Word: kenneth
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...Kenneth G. Demers Providence...
Abortion is not a subject about which people have no opinion one way or the other. As to the Meaning of Words uses no real names, but it is a documentary drama based on the 1975 Boston trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin in which he was convicted of manslaughter for an abortion he had performed, a jury decision that was later reversed. The new play, at Stamford, Conn.'s Hartman Theater Company, marks the debut of Mark Eichman, 27. He sticks fairly closely to the reported facts. As a result, Act I, at least, verges on a classroom dissertation...
...JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH 365 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Complete this sentence: There is nothing so powerful as . . . ? Yes, class, an idea whose time has come. The cliché does not go far enough. The right idea in the right time and place can also be powerfully profitable. John Kenneth Galbraith's The Age of Uncertainty is part of this happy confluence. The book will receive not only a wide readership (it is already a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club) but also a wide viewership. The BBC has filmed The Age of Uncertainty as a 13-part TV series...
Galbraith's project attempts to do for the history of economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three, the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job. Economics is hard on the head and soft on visuals. Portraits of Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves...