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...direct throwback to the social values of black Atlanta." In cities like Atlanta and Washington, where there is a sizable black middle class, color did, and to an extent continues to function as a criterion for acceptance into the upper realms of what E. Franklin Frazier, the black sociologist, termed "the society without substance." Cast after the mold of the white power and Puritan classes, the mores and attitudes of the middle class of the black South are "the direct result of national white attitudes toward black people. Because those attitudes were (and continue to be) so pronouncedly racist...
Bearing a 14-lb. orange backpack and wearing an orange windbreaker, Mrs. Bruyn trudged along lightly traveled roads, stopping each night at the homes of prearranged hosts. While her husband, a sociologist at Boston College, stayed home to keep house and be with their children, Mrs. Bruyn quietly explained her feelings about the war to friendly truckers, construction workers and schoolchildren along the way. "The vast majority of the people were with me," she reported. "I was called a traitor only three times...
...hero. Many others sought refuge in the oversimple conclusion that Calley was merely a scapegoat. Some echoed the argument of Calley's chief defense counsel, George Latimer, that the Army sent Calley to Viet Nam to kill and should not punish him for doing precisely that. Says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer: "Who is at fault? The people who gave the orders or the people who fought? This question will dominate American politics for the next ten years...
...ensued after Kennedy's death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet Nam War. Some Americans are skeptical; Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thinks that it would not reduce national tensions simply because "there are no neutral people left in the country." Still, Americans must find some means of confronting what they have done to themselves in Viet Nam and what they will continue to do to themselves until...
...that it does not represent a genuine technical advance. Much of the know-how necessary to build a Mach 3 aircraft-in titanium metallurgy and engine intake design, for example-was already in hand from development of the X-15, the SR-71 and the B-70. Says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell: "The technology argument made no sense to anybody who followed it seriously...