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...Lawyers build up tension in the back and the neck, they block up there and experience a lot of pain...
...Lawyers have tension in the mouth because we can't always say what we think," he said...
...He stood in the center of his colleagues, all undressed before the winds, and demonstrated...
...The social pressure created by the children is terrific...
...Raymond A. Schroth lays down a lachrymose catalogue of the w o r l d ' s leading troubles: For non-monks, one of the great attractions of monasteries, and of those pseudo-monasteries like seminaries on hilltops, is their separateness, their apparent isolation from what the rest of us experience as the troubles of the "world" --social pressure, competitive capitalism, alienation, work anxiety, messed-up love affairs and muggLqgs and bicycle thieves in Central Park...
...Rage because so many of our schools and hospitals have been permanently awarded to the rats, our parks left strangled on weed and neglect, our libraries reduced to part-time outposts of civilization...
...Surely this is a rather half-hearted approach...
...Good riddance to them all...
...I t ' s one of the nicest things we can do for each other...
...Now when you give your partner a massage," Levy said, "concentrate particularly on the crown of the head...
...Next the mouth...
...Contraceptives are sold with vegetables and housewares in the little boats of the floating markets, and shopkeepers and school teachers distribute them...
...In Chicago, most of them would turn their backs...
...Children between six and 10 call the pill the family welfare vitamin and they ask their mothers if they are taking it...
...Wendy Morgan, socialite, reports on the booming cultural life of Thailand for the illustrious Star of Washington: Buddhist monks bless pills and condoms when they arrive...
...No,' he told me, 'we reason with them.' I didn't ask what he meant by 'reason.' " [September20, 1975] Publishers Weekly Another complicated asseveration from metaphysician Charles Reich...
...John Leonard, the New York Times' cultural nerve ending, reveals an intelligently conceived syncretism, e s s e n t i a l for surviving the groan t h a t p a s s e s for life in p r e s e n t - d a y fascist America: If every time I think of Viemam I can manage at the same time to think of Mary Tyler Moore, I can also manage to feel not so bad about being an American...
...Rage at the loss of our local democracy...
...Example: 'We shall harness the Yellow River'--that's all he says and suddenly millions of people are volunteering to work on it...
...Rage at the plague of crime and violence, knowing that we have too few policemen...
...Rage at the scabrous conditions of our streets, the potholes and trenches that might never again be filled, the sewers clogged with a winter's dismal refuse...
...I t ' s a Mao philosophy and principle, carried out through peer group pressure...
...Slowly he broadened the circles and worked his way around the eyes, the cheeks, the ears...
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...October 22, 1976] The New Republic The s t a t e of reasoned discourse at the New Republic, where a howl in the night may be published as an editorial on the morrow: Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, Agnew, Mitchell, Butz, Connally, Haig, Rogers, Helms, Simon, Greenspan, Richardson, Rockefeller, Laird, Whitehead, Rumsfeld, Kleindienst, Finch, Gray...
...Life Dynamics Fellowship, Box 418-DGF, 2935 Chillon Way, Laguna Beach, Calif...
...having his memory to kick around will be a source of satisfaction to liberals for many years to come...
...Massage each other, he said...
...Children in primary schools sing family planning songs and say their alphabet: 'B is for Birth, C is for Contraceptives,' etc...
...If / . IV...
...Easier, more effective method of self-programming, mind control and relaxation...
...And as soon as he was done, they all went to it...
...Those of us who choose to live here are too choked with rage...
...July-August 1976] The New Republic A New Republic editorialist speaks to his analyst: Berating Nixon is always a pleasure...
...November29, 1976] Psychology Today Important notifications from the classified section of one of America's most advanced publications: YOUR PSYCHE REJUVENATED--THROUGH ALPHANETICS...
...I have long held that if only everyone, of both sexes, were homosexual, all human problems would be solved in less than a century...
...All we ask is that you read these lines with an open mind and one hand thrust deep in a large pile of warm cow dung: It may sound pretentious, but in order for us to understand ourselves as a people, we need to understand ourselves as individuals first...
...Male and female, they massaged each other...
...The list of clods, malefactors, narrow-minded reactionary zealots, egomaniacs, flunkies, lame-brains goes on and on...
...He moved his hands in tight circles around a colleague's forehead...
...January 15, 1977] The Washington Star Mrs...
...Rage at our own impotence...
...That's how they've eliminated corruption and dope," he points out...
...That's what we've tried to do in this book...
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...January I, 1977] Adrienne Rich Yet another thundering anthropo-sociophilosophical declaration from a shrew gone bonkers, this time the p r e p o s t e r o s i t y comes from Miss Adrienne Rich in Of IVoman Born: The patriarchal institution of motherhood is not the human condition any more than rape, prostitution, and slavery are...
...Rage at the businessmen fleeing to their suburban arcadias...
...February 1977] Commonweal The Rev...
...Rage at the knowledge that the South Bronx is burning to the ground, and we do not have enough firemen...
...I t ' s incredible--the signs and sayings of Mao are everywhere...
...Norton, publisher] New York Times Book Review Auspicious developments in the capital of American Ku/tur as r e p o r t e d by leading urbanologist, Pete Hamill: It is too soon, perhaps, for a cool, rational, detached book about what has happened to New York...
...During breaks, during lunch...
...38 The Alternative: An American Spectator March 1977...
...January 15, 1977] Esquire Mr...
...S e n a t e ' s most enormous hinds, upon returning from glorious and inscrutable Peking: [Senator] percy, clad in brief blue swim trunks and a peach sportshirt, and equally exhilarated by the trip, jumps right into the conversation with a surprising remark: "Mao is the George Washington of his country," he contends...
...June 20, 1976] San Francisco Chronicle A legendary California newspaper records the b r e a t h l e s s observations of one of the U.S...
...Jill Johnston is quoted as maintaining that "until all women are lesbians there will be no true political revolution...
...The heart, somewhere along the line we've all suffered defeat here...
...Rage at Washington...
...Show each other we care...
...VULNERABLE is Beautiful...
...I told one man that I'd heard dope pushers were taken into the streets and shot...
...He warmed to his subject as he moved to the arms, the waist, the back...
...anuary 1977] Times Literary Supplement Professor Norman Cohen r e s o r t s to cruel and sophomoric sarcasm in trying to come to terms with the really prodigious lucubrations of Miss J i l l Johnston, lesbian, revolutionary, and human being: In the review of Ms...
...It's become a point of national pride to wear a T-shirt that says 'I am vasectomized.' or for the woman 'I am protected.' Poor Thai families can rent a pair of water buffaloes (their equivalent to our tractors) for half price if they take up family planning...
...We lawyers spend so much time concentrating, the tension builds up in the forehead and the crown...
...As prosecutors and counselors all, they knew where they hurt...
...Jane Rule's Lesbian Images, Ms...
...The feet, the toes...particularly sens'itive to lawyers who do trial practice...
...If somebody steals a bicycle, 100 people in the streets chase down the thief...
...Primal Feeling Center of New England, Inc., 70 Nashua Street, Milford, NH 03055...
Vol. 10 • March 1977 • No. 6
