Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime of Galileo, by Georgio de Santillana, was a fine piece of intellectual detective work that played out the 17th century contest between Scientist Galileo and the Inquisition...
...studies, nevertheless, this famous octogenarian has maintained a disinterested, if controversial, stand; he is a scientist first and foremost, a politician only in afterthought. To some members of the Government Department Siegfried represents the Third Republic incarnate. His own countrymen, however, often compare him with Justice Holmes--a liberal and a skeptic...
...scientist is to find time to accumulate this knowledge, often peripheral to his real interests, close coordination between courses and departments is necessary, the report said. With this coordination lacking in the present curriculum, some students are insufficiently prepared and important material is omitted, it added...
...lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II). Always anxious not to repeat themselves, Rodgers & Hammerstein have turned in Pipe Dream to the flophouse and bordello set of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. When not cavorting, the bims and bums heave and push at a constantly stalled romance between a popular young scientist and a pretty waif befriended by a madam. To get Doc a microscope, Cannery Row stages a raffle and fancy-dress brawl, and when the lovelorn heroine takes up despairing residence inside a boiler, they have at the lovelorn hero to fetch...
...sciences: "There are too many people who enter the field with a readymade conclusion obtained from their local household gods rather than their laboratories, and proceed to gather facts and footnotes to substantiate it ... There is the sociologist who wants a better society of a certain kind . . . [the] social scientist of a minority group who gathers data about the difficulties of other minority groups ... the second-generation-immigrant historian who writes of the woes of the immigrant in America . . . Now the problems that underlie these concerns are important, but I suggest that too often a value thesis becomes confused with...