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...story. When he read brief biographies of Woodward and Bernstein he was fascinated by the odd-couple quality of their pairing?a Wasp and a Jew, one cool and controlled, the other more voluble and volatile. Characteristically?he is a man much more interested in people than in ideas???"that was the first time I saw the potential film." He adds: "I remember thinking, 'This is very interesting, a study in opposing characters and how they work together.' I'm really fascinated by how people do things...
Friedman is a man totally devoted to ideas???isolating them in pure form, expressing them in uncompromising terms and following them wherever they may lead. His basic philosophy is simple and unoriginal: personal freedom is the supreme good?in economic, political and social relations. What is unusual is his consistency in applying this principle to any and all problems, regardless of whom he dismays or pleases, and even regardless of the practical difficulties of putting it into effect. He alternately delights and infuriates conservatives, New Left radicals and almost every group in the crowded middle road...
...richest and most expansionist. In Washington the men who formulate the nation's economic policies have used Keynesian principles not only to avoid the violent cycles of prewar days but to produce a phenomenal economic growth and to achieve remarkably stable prices. In 1965 they skillfully applied Keynes's ideas???together with a number of their own invention?to lift the nation through the fifth, and best, consecutive year of the most sizable, prolonged and widely distributed prosperity in history...
...human family is guided best by individuals not seeking power and the glow of self-importance. So let us still continue our method of developing geniuses where experience and environment build thoughts and ideas???which hardly can be created in a cold superchamber of the "intelligentsia," so-called. There will always be a varied group of humans?and to suppress the egotistical and so-called dictators is pleasant game for the masses or "rabble." Germany and its Aryan and non-Aryan idea is an excellent example of trying to place human beings on the 10¢ and $1 shelf...
...left The New Yorker for sanitariums, they had fits on the floor, they wept, they offered to punch his nose (he is terrified of physical violence). But he kept on hiring and firing blindly. By hit or miss he found the individuals who could articulate his ideas???and who could stand the pace of his temperament...