Word: riesmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bounds, to promote "freedom of exchange." Men on the order of Pierre Trudeau and Valerie Giscard D'Estaing--who were then on the verge of international prominence--attended the seminar, discussed world affairs with foreign ministers from India and Pakistan, and heard lectures from American intellectual heavyweights like David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 and McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty...
...then a few diehards fussed about the dangers to the old boy network. A rapid growth of the female student body might reduce "male bonding," David Riesman and his colleagues predicted. Some of the elderly professors liked to "pretend that the old system still existed, when it had long gone by the boards," Pusey now recalls...
Harvard Sociologist David Riesman laments the "brain drain" from science...
...ablest students I see are headed for law or medicine. Recruitment into science is no longer of the ablest but of the upper middle level. It's been going on for five or six years." One important reason, says Riesman, "is egalitarianism. We have a Lysenko lobby in this country-the Clamshell Alliance and others who think science is harmful, who feel guilty about it and try to paralyze it. They think it's more important to distribute jobs among the needy than to do exotic research. There's a lack of the sense of glory...
...David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, will lead a discussion on opportunities at Harvard. "Everybody thinks it's somebody else's Harvard. The public school kids think it's the preppies' Harvard; the preppies think it's Bronx Science's Harvard," Riesman said, adding that he wants to show the parents the vast opportunities available to everyone...