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Focuses on the topics discussed at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. Total number of papers presented at the meeting; Interest of the participants in social psychology; Tendency towards the refinement of research methods; Advances in American sociology; Personality of the younger generation of sociologists; Topic of the sermon delivered by the president of the society; Goal of the sociologists.

Presents information about various developments taking place in London, England. Popularity of minimalism in the community; Start of the 11-part Thames television dramatization of Evelyn Waugh's overripe "Brideshead Revisited"; Establishment of a society by the British since World War II, called an elegiac community; Need of an elegist in Great Britain.

The article presents information on the book "The Same Society," by Erich Fromm. In this new volume, which caps his previous critique of authoritarian social structures, Fromm rejects both the Soviet and American systems because of their failure to provide participation and because, in his opinion, both systems tend to be psychologically destructive to the individual human personality. The author points out that it was Marx who once defined socialism as a society in which "the full and free development of each individual becomes the ruling principle." Yet it is one of the tragedies of history, and perhaps the deep error of Stalinism, that' this democratic ideal was sacrificed to the autocratic expedient.

Focuses on the controversy about an article on the English Monarch published in the "Saturday Evening Post" newspaper. Indifference of kings who claimed to rule by Divine Right; Responsibility of the Royal family to present an image of domestic felicity; Decline in the status of hereditary authority as the English social structure became more theoretically equalitarian; Case for constitutional monarchy; Stable element in monarchy.

Discusses the social conditions that are prevalent in the U.S. Focus on the attitude of cultivating a refined sensibility or of losing oneself in abstruse intellectual pursuits; Domination of salesmen and brokers in the U.S.; Discussion of the development of America that has taken place inside the bourgeois psychology; Comments on works by certain American authors; Discussion of American intelligentsia including scientists, philosophers, artists, and engineers.

Focuses on the impact of conservatism on politics in the U.S. Information that the thesis "Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals" is valid for the postwar Yalta era with its illusions about Communism; Fact that Conservatives have no more excuse to refuse to cooperate with liberals and New Dealers against right-wing nationalist threats; Cooperation between different political parties; Distinction between genuine conservatives and the rootless, counter-revolutionary doctrinaires.

Comments on the internal struggle for political power in Ireland. Factions involved in the struggle for power; Efforts for unification; Implications for politics and government.

Focuses on the economic aspect of socialism. Discussion of motifs that are followed by every Socialist; Problems ingrained in economic aspects of socialism; Comments on England's Labor Party with regard to social and economic life of England; Transformation that has take place in modern technique of production; Effect of new machines of production on manpower.

Presents a comparison of the administration of the U.S. under former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Reintroduction of a long absent political category to the spectrum, limousine conservatism; Reassurance to people worried about the success of their parties; Report that the society people say that the question of snobbishness is one which must be put in perspective.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Opinion on the article titled "Humphrey Hype," published in the November 8 issue, which focused on social problems; View that social problems will not be solved by political speeches; Comments on many domestic and foreign issues; Information on the book titled "The Collected Screenplays of Bernard Shaw."

The article focuses on the U.S. foreign policy. The American spirit is hardening in world affairs, although we have played the role of leading power for just ten years. it is part of the trend away from a ceases less renewal and reaffirmation of our values and toward a servile and sterile worship of institutions and the status quo that frightened the men who edited this magazine 35 years ago. This trend is conservatism. It can be overcome only if it is brought into the open and countered in the arena of debate by positive and vigorous liberalism. Unless that clear choice is presented to the American people the functioning of the democratic process, through which democracy thrives, is atrophied.

Suggests that conservatism, though abhorred by most people in the U.S., is an honorable attitude, and when coupled with intelligence and clarity of mind becomes a permanent factor in any society; Reputation attached to the name and idea of conservatism; Elements of a conservative journal in the American society; Difference of a conservative journal from a liberal or a radical journal; Role of a conservative journal in showing how shortcomings are remediable by the methods and principles of existing social order.

The article presents a list of books on various topics including "The Course of American Democratic Thought: An Intellectual History Since 1815," by Ralph M. Gabriel, "Class and American Sociology: From Ward to Ross," by Charles Hunt Page, "Behind the Surgeon's Mask," by James Harpole and "Rose of the Sea," by Paul Vialar.