Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action of Idaho Transfer begins during what one character calls "an eco-crisis" that threatens to make America barren and kill off its population. At a Government project somewhere in the Idaho countryside, a scientist is supposed to be working on material transfer-the transportation of physical objects into the future. But he has got rather ahead of himself and discovered a means of moving people forward in time. He shares the secret of his time machine only with a staff of young people, which includes his two daughters. Because these young staffers are the only people whose bodies...
...sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls from middle-class Anglo-American homes embarked upon in the late 1960s, involving swamis in India and communes in Morocco, with Tolkien as an all-sufficient Baedeker of the soul. In Goa, these two breeds of latter-day ma gician, the scientist and the hippie, cross paths. For an instant each one senses a promise of salvation in the other before Hamo goes to his death at the hands of an Indian mob and the girl returns to England to inherit a fortune...
...great Greek scientist Archimedes, the study of mathematics and physics meant far more than pure scholarship. Imaginative application of the laws he worked out led to eminently practical inventions-from contrivances employing the lever to an ingenious steam-powered cannon. Perhaps his most remarkable contribution to weaponry, according to Lucian, Plutarch and other ancient writers, was a "burning glass" that focused the sun's rays to set fire to Roman ships besieging his home town of Syracuse around 214 B.C. Exactly how Archimedes managed this spectacular use of solar power has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Many...
...Physicist Andrei Sakharov (TIME, Sept. 24), who has called for congressional passage of Senator Henry M. Jackson's amendment making most-favored-nation status in Soviet trade contingent upon free emigration. Medvedev praised Sakharov's "unquestionable courage" and denounced the "gross and unjust" harassment that the scientist has suffered from Soviet authorities. But Medvedev also suggested that Sakharov and Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may unwittingly be aiding reactionaries within the Soviet leadership, who can seize on their declarations "to split and demoralize dissidents...
Cultural Gap. The few Arab scholars who are here often find their role awkward or ambiguous, and a comparison with the situation of blacks in major U.S. universities ten years ago is not outlandish. Northwestern Political Scientist Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a Palestinian, dismisses many Arab professors here as "Uncle Ahmeds" who are treated as mere "native informants" rather than experts...