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...David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said yesterday that an accelerating rise in college grades across the country may represent a threat to the meritocracy...
Coles' accomplishments are perhaps best summarized by Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman: "There is one important theme he has contributed: antistereotype. Policemen are not pigs, white Southerners are not rednecks, and blacks are not all suffering in exotic misery. What he is saying is 'People are more complicated, more varied, more interesting, have more resiliency and more survivability than you might think. I listen to them! You listen to them! Please listen! Again and again...
Walzer, who is on academic leave this year in California doing a study of war and war crimes, was nominated for the award by David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences...
...argument is indiscriminate-like a charge of buckshot. As Harvard Sociologist David Riesman observes: "Polemically, the term "is almost indefinitely extensible." It is also an elusive term with a sociological rather than a precise legal definition. Classically it refers to someone who is prosecuted or jailed-not for crimes in the ordinary sense of the word, but for harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy...
...Carnegie Commission-which includes President Pusey and David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Science-had proposed a shorter A. B. program for "more effective utilization" both of the time a person devotes to education and of the limited resources of financially hard-pressed schools...