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...verdict on the self as well as on the other I suggests that there is nothing in the environment which might evoke one's intense attention, including the terms that consumerism can sometimes take among those who are apt to be its critics in the society at large. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Prof. of Social Sciences
...belongs to the second class of healers. His concern in The Natural Mind is drugs and their relationship to the human consciousness. Weil has grown up with the drug scene; he began when Leary and Alpent did, experimenting with mescaline as a freshman in Claverly. He wrote papers for Riesman on drugs in American society and went on to Harvard Medical School. As an intern Weil treated the "victims" of the Haight in San Francisco. In 1968 he conducted the first thorough, objective study of marijuana in this country since 1946; the results, though they now seem old hat, caught...
...Riesman, the whole question is simply an illustration of how Mc-Govern comes across to the voters...
...Republic, Jencks has spent his career as an activist scholar. At Washington's Institute for Policy Studies in 1965, he helped devise what in watered-down form became the Teacher Corps, which recruits and trains teachers for slum schools. Soon afterward, he collaborated with Sociologist David Riesman on The Academic Revolution, which accused research-oriented American universities of smothering diversity in education. Out of one chapter of that book grew the questions that led to Inequality. While writing Inequality, Jencks also found time to develop for the Office of Economic Opportunity the controversial voucher system of school financing, which...
Jencks is an old hand at educational studies, surveys, and reformist ideas. As an undergraduate at Harvard he majored in English and wrote articles on higher education for the Crimson. His interest in educational reform led him to enter the Graduate School of Education, where he met David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, who was just coming to Harvard. Riesman took an immediate liking to Jencks, and the two began to collaborate on a book "The Academic Revolution." Work on the book was interrupted, however, when Jencks won a Knox fellowship that allowed him to spend...