Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing that he will not do, however, is move from his three-room Greenwich Village apartment. All his friends live on his block, he says-Terrence McNally, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Drivas, the actor, and Playwright Israel Horowitz. "We get together once a week to play poker. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else." Which sounds about as Barney Cashman as a guy can get and still be James Coco...
Premeditated Effort. No one more vividly personifies the new practitioner than Irving Louis Horowitz, 40, a shaggy, disarmingly unprofessorial professor who lectures without a tie, lambastes most of his colleagues, and delivers endless sotto voce manifestos. "I'm making a conscious, premeditated effort to radicalize sociology," says Horowitz. In pursuit of this goal, he passed up more lucrative offers last summer to accept the chairmanship of the sociology department of the Livingston campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University...
...youngest of Rutgers' four colleges, Livingston is itself a living experiment in the new sociology. Housed since last fall in what was once a U.S. Army barracks at deactivated Camp Kilmer (named for the arboreal poet), it attracts the young from the very constituency that Horowitz has staked out as his own: "The poor and the blacks, society's deviants of all kinds." More than half of Livingston's 750 students are black or Puerto Rican, and nearly all of them are poor. Horowitz can rap with them-and they with him. As one of his Negro...
...company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what is and is not deviant?" asks Horowitz. "When 41% of all marriages end in divorce, for example, must we still regard divorce as a social problem?" Instead of asking the question, "What went wrong with the marriage?" he suggests, the sociologist should ask: "What's wrong with the institution...