesses a tremendous knowledge of almost every field in political science...
...like nuclear meltdown. The technical face of things has driven some people into a bored sort of cop-out-"science anxiety," it is called by Physics Professor Jeffry Mallow of Loyola University in Chicago. The predicament has made most Americans hostage to the superior knowledge of the expert: the scientist, the technician, the engineer, the specialist...
Most of his Texas colleagues remember Yazdi as "pleasant, humanitarian and a good scientist." They were unaware of his political activities, which included helping to organize several anti-Shah Iranian student organizations in the U.S. From time to time he visited Khomeini, who was in exile in Iraq from 1964 until late 1978, when he was expelled and moved to France. Yazdi's wife and several of their six children still live in Houston. Last week his wife said that she would remain a U.S. citizen even if her husband does...
...suspected terrorists belonging to Autonomia Operaia (Workers Autonomy), one of the Autonomisti groups. Nine of the 22 were charged with involvement in the Moro case. The prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken political scientist who teaches at both Italy's University of Padua and Paris' Ecole Normale Superieure and has sympathized with violence for the sake of proletarian revolution. Accused of practicing what he preaches, as both a secret organizer of the Red Brigades and a figure in the Moro atrocity...