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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...
...EACH MORNING for a leisurely breakfast and to hear of the exceptionally depraved sexual adventures of one of our colleagues on the previous night," John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, reminisces about his days as a Winthrop House tutor in The Age of Uncertainty, his most recent book. In Galbraith's days, breakfast served as an integral part of that great Harvard educational institution, the dining hall, where many a bumpkin has learned grace, style and the art of fine conversation. Today, meals later in the day fill that role, and breakfast consists of a quick, watery...
Previous recipients of the Seidman Award include Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus...
...Warburg said that hearing McCarthy's poetry gave him some insight into "the ideology behind his political strategy...
...call him a crank doesn't do justice to his cause or convictions," Warburg said after the reading...