Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM California A cheerful brochure from the renowned International Cooperation Council of Beverly Hills, California, brings word of the Council's forthcoming spectacular, 'The Rainbow...
...His stunning diplomatic triumph...made him a man to be reckoned with at home and abroad...
...Seating is limited...
...Ellen North, Atlanta [February 1979] The New York Times Magazine Proof that the printed word can be dangerous even to its creator-what follows is a passage from the pen of White House correspondent Martin Tolchin, a man who believes in miracles: Suddenly, they're not laughing at Jimmy Carter anymore...
...However, there is one dramatic change in the way that is being done in 1978-79- Black, old and poor people are not being told directly that they will have nothing...
...festival goers can share and participate in music, dancing and laughter in a cabaret...
...Psychic Films, an evening session led by Alan Neuman, noted paranormal investigator and film maker...
...Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D...
...A flutist and one who can talk with whales through his musk, Horn brings the reality of the New Age to the Festival through his most unusual and penetrating musical sounds...
...plus 6' hours daily of other exciting films...
...California Encore And from that same brochure, facts about the eminences who will hold forth at 'The Rainbow Rose Festival...
...January 13, 1979...
...I doubt that anyone but a man and woman in similar circumstances could appreciate the tenderness, devotion and energy-sparked-yet-peaceful aura of such a love...
...She heals . through the use of sound, speaks frequently throughout the nation on radio, television, campuses and for groups, and above all transmits a radiance that is the essence of the new spirit...
...Science Fiction, a mini-festival of authors and film makers led by Gary Lowenthal of Mega-Faire...
...Harold Stone, director of the Center for Healing Arts...
...February 22,1979] America Mr...
...socialites swoon over them and the common people love to read about them...
...Parapsychology, a discussion led by Brad Steiger, noted authority in the field of parapsychology...
...As always during a time of national duress, it appears that the little guy will pay...
...Superspace, a discussion of experts led by R. Rendle Leatham, general systems specialist...
...Most people try to label it or search for a Freudian explanation before they accept the fact that two people simply fell in love...
...INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION COUNCIL The International Cooperation Council (ICC) is a coordinating body composed of approximately 300 educational, scientific, cultural and religious organizations which in their own ways "foster the emergence of a new universal person and civilization based on unity in diversity among all peoples...
...Politics Today Civil libertarian George McGovern sets up another of those cognitive arabesques so plausible and inspiriting to the professed ritualistic liberal: We're just going to break the bank if we let every American continue to violate basic nutritional and health rules and then offer a [health) system to pay for it out of the Treasury...
...And, in an age of poverty, underprivilege and inflation, players should more honestly appraise their athletic skills and put forward more realistic salary claims...
...may prove a new installment in the loony-bin soap opera of American politics...
...The American public has a characteristically democratic weakness for crowned heads...
...ARTISTRY Accenting the featured speakers will be an array of outstanding musicians, dancers, performers and multi-media adventures...
...Congressional complaints about White House ineptitude have been replaced by complaints about White House steamrollers...
...In a sense, we have over here the "mirror image" of the Soviet Union, where all the people who write in Pravda represent the position which they call "socialism"-in fact, a certain variety of highly authoritarian state socialism...
...Morning, afternoon and evening sessions will be scheduled daily, with as many as four major speakers appearing at one time...
...Synergy coordinator is Patricia-Rochelle Diegel...
...AFTER HOURS CABARET At the end of each day (10:30 p.m.-1 a.m...
...Collins himself calls "an age of poverty, underprivilege and inflation": Regrettably, spectator sport is too profit-minded today...
...Psychotronics, a seminar led by Henry Nagorka, president, United States Psychotronics Association...
...In just 13 days at Camp David last September, the President laid to rest the competency issue that had plagued the first 20 months of his Administration...
...Stories about Fort Fumble no longer circulate in Capitol cloakrooms...
...9) and the film Moment by Momentmay shed new light on this and bring more couples out of the closet...
...Paul Horn Horn is one of the world's most unique musicians and composers...
...December 17, 1978] Commonweal Public bawling from a Mr...
...WORKSHOPS AND MINI-FESTIVALS Throughout the course of the week, speakers will conduct workshops and give special presentations on such themes as: Holistic Health and Wellness, a seminar coordinated by Dr...
...Patrick J. Collins, "a teacher of journalism and chairman of the classics department at Iona College," delivers up a crucial socioeconomic pronunciamento full of Galbraithian charm and rigor in what Mr...
...If it is to continue its valuable services to the nation's recreational, psychological and emotional well-being into the 21st century, owners have to adopt a business philosophy less commercial in nature, and voluntarily impose restraints upon their industry, restraints that will curb its monopolistic tendencies and excessive profiteering...
...From the ideological point of view the mass media are almost 100 percent "state capitalist...
...The nation's foremost authority on death and dying, Ross has served as counselor for clients who are dying, as well as their families...
...November/December 1978} The Nation The shocking findings of Professor Doktor Noam Chomsky, and the fearful symmetry he divines therefrom: To my knowledge, in the American mass media you cannot find a single socialist journalist, not a single syndicated political commentator who is a socialist...
...Quality psychic wonderments and personal readings will also be offered...
...Huzza, huzza: Patricia Sun A Phi Beta Kappa with two degrees in 31/2 years from the University of California, Sun has become one of the "jewels in the lotus" of the emerging new consciousness...
...Instead, "liberals" are told that they will have nothing....Imagine if the President had to go directly to a ghetto family receiving federal assistance to explain the necessity of "fiscal restraint...
...New Consciousness Psychics, a mini-festival assembled by Lawrence Blair, New Age explorer and film maker and author of Rhythms of Vision...
...Your article (Jan...
...Festival goers will also be able to take part in the dancing and singing of other cultures including the Universal Dances of Peace of the Sufi Order...
...SYNERGY WORKSHOPS Special workshops designed to help festival goers learn to use various levels of their minds will be held throughout the week...
...It could be virulent, especially if a new factor is added-the presence here, as directing impressario, of the Shah himself...
...Peter Kovler whose opinion it is that we live in "a time of national duress ": When the ship of state is in rough seas, the first to go overboard are the poor and disadvantaged...
...CURRENT WISDOM California A cheerful brochure from the renowned International Cooperation Council of Beverly Hills, California, brings word of the Council's forthcoming spectacular, 'The Rainbow Rose Festival," a cultural event of the top chop for California's sun-burnished intelligentsia-price of admission, $75 on the hoof: The Rainbow Rose Festival will bring together many of the world's foremost thinkers covering a wide variety of contemporary subjects...
...There isn't much talk of a one-term Presidency at Washington dinner parties these days...
...Stonie, the most famous American journalist since Horace Greeley: "Who lost Iran...
...Register early...
...Her founding of Shanti Nilaya, a physical center for her work, gives witness to one of her dreams...
...January 27, 1979] Us Still more bravery in America, this time revealed in a magisterial exposition in the correspondence section of controversial Us magazine: For five years, my darling young man-20 years my junior-and I have been living together...
...January 19, 1979] The New York Review of Books A frightening tomorrow authoritatively excogitated by I.F...
...Recipient of 15 honorary degrees, she is the author of several books including Death: The Final Stage of Growth...
...These sessions will help you "tune-in" to things you never dreamed were possible...
Vol. 12 • March 1979 • No. 3
