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...combined lecture and seminar. The subjects range from the Nature of Music and the Masterpieces of Greek Literature to the History of Science. Last fall one professor started a series of seminars on Human Potentiality, soon had his students jumping from psychology to philosophy to religion, reading everything from Sorokin to Fromm to Alexis Carrel. Surprisingly, says Steere. the course has become the particular favorite of electrical engineers, "whom you usually think of as pretty restricted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Broadening the Specialist | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, continued his attack on an oversexed American society Thursday night on a New York television program, "Night Beat." Sorokin has presented this view in his recently published American Sex Revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Attacks U.S. For Sexual Attitudes | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...attacked televised variety shows with their "semi-naked ladies" and singers "bleating, yelling moronishly monotonous" songs, and then rose from his chair to give his interpretation of ballet on television. Sorokin also noted the gradual degenaration of literature to the point where it now shows "moral disintegration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Attacks U.S. For Sexual Attitudes | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

JULY. Confidential will write an expose of the Harvard Summer School. The article will brand Professor Pitirim Sorokin "The intellectual's answer to Polly Adler." Professor Fieser will declare that he can create complex organic forms. President Pusey will challenge him to make a tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Education, another prescription, is also insufficient, Sorokin claimed. Although the number of scientific and technological discoveries have been more numerous in this century than in any other, this has also been the "bloodiest" century of any which the research center studied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Claims 'Altruistic' Social Change Only Hope for Mankind | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

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