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...next to last chapter, "The Political Dimension," Heilbroner portrays two convenient facets of "human nature" that will accommodate the coercive states of the future. One is a willingness to accept authority and a capacity for national identity. "Survival," says Heilbroner "must reckon with the need for--perhaps the ultimate reliance on--welcomed heirarchies of power and strongly felt bonds of peoplehood." This argument is difficult to swallow; its basis is rooted in child psychology and I don't think one can draw such grandiose extensions into politics. One certainly can't claim that it is "more courageous and less pietistic...
...fifth and final chapter, Heilbroner talks about the human prospect in three different phases. The immediate problems are uses and abuses of power, political history, and economic development, problems like Vietnam that directly affect the "quality of existence." In the next fifty years he sees the key to continued chances for survival as the "relative resilience and adaptability of the two great socio-economic systems." In the long run, he calls for "the reconstruction of the material basis of civilization itself," aided by a new politics of coercion through an appeal to "human nature...
...Steel plant in Chicago: "Hey,' I whisper to the fellow next to me with the big, blond mustache, 'are there always so many spades looking for jobs around here?"" Kremen is so determined to expose white workers for their racism that he asks one every chapter or so what they think of the "niggers," but he never seems to get the bigoted response he's looking...
Michael Walsh, 32. In 1971, after just two years in his adopted city of San Diego, the Binghamton, N.Y.-born Walsh formed a chapter of Common Cause, the public-action lobby. Today he is California state chairman (60,000 members) and serves on the national governing board. A Yale law graduate, Walsh wants to clean up the U.S. political system. This June he made an impressive start, leading the successful fight for passage of California's Proposition 9, a tough political-reform act restricting campaign spending and lobbyists' activities and requiring strict reporting of contributions...
...first woman member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The daughter of Computer Pioneer John von Neumann, Mrs. Whitman was a junior Phi Bete who graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe and won a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. A feminist, she got a chapter on women's economic status into the 1972 Economic Report. An authority on international trade, she returned to teaching in 1973 at the University of Pittsburgh...