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...buried under the badges and guns of policemen who have resigned in frustration. Those who stick with the job share a distaste for "enlightened" methods forced upon them by the Police Department elite policy makers. Indeed, a policy must evolve that confronts the cops' beefs and provides for the sociologist's ideas...
...demands not just parlor protest but physical inconvenience as expressed in the sit-in, the demonstration, the march. They speak for the beleaguered individual in an impersonal society-whether Negro sharecropper, white welfare recipient, or campus dropout. Above all, they speak, or shout, against the Viet Nam war. Says Sociologist Daniel Bell: "At best, the New Left is all heart. At worst, it is no mind." They changed the temper, the tone and to some extent the terms of political debate. The question is what function or future they have beyond that...
...sure that any future effort to suppress Praxis will bring international embarrassment to Tito, the editors hit upon the strategy of listing on their masthead the flock of Westerners and Marxists from other Eastern European countries who serve on its advisory board. Among those on the new masthead: Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, who said that he allowed his name to be used because he admires the magazine's work and its courage in putting non-Communists on its board...
...some future sociologist were to analyze the character of New York City solely on the basis of certain of its novels, he might conclude that the bulk of the population was Jewish, lived in broken-down Brooklyn brownstones and consisted largely of boys, half extremely Orthodox, the other half rebellions. The fathers of these boys, he would discover, were physically infirm but wise and gentle. Of women there were few: a strong, sad-eyed mother or two kneading kreplech day and night, and an occasional gentile girl with dirty underwear. Inevitably, rebellious and Orthodox boys alike resolved their socio-theological...
Many of McLuhan's ideas are surely wrong. He admits frequently that even he doesn't believe all of the things he says. But his approach is legitimate. McLuhan is no pop sociologist using stolen theories and distorted facts to grind out best-sellers. He is no charlatan...