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...peacetime shelter program might harm American society to the point of jeopardizing democracy, according to a report by a Peace Research Institute conference. Three University professors participated in the conference: David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Erich Lindemann, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Raymond A. Bauer, professor of Business Administration...
...Riesman's observations have found that "in at least one ally, Japan, there is considerable uneasiness over the American shelter program and fear that it may symbolize a turning inward of American interests and policy...
...David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, and H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, have signed a statement endorsing the clemency petition. Mark DeWolfe Howe, '23 professor of Law, has also written to the Attorney-General on Scales' behalf...
...Riesman criticized the Smith Act for "leading to the corruption of debate." "I think the few Communists in this country are less damaging than the effort to root them out," he maintained. The Scales conviction, he said, shows a "tremendous vindictiveness." "There aren't that many Communists to go around," Riesman continued, "and quite a few agencies compete for those who are left...
...devote themselves to interdepartmental courses in the social sciences. Professor Lewis Feuer, who conducts such a joint course in the social sciences at the Univ. of California in Berkeley, is able to transcend these silly battles between disciplinary representatives, in part because he is a philosopher; Professor David Riesman, who gives a general course in the social sciences at Harvard, is able to transcend them in part because he has been formally trained in none of the competing disciplines. (He is a lawyer who trained himself in them.) But even when one finds such rare individuals to take over...