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...bigness as inherently evil. Yet he does find one overriding fault: the present system puts too much emphasis on goods?washing machines, cars and gadgets?and not enough on beauty and man's search for higher values. In a sense, Galbraith is raising anew, as he did in The Affluent Society, the question of priorities and how wealth is to be divided. Instead of working 40 hours a week in order to be able to buy the full panoply of gadgets he sees on TV, asks Galbraith, might not a man be happier working only 25 hours and giving...
...foundations for Galbraith's current fame?or notoriety?were laid a decade ago with publication of The Affluent Society. Along with David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd, the book was one of the two most influential social critiques of the '50s, has been on reading lists at more than 100 American colleges, and in a dozen foreign languages?including Gujarati, Hindi and Tamil?continues to jangle 'cash registers around the world...
...that bill through the legislature and with an assist from Mayor-elect White, Speaker Davoren, Majority Leader Bob Quinn, and the Governor, they have now set about funding it. That's a very important piece of legislation for Boston. Admittedly it benefits Boston more than some of the more affluent communities, but that is proper. The distribution procedure now will pay some attention to need. That's the third part of the program; tying together the three are the federal funds. We have been quite successful. Contrary to published reports, Boston has fared better by any radstick than any other...
...sure to be redone by the remaining partner. And even without such upheavals, Americans think of change as a form of therapy. "People can afford to be bored," says Dallas Decorator Howard Goldman. "They can now tire of things they couldn't afford to tire of in less affluent times...
Cosmopolitan is frequently criticized for portraying as unreal a sex-charged world as Playboy, if a somewhat less affluent one. As in Playboy, children are not pictured; they interfere with the free, untrammeled sex life. "I'm a materialist," says Editor Brown, "and it's a materialistic world. Nobody is keeping a woman from doing everything she wants to do but herself." Certainly not Helen Gurley Brown...