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...This affluent society has two celebrity economists. Milton Friedman is the short conservative one. The other, of course, is the 6-ft. 8-in. liberal John Kenneth Galbraith. The styles of these distinguished gentlemen also differ greatly. Wreathed in affability, Friedman delivers the chilly news that life is not fair. In contrast, Galbraith assumes the demeanor of a hanging judge and drolly intimates that life does not have to be as unfair as Professor Friedman says...
...took six revisions before he was satisfied. To "combine composition with thought" does not come easily. Galbraith's task appears to have been further complicated by the need to budget space to accommodate his eventful public career. He has compressed earlier autobiography and summarized ideas presented in The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State...
...ever quite like the film heroine that has recently drawn West German audiences to the movies in droves-Christiane F.: We Children from the Zoo Station. The protagonist starts off as a teen-age prostitute and drug addict who haunts the squalid fringes of West Germany's affluent society. On the screen, when she is not listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin's zoo or shooting up heroin in its seedy lavatories, she totters on high heels along the Kurfürstenstrasse, a pitiful tart in search of cash...
...American Express contribution to the deal was $19.7 billion in assets from traveler's checks, more than 12 million generally affluent credit card-holding customers, and 44,000 employees in 1,000 travel offices and 77 international bank branches and investment offices. American Express also has some less well-known holdings, including a 50% interest in a cable television subsidiary of Warner Communications and total control of giant Fireman's Fund Insurance (1980 sales: $3 billion). Shearson's main offerings to the merger were 11,000 employees in 270 U.S. and overseas branches, plus $8 billion...
Eicher, who is divorced, still fuels up on yogurt and black coffee but does not go to many jazz clubs these days, although his Munich digs might be mistaken for the apartment of an affluent student. The place is crammed with books and records, but Eicher recently declined to spend $20,000 for a Josef Albers oil. He did not have the room for it, he said. Besides, the next time he is recording in Oslo, he can always go look at a Munch...