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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduated from the University of Toronto and went to Chicago for dissertation work in sociology. There he came under the influence, which he fully acknowledges, of Charles Horton Cooley and G. H. Mead, whose theories on personal interaction, small groups and the social character of the self still inform sociology courses. An energetic and devoted scholar who avoids formal social gatherings, Goffman is currently a research professor at the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sociology: Exploring a Shadow World | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...Chicago police officials' main complaints was that "reporters give their personal opinions of the events they are covering." About the only mitigating result of Chicago, according to one official, is that networks may now "see that a credibility gap has existed between themselves and the people they seek to inform...and, as a result, go all out to strive for objectivity in reporting...

Author: By Mark R. Rasmuson, | Title: Huntley and Brinkley Boss: Reporting Chicago or Abusing It? | 12/10/1968 | See Source »

...students likely to enroll in your course, then secure a room capable of holding two-thirds that quantity. Don't attempt to substitute guesswork for arithmetic here, as a larger room will make students feel too important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting, inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25-word statement on the subject "Why I'm anxious to take this course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeLoon's Guide | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

...laboratory have gained exotic accomplishments. A plaque and a trophy sit atop the PDP-6 computer in M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They were won in chess tournaments. Even psychiatry is tainted. An M.I.T. computer offers comfort to any troubled human. You sit at a typewriter keyboard and inform the machine that your father beats you. "I'm glad you mention your home life," the computer replies politely. "You haven't said much about your mother, for instance...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: If What We Say Is What We Mean..... Then Who Means What the Computer Says? | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

...English composer. He arrived in London during the interregnum left by the death of Purcell in 1695 and the first works of Thomas Arne twenty years later. By 1710 Handel had subsumed into his Italianate idiom the brilliant scoring, deep love for the English language, and unpretentious pietism which inform the greatest English music from Byrd, Tallis, and Purcell, to Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Bach Society | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

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