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Conservative members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers sought to block Galbraith from receiving tenure. But this time, Conant took Galbraith??s side, and in 1949, the 41-year-old became a full professor. He purchased a house on Francis Avenue near the Divinity School, where he lived for the rest of his life...
...expression of the undeniable fact that our society makes qualitative judgments based on material possessions. Some years ago, several teenagers committed murder to get hold of Nike Jordan sneakers, just like many have been killed in iPod-related assaults. This is not even about Professor John K. Galbraith??s argument on advertisements creating mirages of brand loyalty, but about our social motto of “you are what you own.” Food obsessions and brand deification are instances of the same materialist problem...