Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor is Harvard Economist Carl Kaysen, 46, an energetic generalist who has been a weapons consultant to the Pentagon, an antitrust scholar, a foreign affairs adviser to President Kennedy. A rare breed for the Institute, he is not a noted specialist in anything, but his Harvard colleague, J. Kenneth Galbraith, calls him "the most perfectly informed man I have ever known...
Understandably, Buckley has trouble finding targets. Kenneth Galbraith and Jackie Robinson declined on the grounds that the honorarium, $320, was insufficient. Senator William Fulbright didn't even reply to his invitation, and both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy begged off (TIME, April 8). A shortage of guests is the only thing that could stop Firing Line from running forever. That wouldn't necessarily put Buckley out of show business. Last week, after taping a program on the U.S. theater, his guest, David Merrick, offered him a Broadway part. Buckley declined. He is his own best producer...
...almost the same time Galbraith spoke, Walter Lippman '10 was making some of the same points in a speech in California. Modern man, he said, has been emancipated from traditional authority and is now looking for some reservoir of wisdom and truth from which he can draw. Lippman suggested that the universities will ultimately take on this role, even in areas of public policy...
...Galbraith argued in the same speech that not all academics have learned how to serve the political ideas they have adopted...
...identify one's self dramatically with an idea is not to serve it," Galbraith argued. And how should scholars promote their ideas? Many would argue that the system is unhealthy and must be circumvented. Perhaps it will be one goal of the Kennedy Institute to provide means for those scholars who want their ideas to be heard in the government. The urgency of the present student protests suggests that if academics continue to experience frustration at the hands of the government they may become a disruptive political influence -- one that feels it has no place in the society, one that...