Word: lipset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serge Lang, a Yale mathematics professor, yesterday criticized a wide-ranging survey of university faculty opinion conducted by Seymour M. Lipset, former professor of Government and Social Relations, saying it is "intellectually at the level of a T.V. panel...
...Lipset's survey prejudices many questions to the point where respondents may reasonably object to dealing with the issues on the surveyor's terms," Lang said yesterday...
...started out as a very political thing," Lipset said yesterday, referring to the controversy with Lang. "I've found that academics tend to be radical, and Lang feels threatened...
...Washington State, G.O.P. Challenger John Cunningham found out that resentment against environmentalism was the biggest issue, so he made it his campaign theme. He won by splitting blue-collar Democrats worried about their jobs from liberal intellectuals preoccupied with the environment. Says Stanford Sociologist Seymour Lipset: "This is the kind of thing they are doing very well-looking from place to place, from region to region to find out what the discontent...
...became the last of the indicted Watergaters to go to prison. After a 320-day trial, the Black Panthers lost their civil suit against the Chicago police who raided their quarters several ages ago?it was 1969?and killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. As Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observes, "This is the first time in ten years that nothing disastrous is occurring." Americans may not believe that they are embarked on a new age, but at least they are savoring a historical pause...