Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontiers in sociology." Vogel said, "now seem to be in the consideration of social problems and public policy." Sociologists want more intellectual contacts with economists, political scientists, and historians, butthe present interdisciplinary organization inhibits such arrangements. Meanwhile, psychologists and anthropologists in the Soc Rel department have been able to establish outside contacts through the autonomous departments of their disciplines...
...Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name-not of the devil but Julia Child...
...recently enacted Military Procurement Bill. That section forbids the Defense Department, beginning next fiscal year, to fund any research not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function." Thus, future Defense funding of the Cambridge Project-which involves basic rather than applied research-would seem to be illegal...
...addition, it would seem difficult for any university to accept huge sums from political agencies and at the same time be independent and critical of them. According to Everett I. Mendelsohn. associate professor of the History of Science. "the Defense Department is very anxious to try to pacify university opposition by putting its money there; people are much less willing to goad an agency which is supporting them...
Several subcommittee members seem to have had a definite stake in opting for the Project Chairman Brooks is dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. which receives over 60 per cent of its research money from the Defense Department. Members of both the Psychology Department and the Center for the Behavioral Sciences-headed by subcommittee members Richard J. Herrnstein and Edward L. Pattntlo. respectively-are applying to the Cambridge Project for funding...