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...statistics in this book therefore tell us little about academic freedom--the announced topic. But the study is nevertheless valuable for what it tells us about higher education itself. Viewed not as a study of academic freedom, but as a portrait of American Colleges and their professors, The Academic Mind is a most important book...
Considering the tremendous impact of anthropology on modern thought it is perhaps surprising that such a systematic investigation has been so long delayed. For decades field workers have returned to civilization to tell us that primitive thought is as much a cultural artifact as potsherds, farming methods, and sex taboos. So too the historians have devoted volumes to demonstrating that the intellectual interests and methods of our ancestors reflected their natural and social environment. Applying all this to our own society, we have studied the mentality of the juvenile delinquent, the compulsive neurotic, and the migrant worker to show that...
Unfortunately, Caplow and McGee did not interview anyone who was actually looking for a job, so they can tell us nothing about the impact of recruiting policy on the educational process. As the book stands, it leaves us with the completely unjustifiable impression that academic life is a perpetual struggle for prestige. Yet it would be equally logical to suppose that because public opinion polls show that men choose their lawyers by inquiring among friends, lawyers are therefore consumed by an insatiable lust for popularity
...many a Pentagon reporter has not talked to Murray Snyder in months. On the infrequent occasions when he talks to newsmen, there is usually a Snyder aide sitting by, auditing the interview. Newsmen, military officers and defense contracting industrialists go over, under and around him in their efforts to tell the U.S. defense story. All of this dismayed Congressman John E. Moss's Subcommittee on Government Information. A repeated witness before this and the House Armed Services Committee, Snyder has been accused of "capricious censorship" and of a tendency to suppress information not only for security con siderations...
...Phillips keeps a sharp eye on the books of his 100 companies (1958 sales: $39 million), though he admits: "The building stage is the most exciting of all. I can't stand the bookkeeping part. I tell them 'I'll make it and you count...