"[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive."
— C. Wright Mills

January 1, 1970

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p. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief work of competing sociologist Talcott Parsons.