Word: reich
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...ROBERT REICH, 24, was a Dartmouth student in 1967 when he linked arms with demonstrators in Washington and started marching on the Pentagon. Because of his small size (4 ft. 11 in.), Reich was unable to see the protest target over the heads of taller marchers. These days he looks back on that incident as a symbol of the confrontations of the late 1960s ?a seething mass of humanity moving loudly against an unseen enemy...
Still committed to social change, Reich is now less confident about how to achieve it. His breakneck college career as head of Dartmouth student government, founder of a "free university," and five-state organizer for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign made him an enthusiast for personality politics. But life as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford's 700-year-old University College gave him his first serious look at democratic socialism, a system he thinks is inevitable for the U.S. It also gave him "more humility about what individuals can accomplish in a short period of time." On his return, Reich...
...Yale Law School and living in an urban commune, Reich has ruled out careers in either regular law firms or most storefront legal-service projects because "they use law as an instrument of confrontation, not conciliation." He talks of "delegalizing" society so that people can resolve conflicts without lawyers?as in no-fault auto insurance systems. To get such ideas across, he has joined law and business students at Harvard and Yale in starting a "public policy union" to work with city officials and state legislators on social problems. He plans to get involved in Senator George McGovern's presidential...
Whatever he decides after two more years of law school, Reich is determined to avoid two pitfalls. The first, as he sees it, is that reformers who let themselves become as prominent as Ralph Nader invariably turn out to be "hollow shells" when seen close up. Secondly, among the more relaxed ranks of the counterculture, Reich (no kin to Yale Law Professor Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America) sees an alarming tendency to conformity and an unconscious yearning for authority. "I hope to be a kind of cross between a philosopher and a political hack," he says. Looking...
...Greening of America, Reich...