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...Nader won his early reputation as an auto critic, hundreds of the letters concern defective U.S. and foreign cars. Nader carries on a particularly lively correspondence with owners of lemons-new cars in which everything seems to go wrong. Now he and two associates, Lawyer Lowell Dodge and Engineer Ralf Hotchkiss, have drawn heavily on those letters to write a book, What to do with your bad car / An action manual for lemon owners. The book, which came out last week, is every bit as tart as the title implies...
...million worth of soybeans that U.S. farmers sell annually to Europe. Next may come U.S. small airplanes, light machinery and computers. Steps of reprisal would be taken jointly by the six members of the Common Market, with Britain probably joining in. On a visit to the U.S. last month, Ralf Dahrendorf, the Common Market's top trade executive, raised an ironic toast to Wilbur Millsas the man who had done most recently to promote European unity. The threats have begun to weigh on some Congressmen, who realize that U.S. exports produce more income than the auto...
...however, and discipline is still next to godliness in the eyes of many Germans. According to one well-known barb, Germans obey the law because it's against the law not to do so. Yet there are signs that even in Germany, discipline is giving way to what Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf, who also happens to be the Free Democrats' leading thinker, calls "the individual search for happiness by people freed of the fetters of tradition and thrown into the affluent society." Writes Dahrendorf in Society and Democracy in Germany...
...concerned with paychecks than with princely comings and goings. But the country's economic and social transformation has failed notably to produce a unified, national Fuhrungsschicht (leadership layer) in place of the old aristocratic ruling caste. The result is a confused and confusing society in which, says Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf, there is not one class of Prominenz but "a multitude of competing groups." The "pyramids of power" include the church, the military, local government and such venerable universities as Tubingen, Gottingen and Heidelberg, where a Herr Professor commands undiminished respect from the community at large...
...want to talk about what happens in society. One bit of evidence for this is Riesman's almost casual assumption that the American character has altered radically, and several authors take violent issue with the subtitle of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. As Ralf Dahrendorf explains, "Comte Alexis de Tocqueville and Mr. David Riesman share a number of their questions, and many of their answers too; but whereas Mr. Riesman does not mind the former, he seems rather less than pleased with the latter." Lipset documents the similarities of nineteenth-century observations to Riesman...