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...most recently published encounter with Harvard involved a now-famous written exchange with John Kenneth Galbraith soon after Galbraith's book "The Affluent Society" was first published several years...
...CYNICAL here might take comfort in the knowledge that both Segal and Brewster were educated at Harvard, and that most of Reich's analysis is really Galbraith without the economics (a concept, admittedly, some might find as ludicrous as Galbraith without the modesty). They can snort to each other-and rightly so-that each Brewster speech, each Segal movie, each Reich pronouncement, each flattering Israel Shenker Times profile is a triumph of style over content, content still residing exclusively somewhere north of the Charles. But it's a triumph nonetheless. And can we ignore it? More than we suspect, Harvard...
...Reich's original 30,000-word article in the September 26 issue of the New Yorker -a superbly ironic vehicle with its two columns of corporate state persuasion for every column of Reich's text-there has been incessant buzzing about it in both political and academic circles. John Galbraith and George Kennan have each written a personal response in the Times...
...Galbraith's primary criticism is that "Reich has not worked out the economics of the [new] life style." True enough. But it is doubtful that one can know what institutions will look like after a sweeping cultural revolution. Furthermore, the best revolutionary tactic, as Louis Hartz has said, is that which "makes the future both mysterious and lucid" -lucid enough to give people the confidence to act, but not freighted with details which can be compromised to reinforce the status...
...Galbraith said yesterday, "I've opposed the march from the beginning, but I had nothing to do with persuading people not to join in. I was glad to see such a small turnout because it means that the peace movement is taking amore moderate tone and expressing faith in the electoral process...