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John Henry Days indeed tackles a great amount of material but without any signs of overreaching or strain. The novel ripples outward from a central event: a three-day festival in Talcott, W.Va., commemorating the legendary black railroad worker who outhammered a steam drill but died in victory. Many of the ballads about John Henry place the epic battle he waged with the machine in nearby Big Bend Tunnel, and Talcott residents hope that John Henry Days will become an annual and tourist-friendly attraction...
...creation of the Sociology Department in 1970. It is preposterous for anyore to argue that Harvard's Sociology Department was not qualified to teach social thought at any time during the sixties and seventies, since we had on our faculty several of the world's foremost social theorists--Talcott Parsons, George Homans and Seymour Martin Lipset, to list only three--and, in our junior faculty, any number of social theorists of different persuasions...
...should be taught and the relative weight it should be given in any concentration which claims to be educating undergraduates in Social Studies, however liberally defined. gleefully reported in his letter that a member of the Sociology Department told him he would not, today, vote to appoint Talcott Parsons to his department...
Individuals who spend time in areas with asbestos insulation are not at great risk,Talcott said. He cited a study which showed thatdaily exposure of children to asbestos in theclassroom would cause only one additional deathper million students each year. The risk of dyingin an automobile accident over a lifetime is tenthousand times greater, he said...
...important to emphasize the difference between industrial exposure and casual exposure to small, if any, amounts of asbestos," Talcott said. The workers that he studied had direct contact with the material for eight hours a day in a very dusty workplace, he added...