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...most scholarly of professors and does not have the firmest hold on micro and macro economic theories, but instead paints with a broad brush. For that reason he tends to draw students who are more interested in politics than academia. As one comments. "Bob is not an academician by any means, but he is good for the people he is teaching and preparing for government." Another adds. "His teaching is geared to what the Democrats should...
DIED. Dan Throop Smith, 74, chief tax economist in the Eisenhower Administration, distinguished academician at Harvard and Stanford's Hoover Institution and longtime conservative advocate of tax cuts to boost the economy; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif. A precursor of supply-side economists, Smith believed "all taxes are repressive," and supported lower capital gains taxes to encourage risk-taking investments. At the same time, he urged reduction of tax incentives for "safe" investments that do not lead to a greater supply of capital for business. His aim: "To make it easier to get rich but harder...
...Constable show in London, the reason is that impressionism taught us to put light, more than anything else, in landscape; Constable's surface, dewed with points of white and radiantly matinal, seems "truer" than Ruisdael's. We no longer want meadows to have, as some English academician is supposed to have said, the color of an old violin. But if one views Ruisdael's work against the conventions of his own day, it is easier to understand how original he really was-how inventive in form, how specific in vision...
...Pulitzer Prize. Yet the very qualities that helped sell his books often earned the sneers of scholars. He gave history's eccentrics (Casanova, Caligula) more than their due. He was often glib ("Voltaire + Rousseau = Diderot"). On the other hand, he was capable of aphoristic wisdom that any academician would envy ("A nation is born Stoic, dies Epicurean...
...times along the way. Cross seems confused about the ages of her characters; a man who seems thirtyish suddenly becomes a World War II vet, for example. The denouement of the mystery is predictable and dull. And a minor annoyance: Cross's work suffers from the classic academician's addiction to the semi-colon. Alas, it is no surprise, considering Amanda Cross is, in real life, Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English at (of all places) Columbia...