Word: kennedyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes all the difference in this book is Galbraith. The sometime Harvard economist (The Affluent Society), novelist (The Triumph) and dancing partner of Jacqueline Kennedy is that rarity among diarists, a writer of first-rate prose. As a journal of his two years and three months as U.S. Ambassador...
Galbraith sardonically sweated his way through the routines of a "ceremonial existence." He met VIP planes. He attended weddings. He put in appearances at worthy institutions-farming villages, universities, factories. He gave countless speeches. He entertained American tourists: the Harvard Glee Club, the Davis Cup team, Lyndon Baines Johnson ("genuinely...
Overdeveloped Women. Galbraith obviously was not easy for the bureaucrats to handle. In government, he observes, "people get boxed only when they won't kick their way out." Galbraith was a tutor at Harvard when Jack Kennedy was a blithe undergraduate. Perhaps partly as a result, he did not...
The 640-pound satellite was launched from Cape Kennedy on August 9. Besides the Harvard telescope, it contains 6 other experiments designed to measure solar emissions such as x-rays, ultraviolet light and neutrons that are ordinarily blocked from view by the upper layers of the earth's atmosphere. When...
A rock music impressario and graduate of the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, Nelson wants to replace one of two Fellows who will retire in June. The President and Fellows choose nominees for vacant positions; the Board of Overseers affirms the nominations.