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...Winthrop House residents have been invited to a dinner in honor of Warburg Professor of Economics John Kenneth Galbraith...
Much of the hoopla revolves around the presence of "distinguished guests" at the houses. These honored guests include Powell Professor of American Literature Alan Heimert '49, the master of Eliot House, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky '59, a member of the Harvard Corporation, and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus...
...Harvard bigwigs were asked "for the titles of four to six books and the reasons why each book came to mind," as the editors write in their introduction. Some big names, including professors Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith and Stanley Hoffmann even took the time to respond. Alan Dershowitz is not represented, maybe because respondents were not allowed to list their own works...
...powerful an influence upon the nation as has any other private institution. Six Presidents, from John Adams to John F. Kennedy, came from Harvard, bringing with them some potent Cambridge-bred notions and cronies. Franklin D. Roosevelt had his New Deal, whose underlying Keynesianism, says Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, was imported from Cambridge. J.F.K. had his best and brightest, including Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. Harvard's Henry Kissinger surely was the most powerful figure in the Nixon and Ford Administrations...
...less impressive, e.g., Harvey Cox at the Divinity School, Robert Coles in psychiatry, Martin Feldstein in economics. "The critical mass of talent there is stunning," says Chancellor Joseph Duffey of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Faculty ideologies range from the Marxism of Historian John Womack to Galbraith's liberalist economics to the conservative political science of James Q. Wilson to the libertarian ruminations of Philosopher Robert Nozick. "This," says John Shattuck, vice president for government affairs, "is a very dynamic and chaotic institution...