Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern academic world. It is wrong, accordingly, to attribute to repression what, in all fairness, must be blamed on ill-advised interference and the resulting ineptitude. On the assumption that God prefers the latter to wicked intent one is right to ask for charitable judgment. John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith...
...third candidate for Mr. Wilson's post has connections with an untapped reservoir of basketball strength--the New Delhi school-yards. At 6-8 Galbraith might even fit into the picture as player-coach. Next year's Ivy League championship game could feature a head-to-head shoving match between Galbraith and Columbia's other-worldly flake, 7-0 Dave Newmark. We've been told (and George Plympton should know) that the Canadian-born scholar is quite a mover. Fast big men are hard to find...
...with the other candidates, there are obstacles to Galbraith's getting the job. First, he'd have to give up his skiing weekends in Switzerland--although he might be able to arrange with Telstar for transmission of inspiring halftime talks to his boys. That way he could avoid close contact with the undergraduates...
Second, one wonders whether he could adapt his theories of the Affluent Society sufficiently to mollify the abusive Harvard Society of Masochists. One hopes so: imagine Galbraith, immaculately tailored, swinging his walking stick against the hardwood, cursing at Jack Rohan's Columbian technocrats. "Gallagher," he might say, "you must maximize your scoring output without University...