Word: hume
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feelings among upper-level society that "opulence" for the "lower ranks" would be very dangerous. Smith's revolutionary concepts took some time to catch on. But The Wealth of Nations was read by all the leading intellects of the time and praised by many, including Smith's friends David Hume and Edmund Burke. By the early 19th century, Smith's doctrine had conquered the academic world and began inspiring governments to unchain their economies. In 1846, for example, British reformers quoting The Wealth of Nations repealed the Corn Laws, which had kept food prices high by restricting imports. U.S. state...
...tradition that a President's photographer should see and snap but not be seen and snapped. However, David Hume Kennedy, 27, in his six months as Gerald Ford's official picture taker, has at times seemed more celebrated than his subject-especially last month when he suddenly appeared in the news squiring Actress Candice Bergen, 28, herself on a Kennerly-conceived Ford photo assignment...
...asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President went dutifully through his routine as the shutters clicked. After the two had gone, Kennerly was summoned back to Ford's desk. There stood a somber Ford with Aides Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. "We have taken a vote," pronounced Ford...
...Ladies' Home Journal is not so dumb. It commissioned Renaissance Woman Candice Bergen, 28, to get inside the White House and shoot some informal pictures of the First Family. Candy had already caught the eye of official White House Photographer David Hume Kennerly, who obligingly set up exclusive photo sessions for her. Candy seemed exclusive too. So it was that an envious Washington photo corps saw Candy and David not only stepping out together at the state dinner for visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto but even indulging in a little slap-and-tickle as well...
...David Hume could out-consume...