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Most of Winchester's residents have never heard of Pitirim A. Sorokin or his Center for Research in Creative Altruism. Sorokin lives a quiet life, befitting a retired college professor. His neighbors would probably be aghast to hear they are living next to a man once on speaking terms with Lenin and Trotsky, who was sentenced to death and then banished from his country, and who has produced some of sociology's most important "yarns...
...effect, a welcome-to-the-fold gesture, for the performance was Nadien's solo debut as the new concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. When his appointment was announced last February, some Philharmonic fans were aghast. Nadien had never played in a major symphony orchestra before, and had spent most of the past dozen years in recording studios playing for crooners, rock 'n' rollers, Muzak and TV jingles. Still, despite his commercial coloration, he has long been respected by fellow musicians as one of America's most outstanding fiddlers; he is legendary for his ability...
Daunted Defendants. Police are aghast. "The public has a right to know how bad a criminal is," protests Boston's Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara. "The more the press blasts the serious criminal, the better we like it," says Chief Edward F. Leiss of Metuchen, N.J. "I don't think the police are giving out too much information about accused persons," adds Commissioner Russell T. Beebe of East St. Louis, Ill. "I don't think they're giving out enough." Says Houston Prosecutor Carol Vance: "The public has a right to know what's going...
...Though I am no great Johnson fan, your article left me aghast-not at the President but at a supposedly advanced society which judges almost solely on the basis of "likability" and "personality gaps." I am concerned that the American public watches too many soap operas. If the nation's highest official is weighed on the scales of "image" rather than reason, isn't it about time that we stopped feeling and started thinking...
Whitehall was aghast in 1948 when London University Law Student Seretse Khama, young chief of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, wooed and won London Typist Ruth Williams. She was a white woman, which was bound to cause trouble among the natives. Quietly, Whitehall asked the couple to live out of sight in England. Politely they refused-and when they insisted on going home, the government banished them from Bechuanaland until 1956 when they and their children (now three sons, one daughter) were finally allowed to return. Britain may have long since swallowed its prejudice, but it took until last week...