Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suburbia is a particular kind of American phenomenon, and its roots lie in a particular kind of American heritage. In a casual, ill-planned way it is the meeting ground between the growing, thriving city and the authentic U.S. legend of smalltown life. Says Sociologist Alvin Scaff, who lives in Los Angeles' suburban Claremont: "If you live in the city, you may be a good citizen and interest yourself in a school-board election, but it is seldom meaningful in human terms. In a suburb, the chances are you know the man who is running for the school board...
Entering into retirement after almost 30 years at Columbia University, Sociologist Robert Staughton Lynd, 67, received flowers from students, expressed surprise that so many were present at his last class session. Said Lynd, who with his wife Helen in 1929 published Middletown, a classic sociological case study of U.S. community life: "I hadn't expected there would be any last class as such, but I find that there is. I had expected that I would walk out of Fayerweather Hall, down the steps, out the engine room as I always had, and on to Amsterdam Avenue and take...
...Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Danquah, a lawyer trained at London's Inner Temple and a sociologist with several books to his credit, brought Kwame Nkrumah back to Ghana to become organizing secretary of the nationalist movement. Nkrumah promptly displaced Danquah as the nationalist leader and, over the years, has nearly decimated the United Party, whose seats in Parliament have dwindled from 32 to 13 through the imprisonment of some legislators and the expedient switch in allegiance of others...
They have published more than 180 books, from The Cellular Slime Molds to The American Business Creed, and their interests are as diverse as their origins (from Lone Elm, Kans. to Berlin). They include Younger Poets Donald Hall and John Hollander, Sociologist William Foote Whyte (Street Corner Society), and World Federalist Founder Cord Meyer Jr. The two Pulitzer prizewinners: Poet Richard Wilbur (Poems, 1943-56) and Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (The Age of Jackson...
...novelists write more successfully about bad boys than do sociologists or judges, it is because fiction need not analyze or propose solutions. The late Joyce Gary was no sociologist, no judge; he was a superb storyteller, and his portrait of misbehaving youngsters in this 1940 novel (published in the U.S. for the first time) is both sympathetic and accurate. If it lacks the weight and ironic wisdom of some of his later work (The Horse's Mouth, Herself Surprised), it nevertheless shows the famous Gary virtues: a clear and economical style, a sharp wit, and a joy in human...