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During the panel discussion, when asked about his impressions of America, Robert Wei from Peking University said the “diversity in this society” represented the “harmony” in America...
...been Labor strongholds to the Tory enclaves of suburbia. Parliamentary districts were redrawn for last week's election to reflect that migration, and the Tories clearly gained. "Social changes are taking place which make the Conservatives the party of the future and Labor the party of the past," says Robert Waller, author of The Almanac of British Politics. "Labor has been reduced to the party of the minorities...
...market. "The students you talk to want to do well," says retired Harvard Sociologist David Riesman. "They want to do more than pass their courses, and they want more than a job. They want a career. Sex and drugs are distractions, things that are no longer new and exciting." Robert McGinley, of Buena Park, Calif, head of the North American Swing Club Association, believes the economy is probably the major factor in the recent decline of swinging, a euphemism for mate swapping and group sex. Attendance at swing parties, he says, dropped 15% to 30% in early 1983, and attendance...
Though some researchers say the sexual spree of the '20s was confined to big cities and campuses, the famous study, Middletown, by Robert and Helen Lynd, found otherwise. By the middle of the decade, their typical American town (Muncie, Ind.) was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. A team of sociologists, reassessing Middletown from 1976 to 1978, concluded: "The Middletown studied by the Lynds during the 1920s was in the throes of a sexual revolution as far-reaching as the one we have experienced during...
...power to prosecute hate crimes sounds like a good idea, unless you are (as I am) opposed to the whole enterprise of criminalizing people's thoughts. Others have made this argument at greater length (here's one example), but in reading about the King tragedy I was reminded of Robert Kolker's fascinating New York magazine piece last fall about the case of Anthony Fortunato, who was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison for his role in the death of Michael Sandy, a 29-year-old gay New Yorker. Fortunato and three friends lured Sandy from...