Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughing," said lean, modest Gus Turbeville, 30, to his wife. An obscure University of Minnesota sociologist, Turbeville had just become the youngest U.S. liberal-arts college president. That was six years ago. Joanne Turbeville had something else to laugh about when she arrived at Northland College in remote Ashland, Wis. (pop. 10,000) on the shores of Lake Superior. Northland (enrollment: 175) was almost a ghost college...
...want to discover what happens to individuals when they come to Harvard, and whether or not they change their viewpoints," Dr. Charles E. Bidwell, research sociologist of the Health Services, comments. In the five-year study, members of the Unit B staff will try to ascertain the relation between an individual and the College, and the extent to which their interaction produces changes in the individual...
...Smith College. From the University of Chicago comes Allison Davis, a distinguished Negro education professor. The other scholars include three psychiatrists and two law specialists. Their universities range from Texas and Harvard to Oxford and Amsterdam. From the University of Warsaw will come the first Iron Curtain visitor. Sociologist Stefan Nowakowski. And not least is Takdir Alisjahbana, celebrated philosopher of culture at Indonesia's National University, a gentle little man "wandering up and down the universe, shopping for what he can take home...
...behavior, wound up studying Hopi Indians at the edge of the Grand Canyon. But the usual effect is heady reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much in a personal boost as in other people's ideas...
...remarried (she was divorced from Husband No. 1 in 1954), Hephzibah lives in London with her sociologist husband and sometimes goes for weeks without touching the piano ("I don't believe in too much music"). But when she and Yehudi met in Paris for a concert two years ago and first tried the Bartok Sonata, they "sailed right through it; we astonished even ourselves...