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"Whom the gods destroy they first make mad."Euripides CAUCASIAN AWARENESS From Louisiana comes word of idealism and reform to rouse the apathy down in the zoo: David Duke, leader of the...
...He came to me as a student -- as a tall, slender, handsome, mature man who wanted to learn how to use scuba equipment safely and correctly...
...I think that in a day when the President of the United States goes to China to talk with Man Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, it behooves a great university to have a competent Marxist scholar around," commented Professor Gallston, who visited China last spring...
...Though the popular young Marxian socialist was suspended for one year from Yale (thus denying him his $13,000 salary from Yale) he will continue to receive his $26,000 for teaching a course in poverty at Stony Brook, for he has tenure there...
...We said this to each other, I remember...
...offers us all a unique opportunity to begin to know the unknowable...
...Coffin added...
...Snatch up some GM stock while you can: If the agribusiness system is allowed to continue on its present course, if in the name of saving the small farmer the federal government continues to hand pennies out the front door while corporate giants sneak out the back door with bushel baskets full of tax dollars, there can be only one outcome: General Motors or some other super, multinational corporation, will one dhy own American agriculture and the nation...
...The need for institutional rectitude was given priority over an individual's need for forgiveness and restoration," Mr...
...He chooses to promote these beliefs through such demonstrations as Friday night's parade from City Hall to Jackson Square...
...New York Times THE MARXIAN WHO BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER An inspiring symbiosis of academic freedom and the free enterprise system was recently discovered strutting on our eastern seaboard when one Yale professor, Kenneth Ian Leighton Mills ("a popular, black Marxist philosophy teacher," etc...
...And the less we've known, the more we've imagined...
...And this need for institutional rectitude reflected an unwarrated insecurity at Yale...
...It is strange that something as sincere and as lasting as this interest between Cliff Irving and myself could come out of a hotel swimming pool acquaintanceship...
...But prithy do pause for a moment of meditation on what is becoming a frightening brain drain, if adology continues to grow there will not be a garbage collector left in New York: Tonight the inscrutable Orient be~omes a little more scrutable...
...While America has known practically nothing about China...
...We are going to have to bridge these two worlds...
...Nixon's pandas took so long in leaving the Celestial Empire: In fact, the President told The Star, one reason for the delay in the pandas' trip to the United States was that young pandas ao not know instinctively how to mate...
...For the past twenty-two years, China aas known practically everything about America...
...Chicago Tribune 22 The Alternative May 1972...
...Euripides CAUCASIAN AWARENESS From Louisiana comes word of idealism and reform to rouse the apathy down in the zoo: David Duke, leader of the National Party, has a philosophy: "If we don't believe the Negroes are equal - - and what a laugh that is -- then we ought to stand up and say it...
...Indeed the whole gorgeous episode possesses a peculiar glamour that is bound to warm the hearts of the American Association of University Professors at the same time that it encourages the members of the Chamber of Commerce, and it is not over yet as the illustrious New York Times reports: Indeed, some of Professor Mills' defenders maintain that precisely because he is not a member of the Yale "inner circle" and because he is a scholarly, sophisticated Marxist, the university should make certain it does not lose him...
...Within a few days we each felt as if we had known each other many years...
...They note that Staughton Lynd, the Marxist historian, resigned from the Yale faculty in 1968 because, he charged, he had no chance of receiving tenure...
...William Sloan Coffin, Jr., the university's activist chaplain, noting that no one will be teaching Professor Mills' courses on concepts of revolution and social change...
...Every great institution and American tradition is being attacked and is being attacked and is being befouled by these people who are determined to destroy this country...
...The New York Times THE HORRORS OF BRAIN DRAIN rbe following advertisement for a television spectacular on Red China proves once again that Madison Avenue is modern America's most colossal achievement...
...The Tulane Hullabaloo SEX EDUCATION TRIUMPHANT In case you were puzzled as to why Mr...
...I don't think that anyone thought about the students -- what they are losing from this," said the Rev...
...The Nation OUT OF HER DEPTH Ms...
...Tonight's program, "China, An Open Door...
...was caught flagrante delicto moonlighting at the State University of New York, Stony Brook - - a grave breach of Yale's faculty regulations...
...Therefore, they were kept in the Peking Zoo to watch adult pandas...
...And the more we've imagined, the more we've been afraid...
...We're not here just to be against the Negroes -- we're here because we love our race...
...The New York Times WHAT'S GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS The kind of sober economic analysis that makes The Nation outstanding in i t s field...
...You can boil down the problems (of the country) into two words - - news and niggers...
...And now there is a move afoot amongst the more idealistic Yale faculty members to reinstate the popular young Marxian socialist over the objections of Yale President Brewster who has judged as spurious the argument made by some of Dr...
...Anne Baxter, frogwoman and confident of Clifford Irving, candidly displys a first-rate intellect, oozing with the awareness and sophistication that comes only to the truly liberated modernist: Clifford Irving told me about all his marriages, all four of them, and surprisingly enough described details of his life, particularly his private life, in such a way that I knew and still believe he is unusually interested in me as a person...
...Mills' friends that "because the faculty member involved is black and publicly or ideologically controversial he should therefore be held to a lower standard of ethical responsibility...
...They fear that Professor Mills' one year suspension will result in his going elsewhere...
Vol. 5 • May 1972 • No. 8
