Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston residents have their own theories on why Bean Town jumped from 18th to second place. Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) thinks that media exposure helped. Doug Flutie, the former Boston College quarterback, he notes, "is quick, brainy and made it on countless telecasts." John Updike, who lives in the exclusive suburb of Beverly Farms, cites the economic factor. "When I came to Harvard in the '50s, Boston was fairly grubby," says the novelist. "Now if you have the money, it's a nice place to live...
...calculated wispiness of Hardy's question reflects the unorthodox religiosity of the slender, unflappable scientist. Hardy says, "My heart is in the Church of England, but not my mind." He insists: "I do not think there can be any future for orthodox Christian beliefs." However, he thinks human spirituality has a great future. There is, of course, considerable skepticism about whether spiritual experiences can be studied at all with any degree of success. The late Philip Toynbee, a writer and critic and son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, wrote that Hardy's quest was the equivalent of "trying to catch...
Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, says the backlash "reflects a kind of deepseated fear and anxiety; it's like lynching in the South, a way of purging fears through extreme action against scapegoats...
Last week a University of Colorado scientist announced that he had recently led an expedition on that grueling trek. Reason: to launch a new study of what could be one of the magnificent "Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...
...Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in Tyngsboro, Mass., opened in 1979 to offer the first full-time master of software engineering degree. Started by An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Inc., the hugely successful computer company in nearby Lowell, the institute aims to educate a new breed of executive scientist who can create models of order in the individualistic and chaotic computer-software field. Wang believes that its integrated regimen of planning, design and testing of new systems, guided by written instructions, can be an answer. Set up in a former Marist Brothers seminary, the institute is an independent nonprofit school...