Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader's refusing to dominate the situation caused the group members to learn to live and function together peaceably without outside guidance. They knew they were responsible for their acts. They realized they wouldn't be able to blame the leader if conflicts arose...
Economists already have spent years talking about Ken (he detests being called John) Galbraith, often in exasperated tones. "Mr. Galbraith is a very talented journalist and a very bad economist," declares Neil Jacoby, dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Business Administration. "I wouldn't have him on my faculty." University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater's former economic adviser, dismisses him as a phrasemaker?"old wine in a new bottle." Purrs Conservative William F. Buckley, a personal friend but philosophical foe: "Econo mists I know say everything he writes on economics is either platitudinous or wrong?...
Bogey to Norman. This is Vidal's personal notion as well. He firmly believes that the screen, not literature, shaped his generation of writers. "Without Bogart," he says, "there could be no Norman Mailer. Without George Arliss," he adds with a Disraeliish gleam, "there wouldn't have been...
...They forget that I wasn't Mayor then. I inherited a place that was cleared with a contractual obligation. The West End hurt because it was a total clearance project; the nation learned a lesson from the West End. Federal policy at the time almost mandated that procedure. It wouldn't have been done that way if I had been Mayor, even if we had to wait to change the policy. In any event it was done...
Asked why is he leaving now, after only four years at Harvard, Rudenstine quickly scotches rumors that dissatisfaction with Harvard's English Department has driven him away. "I'm leaving prematurely, it's true," he says, "but I certainly wouldn't have left Harvard at this point in order to teach English somewhere else. This chance was something new--something interesting and entirely unexpected...