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Heuristic Is the Word. One of the updaters is the University of Chicago's David Riesman, a man with a wide-swinging imagination, a scientist's disciplined mind, and a burning curiosity about people as they are. Social Scientist Riesman believes U.S. society today to be very different from the picture of it that Americans carry in their heads. To make his point, Riesman presents to his students three primitive societies from Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture: 1) the Pueblo Indians are peaceable and cooperative, with little violent emotion; 2) the Dobu Islanders in the Pacific...
...Riesman believes in individualism as a goal; but he does not believe that the U.S. today is an individualist society in the 19th century sense...
Other University alumni on the Cultural Freedom executive committee are Robert G. Davis '29 and David Riesman...
Social Scientist David Riesman of the University of Chicago is no man to deny that there are enough irresponsible attacks upon U.S. colleges and universities to raise the hackles on any intellectual's neck. But in their loud protests, do the intellectuals always help their own cause? In a lecture at Mills College, Riesman answered no. In Riesman's opinion, intellectuals "tend to overestimate the monolithic power of reaction...
...This? All too often, says Riesman, "intellectuals take delight in telling each other atrocity stories about America. [But] the naming of evils, intended as a magical warding-off, can have the opposite effect. It is easy to imagine a group of academic people or civil servants sitting about in the hot summer of 1953 and swapping stories about who got fired from the Voice of America because he subscribed to the Nation, and how So-and-So was not rehired at Benton College because his wife' had once joined the League of Women Shoppers-each capping the other...