Word: pitirim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After this war dictatorships will not disappear, but totalitarianism will be greatly increased," said Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, in a discussion at Dunster House last night...
...prefer unjust peace to a long war, for in all history I don't know any just peace treaty anyhow. The injustice of Versailles is insignificant when compared with the losses sustained by all nations during the World War." Thus spoke Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin, professor of Sociology, in an interview yesterday...
Father O'Leary's most sensational speaker was Harvard's White Russian Sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin, who declared that no aspect of modern culture had increased man's happiness. Stormed he: "The 20th Century has been the bloodiest. . . . Our contemporary art mortalizes the immortals . . . is sexually crazy and often sadistic. The We Kiss and Angels Sing, Heaven Can Wait and This Is Paradise of the crooners are examples. . . . Contemporary art . . . is centred around the police morgue, a criminal's hideout or the sex organs...
...face of controversy over the University's tenure policy and an increased exodus of young instructors from Harvard this spring, Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology, issued a statement last night objecting to details in the University's attitude about faculty tenure as formulated by the Committee of Eight's report...
Although opinion differs as to the advisability of the methods used, even Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, sole person to take issue on the statement, agreed that the plan might be applied "to all laboratories and courses dealing with problems that could be used...