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They work so well because their creator never looks at them with the eyes of a sociologist or a folk singer. He remains, despite whitening hair and expanding waistline, despite a popularity that has sold 40 million books in 20 countries, that eager high school senior with the chipmunk grin who still contemplates the world as if he were seeing it for the first time. "My four daughters are grown up," he says, "and I'm a grandfather three times. But I'm still one of those oversize kids who say Gee whiz! I say it at least twice...
...overall, reports Joan McCord, a sociologist, "the impact on morale has been tremendous." McCord is conducting a five-year study of the effects of Drexel's computerization by measuring such intangibles as self-confidence and optimism about the future. Her samples show sharp increases for both students and faculty. "We're trying to be cool-headed about this," says Banu Onaral. "But in the hands of a professor who really believes, it seems the computer can do miracles...
...press. The Times recently took away a twice-a-week column by its Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter Sydney Schanberg, who wrote passionately against real estate speculators and presumably displeased the publisher. Schanberg subsequently resigned. The editorials in most papers these days discuss the issues with the evenhandedness of a sociologist and the fervor of an accountant. They aim to inform and perhaps to persuade but not to dictate. The only outrageously opinionated fellow left is the cartoonist, no longer confined to illustrating the boss's prejudices and free to tweak Reagan or ridicule Tip O'Neill. In the past presidential election...
...real culture," and were at best "indifferent to scholarship and the hard grind of study and research." He concluded his address on a discouraging and, it seems, prophetically accurate note, commenting that in our colleges we were witnessing "a growing mass of stupidity and ignorence." As is well known, sociologist E. Franklin Frazier also made this point repeatedly in his own work. Fifty-three years after DuBois' Howard University address, these elites' sense of vision continues to be in inverse proportion to their degree of inherited privilege...
However, in a restless quest for the truth, I decided to approach a sociologist, which is an academic term meaning "no fun at parties"--but none of this species was available for comment, with attribution, for this column...