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Money Talks. Aside from any strain on honesty, the energy crisis promises to produce dramatic and lasting changes in American habits of thinking and acting. Columbia Sociologist Amitai Etzioni believes that a prolonged shortage will produce a decline in egalitarianism and the reassertion of privilege in America. "Money will make the difference in the future," he says. "Only people with money will be able to travel and buy Cadillacs. The poor part of society will end up paying a disproportionate share." Boston University Sociologist S.M. Miller asserts that the rationing of commodities like gas and oil will bring a rationing...
...Recently," says Columbia Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, "there has been almost unanimous agreement among newspaper commentators that the country is moving sharply to the right. These statements are far from accurate." In terms of philosophy, Etzioni observes, practically all Middle Americans would call themselves conservatives, favoring more individualism, more freedom, less government power. But on an operational level, he insists, in terms of the specific Government policies it will accept, the country is liberal. According to a study that Etzioni completed last summer for the Office of Economic Opportunity, the nation, in operational terms, is 65% liberal, 21% middle...
...beyond argument that the generation attuned to rock, pot and sex will drastically change the world it grew up in. The question is: How and to what purpose? Columbia Sociologist Amitai Etzioni applauds the idealism of the young but argues that "they need more time and energy for reflection" as well as more opportunities for authentic service. Ultimately, the great danger of the counter-culture is its self-proclaimed flight from reason, its exaltation of self over society, its Dionysian anarchism. Historian Roszak points out that the rock revolutionaries bear a certain resemblance to the early Christians...
...interested to read excerpts from a private memorandum which I wrote last summer to professor Amitai Etzioni of Columbia University in response to a memorandum from him, in which he invited various people to comment on his proposal stimulated by a small foundation in Washington to establish a major university in Washington, D.C. Etzioni asked for advice on behalf of the foundation as to the best procedures for establishing a major center of scholarship in the nation's capital. Hence, it should be noted that my memo was a response to a proposal of others to set up such...
...interesting document on this subject of faculty commitment is a memorandum from Seymour Martin Lipset to Amitai Etzioni, with copies to other concerned persons with the subject: "Proposed Establishment of a University of the United States to be Located in Washington, D.C." It is dated August 21, 1968. The document is especially significant because Lipset, an expert on student movements, who has received large grants from the Air Force for his studies, is scheduled to testify this week before Edith Green's committee in the House along with President Pusey...