Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, disentangling the universities, the corporations, and the government would be a difficult task. For as John Kenneth Galbraith as-tutely argues in The New Industrial State--and his observations are not particularly original in this respect--the twentieth century has witnessed a growing dependence of both politicians and businessmen on academic talent...
This relationship has deepened, because universities produced most of this nation's scientific innovations and discoveries, not to mention much of the analytic and theoretical social science that is indispensable to policy-makers. As this has occurred, and outside funds for research and development have flooded college communities, Galbraith claims, universities have already abdicated their traditional roles as the mainsprings of reasoned, sophisticated dissent in America...
...Industrial State, Galbraith...
...Peace Prize to admit to even a single incarceration, marched off to jail last week for at least the 15th time. Garbed in his regular Bastille Day uniform-denim shirt, sweater and blue work pants-King flew from Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala., toting three books, the Bible, John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. "I am sad," he noted, "that the Supreme Court could...
...Minnesota Senator along with John Kenneth Galbraith, national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), will address a Y.D. Convention banquet Saturday evening. McCarthy could announce according to several reliable sources close to the Senator, that he will challenge President Johnson for the 1968 Democratic Presidential Nomination...