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...main interest is in the human prospect of survival," says Riesman. "Anything that feeds the mindless rhetoric of anti-Soviet activism is detrimental...
...David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, believes Commencement has become too political...
...good address should be reflective, invitational to thought," says Riesman. He considers Solzhenitsyn's speech an abuse of Harvard's influence and institutional neutrality...
...Riesman also criticizes the University's decision in 1983 to invite Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity Union. Although Wales a was prevented from attending (Latin author Carlos Fuentes spoke instead), a text of his remarks was distributed to the Commencement audience. The selection of Walesa and its aftermath was an extravagantly political and "inappropriate" gesture, Riesman says...
...assessing the perpetual thinking machine that goes by the name of Mortimer Adler, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says, "There is something marvelously relentless about him." Both the marvel and the relentlessness shine through in Adler's newly published Ten Philosophical Mistakes (Macmillan; $12.95), which takes to task a Who's Who of the major philosophers since Thomas Aquinas. In the process, the book tells the rest of the world not only what to think but also why it should follow the latest gospel according to Mortimer...