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...professor of economics at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1971; in Cambridge, England. In 1933, she published the iconoclastic Economics of Imperfect Competition and became the only woman in the small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope for "cruel" capitalism, she predicted...
...appearing in a recent Parents Newsletter. Those with a taste for the arcane might like to thumb through the Senior Tutor's Manual, available in every Senior Tutor's office. One publication which, alas, cannot be made available, because it contains the names of individual students, is a huge tome known as The Precedents of the Administrative Board, which describes every significant case considered by the Board between 1892 and 1970 when the Harvard and Radcliffe Boards merged...
...committees do an injustice to the director, his future cast, themselves, and ultimately to the audience, by leaving to hope and chance the director's conceptual grasp of a playwright's text, so essential to a solid, focused production. Not that a director hopeful should submit a 10-page tome along with his or her application. Neither should any director be confined to mechanically figuring out the playwright's intentions and them staging them...
Equally outrageous is Edgar Berman's The Compleat Chauvinist. This tome features chapters like "Politics I--The Dominoes and the Domminees" and "Testesterone--The Hormone of Champions." Must reading for your favorite MCP. But sexism cuts both ways this...
...victory, he allowed an opponent to falsify more returns than he did) and headed off to war, a 33-year-old Navy officer. Thus, nearly 800 pages after this saga begins, L.B.J. has barely set foot on the Path to Power. Does the world really need another endless tome about Lyndon Johnson...