Word: lazarsfeld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Academic Mind is a report on academic freedom. Based on lengthy interviews with 2500 social scientists, the book tries to appraise the effect of McCarthyism on American scholars and teachers. The questionnaires were designed by Paul Lazarsfeld and the Columbia Bureau for Applied Social Research, financed by Robert Hutchins' Fund for the Republic, and administered in 1955 by Elmo Roper and the National Opinion Research Center...
...that Professor Lazarsfeld was commissioned to find out whether the hysterical chauvinism of the early fifties created fear, inhibition, or conformity among scholars. The question is certainly legitimate, but the answer is not readily found by taking a poll...
...country boy tackled his CBS job in a manner that made Kesten's eyes pop. Working 70 to 80 hours a week, Stanton rapidly became research director, then advertising director and found time to develop, with Vienna's Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld, an electrical gimmick called the Program Analyzer which automatically measured radio listenership...