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...been teaching for five and a half years when Sarah Lawrence's Sociologist Helen Merrell (Middletoivn) Lynd, out shopping for a college president, spotted him. He accepted-with one reservation: that he could have Thursdays off ("I simply disappear and write...
BLACK METROPOLIS-St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton-Harcourt, Brace $5). In the same sort of cool, clinical case history in which Robert and Helen Lynd dissected the U.S. small town in Middletown, Anthropologist Drake and Sociologist Cayton have card-indexed the manners, mores and living conditions of the U.S. Negro in a northern city. Because of the tragic, potentially explosive material with which it deals, Black Metropolis is more engrossing, and may be more important, than the Lynds' book. Educators, politicians, ordinary thoughtful citizens- and perhaps even a few Southern Senators -may find in this well-organized, well...
Greater University. Largely because he has fought so ardently for his conception of freedom, Frank Graham has attracted to Chapel Hill one of the sprightliest, ablest faculties in the U.S., men of the caliber of Sociologist Howard Odum, Mathematician and Biographer Archibald Henderson, Playwright Paul Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university...
...Gluecks favor keeping present criminal legal methods, but only to determine acquittal or conviction. Sentence should then be passed, they say, not by a judge alone, but by a tribunal that includes a psychiatrist or a psychologist and a sociologist or educator along with the judge. The treatment prescribed by this tribunal should be modifiable by periodic checkups of the offenders' psychological and social improvement...
...Francisco conference fails, as Sorokin thinks it will, he predicts that America will become a great, imperialistic empire. "And I wish every success to such an attempt of the United States." declared the explosive sociologist, "because it is better for the United States to be imperialistic than for any other country in the world...