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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic, The Reporter, and Harper's--book reviews, light off-beat articles, discussions with roots in economics but branches in all corners of the contemporary scene. His fluent presentation combines charm and wit, and as he remarks in the foreword to one book, "I think the reader will find this a good-humored book. There is a place, no doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded from the field, while...
These "discussions" take place each Thursday at Winthrop's "Economics Table," where a shifting line-up always features Galbraith at the head of the table and such pinch hitters as Lady Jackson (Barbard Ward) and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., with as many tutors and undergrads as can find room...
...fairly successful. In the late spring of 1923 Wolfe was elated, and confident of commercial success. Baker had submitted the play to the Theater Guild, and Wolfe considered himself a buding dramatist: "I am a slave to the thing; my mind is filled with it night and day. I find I have become an evesdropper, I listen to every conversation I hear, I memorize every word I hear people say, in the way they say it. I find myself studying every move, every gesture, every expression, trying to see what it means dramatically...
...purpose of accelerator experiments, Livingston says, is to "learn more about nuclear force,' to find out "why certain particles (protons, electrons, neutrons, etc.) are the only stable forms of matter." He believes that this new and unique electron accelerator will accomplish much toward answering these questions...
...travel out, whether by rickshaw, Volks-wagen or the Belmont bus, to the Fresh Pond rotary and you will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...