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...recent resistance to change has largely been due to the work of a busy group intellectuals known as neoconservatives. Steinfels, who is the executive editor of the Catholic biweekly Commonweal, does not see a neoconservative under every bed. He names only a dozen or so, including Sociologists Nathan Glazer and James Q. Wilson of Harvard and Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford. But the book centers on three thinkers: Editor Irving Kristol, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Daniel Bell, author of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. All are associated with The Public Interest and Commentary. Most are professors, including Moymhan...
Robert J. Glazer, president of the Kaiser Foundation, said last week the foundation "is dedicated to the introduction of new and better methods in the area of health care throughout the United States...
...Government spokesmen charge, both intemperate and premature. But "Caesar's" reach is an object of concern throughout academia. "Governmental intrusion is a considerable and growing problem," says Stanford President Richard Lyman, 55, adding, "but curriculum and academic quality have not been seriously threatened." Affirmative Action Critic Nathan Glazer, a sociologist at Harvard, says a real danger to academic freedom is that faculty members "don't want to go to all the trouble" of proving they have been unable to find qualified blacks or women, so they tolerate inferior appointments...
...pool of female applicants is also limited, Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, said. There is a concentration of female Ph.D.s in fields that are not hiring, such as romance languages, he added...
Panelist disagreed on the initiatives government should take. "The success of affirmative action ultimately depends on government," Randolph said. Glazer disagreed, saying government should not legislate specific percentage requirements...