Word: veblen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature, a greyhound aficionado, and had it not been for reading period I might never have ridden the blue line ten stops out to Wonderland last Friday night. The search for heady adventure had seized me. Saying "damn" to my 600-page portable Veblen, I took off for the tracks in fine, Kerouac fashion. I even managed to talk this friend of mine into coming, a guy who had an exam on Marx the next morning...
Thorstein Veblen would have been proud last Saturday night when WGBH-TV, the Cambridge Public Broadcasting System affiliate, auctioned off the distinctive purple-and-gold 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible that the Harvard Lampoon last year awarded John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus...
...critic, Galbraith has considerable latitude in his choice of subject matter. The Book's start threatens to rehash the anecdotal biographic ramblings of Robert Heilbroner's The Wordly Philosophers, so familiar to Ec 10 veterans; the careful reader will learn of the romantic lives of thinkers from Marx to Veblen. By the close of the work Galbraith has looked at the problem of overpopulation the plight of the city, the multinational corporation, the normally UGE (the H is silent amythical, but representative corporate monster, and the prospects for world peace...
THORSTEIN VEBLEN...
Economist Thorstein Veblen, Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey founded it in a few Manhattan brownstones. Their aim: enlivening traditional learning. From the start, they succeeded. In the 1920s, the school offered the first college-level courses on black culture, taught by W.E.B. DuBois; in the '30s Martha Graham taught pioneering classes in modern dance...