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...master of the Socratic method, he has taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He is chairman of the board of editors for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of 30 books. His newest: How to Speak / How to Listen. With Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins, he compiled the Great Books of the Western World, 54 volumes of the world's classics. Last year he published The Paideia Proposal, a manifesto to reform U.S. primary and secondary education by instituting a standard and much more demanding curriculum. When he led the procession to Columbia College's commencement...
Near the corner of Main and Walnut streets in the small town of Maynard, Mass., stands a massive complex of aged red-brick buildings. Within those walls, workers toiled amid clanging, churning machinery to produce carpets in the 1850s and Army blankets during two World Wars. But today the sturdy, old facade houses an entirely different enterprise. The noisy machines and grease-stained factory floor have given way to offices where engineers huddle over glowing oscilloscopes and secretaries peck quietly at word processors. The woolen mill has been reborn as the headquarters of the Digital Equipment Corp., the second largest...
...March the distinguished former (and first Black) mayor of Atlanta. Maynard Jackson, delivered four brilliant lectures here. A man who skillfully guided his city through one of the tensest racial climates in American history (i.e. during the child murders) drew less than 10 Black undergraduates for all of the lectures combined. At a well advertised dinner discussion. Dr. Jean Nobel, noted Black historian and women's rights activist, drew only one Black undergraduate (and fortunately several Black Graduate students and staff.) Recently, Dr. Samuel Proctor--a leading Black educator scholar, holder of the Martin Luther King professorship Rutgers and pastor...
...obvious that Harvard's Robert Reich [May 2] springs from the same source as John Maynard Keynes and John Kenneth Galbraith. Can anyone seriously suggest expanding the role of Government in business? It is just this kind of interference that has had a destabilizing influence on our economy. Reich's proposals can only result in further currency debasement, greater unemployment, less productivity and, finally, in an almost certain economic debacle...
...dominant figure at the 1944 conference was John Maynard Keynes, then 61, the leader of the British delegation. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau led the U.S. contingent, but the real American architect of the Bretton Woods accord was Harry Dexter White, Morgenthau's plain-spoken chief adviser...