Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underlying the tension is a difficult and sensitive question: Why have blacks failed to advance and achieve the way old and new ethnic groups have? As Social Scientist Michael Harrington writes, "Why don't 'they' act like 'we' did? This has long been the cry of well-meaning white Americans who simply can't understand why blacks don't repeat the classic immigrant experience...
Immigration is frequently an uneven transaction. When a scientist from India or a professor from Guatemala or a physician from the Philippines moves to the U.S., America's gain is the native land's loss. Since few American professionals head out to settle elsewhere in the world, the redistribution of talent serves only to widen the gap between the land of plenty and the lands of poverty. Worse still, the cycle tends to perpetuate itself: as more people leave their native country for the U.S., more are likely to leave, to join relatives or cash in on connections or simply...
...What moviegoer of any age could resist a sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl (Lea Thompson) who will be his mother, if -- big if -- he can deflect her crush on him toward the nice-guy nerd...
...went to the authorities. Throughout, Pedro never once threatened her family; he even went so far as to chide Gerhard for his show of force. "He didn't get angry or violent," Stammer recalled. "He didn't seem like a fanatic Nazi. I think he was a cold scientist." Still, the Stammers did find that their guest was imperious with servants, and he often urged the couple to be stricter with their two sons...
Lewis McA. Branscomb (Ph.D '50) who will sit on the board of Overseers until 1990, works for one South Africa-related company and sits on the boards of two others--all of which Harvard owns stock in. He is a vice president and the chief scientist at IBM, which has, according to IBM spokesman Michael Dutton, 1914 employees--including 286 Blacks--at its South African sales and service offices. IBM's South African business represented less than 1 percent of its 1984 revenues of $45.9 billion. Dutton says. He says no IBM equipment, "to our knowledge," is used...