Word: wisemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been dubbed the "Bleacher Bums," and they spend the game arguing about location supremacy. The rightfielders yell, "Left Field sucks," and the leftfielder retort with an equally imaginitive barb. And mixed in among the diehard scorekeepers, the beer guzzling fixtures and the cheerleading rowdies, there float the bleacher wisemen--bastions of baseball lore who are no less than bold in making their thoughts well known...
...take the 20-foot-high prank to its logical extreme. Raise over $30 million. Build a model of a Polaroid camera out of concrete and glass. Build it a hundred feet high. Pack it with elaborate devices and arcane knowledge and wisemen. Drop it on the campus of a large, prestigious university. If the smaller blow-up was funny, this must be hilarious. It would be Harvard's Science Center...
Welfare. When Frederick Wisemen released his documentary called Primate last year it caused a lot of controversy in the science world. Without commentary, it showed how animals were treated in labs (i.e., cruelly). Scientists were outraged that their research should be called into question in such an irresponsible way and Harvard philosophy professor Robert Nozick said, "What about the animals?" Wiseman said the film was meant to show what could happen to human subjects in a world of unfettered scientific research. (And CIA-sponsored investigations into hallucenogenic drugs seems to confirm those fears). Here again, there is no commentary...
...would be accelerated by a drop in the birth rate. As to vigor, when the breakthrough comes in aging research, people in their 70s and 80s should have the energy of those in their 50s and 60s today. Ideally this would produce a greater number of selfless, highly educated wisemen who could undertake complex new projects for the benefit of mankind. But few believe that it would work this way. Most observers suggest that increased longevity would only magnify today's ambiguities and uncertainties if defining the role of the elderly...