Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliant student who once volunteered to tutor a slow-reading black pupil named Joe. Gradually he comes to realize that he is merely coaching Joe up to the level where the Army can use him. Billy, who will be used himself - he will serve the state as a scientist if he stays straight - joins the Indians instead...
...Science is essentially an artistic or philosophical enterprise-carried on for its own sake. In this-it is more akin to play than to work. But it is quite a sophisticated play in which the scientist views nature as a system of interlocking puzzles. He assumes that the puzzles have a solution, that they will be fair. He holds to a faith in the underlying order of the universe. His motivation is his fascination with the puzzle itself-his method a curious interplay between idea and experiment...
Visiting with Charles Eames projects multi-images rather than words; he defies labeling. Eames is the designer and architect, the artist and film-maker, the scientist and philosopher. Perhaps the connection is his gift as problem-solver-whether it's in designing a computer exhibit for New York's IBM building or in joining a metal support to the back of a chair...
...Bottom of the Toilet Bowl" and "The Man Who Bites," the comic sounded like an instant winner, but both stories are incomprehensible jumbles of Martian deserts and bathrooms. Others include a giant mouse that chases both Americans and the Viet Cong out of Vietnam and a scientist who tries to change the direction of Western culture by involving everyone in a game he calls "Life." The best story of this unexceptional collection is titled 'Forbidden Planet." Intergalactic warriors plan to destroy the earth by giving a small switch-box to a human, with the warning not to pull the switch...
...torrid scientific debate. Deryagin and his supporters in the West contend that it is a totally new kind of water, a form so stable that it does not boil under 1,000° F., does not evaporate, and only begins to freeze at -40° F. One American scientist has even speculated that the strange, sticky substance would, if released from the lab, propagate itself by feeding on natural water, eventually turning the earth into another Venus (TIME, Dec. 19). Other scientists, however, have found all such claims hard to swallow...