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...Parsons had moved into Harvard's Sociology Department after a stint in the Economics Department. Trained as a philosopher and intrigued by several fields within the social sciences, Parsons found his broad interest in the study of man in society stifled in the Economics Department. He wasn't much happier in Sociology. Together with Kluckhohn, Murray and several other scholars, Parsons began considering the benefits of creating a formal alliance of dissatisfied scholars...
...Kahn sees polish and refinement. I see a tenure of increasingly conservative backlash, including 1. a policy of exclusion. Of Skocpol from sociology (and perhaps political purging at the Law School), of women and minorities (of whom one report to the president suggested less of--they would be "happier" at "lesser institutions"), of medical workers from unions, of faculuty members from a day-to-day governance of Harvard. 2. a policy of deference. To the corporations that do business in South Africa. Bok has become a leading national spokesman for acquiescense in their line of defense: that Black South Africans...
...Happier Houghton...
...Mama Leone's spaghetti. The plot starts off solidly enough. Robert Traven (Jack Lemmon) is an American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
Boynton is also living alone, but his cat, Derek Bok (just Derek, for short) has found a happier home, for both cat and man. Says Boynton, Derek--and her first litter of kittens--have taken up permanent residence away from Harvard at a friend's home, "because of the smell and the fact that cats aren't meant to be stuck indoors...