Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skinhead from Huntington Beach, Calif., denies hotly that his group is racist or white supremacist, but rambles on about minority gangs and the "poison ideas on the streets" that come from other countries. Says he: "We mean to set things right with or without violence." William Gibson, a sociologist at Southern Methodist University, believes the "element of warrior fantasy" is strong among hate groups. Reason: they feel so abandoned by a changing America that they want to take matters into their own hands...
...quickly developed into freewheeling discussions of what was wrong with the economy in general and how it might be fixed. Among the participants were Economist Abel Aganbegyan, who had been urging decentralization and a wider role for market incentives since the mid-1960s, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya, a leading sociologist. Zaslavskaya recalls one encounter with Gorbachev: "I sat next to him. It is incredible what power and drive emanate from him. One feels as if it were a strong field of energy. His vitality is extraordinary, and yet, although you feel this tension, he is a good listener and waits...
When his mind told him to go back to Harvard nearly 50 years ago, he threw himself into the study of the piano and developed an enduring passion for Bach. For years afterward he would relax by playing the partitas. He found himself fascinated by such scholars as the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian emigre who saw ominous parallels between Nazism and Soviet Communism. Nitze shared that lesson with his mentor, Dillon, Read's president James Forrestal, who later became the nation's first -- and most obsessively anti- Communist -- Secretary of Defense. Forrestal brought Nitze to Washington to work...
...instance, now rival those of the Japanese, with a rise of 3.6% this year alone. But many observers see signs of disenchantment, even weariness, among the public at large. "We have been running fast, but now there is this feeling of having to catch one's breath," says Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "All this achievement means we are abandoning a way of life that was cherished...
Universities have actually grown more inimical to the sort of popular, innovative writings that Galbraith and others produced, contends Jacoby. His examples include the case of Paul Starr, 38, who rose quickly at Harvard, then was denied tenure after winning a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded a sociologist. Grumbled a former departmental chairman of such popular repute: "If I want to be a free-lance journalist, then I should quit Harvard and go be a free-lance journalist...