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...father's old medical uniforms. At 20, Annabella married Eduardo Battistella and eventually followed him around South America, where he played the piano in nightclubs. Finally, their savings depleted, she turned from dancing to striptease. In the early '60s, the couple settled in the U.S. Their parallel itinerant nightclub careers continued, and so did their troubled marriage. They became neighbors, close friends and regular bridge companions with Wilbur and Polly Mills in 1973. The Battistellas were divorced in October, but Eduardo sometimes stays in the apartment with Annabella and their four children, aged...
...argues that narcotics addiction is a contagious disease because most addicts acquire the habit by associating with other addicts. It is the government's responsibility, therefore, to incarcerate these addicts just as it would quarantine small pox carriers during a plague. But Friedman argues that this is an invalid parallel. Someone who catches a contagious disease is an unwilling victim. Someone who takes up dope after associating with users has done so because has has seen their lifestyle and chosen to accept it. He may have done so because he is psychologically weak or misinformed, but that same possibility exists...
...basic orientation of profit-seeking into a policy of "sabotage" of production. It must fight against the "inordinate productivity of the machine" by keeping prices high and supply limited. Until more evidence is compiled we must view with suspicion Jencks's belief in the socio-economic beneficence of the "parallel elite...
Jencks also seems to ignore economic historians when he extols the efforts of the upwardly mobile to expand the economy, thus supplying more absolute luxuries while maintaining relative inequalities. He categorically states: "The pressures for growth tend to come from the upwardly mobile...who hope to create a new parallel (business) elite. The upwardly mobile can do this if, and only if, they can find a way to increase the overall size...
...because of sociology's lack of all-encompassing theory tied to the existing social order, sociologists have a tendency towards the accommodation of radical views. Senior sociologists at Harvard, like Seymour Martin Lipset and Daniel Bell, have integrated Marxist modes of analysis into their own theories. A parallel development would be impossible for any neo-classical economist. For this reason, and also because the senior Sociology faculty is somewhat to the left of Economics, an Economics-type purge of radicals seems unlikely. Taylor said last week, "In the Sociology Department, there are various sorts of Marxist sympathizers and very leftish...