Word: galbraithe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...futile to argue with his contentions. Buckley is essentially a high school debater who has stumbled into the big leagues. He is more interested in scoring points than in ascertaining the veracity of his position. Like Galbraith, however, he is impossible to hate because he has a fine sense of humor and an endearing self-love. His writing can be of little use to anybody, except maybe those left wingers who dip into his prose like a box of creamy chocolates any time they need self-assurance...
Mandel applied for a non-immigrant visa in Brussels on Sept, 8, 1969, seeking permission to enter the U.S. for six days to attend a conference on economics at Stanford University. Mandel was supposed to debate John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, on the topic "Technology and the Third World...
...statement of support this morning, Galbraith, who is chairman of the Harvard Students for McGovern, will say, "No other man can challenge Senator McGovern's leadership in the battle to reorder our present distorted priorities. No other candidate, actual or potential, has his record of steadfast opposition to the Indochina...
...setting would be considered fair play, a verbal means of keeping one's own balance by staying out of the magnetic attraction of a world-renowned intellectual presence. How many times have Harvard students walked through the streets around Harvard Square without seeing such figures as James Baldwin, J.K. Galbraith, Eric Erikson, Edmund Wilson, James Dickey, Robert P. Warren, Norman Mailer, to name only those whom I have personally seen. These men seem to belong in the Cambridge setting, even if in many cases they visit Harvard only as guest lecturers. It would be impolite to be too impressed...
...year leaves, Reischauer, Bundy, and Schlesinger tendered their resignations from Harvard. Galbraith obtained a special six-month extension of his leave because he did not feel that he could leave his post during a border flare-up between India and China...