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...CLASH with General Motors, Ralph Nader was only half jokingly dubbed "crusader." The automobile is not a commodity; it is the sacrament of a religion. It is in this context that groups such as the AAA argue against the Center for Auto Safety with what approaches religious fervor...
Manchester gives decent journalistic summaries of issues like McCarthyism in the '50s, civil rights in the '60s and Viet Nam. A recurrent device labeled "Portrait of an American" allows him to draw vignettes of his favorite fellow countrymen: Ralph Nader, Dr. Benjamin Spock and, perhaps above all, Norman Thomas ("He was the American Isaiah"). But the Manchester method of history may finally be described as stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version...
...setting of a small white cocktail party of three naive white racists and a fourth white woman who is "trying so hard to understand" the obfuscating arguments of the musicians. And Bland's cause isn't helped by the "acting" so reminiscent of one of those Steve Cochran - George Nader beat generation movies that reeked of one-star performances...
...excesses are acknowledged by many of the regulators themselves. In a speech in Detroit last week, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, 38, a Nixon appointee, sounded almost like an echo of Consumerist Ralph Nader, whose Center for the Study of Responsive Law has just published a massive 950-page citizens' guidebook to the "bureaucratic labyrinths" of the federal regulatory system...
Mass PIRG, a group inspired by Ralph Nader, has sponsored similar repeal bills which were defeated in the 1973 and 1974 sessions of the state legislature...