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...David Riesman '31 will become the University's first Ford Professor a year from next fall. Riesman will have a free hand in determining what courses he will teach, with no departmental restriction other than his official classification as professor of Social Sciences...
...analyzed the modern spirit of conformity as a "retreat from controversiality," and satired its pervasive influence: "We are the organization man, we cannot create something better than that which was before ... I don't give a damn about my peer group and don't believe in satistical man or Riesman...
...magazines seldom propose drastic solutions that involve risk or hardship. Instead, they suggest that most problems can be solved by affection, tolerance, self-discipline-what Sociologist David Riesman calls the "newer, internal goals of happiness and peace of mind." Where their uptown sisters may lean on Norman Vincent Peale or Miltown, Wage-Town women have their magazines...
...perhaps the most interesting publication is The Pennsylvania Literary Review, an off-beat journal of frequent literary maturity. Editorially, the Review is refreshingly critical of the University ("We deplore the recent growth of bureaucracy and petty officialism..."), although it says little that has not been said better by David Riesman and The Saturday Review...
...Class of 1955 had a vision of life on a plateau," Riesman said, whereas the Class of 1931 was less optimistic about the future. For instance, men in '31 did not plan to marry young and have their wives support them in graduate school as the Class of 1955 did, he said...