Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of teachers, consisting of a sociologist, an economist, a political scientist, and maybe a psychologist or historian (although history is officially in the humanities at FCC), conduct the courses. The things they planned to stress, one faculty member said in an interview this summer, were things that were directly related to the student's background. The hope is to make students aware of the problems of the ghetto and able to do something about them...
...thirty public buildings in different parts of the city, all with temples like this, all waiting for me." He is referring not to clandestine churches but to the freest places in the country-the stalls in public toilets. Elsewhere the narrator attends a party reception and observes a disaffected scientist pinning foil-wrapped condoms to the chests of unsuspecting apparatchiks...
...really, and New York would be lucky if it were. For unlike New York's past labor troubles, this crisis doesn't revolve around the bread-and-butter issues with which the politics of compromise can deal. Behind a fog of legalisms and futile maneuverings looms a political scientist's nightmare: New York is experiencing the unbuffered collision of social forces and the situation has left its government sputtering impotently...
Ferocious Energy. Davis, for all his attention to the others is continually drawn back to the enigmatic, mesmerizing personality of Oppenheimer. He describes a young scientist so lost in the abstractions of physics that he once drove an automobile up the courthouse steps of a Western town, a man so unworldly that he had no radio, did not read newspapers and first heard about the 1929 stock-market crash months after it happened...
...story, cold-warring Russia and the U.S., after inadvertently eradicating all life from the British Isles, join in recreating Merry England with fake issues of the London Times and fond memories of Robin Hood. In another, a cuckolded space scientist packages his wife as condensed food for a Mars-bound astronaut, who has already enjoyed her in other ways...