Morris Fiorina
Shortly after I arrived at Harvard, Sid knocked on my door one day and asked if I wanted to go to the movies. Well, I thought, this is new to me, but maybe taking a study break and going to a movie with a colleague is standard practice at Harvard. It turned out that one of the theaters in Harvard Square was showing an English documentary called 28 UP! In 1964, the makers of the documentary had chosen 20 seven-year olds from different class backgrounds. Every seven years (more or less) they checked in on the kids to show how their class position at birth determined their life prospects. So, while munching popcorn at a matinee, Sid was actually hard at work doing research on his life’s interest: the study of inequality.
