Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most people, at least in the university communities, have read about Mr. Nixon's early campaigns in California, his attacks, real or implied, on the patriotism of President Truman, and the indiscriminate tone of his intervention in other election contests," Galbraith explained...
...America, however, are supposed to have gotten beyond all that. Our founding fathers knew, and all who read history honestly know, that our freedom from totalitarian systems, political, theological, or both, was won with great courage and cost. It was won for the sake of a better life, at least here and now, for all; a life in which every man could think and worship as he pleases, whether he be right or wrong, and in the majority or a minority, so long as others have the same right. The resulting interplay can create still better views. This principle allows...
These are the deeply felt convictions of Pitirim A. Sorokin, director of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism, and one of the most widely read social scientists alive today. The author of more than thirty books, including Social and Cultural Dynamics, The American Sex Revolution, and The Crisis of Our Age, Sorokin's dire predictions are read in twenty languages, and the body of commentary on his work is staggering...
Sorokin steps over to the huge bookcase in his wood-panelled study and points proudly to a recent translation of his work in Chinese. "You can even read my yarns in Hindustani now," the genial professor smiles. In fact, volumes of his "yarns," the name which Sorokin fondly attaches to his theories, together with translations and commentaries upon them, occupy almost all of the space on the shelves. Sorokin picks up a new work by Ortega y Gasset, which he has been asked to review, and he suggests that perhaps the Spanish social thinker may have "borrowed" some...
...They're supposed to be able to teach, I guess." 3) "Our requirements are purely mathematical; no one gives a damn if you can teach." Scholarship appears to count for little more; the weight of scholarly articles is tallied, but seldom, committee members admitted, are the articles read. More than one university confessed that a socially presentable wife is one of the scholarly attributes it looks...