Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
...Clear Call Lanny Budd is assigned by Roosevelt to bone up on rockets and jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...
When the first volume was completed, earnest young Scientist Ellerman submitted the draft of the entire proposed treatise to the British Museum. The honor of publication under museum auspices is a certain stamp of scientific recognition. With a scientist's pride, he did not consider using his own wealth to publish the book on his own. After he had chafed for four years, the museum printed it. The second volume came...
Woven through this melodrama is the complex story of the psychiatrist himself, his professional work and private fevers. He is neither miracle man nor mad scientist, as Hollywood so often presents men of his trade. The audience can respect his talents while fearing for his fallibility. There is ham in him, and cold conceit, as he changes face and voice from one patient to the next. He mistreats his wife and dallies with a blonde (Christine Norden), unhappily wondering why he can't be as useful to himself as he is to some of his patients. In short...
...hero of Ape and Essence, as pallid as most of Huxley's heroes, is Dr. Alfred Poole, a mother-dominated scientist with a vast intellect and a recessive sex drive. On an expedition from New Zealand (one of the few spots, in the 22nd Century, that has escaped the atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians...