Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Congressional Record The illustrious Mr. Fortney Stark, drunk and disorderly on the floor of the United States House of Representatives: Mr STARK. Mr. Speaker, I want to rise to...
...The pernicious influence of the Gang of Four must be wiped out...
...March 1978] The Great Books Series Proof of high intellectual attainment in Hollywood, California, as Mr...
...We prevent and treat cancer for the revolution...
...One stanza of their singing skit, epidemiologist Chou-chik Ting of the National Cancer Institute recounts, went like thisEsophageal cancer must be thoroughly conquered...
...July 13, 1978] Science News Cultural developments from the socialist paradise: Last fall a group of U S medical scientists stood in a courtyard in north China's Taihang Mountain Range and watched two schoolgirl sisters dramatize the early warning symptoms of a cancer prevalent in that area...
...April 14, 1978] The Washington Post Miss Graciela Olivarez, director of our President's Community Services Administration, edifies an, audience at the University of Notre Dame Law School: We need more than an Environmental Protection Agency to protect the snail darter and environmental-impact statements to prevent pollution...
...May 21, 1978] Ms...
...I mean poor people work like hell, and they are kept poor, they stay poor, and the system keeps them poor....This administration is rediscovering poverty, and as we do, we find it tangled in a web of laws which defies resolution...
...I was particularly upset at the misrepresentation of WomanSpira magazine as some sort of voice for the lunatic feminist fringe...
...Umm Well...You mean, Why do I like Jerry Brown...
...I know a 4-year-old boy who had intercourse with a 6-year-old girl and neither seemed damaged by it...
...I ask Beatty, elbowing my way in front of a woman photographer who has been more or less waiting in line, and thrusting my tape-recorder microphone before him...
...December 1977] Commonweal Another historical meditation from Mr...
...Brown by Orville Schell fRIA-htlom I-IcAlk A Pamphlet From Our Government Another eloquent and visionary pamphlet from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare—Improving Equity in Postsecondary Education, author anonymous—proffers an exciting vision for education...
...Such is not the case In my close to three-year relationship with WomanSpirit, and Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove, its caretakers, I have found the magazine thought-provoking, inspirational, and comforting My personal experience has been repeated for countless women nationwide The woman Van Gelder referred to as being a sort of final last straw is a personal friend of mine who does, indeed, converse with trees, and two in particular are her special friends...
...Any hope for a sane future that will lead us out of the mess we're in will lie in opening ourselves up with joy and understanding to the many other realities present in the universe Talking with trees is but one way...
...Q. From what age...
...June 9, 1978] The American Spectator October 1978 41...
...Or they are seen as educationally disadvantaged and requiring of remediation for adequate performance within discipline areas Both views are illustrative of a lack of intergroup communication and understanding and are destructive of the students' recognition of their own value to society...
...A It might...
...Putting prevention first is very important...
...Masturbation is especially healthy because this is the initial experience of sexual pleasure...
...Poverty is injustice...
...Orville Schell interviews Mr...
...A. From the time the child demonstrates interest, which is very often in the first year of life...
...February 1978] [Chicago] Sunday Sun-Times Memorable moments from a very advanced and hygienic colloquy between Mr: Philip Nobile and Dr...
...And if the child doesn't hook up pleasure and sex early on, then he or she may never do so It's a natural assumption that a person who has positive sexual experiences as a child will enjoy sex later on Q Then you recommend parents encourage masturbation zn their children 2 A Yes The first recommendation is not to turn a child away from masturbation Few parents today will tell a child that his brain will rot out if he does this "nasty thing " But the most important point is to reinforce the child'spositive feelings about touching himself or herself...
...In fact, one research study indicates that brothers and sisters who have sex before puberty are less interested in each other after puberty...
...We need human-impact statements to prevent further injury to the poor...
...Well, umm . It's basically just a question of whether you think he is a good man or not, isn't it...
...I think masturbation needs to be encouraged in children...
...The Community Services Administration is going to try to take on that job—to try to mobilize the community action agencies all over the country to at least bring a halt to regressive actions and policies...
...Apparently, you disagree A. Absolutely...
...Minority and women students can be seen as valuable educational resources Instead, too often they are viewed as curiosities and placed in a setting where the objective is to mainstream the student out of his or her cultural background and into the dominant society and its values...
...I don't mean that in the old bleeding-heart liberal sense...
...and in the more prospective sense that over the rest of this year and next year there will be thousands of black, Hispanic, and other minority youths who will go to jail because we failed politically to provide them with the opportunities that they need for education and jobs and health It is our obsession with building weapons and our willingness to cut domestic, people-oriented programs that create the political prisoners that Andy Young was referring to...
...This one might be called the Noble Savage model: Intergroup communication can also encourage relationships that build confidence and pride among women and minorities in their abilities and culturally diverse backgrounds and that foster the human-development definition of academic quality as the most an institution can do to help fully develop student potentials...
...Once we open ourselves to the knowledge of the life forms with which we share this planet, the old mind-think of patriarchal culture no longer holds as much power over us...
...Then they get the message that sex is good, which is exactly the message parents should be giving...
...I would not suggest a cause and effect relationship, but it seems to me unavoidable that one, let us say, encouraging condition for the rise of abstract expressionism as a major American art form in the 1950s was the professional memory of the persecution of artists who painted or wrote works that by whatever strain of meaning could be called "Communist" by some kook or crook in the anti-Communist industry Beyond the 1950s, of course, anti-Communism gave us the catastrophe of Vietnam, the tragic farce of Watergate If there is indeed something that can be reasonably called "Koreagate," it, too, is the creature of American anti-Communism...
...There are, indeed, political prisoners in the United States—in the literal sense, as with the Wilmington Ten, who rest now in jail in North Carolina...
...Alayne Yates, authoress of the somewhat unappealingly titled tome, Sex Without Shame: Q. Doctors Spock and Ginnot, America's most renowned child-rearing a.xperts, consider masturbation in kids as unhealthy...
...I have been known to talk with tree beings myself, and many other women I know also do so...
...Q. But won't encouraging sexual experimentation in the home lead to sibling incest...
...Frank Getlein, who, incidentally, worries about the mental stability of many of our national leaders: The blandness of the 1950s, so widely denounced in the 1960s, is an obvious response to the lesson of what happened to non-bland people in the purge...
...Speaker, I want to rise to commend Andrew Young for an honesty that this House and the other body could well emulate...
...Warren Beatty,' metaphysician: "Do you think that politics has just come down to people craving intriguing personalities...
...And you draw these conclusions from a lot of things In the long run what you're looking for in a politician is someone who's you know someone who's in the middle of his body...
...An average supporter of the political ambitions of George McGovern speaks her mind in the incomparable correspondence section of Ms.: I strongly object to the superficial, flippant tone of Lindsy Van Gelder's article, "Hot Off the Feminist Presses: New Journals" (November, 1977...
...If we can let a Nixon and a Kissinger and a Schlesinger and a Helms go untried for their lies to us concerning their murderous involvement in Vietnam, and yet prosecute and imprison people with Federal money for shoplifting and other silly violations, I think we have to recognize our political failing...
...A. That differs from child to child, of course...
...But sibling incest is probably quite common already and relatively normal in families today There's no evidence that this behavior causes abnormal emotional development...
...Q. When is the "right age" for kids to have intercourse...
Vol. 11 • October 1978 • No. 10
