Word: dahrendorf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italy gave priority to growth. As a consequence, there is no common policy toward energy, inflation or the worsening recession. "The Community is now in transition from its self-invented calendars to the calendars of reality, and it must face the problems of the whole world," says Ralf Dahrendorf, former Common Market Commissioner and now director of the London School of Economics...
Just as important, of course, is Dahrendorf s spectacular career both in and out of education. After studying philosophy and classics at Hamburg, Dahrendorf obtained his doctorate in 1956 from the L.S.E. (where he also met his English wife Vera). He has since taught in Germany at the universities of Hamburg, Tubingen and Constance (a progressive institution he helped found in 1967), as well as at Harvard and Columbia...
...also served an impatient few months as No. 2 man to West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel before joining the European Commission in 1970. A year later, Dahrendorf shook the European Establishment by calling the European Parliament a "farce" and its Brussels administration a "bureaucratic leviathan...
...Dahrendorf denies any malice in his attacks. "For me," he says, "criticism is an expression of love rather than detachment." Nevertheless, some colleagues note that he is headstrong and cannot get along with plodders. An intellectual gadfly with acerbic wit, Dahrendorf clearly likes to speak his mind...
Altogether, Dahrendorf should fit his new post well. From the days when the Webbs' friend George Bernard Shaw complained about their "incorrigible spooning over social statistics," the school has proved a lively intellect base for reform. Says Dahrendorf friend, Columbia Historian Fritz Stern "He is by temperament a radical reforner who has at last found a liberal home