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Benjamin M. Friedman, professor of Economics, said yesterday that the third year of Reagan's proposal "may prove inflationary," adding that "it will come at a time when it might not be obvious that we need...
When Brokaw takes up his expanded duties, a new, younger generation of anchormen will mostly be in place at all three networks. Says Today show Executive Producer Steve Friedman: "It is time for the Rathers, the Brokaws, the Koppels to take the torch. Brokaw and Mudd are going to be the Huntley and Brinkley of the '80s." But CBS News President Bill Leonard cautions that after the wooing is over, friction can develop: "It's always more complicated when people get married. There's potential for a marvelous marriage-and for all kinds of trouble...
...same night, 33 years later. Now the third of the series, which began a three-week run off-Broadway last week, returns to Independence Day 1944, with the action of A Tale Told supposedly unfolding at the same time as that of Talley's Folly. While Matt Friedman and Sally Talley, the hero and heroine of that earlier play, are trysting down by the boat-house-unseen here, of course-the rest of the Talleys are in the big house up the hill, demonstrating as best they can that hate is as strong a bond as love...
...this assumption, as handy as it might be for the world's voracious strivers, presents a considerable affront to those who think greed is a bad thing, among whom, I suspect, is Galbraith. So while Adam Smith and his spirtual heirs, from Alfred Marshall to Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure the production of privately produced goods, but society needs a counterforce to the less noble parts of man's character--a democratically elected government. In The Affluent Society, Galbraith pointed out that mere...
...city of Berkeley, in the days before Messrs. Jarvis and Gann' and Professor Milton Friedman made the spending of money on urban sanitation an infringement of personal liberty, was sparkling clean and covered with geraniums....Especially in the filthy snows of winter, Cambridge was a dismal contrast. Harvard's random architecture, drifting incoherently into the city, did little for one's soul. Old Harvard men are known to love it. There is no accounting for taste...