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...liberal hour," according to John Kenneth Galbraith (who borrowed the phrase from Adlai Stevenson), is "the moment just before presidential elections when even the most obsolete men become reconciled, if briefly and expediently to the machine...
This issue of the weekly supplement is devoted to politics. In it are a review of recent books by Senator Barry Goldwater, Chester Bowles, and John Kenneth Galbraith, a photographic feature on disarmament efforts in Boston, an analysis of last Saturday's SANE Rally, and a review of Eugene Black's book, The Diplomacy of Economic Development, on distribution of American foreign...
...Galbraith's The Liberal Hour, with which I began this piece and from which I have wandered a good deal, is a far better book than Conscience of a Conservative and Coming Political Breakthrough. It is not a campaign document, nor even necessarily an election-year product, and thus does not suffer from the terrible solemnity of the other two works. The Liberal Hour is a brief, entertaining collection of lectures and writings on a fairly wide variety of subjects; only one section (containing four selections) touches directly on important political topics...
Once every four years, the Mr. Hyde in Arthur Schlesinger emerges and he abandons the genteel ivory towers of scholarship for the noisy partisan rigors of politics. This year, according to Mr. Nixon, he and his fellow triumvirs Galbraith and Bowles have also deserted the Democratic Party. Mr. Nixon weeps, "The Democratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Wilson is not the Democratic Party of Schlesinger, Galbraith and Bowles." Kennedy's three top advisors have led him astray into a morass of "liberalism" and huge government spending, and, if one is to believe the vice-President, America can not and will...
...alternative and contrasting view," he declared, "is that neither at home nor abroad can we manifest such contentment." Galbraith predicted that "the less comfortable, the more concerned and I think the more prudent and farseeing, will vote for Mr. Kennedy. They will feel that, in failing to make change our servant, we shall have it for a master...