Word: rebellion
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...ratified and amplified the '60s counterculture in The Greening of America, the most profoundly naive bestseller of the period. The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef introduces the third Reich, a San Francisco homosexual who now quotes Joni Mitchell and Walt Whitman and preaches an herbal-essence philosophy called "evolutionary rebellion...
...lifestyle" is a fundamental of American character. "A man builds a house for his old age and sells it before the roof is finished," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote some 140 years before Charles Reich sublet his leaky Consciousness III to follow the sunset to California. Reich's evolutionary rebellion is, in fact, a mobile-home version of Consciousness III-that pot-scented notion that mankind can somehow escape civilization and its discontents. Gnomic and unpolitical, ER is part of the new solipsism and characteristic of a lot of people who, disillusioned by the radical politics...
Reich's account of his life is essentially a thin outline on which he strings the clichés of the gray flannel '50s and the youth rebellion at Berkeley and Yale. As in The Greening of America, he wafts nonsensical generalizations like dandelion seeds: "An alienated society is no less a political tyranny because the oppression is found within each individual, rather than coming from a single source such as an army or a dictator...
...composed of a great number of hoodlums who spent their time exploding bombs in the Yard, lighting fives, releasing rats in lecture halls, and entertaining women in their rooms. Shortly before commencement, the college split into two factions--the aristocrats and the rebels--which staged a full-scale rebellion that was followed by the expulsion of 43 students out of a class...
...demonstrations in 1956 and 1970 had even brought down the reigning party chiefs in Warsaw. This time, the present Polish party boss, Edward Gierek, survived the riots by immediately rolling back prices. Still, lingering discontent in Poland, tied to a worsening economic crisis, has produced the classic formula for rebellion. TIME Correspondent Henry Muller recently visited Poland to gauge the public mood as the nation entered what threatens to be a long turbulent winter. His report...