Word: galbraithe
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...convention system of nominating Presidential candidates must "sooner or later" give way to "nomination by vote of the party rank and file," John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, predicted yesterday...
...corner" invoke "word magic," as linguists call verbal formulas that promise to make dreams come true through sheer repetition. On the other hand, observes San Francisco State College's S. I. Hayakawa, a pioneering U.S. semanticist. "You don't move a mass society with a volume by Galbraith." Particularly in the U.S., as Cambridge Historian Denis Brogan has pointed out, "the evocative power of verbal symbols must not be despised, for these are and have been one of the chief means of uniting the United States and keeping it united...
...Galbraith said that Kennedy's "versitile competence combined with courage and energy is surely what the great urban complex of the eastern seaboard requires of its representatives in Washington...
...Ascoli, editor and publisher of the magazine, in an editor's note called the Galbraith letter "a rationalization for a political ruthlessness...
Criticizing Galbraith's assertion that Kennedy would not be controlled by machine politicians, Ascoli said that he did not know who was responsible for "the chronic mess of Massachusetts politics. But certainly the eradication of corruption in state and local government cannot be counted among the political achievements of 'a Kennedy...