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Indeed, though, she is known for occasional fits of moodiness. Lord commands the respect and affection of many of Harvard's finest minds. "To the people who work for her and with her, her vitality, generosity, and warmth in this cool culture are all the more welcome." David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, says. Relaxing in the Faculty Club dining room, she must interrupt herself regularly to greet friends, and one scholar unabashedly gives her a big hug and kiss. "She knows the place, gets around a lot, and reports the news very straight every time." President...
...sociologist as moralist peaked in the late '40s and '50s. Americans who had endured the pangs of the Depression and wartime rationing enjoyed an unprecedented feast of goods and services. Focusing on the problems of affluence more than on its benefits, Scholars David Riesman, Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer published The Lonely Crowd. More lightly credentialed observers got into the act. Books such as The Organization Man, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Status Seekers became bestsellers to a "we" generation confused about keeping up with the Joneses...
Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "Those schools reflect a backlash against rampant peer domination in junior high and high schools in the country as a whole." Parents of students who have transferred out of public high schools complain that their children were made fun of for wanting to study and for refusing to dance or take drugs. As Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, former editor of Christianity Today, puts it: "A reasonable case is no longer made' in the public schools for moral absolutes...
...David Riesman, '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Emeritus and president of the Harvard Phi Beta Kapa chapter, also presented the society's first teaching awards to Deborah Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor in Mathematics, and Leonard K. Nash, professor of Chemistry...
...awards' presentation, David Riesman '31 will read short citations on each winner, composed of quotations about Nash and Hughes Hallett from students' letters of recommendation and from the CUE Guide to Courses, Gullette said...