The Continuing Crisis
THE C O N T I N U I N G CRISIS 88 All is quiet, all is quiet, all is quiet. From December 1 until this report went to press in mid-January, nary an instrument in the national cacophony stirred,...
...Amin's popularity with the world's oppressed came to light when Uganda Radio broadcast the news that 175 Hawaiians have asked Mr...
...What a glorious day it was for old Harry[ And the family mortician had hardly finished applying his arts when Mr...
...9 So who provides the wind for this bassoon...
...From December 1 until this report went to press in mid-January, nary an instrument in the national cacophony stirred, save for a lonely bassoon sounding forlorn snatches of somber half-notes...
...The lecture is generally given to high school girls...
...de Hory was the world's foremost art forger, a master so gifted that no appraiser could distinguish a de Hory from the original...
...Kurt Waldheim was re-elected UN Secretary General over the noisy candidacy of Mexican President Luis Echeverrfa Alvarez, one of the world's most repulsive politicians...
...9 On December 13, a bald eagle was senselessly gunned down by unidentified assailants as he relaxed amongst the flora of Suffolk County, New York...
...Daniel Ellsberg, Miss Joan Baez, and the Brothers Berrigan have grown skeptical about the state of civil liberties in unified Vietnam, and on December 20 they joined dozens of other hard-headed doves to fire off an eloquent letter of protest against alleged political intolerance in that great democracy...
...9 Back in America, antiwar superstars Mr...
...Field Marshal tdi Amin Dada, always somewhat of a neoplatonist, has made it a capital offense even to joke about the raid, and already two iconoclastic bar girls, who quipped that their boy friends were as aggressive as Israeli jets, have been put to the spear...
...it remains to be seen whether the country can survive the malevolent nitwits who sniffed at him and even now are laying their traps for the Wonderboy...
...Rockefeller publicly regretted that "I never had a chance to tell him that I loved him as a person...
...Finally aesthetes can expect from the budding Schuberts of Zaire still more songs about death, water, and birds...
...And the composition itself has been improbable throughout...
...His pursuit of the Presidency was a comic testimony to the hallucinogenic effect power has on all who live in Washington...
...Surely not Gary Mark Gilmore...
...Ford...
...Yet J e r r y struggled manfully...
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...Zaire has established an official song censor to scotch the seepage o~ Western decadence into that country's rich culture...
...Harry G. Hoffman, the recently-retired editor of the Charleston Gazette, died a hero's death, a death all ritualistically liberal journalists dream of but only Harry managed to pull off...
...The paying audience has generally abounded with nincompoops...
...9 The first hard evidence supporting reformers' annual prophecies of the impending decline in Mayor Richard J . Daley's political power came on the afternoon of December 20 when the seventy-four-year-old political boss was pronounced officially dead, despite the wishes of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee and the Chicago City Council...
...Amin has ruled out military liberation of the islands, sensing as be does that Presidentelect Carter shares more of Mr...
...de Hory to pass off his creations as the works of acknowledged masters, if only to assure a living wage for himself and his American bodyguard, Mr...
...Fully thirteen percent of the students polled believed that " t h e President is not required to obey the l a w . ' ' _9 As this dispatch goes to press, culture lovers remain ignorant of the huge loss suffered by the entire art world on December 11 when a dispirited genius, Mr...
...The only breath of innovation came in Mr...
...Have recent Presidents overreacted to their critics...
...Amin's world views than did the more backward Mr...
...Screams of perdition are heard no more from the Wonderboy, now that he is the perditioner-elect...
...And in New York the once-hallowed First Amendment received another plucking when WABC's philosophical weatherman, Mr...
...In Charleston, West Virginia, Mr...
...A ~vlilan, Italy judge gave Mr...
...The sixty-five-year-old grumbler expired at his typewriter as he mercilessly pecked out a diatribe against none other than Governor-elect John D. Rockefeller, 4th...
...His days are spent fending off the ceaseless harassment of the American Civil Liberties Union, a cruel conspiracy of emotionally disturbed lawyers twice responsible for Mr...
...For two years he has served as soloist in Richard M. Nixon's Concerto for Bassoon, Op...
...Julia, the absurd thirtyyear-old elephant residing in New York's Central Park Zoo, was "destroyed" after an Austrian veterinarian diagnosed her behavior as symptomatic of a "mental disorder" rather than an "uncommonly high intelligence," as earlier vets had insisted...
...In the end Jerry proved that the country can continue to hum even with a sensible mediocrity in the White House...
...Gloria Laing was thrust into the slammer for violating a court order and shouti*ng "Happy Easter, Connie" to her daughter...
...Then Jerry reacted not at all, not even to the incomparable Betty...
...On a happier note, the cultural marvels of Mr...
...9 Apparently none of those Hollywood portrayals of the Israeli raid on Entebbe will be seen in Uganda...
...Amin's booming republic will be displayed in the fifteen-story "Uganda House," a spectacular structure of glass and marble soon to be raised in New York City on the present site of Johnny's Kwick Check Parking Lot...
...Furthermore a national poll of high school students revealed that hard-core Nixon supporters are far more prevalent amongst youth than had hitherto been suspected...
...Emyr de Hory, took his own life on the famous isle of Ibiza...
...9 True, he displayed not one moment of brilliance...
...Were other administrations full of gorgeous pretense...
...it was conservatism at its most pedestrian and instinctive...
...Yet art buyers tried to avoid his works, while paying vast sums for the Chagalls and Matisses on which his works were based...
...And the Planned Parenthood Association of Chicago received a shock when Cook County Jail officials judged as "too controversial" a contraception lecture intended for an audience of lady inmates, seventy-five percent of whom are prostitutes...
...Another manifestation of Mr...
...Henceforth love songs will be malum prohibitum...
...Ford's domestic policy, and the pundits fell on him for it...
...9 Washington has been empty, with our eminent Congressmen either off to foreign parts on official transcultural debauches, or discreetly ensconced at remote clinics throughout the Republic there to dry out...
...Amin to liberate them and become King of Hawaii...
...No, these melancholy lilts issue from President Gerald R. Ford, our lame Anas platyrhynchos...
...The Cat's Meow, a Baltimore massage parlor zoned into extinction, has reopened as a sperm bank...
...The orchestra for the most part was composed of lunatics and scoundrels...
...His only really perilous policies were in foreign affairs, and the pundits applauded and rubbed their tummies...
...Gilmore's flummoxed essays into suicide...
...posth., an artistic event slapped with the banal and dashed with the macabre...
...According to the broadcast, Mr...
...No response has yet been received by the protestors, causing renewed concern that the whole of Vietnam may have slipped back into the grasp of the heinous CIA...
...Luigi Serge Gorcy, an electrical firm personnel director, a one-month suspended jail sentence for asking a prospective woman employee questions the judge deemed "reactionary...
...and he is quietly applying himself to the task of populating post-Fordian Washington or to learning those recondite matters once entombed in high school civics texts...
...colonial authorities soon...
...Mark Forgy...
...J e r r y ' s was sober and businesslike, except, again, for Betty...
...Of course most of his political moves were cloddish and ineffectual...
...In Los Angeles Mrs...
...The benevolent Field Marshal has promised to study the petition seriously and to take it up with U.S...
...Such a specious system of values often forced Mr...
...And signs of a resurgence in support for ex-President Richard M. Nixon surfaced when Good Housekeeping magazine declared Pat Nixon the world's most admired woman...
...Tex Antoine, was suspended for following up the news report of the rape of an eight-year-old girl with an observation he attributed to Confucius: " I f rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it' ' - - b u t one more example of America's intolerance toward foreign cultures, no doubt...
Vol. 10 • February 1977 • No. 5
