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...believe that vision of sociology to be wrong and I can only hope that it does not become so narrowly exclusive that it entirely drives out the tradition represented at Harvard by people such as David Riesman and Daniel Bell, "Starr said. "I felt I was working with in this tradition at Harvard...
Boston residents have their own theories on why Bean Town jumped from 18th to second place. Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) thinks that media exposure helped. Doug Flutie, the former Boston College quarterback, he notes, "is quick, brainy and made it on countless telecasts." John Updike, who lives in the exclusive suburb of Beverly Farms, cites the economic factor. "When I came to Harvard in the '50s, Boston was fairly grubby," says the novelist. "Now if you have the money, it's a nice place to live...
...sociologist David Riesman '31, a longtime observer of higher education, posits: "In order to understand the trajectory of Derek Bok, you must understand that he is trained as a lawyer. He came from an institution that is least like the arts and sciences. Law School is a pragmatic place, concerned with detail, procedure, and proof...
...Riesman also stressed that the nation's colleges and universities are too heterogenous a group to adopt the panel's broad recommendations...
...these recommendations have the problem of overgenerality," Riesman said. "There are no snap solutions. The problem seems so enormous...