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...Industrial State, John Kenneth Galbraith discussed the prospect of government and corporation financing of the social sciences...
Social Sciences 134, taught by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economies, has leapt from seventh place last year to second, with 350 students. this Fall Galbraith's course on "The Modern Industrial Society" has bumped Economics 1 to third place from a position in the top two which it held for the previous five years...
...Galbraith sardonically sweated his way through the routines of a "ceremonial existence." He met VIP planes. He attended weddings. He put in appearances at worthy institutions-farming villages, universities, factories. He gave countless speeches. He entertained American tourists: the Harvard Glee Club, the Davis Cup team, Lyndon Baines Johnson ("genuinely intelligent") and, finally, Jackie Kennedy. Social duties also involved suffering fools gladly, like the Indian industrialist of whom he wrote: "No one could be rich enough to buy the right to be such a bore...
...Galbraith is down on the local food: "I have never been in a city where it is so easy to lose weight." On the whole, however, India gets high grades from the professor. It is Washington that he really cannot abide. He complains of the way jet fighters were shipped to India's unfriendly neighbor Pakistan. It was, he remarks acidly, about as furtive as "mass sodomy on the B.M.T. at rush hour." But it is another vexing American institution, the State Department-which he considers short on policy, long on platitude-that Galbraith finds hardest to forgive. "Mindless...
Overdeveloped Women. Galbraith obviously was not easy for the bureaucrats to handle. In government, he observes, "people get boxed only when they won't kick their way out." Galbraith was a tutor at Harvard when Jack Kennedy was a blithe undergraduate. Perhaps partly as a result, he did not hesitate to go to the top with his complaints. He also took it upon himself to advise the young President not only on Indian affairs but about Berlin and Viet Nam too, sounding early warnings against military intervention in Southeast Asia. Counseling and criticizing, he variously complained that "money serves...