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...students, particularly those who have at least a sneering acquaintance with the Ivy League, still see in Catcher their hymn, their epic, their Treasury of Humor, and their manifesto against the world. A decade after first publication, the book still sells 250,000 copies a year in the U.S. Sociologist David Riesman assigns Catcher in his Harvard course on Character and Social Structure in the U.S., perhaps because every campus has its lonely crowd of imitation Holdens?doomed wearers of raincoats-in-December, who rehearse faithfully their Caulfield hyperbole ("It was the last game of the year, and you were...
...most Americans, writes Sociologist Alfred Lindesmith in Drug Addiction, the suggestion that the U.S. should switch to something like the British system comes as "a startling, radical or dangerous idea." Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger opposes it. But the A.B.A.-A.M.A. joint committee-while flatly against anything like "indiscriminate distribution" of narcotics-recommends trying something like the British system on a pilot-plant basis. This would be an "outpatient facility, on a controlled, experimental basis." For a site, the committee suggests the District of Columbia, "being an exclusively federal jurisdiction and immediately accessible to both law-enforcement and public health agencies...
...modern elementary school reader sloughs over the whole business of morality," Jules Henry, sociologist at the University of Washington, said yesterday. "If there is any moral message at all, children are likely to miss it unless the teacher points...
...theme is thus the ceaseless struggle between modern civilization and modern man, massively and often turgidly argued in the pioneering tetralogy-on which he labored, heedless of the paradox that as his reputation has grown, his influence has diminished. Now, in an intricate synthesis of his past output, Sociologist-Art Critic-Litterateur-Town Planner Mumford has written a densely composed history of that struggle on its most bloody battlefield-the city. The interpretation may not be fresh, but simply as a Portable Mumford (if 576 pages of narrative, 56 pages of annotated bibliography, and 114 pages of photographs and extended...
Americans are finding their satisfaction from life as consumers rather than Vance Packard observed at the Ford Hall Forum. he shunned critical analysis, the quasi-sociologist furnished a of amusing anecdotes and appall-statistics concerning American folly...