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...Sigmund Diamond, professor of sociology and history at Columbia University, and Robert N. Bellah '48, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, both have charged publicly that they were victims of pressure and job discrimination while at Harvard during the early '50s. Both were then former members of the Communist Party. Since those allegations were made, several scholars have proposed that Harvard open its records to an independent researcher who could determine the true history of the University's actions during those years. Furthermore, several historians and sociologists of education have requested access to those files...
Newman has trouble with his nonsensical lyrics, as in "Sigmund Freud's Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America." This song could be very funny, but it's not. Again, the rhymes don't come off, they just seem silly...
...Idleness is the death of a living man," said the 17th century British prelate Jeremy Taylor. Work is an anodyne for the inevitability of death, says contemporary Sociologist Daniel Bell. For Sigmund Freud, work was a means of binding an individual to reality and his community...
...Harvard has been generally considered one of the few universities that refused to comply with the efforts of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to rout Communists from institutions of higher learning. But this summer, the New York Review of Books followed the charges by Columbia sociologist Sigmund Diamond that Harvard fired him because he was a communist--which the magazine printed this spring--with similar charges by University of California sociologist Robert N. Bellah...
...biologists, zoologists and social scientists?argue that without consideration of biology, the study of human culture makes no sense. Indeed, sociobiology has significant implications for most areas of human concern?from education to relations between the sexes. Says Harvard Physicist Gerald Holton: "It's a breathtaking ambition . . . as if Sigmund Freud had set out to subsume all of Darwin, Joyce, Einstein, Whitehead and Lenin." Robert Trivers, a Harvard biologist and leading sociobiology theorist, makes a bold prediction: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry and anthropology will all be branches of sociobiology...