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Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford's Hoover Institution thinks the "destabilization of belief systems" wrought by the Viet Nam War helped propel the sexual revolution along. The end of the war and the onset of a recession, he says, brought "a movement back to more stability" and a turn away from far-out sex in the mid-'70s. British Journalist Henry Fairlie, an astute observer of the American scene, thinks the tinkering with personal life-styles that characterized the '60s and early '70s inevitably bred distaste for further social change. "Endless questioning of all aspects of life from food...
...unambiguously proud to be Americans, and 98 percent of American youth claim to be. And 81 percent of American youth expressed a desire to do something to serve their country, as opposed to 55 percent of French or 46 percent of British youth , according to sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset...
Some faculty members think that the burgeoning student movement is due to prosperity, not politics. One reason protests have revived, suggests Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, is because the economy is healthy. Agrees Berkeley Sociologist Neil J. Smelser: "Students are willing to get into a bit of trouble now because they are confident and don't feel the risk they did two or three years...
...development that Summers gave last week: integration into the world economy, sound fiscal and monetary policy and institutions to protect property rights and enforce contracts. Indeed, we see the results of Summers’ recipe in Ferguson’s book. He cites the work of political scientist Seymour Lipset, who showed that countries that are former British colonies had a substantially better chance of achieving “enduring democratization” and economic development than the former colonies of other empires like France, Spain and Portugal. In fact, in almost every case where a former colony...
DIED. HAROLD ("Hal") LIPSET, 78, private eye who famously put a bug in a martini olive; in the town that avidly tracked his gumshoe doings, San Francisco. Founder of the World Association of Detectives, Lipset demonstrated his electrical know-how for a Senate subcommittee in the 1960s with that oft parodied olive. Duly impressed, Washington briefly hired him as a Watergate investigator...