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Some political scientists were troubled that most of Carter's successes were in foreign affairs. Observed Seymour Martin Lipset of the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif: "Carter is in the same boat as Nixon, looking good abroad while facing a sea of domestic troubles." But the President did salvage some gains: a truncated energy bill despite the Administration's confused and uncertain performance of a year earlier, Civil Service reform and a veto of wasteful water projects...
...visible. Maybe the little energy left over from the '60s got mostly spent, in secret, on assimilating and liquidating the traumas and griefs of that overlong epoch. If so, then perhaps the most memorable thing about the '70s has been simply that, as Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observed, "nothing disastrous is happening." Such a historical pause may not at the moment seem worth remembering - but it will as soon as disaster drops among us again...
...Lipset's survey prejudices many questions to the point where respondents may reasonably object to dealing with the issues on the surveyor's terms," Lang said yesterday...
...started out as a very political thing," Lipset said yesterday, referring to the controversy with Lang. "I've found that academics tend to be radical, and Lang feels threatened...
...results of Lipset's survey have been widely quoted in the media and used to create a very distorted and superficial picture of American professors, John T. Tate '46, professor of Mathematics, said yesterday...