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...When an epidemiologist begins to mine a mountain of case histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
...from high school, he consulted his grandfather, a Baptist minister, about whether to continue as a gospel singer or go into pop music. The old man cited the 100th psalm ("Make a jovful noise unto the Lord") and said: "Whatever noise you're going to make, just be sure you make the best...
...generous inquiry into the underlying conceptions of American history and the reasons for writing it. Hofstadter, who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize (for The Age of Reform and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life), only rarely lapses into the repetitions of a professor who can never be quite sure that the whole class really attended his previous lecture...
...confrontation indignation ebbs. Watch that anti-authoritarian hang-up, man. These aren't the days of Babbit, you know. Things have changed. Business is ghetto-bound and groovy and so forth. New managerial elite. They don't discriminate, and if they do, they're sure not going to tell you about it. These are politically sensitive times, after all. By 1970, half the nation under 25, you're a valuable commodity. You know, he's probably going to offer you the job right there. He's going to say you're a nice Jewish boy, just what we've been...
...sure there are jobs where you can be your own man, but those are unusual jobs, not the rule...