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...Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell, a FORTUNE editor for ten years, opened the discussion with an analysis of America's recent failures, including aspects of the Great Society, Viet Nam and Watergate. Social Scientist David Riesman talked about higher education; Radcliffe President Matina Horner discussed the outlook for women; Bernard Frieden, director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the scarcity of housing. The other seminar participants: Law Professor Paul Freund, Harvard Business School Dean Lawrence Fouraker, Historian Bernard Bailyn, Sociologist Gene Sharp, John F. Kennedy Library Director Dan Fenn Jr., Head of Harvard Russian Research Center Adam...
There indeed seem to be. The Rev. Andrew Greeley is, among other people, a Roman Catholic priest, a sociologist, a theologian, a weekly columnist (50 U.S. Catholic newspapers), the author of 40-odd books and, of late, a celibate sex expert. He is an informational machine gun who can fire off an article on Jesus to the New York Times Magazine, on ethnic groups to the Antioch Review, and on war to Dissent. This year he will write his first novel-about Chicago's Irish. "He's obsessive, compulsive, a workaholic," says Psychologist-Priest Eugene Kennedy, a close...
...Greeley has solid credentials as a scholar. Program director of the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago, he has written numerous books and articles based on its surveys. Perhaps his best sociological work is a 1966 study called The Education of Catholic Americans, co-authored by Sociologist Peter H. Rossi, which compares the effects of religious v. public schooling on students' future lives as Catholics...
Money Talks. Aside from any strain on honesty, the energy crisis promises to produce dramatic and lasting changes in American habits of thinking and acting. Columbia Sociologist Amitai Etzioni believes that a prolonged shortage will produce a decline in egalitarianism and the reassertion of privilege in America. "Money will make the difference in the future," he says. "Only people with money will be able to travel and buy Cadillacs. The poor part of society will end up paying a disproportionate share." Boston University Sociologist S.M. Miller asserts that the rationing of commodities like gas and oil will bring a rationing...
...pursuit of its concept of normalcy, the military herded 7,000 suspects into Santiago's soccer stadium for lack of a better mass prison elsewhere. Among the prisoners were several Americans, including Adam Garrett-Schesch, 31, a University of Wisconsin history researcher, and his wife Patricia, 30, a sociologist. Released and allowed to leave Chile, the couple contended that between 400 and 500 captives had been shot during the time they were held in the stadium...