Elizabeth Douvan, Joseph Veroff, Matters and Richard Kulka, in Economic Outlook
USA (Summer 1979), Survey Research
Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box
1248, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106.
Americans' attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and work have changed considerably over the last 20 years but not nearly so much as alarmists fear. So concludes a University of Michigan research team that surveyed 2,400 American adults in 1976 and compared its findings with those of an identical survey conducted...
career opportunities. "Forty percent of the men who moved between urban areas attained a higher academic rank in the process; the comparable figure for women was 23.3 percent." Once again, marriage is a determining factor-in 1973, 75 percent of single women academics held the rank of associate professor or above; only 52 percent of the married women surveyed did.
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the U.S. Small Business Ad- ministration (SBA) to award loans and loan guarantees to minority businessmen may actually discriminate against the black entrepre- neurs who have the best chances of success, argue Bates, an economist at the University of Vermont, and Osborne, professor of management at UCLA.
To promote inner-city business development, the SBA is willing to assume a greater risk on loans to blacks than to whites; i.e., a black firm with small net worth is eligible for a larger SBA loan...
the U.S. Small Business Ad- ministration (SBA) to award loans and loan guarantees to minority businessmen may actually discriminate against the black entrepre- neurs who have the best chances of success, argue Bates, an economist at the University of Vermont, and Osborne, professor of management at UCLA.
To promote inner-city business development, the SBA is willing to assume a greater risk on loans to blacks than to whites; i.e., a black firm with small net worth is eligible for a larger SBA loan...
the federal government, must create "new career options in education" outside the traditional public school. To this end, he proposes training programs in basic academic skills for the handi- capped, minorities, members of the armed forces, and women entering the labor force for the first time; vocational training in industry; and education programs in prisons, mental institutions, and old-age homes.
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the networks day to day." Indeed, the authors conclude, the "networks need the President, and generally they cultivate him."
Time "Time Magazine Revisited: Presidential
Stereotypes Persist" Fred Fedler, Mike
Marches On Meeske, and Joe Hall, in Journalism Quar- terly (Summer 1979), 431 Murphy Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455.
Does America's No. 1 news magazine give the facts-and nothing but the facts? Fedler, Meeske, and Hall, who teach journalism...
Philip Wander, in Journal of Communication
of Soap Operas (Autumn 1979), P.O. BOX 13358,Philadel-phia, Pa. 19101.
Despite their scriptwriters' focus on personal problems, television day- time soap operas make "modern life appear coherent and relatively secure," says Wander, professor of speech communication at San Jose State University.
The world of the soap opera is governed a strict moral code: "Playboys are untrustworthy"; "adultery is invariably punished"; 'divorce...
contrast, the New Testa- ment gospels are known to have been set down c. 60-1 10).
Roughly 100 years after Christ's death, a broad schism developed among Christians between the orthodox (literally, "straight thinking")
In his five-volume De-struction and Overthrow of Falsely So-called Knowledge, St. Zrenaeus, Bishop ofLyon, led the Christian Church's 2nd- century fight against the gnostic cult, branded "an abyss of madness and blasphemy."
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taking yourself as the starting point."
Some gnostics argued that God the Creator of both good and evil served a greater Divine, the "Depth." Others celebrated an Almighty who was both feminine and masculine ("She became the Mother of everything, for she existed before them all, the mother-father"). Still others argued that Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection should be taken symbolically, not as historical events.
Orthodox leaders viewed gnostic teachings as falsehoods;...
the dogma of the Eucharist, they believed, "the accidents of the bread and wine [must be] distinct from their sub- stance." King Louis XIV, who selected Church officials within France, feared a split in the French Church-and Vatican intervention.
But attacks against Cartesians were not limited to censorship of phi- losophers and theologians. Descartes' concepts served as the founda- tion for the explanations of matter and motion put forth physicist Jacques Rohault (1620-75). To his regret,...