Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Time A comforting bull from the Secretary of State, Mr. Cyrus Vance, regarding the common decency of the Plains, Georgia, Miracle Man and Mr. Leonid Brezhnev, moderate...
...Apri 122, 19781 New York Post Miss Harriet Van Horne, a professional hysteric, reviews the television presenta- tion "Holocaust": As we watch these brave decentpeople march to the showers—wherepoison gas came out of the spigot—and see the Nazis at their most bestial, we may think "Americans would never allow this sort of thing to happen...
...they were made outcasts in their own neighborhoods....People were so frightened that they bought The Nation on the newsstand rather than risk...
...From our study of the Nazis we have found that they were essentially normal, ordinary men...
...NW are going to have increased activity in regulations of chronic hazards...
...Both of them are strong men and have similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues...
...Leonid Brezhnev, moderate Stalinist: When the two men eventually sit down together, they will get along well...
...March iApri 1 19781 Saturday Review The tough-minded William Cole speaks his mind aboutone of modern liberalism's most romantic gallants, Dr...
...But without a movement all is chaos and contradictory response...
...If each individual is free tot according to his or her sense of sexual identity, preference, and role, then men and women will be truly able to express who they are...
...Then, with a stab, comes the single word "Vietnam...
...I exect that we are going to have some increased P efforts to deal with carcinogens...
...getting it in the mail...
...I thinkyou will see some activities in the lawnmower area and upholstered furniture before theyear is up...
...So we begin with a paranoid schizophrenic, suffering from delusions and hallucinations, a vicious, hypocritical man unconcerned with social issues....Following the Prince of Peace came the appropriately named Dark Ages...
...Why should the print media bepermitted to push a product the government deems dangerous...
...I've been wondering what other littlegoodies are being distributed to our heirs...
...But I try to find joy in personal existence because it's necessary to energize oneself....Many people think this system can no longer work for them...
...Then Luther and witch trials...
...As for Richard Nixon, let mejust say that he is by all objective measures a textbook psycho- pathic criminal whose misfortune was to have been born in a democratic country...
...In order to live agood life and make some intel- lectual andpolitical contributions I had to rid myself of paranoia....Having grown into a movement, my life is tied up with struggle...
...It was agorgeously romantic revolution, in which Castro, toquote one of his aides, showed "audacity, style, imagination"—qualities that are still on view, according to photojournalist Fred Ward's Inside Cuba Today...
...I also related it to the g ideological insanity that led us to rain death and destruction upon Indochina...
...People weren't .shipped off to the wastes of Siberia...
...April24, 1978] District of Columbia Bar Journal A forward-looking moment with Theodore J. Garrish, Es q., the articulate general counsel of the United States Consumer ProductSafety Commission: Principally, I think it is going to be in the rule making area...
...February 6 1978 ,) New York Prettily put prodigies of radical thought from Angela Davis, "black communist...
...Which is food for thought...
...May 1978] The Nation Apowerful act of the imagination turns a review of a mediocre book about America inthe 1950s, The Great Fear, into obligatory reading for the Nation's dizzy throng: There follows, nevertheless, some 700 copious- ly footnoted pages delineating, in numbing detail, the American Gulagrosaic than , more p the Soviet version, but chilling enough in its vast scale, thoroughness, petty vindictiveness, and hypocrisy...
...right-wing crack otter that defines itself as uardian of Our Way...
...We are handling some of the defense work relating to aluminum wire and that isgoing to continue and probably be a resource consuming kind of activity for the nextyear or so...
...Then Crusades and the medieval centuries...
...I realize that the whole thing may have been intended as a joke, but it isn't funny...
...Fidel Castro: As a knee jerk liberal, I am of two minds about Cuba: I applaud the accomplishments of Castro's revolution but am uneasy about the absence of civil liberties...
...Are We All Nazis...
...April 1, 1978] Bloomington [Indiana] Herald-Telephone Godfrey Sperling, liberal, lays down the limits of our First Amendment rights: Mr...
...April14, 1978] The Humanist Another laugh on poor Sr...
...Since "Wacky Packs" are made by Topps Chewing Gum, Inc...
...For the uninitiated, "Wacky Packs" are stickers such as my fouryear-old might paste on the fender of his bike...
...We have a tremendous amount of litigation right now in the aluminum wire area...
...And so on down to the Nazis and us...
...Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, deceased and unavailable to defend his art since 1798: The healthiest environment for sexualgrowth is one thatprovides the richest possible banquet of experiences and models from which the individual can learn without fear of social censure...
...Califano'splan would (a) emphasize the dissemination of information about the dangers of smoking and (b) place a further curb on tobacco advertising...
...Making the event even more memorable, Miss Davis revealed these thoughts in New York magazine's "Special Home-Furnish- in g Issue": I'm notpessimistic about change in this country...
...We will also be spending a substantial amount of resources in some areas like aluminum wiring...
...February 1978] The Great Books Series Stirring passages culled from Are 1Ve All Nazis?, a book of popcorn psychology written by Prof...
...Lest we for et he was elected twice—the second time by a historic landslide...
...And...we now know that those Nazis and these Americans,—which is to say you and I— for all our superficial differences such as time andplace, are, psychologically speaking, inter- changeable...
...The thrust of my complaint was that the label for "Extra Strong Commie Cleanser" obviously re- inforces the kind of bigotry most of us call McCarthyism—that persistent strain of U.S...
...Our , own mini-holocaust...
...One of the things that is going to come up is our sleepwear modifications which will be changes in the sleepwear stan- dard...
...Apri 1 17 1978 ,] 42 The American Spectator June/ July 1978...
...by Hans Askenasy [Lyle Stuart] The Progressive Mr...
...Here it seems relevant to ask whether it isn't time tout an end to all such advertising...
...Flabbergasted, I sent off a note to Shedd's, and received a speedy reply...
...I'm convinced that this country will one day be socialist....I have no bodyguard...
...Nice gimmick, right...
...Look at what we got...
...His opponent apparently had the misfortune to have been decent...
...Bryant Avery, managing editor of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, informs agape readers of the Progressive about yet another stimulant to his concern, to wit: Shedd's Food Products, makers of Shedd's infamous peanut butter: Recently, Shedd's has been using a marketing gimmick: If you buy their five-pound plastic pail of peanut better, you also receive two free "Wacky Packs" inside...
...And, incidentally, the slogan on the sticker is historically absurd, linking "Hippies, Yippies, and Flippies" (what- ever they may be) with communists...
...Hans Askenasy, the latest onferan orator to hit the campus lecture circuit: The asinine and hypocritical inanities of a William Buckley, perpetually inebriated by his own verbosity, are due not to ignorance but to defective moral development...
...Wrong...
...Christ said this topeople who did not like his preaching: "Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape damnation of hell...
Vol. 11 • June 1978 • No. 8
