The Grantsy
Nollson, John
"The Grantsy" George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey seem positively stodgy and middle-of-the-road. And when they trimmed their own locks and put on neckties, a number of the kids themselves found acceptance in the...
...And these are but a few of the characters who come to palpitating, pulsating, percolating, purposeless life in the new Robbins Blockbuster...
...The next has the same group of men, still on the river, clustered around a large, circular wooden structure which the caption indicates is a saloon...
...The soft-drink stand and delicatessen were unceremoniously closed and the Phoenix Hill Brewery became a cemetery...
...Find the square root of it...
...Subtract it.Multiply it...
...His compatriot, Erika Huggins, is a California school-board member...
...Read it...
...Speaking of what he calls George Jackson's "assassination" (Jackson's the one who was shot by guards after he and his fellow inmates killed five people while trying to escape from prison), Julian Bond says "it was the expected outcome of his constant attacks on a vicious system which was unable to crush his spirit or his body...
...It was after Prohibition that James "Cap" Cunningham purchased the stable...
...Lawrence, the Lecherous Linguist—who knew how to talk a great game of grantsmanship, but whose transformationalgrammar could not parse THE GRANTSY...
...We were against Nixon, reasoned the kids, Nixon was bad, ergo we were right all along...
...The final, triumphant photograph shows several of the men, glasses in gloved hands, setting out for the Indiana shore, despite the inclement conditions of the day...
...Divide it...
...Bernadine Dohrn, who once said of the Sharon Tate murders, "Dig it, first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach—wild...
...Live it...
...Being the gregarious sort of fellow that he was, it was only natural for Cap to encourage his friends to frequent his new establishment...
...As a former captain of police, Cap felt perfectly comfortable with any of a number of socially undesirable people...
...Find it...
...Farley, the Felonious Philosopher—Who knew how the forces of free will and determinism struggled for possession of his soul...
...Though for the less spirited, tall thin slicks of beer can be had...
...Of course, this is at the expense of one's pride and a typical waiter's barbed wit...
...Toni, the Tyrolian Typologist—he knew the surfaces of the female form like nobody's business, but whose business got him no body, when he tangentially tiptoed too tentatively toward the top ticket, THE GRANTSY...
...Never mind that they still cling to their leftist notions—the visible fact that Bill Kunstler now drives a CB-equipped auto or that Jane Fonda appears on the cover of McCall's is somehow soothing to the public...
...they had, the symbolic greatness of the act would have passed unheralded in this day and age...
...Established in 1870, four years before Aristedes won the first running of the Kentucky Derby, Cunningham's has had a colorful if not shady past...
...The old neighborhood has had its face lifted too many times, but Cunningham's faithfully bespeaks Louisville's past...
...More than a saloon, it stands as an object lesson in the social and political history of Louisville, Kentucky...
...Take, for instance, the case of the Black Panthers...
...And when they trimmed their own locks and put on neckties, a number of the kids themselves found acceptance in the system: Chicago Seven defendant John Froines is working for the government (appropriately enough, for OSHA), as is former campus activist Sam Brown...
...What you dream about, they do...
...Knowing many of his friends' penchant for privacy and low visibility, Cap thoughtfully kept the horse stalls in place in the course of further renovating the stable...
...Angela Davis, self-styled disciple of Mao and Marcuse, has been teaching a course called "The Female Condition: Search fora Marxist Approach" at Stanford University...
...Do it...
...Unfortunately, a federal agent caught one of these drinks and, upon sampling it, noted that its contents were not exactlysoft...
...At this time the front half of the hayloft became Cap's office while the remainder was revamped in a fashion similar to that on the first floor...
...All this in spite of the fact that the Panthers openly admit that they still believe in arming the black community against the police, that they are still committed to their old goals of "full employment first, socialism later...
...and Tom Hayden has just finished a moderately successful run for the U.S...
...Taste it...
...THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES by James P. Melling H Louisville's Cunningham's Cunningham's is Louisville's anachro- nism, having survived more than its share of urban-renewal projects...
...Who knew that he struggled to resolve the unbearable theological tension with the cold cash of THE GRANTSY...
...Repackaged and resold, the politics and ethics of the sixties radicals are gaining wider acceptance...
...Shallow argument that—but effective...
...His friends seemed to be drawn from a lot of politicians, baseball players from the Louisville Colonels, burlesque queens, or racehorse players...
...This painting had strangely disappeared from the courthouse the day Cap ventured into another realm of public service...
...The Harold Robbins people...
...Melton concluded that what he needed was a fine Pilsener to complement his edibles...
...Increasingly, the subversive acts of the sixties are glorified and spokesmen apologize for the system...
...Soon to be a major motion picture...
...Weigh it...
...to unilaterally disarm, there is growing evidence of what Harvard sociologist David Riesman calls "the new vanity of believing that America is the worst among nations and that we [must]search to locate the worst villains within that worst America...
...I doubt that any of today's patrons considered moving a saloon on the Ohio River when it froze last winter...
...Feel it...
...Taken by R.G...
...Being a clever and flexible fellow, Melton promptly turned his delicatessen and bar into a delicatessen and soft-drink stand...
...It's too bad he wasn't right...
...The Chicago 7, the Harrisburg 7, the Camden 17, the Seattle 7, the Kansas City 4, the Evanston 4, and the Gainesville 8 are all free...
...Bran Brenton, with two monotonous monographs to his mention, seeks to crash the big time, the world of the formless, fornicating, formica foundations, there to contest for the grandest of grand prizes, THE GRANTSY...
...Watergate also helped the revolution, the disgrace of Richard Nixon giving all who opposed him an air of undeserved sanctity...
...Harris, the Hermaphroditic Historian—his poor past and impecunious present were all contained in his fecund future, with THE GRANTSY...
...Anthony, the Androgynous Anthropologist—who went this way and that way, until he found the only way, to THE GRANTSY...
...This huge schooner has since become the trademark of the hearty beer-drinker at Cunningham's...
...Besides, it was the only opportunity many city officials would have to see the painting of George Washington that once hung in the Jefferson County Courthouse...
...Soon to be a 26-part series on National Public Television...
...but if James P. Melling II is a graduate student in public affairs at Indiana University...
...Sheldon, the Soporific Sociologist—too sleepy to shake up his discipline, too mesmerized by the fame and fortune of THE GRANTSY...
...THE GRANTSY...
...Add it...
...Soon to be serialized in Newsweek...
...During Prohibition, the old stable was rented to a charming lady who was known to many Louisvillians as Miss Polly...
...It echoes the days when it was possible to visit a barber and not only have your hair clipped instead of styled, but if you so desired have your face shaved by a man who was more comfortable with his razor than without it...
...It bids fair to lay bare the brusque burlesque of the dollared donors...
...Drink it...
...Beatrice, the Beautiful Biologist—ready to do anything, even to offer up her sleek, slithering, slim, slender, sassy, seething, sensual—and all-around yummy—body in her sensuous quest for THE GRANTSY...
...Shmuel, the Schlemiel of a Mathematician—though he knows he doesn't have a Chinaman's chance, he yields to his mother's endless nagging, and seeks THE GRANTSY...
...He then partitioned each of these into separate, single-party dining rooms...
...Potter in 1893, the first shows a group of men in top hats and greatcoats standing on the frozen Ohio River with the new "Big Four" railroad bridge and the city of Jeffersonville, Indiana, in the background...
...Not long after, Mr...
...The ceaseless struggle for THE GRANTSY...
...In a sterling diplomatic gesture, they are about to share the warmth of what must be a tumbler of bourbon with their Indiana neighbors...
...Nothing better conveys the spirit of the place than a series of photographs affixed to the wall of the back bar...
...Senate...
...It is said that Miss Polly ran a not so proper but very profitable boarding house until the national sickness was cured...
...she now lives in Los Angeles and is rumored to be a friend of Jerry Brown...
...The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out," lamented Oscar Wilde once...
...Warren Kimbro, a former Panther who admitted murdering Alex Rackley and was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, is Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Eastern Connecticut State College...
...I t's here...
...Arthur, the Asexual Actuary—he knew all the hot numbers and always got them to add up, until the hot numbers were cooled off when he failed to win THE GRANTSY...
...Gregg, the Gorgeous Geometer—who knew all the angles, and angled for the greatest angle of them all, THE GRANTSY...
...Cyrena, the Scatological Sculptress—who carried the scent of the sordid sculpture once paid for by THE GRANTSY...
...A Literary Guild Selection...
...And doing it for you, like it's never been done, because nobody does it better, are: Henry, the Handsome Heuristic Hotshot—who was primed to push modal logic to the limits of lasciviousness, but who froze in the face of the existential predicaJohn Nollson The Grantsy ment, the competition for THE GRANTSY...
...The new breathy, bristly, brash, brawny, bruising, braless novel by Harold Robbins—the book that lays open the busty, lusty world of scholar and patron...
...Trade remained brisk with Melton sliding more and more soft drinks down his long mahogany bar...
...Also, a small bar was added in the rear of the building where the black26 The American Spectator April 1978...
...It's a foul and flip fast-footed foundation fillip, a flim-flam fleecing for the fulsome funds, the chance of a lifetime to turn the world of scholarship on its head...
...The first owner of the saloon was a young butcher named Melton who bought the old red stable at the corner of Fifth and Breckenridge and transformed the front room into a sandwich shop (the rear half of the building continued to serve as a blacksmith shop, while the hayloft was left untouched...
...With Senator Church indicating he thinks the CIA is a greater threat to the nation than the KGB, and Paul Warnke, our SALT negotiator, urging the U.S...
...Buy it...
...And excerpts will be among the reading comprehension questions on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...Outwardly, they have mellowed: Instead of wearing berets and threatening to bomb New Haven, they are now providing free lunches for black children in Berkeley...
...Brian de Bois-Gilbert—he almost ran off with the beautiful Jewess in Sir Walter The American Spectator April 1978 25 Scott's unforgettable tale, Ivanhoe, and now he's back to judge the medieval studies competition for THE GRANTSY...
...Elaine Brown, who headed the Panther party while Huey Newton sojourned in Cuba, was until recently an advisor to Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson...
...On television, Dick Cavett tells Jane Fonda that he's sorry if he ever gave her a hard time in the past, that we all realize now she was right about the war from the beginning...
...has not been apprehended, but her pursuers, the FBI, are under investigation for illegally-used wiretaps...
...The sandwich shop flourished, the blacksmith shop closed, and the Congress took a fated step backwards when it passed the Prohibition Act...
...The Phoenix Hill Brewery, in this period of the pencil-thin mustache, was able to provide the necessary libations as well as introduce Louisvillians to the Hoffman House...
Vol. 11 • April 1978 • No. 6
