Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Chicago Reader Some very thoughtful and salutary ruminations on the metaphysique of nosiness from Dr. John Milward, the noted Chicago intellectual: Feminists might balk at my...
...Liberals and radicals should be protected by libel principles in situations where conservatives would not be...
...America continues to unfold miracles: Jerry Green is typical of a generation that needs to reconcile its political passions and material wants...
...The Burger Court has (at least theoretically) endorsed the Warren Court's role as sentinel to protect the rights of powerless minorities against majority abridgment...
...September 7, 1978] New York Daily News The inexorable grind of one formidable cerebrum, namely: the topmost organ of Pete Hamill, excited this time by fiscal horror: And Carter must know that he has made a mess of everything...
...Who is going to protect them from a Supreme Court that stunts their growth by legally sanctioning radio and TV censorship and a programmed picture of adults as people who talk and act like children except when they smoke, get drunk or beat up each other...
...September 1978] The American Spectator November 1978 41...
...The men are taken to the supermarket and afterwards must prepare dinner...
...To do his bit for efficiency, as well as his pocketbook, Green wants to help doctors and patients untangle their disagreements by preparing contracts for them that will spell out their mutual responsibilities...
...And who is going to protect us all from a Supreme Court that in recent years has intruded more and more into the privacy of the home, telling us what we as adults can read, watch and hear...
...Who is going to protect them from a Supreme Court that says it's moral and virtuous to act one way in private and lie up the a-- about it in public or the media...
...The students also participate in a number of smaller group projects...
...In the city of Washington, they spend $1.24 million on mansions for generals and admirals...
...Those pills don't cure the real malaise, which is feeling unequal, that leads to depression and anxiety...
...Three wars happened...
...I thought everyone would be a lot better looking than they actually turned out to be," Daniel Crowe, a junior communications major, said...
...In this context, Patti Smith's rape and pillage of stereotyped male roles and Fleetwood Mac's tempered sexual democracy become as significant as the next ERA vote...
...They spend $48.4 million a year for our 143 military bands around the world...
...The music business may have indeed placed women artists in designated roles, but by consistently chipping away at those roles in the public marketplace, our most vital female performers are finally breaking down the sexist assumptions upon which articles like this are based...
...August 1978]Rolling Stone An editorial writer at the renowned Rolling Stone lays down a line of reasoning guaranteed to test the attention span of the most assiduous Talmudic scholar, a world chess champion, or even the genius now resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Once again, the Supreme Court, that patently offensive gang of arthritic perverts, has condemned all Americans to years of gutter hypocrisy for the original sin of acting like human beings...
...They build three nuclear bombs a day, to add to our stockpile of 30,000 such bombs (enough to destroy every Soviet city 30 times...
...Before he can plumb the commercial potential of this scheme, however, he must hurdle one obstacle: money...
...The room also seemed a lot larger when I was blindfolded...
...But who is going to protect children from a Supreme Court that teaches them to be ashamed of their natural bodies and their natural language...
...Green no longer believes capitalism is responsible for the evils of war and poverty...
...These people are eating $130 billion a year out of the American economy...
...Nonverbal communication is the only class that combines both of these functions, Rini said...
...They're students in Nonverbal Communications 330, taught by Dr...
...The law should not always be equal or "neutral...
...In libel cases, if not in libel law, liberals have often been in a disadvantaged position and radicals invariably SO...
...all he has to do is look across town at the Pentagon...
...If one believes that feminism is the most potent cultural movement of the past decade, then pop music can be seen as an artistic barometer of the social change...
...They spend these hours preparing and eating dinner, and participating in a number of touching exercises in which they feel the hands of the other group members to determine the emotions of the person...
...The left brain performs the analytic functions and the right controls a person's feelings and emotions...
...As Ronald Dworkin has cogently argued in the Bakke situation, inequality to enhance human dignity is permissible...
...In one of these projects, known as Mirror-Mirror, students are required to evaluate parts of their bodies and get an evaluation from another person, Malandro said...
...May 11, 1978] Psychology Today The biography of another American giant presented to the credulous readers of Psychology Today for their amazement and for Psychology Today's profit...
...Loretta Malandro and assisted by 40 teaching assistants...
...Presently, ASU is the only school in the United States that teaches nonverbal communication by using experimental settings as opposed to the traditional classroom, Malandro said...
...August 11, 1978] State Press A thrilling report on progress in the heuristic arts at Arizona State University, to whose venerable campus newspaper, State Press, all mankind is indebted: More than 300 ASU students spend their Thursday nights pretending they're blind, speechless or members of the opposite sex...
...April 5, 1978] The Nation Cool ratiocinations of another freedom-loving liberal, writing to warn us of the repressive uses of libel law—and we all know how often the left is harassed by libel suits nowadays: ...I would argue what may seem to be a startling proposition...
...He made the transition into the 705 with courses in Rolling and massage...
...Rather he believes these problems, such as medical malpractice suits, are a result of mismanaged human relationships...
...The military-industrial complex, as President Eisenhower called it, grabbed off a major hunk of American life...
...If anything shows us that we desperately need an Equal Rights Amendment, it is this epidemic of women's reliance on drugs...
...And those are just small items...
...Rolling Stone agrees that government has an obligation to protect children in truly harmful situations where the little f---ers lack the strength, wisdom or guidance to protect themselves...
...As part of the sex-reversal evening, students must dress as a member of the opposite sex, Kent said...
...Last month the court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission was correct in its threat to silence New York radio station WBAI-FM after it broadcast George Carlin's recording, "Filthy Words...
...This helped him to realign both his physique and his political opinions...
...At the end of the evening, the students' blindfolds are removed and they see each other for the first time...
...The worst mess of all is an economy that permits the 70-cent ice cream Cone_ What happened...
...Something like this has occurred in recent times (quite belatedly), and we all are grateful that not only Elmer Gertz but John Henry Faulk and Quentin Reynolds were treated as "deserving" plaintiffs...
...Malandro's program encourages students to gain a sense of self-awareness, Kent Rini, a graduate assistant for the class, said...
...But this argument seems at worst to be reactionary, and at best to simply ignore the cultural power of pop music...
...August 2, 1978] The Progressive The Progressive speculates on a shocking possibility: To speculate on the motives of the men in the Kremlin is always hazardous, but a line of conjecture suggests itself: It is plausible to suppose that the Soviets have concluded that they have nothing to gain at this point from a SALT II agreement—that a new treaty, under the terms on which Washington is insisting, would in fact work to the military advantage of the United States, and to the detriment of Soviet security...
...On the blind evening, the students are blindfolded before seeing each other and taken to one of the graduate assistant's apartments to spend five sightless hours, Malandro said...
...In the 60s, the 34-year-old, bespectacled lawyer studied legal-aid systems, took on public-interest cases, and was occasionally tear-gassed in street demonstrations...
...The purpose of the entire class is to coordinate the student's left brain with their right brain," she said...
...May 20, 1978] Chicago Sun-Times Another powerful lucubration from the lovely and eloquent Betty Friedan, chief theoretician for the women of the fevered brow: Women are seduced into taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills to relieve their tensions...
...Carter doesn't have to look very far to discover the causes of inflation...
...John Milward, the noted Chicago intellectual: Feminists might balk at my orientation toward nationally known artists, arguing that women recording and performing on a regional level can more effectively document their own world view...
Vol. 11 • November 1978 • No. 11