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...guessing game has spread abroad, where Crimsonologists on the European summer seminar circuit remind some observers of Romans gossiping during the interminable eve of a papal election. Some of the names being bandied about over there: Former HEW Secretary John Gardner, Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard (who turned down Columbia), McGeorge Bundy, Princeton Economist Carl Kaysen, Harvard Law School Dean Derek Bok, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. The Boston Record-American last week reported that Richardson has already been tapped and has accepted. But Harvard's Burr denies this. Says he: "The net is still...
...your story about the work of the Illinois constitutional convention and a canceled appearance by former HEW Secretary John Gardner...
...John Gardner's famous undelivered speech [May 25] contains an inconsistency in thought common to most politicians...
...Gardner laudably appeals for "immediate and far-reaching moves" to save the environment, but he follows this with a call for "sustained economic growth." Since said growth is largely responsible for the plunder of natural resources, this is like trying to repair, maintain, and fuel a car while pressing the accelerator to the floor. Good ecology is incompatible with ancient economic dogmas that wealth is something measured in beer cans per consumer...
Braden ends up, like John Gardner, with unfashionable expressions of hope, quoting the German theologian Jiirgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope. If the present looks grim, well, maybe−just maybe−there's the future. He settles for the progressive slogan, "Say no to the given and yes to the new." He gambles, as a humanist, that if runaway technology can be slowed down, it will somehow come out evolution rather than revolution...