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...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...
...Kennan faults Reich for his "departure from the voice of reason" and his failure to take account of the "problems, or even the concept, of representative government." Alas, Mr. Kennan sounds rather more romantic than Reich sounds utopian. To call for "frank recognition" and "public discussion" of our problems (and the sketch Kennan offers is every bit as bleak as Reich's), for legislative reforms and basically political solutions, is romantic. Recognition and reform will not come without a change of consciousness; with a change of consciousness they are inevitable...
...George F. Kennan, Memoirs...
...Kennan is far from alone. Because of widespread visual illiteracy, most of man-made America is ugly, messy and inchoate. But something may soon be done about the root problem. Next week Senator Claiborne Pell's Education Subcommittee will hold hearings on a bill that would provide $10 million annually for environmental-including visual-education. During the hearings, the committee members (average age: 54) will be asked to pore over a book written expressly for 13-year-olds...
...campaign against the anti-ballistic-missile program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...