Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: Sociologist and Henry Ford Professor David Riesman will dissect character and social structure in America in his course Social Sciences 136. Better get to Sanders early; the class is limited to 200 applying members
...book is much more than an indictment of the Communist system. It is, just as much, an indictment of world-savers and social engineers, the true believer and the legislator of morality; an indictment as much of any political system which seeks to reform the world from the top or bottom, and ignores the basic ingredient and the basic problem...
...antagonist. (The figure of Hamlet dominates Zhivago's conception of himself, culminating in the most notable of his poems collected at the end of the book.) The collection of pygmies in the Soviet Writers Union, besides their fatuous forays against Zhivago's politics complained that the character lacked a social conscience, that the book itself was devoid of a social meaning. And, in a way, it is legitimate criticism. When a protagonist of great stature fails to come to terms with reality, it is seldom a social novel; but it is often great tragedy, and such is Pasternak's book...
...football team caused some hopes to rise with a win over Lehigh, and then followed that with a triumph over hapless Columbia. The U.S. failed in 7David Riesman came to Harvard as first Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Riesman is now selecting a heterogeneous elite for his course on American character...
...much good-barroom O'Neill at best, liberally sprinkled with intellectual sawdust ("I don't want to think; I want to drink"). The wages of sin are paid in dreary installments, but the writer is careful to make the sentimental deductions that most producers consider necessary for social security. The heroine follows the primrose path all the way, and finds that it leads to the altar...