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...story is Camille's, a chronicle of her ascendancy. She becomes a singer, or more accurately a star. Truffaut, who co-wrote the screenplay from Henry Farrell's novel, stresses her lack of morality. She kills and seduces with equal emotionlessness, even as she verbally seduces the naive sociologist. His complete trust, which becomes a more telling kind of hypnotism, is rewarded by betrayal. The act is in part a reemphasis of the insidiousness of her charm, for in framing Stanislas for a murder she committed (her fourth, with attempts at five and six also during the film), she uses...
...lessened value of a degree on the job market, as well as the end of the draft, largely accounts for this declining enrollment. But there is another factor. Emory Sociologist Abbott L. Ferriss points also to the large and growing number of "dropouts, not just from school but from society-a hang-loose generation." There are now about 200,000 young men who are not in school but are not working. "Pinning down exactly what these young people are doing is very difficult," says Ferriss. "But the current suggestions are that they won't pick up college later...
...immediate issue is whether Sociologist Robert N. Bellah, 46, a professor at Berkeley, is worthy of being named to the institute's permanent faculty. Sociologists Talcott Parsons and David Riesman of Harvard, where Bellah once taught, consider him an "extraordinary" scholar in his field, the sociology of religion. Now, however, he is caught in a contest between the "hard" scientists in mathematics at the institute and the "softer" social scientists. The real issue is only partly his credentials as a scholar: the larger question is who will chart the institute's future...
Symbols. For a "hard" scientist, Bellah's work made an easy target. He does not rely on mathematical models or statistical samples. He is a comparative and historical sociologist who "makes sense of other people's data." His interest in religion, in fact, may be one reason he is held in low esteem by some scientists. As Institute Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual...
Rough. Although Delancey Street's orientation toward the future sets it apart from Synanon, the new organization is carrying on one old Synanon tradition: subjecting members to rituals of a kind that Sociologist Erving Goffman calls "degradation ceremonies." New male residents are required to shave their heads; women are compelled to go without makeup for as long as six months. All residents must take part in "the circus," Delancey Street's version of the Synanon "game." Under the leadership of a "ringmaster," members indulge in three-hour bouts of name-calling and mutual criticism. Admits Family Member George...