Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scarfe evaded the issue. While Galbraith went about his work, Scarfe sketched, filling two pads with impressions. Then he checked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel carrying a bag of flour, a pile of Boston newspapers and a roll of wire. "The staff of the hotel must have thought I was mad," he says. "The shreddings on the floor looked like bread crumbs. They probably thought I was cooking in the room...
Galbraith contends that the U.S. went into Viet Nam under the mistaken notion that it was fighting "a centrally directed Communist conspiracy." In the light of the Moscow-Peking split, he adds, that notion is no longer valid, and the U.S. ought to quit wasting its energies there at the expense of domestic needs and of other, more important areas, such as Japan and India. Viet Nam is "the wrong place to make a stand," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1966. "If we were not in Viet Nam, all that part of the world would be enjoying...
...with the State Department. Communications from Washington took too long to arrive, he complained, and communicated nothing when they did get there. Occasionally, he set U.S. policy by himself. Entirely on his own, for instance, he announced that the U.S. recognized India's disputed northern borders. Washington gulped, but went along. Confronted by Galbraith, the usually imperturbable Dean Rusk has proved quite perturbable, and when the ambassador argued for a change in U.S. policy toward China, the Secretary shot back: "Your views, so far as they have any merit, have already been fully considered and rejected." "That," noted Galbraith with...
...assistant professor of English at Harvard, giving his own upper-level courses in Elizabethan English Literature, as well as sharing the guidance of Hum 6 with venerable Reuben Brower. He has studied at Princeton (where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956) and Oxford (where he went as a Rhodes Scholar for three years) and Harvard (where he got his Ph.D...
...President Pusey took only a minimal interest in the affairs of the Harvard University Press. For the most part, he let Press director Thomas J. Wilson and a 12-man Board of Syndics--all professors--handle the choice and printing of the surprising number of profitable, exciting books that went out under the Harvard seal...