Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Likewise, books such as The Organization Man depict the business world as a most unappetizing set of soul-sellings (how many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
...Department is now seeking two visiting professors with one-year appointments to replace John Kenneth Galbraith and Carl Kaysen, who will leave for positions in the Kennedy Administration and all presumably be away for more than a year. Another senior member of the Department, David E. Bell, has already been armed Budget Director by President Kennedy...
Local communities cannot appreciate the interests of the total society, Galbraith stated, because they are occupied with regional goals...
Taken as a whole, these various factors result in discrimination against educational expenditure, according to Galbraith. With its broad revenue base and capacity to view the needs of the total society, the federal government constitutes the only reasonable agency for financing public education...
...Finally, Galbraith recommended that educators themselves eliminate such "subverting nonsense" as home economics and marriage counseling courses. "Mercy should not be the ruling passion" in dealing with athletic coaches and life adjustment counsellors, he said...