Word: hazlitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineups: Leverett: re., Watt, Cameron; rt, Thorn, Neville; rg., Max, Carlisle; c, Grant, Thorne; lg, Connolly, Frank; lt, Baker, Hazlitt; Ic, Duble; backs, Mayer, Staples, Sayder, Bentley, Warren, Katz, Holler, Oburchay...
Leverett: re, Butler; rt, Thorn; rg, Max, Carlisle; c, Grant, Strauss; lg, Frank, Connelly; lt, Baker, Hazlitt; le, Duble; backs, Mayer, Schneider, Staples, Hurley, Heller, Bentley...
...depend on this book by the Financial Editor of the "New York Times" for aid on that Ec A final. Mr. Hazlitt is one of those whose hearts are in the right place, but whose eyes turn persistently in the wrong direction. He sets out to discuss the "new" economics of Professors Keynes and Hansen; he succeeds in venting his anger at every other conceivable economic group...
Whether one agrees with Hansen or Hazlitt, he must recognize that the latter is setting the economist a well-nigh impossible task. Forecasting the "long-run" effects of any policy calls for the talents of a Nostrodamus far more than for the skills of a social scientist. The awe-inspiring speed of twentieth-century technological change, and the sweeping alterations which it makes in social structure, render any long-range prognostication a risky business at best...
Actor Richardson's Falstaff was very likely the best that this generation had seen. It caught the lustiness as well as the wit. Falstaff was indeed "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts" in the chambers of whose brain, as Hazlitt quoted, "it snows of meat and drink." Whether playing dead or playing the hero, making light of honor or rhapsodizing about sack, impersonating the King or embracing blowzy Doll Tearsheet (amusingly played by Joyce Redman), he rolled through the play, the greatest comic figure in English literature...