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With all due respect to Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, may I take the liberty of amending his quote to "nothing disastrous appears lobe happening." Changes are happening at the blink of an eyelash, too quickly for the human mind to perceive...
...Seymour Martin Lipset, a sociology professor at Stanford University and Everett C. Ladd, researcher at the University of Connecticut's Social Data Center, conducted the survey...
Such idyllic images of childhood, however, were not limited to portraits commissioned by the wealthy. Charming street urchins and the newly freed blacks were the subjects of other romanticized portraits, such as Seymour Guy's Little Sweeper (circa 1887) and Winslow Homer's A Sunflower for Teacher (1875). Later the stark, sepia-toned photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine documented much harsher childhoods on the streets of New York and in the mills of Georgia...
Some political scientists were troubled that most of Carter's successes were in foreign affairs. Observed Seymour Martin Lipset of the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif: "Carter is in the same boat as Nixon, looking good abroad while facing a sea of domestic troubles." But the President did salvage some gains: a truncated energy bill despite the Administration's confused and uncertain performance of a year earlier, Civil Service reform and a veto of wasteful water projects...
...even visible. Maybe the little energy left over from the '60s got mostly spent, in secret, on assimilating and liquidating the traumas and griefs of that overlong epoch. If so, then perhaps the most memorable thing about the '70s has been simply that, as Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observed, "nothing disastrous is happening." Such a historical pause may not at the moment seem worth remembering - but it will as soon as disaster drops among us again...