Word: kelman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STEVEN KELMAN '70 is a socialist, then I am a grasshopper...
...Kelman, who jokingly calls himself a "democratic socialist," made his name as a youthful specialist in anti-New Left analysis. He wrote the notorious Push Comes to Shove, a wild-eyed attack on everyone who did not agree that absolutely nothing could be permitted to disrupt the University during the 1969 Harvard strike. Although analytically unsound (students, he said, held radical beliefs because they were either 'crazy' or bereft of feminine companionship), the book was received with predictable acclaim by a sordid mixture of tired old leftists-turned-cold warriors and outright conservatives...
...Kelman was billed as a sensible alternative to the 'wreckers' on the left: he was allegedly progressive and committed--he even had long hair--but he vehemently eschewed nasty things like demonstrations and building occupations. By comforting worried old professors, he assured himself of future contacts and undoubtedly made a lot of money. During the 1970 nationwide student strike over Cambodia and Kent State, for example, this model socialist travelled to Chicago, where he wrote a couple of articles for the conservative Chicago Tribune that complimented some local colleges for not succumbing to the reigning madness...
...Kelman has since continued to promulgate his peculiar brand of conservative socialism. His second book, Behind the Berlin Wall, is an account of a two-month stay during 1971 in East Germany. Constant fear haunts our intrepid hero as he risks millenial jail terms to uncover the truth about Communism. He cleverly outwits a couple of commissars who accompany him, and returns to report that things are not good in East Germany: everything breaks all the time, there are not enough refrigerators, telephones or good razor blades--and besides, the people are not free...
...many behavioral scientists, historians and philosophers, the Viet Nam War, more than any previous conflict, has helped to foster violence at home. One evidence of the war's impact is indicated by a recent national survey of attitudes toward the Calley case. According to Harvard Psychologist Herbert Kelman, many Americans regard Lieut. Calley's behavior at My Lai as normal. That suggests, Kelman concludes, that an alarmingly large segment of the population might be willing to employ extreme violence if ordered...