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...recession to the goal of faster growth, Heller is "basically hopeful and optimistic about what can be accomplished," he says. "My awareness of the seriousness of the situation is balanced by a conviction that we can do something about it - and without interference in the basic freedom of our capitalist system...
...1930s, the Depression economics of Britain's John Maynard Keynes modified classical doctrines, but it still had a whiff of the "dismal science" about it: the internal dynamism of the capitalist economy was gone forever, as Keynes saw it, and permanent government manipulation would be needed to keep the economy from sinking into stagnation. Even after the splendid performance of the U.S. economy in World War II (in part because of planning, in part in spite of it), economists tended to take a melancholy view of what lay ahead, predicted massive transitional unemployment. It was against this somber background...
...Keller family, despite its typical appearance, is in a bad way, Joe is a murderer Chris, the son, is an idealistic capitalist-to-be: and Mrs. Keller is a neurotic (she has migraine headaches and insists her son is still alive). Chris wants to marry Ann Deever, his brother's former sweetheart and, by the way, the daughter of his father's partner. Chris discovers his father's guilt and is disillusioned; Joe discovers that his older son had committed suicide when he heard about his father's crime, and shoots himself...
...nuances to loyal Moscow party organizers. The Communist revolution, said Khrushchev, is not in favor of big wars or "local wars" of the Suez type that might blaze up and get out of control; but Communism will encourage and support "without reservation" all "national liberation wars" that might hurt "capitalist imperialism." In other words, the Russians would go on subsidizing subversion and stoking up revolution wherever it suited them. "National liberation wars" that Communism backs as "sacred," said Khrushchev, are being waged in Cuba, Algeria and Laos. In short, coexistence, as seen by Khrushchev, meant making as much trouble...
While the Veritas Committee worries about the evil effects of Keynesian economics upon undergraduates, a group of sophomores have given the capitalist tradition an invigorating shot in the arm. A greeting card company founded by Richard D. Copaken '63 and Mark E. Talisman '63 has met with such success that major firms are being forced to imitate their line...