Word: pitirim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was not the only sacrifice. Three prominent University personalities are also giving a couple of hours to the grueling decision. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government; Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Social Relations; and Ira O. Scott, Leverett House associate tutor. Beer, an expert on parliamentary structures and recently returned from England, is expected to bring a European outlook to the judging. Sorokin is the director of the Institute of Creative Altruism. Scott will represent the Leverett taste...
...United States has made large strides towards a goal of either sexual freedom or anarchy in the last few decades, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Social Relations, said yesterday...
Russian-born Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, professor of sociology at Harvard since 1930, has long viewed with distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...
Cherington seemed almost eager for a "little intellectual duel" with some of his 'A' Radcliffe students, but he claims that in class, they just concentrate on looking dumb in the back row. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, echoed Cherington's wish that Radcliffe girls would argue with and challenge their professors more. "Both Harvard and Radcliffe students are orderly, docile, and peaceful compared to the Russian 'revolutionary' students...
...Economics and Director of the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, Pearl S. Buck, Dorothy Day, Norman Thomas, Allan Knight Chalmers, author of "The Constant Fire", and George S. Schuyler, author of "Slaves Today," and "Black No More." Among the sponsors of the Boston auxiliary are Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics...