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...author takes his argument where others, such as David Riesman '31, Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, left off in the 1950s. Maccoby's Gamesman is a further evolution of Riesman's corporate man, a tough, manipulative manager of people and industrial systems rather than an entrepreneur with marketable skills. What makes the Gamesman different, though, is what makes him want to do all that manipulating in the first place--not money, not power, but instead the glory and satisfaction that come from being a winner. The modern businessman, it seems, is driven not by a work ethic...
...expanding and the number earning $5,500 to $10,000 is shrinking, almost a third of all black families are still below the poverty line, defined as $5,500 for an urban family of four (only 8.9% of white families are below the line). Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "The awareness that many blacks have been successful means that the underclass is more resentful and more defiant because its alibi isn't there...
...more evident promise of further promotion?or not hire at all. The minimum wage, says Sociologist Riesman, is the product of "an alliance of the better situated labor unions with the liberals against the deprived and the elderly, whom people would otherwise employ for household or for city work that now doesn't get done." Adds Stanford University Labor Economist Thomas Sowell, a black: "Talk about people being unemployable is just so much rubbish. Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at another." Perhaps not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be some...
...many Harvard observers say the odds are that the reforms currently under consideration will not have the widespread impact of the original Gen Ed proposals. David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, said last week he believes only a few schools--the highly selective one and those with small, cohesive student bodies--could even consider the idea of a core curriculum seriously. Other less well-endowed schools must worry about market forces: they could lose students if they institute too many requirements...
Anne L. Armstrong, LL.D, former Ambassador to Great Britain. Robert Redford, L.H.D., actor. Owner of a solar-powered home in Utah, you come to this campus for recognition as a powerful spokesman for environmental protection. David Riesman, Litt.D., educator and social scientist...