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...John Kenneth Galbraith [Feb. 16] is like all intellectuals: he cannot appreciate the idea that the average human being can manage his own life successfully. He has no faith in the people. Men's lives have to be regulated and controlled by the likes of Galbraith. History records that every demagogue had a plan of social improvement, and then the "ball and chain...
...TIME is wise to attribute "all-purpose bore" as descriptive of Galbraith to an intangible some. It is not likely to have come from anyone who has heard or read the man. To one who disagrees with him, Galbraith may seem platitudinous, or wrong, or oppressively clever, but not, in the interest of fact, a bore...
...Steps of the Pentagon" is a true nonfiction novel. Mailer is eminently a novelist and eminently a journalist--he is remarkably accurate at being both. The combination is a daring achievement. Novak and Evans or Knebel or Galbraith write novels based on contemporary journalistic events, but they are related to their own reality as science fiction is related to science--a fantastic but logical extension of reality. What Mailer achieves is a deep personalization of the event. And his success as a journalist can be attributed to his talent as a novelist. As he writes of himself...
POLITICIANS and intellectuals have always been the uneasiest of bedfellows. Members of the academic community constantly complain that too little attention is paid to their insights on policy matters; party stalwarts respond to academic criticism by observing that John Kenneth Galbraith gets out very few votes in East Boston on election...
...there are civilian uprisings--which I would not be surprised to see in the next few months because of what we are doing to defend the cities now--if this did happen, what would the response of the United States be? If Thieu and Ky fall, as Professor Galbraith suggests, what...