Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Organization Man in the Lonely Crowd that makes up the Affluent Society is also known, among some religion writers, under another capital-lettered phrase: he is Post-Christian Man. In the latest issue of the quarterly Theology Today, two Protestant theologians debate how fairly and accurately the term post-Christianity describes the times...
...member of a less than affluent monas tic community whose school enjoys only a regional reputation, may I voice a quiet demurrer to the notion that monasticism in the 20th century is likely to solve the ancient antinomy, action-contemplation, by the efforts of pressagent monks or by an exodus from our monasteries to search for activity in the world at large...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, 53, bestselling controversialist (The Affluent Society), Harvard economics professor and sometime speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. Canadian-born Galbraith has had half a dozen Government jobs, since 1956 has compiled searching surveys of India's economy, and is now Ambassador to India...
...particularly tickled by The Last Hurrah. Ken Galbraith still has to fork out $500 a gross for the book that influential Indians seem to want most. Says he: "I thought it would be a bit raw to have the Ford Foundation buy up a supply of The Affluent Society...
...lesser-known works of his first year was supplying Indians with American books, obtained with a Ford Foundation grant. The Last Hurrah pleased Nehru but "the book that influential Indians seem to want most" is Galbraith's own The Affluent Society...