Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cottle's decision to play tape recorder--and a faulty one at that--is a serious violation of the burden which rests upon the social scientist. Poor people of this country do not need scientists who only wish to study and profit from them, but writers and concerned individuals willing to understand and support them as well. Cottle says he wrote Black Children, White Dreams with the hope that it would "in some way make a difference." Unfortunately, that difference will be in Cottle's lifestyle and not that of the poor...
...other gases (less than 0.1% as dense as the earth's). Although the earth's magnetic field is generally attributed to the churning of molten iron in the spinning planet's core, Mercury seems to rotate much too slowly to produce such a dynamo effect. But scientists offer alternative explanations. Mercury's magnetic field may be created externally by bombardment of charged particles from the sun hitting the atmosphere-or it may be left over from an epoch when the spin was faster. The presence of an atmosphere is equally difficult to explain because the planet...
...Erie's De Lesseps was New York's Governor DeWitt Clinton, a nature lover and amateur scientist, who tramped the route, figured out the financing, and after years of evangelical effort persuaded a skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with...
...future of the magazine, I'm interested." Last week, after guiding NR through one-third of its intellectually rich and financially lean six decades, Harrison returned the friend's interest by placing NR's future in his hands. The new owner and editorial chairman: Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz, 34, advocate of leftish causes and angel of liberal Democratic candidates (Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern...
After nearly half a lifetime of sleeping in an adobe hut, subsisting on goat cheese and fruit and working under a blistering sun, Maria Reiche, a tall, lean 70-year-old German scientist, is satisfied that she can answer many of the questions raised by the Nazcan figures...