Word: maynard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music almost everywhere is "disco sound": heavy back beat, uptempo, often with Big Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood...
Died. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 78, iconoclastic educator who became president of the University of Chicago at 30; of kidney disease; in Santa Barbara, Calif. As the youthful dean of the Yale Law School and then president and chancellor of the University of Chicago for 22 years, Hutchins was a foe of "trivialization" and vocationalism. Believing that education required exposure to the original works of distinguished thinkers, he introduced the Great Books course at Chicago. Another innovation was the flexible "Chicago Plan," which allowed students to enter and leave the university whenever they could pass the entrance and final examinations. Hutchins...
Galbraith talks about a lot, but he is at his best when he talks about John Maynard Keynes and the Great Depression. Keynes is one of the few economists who is not subjected to a sound drubbing by Galbraith. This is perhaps so because in Keynes Galbraith saw many of the qualities on which he prides himself: Keynes was an anti-establishment intellectual who thought himself rather important, an iconoclast without being a revolutionary. It is even fair to say that Galbraith revered Keynes, who provided the former with what remains today as the substance of his economic philosophy. When...
Thus, Emmerich states repeatedly that Dawkins distorts the truth when in fact Dawkins, under the watchful eye of such biologists as John Maynard Smith and Robert Trivers, is careful to qualify his statements to keep them honest. Is it not Emmerich who is distorting the truth when he asks, "and didn't distortions of Darwin's theory of 'survival of the fittest' and belief in inherent genetic inferiority lead once to the death of six million Jews?" (Dawkins never mentions race.) Does Emmerich suggest Darwin should not have published his theory, because it could be so abused? If distortions...
...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 to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...