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...imagine no fate more unpleasant than to be marooned on a desert island with (barring John Kenneth Galbraith) one of the pretentious hacks and quacks who voted for one another as intellectual elitists in the poll taken by Sociologist Charles Kadushin. What else might be expected when the criterion for determining intellect was publication in the New York Review of Bombast or the Prejudice Review...
Although there is evidence that older people are conservative by nature, Berkeley Sociologist Kingsley Davis points out that "some of the wildest political schemes ever known have been advocated by lobbies of the elderly and some of the most atavistic movements, such as the Nazi movement in Germany, were manned by dogmatic youth." Moreover, definitions of what is conservative change with the times. Social Security and Medicare, favorite issues of the elderly, were once considered radical notions. In Sweden, a low birth rate has raised the age level of the population without altering its essentially liberal outlook...
...Indeed, Sociologist Vern Bengtson of the University of Southern California's Andrus Gerontology Center foresees an "age backlash" in the coming decades, a period
...Roman Catholics. Among them are Dom Helder Comoro of Brazil (TIME, June 24), the activist, junta-baiting archbishop whose "cry is justice"; Jesuit Philosopher Bernard Lonergan of Canada, a "notoriously difficult thinker" whose work seeks to join theology and the social sciences; and Father Andrew Greeley, a Chicago sociologist whose insights have provided "a better understanding of today's religious crisis." Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng of West Germany's Tübingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical for his criticism of papal infallibility. Howard...
Four years ago, Columbia Sociologist Charles Kadushin and a fleet of researchers decided to find out. On the arbitrary and probably wrongheaded assumption that an intellectual is a generalist who writes literary or social criticism, Kadushin eliminated the hard scientists, theoretical physicists and mathematicians. He narrowed his field to 8,000 humanists and social scientists from leading schools who had contributed articles from 1964 to 1968 to the top 22 intellectual journals...