Word: banfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eminent intellectuals (TIME, Dec. 23). At the third such session last Saturday, Ford conferred informally with four people of diverse interests: Thomas Sowell, a black U.C.L.A. economist, author of a forthcoming book on race and economics; Gertrude Himmelfarb, professor of history at the City University of New York; Edward Banfield, a specialist in urban affairs who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and wrote the iconoclastic The Unheavenly City; and Herbert Storing, a University of Chicago political scientist and expert on the founding fathers...
Another group, including former Harvard professors Daniel P. Moynihan and Edward Banfield, claim that black children are unable to learn because of their allegedly inferior culture. Through the process William Ryan has aptly characterized as "blaming the victim," these men would have us believe that if many black people live in slums it must be because they like it there--not because they can't get housing elsewhere. Their "culture of poverty" notions do not point to the main sources of poverty in America: racism, unemployment, and lack of money to buy decent health care, decent homes, decent services...
...have little identification with the battles of the '60s; nor did they serve in any important political offices during the decade. With cool rationality and no rancor, the analysts accommodate positions ranging from Philosopher John Rawls, who has constructed an awesome rationale for greater equality, to Urbanologist Edward Banfield, who believes largely in leaving well enough alone...
PENN-COLUMBIA -- Take heart, Brown. Your old rival for the Ivy League cellar, Pennsylvania, has beaten Harvard in football and hockey and snaked away Harvard's most handsome, popular professor, Edwin C. Banfield, all in the same year. The Quakers have also beaten Princeton and Yale on the weekends preceding and following their humiliation of Harvard, and they may go on to achieve the impossible -- losing to Brown and winning the Ivy League title in the same season. Penn...
...Gulf Oil, the level of domestic disruption which they cannot afford to risk is not be found in a boycott of classes; it is rather to be found in massive public disorder which threatens their ability to rule. Our function should not be to prevent ideologists like Kissinger and Banfield from delivering lectures, but to make it impossible for them to operate or exert influence on an official level...