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Some of the yordim reply that they have left for one reason only: greater opportunity. They believe Israel cannot offer the scope, either financially or intellectually, that the émigrés are seeking. Says Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a former Israeli who came to the U.S. in 1958: "In Israel, you deal with Israel. In the U.S., you deal with the U.S., the world-and Israel." Cardiologist Yzhar Charuzi says that his career would have been stunted if he had remained in Israel. "Here I have my opportunities," says Charuzi, now head of the coronary-care unit...
...sociologist's delight, now giving way to careless love with the arrival of George Reinholt and Jacquie Courtney...
...released repressed anxiety-real toads come out to play in imaginary gardens. A modern German theologian, Rudolf Otto, was convinced that the goose flesh people feel at horror movies was the symptom of primitive religious experience. But a close look at the history of the fear trip-as Pop-Sociologist Les Daniels demonstrates in this witty catalogue of Who's Who in Horror-suggests more immediate historical reasons...
Reaction to the ending of open admissions was furious. Students staged protests and announced plans to file suit against the board of higher education. A CUNY sociologist released a report showing that most of those barred under the new standards would be minority students. Author Kazin, a professor at CUNY'S Hunter College, suggested that more than money was involved in the move to end open admissions. "There is an illiberal strain in the country," he said. "It is a revolt against the masses in New York, against the idea that so many people are allowed...
...another CUNY graduate, Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, seemed to put the ruling into better perspective: "It seems a highly reasonable notion that a college freshman be able to read and write at the eighth-grade level...