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...doing business. He thought that his presence might intimidate people. He liked to get information orally, in small groups or one-to-one, or else in memos from those people he trusted and admired-his brother Bobby and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., for example, or John Kenneth Galbraith, whose elegantly intelligent reports he always enjoyed reading. Kennedy detested long, tiresome memos from the bureaucracy. He complained that the functionaries at the State Department were incapable of getting to the point, to the essence, in their reports...
...this Buckley who hosts a special on Brideshead Revisited, writes a thrice weekly conservative column, publishes essays everywhere. This is the Buckley that historian Theodore H. White called "the rarest American conservative." This Buckley tells a Crimson editor that his "hope" for a Harvard debate with John Kenneth Galbraith "is that my knowledge of economics should trickle down to Professor Galbraith...
Despite denials like this, observers cannot mistake the political inclinations of the seminar's guest speakers. The list includes Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), the Presidential candidate whose espousal of industrial policy made the concept a political force: Democratic elder statesman John Kenneth Galbraith (scheduled for later this year), and officials of the United Auto Workers...
...while reading John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Age of Uncertainty" in the American books section of a library in Shanghai, China. Ching-hua Tang came across a picture of the Harvard Business School. Impressed by the beauty of the campus, Tang dreamed of one day coming to the B-School to study...
...obvious that Harvard's Robert Reich [May 2] springs from the same source as John Maynard Keynes and John Kenneth Galbraith. Can anyone seriously suggest expanding the role of Government in business? It is just this kind of interference that has had a destabilizing influence on our economy. Reich's proposals can only result in further currency debasement, greater unemployment, less productivity and, finally, in an almost certain economic debacle...