Word: lipset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wright Mills had been the first to say that the pluralist, end-of-ideology emperor had no clothes, but SDS was the first organized attempt to challenge the smugness of the American celebration of the nineteen-fifties. In response to liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others who maintained that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America, and that decisions about the direction of society were purely technical, SDS's founding charter--the Port Huron Statement--condemned a "perverted democracy" that permitted "disastrous policies to go unchallenged time and again." These charges--which seem mild in retrospect...
Popkin and Chomsky have also protested that their interrogation before the grand jury endangers academic freedom. Twenty-one Harvard professors, including Edwin O. Reischauer. John Kenneth Galbraith, John K. Fairbank, Karl W. Deutsch, James Q. Wilson, Samuel P. Huntington, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Doris Kearns, have signed affidavits supporting Popkin's argument...
...only other amendment - proposed by Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations - added a condition to point two prohibiting part-time appointees from holding teaching or other jobs during the term of their appointment. It was defeated by voice vote...
Seymour M. Lipset...
...death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet Nam War. Some Americans are skeptical; Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thinks that it would not reduce national tensions simply because "there are no neutral people left in the country." Still, Americans must find some means of confronting what they have done to themselves in Viet Nam and what they will continue to do to themselves until U.S. involvement in Indochina finally...