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Sometimes Amitai Etzioni seems to be a one-man profession. A professor of sociology at Columbia University and director of New York City's Center for Policy Research, Etzioni, 46, has written two books on foreign affairs, debated Wernher von Braun on the space race, helped Betty Friedan start...
But his influence is not doubted. Etzioni is one of the new social science mandarins now beginning to dominate the profession: a politically astute opinion maker and entrepreneur who is acquiring considerable power by attracting the federal and foundation research dollar, handing out jobs, showering newspapers and magazines with articles...
Other investigations, meanwhile, were confirming a familiar story: society, families and the medical profession have not really met their obligations to the elderly. Many nursing homes are overcrowded and understaffed and offer little medical attention to their patients; substandard conditions and financial skulduggery are common throughout the industry. In Illinois...
Happily, such pictures are beginning to find less favor with readers-and with cartoonists. Says Bill Mauldin, at 53 a. 35-year veteran of the editorial page: "Cartoons are getting better, more and more away from labels. Readers are more savvy. It is less and less necessary to put names...
He was the author of one witty novel (The Rock Pool) and a rather indescribable, rather marvelous volume of quotations, moody autobiography and black-Irish philosophy he called The Unquiet Grave. But by temperament and profession he was above all that obsolescent specimen, The Bookman. The bulk of his writing...