The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS July 15 to August 16, and our government continued to go from triumph to triumph. Inflation rose, unemployment rose, the prime rate rose, and productivity dropped. The SALT II...
...Apparently last June, while in a car with South Korean President Park Chung-Hee, our President attempted to convert Mr...
...And there in the land of skateboards and Tan-fastic a brief but fabulous notoriety fell on him about 1966...
...Not likely...
...Later in the month he revealed some good news to an adult Bible class at Washington's First Baptist Church...
...he denounced the Hungarians...
...Marcuse served mankind as a mere melder of two quacks: Marx and Freud...
...He was a guest of something called the Max Planck Society, but that leaves us with no clues...
...Francisco Macias Nguema's government in Equatorial Guinea...
...Repressive tolerance" was his best-known idea, and once its feathers have been removed, it amounts to saying that people who are free to speak against the system are not free if the system ignores them...
...And without doubt he would share Mr...
...Then Andy Young-slayer of hydras, strangler of dragons, and butcher of meaning-retired, vowing never to shut up, never to apologize, and never to admit having told a lie...
...But during the 1960s the enfants enrages of the suburbs needed sausages of esoterica to abut their slogans, and someone led them to the old dolt's tedious hallucinations...
...the Freiburg prof split for the California sun...
...The West German government disposed of his body by sending it to San Diego, California, which is as it should be...
...Jimmy did this two days after the tenth anniversary of Chappa-quiddick, perhaps fearing that were Teddy's ill-fated ride to dominate the news that week Jimmy's Presidency would suffer by comparison...
...Park was apparently wobbling, and Jimmy left the matter "in God's hands...
...One nine-year old had an eye ripped out by the Emperor...
...Yet Mr...
...Then something astonishing happened...
...Before its fall in early August, London's Sunday Telegraph reports, thousands of dissidents were publicly hanged to the strains of Mary Hopkins singing "Those Were The Days...
...Yet his moving declaration speaks for itself, and one would not be surprised to see it published in the Nation or the Progressive...
...A 75-year-old Kenyan man was beaten by neighbors for allegedly hiding seasonal rain in a cooking pot...
...Much of his life was spent in well-deserved obscurity...
...Naturally American universities lusted to have these interesting minds on their faculties, and, whether drawn by the quality of the Coca-Cola or by the quantity of straight white teeth that, until recently, filled the mouths of American coeds, thousands obliged...
...and for a while a shaken Dr...
...In international news Turkey has suspended "The Muppet Show" during Islam's sacred month of Ramadan, it being feared that appearances by Miss Piggy might offend devout Moslems...
...Hoang Van Hoan, formerly of the North Vietnamese politburo, appeared in Peking claiming that even ordinary Vietnamese have been reduced to "a life of humiliation and repression...
...Back in Washington he added another episode to the legend when he asked Senator John Glenn, the former astronaut, "What are you doing here...
...How he had gotten there no one seems to know...
...In El Centro, California, 35-year-old Mr...
...Yet on August 9 Mr...
...For all his 81 years he was an Orphic grumbler, a leaden, Teutonic inspirer-of-snores, given to boiled beef, Kartoffel Klosse, and damp .wool socks...
...Marcuse was an early arrival, and at Harvard, Columbia, and Brandeis this quaintly attired Hun pedagogue doggedly espoused his vague gospel of American bourgeois madness...
...Maloney left a long and eloquent pronuncia-mento elucidating the inequities of our economic system...
...Surely the Central African Empire cannot be disparaged for ignoring its citizens...
...Marcuse hid...
...Marcuse went further...
...And "The Movement" has lost one of its finest...
...What was on his mind when the archangels summoned will never be known, and probably only the old windbag's mother would care...
...Curtis Hines, 36, a sixth-grade teacher at the Friendship Learning Center in southwest Washington, D.C., and his charming wife, Vera, are being harassed by authorities for allegedly kidnapping and torturing a boy in a dispute over a small quantity of marijuana...
...Marcuse judge this kind of repression as comparable to the "repressive tolerance" practiced in America...
...Finally, Mr...
...Eros and Civilization became a favorite, perhaps owing to its short title...
...Recent history repeats itself...
...American treachery never ends, but still it is nice to be buried in San Diego...
...Remembering his response to the Hungarian uprising, one even sees him excoriating the boat people...
...The FBI was investigating him for drug trafficking...
...That government does not ignore its citizens...
...It expels them in leaky boats...
...Nor was "repressive tolerance" the custom under Mr...
...And in Teheran, Islamic justice marched Pari the Tall One, Ash-raf the Four Eyed, and Soraya the Turk, three of the city's most eminent ladies of rapture, before its hard-pressed firing squads...
...His colleagues ignored him...
...Supposedly the Hineses set the boy afire with lighter fluid, which-if true-is yet another argument for the anti-smokers' bulging arsenal...
...Then Jimmy proudly announced the firing or retirement of his only competent cabinet heads...
...Maloney was something of a free enterpriser...
...All that militates against it is the suspicion that Mr...
...RET...
...Yet musing on violent revolution was one thing, American celebrity quite another...
...The late Herr Planck was a physicist, and Dr...
...And what would Dr...
...The SALT II debate began, faltered, and was temporarily adjourned...
...during a White House fete honoring America's space program...
...In Philadelphia, Mr...
...Herbert Marcuse, the German-born philosopher, died of a stroke in Starnberg, Germany...
...Marcuse extolled Marx, but more salient still he hated America...
...Mr...
...My guess is that, were he upright today, he would still hang in there...
...Others were stabbed and shot...
...He also left the five children of one FBI agent without a father...
...Stanley Culbreth, the dapper president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was indicted on charges of leading a multimillion-dollar drug ring...
...Soviet troops might bludgeon East German workers, Soviet tanks might crush Hungarians, but the dullards of the European salons worried mainly about Uncle Sam...
...James Anthony Ma-loney-a long-time peace advocate, a member of the Mexican-American Political Association, and until last month a compliance monitor in the local CETA program-shot two FBI agents from ambuscade and then himself...
...Kunstler's speculation that Miss Baez is now in the employ of the CIA...
...Speaking of deceased persons, Jimmy Carter kept seeping into the news despite a strenuous effort by all patriotic Americans to ignore him...
...Pierre Beaumard, who was mortally stomped between two mattresses as therapists "stamped out his complexes...
...A group-therapy session in Dreux, France, took the life of 37-year-old Mr...
...And then he was off to flood-damaged southern Indiana, where he was seen wearing a business suit and standing in ankle-deep water, asking the citizens of English, Indiana, "Is everything all right...
...Park...
...And if so, would he be moved to revile Vietnam as soundly as he always reviled America...
...Marcuse think of the state of liberty in Hanoi...
...On July 29 Dr...
...Wonder," the genial host of a children's television show in Louisiana, has been accused of molesting young boys...
...Here, he was typical of many European intellectuals of mediocre accomplishment...
...Albert Speer, formerly energy czar of the Third Reich, applauded, Washington's wise coves rather expected the administration to have him testify before Congress...
...One sees him joining Jane Fonda and William Kunstler in excoriating Joan Baez for overreacting to the boat people phenomenon...
...Would Dr...
...It also re-educates some and executes others...
...This computation made him an ardent opponent of liberal democracy, and one can wonder onto eternity as to the old haranguer's estimate of His Excellency, Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa I. In August an international commission confirmed that Emperor Bokassa, the anointed sovereign of the Central African Empire, had personally participated in a springtime slaughter of one hundred schoolboys, some no older than eight...
...He unveiled an energy program that attracted approbation from so few that when Dr...
...Evidently the motor trip was a short one, and the Buddhist chief of state escaped without being dunked...
...His classes were small and populated by sheep...
...For them anti-Americanism became the postwar piety...
Vol. 12 • September 1979 • No. 9
