Word: lipset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true, as Aldous Huxley said, that for Western man waiting is tortur-only waiting without a goal in sight. "It is not that we are an impatient people but that we are a highly moralistic people," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset. "In a conflict we tend to feel strongly that there is a wrong and a right, and something must be done. Essentially, this is Protestant thinking." Adds Italian Author Luigi Barzini: "What makes an American different from most other people is the certainty that all problems in life, like those in a good math textbook, can be solved. Another...
...advance the art, Hal Lipset, a seasoned San Francisco private eye, maintains a laboratory behind a false warehouse front where his eavesdropping "genius," Ralph Bertsche, works out new gimmicks such as a high-powered bug that fits into a pack of filter-tip cigarettes. It is padded to feel soft and shows the ends of real cigarettes to reassure a suspicious businessman or divorce-prone spouse-provided he doesn't ask for a smoke. Bertsche believes that bugs in time may be no bigger than a pencil eraser, recorders as small as a cigarette lighter...
...Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal have edited a volume of critical essays that, by its list of contributors, goes far to show Riesman as a publicly accepted members of his profession. It also makes equally clear that his confederates do not consider him a very good social theorist...
...Study of the Changing American Character. As Ralf Dahrendorf explains, "Comte Alexis de Tocqueville and Mr. David Riesman share a number of their questions, and many of their answers too; but whereas Mr. Riesman does not mind the former, he seems rather less than pleased with the latter." Lipset documents the similarities of nineteenth-century observations to Riesman's description. Parsons and White talk about the continuity of values. Nobody doubts that changes have occurred, but these writers question whether Riesman has described them accurately, and whether the American character has really altered...