Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, has invited at least one Harvard scientist to a conference he will sponsor next fall on the "Unity of Science...
Columbia Political Scientist (and Carter foreign policy adviser) Zbigniew Brzezinski emphasized the same point in his article. Deploring a growing American xenophobia and introversion in the face of a world that no longer seems interested in emulating the U.S. system, Brzezinski notes that the nation's chief role has long been "to stimulate change." Yet "an inward-oriented America would gradually cease to perform that role." That would be unfortunate, says Brzezinski, since "America still provides to most people in the world the most attractive social condition (even if not the model), and that remains America's special...
...also accumulated-and discarded-wives. By the time his father died in 1930, he had married his third wife (he was eventually to have five, by whom he sired five sons). His Christian Scientist father, who had earlier sold his son a one-third interest in George F. Getty Inc. for $1,000,000, showed his disapproval by willing Paul only $500,000 of his $10 million estate, leaving the rest to his wife. Undeterred, Paul used his own growing millions to invest in oil company stocks during the Depression, when they were bargains. Though he and his mother first...
Newton remains part interstellar phantom, part earthbound Howard Hughes. He watches a dozen television sets at once. Newton is also a curiously vulnerable superbeing. He is intrigued by a Southwestern hotel clerk named Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), dogged by a curious scientist named Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn), whom he eventually hires and who betrays him. Newton plans to use his vast industrial resources to build a spacecraft that will return him to his dying planet, the tiny population of which will then be borne to earth. This idea does not go down well on terra firma. People in high places...
...DeLillo can be funny as well as instructive. One typically addled character calls Cadillac "the Rolls-Royce of automobiles." A scientist, speculating that cosmic growth outward may have ended, imagines a newspaper headline: UNIVERSE SAID TO CEASE EXPANDING; BEGINS TO FALL BACK ON ITSELF; MILLIONS FLEE CITIES...