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...Keynesianism was flourishing in the late 1950s and the 1960s, the new economists are now professors in their own right at universities around the country. Among them: Martin Feldstein, 39, of Harvard, who is the leading thinker in the group; Robert Lucas, 41, of the University of Chicago; Michael Boskin, 33, of Stanford; Rudiger Dornbusch, 37, and Stanley Fischer, 35, both of M.I.T.; as well as many, many others...
Contended Stanford Economist Michael Boskin: "To deal with inflation, we must get Government spending under control. The longer we wait, the worse the biting of the bullet will be." University of Chicago Economist Walter Fackler insisted that neither voluntary nor mandatory restraints on wages and prices will work. "It's all just a silly game, a ritual we go through periodically. We will have inflation as long as the Federal Reserve continues to pump more money into the system." Yet the President could hardly present a plan for directing the Federal Reserve Board's policies since...
...YEARS AGO, The New York Time characterized Cambridge as a traditional Old World city. Since then, however, much of the local flavor has made way for Boskin Robbin's 3 Flavors and other nation-wide chains. The impending John F. Kennedy Library Center or Boylston St. in the present MBTA yard will further transform the Harvard Square area in the next five years. Over a million tourists a year unexpected to visit the Kennedy Library. Undoubtedly, streets will have to be rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will flee before an onslaught of hotels tourist shops...
...which makes him a convenient scapegoat. After all, it is a role that he has played throughout history. "He is still insecure about his place in American society," suggests Psychiatrist Jack Morganstern of U.C.L.A. "You hit him and he's going to hesitate about hitting you back." Historian Joseph Boskin of the University of Southern California points out that the Jewish sense of liberalism and fair play sometimes borders on masochism. "If you have a fair-housing march through a white neighborhood," he says, "the Negroes will have their heads torn off. If they go through a Jewish neighborhood, half...
Noyes thinks that annihilation is the best thing that could have happened to the debased human race. He has a high old time making his death ray catch in compromising positions all kinds of people who have irked Poet Noyes for years. There is moralizing Critic Sir Herbert Boskin & wife. On a sofa Lady Boskin "was in the arms of a dead man with a long, pale nose, and a red mustache, which gave a touch of macabre comedy to their attitude. . . ." Sir Herbert was in another room, "as dead," observes Poet Noyes gleefully, "as Napoleon. ... On a table beside...