Word: sorokin
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...Director of the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, Pearl S. Buck, Dorothy Day, Norman Thomas, Allan Knight Chalmers, author of "The Constant Fire", and George S. Schuyler, author of "Slaves Today," and "Black No More." Among the sponsors of the Boston auxiliary are Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics...
...Sorokin A Sponsor...
Thomas and Aiken agreed American was not in any real danger of losing its moral values, while Sorokin violently dissented...
...Sorokin declared that moral values in our times have been "relativized, atomized and ground into dust." In fighting communism, he said, "we are introducing communist values, institutions and practices into this country in different colors and in different dress...
...reply to Sorokin's assertion that "the remnants of moral values had been shot to pieces in the 20th century," Thomas denied any "great moral decline." The only difference today, he said, is that "through now tools our sins and mistakes can do more harm than they ever could before...