Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obsessed with research and the grantsmanship necessary to fund it, scientists have effectively withdrawn into their laboratories, computer rooms, and think tanks. Doing largely their own thing, they specialize these days to an anomalously high degree. Sure, some scientists are crossing boundaries as research necessarily becomes more interdisciplinary, but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct the big picture. It seems that the grand synthesizers have become virtually extinct...
...Although the University refused to make its intentions clear, present evidence indicates that Harvard University is not proceeding with conversion of these units into offices, and the Tenants Committee has therefore withdrawn its complaint," the letter states...