Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
• • "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom HAUTE CULTURE: Miss Vivian Gornick, the Alfred Kazin of her milieu, speaks forebodingly of Mr. Woody Allen's...
...I hated gays...
...The obsessive lechery startled and antagonized me...
...People's irrationality misleads them to believe in gods and devils which, of course, have never been proven...
...The Nation January 10, 1976 MENTAL HEALTH: A memorable moment provided by . the founder of the Rational Therapy Institute of New York, Dr...
...to desire and be desired," he said...
...Kristol believes that smoking marijuana is an act "whose purpose is to secede from our society and our civilization, and such a declaration requires a moral answer, not a medical one...
...Albert Ellis, professional fool: Santa is bad...
...Garry Wills suffers a sudden and amusing tantrum wherein he coins another taxonomic preposterosity: The type is established by Irving Kristol, who can say with a straight face that American colleges "give students academic credit for off-campus rioting...
...Kristol and crew •have managed the neat trick of creating a Kooky Middle...
...I was a white racist...
...Bloomington [Indiana] Herald-Telephone November 3, 1975 SOPHISTRIES: Another trick answer from people who devote their lives to trick questions—the booby-trapped word here is "technology": We live in a highly lethal society...
...I went to extremes to convince those around me I was straight...
...Everyone has the right to believe anything he or she wants to about Santa Claus...
...Any myth has potential harm...
...The irony is that Mr...
...I would also alert children that they might suffer some ridicule as a result of their realistic.views...
...To meet a bank president, a school teacher and a garbage collector, who are gay...
...But I would tell them that they should respect the views of others...
...Persons who believe in them wind up deluded and often with serious problems...
...When will this prodigious mind be unveiled to a nation desperate for Culture?: And then one day I found myself sitting through a Woody Allen movie and not laughing at all...
...I didn't know what it was to love or be loved...
...OF IDEAS: Another comic moment at the New York Times, a newspaper that does not need a "funnies" section: Mr...
...Woody Allen's intellectual decline—and even more forebodingly of her intellectual burgeoning...
...Indeed, it seems that the Bicentennial has become synonymous with maintaining the political status quo, by celebrating a past which cannot possibly be altered, rather than facing a present and future which are open to evaluation and change...
...Suddenly, the joke was old-fashioned and disgusting to me...
...we, the oppressed, can go forward and teach love...
...The Progressive December 1975 WHAT IS TO BE DONE: A timely revolutionary bull from the visionary pages of the Village Voice: If you see a lesbian wearing a dress, point at her, make a face until she switches to the politically proper blue jeans...
...Ford's conviction that the threat to his tenure comes from the right, from Ronald Reagan, has wiped out any hope there may have been last spring that his face-to-face decency, his wish to be thought of as another Harry Truman and his early undertakings to work with Congress in a spirit of compromise might move him toward the center of gravity of the people's temper...
...Indianapolis Star Magazine December 21, 1975 DEPT...
...Euripides Current Wisdom HAUTE CULTURE: Miss Vivian Gornick, the Alfred Kazin of her milieu, speaks forebodingly of Mr...
...Ford himself will have to pay—certainly in history and probably at the polls—part of the "any cost," for his drift is toward failure in the main task he set himself, of restoring confidence in the Presidency...
...According to his story at Sunday's conference, he has worked through many things in his own formerly hate-filled life...
...New York Times Book Review January 18, 1976 The Alternative: An American Spectator March 1976 37...
...and Fairlie seems, at first, to be applying for membership...
...Myths-perpetuate untruths and encourage unrealistic views of the world...
...Air Force with an honorable discharge because of his sexual preference, and not because therewas anything wrong with his military record...
...His hard and stubborn side, which I found so disturbing, has come forward to dominate his behavior and his policies...
...At the extremes would be the straights and the gays," said Leonard Matlovich Sunday afternoon before about 700 persons from 19 states attending a Gay Awareness Conference at Indiana University...
...What a crazy world, in which we're rewarded for hating and punished for loving," he said, calling for gays to unite and stop putting down each other...
...Shriver is a man whose honesty and integrity few would challenge...
...that's When I walk down the street a little prouder," Matlovich said...
...But a parent should have faith that his children can face the truth squarely and still enjoy themselves...
...I hated blacks...
...He said he "came out of the closet" about two years ago...
...say: "No, there's no evidence for this myth...
...Village Voice December 15, 1975 THE MATURE BRAT: Midst an otherwise boring review of Henry Fairlie's latest book, the precious Dr...
...The Progressive December 1975 MAKING IT: High-minded vaporings of John Hersey, author, Presidential confidant, and go-getter in the literary marketplace: Since last April, when my article on President Ford appeared, his open enjoyment of the office, so manifest during the week I spent with him, seems to have flowered into an obsessive determination to hold onto it at any cost...
...The movie was "Play It Again, Sam" and halfway through it I realized that I was not only not laughing, I was angry and somewhat repelled...
...I felt as though I'd been watching Woody Allen try to get laid for 20 years now, and I did not want to see it one more time...
...And he is an intellectual who spends a lot of time poring over cosmic questions...
...New York Times December 31, 1975 THE LIFE OF THE MIND: Intellectual reflections of a popular performer on the campus Chautauqua circuit, as reported by one of the most awesome news-gathering organs in America: "If it weren't for the church and society's mores, the vast majority of human beings would be bisexual...
...Ila child asks, "Is Santa real...
...New York Times Magazine December 28, 1975 BICENTENNIAL BLUES: A familiar idiotic lament festooned with Bicentennial angst for the urbane yokelry who read The Nation: Democracy has come to mean pledgingallegiance to the flag, rather than questioning and evaluating what the flag stands for and how these values and goals can be improved...
...We as gays have to stop history...
...Village Voice January 5, 1976 IDEAS: The Progressive offers a peek into a dank place, the mind of Professor George Wald: I believe our so-called free world is now wholly controlled by such multinational, super-enterprises as General Motors, Exxon, the Chase Manhattan Bank, ITT, Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum...
...No society in human history has cultivated the technology of killing and destruction as has Western society under Christianity...
...So many are oppressed that until it's all stopped, no one is safe," said the self-identified gay (homosexual) who recently was forced out of the U.S...
Vol. 9 • March 1976 • No. 6
