Word: maclver
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Kenneth F. Maclver, a teaching fellow in Law, wrote the fictitious case, a review of the constitutional validity of a state statute which permits probate courts to give parents guardianship of children influenced by fringe religious groups, such as the Unification Church...
Died. Robert Maclver, 88, sociologist and author, onetime president (1956-61) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount...