Current Wisdom
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...Surely this is a rather half-hearted approach...
...He moved his hands in tight circles around a colleague's forehead...
...He stood in the center of his colleagues, all undressed before the winds, and demonstrated...
...S e n a t e ' s most enormous hinds, upon returning from glorious and inscrutable Peking: [Senator] percy, clad in brief blue swim trunks and a peach sportshirt, and equally exhilarated by the trip, jumps right into the conversation with a surprising remark: "Mao is the George Washington of his country," he contends...
...The feet, the toes...particularly sens'itive to lawyers who do trial practice...
...Next the mouth...
...Good riddance to them all...
...Show each other we care...
...Easier, more effective method of self-programming, mind control and relaxation...
...Rage at the businessmen fleeing to their suburban arcadias...
...He warmed to his subject as he moved to the arms, the waist, the back...
...Details FREE...
...January 15, 1977] Esquire Mr...
...Children in primary schools sing family planning songs and say their alphabet: 'B is for Birth, C is for Contraceptives,' etc...
...Rage at Washington...
...Rage at the plague of crime and violence, knowing that we have too few policemen...
...Children between six and 10 call the pill the family welfare vitamin and they ask their mothers if they are taking it...
...Now when you give your partner a massage," Levy said, "concentrate particularly on the crown of the head...
...Lawyers build up tension in the back and the neck, they block up there and experience a lot of pain...
...In Chicago, most of them would turn their backs...
...John Leonard, the New York Times' cultural nerve ending, reveals an intelligently conceived syncretism, e s s e n t i a l for surviving the groan t h a t p a s s e s for life in p r e s e n t - d a y fascist America: If every time I think of Viemam I can manage at the same time to think of Mary Tyler Moore, I can also manage to feel not so bad about being an American...
...I t ' s one of the nicest things we can do for each other...
...If / . IV...
...November29, 1976] Psychology Today Important notifications from the classified section of one of America's most advanced publications: YOUR PSYCHE REJUVENATED--THROUGH ALPHANETICS...
...I t ' s incredible--the signs and sayings of Mao are everywhere...
...I t ' s a Mao philosophy and principle, carried out through peer group pressure...
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...It's become a point of national pride to wear a T-shirt that says 'I am vasectomized.' or for the woman 'I am protected.' Poor Thai families can rent a pair of water buffaloes (their equivalent to our tractors) for half price if they take up family planning...
...Jill Johnston is quoted as maintaining that "until all women are lesbians there will be no true political revolution...
...Life Dynamics Fellowship, Box 418-DGF, 2935 Chillon Way, Laguna Beach, Calif...
...That's how they've eliminated corruption and dope," he points out...
...Rage at the knowledge that the South Bronx is burning to the ground, and we do not have enough firemen...
...If somebody steals a bicycle, 100 people in the streets chase down the thief...
...No,' he told me, 'we reason with them.' I didn't ask what he meant by 'reason.' " [September20, 1975] Publishers Weekly Another complicated asseveration from metaphysician Charles Reich...
...January 15, 1977] The Washington Star Mrs...
...June 20, 1976] San Francisco Chronicle A legendary California newspaper records the b r e a t h l e s s observations of one of the U.S...
...Male and female, they massaged each other...
...February 1977] Commonweal The Rev...
...As prosecutors and counselors all, they knew where they hurt...
...Lawyers have tension in the mouth because we can't always say what we think," he said...
...And as soon as he was done, they all went to it...
...Massage each other, he said...
...Rage at the scabrous conditions of our streets, the potholes and trenches that might never again be filled, the sewers clogged with a winter's dismal refuse...
...Example: 'We shall harness the Yellow River'--that's all he says and suddenly millions of people are volunteering to work on it...
...38 The Alternative: An American Spectator March 1977...
...Wendy Morgan, socialite, reports on the booming cultural life of Thailand for the illustrious Star of Washington: Buddhist monks bless pills and condoms when they arrive...
...All we ask is that you read these lines with an open mind and one hand thrust deep in a large pile of warm cow dung: It may sound pretentious, but in order for us to understand ourselves as a people, we need to understand ourselves as individuals first...
...anuary 1977] Times Literary Supplement Professor Norman Cohen r e s o r t s to cruel and sophomoric sarcasm in trying to come to terms with the really prodigious lucubrations of Miss J i l l Johnston, lesbian, revolutionary, and human being: In the review of Ms...
...July-August 1976] The New Republic A New Republic editorialist speaks to his analyst: Berating Nixon is always a pleasure...
...VULNERABLE is Beautiful...
...During breaks, during lunch...
...We lawyers spend so much time concentrating, the tension builds up in the forehead and the crown...
...Jane Rule's Lesbian Images, Ms...
...I have long held that if only everyone, of both sexes, were homosexual, all human problems would be solved in less than a century...
...January I, 1977] Adrienne Rich Yet another thundering anthropo-sociophilosophical declaration from a shrew gone bonkers, this time the p r e p o s t e r o s i t y comes from Miss Adrienne Rich in Of IVoman Born: The patriarchal institution of motherhood is not the human condition any more than rape, prostitution, and slavery are...
...The heart, somewhere along the line we've all suffered defeat here...
...October 22, 1976] The New Republic The s t a t e of reasoned discourse at the New Republic, where a howl in the night may be published as an editorial on the morrow: Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, Agnew, Mitchell, Butz, Connally, Haig, Rogers, Helms, Simon, Greenspan, Richardson, Rockefeller, Laird, Whitehead, Rumsfeld, Kleindienst, Finch, Gray...
...I told one man that I'd heard dope pushers were taken into the streets and shot...
...Raymond A. Schroth lays down a lachrymose catalogue of the w o r l d ' s leading troubles: For non-monks, one of the great attractions of monasteries, and of those pseudo-monasteries like seminaries on hilltops, is their separateness, their apparent isolation from what the rest of us experience as the troubles of the "world" --social pressure, competitive capitalism, alienation, work anxiety, messed-up love affairs and muggLqgs and bicycle thieves in Central Park...
...The social pressure created by the children is terrific...
...Contraceptives are sold with vegetables and housewares in the little boats of the floating markets, and shopkeepers and school teachers distribute them...
...Slowly he broadened the circles and worked his way around the eyes, the cheeks, the ears...
...Rage at the loss of our local democracy...
...Primal Feeling Center of New England, Inc., 70 Nashua Street, Milford, NH 03055...
...That's what we've tried to do in this book...
...Norton, publisher] New York Times Book Review Auspicious developments in the capital of American Ku/tur as r e p o r t e d by leading urbanologist, Pete Hamill: It is too soon, perhaps, for a cool, rational, detached book about what has happened to New York...
...Those of us who choose to live here are too choked with rage...
...Rage at our own impotence...
...The list of clods, malefactors, narrow-minded reactionary zealots, egomaniacs, flunkies, lame-brains goes on and on...
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...having his memory to kick around will be a source of satisfaction to liberals for many years to come...
...Rage because so many of our schools and hospitals have been permanently awarded to the rats, our parks left strangled on weed and neglect, our libraries reduced to part-time outposts of civilization...
Vol. 10 • March 1977 • No. 6
