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...power and becomes more quickly satisfied, going away delighted with the applause of juveniles." Others find the criticism of students only too candid. At U.C.L.A., Writer-Playwright Christopher Isherwood patiently answers Questions aimed at baring his soul: "What do you think about God?" "Have you changed your mind about Freud?" "How come Auden became more renowned than you?" At Wisconsin, Violinist Rudolph Kolisch is openly critical of the university's music faculty, declares: "These music-education people do not understand music itself...
This concern was well summarized by Professor Stanley Hoffmann's recent statement justifying the Social Studies program: "We are graduating government majors with no knowledge of Freud or Weber...." Harvard is one of few major universities of which this can be said. Elsewhere, approaches to political science have been broadened to utilize the tools of such behavioral sciences as psychology and sociology...
...This is his sixth cover for TIME. The others: André Malraux, Sigmund Freud, Alec Guinness, Adlai Stevenson and Lenin...
Explains Hoffmann: "Given the growing competition for honors within departments, and the requirements of the Gen Ed Program, too few students were taking a satisfactory number of courses related to their discipline of concentration. We were graduating narrow specialists, government majors with no knowledge of Freud and Weber, economics majors with no political science background. We were all concerned that social science itself was losing coherence, splintering into artificial and uncommunicating disciplines...
...pamphlet on Social Studies made clear, "the program does not aim at establishing fields of concentration broader than those provided by the departments but tries on the contrary to make possible intensive work in important and separate areas." Hoffmann was not interested simply in training economists who had read Freud or sociologists fascinated by Hobbes. Rather he wished students to approach concrete social problems as entities in themselves, and to be willing and Hoffmann believed--and still believes--that, whether one is a social scientist or a government official, one's approach to a problem should be dictated...