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...apparent delight of the alumni and their wives who had returned for their 25th reunion, noted sociologist David Riesman, described the results of a series of interviews conducted by Time magazine last year with 180 college seniors from the Class of 1955, ten of whom were from Harvard...
...basis of these interviews which Riesman himself called "fragmentary," he said the present graduate does not foresee much struggle in life, and is more apt to "plan" his life well in advance, even before he completes school...
...attack U.S. culture are really saying: 'Why aren't we more like Western Europe?'' Quite Irrelevant. In the 1950s, the American intellectual began to face one additional problem. If in public affairs the intellectuals seem to have so little effect today, says Social Scientist David Riesman, it is "rather more by their own feelings of inadequacy and failure than by direct intimidation." In the '303, the intellectual had a politico-social program to offer. But the "discontented classes" have risen, and though still discontent, their wants, says Riesman, "are much less easily formulated . . . They must...
...sections. For the last five years he has been NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor. More than once he left his editor's chair to write, e.g., "Struggle for Survival" (TIME, March 29, 1948), "The Story of an Experiment," in our 25th anniversary issue (TIME, March 8, 1948), and the David Riesman cover (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954) André Laguerre, 41, born in England the son of a French father and an English mother, became a baseball buff as a boy in San Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. His devotion to horse racing came later...
...Modesto's revelation is a modern snake oil cure a wild blend of How to Win Friends and influence People with what Riesman calls the "other-directed" personality. Bottled under the label Contralism, author Harrington's idea is not a now one, but it is a vivid satire on the life of the conformist and his descent into modiocrity...