Packet 4: Tossup 4

A longtime employee of this institution used five negatives in a comically roundabout sentence about John Milton that George Orwell cited as his first example in “Politics and the English Language.” (-5[1])An acrimonious 1930s debate began when a member of this institution, (-5[1])Lionel Robbins, stormed out of a committee meeting. Ellsworth Toohey, the villain of The Fountainhead, was modeled on this institution’s (-5[1])left-wing employee (-5[1])Harold Laski. This institution (-5[1])was drawn up at a breakfast (-5[1])attended by (*) Fabians like Beatrice Webb (10[1]-5[1])and George (-5[1])Bernard (-5[1])Shaw. (10[1]-5[2])Friedrick (10[1])Hayek (-5[1])published (10[1])the Road to Serfdom (-5[2])while employed (10[1])at this institution (10[2]-5[1])and represented (10[1])it in Depression-era debates (-5[1])against Cambridge’s John Maynard Keynes. For 10 points, what university dedicated to the social sciences (10[1])is based in the United Kingdom’s capital? (10[4])■END■ (10[12]0[2])

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