Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lonelier next year for Stephen A. Marglin '59, Harvard's only tenured radical economist. Arthur MacEwan, who has been the other radical economist since Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis were shown the door in 1972, is leaving town. He too has been denied tenure. Even sympathetic liberals, like John Kenneth Galbraith and Wassily Leontief, seem an endangered species. So Marglin will be almost alone in his challenges to mainstream economics and, more than ever, he will seem the Economics Department's bright-boy-gone...
...battles over his departed fellow-radicals, is dwindling, Galbraith will be making movies for BBC next year, and Leontief, disgusted with the department, has announced his intentions to "vote with my feet" and is leaving for New York University. Albert O. Hirschman went to Princeton last year. Only Kenneth Arrow remains. With these resignations, Harvard has lost much of the variety in its economic thought...
Singer Helen Reddy's sell out London concert, attracted Critic Kenneth Tynan, Actor Danny Kaye and scores of others, but Richardson turned into the star attraction as soon as Lord Harlech's 1930s jazz records began spinning. With his wife Anne away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer...
...certain either, and look forward to The Crimson's investigative series on this key question. Still, Mr. Garin reports, "The rulers of American society allow the academic elite its measure of independence because scholars have generally aligned with the political and economic elite." But John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in 1971: "It was the universities . . . which led the opposition to the Vietnam War, which forced the retirement of President Johnson, which are forcing the pace of our present withdrawal from Vietnam, which are leading the battle against the great corporations on the issue of pollution, and which at the last congressional...
...stuffy Royal Academy School in London and later as a studio assistant to Henry Moore, Caro had been trained in a monolithic approach to sculpture. His work reflected it: scarred, blimpish nudes writhing lumpily on their pedestals. Then, in 1959, Caro made his first trip to America. He met Kenneth Noland, talked to Greenberg and saw Smith's welded-steel sculptures. He was 35 and, as he recalls, "waiting to be blown over...