Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galbraiths' own commencement-time party in the spring is famous in Cambridge, as is the "young people's party" they give in the winter for sons and daughters of their friends. Galbraith's dancing style, which consists mostly of hopping up and down in place, has been described as the "pogo-stick stomp." The Galbraiths have three sons of their own: John Alan, 26 (Harvard '63), a clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk; Peter, 17, an eleventh-grader at Boston's Commonwealth School; James, 16, a sophomore at Andover. A fourth, Douglas, died of leukemia...
Drunken Pretzel. As an analyst of affluence, Galbraith does not speak from the curious outside. He summers on the family's 247-acre farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...
Lordly might also describe his pedagogical style. For all his fame, Galbraith is regularly panned by the Harvard Crimson's Confidential Guide to undergraduate courses. "Vague platitudes on assorted cosmic questions," complains one of his students, "are apparently received through the office of divine revelation." Is he arrogant? "Oh, yes, of course," says his sister Catherine. "But his arrogance is always with tongue in cheek. It's part of his charm. He is also a kindly man, which isn't often mentioned...
Attractive women, however, almost invariably appreciate him?and vice versa. Manhattan Freelance Writer (and Jet Setter) Gloria Steinem finds him "overpowering." Actress Angie Dickinson describes him as "fascinating and funny." Galbraith's yet-to-be-published India diaries return the compliment. "She has fair, pure skin," he cooed after sitting next to Angie on a transcontinental jet in 1961, "blonde to vaguely reddish hair, merry eyes and a neat, unstarved body." Despite his obviously observant eye, Miss Dickinson, who visited the subcontinent in 1962, doubts that he has any "serious romances?or any romances...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, said Wednesday that the next few weeks will bring "the disappearance of anything that can effectively be called a government" in South Vietnam...