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Massive Putdown. Opposition to established thought?or to "conventional wisdom," as he derisively calls it?is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics. TV crews wait so often outside his home in Cambridge, Mass., to catch him for a pungent comment on events of the day that Galbraith, jokes one admirer, now trails only Lexington and the Concord Bridge as a major Massachusetts
...onetime Harvard colleague. "They reason that anyone with that kind of rapprochement with the general public just has to be a lousy economist. It's not true. He's the most-read economist of all time. Not even Adam Smith has been read as much." Galbraith, adds Economist James Warburg, "is the most outstanding explorer of economics since Keynes." There are those, in fact, who believe that while John Maynard Keynes was the Darwin of modern economics, Galbraith will some day be considered the Huxley...
Whether a Godard deserves a festival is a matter of some critical dispute. To Richard Roud, author of a worshipful new study of his movies (Godard; Seeker & Warburg), the director is "one of the most important artists of our time," worthy of comparison, with Joyce and Vermeer. Pauline Kael of The New Yorker calls Godard "the most exciting director working in movies today." On the other hand, Stanley Kauffmann of the New Republic describes him as "a magician who makes elaborate uninspired gestures and then pulls out of the hat precisely nothing...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics and national chairman of ADA, helped frame the final resolution, which Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a Washington lawyer, originally drafted...
When the results were finally counted, both pro and anti-war forces claimed victory. Presidential aide John Roche telephoned Sen. Francis X. McCann (D.-Camb.) to say that the White House was "delighted" with the support given to Administration policy. But John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, noted that the United States has seldom waged war on such a narrow basis of support...