Word: riesmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David A. Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, wrote a letter last month to the chairman of the Boston University committee arguing that B.U. President John R. Silber should be retained...
...healthy lowering of class and economic barriers. Further, young people who have to wait to find work learn patience and open-mindedness. For one thing, the reflexive antipathy many students once felt toward the corporate world has vanished as they learn where the jobs are. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman thinks that underemployed graduates benefit from the enforced delay in making career choices. "Doing a lower-level job is not so bad," says he, "so long as it's well-paying enough to support a young person, and his record collection, in comfortable style...
Willie's apology was apparently directed at an article by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II, professor of Social Sciences, and Christopher S. Jencks '58, professor of Sociology, published in the Harvard Educational Review in 1967. Riesman and Jencks referred in the article to "these marginal Negro colleges," and predicted that "they are likely to remain academically inferior institutions...
...been granted two two-year leaves: the first to work as an aide to President Nixon, the second to serve as Ambassador to India. He had only been back one semester when he took the U.N. job. Harvard is insistent on "institutional loyalty," says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "There would be not much leeway with anyone, particularly someone like Moynihan who had shown a somewhat tenuous or peripatetic relationship to the institution."* Though he did not mention it, Moynihan may also run for the Senate. He had once said it would be "dishonorable" for him to desert...
...Riesman is an admirer of Moynihan's all-embracing academic interests, which he says equip him as a diplomat to "deal with issues on a plane of both contemporary and historical perspective." Riesman recalls a Phi Beta Kappa address that Moynihan delivered at Harvard in which he compared student radicals of the 1960s to the Quaker, Leveler and Digger religious dissidents of Cromwell's England, and then predicted that student activism would die out in the '70s when the demographic bulge produced by the postwar baby boom subsided. Says Riesman: "There aren't many people who have enough knowledge...