Current Wisdom
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom , • • HIGHER EDUCATION: The learned Miss Dorothy Harrison of the New York State Department of Education makes a...
...Citing other instances in which "hope is dying," he asserted that "perhaps the most sinister" were reports that "the rats are leaving the sinking ship...
...Is it how a competitive system really works...
...It would be a communal tean where the players would live together eat only the finest natural foods and prat tice yoga and transcendental meditation The entire element of control fron coaches would be gone...
...this time he has apparently chosen the tongue of Miss Shirley MacLaine: In an Easter sermon that electrified some congregants and offended others at the Cathedral of St...
...Joseph Kraft reveals the low estate into which "populism" has fallen since tilt glory days of 1972, when every intimidated liberal looked to it for poultice and political salvation: ORLANDO, Fla.—The primary here it Florida shows that the country is gradth ally nursing itself back to political health Both parties rejected right-wing populisn who had surged to prominence by skillfu play on emotional and divisive issues...
...The Progressive February 1976 LOST ILLUSIONS: Mr...
...New York Times April 19, 1976 INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Economist Milton Friedman delivers a few economic lectures in Chile and the liberty-loving Nation yells for the Feds...
...Hail the Nev Order: I have a vision of a team withou coaches, without silly restrictions o rules...
...Stressing that "it is not just a problem of New York" but of industrialized society, Bishop Moore said the very suburbs to which the corporations fled "become soul-less urban wastelands where social irresponsibility also slinks through the night to pull its victims down once more...
...control himself so as to be his best...
...Another myth, he said, is that people and businesses outside the city limits have no responsibility to the city...
...the public is conditioned for it with strident and synthetic anti-communism...
...Commonweal February 27, 1976 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR: New York's Episcopal Bishop, Paul Moore, on the occasion of his Easter diatribe, reveals his ability to speak in tongues...
...Galbraith journeys to the Soviet paradise?: There should be some way for the government in Washington to stop this destructive nonsense and send Friedman & Co...
...Washington Posi March 11, 1974 GOOD BOOKS, THE INCALCULABLE TREASURE: An example of the stupendous wisdom that is finally being publishes in the United States after years of ram pant anti-intellectualism...
...Look over your city and weep, for your city is dying," the Bishop declared...
...Sua cess would exclude failure and punist ment, and winning and losing would b seen in only a relative sense...
...J. Anthony Lukas, author of Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years, offers some moral instruction, while providing a wealth of useful information for his nascent Boswell: " ...I believed when I became a New York Times foreign correspondent that my life would change, that my acne would disappear, that I would be suave and cool and debonair...
...Be part of the rising, not the dying...
...He declared that "we of the religious community will not stand by as this betrayal of the city takes place, because if it continues, we can look ahead to a nightmare town, resorting to physical repression of its frustrated victims made savage by despair...
...Euripides Current Wisdom , • • HIGHER EDUCATION: The learned Miss Dorothy Harrison of the New York State Department of Education makes a dramatic point: Research on Chaucer and research on lingerie are not all that different...
...businesses are leaving the city...
...There is nowhere to flee in a dying land," the Bishop said...
...The game itself, in fac would all but disappear...
...but] I found that my life did not change...
...Cut through the fog of statistics and see the moral decisions behind them, " he said...
...Exploring some "myths" about the situation, he said that most crimes by blacks were against other blacks and that white fears of black crime were "basically a racist attitude...
...Eac man would strive toward the goal of bein good, but there would be no punishmer for failure except the natural punishmer of not being as good as you could be...
...I still have traces of acne...
...High for the Game, by Chip Oliv^ (William Morrow & Co THE TRUTH: The eloquent faith of form+ foreign service officer Lee Dinsmore unveiled on the editorial page of the Ne York Times: If the United States stopped today i whole weapons development activit bridled the runaway military machii that now dominates our thinking in fo eign relations, and turned our producti, capacities to domestic needs, the resul ing worldwide awareness of what v were doing for our economy and the pe ple in our country would shake the Krer lin to its foundations and force intern change there as well...
...The Nation April 3, 1976 AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE, INC.: Mellifluously pattering along in the curious language of the syndicated ideologue, Mr...
...the scientists and engineers continue to fashion new horror machines, and the generals deploy them...
...New York Tim, March 12, 19' 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator June/July 19...
...John the Divine, Bishop Moore charged that businessmen who pulled out of the city were perpetuating a cycle of unemployment, crime and economic decline...
...back to their classrooms in Chicago, where the damage they can do is only to sound economic theory, not human lives...
...If so, it is not only the most un-Christian value ever held, but one of the most anti-Christian...
...Washington Star February 25, 1976 A RAMPANCY OF PIETIES: One Raymond Bial, "writer, poet and photographer," waxes metaphysical, economical, sociopolitical, analytical, and puerile on the pages of Commonweal, where the Sermon on the Mount is regularly exposed in its more ridiculous variations: As I listened to a popular Chicago radio station, I frequently heard the DJ cracking jokes about "losers...
...What the hell is a loser...
...The telephones they use, the airports where they land, the clothes they buy, the restaurants where they eat—all float on the back of the poor," he asserted...
...New York Times March 21, 1976 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: Another overly optimistic report from Sydney Lens, patriot: The nuclear race proceeds on its own thrust...
...Why should a society as rich as ours have any losers...
...The ou come, the decision, of the game would b unimportant...
...I firmly believe in a team livin together like that, as brothers sharin brown rice and doing everything in th spirit of meditation, including footba practice...
...Why no such shouts when Dr...
...At one point, Bishop Moore, addressing several thousand people from the pulpit to the side of the high altar, remarked: "You may think this is a funny Easter sermon with no flowers, no bunny rabbits, no sunrise sermon...
...Each man woul...
...big business, big banking, defense industry, and defense workers all have a stake in it, and therefore pressure Congress for its continuance...
...He called on business leaders "to reverse your decisions and stay in the city...
...In sections of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem, great hulks of buildings stand abandoned and burned...
...The members the team would do the Dance of Foo ball...
Vol. 9 • June 1976 • No. 9
