Brayings from the Barnyard
"Brayings from the Barnyard" THE NATION New-age journalism from a truly with it journal of humane thought: I'm mad. And I'm guilty. Both. And if it can happen to me, a psychiatrist,...
...And I don't want to have vegetables in "a restaurant unless it's a fresh mixed salad...
...Does no one in Washington recall the McCarthy era and the McCarthy technique?...The various positions of the members of the National Security Council taken during deliberation must remain secret....The integrity of the National Security Council, and of the advice received by the President, is at stake...
...When I get frozen ones, they taste so bad...
...MODEL CITIES Sterling example of "truth in government" or '~he people's right to know" called by our research staff from a memo by the Boston office of the Model Cities program...
...THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS A note on the dreadful state of indoor sports from The New York Re: view o] Books, a famous journal of soeial sciences: Of all mammals, man is the only one who must be taught how to mate...
...A sophisticated dietary analysis from a most cerebral scion of America's first family of the Theatre: I like organic foods...
...But it is no substitute for dealing seriously with one of the most agonizing problems of our time...
...How can anyone be expected to advance positions that may be politically unpopular or unprofitable...
...Nixon from one of the Senate's most gifted intellectuals, ex-senator Wayne Morse, re, tired dove and weaver of words: People think Nixon is soon getting (American forces) out of Vietnam, but he's fooling the American people...
...He added his election could perhaps be viewed "'as a small first" toward this ultimate goal...
...NEW YORK TIMES Baloney and nostalgia for Lord Lindsay...
...reform marches on: "In preparing reports, the projects should be presented in their most favorable light...
...How will they cope with their confusion and resentment...
...22 The Alternative December, 1971 THE NATION New-age journalism from a truly with it journal of humane thought: I'm mad...
...CYRUS EATON Travel note from one who has travelled with the fellows for eightyeight years: Three Wall Street lawyers, Nixon, Mitchell and Rogers, are spending the taxpayers' money around the worm like drunken sailors...
...INDIANA UNIVERSITY Effects of Higher Learning and pervasive spirit of democracy revealed in the distinguished student gazette of this Athens of the prairies: Homosexuals in Bloomington have shown their power by electing a gay person to the Student Senate, the newlyelected Gay Revolution Party senator said Friday...
...He explained that "'gay power" is seeking, "in the ultimate sense, to gain complete control of our own lives and destinies...
...In open societies this is accomplished through observation but in a veiled, minatory, Puritan society, sex is a dirty secret, the body shameful and making love a guilty business, often made dreadful through plain ignorance of what to do...
...Tough talk also may please a lot of voters who shrink from the costly reality that the welfare rolls are overwhelmingly composed of children, the aged, the crippled, the blind, the handicapped and others who can't work...
...Lack of progress should be candidly noted but narrated in a positive manner...
...Mitchell, who is an "openly avowed" gay person, won one of eight town senate seats with 1!1 votes in Thursday's election...
...PETER FONDA, Ph.D...
...SENATOR PROXMIRE A spirited defense of capitalism by that eminent free market economist Senator Proxmire - - whose rating from the American Conservative Union was a puzzling O: The proposed Lockheed bailout is a grave threat to our system of free competitive enterprise...
...Dale Mitchell, junior, said his candidacy was "more or less like an attempt to test gay power -- to see whether a strong enough base exists in Bloomington to elect an avowed gay person...
...They taste so much better...
...He is the first "'open" gay person to win an election at I.U...
...The first stirrings of what could be a vicious, frightening and brutal backlash: _9 ..most American men are"feminized" in what they would regard as the worst sense of that word by being brought up almost entirely by women and made to conform to American female values which are every bit as twisted as American male values...
...CLAYTON FRITCHEY Twenty-four Karat gibberish from the sage of Newsday: A large segment of the public likes to think tough talk is the answer tb law and order...
...At the dawn of American Greatness, haek in 1963, after a national magazine had published secret government reports about the Cuban missile crisis, we all breathed easier when the famous Times of New York placed the whole issue in its historical perspective, laying down this immutable principle regarding "the people's right to know": The secrecy of one of the highest organs of the United States has been seriously breached...How can there he any real freedom of discussion or of dissent...
...My wife's an excellent cook and when she fixed fresh vegetables they taste so good...
...If this proposal is approved, it could mark the beginning of a new era of increased governmental control over business and indnstry...
...The bread comes to the teeth and then to the stomach and finally to the bowels...
...Some people will say anything to get him out of town: Mr...
...In the senate, "I'll just take it as it comes and be gay," he saM...
...It is indeed ironic that such a proposal would come from a supposedly conservative adminisi~'ation...
...But I understand the world better than sane men...
...Lindsay isn't going to join the choir...
...He's thinking about striding into church and seeing whether he can get the congregation clapping and rolling on the floor hollering "Amen...
...THE NEW REPUBL~ Apparently intent on certifying its credentials as an equal opportunity employer, The New Republic has employed a moron: It's springtime, hey, nonny, nonny, and with the first robin comes Form 1040...
...WAYNE MORSE The low down on Mr...
...And if it can happen to me, a psychiatrist, what can I say about the kids who come home...
...Mitchell said he has no "'definite plans" for doing anything at senate r , eetin_gs...
...One more reason why The Nation should be next to every bed: I am just a bit mad...
...We may get out of Vietnam in 55 years...
...Even that isn't as good as what my wife...
...Does even one of you understand...
Vol. 5 • December 1971 • No. 3
