Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOWLING WITH PUTNAM...
...waxed wooden floor of lane 49 shines, dividing the darkness of the otherwise empty alley. Sitting in one of three connecting plastic chairs, Professor Robert D. Putnam leans down to lace up his maroon and tan aerosol-sprayed shoes, and smiles: "The only thing that's off the record is if I bowl a gutterball...
...Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Putnam has served as the chair of the Government Department, the director of the Center for International Affairs, and dean of the Kennedy School. Known to undergraduates as the professor of Junior Government Tutorial 90qa, "Community in America," Putnam studies social capital in relation to civic engagement. In his 1995 article and upcoming book, Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America and What to Do About It, Putnam employs bowling as a metaphor for a larger phenomenon in America. He charts the movement from group-oriented civic engagement, as manifested...
...Sunday afternoon at Lanes 'n Games near Alewife, FM makes the metaphorical literal. Beneath the fluorescent lights of the alley, we get to know Professor Putnam up close and in the lane. In the heat of the game, we capture his personal technique, find out what he thinks about candlepin, and attempt--between frames--to grasp his theories of the decline of social capital in America with a bowler's grip...
...screens hang down from the ceiling overhead--one blaring a baseball game, the other showing a blank scoreboard, smoke and conversation drifts over from the bar, and Putnam speaks about his first bowling experience. "I was in a league in the old days when they had people up above the pins, who set the pins by hand," Putnam says...