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Invited to the seminar are John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Government; and Gino Germani, an Argentine sociologist teaching at Harvard...
John Kenneth Galbraith, peripatetic ambassador, author, political adviser and now professor at Harvard, took the occasion of his 60th birthday for a bit of mental meandering. On age: "I shan't be sorry when men begin to refer to me as old. But I'll be awfully sorry when women do." On politics: "Don't go near any political headquarters. Except for a stirring at election time, they're a kind of grim repository of people who like politics and can't get jobs elsewhere." On the Washington scene: "No tourist should leave Washington without...
...Galbraith said yesterday he agrees with Hoving's widely-publicized charge that network TV is "trivia." Many people want trivia, but some mixture of "good broadcasting with the trivia" is needed, he said...
Critics have charged that the committee is a "paper operation." "Some of the network people hoped it would be, but the committee is staffed with people who want to see something happen," Galbraith said...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Nathan Glazer, visiting professor of Education and Social Structure, have been appointed trustees of the National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting...