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...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...
Recessions always tend to restrain passions as much as spending. "One effect of unemployment," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "is to make a man concentrate on his personal problems. If he is unemployed or worried about his job, personal problems take priority. He doesn't have the psychic energy to think about society." Many of the McCarthy liberals and peace-movement activists have become silent since they lost their jobs as laboratory scientists or systems analysts in the defense and research plants along Boston's Route 128. Despite the General Motors siege, there were fewer strikes last...
...notions about the materialism of U.S. society. If it follows the historical pattern, the recession might even help to restore parental power. "The authority of parents and teachers, which was weak in the '20s, came back in the '30s because students were more dependent on them," says Lipset...