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CAMBRIDGE WILL BE a little 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...
CELEBRATION is also intended as a political novel. Its hero, a 90-year-old radical educator named Samuel Lumen can't decide whether to let the president of the United States name a new children's center after him or to join his long-lost grandson in a People's Bicentennial-style group called the Children of Liberty. But it is not a good political novel. Lumen is a sympathetic enough figure but it's hard to take either him or his dilemma too seriously. After 348 pages of diary writing he concludes that "it's far too late...
Student spokesmen and UMass Amherst Professor Samuel S. Bowles called upon Governor Dukakis and the legislature to change government priorities from profit making endeavors to human service projects...
...American history books, with their long powdered wigs and tight-fitting puritanical breeches. Our image of Thomas Jefferson, with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative of American independence, becomes confounded with the image of American leaders like Dwight Eisenhower sending troops to Korea...
...SAMUEL D. BERGER, 63, Bunker's deputy, has retired to Washington...