Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM In the exordium of an interview with famed feminist philosophe Miss Barbara Deming, one of Ms. magazine's intellectual giants renders an on-the-scene report of numinous and...
...The porpoise returns to her pleasures...
...September 2, 1978] The Louisville Courier-Journal A lofty and sibylline vision of higher education proffered by the eminent Ralph Nader as he squawks to the agape students of one of our Midwest Harvards: "Instead of going out and seeing 'Animal House,' " Nader said, referring to a hit movie about campus high jinks, students should be asking what kind of education they're getting...
...The theological necessity of the Cold War justified all the means used to pursue it-from repressive McCarthyism at home, to the subversion of reformist governments in Guatemala or Iran, to the expenditure of billions and billions of dollars on weapons of mass annihilation...
...Number three, restructure and rebuild the nation's rail system so we have a first-class system of rail transportation...
...The mere thought would paralyze him with fear for the safety of his job...
...Today I live as a well-adjusted gay with a wonderful lover...
...October 30, 1978] Commonweal A penetrable passage in an otherwise unintelligible temper tantrum by Mr...
...I call two or three times...
...He does-all the time-and insists he's neither a transvestite nor homosexual...
...October 27, 1978] The Greensboro [NCI Daily News A verbatim transcription of the courageous declaration of another forward-looking Americano, abounding with reformist zeal...
...Andrew Kopkind throws all his seventy-five IQ points into the struggle to enlighten the intellectualoid readers whose palms perspire and hearts thump wildly while reading New Times, New Times, New Times, New...
...And number four, restructure our medical establishment so that it is oriented to keep people well rather than to care for them after they are sick...
...It was based on anti-Communism, which dressed militarism in the rituals of religious belief...
...November 4, 1978] The Washington Star Zoological notes from Capitol Hill: They just hate the thought of being separated...
...As a teen-aged student in the 1950s I was struggling with my own gay emotions...
...magazine's intellectual giants renders an on-the-scene report of numinous and goofy doings: At the motel in the Florida Keys, a male guest is tormenting a trained porpoise, trying to put her through her tricks without giving her the expected reward of fish...
...The job search was prompted by Steers' loss in the Nov...
...November 1978] The Nation From a traditional religious service held on page 178 of the September 2 issue of the Nation: First, some definitions...
...He was avidly in favor of Proposition 6. This letter caused me to think back to my own high school days at the same school where Allen Peters teaches...
...November 14, 1978...
...The staff members of Rep...
...November/December 1978] The San Francisco Chronicle A testimonial to "open communication" from another of modern America's selfmade men: Editor-Earlier this month you published a letter from Allen Peters, a teacher at Red Bluff Union High School...
...As an example, he said students could form a group to study the city's drinking water...
...7 election...
...A conservative-also knee-jerk-is someone who instinctively takes the side of the top dog...
...Embarrassed, he walks away...
...The sequel, as it develops, has no such coherence...
...Staff called excellent by area newspapers...
...If Senator Briggs had succeeded in the 1950s this particular teacher would never have felt free to reach out to students like myself...
...I don't impersonate women," he says...
...Other people, too, are staring at him in dismay...
...Comes complete with legislative assistants, special projects and press assistants and a beautiful black receptionist," the ad read...
...Hey, man, I'm a macho dude...
...Frank Getlein, radical Christian theorist: ...the corporation...is by its nature much more criminally inclined than the ordinry run of men and women....The corporation...is motivated solely by greed, the desire to make as much money as possible in any year, to make more money every year than was made last year, and to make it by any means available...
...7 election to Democrat Michael Barnes, a former Maryland Public Service Commission member...
...The Cold War, Part I, had a crazy scenario, but there was a certain consistency in its ideology...
...After all, China is Communist, Yugoslavia is Communist, and so are Rumania and Poland-all countries courted by the Cold Warriors of Washington...
...You can ask my girlfriend...
...They're comfortable and I like to show off my legs," he says...
...She lives a few miles away from the motel, and Jane Gapen, the artist/poet with whom she shares her life, drives me to their small cottage...
...For our purposes here, a liberal-also known as a knee-jerk liberal-is someone who instinctively takes the side of the underdog...
...This would involve analyzing the water, interviewing public officials and compiling the information into a report, he said...
...The porpoise thrashes around wildly-gestures translated as anger by a small, anguished boy standing near me who has known her for five years...
...You take one course and another and another so you can get a job," he said...
...History, gangway: Bill Cushing is a 34-year-old former construction worker, now a college student, who insists that if women can wear trousers, men should be free to wear skirts...
...But Nader urged students to spend more of their time studying society and its problems, which he said would give students skills for later in life...
...I don't like the idea of impersonating a female...
...I am visiting the pacifist-feminist philosopher, Barbara Deming...
...The porpoise could swim away or hit the man with her tail, he is that near...
...The crusaders of that earlier conflict never lost sight of their Grail-the crushing of Godless Communism, the defeat of the totalitarian antichrist...
...With the religious fervor of a great crusade stripped away, there is not much substance to the new Cold War, save the paranoia about a dubious Soviet threat...
...to make wearing a dress optional, so there's no indignity...
...The ad in the magazine said: "Super staff seeks legislator interested in innovative constituent service, problem-solving legislation to replace super boss hit from behind in the Nov...
...Even the densest politicians in Washington have known for decades that there are enough nuclear missiles in each of the superpower's arsenals to destroy everyone on earth many times over...
...There are other definitions, but those will do...
...November 18, 1978] Politics Today Four invincible cures for America's ailments from one of the men who brought you all four ailments, the Rt...
...Some of us would not move on a project without seeking her counsel and support in frequent mail and telephone consciousness-raising...
...I often think of the debt which I owe to this marvelous teacher who taught at Red Bluff Union High School in those days...
...Cushing, who wants to do social work, says he has been denied a number of jobs but won't bow to sexual clothing stereotyping...
...The complete set $228,000...
...I'm not out to convert America," he says...
...Fascinating, the adaptation of this trapped beast to her human environment, her stubborn demand for her rights...
...He says he has worn skirts now for a number of years...
...I call across the pool in human language: "Please stop distressing that animal...
...Few sensitive beings are immune...
...George McGovern, meathead: Number one, address the issue of inflation by having the courage to come out for wage and price controls...
...One of the teachers at the school counseled me and provided valuable moral support, This help enabled me to get through a difficult period of my life...
...The staff has placed an ad in "Roll Call," a newspaper devoted to Capitol Hill news, to sell the whole 17-member staff for a quick $228,000 per annum to an incoming congressman who needs an experienced staff...
...He has become a familiar sight around the College of Marin campus, where he is a freshman-so familiar that he gets few stares...
...All I want to do is let men choose...
...At last her tormentor is aware...
...You will, for example, generally find liberals for and conservatives against conservation, the abolition of slavery, the child labor amendment, pure food laws, factory safety inspections, civil rights, minimum wages and tax reform...
...We need more open communication between student and teacher, not fear and blackmail...
...Newton Steers, R-Md., have enjoyed working together so much that they are looking for a freshman congressman who will hire the "complete set...
...NAME WITHHELD [November 3, 1978] New Times Mr...
...Number two, address the energy crisis by accelerating the effort to utilize solar and hydroelectric, geothermal and other sources of renewable power...
...Nader said that in most cases, the university is just like a trade school...
...But instead, she thrashes in the water, trying to communicate...something...
...I could not help thinking that the porpoise had picked up her emanations by living so close to her...
Vol. 12 • January 1979 • No. 1
