Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Galbraith, throughout the novel, seems to delight in tipping sacred cows. Actually, he accords tenure more respect than he does many other traditions that appear in the book. His satires, given his volumes of knowledge, are especially biting. And very little of the Harvard community escapes his eye. Neither the Corporation, nor the Faculty Club, nor Student activists are safe...
...Galbraith, after all, is a thinly veiled narrator--he assumes a number of fictional personas throughout his book. The most obvious of them, the character most closely allied with Galbraith's own public persona, is the title character, Montgomery Marvin, a professor of economics...
...John Kenneth Galbraith...
Marvin's excesses, of course, are the result of years of shored-up liberalism, of years spent awaiting tenure. Galbraith might not be subtle, but he most certainly is clever, imaginative and funny...
...Tenured Professor, despite its excesses and factual inaccuracies (Galbraith at one point has Harvard investing $200 million while Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu sits on its Board of Overseers), resonates with a feeling of reality. Galbraith, after all, realizes how things work--he understands America's economy; he perceives its societally-imposed norms; and he knows Harvard. This realistic overcast to the sage professor's satire is disturbing, because when all is said and done, his comedy is biting, and its tone is black...