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...college these men find they are somewhat restricted to the campus. They notice that the upperclass years in the clubs are socially better than freshman and sophomore years. And they see that this social difference has been partially carried over into the curriculum, where they spend two rather directionless years building a broad educational base for upperclass concentration...
Riesman believes that in each of the three historical kinds of character direction, some men will adjust, some will fail to adjust and some will rise above adjustments. Those who fail he calls anomic (ruleless, directionless); the years of transition between two kinds of direction (inner and other) will produce many anomics. Those who transcend adjustment he calls autonomous. Their social radar is good and they use it when they choose; but they can turn it off and develop the ability to make choices out of their own individuality...
...parties on Manhattan's upper East Side. He finishes at Harvard, goes to Columbia Law School and gets a good job. Author Phillips plays him off against rich George Marsh III, who writes his own checks at 14, is a hero in football and in war, and so directionless inside that every serious move in his life ends in futility. Gus steals George's girl, but she is too giddy to stick to a solid citizen like Gus, and too aware of George's weakness to go back to him. In the end, Gus gets...
Young Man from Yale. Baker's letter was the catalyst that changed the limping, directionless Council into the powerful educational instrument it is today. To Cleveland came the young instructor from Yale-Brooks Emeny, the Council's present director. Graduated from Princeton in 1924, Emeny selected diplomacy as a career, studied abroad for three years as a Carnegie Fellow in international...
...chance to fight sooner than he expected. On the second day that he walked into his office he landed smack in the middle of one of the senseless, directionless, back-biting family quarrels that have racked WPB from the start...