Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The father in The Price, a wealthy businessman ruined in the '29 crash, has been dead for 28 years. During the Depression, one son, Vic (Pat Hingle), elected to stay and help support the old man by joining the police force, thus sacrificing his ambitions, his college degree and...
Died. Pitirim A. Sorokin, 79, eminent Russian-born sociologist and longtime (1931-1964) Harvard professor; in Winchester, Mass. Sorokin's theory of historical change, as laid down in his Social and Cultural Dynamics, centered on the distinction between "sensate" or materialistic values and "ideational" values based on faith and...
Sorokin's sociology books are studied and respected in almost every country of the world. Even in Russia his works are now available. A visiting colleague from the Soviet Union once told him that he was regarded in Russia as the most eminent non-Marxian sociologist in the world.
One of the world's most eminent sociologists, a former Russian revolutionary, and a conscientious student of "love in five dimensions," he was 79.
Squeezed by rising costs of the Viet Nam war, still troubled by the fatal Apollo fire and influenced by polls reporting slipping public interest in space flight, congressional economizers have been slicing away at NASA's space budget. Their efforts have been so successful that the U.S., while still...