During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman took a close look at the "American standard of living" and made some startling pre- dictions for the future. In regard to the increased urbaniza- tion, commercialization, and social mobility of that time, Zimmerman wrote: If a standard of living consists of values to be found entirely in the oods which the individual consumes, we shall proba %ly continue our present sensational t pe of life as l...
MONEY Future scholars, using computers to sort the masses of data now being gathered, may, for the first time, be able to write the full story of the fac- tors that determine success or failure in the pursuit of material well-being in America. Such a synthesis would be an invaluable addition to existing ac-counts, some of which are described below, of how Americans earn and spend and change their economic status. Most professional journals and text-books on economics give more attention to growth,...
ATEGIC ARMS CONTROL
ARMS CONTROL
"THE AMERICAN WAY"
The modern arms control community in the United States was born in the late 1950s. Its family tree exhibited two very dissimilar roots. On the one hand, there was the nuclear- scientific group that had designed the means for mass de-struction and had begun to feel guilty about its technical triumphs; on the other, there was the small but rapidly growing group of "defense intellectuals" who did not feel personally or co...
Reviews of new research public agencies and private institutions 'The State of Academic Science" Based on a Study by the National Science Foundation, Change Magazine Press, NBW Tower, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801. 250 pp. $5.95. Authors: Bruce L. R. Smith and Joseph J. Karlesky. Academic science retains the declining in several fields (physics, strength and vitality that have made chemistry, mathematics), and some such exceptional contributions to departments-as well as individual America's overall...
the Stanford Arms Control Group, edited John H. Barton and Lawrence
D. Weiler (Stanford, 1976, cloth & paper). Mention is made of Isaiah 2:4 (8th century B.c.), "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks"; of a disarmament conference of 14 feudal states held in 546 B.C. in Honan, China, ending a 70-year series of wars; of pre-Renaissance "rules of warfare" (includ- ing the Mohammedan ban on poison-ing wells); of Columbia University...
Technology has infatuated the American people for at least a hundred years, but only in the 1970s have significant portions of society begun to raise questions about its costs in energy, about environmental damage, and unexplored alterna- tives. Nuclear weapons are surely the most deadly product of that love affair. Since the late 1940s, the United States has based its security overwhelmingly on atomic and hydrogen warheads. Could we have prevented a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union? Probably...
Samuel F. Wells, Jr.
Technology has infatuated the American people for at least a hundred years, but only in the 1970s have significant portions of society begun to raise questions about its costs in energy, about environmental damage, and unexplored alterna- tives. Nuclear weapons are surely the most deadly product of that love affair. Since the late 1940s, the United States has based its security overwhelmingly on atomic and hydrogen warheads. Could we have prevented a nuclear arms race with...