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...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 ... He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education...
...began my ill-fated and ultimately uncompleted effort at a commencement address. It’s not much of a speech, really, and the last portion is a rather clumsy effort at segueing into a pearl of wisdom that, in all likelihood, would never have emerged. As I was beginning to write, I wanted to stand before the assembled Commencement crowd and, more than anything, casually note just how wonderful my roommate...
...respect. Presumably, I have no reason to yearn for the chance to do it all over.But some good can come from regret. In many ways, it’s useful for others. In advising and mentoring relationships, I’ve been able to pass down nuggets of wisdom to younger students based not only on the knowledge of things that I have done, but also from chances I have missed. More importantly, though, regret is not something to relegate to the dusty recesses of your mind this week just because it isn’t pleasant to dwell...
...James K. Galbraith ’74 spoke first, calling his father “my mentor, my coach, my critic, and my friend.” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who spoke towards the end of the service, also touched on Galbraith’s wisdom and good advice, mentioning how important his support had been to his father John F. Kennedy’s bid for the presidency. “He was an eloquent voice of reason for our times,” Kennedy said. “In another age he would have been a founding...
...from Israel and on the history of American Indians, for example.Moreover, Harvard students no longer have the option of earning commissions and serving their country in convenient and Harvard-based ROTC programs, solely because the ideology of the American military establishment no longer pleases the devotees of the conventional wisdom. Faculty members teach in fear, cautious about the possibility that opinions said in classroom lectures will offend. Another miasma of conformity has drifted upon the Harvard community, and there are few, if any, who will stand up and tell the truth about it: It is foreign to Harvard?...