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...against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent him off on a ramshackle freight train that wandered erratically for 33 days across six countries before setting...
...Dijk, a sociologist as a member of parliament from Netherlands, described the rapid of central government over last century in Europe. The people from the villages to industrial cities has created a security in the lives of said...
...much a part of the American scene that a family with two cars in the garage, a kidney-shaped swimming pool, three TV sets, a $1,000 stereophonic unit, and a vacation cottage in the mountains may not notice that anything is missing. As long ago as 1922, Sociologist Paul W. Brown wrote: "Of all the new things given to the world by the U.S., the well-to-do servantless house holds perhaps the biggest significance...
Gino Germani, an Italian Sociologist and a student of modern Argentina; Enrique Anderson-Imbert, an Argentine literary critic; John H. Parry, a British historian of Spanish settlement in America; and Albert O. Hirschman, an economist specializing in Latin American development, will begin teaching here next year...
...last group was a startling 37%. Moreover, the Jewish birth rate has remained stable in the last 40 years, while the rest of the nation's has been generally rising. The optimistic view of intermarriage is that it is bringing valuable new blood to Judaism. Besides, Sociologist Marshall Sklare notes that in the anti-Semitic past the intermarrying Jew was likely to be seeking status; today it is the Gentile who may be striving upward, as "the tastes, ideas, cultural preferences and life-styles preferred by many Jews are coming to be shared by non-Jews." Many a bright...