Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNCERTAINTY is a little bit like taking a stroll through your old home town with your grandfather: you don't expect to see or hear anything startling, but his attendance to 'long-ignored detail with the personal, insider's touch almost makes the thing worthwhile. Grandpa Galbraith has been around for a long time; The Age of Uncertainty breaks no new ground in his own intellectual development. And you probably know much of the stuff he talks about already: Smith on the division of labor, Keynes on the role of government economic intervention, Khruschev on peaceful co-existence...
...book grows from a television series Galbraith filmed for the BBC along the lines of J. Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs...
...Uncertainty, Galbraith...
...Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan always kept a Trollope novel on his night table. He marveled at the paradox that Trollope's novels are so sound politically, while those of Disraeli, the most adroit politician of the Victorian era, are so patently false. John Kenneth Galbraith confesses to being a Trollope junkie. "For many years I didn't think I could go on vacation without a Trollope novel," says Galbraith. "He's a narcotic...
...struggles for power within the Anglican Church and the Victorian crises of conscience are interesting but not unduly exciting, absorbing but not all-involving. Best of all, the stories go on seemingly forever and satisfy the modern taste for family sagas -just look at Roots and Upstairs, Downstairs. Says Galbraith: "Anybody who tells you he has read all of Trollope is a liar. No matter how old you are, you'll always find another volume you haven't read before...