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Variations. The word informer actually covers a variety of types. They range from the fellow who turns in a friend for tax fraud (and collects up to 10% of whatever the Federal Government recovers) to a full-fledged undercover Government agent like Herbert Philbrick (/ Led Three Lives). As Philbrick's case suggests, the usually unsavory reputation of informers often vanishes if the cause seems especially just -or at least popular. The FBI'S hired hand who fingered the Ku Klux Klan killers of Viola Liuzzo generated considerably less controversy than Boyd Douglas...
...twisted coverage to come. As Keogh perceives it, those fears proved more than justified. He exempts some publications and individuals from criticism, such as U.S. News & World Report, FORTUNE, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, Columnists Max Lerner and Joseph and Stewart Alsop, NBC's Herbert Kaplow and ABC's Howard K. Smith. But he indicts big journalism generally-not for a liberal conspiracy, as some do, but for a "condition of conformity" that bends the news to fit liberal preconceptions. He expends most of his ammunition on six influential offenders from the East...
...Barbiana, was started for children who have failed or who have nearly failed public school. Because the parents of girls from town believe that a woman can live her life with the brains of a hen, only boys attend the school, which the authors acknowledge as "racism." However, like Herbert Kohl's sixth grade children in Harlem or the children in George Dennison's First Street School in lower Manhattan, the students improve when instructional flexibility, Individual encouragement, and a stress on group development are substituted for the rigidity, anonymity, and competitiveness of public schools...
...rituals represent only a normal attempt to save face. Because of this concentration on image making, some of Goffman's critics find him trivial and limited. "People just do not go around with their attention constantly focused on how they are being regarded," objects Berkeley Sociologist Herbert Blumer. All the same, Blumer considers Goffman "an innovative scholar" who "can take human interplay which appears humdrum and show it to be intricate, dynamic and dramatic." Indeed, Goffman's work may be not so much social science as social commentary. In the words of one behavioral scientist, "Goffman...
...manufacturing fortune, Milbank set up the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled after World War I to help train permanently injured veterans and civilians. In 1928 he established the original pilot study of poliomyelitis, which led to formation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover, Milbank was a large contributor to the Republican Party and served as eastern treasurer for the G.O.P. National Committee during the 1928 and 1932 elections...