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Kennedy nominees bound for New Frontier outposts as ambassadors: India: John Kenneth Galbraith, 52, Harvard economics professor, veteran Kennedy brain-truster, author of The Affluent Society. A big-picture thinker of considerable stature (6 ft. 8 in.), Galbraith has, since the inauguration, been making himself useful in Washington as a word man, supplying Kennedy speeches and other New Frontier documents with what he describes as "touches of the cosmetic or the cosmic." Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador...
raith has achieved nation-wide from his outspoken support of causes. His book The Affluent was a best seller a few years ago, recent collection of short pieces, iberal Hour, received critical acast fall...
...like to use the word never," she says, "because who knows what will happen in life? But it is very unlikely that I will ever act again." One reason: the Prince is against the idea, and being "very much the European husband, his word is law." While mingling with affluent society folk in Manhattan, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith met the Duke of Windsor for the first time. "I understand," said the onetime King of England, "that you're to be the new American Ambassador to India, Mr. Galbraith." "That's right, sir," replied the longtime Harvard professor...
...critics may be tempted to dismiss Midcentury as a piece of biological conservatism brought on by the author's 66 years. Yet Dos Passos also still tilts at the U.S. commercial spirit. In pages dotted with ad slogans, he even achieves a kind of running parody of the affluent society, e.g., "KEEPS A MAN so ODOR-FREE A BLOODHOUND COULDN'T FIND HIM," "DON'T BE A DISHWASHER. BUY ONE," "IF YOU KNOW THE WOMAN WHO SHOULD HAVE THIS...
...realization that he had staked his life on his words gave a living urgency to his expression of the elementary axioms of democracy; in chaotic times he was obliged to rediscover and reformulate the democratic principles that are today the comfortable cliches of an affluent society...