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 (-5[1])and the English Language.” An acrimonious 1930s debate began when a member of this institution, Lionel Robbins, stormed out of a committee meeting. (-5[1])Ellsworth Toohey, the villain of The Fountainhead, was modeled on this institution’s left-wing (-5[1])employee Harold Laski. This institution was drawn up at a breakfast attended by (*) Fabians like Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw. (10[2])Friedrich Hayek published the Road (-5[1])to Serfdom while employed (-5[1])at this institution and represented it in Depression-era debates against Cambridge’s (10[1])John Maynard Keynes. For 10 points, what university (-5[1])dedicated (-5[1])to the social sciences is based in the United Kingdom’s capital? (10[1])■END■ (10[6])

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