Brayings from the Barnyard
Jackasses, Assorted
"Brayings from the Barnyard" "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." - Euripedes JULIAN BOND Sensible assessment of Supreme Court Justice...
...Dayton, Ohio schools have already closed, and Chicago faces closure the month of December...
...Nixon, but James' Burnham, one of the ancestral voices of the new conservatism, who works as a columnist for Mr...
...They are particularly numerous in the South (along with homicides) and Mr...
...the only...
...Every four years they elect a President, but in effect that President serves as king...
...THE NEW YORK POST Political philosophy as smoked by the illustrious Dr...
...a man who believes that POETS are still relevant...
...22 The A l t e r n a t i v e F e b r u a r y , 1972 Braqinqs trom the uarnuaru "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad...
...a man who has 'made it' in the Establishment but is not blind to its faults...
...William F. Buckle),, Jr...
...The scrub woman of The New Repub1/r learns the perils of thinking out loud when one of that great journal's writers is faced with a deadline and an empty wall: "We catch ourselves wondering, sometimes, if readers understand what's going on in Washington...
...But one thing we do know is that we have coming another year of Dick-in-the-Box...
...You can't exchange it-at least not until next year -- and you have to pay for it as long as it's around...
...flower of that thorny Puritan American conscience which was, when it was good, very, very good, and now it's quite gone and things are horrid...
...It might be easier from a distance...
...Your family and friends will appreciate it...
...Nicole is not permanently cured by marrying Dick, but only when she stops being dependent on him and stands alone...
...And it doesn't cost much...
...THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Dr...
...A painful prospect -- The Nation is at hand to clear the mind and settle the nerves...
...CRAWDADDY Progress against bone disease as divulged by Miss Yoko Ono: "In my case, I am a small woman because people repressed me when I was young...
...New York-New Jersey area) New Republic Box 4970...
...The government is of his choosing, but often the men who run that government can acquire more direct power over the lives of American citizens than the President himself...
...was of course present, and, according to The New York Times, said later on Firing Line that the real purpose of the meeting was to remind the President that he has a 'vast and slightly sullen constituency to his right.' It may be difficult for less polarized citizens to imagine what view of the world is taken by people who declare themselves to the right of Mr...
...THE NATION Sometimes it hurts very much to live in Amerika and be an editorialist for a journal of the New Establishment, as this anguished passage reveals: "Last week, some self-styled conservatives, about a dozen of them, met to discuss whether or not they should run one of their persuasion against Mr...
...classified ad) An untouched masterpiece carefully disinterred from an editorial labyrinth at The New Republic: "Two-and-a-half million handguns are being manufactured or imported every year, they now account for half of all homicides, and sales have inCreased since the Gun Control Act took effect...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY From the font of simple solutions, a torrent of drivel: "Being poor is having no cash in hand and damned little on the way...
...Romance and revolution abound at this enlightened journal of pure unadulterated radicalism: "Goed-looking, Interesting Woman (35) seeks possibility of indepth relationship with a very attractive bright and lively man...
...THE NEW REPUBLIC Even in America's time of troubles The New Republic finds a silver lining: "Public schools across the country are slipping into bankruptcy...
...for many a handgun is a virility symbol...
...Nixon in I972...
...in Louisville, Portland and Philadelphia...
...It's a tricky sort of present...
...A free subscription to PR will be awarded for each contribution used...
...Schools have been shut down temporarily or are near it in Independence and Kansas City, Missouri...
...We don't really know...
...Euripedes JULIAN BOND Sensible assessment of Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist by one of those many good Americans who so fear Vice President Agnew's violent rhetoric: "I think Rehnquist is the nearest thing to a Nazi we've ever had on the Court...
...In California, although deficit financing is prohibited by the state constitution, several major school districts are operating in the red this year...
...and hiring policies favor the married, while looking with great suspicion on the bachelor who might be a Commie Weirdo Fag or a pro-Crypto dyke...
...In case of a tie, single copies will be sent to the latecomers...
...My bones stopped growing because of the repression that surrounded me...
...The dehumanization of Eleanor: "After all, Eleanor Roosevelt was a last (the last...
...A redistribution of about $15 billion a year (less than two per cent of our Gross National Product that is now pushing toward $1 trillion annually) would bring every poor person above the present poverty line...
...Nixon has thrown in his hat with Dixie and the gun lobby which prefers homicides to registration...
...But we have the handicap of being right here watching it...
...As long as mariage (and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique) are central to our capitalism (and to its depressing SOviet counterpart) neither man nor woman can be regarded as free to be human...
...Yet another good reason why the liberated New York Review is more often quoted by learned minds than even McCall's: "Now that organized religion is of little social significance, the great corporations through advertising (remember "Togetherness...
...PARTISAN REVIEW Partisan Review, ~once the glory of Manhattan's magnificoes, makes a candid plea for feature material: "Editors' Note: We'd like to remind our readers that they are invited to send in examples of nonsense...
...It is wrapped up in sex...
...In Gary, Ind., teachers decided to work for two weeks last month without pay checks...
...Incidentally, so have the sale of cigarettes and birth conh-ol pills -- eds...
...Alison Lurie proffers its trendy counsel on how to read a really good book: "Tender Is the Night is also extremely interesting from a women's liberation point of view...
...With incomparable style this elegant journal offers its readers yet another quack cure: "IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS...
...Peter Hamill --lover, author, soldier of fortune: "American s have become the subjects of elected kings...
...Blessed if we do...
...Put in these terms, poverty in the United States is almost a picayune problem...
...Buckley's National Review and who was also at the meeting, wrote an opposite editorial piece recently for the Times that throws some light on that state of mind...
Vol. 5 • February 1972 • No. 5
