Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college which supposedly breeds clear thinking is actually helping the student to find words and experience in which to clothe his middle class attitudes, then perhaps we would do well to regard the impact of the colleges as less intellectual than social. We therefore turn to the third raison d' etre of higher education...
...general. He fits in any of a million executive, technical, or professional slots for which a college degree is pre-requisite. The leader trained in the college is not just a decision maker; he is anyone who sits on top of a prestige pyramid as reward for taking intellectual, social, or economic responsibility...
...History, as well as life history, is necessary for the study of national culture," David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, told an overflow crowd at New Lecture Hall yesterday...
...principle that "a guy has a right to choose the guys he wants to juice with, by Christ." Sometimes, however, there are people who don't, for various reasons, make the grade. Last year these unfortunates went to Prospect Club, a cooperative eating society of relatively minor social status. This year, even Prospect has decided to be more exclusive. It will take anybody, but it won't take them at the last minute, as it did previously...
...Lonely Crowd, Riesman said, falls into the romantic category, placing its emphasis on specific social strata in this country. The book takes the U.S. as the chief exemplar of post-industrial society and seeks to assess the meaning of this situation for individuals and for institutions...