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...second in part from the in which I was not no much mis-as over-quoted. My intention was to flatter my students not to them. I am sure that I said something to the effect that I was amazed at the sophistication in social theory of my incoming students. I most certainly did not say they were fantastically sophisticated, nor did I say that this applied to all aspects of social theory and method. Most of them are quite good on social theory, know a bit about methodology, and nothing about method. The point of this, however...
...Commerce Secretary, Connor will head up an awkwardly diversified department that has 33,538 employees, operates on a $4.5 billion budget, and includes the Bureau of the Census, Patent Office, Bureau of Public Roads, Weather Bureau and Area Redevelopment Administration. But the true mis sion of the Secretary of Commerce cannot be written into an organization chart. In its simplest terms, it is to promote confidence in the Administration among businessmen. That is something at which President Johnson himself works almost full time, and he is awfully good at it. In John Connor, the President should have an able helper...
Diverted Attention. On the stump, Humphrey counted the countless mis- deeds of Barry Goldwater. "He wouldn't vote yes for Mother's Day," he cried in Peoria, 111., and in Decatur he added: "I imagine that Abraham Lincoln would be called a socialist by the present pretender to the presidency of the Republican Party." As for his own speeches, Humphrey chortled: "I never know whether the audience likes them, but I sure do." He even had fun with his hecklers, smiling down on groups of sign-waving Goldwaterites and saying: "They carry their badge of political...
With Sex as Liberator and the "Organized System" as current World Historical Process, Goodman has written Compulsory Mis-education, an angry little book. It maintains that education in this country at all levels is, for the most part, "positively damaging." He writes, "the compulsory system has become a universal trap, and it is no good. Very many of the youth, both poor and middle class might be better off if the system simply did not exist, even if they then had no formal schooling at all." As for the people who run American education, Goodman says, "the goal...
...gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled. A dozen of them were arrested afterward and charged with crimes ranging from malicious mis chief to assault and robbery...