Wisdom

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...August .5, 1976] The Progressive Mr...

...They bleed and suffer silently, taking their anger and frustration out on their children, their families, themselves...

...It is not only love he inspires, but hope...

...I now realize the hell that males go through...

...Jxne 1976] Memoranda Mr...

...But not in China...

...August 15, 1976] Democratic National Convention An inspired typographical botch in the news release of the Rt...

...In his acceptance speech, Carter said on this subject, "Now I hav,: spoken a lot of time~s this year about love...

...And economic crimes like job discrimination and low pay...

...August 16, 1976] The New York Review of Books Madame Elizabeth Hardwick launches a metaphysical, axiological, syntactical whopper, all on behalf of the Georgian Wonder Boy...

...I asked...

...What a wreck I was...pacing the floor, trying to get up the old nerve...

...How do you define compassion, understanding and compatibility...

...Frank Church's foreign policy tirade, hollered at the 1976 Democratic Convention: We wilt restore to primacy on our international agenda those fundamental issues that matter most: an end to nuclear proliferation that could prove fatal to our civilization...

...In the face of earthquake or volcanic eruption, typhoon or plague, it is not surprising that a social fabric crumples...

...global cooperation to preserve the environment, to save the oceans, to temper population growth, to expand fool production...

...How do you define liberalism...

...I waited the usual time--you know, until the label of " t h a t ' s J o e ' s old girlfriend" wore off...

...My speech was planned...

...July 17, 1976] The Nation For solving America's dreadful problem of individual freedom, the liberal Nation adduces a political model worthy of emulation by all: Much has been reported recently of the remarkable response of the Chinese to overwhelming, uncontrollable, natural disaster...

...C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Washington Post Due process as practiced in the People's Republic of China: Workers of a factory manufacturing electrical apparatus put up the posters in defense of a young worker sentenced last summer to 20 years imprisonment for rape...

...Send us your cockroach trivia (with a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want it back again), and if we print it we'll send you $5...

...Help us make the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women a reality...

...But asked to define the word, he sa~d, "I'll let you define it...

...After I hung up I was so proud of myself--I had proved I could do it...

...Sisterhood is powerful, but international sisterhood is more powerful...

...They are different words that anyone could define...

...February-March 1976] New York Times The legendary New York Times elucidates the profundities of a modern Vivaldi: Mr...

...And even the hope that attends him cannot yet entirely break free from its rooting in the arid soil of mere compassion...

...How do you define truth...

...How do you define honesty or love...

...Mercedes Niess Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y...

...August 30, 1976] Los Angeles Times The greatest moonshiner to sashay out of Georgia since the dawn of time again reveals his famed lubricous candor: Does he consider himself a populist...

...Next to the very best popular music of the last 15 years, he sounds rhetor!:al, calculated and slick...

...I feel it's a disgrace to the human race...

...It is not easy to imagine Reagan or Ford attempting the articulation...

...Love--isn't there something Southern in the word, in the oval shape of it...

...I think he left his personality at home and thought that his good looks and maleness would get him through the evening...

...Physical and sexual crimes like rape, child molestation, and wife beating...

...Medical crimes like forced sterilization and forced motherhood (through the inaccessibility of birth control and abortion...

...Do you have a favorite book about cockroaches...

...Spiro Agnew reenters American public life adorned in a kaffiyeh, his wallet bulging with Saudi boodle, as he spouts the Soviet party line on the Middle East: There will be no solution in Palestine until justice is granted to over one million Moslem and Christian Palestinians who were driven from their homes and to the hundreds of thousands who remained as virtual serfs in the land of their ancestors...

...Then I finally asked this guy out...

...Instead, he reached back to the slick punkdom of the late 1950's Elvis Presley and further back still to the pop craftsmev, of Tin Pan Alley...

...Welt, he said yes and we went out (to my friend's for dinner...

...What kind of crimes...

...August 14, 1976] Ms, How "George" failed Mercedes, featured only in the correspondence section of the intellectual Ms.: Last winter my boyfriend of two years and I broke up...

...But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice...

...I think so," he replied...

...You know, that "shy, gorgeous" guy wasn't worth the battering my nerves took...

...In any case they are elocutionists of the negative, ardent in warning, fervent in surgery, secular in their commercial diction...

...Saul Friedman, sociological poet, observes the private pleasures of the revolutionary cadres of Flint, Michigan: But even though Flint, a General Motors town, is a stronghold of industrial unionism and helped give birth to the United Auto Workers, its unemployed don't cry out in pain or shout with rage...

...Diamond, for all the blues-based energy of some of his music, had never fully accepted the assumptions of rock-and-roll...

...But within a more proper evaluative context--compared, say, to Tom J o n e s - - h e remains a vital, pleasing performer, one who domesticates the energy of rock for older audiences without fully betraying that energy...

...I love myself for it...

...The posters said that the young couple had been courting for some ttme and the affair could have been settled inside the factory by a criticism session for "bourgeois conduct...

...Well, I called "George" (fictitious name), one of the gorgeous males in school...

...July 1976] The Wall Street Journal A modern Tocqueville rises up from the backwoods of Louisiana to propound glorious new theory of political freedom the Four Box Hypothesis: "You have four boxes that protect your freedom, delegate Woody Jenkins, a Louisiana legislator, tol the [American Independence Party] convention "They are the soap box, the ballot box, the iury box and the cartridge box...

...If you ever lose the cartridg box, the other three won't mean a thing...

...uty I-5, 1976] Mother Jones The distinguished leftist journal, Mother Jones, notifies its readers of some forward-looking gustable activites: Can you tell male and female cockroaches apart...

...Mother Jones is planning a collage of cockroach information: history, habits, literary references, perfect poisons, etc...

...News Release of Senator Cburck's speeah to the Democratic National Convention] Democratic National Convention After beginning his acceptance speech by observing that 1976 will be a year of "quiet and sober reassessment of our nation's character," Wonder Boy Carter warms to his subject: i t ' s time for a complete overhaul of our income tax system...

...To what may we attribute such extraordinary composure amid chaos and death...

...Elizabeth, once again you have been had: Love and the politics of love...

...Mail to Roaches, clo Mother Jones, 607 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94105...

...But I have to say that one of the best parts of knowing him was the act of asking him out...

...February I976] Mother Jones From Mother Jones, a stupendous reservoir of the Advanced Thought, comes this imposing declaration, a declaration sure to strike resonant chords not only in Manhattan, but also amongst the women of Bulgaria, Upper Volta, and the world: It is time to name, once and for all, these crimes against the women of the world...

...The phone rang five times...my stomach 10 times...

...Carter was asked...

...Carter, uniting love and some, actually much, of his opponents' shudders at libertinage, is a mysterious figure, charismatic in his accent rather than in his person...

...The posters said that in autumn 1973 Wang, the young worker of the electrical apparatus factory, was caught having sexual relations with a girl called Mao (her full name was no~ disclosed) when they were supposed to be attending a meeting to criticize the late Marshal Lin Piao and the philosopher Confucius...

...For one thing, the Chinese have determined to understand and predict the earthquakes....It should also be said that in recent times the people of China have been taught obedience and to engage themselves in mass enterprises at short notice...

...lAP Hl 1976] 40 The Alternative: An American Spectator October 1976...