Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sociologist calls them "the Freudian proletariat." Another observer sees them as "expatriates living on our shores but beyond our society." Historian Arnold Toynbee describes them as "a red warning light for the American way of life." For California's Bishop James Pike, they evoke the early Christians: "There is something about the temper and quality of these people, a gentleness, a quietness, an interest-something good." To their deeply worried parents throughout the country, they seem more like dangerously deluded dropouts, candidates for a very sound spanking and a cram course in civics-if only they would return home...
...change the feeling of clerics who regard celibacy as a burden that is heavy without being sweet. Within the past three years, no fewer than 4,000 priests have asked Rome to release them from their vows in order to marry. A poll conducted last year by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter indicated that 62% of U.S. priests favored a relaxation in the ban against marriage...
...century art. Harvard, which has set aside one day of its reunions for intellectual activity for ten years now, is offering grads two "university symposia"-one on Asia and the U.S. future moderated by former Presidential Assistant Adam Yarmolinsky, another on student careers, at which one lecturer will be Sociologist David Riesman. At nearby M.I.T., the alumni reunion features management seminars on industrial relations, corporate financial policies and market planning. The Amherst reunion is now, in effect, a five-day miniature academic semester with old grads being offered courses in humanities, biology and public affairs...
David Riesman, D.H., Harvard sociologist. You observed the lonely crowd with honesty and compassion...
Whatever the conditions when they return, Negro veterans, says Senator Brooke, "will be better able to make a better life for themselves." They will have acquired sophistication and skills along with their expectations. University of Chicago Sociologist Morris Janowitz, one of the few scholars who have given intensive thought to the re-entry problem, believes: "The experience of the military will integrate them into the larger society. They will be more likely to enter the mainstream of political American life." Military service, after all, makes a man wilier, not angrier, and the Negro vet will probably be more attracted...