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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Euripides Current Wisdom , THE NEW PATRIOTISM: The illustrious Tom Wicker salutes the flag according to the modern manner in a review of...
...Chicago Tribune May 8, 1975 URBAN HOMEOTHERAPY: John Kenneth Galbraith, quack, offers for New York City's ills a cure suggesting that were he treating a wino Mr...
...It is impossible to accept the fact that we would yield our bodies as we do and keep our thoughts hidden, since for me there is no basic difference between the body and the consciousness...
...Watergate dramatically demonstrated how insidious this violence is...
...we thought we could sell it to a TV network and make a lot of money...
...Changing Your Address...
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...said: "It's been very politicizing for all the straights and now they know they should support us instead of being ashamed of us...
...The decision I refer to is that all unfilled positions in the University must be filled by blacks or females...
...These are problems for the young men of the rising generation, and the tragedy of American politics is that we seem to be stuck in both parties with men in their sixties...
...Chicago Tribune July 24, 1975 THE LUNATIC FRINGE: Thank God for the Natioff: Try saying it to yourself"Ralph Nader for President...
...It doesn't matter who you're in bed with if you're in bed when the revolution comes," she said...
...Nothing can bring you peace but yourself...
...OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: The chairman of the sociology department of a university in Florida writes a prospective appointee regarding the gorgeous state of civil rights in this glorious democratic republic...
...the American mobility culture, with its autos obsolete and crunchable the day they're sold, its fast-food parlors, plastic motel rooms, take-out orders, transient sex and junk music...
...Saunders starts to stifle panic, looking 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator December 197' like a man who doesn't know what to do with a mouthful of rancid orange juicebut Mankiewicz keeps rolling...
...Print your new address and mail this form to The Alternative...
...Floyd Fithians attempts to wake up America to yet another crisis, this time ex-cogitated by the canning tycoons: Mr...
...Progress toward Utopia: Since I last corresponded with you regarding the possibility of a position in this Department, decisions have been made by the top administration of the University that have created some awkwardness in our recruiting efforts...
...But in Adams' time, the people seemed better able to cope, having vested their faith in the principles of Self: self-reliance, self-discipline, self-education...
...These are problems for the young men of the rising generation, and the tragedy of American politics is that we seem to be stuck in both parties with men in their sixties...
...Most of us never understand the magnitude of that violence until we, ourselves, are assaulted: in the street, the market-place, the court-room...
...We are all for women...
...Burlington [Vt.] Free Press August 1, 1975 GOOD GOVERNMENT: Another example of the realization of Eleanor Roosevelt's fondest hopes and dreams...
...We are all for women...
...Sarkes Tarzian Inc...
...it peps you up, like a sudden shower on a muggy afternoon...
...Chicago Tribune July 24, 1975 THE LUNATIC FRINGE: Thank God for the Natioff: Try saying it to yourself"Ralph Nader for President...
...As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Discontent is the want of self-reliance...
...USC's Continuing Education for Women Program has designed a series of Spring Saturday Seminars to enable women to more knowledgeably achieve their own goals, whether they be starting a small business, learning to say "no," or being compensated for a poorly made product...
...It's a phrase that sparks on the tongue...
...Changing this pervading ambience requires relearning certain principles...
...please print) Name Address City State Zip Date of change a * la * . a 5 a a a a . .. . .. There is . . . . . . opportunity . .. .. . . . . . in America...
...Important: allow six weeks for address change...
...anyway, we just broke even with it in the end...
...New York Times August 9, 1975 DEPT...
...Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post have shown what perseverance and asking the right questions can accomplish...
...and a pronunciamento that will ring through the halls of history: The first institute for the study of feminist thought finished its opening session with the participants, all women, doing a dance of karate kicks as a red-haired dog named Emma Goldman roamed the floor...
...FITHIANS...
...Henry Adams' Democracy, written in 1880, is as forthright a commentary on political corruption as any forthcoming book by John Dean...
...Chicago Tribune May 8, 1975 URBAN HOMEOTHERAPY: John Kenneth Galbraith, quack, offers for New York City's ills a cure suggesting that were he treating a wino Mr...
...Euripides Current Wisdom , THE NEW PATRIOTISM: The illustrious Tom Wicker salutes the flag according to the modern manner in a review of Nashville, a movie which depicts the: "vulgarity, greed, deceit, cruelty, barely contained hysteria, and the frantic lack of root and grace into which American life has been driven by its own heedless vitality...
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...Petri said she is now "gainfully employed in a discotheque...
...Sarkes Tarzian Inc...
...said: "It's been very politicizing for all the straights and now they know they should support us instead of being ashamed of us...
...Box 877 Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (Please attach address label here...
...We are, after all, on the same side...
...Why is this country facing such a shortage at this time...
...the writhings of a culture that does not even know it is choking on exhaust...
...Thomas Petri said Wednesday the go-go dancer was listed as "disabled" until the silicone treatments enlarged her breasts...
...Sen...
...the writhings of a culture that does not even know it is choking on exhaust fumes.., a culture desperately clinging to the idea of value while vulgarizing almost every particular value...
...Up with people!: The Wisconsin Vocational Rehabilitation Division paid for silicone injections for an aspiring go-go dancer who "lacked the necessary equipment" to land a job, a state senator has revealed...
...The Congress and the appropriate federal agencies have a responsibility to investigate the shortage of canning lids, and report their findings to the public...
...Linda, a young blonde who asked that her last name not be used...
...Box 877 Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (Please attach address label here...
...It's a phrase that sparks on the tongue...
...Burlington [Vt.] Free Press August 1, 1975 GOOD GOVERNMENT: Another example of the realization of Eleanor Roosevelt's fondest hopes and dreams...
...Important: allow six weeks for address change...
...Since I have no information regarding your racial identification, it will only be possible to consider you for a position in the event you are black...
...Nation August 30, 1975 AMERICANA: From the Spring 1975 brochure, "Continuing Education for Women," published by the scholarly University of Southern California, comes a thought-provoking blast from Linda WorobowSocrates in a pantsuit: We live in a violent society...
...The Alternative Circulation Department P.O...
...Statement, Proceedings of the fact-finding hearing of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance of the Department of Labor, August 20, 1975 CANDOR: A memorable moment on Chicago television, as recorded in Colonel McCormick's ghost: Frank Mankiewicz, looking like a battered pug, as always, is reclining in the chair and chain smoking Kools in the television studio, listening to WBBM's Cornmon Ground host Warner Saunders ask him what motivated him to travel to Cuba recently to film "conversations with Castro...
...The decision I refer to is that all unfilled positions in the University must be filled by blacks or females...
...Euripides Current Wisdom , THE NEW PATRIOTISM: The illustrious Tom Wicker salutes the flag according to the modern manner in a review of Nashville, a movie which depicts the: "vulgarity, greed, deceit, cruelty, barely contained hysteria, and the frantic lack of root and grace into which American life has been driven by its own heedless vitality...
...Please renew my subscription for one year...
...Four members of the division's Superior, Wis., office, which Petri said helped out the dancer, have been indicted on charges of mismanagement of state funds...
...The American people deserve answers to their questions: Where are all the canning lids...
...Many women today are finding that those authority figures on whom they depended for guidance, support, rectitude, and redress are not omniscient, omnipresent, nor in some cases even concerned...
...But in Adams' time, the people seemed better able to cope, having vested their faith in the principles of Self: self-reliance, self-discipline, self-education...
...Bloomington, Indiana In la The Alternative: An American Spectator December 1975 "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad...
...As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Discontent is the want of self-reliance...
...Franklin [Louisiana] Post May 29, 1975 THE WOMEN'S FEVER: Another stupendous achievement for the Mabels, the Beulahs, the Thelmas of this world...
...It doesn't matter who you're in bed with if you're in bed when the revolution comes," she said...
...Euripides Current Wisdom , THE NEW PATRIOTISM: The illustrious Tom Wicker salutes the flag according to the modern manner in a review of Nashville, a movie which depicts the: "vulgarity, greed, deceit, cruelty, barely contained hysteria, and the frantic lack of root and grace into which American life has been driven by its own heedless vitality...
...Nothing can bring you peace but yourself...
...The Congress and the appropriate federal agencies have a responsibility to investigate the shortage of canning lids, and report their findings to the public...
...we thought we could sell it to a TV network and make a lot of money...
...Linda, a young blonde who asked that her last name not be used...
...Henry Adams' Democracy, written in 1880, is as forthright a commentary on political corruption as any forthcoming book by John Dean...
...Changing Your Address...
...and a pronunciamento that will ring through the halls of history: The first institute for the study of feminist thought finished its opening session with the participants, all women, doing a dance of karate kicks as a red-haired dog named Emma Goldman roamed the floor...
...a culture in which old people are thrown aside as carelessly as Colonel Sanders chicken bones, patriotism and sentimentality salve the hideous wounds of progress, and madmen peer mildly from benign eyes...
...New York Times ETHNIC PRIDE: Proof that minority rights are observed in Baldwin, Louisiana: Passage of an ordinance to outlaw hogs from the city has stirred more than 400 residents to initiate recall petitions demanding new elections for the mayor and three councilmen who approved the measure...
...Always attach address label when writing to us about your subscription...
...a culture in which old people are thrown aside as carelessly as Colonel Sanders chicken bones, patriotism and sentimentality salve the hideous wounds of progress, and madmen peer mildly from benign eyes...
...Enclosed is my check for 88.00...
...The Alternative Circulation Department P.O...
...Please attach address label from the back cover of your Alternative is the space below...
...the writhings of a culture that does not even know it is choking on exhaust fumes.., a culture desperately clinging to the idea of value while vulgarizing almost every particular value...
...Corruption is not new...
...then Mankiewicz, noticing Saunders' veiled horror, and interrupting [sic) himself to say, "...well, that's why people do things, they just don't say so...
...Franklin [Louisiana] Post May 29, 1975 THE WOMEN'S FEVER: Another stupendous achievement for the Mabels, the Beulahs, the Thelmas of this world...
...then Mankiewicz, noticing Saunders' veiled horror, and interrupting [sic) himself to say, "...well, that's why people do things, they just don't say so...
...The cold truth emerging daily in headline copy is the familiar admonishment: the only person you can totally depend on is yourself...
...Floyd Fithians attempts to wake up America to yet another crisis, this time ex-cogitated by the canning tycoons: Mr...
...The two classes reflect the diversity of the five weeks of lectures and discussions at the institute, named Sagaris for the double-edged sword of the Amazons representing women's strength...
...Many women today are finding that those authority figures on whom they depended for guidance, support, rectitude, and redress are not omniscient, omnipresent, nor in some cases even concerned...
...Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles...
...Watergate dramatically demonstrated how insidious this violence is...
...Since I have no information regarding your racial identification, it will only be possible to consider you for a position in the event you are black...
...Statement, Proceedings of the fact-finding hearing of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance of the Department of Labor, August 20, 1975 CANDOR: A memorable moment on Chicago television, as recorded in Colonel McCormick's ghost: Frank Mankiewicz, looking like a battered pug, as always, is reclining in the chair and chain smoking Kools in the television studio, listening to WBBM's Cornmon Ground host Warner Saunders ask him what motivated him to travel to Cuba recently to film "conversations with Castro...
...The cold truth emerging daily in headline copy is the familiar admonishment: the only person you can totally depend on is yourself...
...Up with people!: The Wisconsin Vocational Rehabilitation Division paid for silicone injections for an aspiring go-go dancer who "lacked the necessary equipment" to land a job, a state senator has revealed...
...The American people deserve answers to their questions: Where are all the canning lids...
...Why is this country facing such a shortage at this time...
...Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles...
...OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: The chairman of the sociology department of a university in Florida writes a prospective appointee regarding the gorgeous state of civil rights in this glorious democratic republic...
...I commend this committee and its distinguished chairman, Charles J. Carney, of Ohio, and the Federal Trade Commission for looking into this crisis...
...Enclosed is my check for 88.00...
...We want every woman to know the right questions to ask and from whom to ask them...
...I commend this committee and its distinguished chairman, Charles J. Carney, of Ohio, and the Federal Trade Commission for looking into this crisis...
...Mankiewicz exhales and, in a haze of smoke, with no hesitation, with a flat voice, says, "Personal greeddid it out of pure personal greed...
...please print) Name Address City State Zip Date of change a * la * . a 5 a a a a . .. . .. There is . . . . . . opportunity . .. .. . . . . . in America...
...Mankiewicz exhales and, in a haze of smoke, with no hesitation, with a flat voice, says, "Personal greeddid it out of pure personal greed...
...Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post have shown what perseverance and asking the right questions can accomplish...
...Sen...
...New York Times ETHNIC PRIDE: Proof that minority rights are observed in Baldwin, Louisiana: Passage of an ordinance to outlaw hogs from the city has stirred more than 400 residents to initiate recall petitions demanding new elections for the mayor and three councilmen who approved the measure...
...New York Times August 9, 1975 DEPT...
...Please renew my subscription for one year...
...Saunders starts to stifle panic, looking 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator December 197' like a man who doesn't know what to do with a mouthful of rancid orange juicebut Mankiewicz keeps rolling...
...Thomas Petri said Wednesday the go-go dancer was listed as "disabled" until the silicone treatments enlarged her breasts...
...the American mobility culture, with its autos obsolete and crunchable the day they're sold, its fast-food parlors, plastic motel rooms, take-out orders, transient sex and junk music...
...The dognamed for the early 20th century anarchistbelonged to the teacher of a class on "Feminism and Socialism" and the karate moves were lifted from a self-defense course...
...Congressional Record August I, 1975 HIGH GIBBERISH: M. Jean-Paul Sartre, the archbishop of 1950s existentialism, speaks and 1950s vintage intellectualoids gulp: I think transparency should always be substituted for what is secret, and I can quite well imagine the day when two men will no longer have secrets from each other, because no one will have anymore secrets from anyone, because subjective life, as well as objective life, will be completely offered up, given...
...We want her to be able to interact with society with skill, knowledge, and confidence...
...New York Review of Books August 7, 1975 JUVENESCENCE: During a eulogy to Gerald Ford's glorious first year, young James Reston shows the stamina of the Greening of America fallacy: In short, he has diluted the poison in our political system in the last year, which is quite an achievement, but in being grateful for that we should not forget the question he has now put to the people, namely that we should reward him by electing him to lead us thru the radical problems into the '80s...
...New York Times July 30, 1975 AN AMERICAN CRISIS: The Rt...
...It is impossible to accept the fact that we would yield our bodies as we do and keep our thoughts hidden, since for me there is no basic difference between the body and the consciousness...
...it peps you up, like a sudden shower on a muggy afternoon...
...anyway, we just broke even with it in the end...
...FITHIANS...
...The two classes reflect the diversity of the five weeks of lectures and discussions at the institute, named Sagaris for the double-edged sword of the Amazons representing women's strength...
...Speaker, last week it was my privilege to testify before the Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Commodities and Services concerning the shortages of canning lids...
...The dognamed for the early 20th century anarchistbelonged to the teacher of a class on "Feminism and Socialism" and the karate moves were lifted from a self-defense course...
...Corruption is not new...
...We believe these seminars will assist her...
...Speaker, last week it was my privilege to testify before the Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Commodities and Services concerning the shortages of canning lids...
...Congressional Record August I, 1975 HIGH GIBBERISH: M. Jean-Paul Sartre, the archbishop of 1950s existentialism, speaks and 1950s vintage intellectualoids gulp: I think transparency should always be substituted for what is secret, and I can quite well imagine the day when two men will no longer have secrets from each other, because no one will have anymore secrets from anyone, because subjective life, as well as objective life, will be completely offered up, given...
...We believe these seminars will assist her...
...We want her to be able to interact with society with skill, knowledge, and confidence...
...We want every woman to know the right questions to ask and from whom to ask them...
...Petri said she is now "gainfully employed in a discotheque...
...New York Times July 30, 1975 AN AMERICAN CRISIS: The Rt...
...Four members of the division's Superior, Wis., office, which Petri said helped out the dancer, have been indicted on charges of mismanagement of state funds...
...Galbraith would treat him with scotch: I think it's fair to say that no problem associated with New York City could not be solved by providing more money...
...We are, after all, on the same side...
...Changing this pervading ambience requires relearning certain principles...
...Bloomington, Indiana In la The Alternative: An American Spectator December 1975 "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad...
...Galbraith would treat him with scotch: I think it's fair to say that no problem associated with New York City could not be solved by providing more money...
...Most of us never understand the magnitude of that violence until we, ourselves, are assaulted: in the street, the market-place, the court-room...
...Nation August 30, 1975 AMERICANA: From the Spring 1975 brochure, "Continuing Education for Women," published by the scholarly University of Southern California, comes a thought-provoking blast from Linda WorobowSocrates in a pantsuit: We live in a violent society...
...Please attach address label from the back cover of your Alternative is the space below...
...New York Review of Books August 7, 1975 JUVENESCENCE: During a eulogy to Gerald Ford's glorious first year, young James Reston shows the stamina of the Greening of America fallacy: In short, he has diluted the poison in our political system in the last year, which is quite an achievement, but in being grateful for that we should not forget the question he has now put to the people, namely that we should reward him by electing him to lead us thru the radical problems into the '80s...
...Progress toward Utopia: Since I last corresponded with you regarding the possibility of a position in this Department, decisions have been made by the top administration of the University that have created some awkwardness in our recruiting efforts...
...USC's Continuing Education for Women Program has designed a series of Spring Saturday Seminars to enable women to more knowledgeably achieve their own goals, whether they be starting a small business, learning to say "no," or being compensated for a poorly made product...
Vol. 9 • December 1975 • No. 3
