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...North Carolina, he might have entered an excellent state university by simply presenting his academic credentials. But Meredith wanted to be the first Negro to enter the University of Mississippi, in his home state, even if the schooling is not the best. The resulting riot and weeks of disquiet showed Ole Miss to be embarrassingly short of leadership. The chancellor proved to be a don't-rock-the-boat executive who did nothing to head off the riot, and then merely wrist-slapped offenders. The faculty has for years been equally meek. Now, in a dramatic reversal caused...
...disquiet that has nagged me through the last halfdozen of Bergman's films that I have seen becomes gratingly obvious in this one: his dialogue consists of monotonously pompous sermons and gratuitously unpleasant analyses of the characters within the film. Real people seldom talk to one another this way, principally because they don't have to gloss the weaknesses of a Bergman script with explications of its premises. This failing reaches an embarrassing crescendo in an unattractive scene with the girl's father and her husband tearing each other apart in order to say things Bergman couldn...
...Riesman quit medicine for the law, a superb clinician moved to a rather alien field. It is this image of Riesman that remains after all the criticisms of this book--a man who is, for all the lapses in reasoning and method this volume suggest, astonishingly perceptive of the disquiet that troubles American intellectuals. Perhaps Riesman will be of more interest to intellectual historians than sociologists of the future, but to either group he has an immediate message about his world that must not be obscured by the real but almost irrelevant lapses in his methods and definitions
...Monro means that Freshmen have not yet rioted seriously, and that they do not drop out in abnormally disturbing numbers, no doubt he is right. But both the Blackmur report and the Seminars reflect a deeper disquiet, born, perhaps, of the fact that Harvard has yet to apply to its Freshmen even one lesson from thirty years of House life...
...Cultures and the Scientific Revolution," reached an enormous audience on both sides of the Atlantic. This was partly because of Snow's reputation as a novelist and distinguished civil servant, but more because the lecture said things that were on everybody's mind. It mirrored the academic community's disquiet over a sense of division within itself, and met a prevailing current of thought favoring some sort of inter-disciplinary ecumenical movement. Snow's Godkin Lectures on "Science and Government" fill no such need and will probably not have the same kind of effect, and as an admirer...