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That notion comes out of a survey of 3,500 college teachers by two political scientists, Stanford's Seymour Martin Lipset and the University of Connecticut's Everett C. Ladd Jr. After asking a series of questions about issues and candidates, they conclude that the more conservative faculty members choose U.S. cars (with General Motors autos favored by the most conservative of the conservative). Liberals have a greater tendency to buy foreign models...
...Lipset and Ladd observe in the Chronicle of Higher Education that they cannot apply the same yardstick to the entire population-highly educated voters tend to be much more fixed and consistent than other groups in their beliefs. But, says Lipset, "If I were a Democratic precinct worker and wanted to get people to the polls who are sympathetic to my candidate, I'd pick houses with foreign cars in front...
...logical conclusion of all this is S.M. Lipset's piece, the most bizarre in the collection, which finds a peculiar American streak of moralism at fault in most political conflicts of this century--Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, Vietnam demonstrators, Daniel Ellsberg and Nixon are examples of the perception of politics as "a struggle between good and evil forces rather than as a series of collective bargaining issues." Hopefully, Lipset writes, the two-party system will absorb and then compromise the moralistic passions of the present-day Left and Right--the worst since the early 20s--as the parties have...
...other members of the committee are David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, Jerome H. Buckley '40, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Seymour M. Lipset, former Professor of Government and Social Relations...
...Victoria Steinberg's generally conscientious effort to report my overly long and complicated discussion of the Ladd-Lipset survey of teaching and research by faculty members in American colleges and universities (Oct. 18), one qualification I made was omitted. I am quoted correctly as saying that"...a true scholar does not necessarily have to publish anything," but I also declared that a faculty member needed an audience of peers as well as an audience of students in order to stay alive intellectually, giving such illustrations as artistic production, consulting, and other extra-mural activities. Nor did I criticize the Ladd...