The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
The Bootblack Stand - Dr. George Washington Plunhitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now...
...William E. Simon Federal Energy Office Dear Mr...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
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...My problem is how do we break the news to Oklahomans...
...And stop sending me plastic flowers...
...Simon: After looking over some of your other proposals, rationing, mandatory speed limits of 55 miles per hour, federally policed living rooms, and so forth, I am surprised that you would view Dr...
...GWP Seeds of Extinction F~te w SUBJECTS HAVE received so much atntion from historians as that of the gradual but seemingly inevitable retreat of the "savage" before the march of American "civilization...
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...George Washington Plunhitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey...
...It has hexachlorophene and it will turn your mind into a mass of saponaceous goo and the fishes will not be able to swim in it...
...As to your other problem, I suggest you leave the people of Oklahoma alone, and instead conduct your program in and around New York City...
...In fact the last time I was there, it appeared someone had beaten you to it...
...While it is impossible to do justice to the line of argument in this important work in a review of this size, it is possible to sketch the broad outlines of Sheehan's interpretation...
...In fact I love Bud...
...If you people are so dratted happy why do you always have to tell people like me about it...
...If personal happiness is your personal problem why not keep it personal...
...If his purpose is somewhat awesome, so is his accomplishment...
...Plunkitt: My name is Sky and I live on nothing but seeds, seeds and small things...
...I am sure you could spread your revolutionary new energy source all over the city and the average New Yorker would not even notice its presence...
...Where previous studies have attempted to probe the subtleties of white perceptions of the Indian, and where others have treated the evolution of an Indian policy, until now no one has attempted to explain in any depth the relationship between the two...
...I am the child of Neptune and Joan Baez, and I love the surf, the earth, and budding things...
...At any rate on National Public Radio he recently disclosed his breathtaking discovery that there are calculable amounts of useful ehergy i n decaying human feces...
...Peace and freedom, Sky Dear Mr...
...Sky: I am always getting letters like this from ex-Capitol Hill staffers...
...Generally they are from Senator Kennedy's staff, and I am getting pretty tired of them...
...And while such ~arratives have contributed to a popular awareness of such outrages as the massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, they have contr~buted little to an increased understanding of the historic complexities involved in Indian-white relations...
...The result of Sheehan's labors is a first-class piece of historical scholarship...
...During his incarceration he became politically active in the new politics of the time, and his career was vindicated in the miadle thirties when he was raised to a high research position in the German government...
...Thus, in the" words of the author, the uniqueness of this study "lies in its juxtaposition of thought and event and in its effort to describe the manner in which the two depend on and are influenced by each other...
...GWP Dear Dr...
...Sadly, his first scholarly publication, "The Static Dynamism of the Bovine Feces," received such furious ridicule in the professional journals that he was literally driven from his post as research gardener at the University of Bavaria and . . . well, he was incarcerated in a local asylum for certain early morning experiments he insisted on engaging in...
...I t is the author's contention that while Americans may have differed significantly on many issues, a consensus of opinion 24 The Alternative March 1974...
...Roy Harvey Pearce's study of the Indian as idea and symbol, Robert F. Berkhofer's study of Protestant missionary efforts, and Francis Paul Prucha's survey of federal Indian policy (all three covering the same period as the bookunder review, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) have been espedally valuable: But these have been the Jeffersonian Philanthrophy and the American Indian by Bernard W. Sheehan University of North Carolina $11.95 exception rather than the rule...
...Doltheimer's unfortunate political background will influence the success of our program...
...Dear Dr...
...Plunkitt's book is about the importance of altruism in politics and it is titled What's in It for Me...
...He is my roommate, and we take showers together...
...And do you think Dr...
...Doltheimer's political past as controversial...
...Plunkitt expects to earn ten million dollars from sales of his new book, he has agreed to continue to advise public figures through this column...
...What is more he has developed techniques to utilize this energy, and--according to his extrapelations~if scientists lay a field of human feces across an area the size of Oklahoma enough energy can be extracted to supply all the needs of New York for the next twenty-four months...
...After the war he turned up in Teaneck and continued his researches, the pursuit of which earned him the somewhat curious reputation he now holds in that town...
...But we never use soap...
...Plunkitt: I am faced with an'indelicate situation...
...Adolph Doltheimer, a hitherto obscure scientist and part-time dishwasher, received his early training at the Munich Institute of Popular Mechanics...
...Professor Sheehan's work is concerned not so much with the nature of the Indian as with the white perceptions of his nature and how these perceptions were to be translated into an Indian policy...
...Unfortunately most of this interest has tended to focus on the battlefield narrative...
...It is, consequently, an attempt to infuse into into the study of Indian-white relations, and into the history of disparate cultures, a deeper perception of the importance of thought and attitude in the making of historical event...
...There have been exceptions to this of course...
...Although Dr...
...While listening to the daily six-hour wrapup of the news on National Public Radio I found the solution to the energy crisis when one of the learned commentators interviewed a German emigrant now residing in Teaneck, New Jersey...
...For the most part the reader is served up clichd-ridden, shabbily researched accounts of the slow and torturous destruction of the native American, sometimes portrayed as noble, sometimes as ignoble, but rarely as he really was...
Vol. 7 • March 1974 • No. 6
