Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISD0M The Daily Californian Advanced literary experiments heaved up by the nascent Hemingways at work on the editorial pages of the illustrious Daily Californian, newspaper of the...
...At 52, small, bald and trim, he glows with physical fitness—testimony to daily, hourlong workouts in his basement gym...
...He had condoms...
...The names have been changed to protect the innocent, and the not so innocent...
...March 30, 1977] WomaNews Ms...
...And the conditions in which many of our more than 200,000 prisoners live are shocking...
...He was also 25 and authentically cynical, unlike those college boys I'd known who affected cynicism in order not to appear naive...
...I was amazed and relieved...
...He was an engineer—hardly thrilling—but he was Chicano (the only Chicano engineer there, and faintly exotic) and he confessed to me that he really wanted to be a writer...
...he has gained neither workmen's compensation nor unemployment insurance...
...Flash Silvermoon lucubrating contagiously on the Church News page of WomaNews, the feminist paper from Gainesville, Florida: As feminists, many of us have begun to unravel our way out of the man's web by rejecting his various priests and organized forms of male religions...
...Eventually, inevitably, we had our first real date...
...Charlap barks at his visitor...
...The salesman is not eligible for union membership...
...Y'all doing all right...
...September 1, 1977] 46 The American Spectator November 1977...
...He put on an Erik Satie record and took me to bed...
...The Willy Lomans of the United States still look to the Congress for the equitable working conditions they deserve...
...I think it's also safe to say I'm a student of Marxism and a socialist...
...AP)—Sara Jane Moore, convicted of trying to kill President Gerald Ford, claims she has been returned to her native state and a federal women's prison as a political prisoner...
...I supposed I was seduced...
...Those are fog words that people immediately react to without understanding...
...I was living with my boring parents, working at a boring clerieal job, keeping desultory company with my boring friends from high school...
...they may be more pessimistic and skeptical than the young of the Fifties, but they are not much more politically inclined...
...But he is capable, extremely intelligent—and he is listening...
...We were supposed to go to a movie, but the ticket line was too long, so we went back to his place and smoked dope and drank Liebfraumilch...
...I voted for President Carter, but I'm sure he is wrong in giving priority to Soviet dissidents rather than to detente and disarmament...
...Salsa and sensitivity...
...Alice Franklin Bryant, Seattle, Washington [June 1977] The New York Review of Books From the salon intellectuals, still more scowls: [T]he protests of the Sixties...did not cut deep enough: the major problems of the Fifties are still with us, and the Sixties' zeal for betterment has gone the way of all flesh, having dwindled into the activities of sober Naderites, ecologists, and careful lawyers...
...Charlap doesn't drink liquor, either...
...I have a tremendous energy level...
...He thought I would like to read your magazine because I am always saying that 90 per cent of books are written to make money (capitalism) and not to inform anyone...
...On their behalf, I urge my colleagues to lend their support to the Sales Representatives Protection Act...
...Since that time, few advances have been made to improve the' rights and working conditions of these important contributors to the American economy...
...He was amused, paternal, knowing...
...If you have succeeded in rejecting male religions, the next step, or perhaps it is the first step, is to bounce that god off his cloud...
...Nonetheless, y'all still a bunch of white boys trying to clean up y'all's daddies' s--t...
...Even my mother must smoke outside in the garden...
...I first got Mother Jones a few weeks ago from a brother who had gotten it from the library cart...
...It seemed I had always been bored...
...They are in limbo between the powerful organizations of both labor and management...
...Jean De Savieu Joliet, IL [July 1977] Congressional Record Another emotional moment on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, provided by the Rt...
...Paul Charlap, chairman of Savin Business Machines Corp., in an interview for a leading business publication: "You don't smoke, do you...
...He at least was not boring, although he worked at the same place I did...
...Male god-heads are a product of and breed self-hate in women...
...As a matter of fact, I'd never before been in a single man's apartment, alone...
...But in the process, some of us have also rejected our own Spirituality...
...A spiritual gestapo can only create a fascist planet...
...Many thousands of our American dissidents in Canada and Sweden are not even free to come into the United States to visit their parents...
...CURRENT WIS D 0 M The Daily Californian Advanced literary experiments heaved up by the nascent Hemingways at work on the editorial pages of the illustrious Daily Californian, newspaper of the University of California at Berkeley: We have asked a random sample of Cal students—picked from among the staff writers of- The Daily Californian—to record their memories of the first time they had sex...
...Raymond A. Schroth, offers reassurance to his readers of his fundamental commitment to high seriousness: I won't buy the highly-touted Coors because I don't want my beer money supporting Coors family right-wing causes...
...He kissed superbly...
...I have been incarcerated for five years on a seven- to 12-year sentence for an armed robbery of the largest retail bookstore in Chicago on Christmas Eve...
...With the war over, the draft repealed, circumstances straitened, and lots of blacks in television commercials, most of the young have given up radical politics...
...Then, as if he's explaining everything, Charlap says, "See those skateboards...
...I awoke each day at 6:15 a.m., got dressed, ate breakfast, and went to work in the thickening LA smog...
...I want to build a great, big company full of people with smiling faces...
...Perhaps that explains why I'd been so bored...
...The cities are dying, the air and water are filthy, the corporations ride the economy, and we are no further from nuclear annihilation than we ever were...
...Speaker, it is nearly 30 years since the playwright Arthur Miller first shocked the American people with his "Death of a Salesman," a grim portrayal of the grueling life of a sales representative...
...Of course it's safe to say if it weren't for my politics I wouldn't be here now," said the newest resident of the Federal Reformatory for Women...
...August 4, 1977] Forbes The charm of an American business genius, displayed by Mr...
...I'm not the passive type...
...this is perhaps the greatest crime of all...
...Richard Ottinger, Conscience of the House: Mr...
...I don't allow smoking in my house...
...Darleen It was two summers after the Summer of Love...
...However, I find Mother Jones to be relevant to surviving in the mainstream of American life...
...I was 19 and bored...
...February 2S, 19771 Commonweal During a puckish review of The Taster's Guide to Beer, Commonweal's associate editor, Mr...
...Let us express ourselves to him...
...If social improvement and political overhaul depend on rousing the young against the old, then we are surely lost...
...All I could carry was $43,000 of their money...
...They stole our religious concepts, gave them mastectomies, and tried to shove it back down our throats in a cellophane package complete with original sin and a one way ticket to hell if we didn't comply...
...Being women, we were in league with the devil anyway and have no souls to save...
...President Carter's present priority on Soviet civil rights suggests to me that he has not learned much from Korea and Indochina...
...September 16, 1977] The Greensboro 'N.C.] Daily News The sobering declamations of a thoughtful and courageous woman who in a saner world would doubtless head the National Endowment for the Humanities: ALDERSON, W. Va...
...I'd never before drunk anything but Red Mountain and Manischewitz...
...They're mine, not my grandson's...
...I told him I was a virgin, trying not to sound coy...
...January 1977] The Progressive The simple wisdom of an astonished reader of The Progressive displayed in the correspondence section of that great organ of enlightened opinion: I was astonished to read your statement in the April issue Comment, "President Carter deserves praise for his recent assertion that the United States 'will not back down' in its criticism of human rights violations in the Soviet Union and other nations of the Soviet bloc...
...Pravda has warned: "Detente and the normal conduct of talks presuppose the establishment of trust between the negotiating parties and respect for the laws and traditions of each other, while attempts to exert pressure on us and to bargain for concessions of principles are bringing about an atmosphere of distrust...
...July 20, 1977] Mother Jones M. Jean De Savieu proudly relates his achievements and his insights to kindred spirits, manfully struggling against the terrors of the Mainstream: Dear Mother: I am an inmate in Statesville prison...
Vol. 11 • November 1977 • No. 1
