Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directed graduate studies as Chairman of the Committee on Higher Degrees for the new department for 18 years, from 1946 to 1964. During the late 1940's and early 50's, he also taught the introductory undergraduate course in the department, Soc Rel 1A, a forerunner of the current...
...helped establish Harvard's first separate Department of Psychology. And in 1946. Allport, with Talcott Parsons (sociology), the late Clyde Kluckhohn (anthropology), and Henry Merry (clinical psychology), founded the first inter-disciplinary department in the social sciences in the United States. Harvard's Department of Social Relations. Parsons became its chairman and Allport headed its graduate division...
...perhaps, his own probity, his own sense of what he was about, that kept his work focused on an extraordinary entity for systematic study: the personalities of men. He came relatively late in his career to the fearful realization that essentially decent men could put together a social system that ravishes their fellows. He saw in his lifetime and accumulated in his work more than enough evidence of the paradox. His legacy is not, as he was himself painfully aware, a solution. "Social science," he wrote, "lags far behind medical and physical science. It lags too behind the moral sense...
...plush conference room at the International Motel at J.F.K. Airport last March, and again in a second floor White House meeting room in late June, high ranking members of the Johnson Administration debated some of their "moderate" student critics...
...that squabble under the rug by calling for a report on rules changes next March. Meanwhile, they proceeded with their annual meeting's more pleasant activities: serious private talk well moistened at lunches, cocktail bashes and elegant dinners. To provide a suitably opulent setting, Brazil hastily completed the late architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy's beachfront Museum of Modern Art, despite some peculiarly Latin difficulties. University students wrecked the bulldozers that were about to demolish their subsidized, low-price restaurant, which blocked access to the imposing museum. Brazil's central bank bought off the students with a promise...