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When one surveys the Harvard Faculty in an effort to find it man who is sensitive, in touch, committed, the name George Wald usually crops up. But who is George Wald when compared to Charles Reich, the man who made Consciousness III a household word. Reisk's critics, who originally charged that his book was just a fairytale, now point to the recent presidential election as hard evidence that America has not yet greened. Of course not. But after all, Reisk never told that Consciousness it would die easily...
...true hero is Oedipus, who dared to learn the terrible truths about himself and paid the price of self-awareness: the perpetual burden of guilt and responsibility without which there can be no lasting morality. By contrast, May treats such facile Utopians as Charles Reich to sympathetic though sharp criticism. After calling Reich's book, The Greening of America, "an impressionistic painting of the Garden of Eden...for children and not for adults," May downgrades Consciousness III. It is he says "no consciousness at all, for it lacks dialectic movement between 'yes' and 'no,' good...
...Horst Wagner, 66, an SS member of the German Foreign Office, was allegedly responsible for transporting Jews from occupied countries outside the Third Reich to concentration camps. He was arrested in 1958, but it took German prosecutors nine years to prepare the case for trial. The date was finally set for May 1968, but since then Wagner, who is out on bail, has won one postponement after another by changing attorneys and claiming ill health. Last July he underwent an eye operation three days before his long-delayed trial was to begin...
...million workers under 30, nursed on television and still showing their Spock marks, may in fact be too educated, too expectant and too anti-authoritarian for many of the jobs that the economy offers them. Affluence, the new rise in hedonism, and the antimaterialistic notions expressed in Charles Reich's The Greening of America have turned many young people against their parents' dedication to work for the sake of success...
...workers. In most auto assembly plants, a worker must even get permission from his foreman before he can go to the bathroom. The four-day week offers no real prospect for humanizing work; doing a boring job for four days instead of five is still an empty experience. Charles Reich says: "No person with a strongly developed aesthetic sense, a love of nature, a passion for music, a desire for reflection, or a strongly marked independence could possibly be happy in a factory or white collar...