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...says University of Chicago Sociologist Philip Mauser. What this means, explains Theodore Sizer, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is that "researchers are not asking the right questions-they are taking the questions that are easier to research." Scholars often frame their grant proposals broadly enough to blanket their real research interests. The sociologist interested in youth gangs, for example, is more likely to get money for a study of slum neighborhoods. Conversely, a biologist who merely wanted to find out whether a high-protein fish flour was unsafe for human consumption landed a grant by emphasizing that...
...really the message. Something in the U.S. heartland's culture itself seems to stifle his characters' heartbeats whenever they try to make an openhanded gesture of the flesh, the mind or the spirit. Wilson's Rimers are indeed what their collective name implies: a people who blanket their lives with hoarfrost...
...that a student (whom you have never spoken to about the time of day, never mind the war or his privileged draft deferment) will jump for joy at the fact that he has lost the "security blanket" effect of his 2-S status, is naive and unrealistic. How can you expect a person with whom you already have difficulty talking about the war to applaud the abolition of 2-S as a victory of the student left over the Selective Service Board? It's unthinkable that someone who has been spoon-fed with the delusions and placebos of this system...
...them. By recalling her own early confusion, she vividly illustrates the paradoxes and complexities created by the Bernays' cultural reorientation. Miss Bernays has infused the article with a quiet humor which makes her well-chosen examples all the more revealing: "Granted, the Harmonie Club had done its utmost to blanket its essential character, thereby losing out in gemutlichkeit (like a deodorized delicatessen), but it was still a club for German Jews." In her treatment of the persistent and uncomfortable problem of disentangling the cultural and religious aspects of Judaism Miss Bernays is intentionally inconclusive. The implication is that merely understanding...
Shanker predicts a change in public strike laws around the nation. Rather than a blanket prohibition of strikes in the public section, the criterion should be the degree of emergency created by the strike. A strike by public bus drivers is not as serious, Shanker suggested, as a strike by employees of Con Edison...