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Serge Lang, a Yale mathematics professor, yesterday criticized a wide-ranging survey of university faculty opinion conducted by Seymour M. Lipset, former professor of Government and Social Relations, saying it is "intellectually at the level of a T.V. panel...
...Washington State, G.O.P. Challenger John Cunningham found out that resentment against environmentalism was the biggest issue, so he made it his campaign theme. He won by splitting blue-collar Democrats worried about their jobs from liberal intellectuals preoccupied with the environment. Says Stanford Sociologist Seymour Lipset: "This is the kind of thing they are doing very well-looking from place to place, from region to region to find out what the discontent...
...became the last of the indicted Watergaters to go to prison. After a 320-day trial, the Black Panthers lost their civil suit against the Chicago police who raided their quarters several ages ago?it was 1969?and killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. As Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observes, "This is the first time in ten years that nothing disastrous is occurring." Americans may not believe that they are embarked on a new age, but at least they are savoring a historical pause...
Among economists, there was inevitable disagreement over Carter's program to stimulate the economy (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset also found that Carter's "whole folksy approach doesn't send me, but it's not designed to, and does apparently send the average guy. The question is: How long is it before the average guy starts thinking he's being manipulated?" Yet so far, as Dartmouth Government Professor Laurence I. Radway put it, "turning down the heat and doing away with imperial frills" has made "Joe Sixpack satisfied and pleased with Carter...
...make a single error, and I don't think people are particularly attracted to that." Marquette University's Wayne Youngquist lamented that neither came out with anything new, making it "even harder for voters to make up their minds." But Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thought the debate ''will serve to confirm people in their choices. If they haven't made choices, it will probably confirm them in their confusion." University of California Political Scientist Aaron Wildavsky faulted Carter for "overpromising" and noted: "For a second, I thought he was going to promise a cure...