Word: riesmans
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Approximately 50 years after Lowell's massive reworking of Harvard housing, the question still remains: Have the Houses fulfilled the function they were originally intended for? Are they small personal and intellectual centers of students life? David Riesman '31. Ford Professor of Social Science, says both...
Student-Faculty contact has reached minute proportions with House associates often coming to the Houses to perform their perfunctory duties only once or twice a year. "Probably the majority of Faculty is indifferent to the Houses," Riesman says. "Perhaps a quarter to a third of Faculty has more than nominal involvement...
...what the Agency is, playing dirty tricks, attracting right-wing whacko CREEPers like Howard Hunt and Bernard Barker, and inspiring the James Bond mythology; but this branch is the less important part of the CIA in terms of American national interests. It is the Intelligence Directorate, which David Riesman has aptly noted is one of the most left-wing agencies in the government, which is the most important half of the CIA, providing the research, information processing, and analysis necessary for informed policy decision...
Inflation also seems to have played a role in the decline of college enrollments and the shift in interest, as at Harvard, from the humanities to bread-and-butter studies like premedicine and prelaw. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman thinks that the upper middle class will increasingly ignore private colleges and send their children to public universities, thus "shifting the burden of educating one's children to the poor...
...where does a "tight market system" come from except in the perpetuation--either through acquiesence or quiescence, the distinction is abstract--of unjust economic systems? How can student activism succeed--even if its successes will not be absolutely earth-shattering--if many students remain politically dormant? The rationalizations Riesman presents as prevailing student attitudes smack of circular, Catch-22 reasoning...