Word: swidler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this seems to confirm Fordham Anthropologist Warren Swidler's observation that Mead's "private life has been a shambles; she's not been very happy, so she's gone outward. Much as she loves people, her great commitment is to science." Then how does Mead, with a disordered personal life, presume to counsel the young? The answer may well be that the same hurts that motivated Mead to achievement gave her the insights necessary to help others...
...Joseph Swidler, chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission, has a simpler suggestion for the cause of Big Allis' ills: "It's a lemon...