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...Martin Lipset and Leo Lowenthal have edited a volume of critical essays that, by its list of contributors, goes far to show Riesman as a publicly accepted members of his profession. It also makes equally clear that his confederates do not consider him a very good social theorist...
...Riesman's informality does not disturb these particularly; indeed, several essays are devoted to defending his style and format. But as formidable assemblage dissects the Crowd concept by concept and definition by definition, this spectre of formal rigor re-Words like values, social character, social power are steadily and carefully redefined throughout the book, and author after author sets up a framework to discuss American society...
...those who have at least a sneering acquaintance with the Ivy League, still see in Catcher their hymn, their epic, their Treasury of Humor, and their manifesto against the world. A decade after first publication, the book still sells 250,000 copies a year in the U.S. Sociologist David Riesman assigns Catcher in his Harvard course on Character and Social Structure in the U.S., perhaps because every campus has its lonely crowd of imitation Holdens?doomed wearers of raincoats-in-December, who rehearse faithfully their Caulfield hyperbole ("It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed...
Four faculty members, Donald Fleming, professor of History, David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, and Eric Bentley, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, telegramed the Council yesterday afternoon requesting a meeting "to consider the best way in which to carry forward discussion." They emphasized that they are not spokesmen for the 70 professors who signed the statement, and said that they have not yet studied the best way of conducting the debate...
Among the statement's early signers were Professors Eric Bentley, Reuben A. , Albert J. Guerard, H. Stuart Hughes, and David Riesman...