Word: sociologist
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Whereas the South once accepted public lynchings as a community sport, the white racists who still kill Negroes are now increasingly prosecuted and punished. In three decades, the U.S. incidence of murder and robbery has decreased relative to the population by 30%. Says Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, president of the American Society of Criminology: "Contrary to the rise in public fear, crimes of violence are not significantly increasing...
...revealed in any synopsis," the following synopsis will find it necessary to reveal the shocking conclusion: Three American astronauts zip through space and crashland on a planet where men are mute animals and apes are civilized. The one survivor (Charlton Heston), makes his own intelligence known to a female sociologist and her fiance (Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell), who provoke a veritable Scopes trial in reverse, at the end of which Dr. Zaius (Maurice Evans) resolves to castrate Heston and reduce him otherwise to a vegetable. His ape sponsors, however, rescue him, and together they journey to a cave where...
...exam ple of a cascading cry within academe that big universities have lost their critical function, become captives of Government, business and military research. The dissidents are especially concerned that values inherent in the humanities are not being applied to real-life problems. A university, argues University of Chicago Sociologist Richard Flacks, one of the conference organizers, must not be "just a service station for the establishment, but a place where people can work for the dispossessed, the poor, and those out of power...
Ford, who is also professor of History and a member of the Faculty of Public Administration, will continue as Dean. Brinton, a well-known historian and sociologist, will retire this summer...
...shank of the 1944 Christmas season, three Negroes walked into one of Brooklyn's "better" restaurants. They were Horace Cayton, sociologist and grandson of Hiram R. Revels, the U.S.'s first Negro Senator; Elmer Carter, a Harvard-educated writer, and social scientist; and Novelist Richard Wright, already famous as author of Uncle Tom's Children (1938) and Native...