Word: seymour
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...Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Warren Center in American History; Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government; James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellowships; Martin H. Peretz, Master of South House; Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government; David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; and Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...cramped, seedy office that the Hearst Newspapers maintain for their London correspondent, Seymour Freidin sits among some of the mementos of a long and prolific career. There is a citation from the Overseas Press Club for distinguished foreign reporting. There is an autographed picture of his friend, Senator Henry Jackson. To his credit are four books, dozens of magazine articles, countless newspaper stories and columns going back to World War II. None of these, however, earned Freidin the attention he has received since Jack Anderson recently named him as an agent paid by the Republicans to spy on Democratic presidential...
When the war of the generations was at its most virulent, apocalyptic commentators thought that it might go on forever or end in victory for one side or the other. Perhaps America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated that American social obsessions-from Know Nothingism to McCarthyism -have a life cycle of four to five years. After that they quickly fade. The generational battle was true to the norm...
...issue of Change magazine, Riesman described a contagious "cynicism and loss of faith" that makes the future of Harvard and other institutions like it "impossible to predict." The article is adapted from Two Essays on Harvard: Politics and Education in Harvard College, which Riesman plans to coauthor with Seymour M. Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
Just how far the weed has come with the middle class since the first furtive puffs in college dormitories in the 1960s was evident at the A.B.A. convention. A year ago, Whitney North Seymour Sr., past president of the A.B.A., helped water down a decriminalization motion. This year Seymour was the first speaker in favor of the revised resolution. Says he: "Reflecting on the consequences of criminal penalties to the 20-odd million young people using marijuana, I decided that we ought to concentrate on trying to stop sales and start removing penalties for possession." Seymour was joined...