Word: berkeley
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...while Goffman's rituals represent only a normal attempt to save face. Because of this concentration on image making, some of Goffman's critics find him trivial and limited. "People just do not go around with their attention constantly focused on how they are being regarded," objects Berkeley Sociologist Herbert Blumer. All the same, Blumer considers Goffman "an innovative scholar" who "can take human interplay which appears humdrum and show it to be intricate, dynamic and dramatic." Indeed, Goffman's work may be not so much social science as social commentary. In the words of one behavioral...
Cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York and Stockton, Calif., have set up public alternative schools during the past two years. But the trend has gone farthest in Berkeley, Calif., which now has 18 such schools at all levels and plans to add six more next fall. TIME Correspondent Christopher Cory visited some of them recently. His report...
...Berkeley needed new educational ideas as badly as any city. Though it is known for breathtaking hills and its University of California campus, the hills overlook a slough of industrial plants and dilapidated housing. Whites in the Berkeley schools are a 44% minority, with blacks making up 45% of the students and Asians and Chicanos accounting for most of the rest. In 1968, Berkeley became the first city with more than 100,000 people to integrate its schools voluntarily by busing both whites and blacks (38% of the pupils ride to school). But Berkeley's integration brought demands from...
...amateur player, she helped to pay her husband's way through law school at the University of California. These days she spends maybe 40 weeks a year traveling and playing professional tennis, while her husband, Larry, spends much of the time practicing law near their home in Berkeley. Says Billie Jean: "Larry is a very strong individual. Sometimes our situation bothers me, but it doesn't seem to bother him. I don't like it when he is introduced as Billie Jean King's husband, but then I would not like to be known just...
Married. Brian Priestman, 45, English-born conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra and former musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Theater at Stratford-on-Avon; and Mary-Ford Stockton McClave; both for the first time; in Berkeley, Calif...