Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Boston Globe The timelessness of art, elegantly demonstrated by the distinguished Mr. Kevin Kelly while reviewing a recent production of Shakespeare's Richard III: Richard is a...
...A great nation can not indulge itself in muddled moralizing...
...But perhaps the founders of the dream, who taught us to aspire to peace and decency and justice and self-government, had something else in mind...
...Donald L. Dudley and the celebrated Elton Welke in New Woman, a promising organ of feminist Weltansicht, available at Kroger stores all over the Republic: What about the healthy 10 percent who do not become ill or suffer accidents even when they experience many life changes within a short period of time...
...Parts IV and V analyze specific forms of oppression (inequality, sexism, racism, economic crises, imperialism) in the U.S...
...In the midst of howling cruelty, he is able to dictate silence and, in the silence, he hobbles with a beckoning, if ruthless charm...
...But sometimes powerful guilt feelings are pushed far beneath the layers of our conscious thinking....If you have done something morally or ethically wrong, accept it—and forget it...
...The media would have you believe that murder is the stuff of junkies and counter-cultural madmen...
...It is not just a matter of imperialistic wars or the treatment of human labor as expendable commodity...
...Doug Ireland, eloquent political observer and poet for New York magazine: Carter has more blacks and women in his administration than in any other, but how much influence do they have when he tells us poor women can't have abortions because "life is unfair" ? [October 3, 1977] New Woman Beyond Christian Science with Dr...
...Even terrorists in West Germany, he suggested, are a "counter-reaction" to a "collapse of values...
...Most of us fall somewhere between in the number of coping behaviors we utilize...
...today...
...war in Vietnam, President Nixon's disgrace over Watergate, bribery by the Lockheed corporation, CIA assassination attempts and what he said was a U.S.-promoted arms race...
...A great nation preaches democracy and, if necessary, practices homicide...
...A good nation would have no work for agents who despise its noblest goals...
...November 12, 1977] Family Health / Today's Health Another inspirational disquisition on modern morality from a rigorist learned in the ways of the National Mental Health Association: Knowing how to handle excessive and inappropriate guilt can help you avoid mental suffering, emotionally induced illness, and even tragedy...
...Part III explains and evaluates the workings of the contemporary stage of capitalism in the United States—monopoly capitalism...
...October 9, 1977] The Progressive Exigent speculations on "the founders of the dream" presumably by the pious inhabitants thereof: Can we, then, abolish the CIA...
...October 1977] Psychology Today The memoir of one of America's most tireless pests, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., suitably reviewed with vaseline and bromide by Miss Maggie Scarf, the celebrated authoress of Body, Mind, Behavior: Thus while Once to Every Man is what one would imagine it to be—an account of the panoramic social events in which Yale's former chaplain played so central and dramatic a role—there is another, subtler story here as well...
...And then your thoughts may track back to Nixon, Hitler, Caligula...The past is indeed prologue...
...CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe The timelessness of art, elegantly demonstrated by the distinguished Mr...
...Perhaps they were thinking of a good nation...
...Because of his personal stature and the presidential confidence he obviously enjoys—and, yes, because of his outspokenness and the color of his skin—he is the right man in the right job at the right time...
...Sean MacBride, ex-warrior for the Irish Republican Army and lifelong advocate of peace through terrorism: Sean MacBride, the United Nations high commissioner for Namibia, was typical of the sentimental leftists, Gaullists and Communists who dominated the 18-hour talkathon here...
...The capitalist system is terrorism," he said, "and the people are forced to take up arms and revolt against the system...
...Murder is the stuff of commerce...
...August 1977] 38 The American Spectator January 1978...
...This second edition of THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM will give your students a strong background in the Marxist perspective on the American Capitalist System...
...There is, he asserted, "an enormous and complete collapse of public and private morality" that began with the Nazi extermination of the Jews...
...The material thus provides students with a valuable balance to the more traditional material widely used...
...It is the tale of one of our great dissenters, dealing not only with social injustices but also with those inner imperatives that propel one forward into a revision of priorities, into a shifting sense of self, into growth...
...November 20, 1977] Mother Jones Wise counsel from Hugh Drummond, M.D., a regular feature of the illustrious Mother Jones: What are the forces that have caused our cities to be so unhealthy...
...Since then, he cited the U.S...
...An extensive bibliography is provided for those interested in further reading...
...And the realists may be right about what a great nation must do and be...
...these people never get sick...
...The Washington Post Reporting on a highfalutin international powwow held to grumble over democracy's future, the redoubtable Post of greater Washington quotes the Rt...
...November/December 1977] Miscellaneous From a sales brochure printed and mailed by the prospering capitalists at Prentice-Hall, Inc., we reprint the following bilge booming a stupendous new college textbook for all aspiring young bomb-throwers, urban guerrillas, and other auspicious products of American higher education: Updating their highly successful first edition, Edwards, Reich and Weisskopf present a new collection of controversial articles written by contemporary American authors—a collection that not merely criticizes capitalism, but analyzes it in great detail from both theoretical and historical perspectives, and considers alternatives to it...
...Part II lays the basic theoretical groundwork for a Marxist analysis of capitalist society...
...June 19, 1977] The New Republic Ken Bode, politics editor of the New Republic, reveals a faith to believe almost anything: I think Andy Young will turn out to be President Carter's best appointment...
...Some people rely on only one or two coping behaviors and are sick all the time...
...Capitalism kills...
...Part VI explores the authors' vision of a socialist alternative to capitalism and considers some of the possible strategies for achieving such a society in the context of the traditions of American society...
...The answer is—coping behaviors...
...In examining the current situation, these chapters seek to throw light on potential contradictions that are likely to shape future changes in the capitalist system...
...July 1977] New York Pretty letters from Mr...
...A few individuals display a near fathomless ability to cope with life changes...
...The essential explanation for why life changes induce illness is that life changes require one to adapt to or cope with a stressful life event...
...Unlike most other collections of readings, THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM, SECOND EDITION is tightly woven together into a cohesive and highly readable whole by the authors' entirely new introductions to the book, to the chapters, and to the individual readings...
...And what about the 33 percent who don't get sick...
...Kevin Kelly while reviewing a recent production of Shakespeare's Richard III: Richard is a warped personality but his evil is seductive enough to make even his worst enemies forgive him, at least temporarily, which is long enough for him to knot his malevolence into a tight shroud...
...It is so vastly mistaken a way to organize human behavior that its cancerous costs are almost as great for the higher classes as for the lower...
...It is not true...
...Part I illustrates briefly but vividly some of the forms of oppression that are so prevalent and so intractable in the United States today...
...The liberals inside the corporations and banks, as well as the liberals outside of them, and the Fascists and Communists, and the doctors and the lawyers and the generals, and the freaks and the bums are all being diseased by corporate behavior...
...November 1977] The New York Times Book Review Godfrey Hodgson reveals one of those recondite truths available only to the practitioner of the inverted insight, the reasoning process by which left-liberals approach truth by rigorously denying ordinary logic, plain fact, and common sense: The great irony of the Nixon years is that the Administration and its conservative friends succeeded in persuading a large part of the American people that the country was threatened by ideologically blinkered desperadoes of the Left, when the real danger was from ideologically blinkered desperadoes of the Right...
...Of course not, the realists tell us: A great nation must protect its interests by any means at hand...
...Consider Idi Amin...
Vol. 11 • January 1978 • No. 3
