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...Nobel-prize winning theorist returned Friday from the College Station, Texas university, where he gave a seminar for the physics department, met with the president, and looked at houses for sale in the area...
Economist Martin S. Feldstein '61 left the noisy streets of Cambridge this summer for the hushed conference rooms of the White House, where he will remain indefinitely as one of President Reagan's ranking economic advisors. The prominent conservative theorist faces perfunctory Senate confirmation hearings this month before he takes over as head of the President's Council of Economic Advisors Feldstein, who joins a large contingent of Harvard-affiliated advisors in the Administration, plans to return to his post in the Economics Department within two years--the maximum allowed for those who wish to retain tenure...
Economist Martin S. Feldstein '61 left the noisy streets of Cambridge this summer for the hushed conference rooms of the White House, where he will remain indefinitely as one of President Reagan's ranking economic advisors. The prominent conservative theorist faces perfunctory Senate confirmation hearings this month before he takes over as head of the President's Council of Economic Advisors Feldstein, who joins a large contingent of Harvard-affiliated advisors in the Administration, plans to return to his post in the Economics Department within two years--the maximum allowed for those who wish to retain tenure...
Perhaps because he never knew his father, Mumford collected a number of tempestuous mentors, including Economist Thorstein Veblen ("a strange combination of the austere, seemingly superobjective scholar and a passionate, willful human being"), Critic Van Wyck Brooks and, above all, Patrick Geddes, the Scottish social theorist recognized as the father of town planning. Geddes later drove his student away by insisting that Mumford turn his teacher's brilliant but chaotic mental processes into limpid prose. But Mumford never repudiated what Geddes stood for: "The regional outlook, the urban focus, the unification of all the dispersed and dissociated aspects...
...fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness as the primary area of psychology and social science, and it should start with the work of a serious theorist such as Wilber, Pioneers such as John Lily and Timothy Leary were a bit too far ahead of their time to be the Moseses of meditation studies...