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...radical without radical economics--he had no alternatives to neoclassical theory to offer, and felt he "couldn't reject the only thing I had." IN 1969, one graduate student asked him. "How come if you're as radical as all this, you're doing all this neoclassical crap?" He answered. "If all you can do is fiddle while Rome is burning, then you fiddle." Two years later, the same grad student heard Marglin speak, and told him the difference was "like night...
...committee interviewed candidates and eventually offered one the job, but he rejected it out of concern for staff laxity, and especially, the growing desire among the staff to sell the paper ("instead of riding it out," as one staff members says, "waiting until it turned into a piece of crap...
Enough of this nonsense about torches of liberty and frontier spirit, he would shout to the crowd. And enough of this guerilla-theater message-to-Wall-Street crap. I ask you all to act with the zeal of civic sacrifice that was so noble among the men and women of this nation in the throes of its birth. Starting tomorrow I am drafting all Americans between the ages of 21 and 30 into a civil militia. For one year each of you will serve the nation without pay, in some public service capacity. You will have a broad selection...
...consistently reelected by the Coop membership, until he moved out of state last year. Under the new system, Steele would never get elected. This year another student Coop member, Brad Marvin, planned to run for the board. But the Coop management had apparently had enough of that crap with Steele...
Bookbinder probed deeper. If Congress cut off aid to South Viet Nam, he asked, might that endanger the solidity of U.S. commitments to any nation, including Israel? "That's crap," insisted a booming voice in a corner. "Israel is different from Viet Nam." On moral grounds? Yes, but the group also groped to define the harder, geopolitical reasons why the U.S. needs Israel as an ally in the Middle East. Finally one man said: "We have to convince others that the interests of Israel remain basic to the interests of the American people because Israel is a free democracy." Bookbinder...