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Wrestling Demons. Professionally, that is. Personally, she remains cloaked in a brooding sadness, all the more achingly impenetrable because she rarely talks about it???except when she sings. "I'm gonna make a gospel record," she told Mahalia Jackson not long ago, "and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone...
Massive Putdown. Opposition to established thought?or to "conventional wisdom," as he derisively calls it???is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics. TV crews wait so often outside his home in Cambridge, Mass., to catch him for a pungent comment on events of the day that Galbraith, jokes one admirer, now trails only Lexington and the Concord Bridge as a major Massachusetts
...some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that and more. Last summer he hired as fiction editor Robie Macauley, who had been running the distinguished Kenyon Review. "I was familiar with Playboy," says Macauley. "The students at Kenyon read it???so did the clergy. Besides, a magazine like this matures as it goes along...
...from the French. In the years of war against Paris, the French suspected, probably rightly, that the lithe bonze with the burning eyes was helping Ho's Viet Minh front. They once jailed him for ten days on suspicion that he was a Communist, but they could not prove it???nor has anyone since, despite the taint of suspicion that still lingers in many quarters. More probably, like many a loyal South Vietnamese of that day, Tri Quang aided Ho's campaign not for love of Communism but for hatred of colonialism...
...wages. Modern economists call those specializations "microeconomics"; Keynes was the precursor of what is now known as "macroeconomics"?from the Greek makros, for large or extended. He decided that the way to look at the economy was to measure all the myriad forces tugging and pulling at it???production, prices, profits, incomes, interest rates, government policies...