The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • ^ October, and a morbid fascination grips the nation as it takes up a death watch over the fading remains of Miss Karen Quinlan and New York City. How long will the state...
...It is a sonority of infinite grandeur and incomparable logic...
...Ford this month, and his wife was more taciturn, but Egyptian President Anwar Sadat did stop by the White House on October 28, providing President Ford with the opportunity to toast "the great people of Israel...
...Ford has "branded New York as diseased, and now he wants to pull the plug on our city...
...an unpleasant man...
...Apparently Officer Reynolds, who is new to the force, unbuckled his buckles in the wrong order, and his gun dropped to the floor, discharged, and fired a bullet into the blue knight's right buttock...
...Finally, as Senator Hubert H. Humphrey's foreign aid committee is considering a foreign aid proposal for Zaire, the Happy Warrior explodes in anger at being asked to extend aid to Zaire and not New York City—an example of geographical latitudinarianism on Mr...
...morning court sessions and converse elli cally...
...Ford knitted his brow and heaved up an "Excuse me, of Egypt...
...Ford's niggardliness as "right-wing politics...
...So it is that they talk about the economically ailing city as though New York were a famous beauty, her travail gloated over by a nation of vicious and greedy charwomen...
...Seventy-seven-year-old Supreme Ct Justice William 0. Douglas, who was parti paralyzed and confined to a wheel chair on cember 31, has tended to snooze thro...
...Hunkering behind the microphone, Mr...
...Leonid Brezhnev, and the political acumen of former President Richard Nixon—"A very odd man...
...an artificial man...
...Kissinger's microphone after his toasts, allowing one of America's most celebrated buggers to become the buggee...
...Let Woody Allen or any of our a hundred United States Senators match tt performance...
...Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor Abraham Beame, while pleading for a loftier tone to the debate, exclaim that the provincials beyond the East River have always hated and feared their great metropolis...
...He hated to meet new people...
...The Rt...
...When will the Grim Reaper caress them ? ^ Six months ago Miss Quinlan was a reputedly self-destructive 21-year-old girl given to ingesting mixtures of drugs and alcohol, who on the evening of April 14 assumed a comatose condition after several rounds of pills and gin...
...Today her desiccated remains lie in a "persistent vegetative state" at the end of a Bennett MA-1 respirator in accordance with the laws of New Jersey and despite the pleas of her pastor and her parents and the medical evidence that she is now not much more than a biological blob...
...Ford had fallen in their clutches—no doubt the victim of Zionist thought control...
...Now Mr...
...But poor Anwar, had he not just the day before at the National Press Club discoursed on the formidable power of the Zionists, citing the time back in 1950 when a Jewish shopkeeper in Cairo, "under orders from Zionism," refused to sell him a radio...
...Humphrey's part perhaps, or perhaps foreign aid is just another continuation of "right-wing politics...
...No one tried to assassinate Mr...
...October saw the first stirrings of wl could become a reign of terror against Fi Amendment rights in New York's cultu purlieus...
...What is more, if Pelha authorities make good on their threat to do tl dog violence Mr...
...And in Gnaw Bone, Indiana, Jed Torkis, a local poet who is affectionately referred to as "the town fool," is passing the hat in front of the town Standard station "in an attempt to raise money to keep New York on the map and put Gnaw Bone on the map...
...Rather than droning on in Katzenjammer Kids dialect about the diplomatic intricacies of addressing sheiks as opposed to premiers or the strategic significance of the Bulgarian cereal harvest, it appears that he actually gives newsy reports on the comparative sexiness of America's first ladies, the maladies stalking world figures like Mr...
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...yet not a peep has been raised quest ing his usefulness...
...In the case of New York City no such libertarian quiddities restrain enlightened opinion as it ponders the fate of an entity economically ill and philosophically dead...
...In Brooklyn, police officer Wayne Reynolds entered the toilet stall of the Union Avenue station and nearly killed himself...
...And while on the subject of t international community, congratulations a in order for the Union of Soviet Socialist publics (USSR) for garnering the 1975 Not Prize for Peace, which went to Mr...
...New zoning laws are threatening very existence of some of that city's fin massage parlors, and the philistines have s ceeded in preventing the world premiere c breathtakingly bold and surpassingly beat fu/ untitled Latin American blue movie, wh features the actual murder and dismemb ment of a gifted young actress...
...A politician with a sense of dignity is quite as unthinkable as a drunk with a sense of balance...
...On October 4 hope was doused that Sp: might be easing its policy of repression wh Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered t execution of five cop killers, touching demonstrations all over Europe and leavi many European gendarmes looking woet gone and wondering when Sweden would p. nounce the ambushing of cops a fundamen human right...
...The Solons and Numas of Athens, Tennessee are taking positive steps to rescue New York from perdition...
...How long will the state keep them alive...
...By the end of the month the Athens City Council had appropriated $25 to be sent to Mayor Beame with no strings attached...
...It is another political spitting bee, and the pots are eager for another debauch of the public discourse...
...And: Sakharov, Russian citizen and scientist...
...On October 29 he rushed to Walter Reed Medical Center wi mysterious fever, and still no calls for yout vigor to replace the rapidly disintegrating rist...
...Neither austere theologians nor dignified jurists have dominion over this case...
...The UN Humanitarian, Social, and Cultural Committee has adjudged Zionism at one with racism, another example of the hilarity that reigns at that remarkable international forum...
...Such was the chitchat recorded for posterity during a state banquet in Ottawa when Canadian officials forgot to disconnect Mr...
...In the case of Miss Quinlan enlightened opinion, percolating into the press, seems to feel that nature should be freed to take its course independent of the extraordinary intrusions of the state...
...The whole affair seems to ha shaken the Generalissimo, long one of rope's staunchest law-and-order advocat' and as his health declined the reins of gove ment were handed over to Prince Juan Carl a moderate...
...From Illinois the third edition of Adlai E. Stevenson, the paperback edition, excoriates Mr...
...Apparently progressive doctrine appl ble to ancient public officials is suspen when the public figure is sick or incap tared...
...Finally, there seems to be a doctrinal vision taking place amongst progressives garding the obsolescence of elderly public vants...
...Soon after President Ford promises to veto any federal legislation guaranteeing a loan to New York, every pol in the land is bursting to express his noble sentiments...
...The "radical right wing of the Republican Party" is at the controls of the Ford- Administration, according to Senator Harrison Williams, J r.— not the sweet visionary kind of radicalism but the kind that eats little children...
...In the Quinlan case tonalities of pathos resound, but all one hears from the New York imbroglio are whistles, hog bladders, and raucous ring-a-ding-dings...
...From Cumberland Hospital his condition is reported as good though his spirits are low...
...It seems that Henry Kissinger, our present Secretary of State, is a more stimulating dinner guest than had hitherto been suspected...
...During the month, the Turtle Bay carnival provided more merriment than Washin ton or Moscow...
...only the pots, and theirs is the domain of bathos and burlesque...
...This mot held by some critics to represent the ultim in the pornographic medium, is now actu: being sought out for confiscation by the IN York Police Department's Organized Cri Control Bureau, yet not a word of protest arisen either from the Village Voice or ft the New York Civil Liberties Union—a chill preview to America's Bicentennial...
...Late in the month the chief U delegate from Barbados, the puckish M Waldron Emerson Waldron-Ramsey, insist( that "diplomatic immunity" extends to h German shepherd thus allowing it to contini nibbling on the succulent limbs of Pelhai New York strollers...
...Mayor Beame sallies forth to restore dignity to the debate by enunciating "In the name of the people of this city, I challenge the President to square his forceful pursuit of detente abroad with his prosecution of cold war on the domestic front...
...Waldron Emerson Waldro Ramsey promises "an international in, dent...
...Bella S. Abzug allows as how Mr...
Vol. 9 • December 1975 • No. 3
