Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is that virtually no non-Keynesian economics, that is, "classical" or "laissez-faire" economics, finds its way into the course, except in derogatory terms. In Samuelson's "Economics," basic reading for Ec 1, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek are relegated to two brief footnotes each (Yes indeed, who are they?). Wilhelm Roepke isn't even mentioned. In one of the sections, Henry Hazlitt was denounced as representative of the most "reactionary" economic views today, fortunately limited only to a "fringe" group. There is practically no analysis this year of Adam Smith, Spencer, Alfred Marshall, W.G. Sumner...
...Baldwin was far too severe: certainly the Debussy at least was not "musically unacceptable"--and it was performed after a minimum of rehearsal time. The Brahms, also, was not without merit: the piece is fiendishly difficult, with great rhythmic complexities and breathtaking high divisi passages in the strings which, except for some raggedness, came out with surprisingly good intonation; and the sudden rests, traps for any amateur orchestra, were for once clearly defined--which does not seem to indicate "imprecision" in Mr. Poto. I thought that the Brahms was far from "lifeless"--indeed quite vital...
...intramural hockey teams except Matthews-Massachusetts will play tomorrow night at Watson Rink...
...Insurance Co., became president, succeeding Calvin Fentress Jr., 49, who moved up to board chairman. Born in Coldwater, Mich., where his family still operates one of Michigan's oldest retail stores, Branch was hired by Allstate for its auto-insurance operation in 1934, has stayed on ever since (except for World War II service as an Army corporal), rising to treasurer, vice president and senior vice president...
...arrived in Austria with nothing except "a little vocabulary" of amorous German words which he had picked up in the arms of an innkeeper's wife at the border. Da Ponte boldly demanded the post of Poet to the Theaters. Asked by the Emperor how many plays he had written, Da Ponte for once gave an honest reply: "None, Sire." The Emperor was impressed. "Good, good! Then we shall have a virgin muse," he said...