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These "discussions" take place each Thursday at Winthrop's "Economics Table," where a shifting line-up always features Galbraith at the head of the table and such pinch hitters as Lady Jackson (Barbard Ward) and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., with as many tutors and undergrads as can find room...
Everything gets a hearing at the Ec table. Anything goes, from the simplest to the most fantastic, including those radical notions expressed solely for argument's sake which crop up at these gatherings with such devastating consequences. Yet Galbraith was heard to close one particularly gay luncheon with the happy thought that "It is generally understood that the topics raised around this table one year will be on everybody's lips during the next...