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...Paolo Carozza) being carried off the stage. The focus changes quickly. We are plunged into the tribunal hearings to determine the facts of the deaths. The inquiry lasts throughout the play, but the proceedings are punctuated by flashbacks and seemingly irrelevant commentary by unrelated characters such as an American sociologist, newspapermen, and visitors to a bar. This technique, the appearance of outside characters, usually succeeds in providing external perspectives on the tragedy, but the patchwork of a plot often slacks off as characters go off onto unnecessary tangents...
...there was damage that went beyond John's term. Wills discusses the implications of Kennedy's "charismatic" leadership, borrowing the term from German sociologist Max Weber. It is leadership grounded in a faith in a person, rather than in traditional and legal authorities. The charismatic leader has little regard for formal institutions and structures, by-passing them in order to assume the reins of power himself. Not only were the consequences of this style of rule disastrous in the Bay of Pigs crisis--Kennedy deprived himself of the military oversight of the plan which would have pointed up its flaws...
That is a normal reaction, according to U.C.L.A. Sociologist Ralph H. Turner, who spent two years studying the concerns of Southern Californians. Says he: "We don't worry about threats or risks unless they are highly probable and imminent. When we are confronted with threats about which we can do nothing, we react by denial. It keeps our sanity...
Those egos will have to shrink, along with authors' incomes, as paperback houses become a greater force in publishing. More and more often now, they depend on generic categories-romances (25% to 30% of all fiction sold), mysteries, historical sagas and scifi. According to Sociologist Walter Powell, co-author of Books, the Culture and Commerce of Publishing: "Fiction may no longer be part of the mass market. It looks very dismal for people who want to make a living writing novels...
...Frith suffers from the essential difficulty of rock criticism: balancing passion for the music against taking it too seriously. the promotion and rise of the besides was certainly prime fodder for a sociologist eager to understand the 60's. Frith is quite right in saying"... the world-wide impact of the Beatles can now be seen to have been an extraordinary and unrepeatable business event." But the Beatles would never have been bigger than Jesus if they had not made people dance--and that had nothing to do with the politics or sociology of rock and roll...