The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis Editorial
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...9 And finally, this will be remembered as the month during which one of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s favorite bits of facitiae lost its humor...
...9 But there were signs of increased apathy in the United States...
...Though inflation remained well above the desired rate of four percent, officials emphasized that it was still much lower than in foreign countries like Chile, and besides, there were only shortages in paper, beef, canned foods, fish, aluminum, tennis balls, zinc, and fuel...
...Zbigniew Jaworowski found manifestations of pollution in the ice layers of the Himalayas...
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...The Nixon Administration, ably supposed by the Congress, the media, and ei'Llightened opinion, continues its dazzling performance...
...Wendy Berlowitz's courageous campaign to effect the "downfall of Western Civilization and the Judeo-Christian ethic" ended in a Chicago hoosegow when the "full-time revolutionary and part-time folk singer" was apprehended for exposing her mammary glands before 2,500 politically aroused males in the Civic Center Plaza, scene of so many of Chicago's new politics rallies...
...3 LTERNd TI FE I DEPARTMENTS The Continuing Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial: R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Business of America: Lindley H. Clark J r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Letter from a Whig: C. Bascom Slemp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The Public Policy: Peter Rusthoven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Talkies: Benjamin Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Brudnoy's Film Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Bootblack Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Current Wisdom: by Assorted Jackasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ARTICLES Sidney Hook: Reflections on the Disorder of Our Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 James Grant: Multinationals and the Limits of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Carl Gershman: Israel's Fate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 J. Tim Fennell: Soviet Ambitions in the Mideast . . . . . . . . . . 10 George Will: Prophets and Profits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Benjamin Stein: Nixon: His Friends and His Enemies . . . . . . 13 Harold Mott: The Case for Negative Votes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 REVIEWS Judy Tyrrell on Mark Twain: God's Fool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Charles S. Hyneman on The Intellectuals and the Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D.W...
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...And if sisterhood is powerful in the stables, imagine what it must be like in Weehawken, New Jersey, where the public works commission has bowed to demands that it hire a lady street cleaner...
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...To reassure a fevered nation the Chief Executive went boating with Mr...
...Rejecting the present melody as too complex to sing, the philosopher king is offering $149 to the Swazilandic Beethoven who scrawls the right notes...
...9 Yet the struggle for a more dwellable world was not confined to downtown Chicago...
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...Further, in the Watergate Caper, at least, no one drowned...
...She is the first female ever to win that famed horse race, though in recent years there has been talk of entering Germaine Greer...
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...And good news continues to bloom in the humanitarian paradise of Zaire where impolite tourists caught photographing pygmies will be shot on sight...
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...John Harrington staggered into a Miami Beach saloon screaming for help after having been shot by a holdup man, he was ejected for being too noisy...
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...Nixon divulged his energy plan featuring fiftymile-per-hour speed limits, sixty to sixtyeight degree living rooms, and several other policy curiosities, proving that, in the welfare state, yesterday's buffoonery is tomorrow's policy...
...Law and Order infatuates have prevailed in Sri Lanka where food stealers will be flogged...
...Henceforth only neuter terms will be used to designate jobs by the Census thanks to the prodigious pressures placed on the Census Bureau by freedom fighters in the government's Manpower Administration and Women's Bureau...
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...Bebe Rebezo and divulged plans for a counteroffensive against those scoundrels who suspect him of various low deeds...
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...As the month wore on, and with his enemies crying for everything from impeachment to defenestration, it became clear that the President had decided to step out into the public arena, allowing the famed Nixon charm to speak for itself...
...But America was not the only country bathed in presidential oratory...
...In Britain moral vigilance was aroused when the Unitarian Church of America attempted to ship in a film on sex education which Her Majesty's custom agents confiscated for its lewdness...
...Before the month began President Nixon ar, d the incomparable Washington p~ess corps held a spitting contest in the conference room of the White House, and on November 3 rumor spread that Mr...
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...Nixon was actually preparing to resign...
...The strikingly eloquent orator was bounced from the premises by Mayor Daley's ruffians in blue and booked for disorderly conduct, public indecency, and performing without a permit---precisely what we have come to expect from Western Civilization...
...In a stirring presidential address, dramatized by sobs and sniffles, President Kenneth Kaunda of democratic Zambia threatened resignation unless his people forswore their "excessive drinking habits...
...That drollery of his about the Washington bureaucrats "tippey toeing" into the nation's living rooms to adjust thermostats became stunningly unfunny the evening of November 7 when Mr...
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...9 Common Cause, the Washington virtue lobbyl has become suspicious about Judge Sirica's mysterious commutation of the (continued on page 31) 2 The Alternative January 1974 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) forty-five year sentences of the Watergate gang, some of whom will be walking the streets in a matter of months...
...Speaking to businessmen, governors, congressmen, and senators, he insisted on his innocence...
...Top aides suggested that he accent the positive, stressing, for instance, that despite the enormous size of the White House, only two tapes and a few memos had been lost...
...Meanwhile in Chicago, Mrs...
...His most impressive performance came on November 17 when he held an hour-long, nationally-televised question and answer period with over four hundred newspapermen at Disney World, an unfortunate choice of location, but a choice that is still characteristic of much White House behavior...
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...was the clever theme for World Community Day, celebrated all aroup.d the world on November 6. Congress overrode the l:b'esident's veto of the War Powers Bill, and a rare albino sea turtle was born at the Florida Department of Natural Resources - - j u s t two days after the FDA recalled thousands of defective Chef Crissie's Pizza Pies...
...9 Meanwhile back in the United States the President's fall offensive began, becoming increasingly so throughout the month...
...in the Meritocracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Stephen Rosen on The Fellow Travellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Allen Crawford: "A Last-Ditch Stand" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed or (mos~ redundantly of all) national origin---and yes, sex, even sex...
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...In a bold step against institutional sexism, Ohio State University's Sigma Phi Epsilon employed a five-foot two-inch, one hundred and seventy-five pound housemother, Mr...
...Finally a flood of creativity has been released in Mbabane, Swaziland, where King Sobhuza II, the celebrated aesthete, has announced a contest to provide new music for the words of that great nation's national anthem...
...Even more heartwarming news came from Laurel, Maryland, where women's liberationists are still crowing over the victory of that threeyear-old thoroughbred, Dahlia, who won the Washington, D.C...
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...With blood streaming from his chest he had to panhandle thirty cents and take a bus to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was reported in critical condition...
...Decades of repression fell away in Montgomery County, Virginia, when women fire fighters finally won the right to ride hook and ladder trucks and to enter flaming buildings with axes, hoses, and other accoutrements of their trade...
...Executive Secretary: Sally A. Mulholland Associates: David Brudnoy [] Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr...
Vol. 7 • January 1974 • No. 4
