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President Pusey and other administrators offered retorts to John Kenneth Galbraith's published attack on the Harvard governing system. Pusey said Galbraith's article was "wrong on just about everything," and especially in its suggestion that the Faculty choose Harvard deans. Pusey said that the Corporation should make administrative appointments because it was able to weigh "a wider range of relevancies...
...example, the article this year that, until the occupation, stirred the most controversy among readers was a short sermon by John Kenneth Galbraith on the need for restructuring at Harvard. ("The experience of Columbia is there for all to read.") More scandalous was a December 2 cover reproducing the Truc poster of a bare-assed lady milking a unicorn. (One reader suggested an apt place for the Harvard-Yale game scores.) Other articles have been about the international student movement and Dr. Timothy Leary. One issue included an almost complete reprint of the Wilson Report...
...first days of the New Frontier is now widely regarded as corruption and betrayal. Under John Kennedy and on into the Johnson Administration, the intellectual seemed ubiquitous -moving back and forth among the universities, government, business and industry. Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith were dispatched as ambassadors to Japan and India. "Pragmatic" intellectuals like Economist Walt Rostow and the Bundy brothers, McGeorge and William, helped to formulate the war's policies and rationale. As they did so, the schism in the intellectual community widened...
While I am on this writing spree--does Harvard not have any Conservative faculty members? It seems that all one hears about are the Arthur Schlesinger Jrs. and the John Kenneth Galbraiths. In fact, it was largely due to this situation and Mr. Galbraith's de haut en bas attitude towards the Harvard Business School as reported in the Wall St. Journal (while he is battening on the fruits of of the Affluent Society created by Capitalism) that I recently changed my will leaving half my estate in trust to the Harvard Business School instead of to Harvard University...
...letter is signed by Barrington Moore Jr., Martin Peretz, John Womack '59, Ned Keenan '57, I. Bernard Cohen '37, Stanley Hoffmann, Michael Walzer, Tracy B. Strong, Marc J. Roberts '64, John Kenneth Galbraith, Harry T. Levin '33, H. Stuart Hughes and Judith Hughes...