Word: naderism
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...ourselves, a disparate group that includes Eldridge Cleaver as well as Neil Armstrong, Tom Hayden as well as Ron Ziegler, Susan Sontag as well as Rod McKuen, Ralph Nader as well as Van Cliburn. Like any generation, we contain contradictions and exceptions, including those, particularly among the blacks, who want to burn and bury the system. But the revolutionaries among us, political or cultural, are a minority; reform, not revolution, is our aim. As a generation, we are distinguished by our lack of anger. Circled by fury, we are the unfurious; surrounded by passion, we are the dispassionate. Most...
...Spiro Agnew's argot, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine took potshots at "Potland," which he said is waging "hysterical warfare" against "Squareland." Speaking at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paine proposed a hypothetical Cabinet for the country, including Timothy Leary (Secretary of Agriculture), Jane Fonda (Interior), Arlo Guthrie (H.E.W.), Ralph Nader (Commerce) and Bobby Scale (Attorney General). Paine asserted that Potlanders were heavily dependent on "foreign aid" from Squareland. His words were generally ill-received. "The speech had one thing going for it," said a Worcester administrator. "It was short...
...months before it came time for Harvard to make its decision on GM, the corporation asked for and received advice from all groups associated with the University. By May 1, three fourths of their correspondence supported the Nader group. The statements of support included a Faculty resolution, an alumai poll, a student petition with more than 1500 names, a law brief from the Harvard Environmental Law Society, and letters from Mayor White and Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
...Nader's Raider called the CRIMSON from Washington last summer and announced that they had discovered scandals in the Agriculture, Department bigger than Billy Sol Estes. He said that half of the Ag Dept. was so corrupt that they'd have to be fired...
...recent times no action has been so purely symbolic as Project GM. Organizing GM stockholders against the Company is an enterprise comparable in practical effect with organizing the Mississippi Congressional delegation in support of the Black Panthers. Ralph Nader and the sponsors recognized this. And as all students who have rejoiced in my lectures are aware, not even the GM Board of Directors has any real power. The power lies with the corporate bureaucracy. But Project GM was a useful reminder that this bureaucracy has responsibilities, as students, faculty and even alumni thought. That the Treasurer and (I assume...