Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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...February 1977] New Times The higher intellection and belles lettres as practiced at New Times, a modern magazine where/a vie intellectuelle is presented in component p a n s : Why isn't McGeorge Bundy running an employment service for his disabled veterans instead of the Ford Foundation ? And why didn't Robert McNamara quit the war he privately came m despise, or came to pretend to despise...
...increasingly obvious that the last severaJ thousands years of world history were but a puny overture to the present, an epic ot u n p a r a l l e l e d i n t e l l e c t u a l achievement, with one masterwork after another being thrown off by the feminist Aristotles...
...If I can't quire make i there myself I'm happy to be a part of it throug[ my kids, who may not stay, but who will haw stayed long enough to make the irrevocabh contrast...
...Carter has a unique opportunity to start the process of reconciliation, by offering aid to help rebuild Vietnam...
...February 23, 1977] Village Voice Choice vaporings from one of the illustri ous Village Voice's resident historians: Nobody needs to overthrow capitalism...
...He need only step in...Join us by making your contribution today...
...You can contribute to life with a donation to build the FRIENDSHIPMENT hospital at My Lai...
...February 18, 1977] The Great Books Series Another thoughtful ukase from one of the new breed o f female metaphysicians, one who would make such a very nice neighbor --especially if you needed to borrow some Librium: I have spent too many years of my life, too much of my energy, supporting the male ego...
...Some would say why do you people nee, assistance when you got all them Cadillacs...
...I have quietly tolerated macho in men while it sickened me to the point of vomiting...
...March 1977] Worldview Dr...
...LlGnur.l~ 1977] Washington Post The compassionate Mr Petey Green distinguished Washington talk-show host reveals a profound understanding o American polity and economics during memorable interview for a Washingto...
...Eventually it will be directed at me...it always is...
...Why should I tolerate a new form of macho in women...
...Thanks to the women's movement, it i...
...The survivors of the My Lai massacre are also celebrating a new beginning...
...apprises an eager world of yet another feminist classic destined to be read for centuries, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics by Andrea Dworkin: She scrutinizes historical and psychological issues, including female masochism, rape, the slavery of women in "Amerika," and the burning of nine million witches during the Middle Ages...
...It's all so great, so glorious--even if the decisions turn out to be the wrong ones, I've made them by myself...
...Just loving and learning and living life...
...The Vietnamese have drawn up the plans and will provide labor sand and tiles [sic...
...1977} ~b8 The Alternative: An American Spectator April 1977...
...I'd been doing the "right" thing, even if it wasn't right for me...
...Here Ms...
...Peter Baldwin Schwab, his kin, his loved ones, and all who cherished his memory: Correction In the December 25, 1976 issue of Tibe New Republic, an article entitled "Ten Years Out" by T.D...
...In fact, Mr...
...And maybe eventually, after sufficient stink and rudeness and noise (and death and ruin), it will seem to make for nicer days to leave strangers to their lives...
...It is also time for the U.S...
...Schwab died of a heart attack...
...Tbiskiu& L:'he A Igo~an by Leah Fritz [WIN Books, publisher] Feed World Delirious notification from the official newspaper o f the food industry, Food IF'or/d, another casualty of the new math: Now that jimmy carter has the reins in his hands or the bit in his mouth, the next four years should be one of the most interesting in the history of the presidency and the people of our United States...
...Van./F#b...
...I didn't make any difference that they had to parJ their cars next to outdoor toilets...
...Post report on Cadillacs and poor people: "I rememberwhen the congressmen on the Hi used to debate what was going to be done abou the poor people in this city," Green says, "bu the people on Capitol Hill only had to look out their office building windows right into some o of these alleys and see all of them Cadillac parked out there...
...Tet is a symbol of Spring, of birth, of a new beginning, a time for families to come together...
...I no longer tolerate it in men...
...And what he tries m bury we will urge [Gloria] Emerson, and a few other rude rind unpleasant people like her, to dig up again...
...After 28 years of life, I'm finally getting to really know me and getting myself together...
...February 4, 1977] New York A thoughtful reflection eminently worthy o f the next edition o f Bartlett's Familiar Quotations from fumrologist Dr...
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...January 3, 1977] Ms...
...Now it is full of life...
...I puke openly...
...The congress men only saw the cars...
...January 15, 1977] Yon Mrs...
...Doug Hostetter of the enlightened United Methodist Office for the United Nations, shares with the readers of ~W~oddv:ew his golden moments on Fidel's island paradise: In my trip to Havana this past September I found Cuba's combination of spontaneity and bureaucratic rationality enabled her m feed, clothe, house, and educate her people while still being one of the most exciting countries I had ever visited...
...Rosalie Schwab unveils a thoughtful testimonial to the important new magazine You, a magazine that apparently intends to institutionalize I968: You have succeeded in putting together a very together magazine...
...With your help they can have a hospital...
...government to begin a new era a fruitful negotiations [sic] toward normalization of relations with Vietnam...
...later to puke at the Black Panthers and the Symbionese Liberation Army...
...They rebuilt their homes, a school, a store, and a community center...
...It wil die a natural death...
...Duane Elton: Once you discover that space doesn't matter, or that time can be traveled through at will so that time doesn't matter, and that matter can be moved by consciousness so that matter doesn't matter--well, you can't go home again...
...In the meantime it's ver...
...The Americans who are building the My Lai hospital are helping to keep the door to negotiations open...
...I have learned m puke at the government, at the police, at the FBI...
...It's a magazine I can really relate to, having gone the route of a.arusader in the 60s, then trying to find a place of my own ih society: going by the rules, settling down to marriage and children until the time came for me to make a life for myself...
...Y#ar-Endlssm#] Commonweal Notwithstanding correspondent Fox Butterfield's February 12, 1977 New York Times report estimating the population of South Vietnam's concentration camps to embrace anywhere from 50,000 to 300,000 souls, Commonweal, the Christian beacon, publishes the following curiosity: Celebrate Vietnamese New Year February 28, the Vietnamese celebrate Tet, or New Year...
...For 8 years My Lai has been a symbol of death...
...This Tot will be more festive as thousands of families long separated by war are reunited...
...The healing process of reunification has begun...
...A modest proposal: from now on let the president of our country take as his principal responsibility in time of war the burial of his dead, the disposal of the detritus created by the state's policies...
...140,000 is needed for construction materials and medical equipment...
...Allman reported erroneously that Peter Baldwin Schwab, a member of the Harvard class of 1966, committed suicide in 1971...
...Then she calls for--insists upon, really-a complete cultural trmasformation, the rooting out of sex roles from our society...
...The New Republic deeply regrets this error...
...exciting to be living in a time and a countr, where new viable wholesome tribalistic struc turns are emerging right in the shadow of the collapsible monster...
...When peace came in 1975 they returned to their hamlets...
...The article also reported incorrectly that Mr...
...Schwab, while an undergraduate, was a member of Young Americans for Freedom...
Vol. 10 • April 1977 • No. 7
