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...land America." In a very real way, the land America prefers Humphrey Bogart and James Bond. Bogart demonstrates the belief that a man can be tough but tender, ugly but sexy. The Bond syndrome suggests a yearning for the old-fashioned action hero, free from conventional fetters. Says Sociologist Marshall Fishwick of the University of Delaware: "The playboy is a cowboy who has just discovered woman...
Impatience with job-hunting journalism school graduates comes naturally to many a case-hardened newspaper editor. The suggestion that seasoned journalists go back to school stirs up quite another response. At a time when city hall speaks in the lingo of the sociologist and Madison Avenue admen talk like practicing economists, reporters, too, must learn the skills of the specialist. Most newspapers now welcome the chance to give newsmen classroom time in which they can polish their working knowledge of the professions on which they report. And the opportunities for such off-the-job training are increasing rapidly...
...senior faculty level, two new chairs have been endowed. Enrique Anderson-Imbert has been named Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic American Literature. The Monroe Gutman Professorship in Latin American Studies has been given to the Argentine sociologist, Gino Germani. Three permanent posts have been filled by noted scholars with an interest in Latin America. Professors Hirschman, Pary, and Maybury-Lewis have been appointed in Economics, History and Anthropology respectively...
...Harvard political sociologist will spend eight months in Vietnam working with Vietcong defectors in as effort to improve the "Open Ar me Program"--the official attempt to bring more of the Vietcong over to the government...
...Catholic to the presidency-could have torn or distorted the fabric of less firmly based societies. In the U.S. they were possible without major upheavals precisely because the underlying tradition of freedom under law and of responsible citizenship is so strong. Despite the disappearance of so many familiar landmarks, Sociologist David Riesman sees "incredible durability and tenacity" and suggests that tradition is strongest when it is least self-conscious or ideological: "If you're in it, you're not self-conscious...