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...Harpers, Wallich locks horns with one of Kennedy's top economists, John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith. Along with the rest of the Kennedy "Brain Trust," says Wallich, Galbraith "rejects our ancient American folklore that politicians spend too much. In its place he puts the intriguing notion that they spend too little. Public needs are underfinanced, while private tastes are overindulged." Wallich does not agree that the public addiction to chrome, tail fins, and other ostentatious foolishness means that it cannot be trusted to fill its own needs: "It is something of a non-sequitur to conclude that...
...trade. Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa damns advertising as "venal poetry," and Historian Arnold Toynbee contends that it is the unholy idol of materialism (TIME, Sept. 22). Some of the most articulate critics occupy influential jobs in Government, from U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow, who has lambasted TV's "many screaming, cajoling and offending commercials...
After wading barefoot through a monsoon-flooded rice paddy on his first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...
Then Schlesinger, Galbraith, and Reischauer,--three professors close to undergraduates--were picked for high positions and Harvard men took mixed views of the New Frontier's talent search. Reaction around the nation remained highly favorable, until the inevitable first mistake by the Kennedy Administration (Cuba), while response at the College was one of pride--mixed with frustration over the loss of top instructors...
National events also impinged upon 1961 by removing some of the College's leading professors. Perhaps the 62 per cent of 1961 who voted for JFK '40 in a CRIMSON poll regretted their action when Bell, Bundy, Cox, Chayes, Galbraith, Reischauer, Schlesinger, et al departed for Washington. Among most, however, the reaction was merely a shrug of the shoulders--after all, most seniors need not worry about particular professors next year...