Among the Intellectualoids

...A legislative proposal for energy conservation...

...Articles in the Current Issue of Psychoeconometrica Keynes, F.S., "Economic Prospects for 1969...

...If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayers' expense...

...Hence his abiding interest in the mephitic art of the rabblerouser...

...But he also had the backing, Mencken admitted, "of some of the best men and women below the Potomac," though to be sure there were few such people, certainly not enough to make any impression on the rest of the country...

...Violetta, in the final act, dies of Y-(c(Y-T) + I + G + X(M + mY...

...I am," he insisted, "strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency...

...The founder and director of the Center is Prof...

...Prof...

...If this collection falls a good deal short of his Carnival of Buncombe (1956), which covers the years from 1920 to 1936, it should still reward his customers, and it will certainly surprise those readers who have only a passing acquaintance with his work...

...Chock full of delightful anecdotes, many of them published only a few times before...

...In general, the Center concerns itself with the analysis of public policy in its broadest aspects, encompassing the neglected areas of transcendental and psychic phenomena, with particular emphasis on econometrics...

...Keynes' early researches into macroeconometric theory led him directly to the study of the occult, and then beyond to psychoanalysis...

...Gerald Uba, an Aquamus, teaches data processing at the Chester Arthur Institute of Technology...

...BOOK REVIEW Mencken's Last Campaign: H. L. Mencken on the 1948 Election Edited by Joseph C. Go,,Iden / The New Republic Book Company / $8.95 William H. Nolte When asked by a reporter from Life Magazine in 1946 if he would rather be called "The Sage of Baltimore" or "The Man Who Hates Everything," H. L. Mencken replied that he didn't care a damn what the reporter or anyone else called him "just so long as you don't call me an old dodo sneaked out of the dissecting room...

...An application of Keynesian fiscal policy to home economics...

...Views represented in these publications are not necessarily those of the Center or its associates, but are sometimes chosen to demonstrate the stupidity of our critics...

...The Black Death is discussed as evidence for the necessity of socialism...

...A program of affirmative action is proposed...

...Keynes gives us the lowdown on the fates, futures, and destinies of the top newsmakers of the year--the GNP, CPI, unemployment rate, prime rate, level of excess reserves, Dow Jones average, NASDAQ Index, M1-M 7 (an.d Keynes' own unique measure of the money supply, /TM 2), all seventeen measures of the balance of payments, and many, many more...

...The author argues that 3.14 is good enough...

...Bishop, J., "The Day Keynes Died...

...Although in his 68th year and nearing the end of his long career as premier gadfly of the Republic, Mencken had lost none of the vibrancy of his earlier years...

...In 1969, Prof...

...It may also surprise readers to find Mencken saying kind things about Strum Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate...

...The simple fact is that Truman was the better politician, which is to say he was willing to promise anything to anybody for a vote...

...Following Truman's startling victory on the first Tuesday in November Mencken wrote that Dewey's defeat probably resulted from defects in his personality and his incompetence as a rabblerouser...

...Keynes peels away the confusing layers of real and monetary factoi's to uncover the actual determinants of economic performance: numbers...

...The Alteri,.arive: An American Spectator November 1976...

...Fehler contends that critics of discretionary monetary and fiscal policy, like Cabral, miss the whole point...

...Examines employment patterns in the Los Angeles SMSA in the occupational classifications of grief counselor, embalmer, pall-bearer, gravedigger, and cadaver...

...Cavanaugh finds that although more than 50% of the population is female, less than 50% of the bodies buried in the period covered by her study (January 3, 1974January 4, 1974) were those of women...

...Agn~w, S., "Financial Management of Real Estate in a Liberal Society...

...Frederick S. Keynes, of MIT...

...Mencken's most severe censure was reserved for Henry Wallace and his Progressive Party...

...Concerning his running mate, a banjo-playing Senator from Idaho named Glen Taylor, Mencken wrote, "Soak a radio clown for ten days and ten nights in the rectified juices of all the cow-state Messiahs ever heard of, and you have him to the life...

...Prof...

...Utilizing calculations based on the positions of the stars and planets at the exact time of the founding of the Wharton School, Prof...

...For example, some readers may be perplexed by his admiration for the Socialist Norman Thomas, since Mencken, who believed that capitalism was less a human contrivance than it was a reflection of natural laws, always said that his last act on the gallows would be to lift a hoot at socialism and all its moon-struck apostles...

...The authors recommend Congressional approval of their Seasonal Adjustment Act, which would require that summer last until at least November, and compel spring to begin no later than February...

...The stellar economist reveals his prognostications for the performance of the United States and other key economies during 1969, with a new special section on the Maldive Islands...

...McGovern, G. and T. Eagleton, "Suggested Parameters for Seasonal Adjustments...

...Keynes again employs the same technical methodology which brought him fame when, as an assistant lecturer at the Aaron Burr Mechanical and Agricultural College in 1947, he with uncanny precision predicted that an intense and protracted recession would ensue in 1929...

...Reminiscences of the author's great-grand-uncle, Karl...

...AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by Gerald Uba The Center for the Study of Psychoeconomics Purpose and History The Center for the Study of Psychoeconomics (founded in 1967) is an active scholarly institution organized around a small group of scholars, businessmen, economists, and former mental health workers...

...He also considers the proposition that improper nouns should not be taught in elementary schools...

...The indeterminacy of pi as a cause of hyperactivity in schoolchildren is explored...

...During the most intense period of the McCarthyite hysteria, Prof...

...But it hasn't been realized in seven or eight hundred years...

...Publications The principal vehicle for public circulation of the Center's work is its sporadic journal, Psycboeconometrica (formerly the Journal of Economics and Astrology...

...Reading this collection of Mencken's articles, resurrected from the files of the Baltimore Sun, I was struck all over again by his amazing ability to condense enormous amounts of information into succinct phrases that bite and sting, and, above all, by his use of metaphor and hyperbole as a kind of shorthand...

...In addition, the Center makes available books, pamphlets, and reprints that may be of interest to students and professionals in the field...

...Fortunately for us, possession of those high qualities did not, except in time of war when free speech is severely limited, prevent Mencken from performing biopsies on most of the political animals roaming the land between 1900 and 1948...

...Marx, M., "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia...

...Keynes adds another ten thousand digits to the value of pi, which he has been relentlessly calculating since his introduction to the renowned mathematical value at the age of eleven...

...He made votes every time he gave a show, but Dewey lost them...

...Commoner, B., "Rats, Lice, and Capitalism...

...The failure of the tourist industry in the "rock garden spot of South America" is attributed to insufficient U.S...

...Still, he wrote that those who heard Thomas speak in Baltimore ("this great medieval city") enjoyed "a rare and exhilarating pleasure, to wit, that of listening to a political speech by a really intelligent and civilized man...

...The CSP hopes to encourage ultradisciplinary study so as to foster a greater awareness of the interpenetration, and if you're not careful, the crossfertilization of history, politics, economics, and numbers, especially numbers...

...Verdi, G., "The Consumption Function in La Traviata...

...By his own admission he delighted in the vulgar and the obscene...

...He detected a flavor of religi~,us awe in the Philadelphia Convention Hall where the Progressives gathered to anoint the gullible Swami: "If, when he is nominated today, he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised...

...Cavanaugh, A., "Sex Discrimination in the Corpse-Processing Industry...

...The New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Aldo Ceccato...

...Prof...

...Again, I quote that most quotable of all our critics: "If [Truman] did not come out for spiritualism, chiropractic, psychotherapy and extra sensory preception it was only because no one demanded that he do so...

...Suggests massive redevelopment loans and a redistribution of climate...

...He then added that it was "a little inaccurate" to say that he hated everything...

...And, as an added attraction for fine-tuning fans, Prof...

...Thurmond was sadly handicapped "by the fact that all the worst morons in the South are for him...

...As for Thurmond's hope that "his holy crusade for States' Rights" might throw the election into the House of Representatives, Mencken concluded: "In national campaigns the candidates of third parties always cherish that hope...

...Although the bubonic plague may not have been started by private enterprise, the profit motive was certainly no cure for the ills of that troubled society...

...Slanderous reports of cannibalism are refuted by proof that the deaths of tourists had actually been caused by starvation...

...Keynes was forced to resign his graduate fellowship at Millard Fillmore College...

...In 1967, the Institute merged with the Center for the Study of Mathematical Psychiatry to form the Center for the Study of Psychoeconomics...

...The author, an experienced expert on zoning laws and building standards codes, discusses some of the unexpected complications which arise when you try to build something on your own land with your own money when the public interest must be taken into account...

...Towhead, B., "Are Irrational Numbers Immoral...

...In 1500, Pedro Cabral left Portugal for the west coast of Africa but got lost and discovered Brazil instead...

...Beverly Sills as Violetta...

...to hear him is to bust into tears...

...How the principles of economics may contribute to the dramatic elements of an operatic theme...

...aid and unfair foreign competition...

...Two months later, with the campaign in full swing, he commented again on Taylor: "He is cheap, vulgar and stupid...

...however, he resumed his research at the State University of New York at Attica, and upon release he joined with a community of like-minded scholars, students, and exconvicts to form in 1957 the Institute for Quantitative Astrology...

...An inordinate snob, Dewey, unlike Truman, the compteat democrat, disdained getting down on all-fours with the canaille: "While Dewey was intoning essays sounding like the worst bombast of university professors, Truman was down on the ground, clowning with the circumambient morons...

...Burns, A., "Carcinogenic Properties of Gold: A Speculative Inquiry...

...Cage, A., "Have Your Cake and Eat It Too...

...They argue that by any modern standard of equity or fairness, the colderweather seasons should not be allocated more than 25 % of the year, rather than the unconscionable 50% which they currently receive, a gross disproportion which can only stem from callous greed with no regard for social responsibility...

...34 The Alternative: An American Spectator November 1976 Upcoming Articles in Psychoeconometrica Fehler, A., "Fine-tuning the Economy: the Brazilian Experience...

...The tax advantages of paying consultant fees and making political contributions over a period of time, rather than in single lump sums, are analyzed in several case studies...

...Allende, S., and L. Brezhnev, "Tierra del Fuego: Socialist Dream and Imperialist Stab in the Back...

...Despite continual harassment from envious dogmatic academicians, snide elitist mediacs, and fraud investigation units, the Institute began regularly to issue astroeconometric forecasts of the past and future...

...Keynes was awarded the first Nostradamus Chair in Economics at the Maldive Islands Theological College, where he currently teaches and resides...

...continued on page" 3 7) William H. No/te, chairman of the English departme'nt of the University of South Carolina, is the author of H. U Mencken: Literary Critic...

...This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic...

...Prof...

...An analysis of the theory of time preference from a macroeconomic perspective, with particular attention to long-run effects...

...To look at him is to laugh...

...Indeed, he took to politicoes much as a tom takes to catnip...