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...same academic field found it virtually impossible to win two openings in the same discipline at the same college. Invariably, one spouse (traditionally the wife) was forced to find work in another field or on a different campus. But in 1970 Michael Zuckert, then 28 and a political theorist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., asked for a leave of absence to finish his dissertation. Carleton had a counterproposal: Why not temporarily fill the seat with Michael's wife Catherine, a fellow political-science graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago? Catherine took over and, when Michael returned...
...personality, Trudeau and Lévesque are almost exact opposites. Canada's Prime Minister is cerebral, disciplined, removed, impatient with his intellectual inferiors. His personal motto is "Reason over passion." Trudeau is a political theorist turned political activist who thinks of himself as a philosopher-statesman. His public speeches frequently sound like university lectures. First elected Prime Minister in 1968, partly because of his Kennedy-like charismatic appeal, he has seldom been far from the front pages, some of which he would prefer to have avoided?most notably those recounting the stormy breakup last spring of the marriage to his young...
TOFFLER IS a renaissance man of the social sciences. Actually more than a pop sociologist, he is a social theorist, if you will. By this nothing more is meant than simply that Toffler works economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, a meager portion of history, and whatever else there is into his all-encompassing scheme of the modern world. For instance, one part of his hour-long speech last week was devoted to explaining changes in family structure through the different historical epochs. Toffler explained that the family has traditionally been a large, stable economic unit. But now in technological society...
...implications for most areas of human concern?from education to relations between the sexes. Says Harvard Physicist Gerald Holton: "It's a breathtaking ambition . . . as if Sigmund Freud had set out to subsume all of Darwin, Joyce, Einstein, Whitehead and Lenin." Robert Trivers, a Harvard biologist and leading sociobiology theorist, makes a bold prediction: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry and anthropology will all be branches of sociobiology...
...London School of Economies' Cranston, 57, a liberal political theorist, was much less sanguine about democracy's capacity to reconcile "the competing, conflicting wills" of its motley electorate. For him, democracy is merely "the least unjust" form of government, in which "the ignorance of the many is mitigated by professional experience of the politicians." Quinton, 52, an analytic philosopher from Oxford, adopted a still more gloomy view, calling government "a necessary evil" that "allows for tyranny by the collectivity over the individual." Quinton also mocked Adler's belief that all want to share in government by voting...