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...writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring Lardner underrated, while Vladimir Nabokov found H.G. Wells' The Passionate Friends the century's most "unjustly ignored masterpiece," though he had not read it for 60 years. Bob Dylan named only one book, which was, he said, both underrated and overrated. His selection: the Bible...
Sadlowski has the backing of Ralph Nader, Victor Reuther (brother of the late Walter), liberal Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, who gives money to liberal causes. Most established labor chiefs, like George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, oppose Sadlowski...
British citizens viewed the first episode last Wednesday. Galbraith said in an interview with the Sunday Times of London after the showing, "With the press Milton Friedman [this year's Nobel prize winner in Economics and a conservative in Economics policy] has been getting, this series is my bid for equal time...
...textbook written by Galbraith, "The Age of Uncertainty: A History of Economic Ideas and their Consequences," will be released by the University of California on March 29, in conjunction with the series...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, said yesterday. "It is a fascinating idea. Galbraith has the personal character to carry it off successfully." William H. Lazonick, assistant professor of Economics, added. "Anything Galbraith does is bound to be entertaining...