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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School for Social Research, Berger has already used the tools of his discipline to challenge the bureaucratic pretensions of institutional religion in two books, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies and The Precarious Vision. He readily admits that sociology has helped to undermine the traditional faiths of the past, but he also argues that it can just as easily undermine the certainty of today's aggressive disbelief. Disbelief, he insists, is largely the product of man's present environment, and the skepticism of the professional atheist is just as subject to questioning as the peasant's blind faith...
...Boris Kroyt, 71, and Cellist Mischa Schneider, 64-are in poor health. Although there has been no formal announcement, they have agreed not to perform in public any more. Mischa's brother Alexander, 60, the second violinist, thinks that that is probably just as well. "Most artists play past their prime," he says. "How long could we have gone on without realizing that it was too late...
...suddenly started echoing through the playing of gifted youngsters like Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton and Larry Coryell, who singled him out as a touchstone of musical sincerity and grit. Two years ago, King made his debut at San Francisco's temple of rock, the Fillmore Auditorium. In the past year, he has made his first European tour and started getting college concert dates. And he has just finished his first extended Manhattan-nightclub booking, a week at the Village Gate. The booking involved another new phenomenon for him: standing ovations from a predominantly white audience...
...father owned a saloon that stank of liquor, vomit and urine. Her mother did the cooking there and never had time for reading bedtime stories. That is how Sculptress June Leaf, 39, chooses to remember her childhood on Chicago's West Side. With such a past, it is not surprising that her artistic heroes are Hogarth, Klee and Ensor, or that she has learned, from the hippies she says, "to see the kaleidoscopic side of life and the mind...
Those beliefs have grown stronger in the past eight years, while the U.S. economy has expanded under the vigorous application of neo-Keynesian principles. Today, when the economy is strained by inflation, Friedman's challenge commands serious attention and growing support, and is a topic of heated debate among economists, bankers and Government officials. The controversy has lifted Friedman to eminence as the leader of the so-called "Chicago school" of economic thought. Increasingly influential abroad as well as at home, he is one of the principal economic advisers to Richard Nixon. Says Paul McCracken, the incoming chairman...