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...foundations for Galbraith's current fame?or notoriety?were laid a decade ago with publication of The Affluent Society. Along with David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd, the book was one of the two most influential social critiques of the '50s, has been on reading lists at more than 100 American colleges, and in a dozen foreign languages?including Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil?continues to jangle 'cash registers around the world...
...committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain this narcissistic attitude by saying that professors try to remake the college where they teach in the image of the graduate school that taught them. Therefore Riesman feels that the narrow, scholarly professionalism of graduate students must change from mere disciplinary advancement before ethics of college education...
...Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, said last week that he is increasing enrollment from 300 to about 420 in "Character and Social Structure in America." In the past as many as 600 have applied. In the last two years only juniors and seniors have been able to take the course...
Sophomores will probably be admitted, Riesman said, and there may even be places for freshmen. "We've had a good experience with those freshmen who were adventurous enough to apply," Riesman said...
...course will not be given next spring because Riesman will be on leave...