Word: reich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national debate over the court-martial and conviction of Lieut. William Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when they are conscientiously doing what is expected of them...
...sure, is not the same as the dilemma that confronts men at every level in bureaucracies public and private. "The ultimate evil is the result of carefully segmented acts; the structure itself guarantees an evasion by everyone of responsibility for the full moral act," Reich argued. His solution is to create a new sense of accountability within bureaucracies that would "restore the awareness, the responsibility and the law that are the moral essence of free men." Reich surely has a point about the diffusion of responsibility in big, modern organizations. But in the case of Viet Nam, where...
...Greening of America, Reich...
...name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de Pompadour, Nell Gwyn and the Du Barry. How did she manage to catch der Führer's eye and remain with him until their joint suicide in the Berlin Reich chancellery? Photographs from Eva Braun's personal album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding a motorcycle, mugging in Bavarian costume, petting dogs and stiffly modeling a slinky gown. In the same issue...
...Edward C. Banfield, a professor of government at Harvard, described "the lower class" as not necessarily poor, not necessarily black, but clearly distinguishable from the working class because of its "inability (or, at any rate, failure) to take account of the future and to control impulses." Shortly after Charles Reich provided Op-Ed with a capsule summary of his forthcoming The Greening of America, Philosopher Marcuse complained in print, somewhat surprisingly, that Reich's euphoric dream treatise "transfigures social and political radicalism into moral rearmament...