Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Pentagon to any outright lawbreaking. As a result, an entire issue of the Mob's newspaper, the Mobilizer News, was rewritten and a tub-thumping editorial replaced by a quieter explanation of the march's purpose, written by Co-Chairman Sidney M. Peck, a Cleveland sociologist. Dellinger reversed his ground and urged avoidance of blatant lawbreaking, but at the same time was careful to disown in advance any responsibility for the more vigorous forms of protest. Thus a befuzzed line was drawn between "dissent" and "resistance" in the complex vocabulary of the American peace movement...
Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias, 68, is a man of many talents. As a diplomat, he is his country's ambassador to France. As a Sorbonne-educated sociologist and lawyer, he has lectured as far afield as Italy's University of Rome and Britain's King's College at Cambridge. As a writer, he has turned out seven novels, ranging from biting political satires to surrealistic folklore, and been translated into 36 languages. Last year his leftist writings and political novels won him the $28,000 Lenin Peace Prize for exposing "American intervention against...
...prestige of endowed chairs, normally named for the donor or someone he wishes to honor, often helps a university land top scholars. The glitter of endowment helped hold Sociologist David Riesman at Harvard as the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences...
...finest in the U.S. More than 40,000 lawyers have studied there, including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Yale President Kingman Brewster and Sociologist David Riesman. The quality is matched by quantity. Harvard Law has prepared fully one-fourth of all U.S. law professors, and its 21,000 living graduates constitute one-sixth of the lawyers in the country...
Along with other law schools, Harvard has been paying more attention to honing the writing skills of its students. The first full-time sociologist and economist have been added to the faculty. Former Defense Department Whiz Kid Adam Yarmolinsky is developing a program of urban studies. The Griz is proudest of the increased action in international legal studies, in which Harvard is pioneering. Milton Katz, who ran the Marshall Plan in Europe, heads the program, which now offers 24 courses (compared with...