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Cliffie skiers, who still have three weeks of training before their first meet, have a new coach, George Glazer. A Dartmouth alumnus, Glazer is also organizing the racing program at Waterville Valley...
Demand for Demolition. This change in tone has been accompanied by a shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They...
Slow & Painful. A regular contributor to magazines-one of his articles was a major critique of automobile safety, which inspired one of his Labor Department coworkers, Ralph Nader-Moynihan wrote a piece on Democratic politics that attracted Sociologist Nathan Glazer, who asked him to write a chapter on the Irish for a book on New York's ethnic groups, Beyond the Melting Pot. With the same careful eye that he was later to focus on the Ne gro family, Moynihan surveyed his own brethren, and found that Irish progress in America by most standards has been slow and painful...
...week or so ago, Composer Walter Burle Marx, 64, was at the Municipal Theater directing the first performance of his Third Symphony. Haroldo Burle Marx, 55, is the wealthy manufacturer of Brazil's most exquisite jewelry. And Roberto Burle Marx, 57, is a Renaissance virtuoso: tapestry designer, tile glazer, chef, noted amateur baritone-and Latin America's most eminent landscape designer. For good measure, Roberto was displaying his recent paintings at a Rio gallery...
...their present powers. It obviously takes more than one man to run a city as vast, diverse and complicated as Los Angeles. The qualities that give Los Angeles its vitality, in fact, also make it a hard city to tame. Most Americans, as Berkeley's Sociologist Nathan Glazer points out, would like, if given their choice, to create their own version of Los Angeles. They would like to duplicate the providential medley of sea, sun and sky, the combination of cultural and recreational advantages, the chance to seize opportunity in a mobile and open society...