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...ever, demand more decision than ever-and produce "wiser" students than ever. Their seeming "overcautiousness" is mostly a matter of thinking twice about everything in a time that demands it. "Modern American young people seem to walk on eggs more than any other generation in the 20th century," writes Sociologist Reuel Denney of the University of Chicago in Daedalus. "Their talent for the 'delayed reflex' may prove to be one of our main resources in the coming culture and politics of the nuclear...
...nation is against me," President Charles de Gaulle told a caller not long ago. He was referring to intellectuals, army officers, big businessmen and the higher reaches of bureaucracy, who at best give him lukewarm support and at worst-sabotage his policy. Most of them agree with Philosopher-Sociologist Alfred Fouillée (1838-1912) that without the elite, "there is no more France; France is reduced to the level of those people who have no history...
...best college football player in the U.S. this season is a gangling, astigmatic, pigeon-toed son of a shoemaker who sleeps on the floor, runs in the street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play...
Martin Meyerson, Director of the Joint Center, and Lloyd Rodwin, chairman of the faculty committee, expect to visit the region in November in connection with further planning. The Center is now seeking a top-flight economist and sociologist to complete the planning team...
Afterward, members of the Episcopalian human affairs commission, which sponsored the tour, explained to the convention delegates that the kind of industrial workers they had just seen were practically untouched by the church. Consulting Sociologist Guy E. Swanson of the University of Michigan said that though surveys had shown that factory workers were receptive to religion, no attempt was actually being made to reach them. "If the church cannot find means to influence this new character of society," Sociologist Swanson added, "it has no meaning or relevance...