Word: nadering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that happened now-as Nader must know very well-most of his projects would probably flounder. Although he has recently set up a fledgling institute in Washington to carry on his kind of work, the effort is still uncertain enough that most of its life depends on Ralph Nader's personal force. The shift from one individual crusader to wider, institutionalized reform isn't easy, but Nader knows that there's only so much one famous crusader can do. And so his Washington institute-with the lumbering title "Center for the Study of Responsive Law"-and his summer student projects...
...specific proposals Nader suggested were not really startling. To spread the kind of public-interest work he has done on a few industries. Nader urged the students to start in on immediately available targets, like local governments and corporations. To keep the work going, he said that groups of professional students should promise to give some portion of their future earnings to support their classmates doing public interest projects...
What was more fascinating in Nader's appearance was the elaborate appeal he developed to entice students into "reform" efforts. For the theory that has given Nader the most troubling attack in the last year has not been the General Motors charge that he is out to destroy capitalist America. Rather, it has been the needling plaint of college students that Nader is too concerned with patching up the minor flaws of corporate, capitalist, bureaucratic America. Why not get out there and change the whole system...
Since most of the Raiders who worked for him this summer had already been through a self-screening process, Nader did not face the objection too often from them. But there were some questions, and when Life magazine sent writer Jack Newfield-current lion of the New Left journalists-to do a story on the summer project, the questions became more overt. Why do you think this is all worthwhile?. Newfield asked time and again. Don't you people think you're wasting your effort...
ALWAYS ONE to cater to his au?ience, Nader knew that he had to answer that question at Harvard. For much of the first part of his speech, he worked over the same premises that have led to hard nosed militant action on many campuses. His analysis of the failure of the universities is far more elegant and detailed than one charging Complicity With the War Machine or Oppressing Poor Tenants. In a more general attack, Nader showed how the university's professional schools were ignoring their social tasks. Medical schools don't teach prevention: law schools train corporate lawyers...