Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Winnipeg Free Press An inspirational exchange of enlightened bromides between Dr. Donald M. Kendall, chairman and chief executive officer of Pepsico, and Mr. Juni B. Zhizhin, the...
...Karen Petrovich, Traverse City, Michigan [November 1977] San Francisco Chronicle The solemn judgment of Senator Lowell Weicker, public nuisance: "Governor Reagan is not the only prominent American to oppose the Panama Canal treaty...
...And then two more Nigras entered the natatorium, looked around, saw that tach lane had two swimmers except ours, which had two Nigras and one honky—and jumped into Ours...
...Saurbin, tells all: Dear Mother: I was a flower child, then a modest revolutionary...
...Otherwise I could not live...
...Bravo...
...Richard Dreyfuss, thespian and philosophe, describing the tastes and behavior of us intellectuals: "I always knew that I could be a star for this whole audience that didn't relate to John Wayne or Al Pacino," says Dreyfuss, "an urban, progressive, intellectually oriented audience, not too macho, people who read, people who listen to Paul Simon and Randy Newman...
...I just think it's time that white people had some representation on the city council...
...Zoological note gleaned from the correspondence section of Ms., the incomparable: Reading Carol Tavris's article, "The Sexual Lives of Women over 60" (July, 1977), had an effect on me that I did not anticipate: it made me horny...
...Brown was interested in the Arts...
...Another Nigra entered the natatorium, looked around, saw that each lane had two swimmers—and jumped into ours...
...This, he said, "is a petty, bullying assertion unworthy of a great power...
...The Maids of Melody was made up of 40 girls who gave concerts through-Out the state, including the Lions and Rotary clubs, under the direction of H. Grady Miller of High Point...
...One example is the multitude of petitions now circulating around the globe...
...Juni B. Zhizhin, the USSR's leading vodka tycoon, on the occasion of the signing of an agreement to increase the traffic in Pepsi Cola and Stolichnaya vodka between the famed superpowers: Improved ties help create a network of interlocking relations of mutual value and reduce the antagonism and suspicion which, in the past, permeated virtually ail East-West contacts after decades of mutual hostility...
...a beckoning to life and the future from the very depths of humanity...
...In short, I have sold out...
...Fall 1977] Ms...
...Harold Armstead Covington, esteemed commander of the Nazi Party of North Carolina, declares his idealistic candidacy for Mayor of modern-day Raleigh to an obviously hostile press: The bearded Covington, who said he had a job but would not identify his employer, said he was running to give a voice to whites in Raleigh...
...Brown, also a member of the Young Democrats, became interested in politics in 1972 at which time she worked in the headquarters of Gov...
...Ms...
...One of these, the Stockholm Appeal, has already been signed by over 300 million people, including 100 million in the Soviet Union...
...Undated, alas]Social Studies In Philosophy The incunabular yawp of an elegant and informed dissertation on the worst calamity to strike America since Solzhenitsyn influenza: A new term, "the new conservatism," has recently appeared in the American sociopolitical lexicon, The meaning given it does not resolve merely to a description of the current conservative trends in the United States (represented, for example, by George Wallace or Barry Goldwater), which until recently were termed neoconservative in the critical literature...
...This club was formed in January of this year and now has a membership of 44, 11 serving on the Guilford County executive committee...
...Fear not for the Republic...
...I am 34 years old...
...Before entering politics, Ms...
...till '72 I made my living selling an underground newspaper...
...The other day each of the six lanes had two swimmers in it, so I jumped into the handiest: Its two occupants were one white and one Nigra—the only Nigra in the pool...
...Milton Mayer, the Progressive's Roving Editor, makes another of those subtle points for which he is so justly celebrated: My club is crowded, and it is usually two to a lane...
...Connie Saurbin, wife of the fortunate Mr...
...Two Nigras, one honky...
...She co-chaired his campaign in 1976...
...Catching himself with alarm, he added, "don't put it in there that I'm comparing myself to Adolph Hitler...
...You've got a black, a Jew, a woman, an artsy-craftsy liberal from the university and a good old boy...
...Douglas Mattern, long-time paladin of peace and chairman of the World Citizens League, a vast, far-flung, unbelievably influential camorra of addlepates: Fortunately, there are signs of a new awakening...
...Connie Saurbin Safford, Arizona [November 1977] 38 The American Spectator March 1978...
...Look at the council now," Covington said...
...During this period of time she also served as a member of the Arts Council Board of Trustees...
...The term "new conservatism" was first employed in that sense by the American radical sociologist Michael Harrington in analyzing the evolution, in the realm of political ideas and social policy, of the views of such prominent bourgeois ideologists as Daniel Bell, Seymour Martin Lipset, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, and others...
...Many men and women of good sense, good will and honorable intent oppose it, and these include many of my colleagues in the Senate," he said...
...George Wallace...
...People like me...
...Miller recently composed a song to be presented to President Jimmy Carter via Senator Robert Morgan called "He's Our Man...
...May 27, 1977] Miscellaneous A confidential communique leaked from the office of the Active Democrats' Club of Greensboro, North Carolina, and delineating the astonishing rise of a modern political genius...
...Jimmy Green...
...June 1977}The New York Times Magazine Mr...
...But he found, he said, that their arguments generally were based on the fact that this nation should not "give away" something that the nation built, paid for and needs to keep...
...I have given up the hopes of the '60s because I don't want to "sleep on the floor...
...Why did they jump into ours, or, perhaps more suggestively, why did they have to jump into ours...
...Then the paper folded and so did I, ending up feeling suicidal in a state mental hospital...
...Why did both of them have to jump into ours...
...Kendall Let there be a Pepsi bottle on the table of every Soviet family, and let every American family adorn its table with a bottle of Stolichnaya...
...CURRENT WISDOM Winnipeg Free Press An inspirational exchange of enlightened bromides between Dr...
...Right now I'm going to school in the corrupt system so I can survive...
...But somewhere deep and dormant, the revolutionary lives, still looking for the right vehicle...
...January 15, 1978] Commonweal From unlikely parts, an auspicious development, spied by the intrepid Mr...
...She also worked in the headquarters of the election of Lt...
...October 4, 1977] Mother Jones Mrs...
...Brown wishes to announce that our next meeting of the Active Democrats' will be held at Nuckks Restaurant...
...It's a little tricky with three in a lane, but pretty soon the other honky got out and then there were two of us, the Nigra and I. But not for long...
...Brown was also soloist in the Fairview Moravian Church in Winston-Salem of which she and her husband, Bill, remain members and seldom miss the Lovefeast and Candlelight service on Christmas Eve...
...Covington said he would campaign on a "program of positive national socialism—sort of like the constructive things that Adolph Hitler did for Germany...
...That self has not totally surrendered...
...While in Winston-Salem, she was President of the Maids of Melody several years who spent their time at the Arts Center, rehearsing...
...I am married to a man who makes plenty of money...
...Along the way I have, learned a lot about my motivations, my hatred for the system and its lackeys...
...August 23, 1977] The Progressive While dipping his caucasian carcass in the swimming pool at the University of Louisville, Mr...
...Zhizhin [January 13, 1978] Raleigh [N.C.] News and Observer Mr...
...1) A number of American writers have begun to employ the term "new conservatism" in a narrower sense: to denote the evolution of the sociopolitical views of those ideologists of capitalist reformism who were, until recently, known as neoliberals...
...Help is on the way: Lettie June Brown, Chairman of Precinct 11 and who as a Delegate-alternate to the Democratic National Convention in '76, was elected President of the Active Democrats' Club held in December...
...The mayor's a businessman...
Vol. 11 • March 1978 • No. 5
