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...When the rule hits, people who don't have the hearts, or fear the litigation, won't be able to say to someone 'You really should go,'" says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. "I don't think it is going to be a huge problem, but in the places where it is a problem, it will be an extremely difficult one. It's not going to be universal, but it's going to be serious in a few places which you can't predict...
...Parsons acted from what he regarded as the most ideal and imperative motives of national duty," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus David Riesman '31, a colleague of Parsons. While he said he was not aware of the accusations against Parsons, he added that the reported actions did not surprise him in light of the sociologist's staunch anti-communism...
...work, Riesman said, Parsons was a "man of action," heavily involved in American politics...
...Faculty recruitment is the key to the quality and relative permanence--in an impermanent world--of many colleges and universities," says Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31, who has served on several universities' search committees. "That implies a president who is intelligent, learned, able to engage in discussions of which fields should be emphasized...
...says, is producing no young crop of heirs to the great public writer-thinkers like H.L. Mencken and Thorstein Veblen, whose works set directions and standards 60 and 70 years ago. Nor, he notes, have successors emerged for the current senior generation of broad-gauge university scholars like David Riesman, John Kenneth Galbraith and Daniel Bell, with their insights on society and the economy...