Current Wisdom
C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Washington Post A r e a d e r ' s mysterious meditation on Eptescicus fuscus, published inexplicably by the renowned Post of Washington: The entry of the little...
...With our sweet scent and can~ ways...
...Why with all the attention our big t--s attract, who has the time to notice...
...Congress will continue to be a ship of fools with brigands at the helm until at least a third of the membership is female...
...Would that we could have reprinted the idiotic mug shot which appeared with Mr...
...Mary Slusser Washington [ October 1, 1976] Commonweal Commonweal delivers upon the USSR the most cruel judgment of all: Compared with the U.S., the Soviet Union is conservative and timid...
...june 26, 1976] Time The incomparably cerebral Time excavates one of the splendid ironies of American haute culture: In the early '60s it might have seemed heretical to suggest that rock could be a vehicle for intimate self-expression, for anger and confusion, or a cultural revolution...
...I don't march...
...Kristin Evenson Cedar Rapids, Iowa Abbbb...
...I know their problems...
...Brigades work in the fields without fear of raids...
...An American Spectator January 1977 37...
...They might even welcome us into the smoke-filled rooms...
...Voila...
...I have not been everywhere and been all things to all people...
...Left undisturbed and an obvious egress made available, such creatures are as anxious to depart their strange surroundings as the unwilling host is to have them do so...
...If you don't mind my enjoying Bloomington as my home then maybe we will always be close...
...Fantastic...
...Calfee re construction of a temple dedicated to probity to be raised at the very crossroads of America, nay the world: If we would list all the sorry things other politicians did do that President Nixon did not do, the result would prove Nixon to be the best president this country has had since George Washington...
...While I spend a major portion of my time resting in Bloomington, I have felt it not proper to go up to people and tell them who and what I am...
...I was amazed by the similarity of our experiences-right down to both of us being "Late Bloomers" and having the same bra size...
...I am, yours truly, John Elden Tiptoe...
...Sex objects," you say, "depersonalization," "degradation...
...December 1976] The Progressive A heart-breaking revelation from one of the most vigilant journals of the militaryindustrial complex: After Vietnam, the Marine Corps is not only morally repugnant, it is obsolete...
...June 4, 1976] Bloomington [Indiana] Herald-Telephone As a public service to our readers in all the fifty states, the territories, and throughout the world we do hereby reprint the full and unexpurgated text of Congressional hopeful John Elden Tipton's hard-hitting and sincere election-eve declaration, while sadly reporting that this dramatic personality's campaign was decapitated fifteen minutes into election day...
...That is a good enough reason for us to build a great memorial to President Nixon...
...We will chase him with brooms, ball bats and hate, spray him with compounds, and consign him to the trash...
...Where planes formerly dropped bombs, why not drop bags of fertilizers or grains...
...Flags or painted insignia on the planes, or labels of origin on the sacks, should be avoided--there is no real victory in giving that which is due, but only the inner satisfaction in doing something for humanity...
...To have the power to turn men to mush by virtue of our 36DD breasts...
...Yes, men do judge a woman's attractiveness by the amount of fatty tissue that is piled up on her chest...
...Problem solved...
...Yes, big "t--s" can be a woman's most valuable possession, and should be exploited to their fullest extent...
...and subtly entitled "My Life in a 36DD Bra": I just read Eve Babitz's article, "My Life in a 36DD Bra" (April, 1976...
...If you think it should be otherwise then maybe you should re-elect John Myers...
...It's the petticoat admirers, I've an idea, who are secure enough in their manhood to vote for us...
...It was reassuring to realize that someone else has had the same hassles I had...
...g and in reproduction, sex and economics cannot be separated...
...I know people...
...Yes, there is some discomfort involved: the inconvenience of wearing "disguises," the painful bursting of your illusion when you discover your leg man really wanted "kn...
...Radical feminists call this exclusively male behavior "phallic imperialism" and see in it the origin of all other forms of imperialism...
...Rock music had scrounged for and found its own randy legitimacy...
...Two learned lucubrations on a characteristically profound essay appearing in the April number of Ms...
...Next victim come forward...little brown bat, little brown human, little anything, anyone...
...We should build it in Texas so everyone could see it...
...But history persuades me that the U.S...
...Tipton's statement: Perhaps it won't work...
...Novembep 16, I976] New York Time, What is to be done about North Vietnam ? A humane proposal to the government of the United States from Mrs...
...I will make the first $1,000 down payment on a memorial to President Nixon...
...I have grown up in the area where I am running for Congress...
...The time is ripe to make a positive offer without fanfare...
...And it's delightful and funny that they do so...
...How elevating it was to read, in a feminist publication, such insightful and comforting affirmations...
...s" all the time...
...May 31, 1976] Ms...
...Men now accompany the once allwomen teams in the planting...
...I have not been away in Washington enjoying the fat of the land while my people have been wanting...
...Calfee Milford, Texas [November 16, 1976] Ms, Political economy as spouted by Miss Andrea Dworkin, womanologist: In f...
...Finally at the age of 22 I am getting used to the size of my breasts and learning to take in stride those people who seem to be unable to see anything of me beyond them...
...Congress [Novemb~,r I, 19761 Dallas Morning News On the correspondence page of the Dallas Morning News appears a stirring ultimatum from Mr...
...For years my father campaigned vigorously, and I found that people don't like having their train of thought interrupted by a candidate for office...
...We are still in love with Lord Byron, who "revered a petticoat...
...Ont., Canada [August 1970] The Alternative...
...Debra McLellan Toronto...
...The "humanitarian" (in the sense the word once had), and indeed sensible, approach would be to assist the harmless--and even "boonbestowing"--little brown bat to peacefully exit the human dwelling into which accident has brought him...
...Ladies and gentlemen of Bloomington, I have not conducted a Politician's campaign...
...By mid-decade, all that was a foregone conclusion...
...I)emocrat to U,S...
...Some of us, I guess, will never lose the old-fashioned pleasure of being "girls...
...Helen Maguire Muller, Machiavellian: War sapped most of the peasants' energies, and the good earth was neglected, bombed out, defoliated and abandoned...
...So I come to Bloomington to rest, not to campaign...
...The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his socalled seed, reaps a harvest--he colonializes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it, denies it freedom and selfdetermination so that he can continue to plunder it, moves on at will to conquer other land which appears more verdant and alluring...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Washington Post A r e a d e r ' s mysterious meditation on Eptescicus fuscus, published inexplicably by the renowned Post of Washington: The entry of the little brown bat, and of most other winged creatures, into man's dwelling is largely accidental--the result of the chase (in the bat's case, for mosquitoes) or the beckoning of lights...
...Now that's strength...
...But I'd like to try...
...The joys of womanhood in a sexist society...
...But no...
...And many of them [male politicians], one must add, rightly suspect that women are too honest, too efficient, too squeaky-clean for the deals that stoke machine politics...
...But now there is peace...
...Who else is with me...
...October 1976] The Philadelphia Inquirer Midst a veritable forest of scholarly tomes the learned and sage Miss Harriet Van Home shouts out another dithyramb: My feminism is not the militant kind...
Vol. 10 • January 1977 • No. 4
