Correspondence
Berkis, Dr. Alexander V.
"Correspondence" Interdepartmental Missive From a Senior Editor I hope we can mention somewhere in our magazine the vindication of Mrs. O'Leary's cow. As you know, the cows of...
...Some say the left did it to discredit the right...
...HIS defense of women's rights (that is to say rtghts women should have because they are people, but have been denied because they are women...
...Pass the skim milk, brother...
...In fact, many coherent analyses of the subject have been written...
...Norway curtailed the killing of Polar Bears and the Rt...
...Paul McCloskey told Portland conservationists that no more dams should be built in the United States to spoil the streams...
...Those who give aid and comfort to our enemies should be confronted with all kinds of boycotts and social ostracism by the slient majority...
...They have been left to wander in pastures that lack all aminities, including day-care centers...
...Others say the right did it to discredit the left...
...Women's liberation is a blunderbuss aimed by misanthropes and idiots at the productive elements of society...
...We have been warned of the cows' growing discontent, but insensitive Americans that we are, we have failed to heed the warnings...
...As a faculty member, I despise those who dare to send me requests of this kind...
...I hear menacing moos in the distance...
...Tyrrell was being at least somewhat serious I would like to comment on his assertion that "Women's liberation is philosophically illiterate...
...I hear brayings from the barnyard...
...Seldom have I seen such a good imitation of a Rothbard or a Rand spouting invective - - brilliant satire...
...The Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series, and thousands of "booing, hissing" fans showed up in Lagos, Nigeria to enjoy Nigeria's national pastime, the public execution of thieves...
...The anti-ballistic missile system breezed through the Senate while the House voted 210-152 to establish day care centers throughout the United States...
...for his editorial in the November 1971 Alternative...
...Lynn Kinsky Reason Santa Barbara, California To the Editor: Gobin Stair, Director of Beacon Press in Boston, Massachussetts urges faculty members to give their generous contributions to support a public edition of the "'Pentagon Papers...
...It's ideas are idiotic and contradictory...
...The most important warning was the Report of the Cornpone Commission, chaired by Governor Cornpone of Illwithnoise...
...Army "Operation Keelhaul...
...Argenta is still my favorite on the F Minor and either Toscanini or Cantelli are far ahead on the B Minor...
...the Revolution is at hand...
...which, along with On Liberty, has become highly papular reading among women's groups and has just been reissued as a paperback by Fawcett...
...I've always envied people who could write 1,500 word articles without saying anything of substance -- it's certainly a lot easier than being scholarly...
...And one of them has been stigmatized and dehumanized -- I mean deprived of her bovine dignity -- by being unfairly blamed for the great Chicago fire...
...Julio Herschfeld Almada's kidnappers...
...The Cornpone Commission warned that, "We are moving toward two societies: one cow...
...Also I have kept my copy of Cantelli's Romeo and Juliet Overture throughout the Cold War and I shall not replace it with this performance...
...As you know, the cows of this country are tired of the treatmentthey have been receiving...
...It is useless and pointless to argue with Beacon Press and papers which have recently published American secret documents...
...He pretends that this project would serve the interest of the general public...
...The general public should be informed that Beacon Press and other publishers of the Eastern "liberal" Establishment refuse to publish the official documents, named by the U.S...
...This operation forced the repatriation of millions of Russian citizens against their will to Russia for liquidation or slave labor after the Second World War...
...The Alternative December, 1971 19 Interdepartmental Missive From a Senior Editor I hope we can mention somewhere in our magazine the vindication of Mrs...
...Even better news came from Florida where it was estimated that by 1977 as many as 16,000,000,000,000,000 African snails may establish residence...
...Other good books are Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch, dealing with psychological and social problems involved in being "feminine," and Caroline Bird's Born Female dealing with the economic and business world problems attendant in being a woman...
...and it would expose the crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Communists...
...Emmett, I hear that even if we now try to do justice to the cows, we are too late...
...He incidently argues for a volunteer army...
...9 In Mexico controversy raged over the identity of Mr...
...The time has come to end permissiveness and to take off our gloves...
...Seventyfive public executions have been held in Nigeria in the past year -- always to capacity crowds...
...Since the Supreme Court ruled against the government and gave the "liberal" papers fun freedom to resume the publication of top secret documents of the Pentagon Vietnam war study, those papers will be tried in the court of American public opinion...
...They have been milked for the benefit of white and black Americans -- a clear case of exploitation...
...E.g., the right to accept a job in a mine or an establishment serving alcoholic bevera g e s - two restrictions existing in Indiana) is from a purely libertarian position and is tightly reasoned and argued...
...Alexander V. Berkis Professor of History Longwood College But those of us who are intent on listening to the very best performances of our .persecuted master will have to choose more judicuously...
...No one has written a coherent analysis of the subject, because it coheres around not one valid question of essential significance...
...And still others assert that it was simply the work of good, clean, high-minded criminals, out for a dishonest buck...
...The publication of the Pentagon Vietnam war study by our leftist papers gave aid and comfort to our enemies...
...Those of as who are not brainwashed by our TV networks and some papers call such actions high treason...
...One of the first, certainly of interest to libertarians and conservatives, is John Stuat~t Mill's On, the Subjedtion of Women...
...one non-cow...
...Perhaps your next satire should be on men who consider women's rights trivial but expect women to be indignant at the immorality of the draft -- a subject that is as "irrelevant" to them as abortion is to men...
...Egyptian students astonished government officials and most of the world's agnostics when they took to the slreets to (continued on page 21...
...Since Beacon Press urges faculty members to support its project to publish those documents, it asks faculty members of our universities and colleges to help the undermining of the very foundation of this country...
...Cordially, Terry Krieger To the Editor: My congratulations to R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...It is obvious that the publication of those documents would not confirm the aspirations of our "liberals" to undermine public confidence in our military actions in Indochina...
...This action violated the elementary principles of international law...
...CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) kangaroo bird was found...
...However, on the off-chance that Mr...
Vol. 5 • December 1971 • No. 3
