Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" A WORLD IN FALSE FACE: When Elizabeth Taylor leaves you for a used car salesman you lose something, as matinee idol Richard Burton reveals in the following rant: In the course of preparing myself...
...We have taken away the natural dialect of the streets and we teach them another dialect which they are told ensures entry into Okay levels of society...
...Senate when your only real "qualification" is that you're a sportscaster...
...I asked him what it meant...
...One obvious solution to the food crisis would be to have the nation turn vegetarian—or at least radically reduce its consumption of meat...
...I also want to say a good word for Mr...
...He does his best to keep the jail nice and clean...
...Howard Cosell, B.A...
...Lord Acton's observations that "power tends to corrrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" and that "great men are almost always bad men" apply to Churchill as to all of history's other indirectly great killers...
...A dozen psychics tackled the big question...
...During the campaign, he often used a mysterious but appealing phrase, "the political will...
...November 1974 EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: In the event that any of our readers intend to study English at the State University of New York at Buffalo we quote from the New York Times the following spoonery by Dr...
...Tom Markham...
...New York Times Magazine November 24, 1974 THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS: The scientific method as applied to the study of politics by progressive and enlightened women of the fevered brow: Is there a woman President in America's future...
...While two—a Tarot expert and a numerologist—ruled out a woman President "for the foreseeable future," the rest thought otherwise, with seven pinpointing 1984 and 1988...
...Grace is the energy that allows you to do things...
...Chuck it, Korff...
...A WORLD IN FALSE FACE: When Elizabeth Taylor leaves you for a used car salesman you lose something, as matinee idol Richard Burton reveals in the following rant: In the course of preparing myself to act the part of Winston Churchill in the television drama based on the first volume of his war memoirs, "The Gathering Storm" ...I realized afresh that I hate Churchill and all of his kind...
...What better way to find out than to ask some of the world's most famous psychics...
...We teachers of English have submitted to becoming enforcers of standards, a kind of thought policeman...
...Newsweek November 2S, 1974 STATECRAFT: An intellectual exchange, wherein the learned Mr...
...50 percent of Congress will be female within 25 years...
...New York Times November 18, 1974...
...Harper's October 1974 HOT AIR: Shana Alexander, toughminded Newsweek columnist, interviews the lovely young governor of California at what must have been a gasbag convention: "I want people who have something to offer because of who they are, not what they are," Brown says...
...Don't forget, kind friends, he is a poor crippled man and needs our help and I hope he has friends enough to reelect him...
...Uniontown TelegramPROBLEM-SOLVING CONTINUED: The dawn of modern prohibition...
...He said he had students, good students, who will refuse to enroll in classes if the time conflicts with their favorite soap operas...
...He is a nice man...
...Like much of his utterance, the remark is tantalizingly abstract, but attractive in moral tone...
...He did this more than once...
...The occasion: a Psychic Sail around Manhattan to benefit Long Island's Hampton Animal Shelter...
...Chuck it, Mac...
...Family Weekly November 3, 1974 CRACKUP: The amusing direction of our amusing Zeitgeist, as embalmed by a leading vessel of same: I can no longer eat a bite of beef without feeling guilty at the thought that 20 pounds of vegetable protein are lost in producing one pound of beef protein, and that in a world of food shortages, I have just robbed 20 persons of their fair share...
...He will certainly get my vote and my wife says she is going to vote for him for her sympathy goes out for the crippled and afflicted...
...And in the last 12 months I have spoken in front of more campus and labor organizations than any man now in office or running for office...
...Rabbi Korff claimed he did not "bring in religion," and then compared Nixon to King David...
...Ms...
...Leslie Fiedler, chairman of the English department thereof: Professor Fiedler criticized his own trade by saying it had, in effect, robbed popular culture of its best assets by imposing on literature a standard language...
...I am a lawyer...
...I hate them virulently...
...That's not my only qualification, sir...
...Now how much better man would you want for jailer than he is...
...Sellars...
...In that sense age quod agis means: do the work, pick them grapes...
...I think he is an extra good jailer...
...Moon suggested that God made Nixon the center of empire on earth...
...The political will is a symbol for recognizing the right moment and having the willingness to move, to fight inertia...
...They have stalked down the corridors of endless power all through history...
...Chuck it, Moon...
...New York Times Magazine November 24, 1974 THE TRAGEDY AND COMEDY OF LIFE: A public-spirited citizen of Uniontown, Kentucky thumps for the candidacy of county jailer B.M...
...He did not blame them because, he said, these television shows offer a "great moment of relaxation, illumination, and escape from the bounds of daily routine and ordinary consciousness...
...He feeds good and plenty of it, and treats the boys nice...
...Father John claimed Nixon's temporizings would save us from situation morality...
...New York Times December 1, 1974 VERSE: Mr...
...I have the intellect and the culture needed...
...We have been educating people to give up their mother tongues," he said...
...our first woman President will be the wife of a famous person...
...Sellars was good enough to treat the boys in jail to a bushel of apples at a time, also a stalk of bananas and when he bought fish extra for himself he would see that the boys in jail got their part...
...Garry Wills, Professor of the Classics, responds elegantly to the Nixonian era: Mr...
...He would buy cigarettes by the carton and give the boys...
...Us boys in jail never asked him for a favor but what he granted it . I don't think we could beat him for deputy sheriff...
...Sellars gave me while I was in Union County jail I want to say I was there 215 days and I could not ask for any better treatment and I don't think we could find any man in Union County who would make a better jailer than Mr...
...Sellars in the correspondence column of the illustrious Uniontown Telegram: In regard to the kind treatment Mr...
...and LL.B., essays the ingredients for America's Solons and Numas: How can you justify running for the U.S...
...Other predictions: two women will run in 1976, one having light hair and an M in her name...
...I practiced labor law for many years...
Vol. 8 • February 1975 • No. 5
