Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slights, insults and crimes. On the trail of a double-crossing jewel thief or of a big-time narcotics gang, he'd snap orders to Crocker and Stavros, ignore the warnings offered by the ancient lieutenant and press on--determined to catch his man. And, amazing in an age where the South Koreans owned Congress and the Nixon gang made money off Watergate, there could be no fix. When it came to Theo Kojak, the Knapp Commission was out-to-lunch. He just couldn't be bought: the nation's last honest cop. Maybe the nation's last honest...
TREADING THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY is a little bit like taking a stroll through your old home town with your grandfather: you don't expect to see or hear anything startling, but his attendance to 'long-ignored detail with the personal, insider's touch almost makes the thing worthwhile. Grandpa Galbraith has been around for a long time; The Age of Uncertainty breaks no new ground in his own intellectual development. And you probably know much of the stuff he talks about already: Smith on the division of labor, Keynes on the role of government economic intervention, Khruschev on peaceful...
...along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs and etchings of famous economists revolutionaries, Tibetan palaces, and myriad other unpredictable items...
Galbraith's sappy praise for Keynes stands out all the more when contrasted with the light in which the author places almost every other thinker, businessman, and institution that crosses his path: dim. Wht saves The Age of Uncertainty from being a history text is the personal touch. Tour-guide Galbraith knows the landscape well, but so well that he can't resist editorializing about each sight. Few are spared as Galbraith talks about the Pentagon ("Were [the Crusades] under the auspices of the Pentagon, it would still be heard that, in the Holy Land, there was light...
...FORTUNATELY, CONVERGENCE IS one thing The Age of Uncertainty does not have. Besides expressing (frequently) his extreme dislike for nuclear war, Galbraith does little to synthesize his stray editorial comments. The book amounts to a diary of sorts, a wry personal narrative on economic thought and modern politics. Admittedly, Galbraith has the boldness and ability to step out of chronological sequence and tie together ideas and people in ways that make the process a little more understandable. But take the cover (glossy and liberally sprinkled with gold and silver) and the price ($15.95; to rise to $17.95 after the television...