Word: scientists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...longer have as its first objective the training of a man specifically for participation in democratic society, nonetheless its importance has hardly diminished. The generally educated man should be doing nothing less than preparing to organize his preceptions. He should learn what it is like to put on the scientist's thinking cap, or the behavioral scientist's, or the historian's, or the humanist...
Andrew Pilgrim (Fred Clark) is a renowned academic scientist who is deep in debt. He has a handsome offer from a corporation called Baldwin-Nelson. Pilgrim is a kind of disorganization man. He plays the cello and knows all about ultrasonic energy, but he cannot turn off the vacuum cleaner or find his shoelaces. His wife (Ruth White) pens scholarly works on dead languages...
...Playwright Wallach's quip hand, nimble direction by James Hammerstein, and faultless comic timing by a superior cast, Cello breezes along even when it is replaying the same joke. But the plot is strangely unknowing in its pivotal notion. No sane corporation would think of stamping a scientist of stature into a cog-sized mold. And nowadays scientists do not "sell out"-they buy in, by forming their own companies and voting themselves stock options...
...Living Doll is a one-joke show, but the joke is a knockout. Julie Newmar, once of The Marriage-Go-Round, here plays a robot created by an aerospace scientist. Her viking-size body is actually a compilation of electronic equipment sheathed in homogenous polyethylene plastic. A mistress in a million, she will do anything she is told. In the middle of her back is an OFF and ON button. The man who works it is Bob Cummings, as a psychiatrist who is looking after Julie for his creative friend. "My construction is similar to the one-piece die casting...
...change in the character and range of "academic life" has probably been its most significant form of expansion. No longer is it a field of scholarship and teaching closely confined to the library, lab, and college classroom. The scope of the academic scientist has expanded spectacularly. Many now direct extensive research groups in costly projects, advise government agencies, do consultant work for corporations at substantial fees, travel widely to professional meet-ahead of the faculty. We were reading avant-garde works. English literature courses stopped with the Victorians. Now the students can't be ahead. They are faced by extraordinary...