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Died. Robert S. Lynd, 78, noted Columbia sociologist and coauthor, with his wife Helen, of Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classic profiles of a typical U.S. city; of heart disease; in Warren, Conn. Middletown was really Muncie, Ind., which the Lynds studied for years. Its citizens were not flattered to learn that by and large they regarded success as a matter of mere money, had no real sense of understanding for their poor, and hardly more for their own children...
...killing campaign in the U.S. and the murder of hostages in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala. Thus the urban guerrillas have revived the system of diplomatic ransom that flourished from the Dark Ages until the Renaissance, when kings and princes routinely used ambassadors as hostages. As Brandeis Sociologist Richard Sennett puts it: "The terrorism of today is the diplomacy of Henry the Eighth...
...often said to reflect the theories of Mao, Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap. To the extent that he sought to establish a rural, peasant base for revolution, that is true. His Bolivian papers, however, betray a pervasive Stalinist influence. Che sneered at the late Sociologist C. Wright Mills (The Marxists) for his "stupid anti-Stalinism," describing him as "a clear example of North American leftist intellectuals." He dismissed New Left Ideologue Herbert Marcuse because his concepts "are of little relevance in the national liberation struggle and nation-building as it had to be carried out under Stalin...
...stars of R.P.M. are Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret and Gary Lockwood, which says a good deal right there. Quinn plays an aging sociologist known as Paco, a campus liberal who charms the kids and flusters the board of trustees by riding around on a motor scooter and shacking up with Grad Student Ann-Margret. When radical students, led by Lockwood, take over one of the administration buildings, they demand a new college president. 'Their first choice is Che Guevara," reports the dean to the boggled trustees. "Oh they know he's dead," he adds. "Their second choice...
Miyoshi's story is one of thousands being collected by Minoru Yuzaki, a sociologist and research fellow at the University of Hiroshima's Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. His mission: find out how many people perished. A quarter-century after the event (see ESSAY), no one yet knows how many Japanese died at Hiroshima. Estimates range from a low of 68,000 (by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) to a high of 280,000 (by Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima's most influential daily newspaper...