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...Ralf Dahrendorf, director of the London School of Economics, argues that the welfare state produces what German Sociologist Max Weber called "the iron cage of bureaucratic bondage." He admits that centralization and government activity in the modern economy are inevitable but stresses that in the future the burden of proof for turning over functions to the government must rest "on the centralizers and not the other way around...
...most difficult of their repertoire, and the only piece not choreographed for them. Part of the viability of "Show" is due to the four really fine dancers of Tanz-Forum, given leads in this work: Heide Tegeder (by far the best of the company), James Saunders, Svenbjorg Alexanders, and Ralf Harster. (Michael Molnar, an impressive statue, is too tight when asked to move.) The company's affinity for this ballet, however, goes beyond good dancing by the leads. Morrice's analysis of a creation manipulated by the forces of a consciousness (represented by the dancers), where spontaneity is possible...
...France and Italy gave priority to growth. As a consequence, there is no common policy toward energy, inflation or the worsening recession. "The Community is now in transition from its self-invented calendars to the calendars of reality, and it must face the problems of the whole world," says Ralf Dahrendorf, former Common Market Commissioner and now director of the London School of Economics...
...brash, bold German, Ralf Dahrendorf, 44, will become the L.S.E.'s eighth director when he takes office next fall. A specialist in sociology, Dahrendorf is currently the member in charge of science and education for the European Commission. His selection by the LS.E. (to replace Retiring Head Sir Walter Adams) is regarded by many as a symbolic move designed to bring Britain closer to the European community...
Looking for Leadership. Can collective political power be far behind? At present, the Common Market is politically stagnant, its parliament virtually powerless, its bureaucrats in Brussels more adept at harmonizing the design of milk bottles than at deciding important matters of policy. Ralf Dah-rendorf, one of nine EEC commissioners, accuses the organization of being incapable of recovering the broad political vision of its founders. Guide Carli, head of the Bank of Italy, recently declared that economic development has gone about as far as it can go without further political development. And political development-meaning internal integration and common international...