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...sociologist as moralist peaked in the late '40s and '50s. Americans who had endured the pangs of the Depression and wartime rationing enjoyed an unprecedented feast of goods and services. Focusing on the problems of affluence more than on its benefits, Scholars David Riesman, Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer published The Lonely Crowd. More lightly credentialed observers got into the act. Books such as The Organization Man, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Status Seekers became bestsellers to a "we" generation confused about keeping up with the Joneses...
...were already disputed by the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying organization. The institute says that three U.S. statisticians who were asked to review the report discovered an error in how the data were analyzed and judged the study's conclusions "invalid." But one of the statisticians, Nathan Mantel of George Washington University, says that while his review raised questions about the study, it did not draw any firm conclusions. Says he: "The institute has put words in my mouth...
Coming into the heavy weight-loss championship, the two opponents, both bestselling diet authors, were lean and mean. When the bell rang for their appearance on NBC's late-night Tomorrow show, Dr. Robert Atkins (Dr. Atkins' Diet Book) and Nathan Pritikin (The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise) spattered like fast-frying bacon. In the crossfire of insults and accusations, refereed by Tomorrow Co-Host Tom Snyder, 45, Pritikin, who advocates a low-cholesterol, high-exercise program, asserted that Atkins' high-fat, high-protein diet increased the chances of heart disease and certain cancers. After...
...lead departments to consider only male candidates. As late as 1969-70, the Faculty still had no women, though it had several in earlier years. Among today's departments. Rosovsky says. "I do not believe it is a question of discrimination on average, but there may have been some." Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure and an outspoken opponent of affirmative action, agrees, saying. "I am not cognizant of any discrimination on grounds of sex in Harvard appointments." One female professor, however, says she speaks for her female colleagues in saying of women professors, "You're intimidated, there...
...side of the issue, faculty members including Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government, and Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, contend that affirmative action implies absolute color and sex blindness...