Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Time A comforting bull from the Secretary of State, Mr. Cyrus Vance, regarding the common decency of the Plains, Georgia, Miracle Man and Mr. Leonid Brezhnev, moderate...
...For the uninitiated, "Wacky Packs" are stickers such as my fouryear-old might paste on the fender of his bike...
...Then, with a stab, comes the single word "Vietnam...
...May 1978] The Nation Apowerful act of the imagination turns a review of a mediocre book about America inthe 1950s, The Great Fear, into obligatory reading for the Nation's dizzy throng: There follows, nevertheless, some 700 copious- ly footnoted pages delineating, in numbing detail, the American Gulagrosaic than , more p the Soviet version, but chilling enough in its vast scale, thoroughness, petty vindictiveness, and hypocrisy...
...Look at what we got...
...And, incidentally, the slogan on the sticker is historically absurd, linking "Hippies, Yippies, and Flippies" (what- ever they may be) with communists...
...Christ said this topeople who did not like his preaching: "Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape damnation of hell...
...Our , own mini-holocaust...
...From our study of the Nazis we have found that they were essentially normal, ordinary men...
...by Hans Askenasy [Lyle Stuart] The Progressive Mr...
...Why should the print media bepermitted to push a product the government deems dangerous...
...Fidel Castro: As a knee jerk liberal, I am of two minds about Cuba: I applaud the accomplishments of Castro's revolution but am uneasy about the absence of civil liberties...
...Then Crusades and the medieval centuries...
...they were made outcasts in their own neighborhoods....People were so frightened that they bought The Nation on the newsstand rather than risk...
...Nice gimmick, right...
...I exect that we are going to have some increased P efforts to deal with carcinogens...
...Both of them are strong men and have similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues...
...Apri 1 17 1978 ,] 42 The American Spectator June/ July 1978...
...So we begin with a paranoid schizophrenic, suffering from delusions and hallucinations, a vicious, hypocritical man unconcerned with social issues....Following the Prince of Peace came the appropriately named Dark Ages...
...I thinkyou will see some activities in the lawnmower area and upholstered furniture before theyear is up...
...Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, deceased and unavailable to defend his art since 1798: The healthiest environment for sexualgrowth is one thatprovides the richest possible banquet of experiences and models from which the individual can learn without fear of social censure...
...April 1, 1978] Bloomington [Indiana] Herald-Telephone Godfrey Sperling, liberal, lays down the limits of our First Amendment rights: Mr...
...And...we now know that those Nazis and these Americans,—which is to say you and I— for all our superficial differences such as time andplace, are, psychologically speaking, inter- changeable...
...March iApri 1 19781 Saturday Review The tough-minded William Cole speaks his mind aboutone of modern liberalism's most romantic gallants, Dr...
...Apri 122, 19781 New York Post Miss Harriet Van Horne, a professional hysteric, reviews the television presenta- tion "Holocaust": As we watch these brave decentpeople march to the showers—wherepoison gas came out of the spigot—and see the Nazis at their most bestial, we may think "Americans would never allow this sort of thing to happen...
...It was agorgeously romantic revolution, in which Castro, toquote one of his aides, showed "audacity, style, imagination"—qualities that are still on view, according to photojournalist Fred Ward's Inside Cuba Today...
...We are handling some of the defense work relating to aluminum wire and that isgoing to continue and probably be a resource consuming kind of activity for the nextyear or so...
...But without a movement all is chaos and contradictory response...
...Making the event even more memorable, Miss Davis revealed these thoughts in New York magazine's "Special Home-Furnish- in g Issue": I'm notpessimistic about change in this country...
...We will also be spending a substantial amount of resources in some areas like aluminum wiring...
...We have a tremendous amount of litigation right now in the aluminum wire area...
...But I try to find joy in personal existence because it's necessary to energize oneself....Many people think this system can no longer work for them...
...Here it seems relevant to ask whether it isn't time tout an end to all such advertising...
...Hans Askenasy, the latest onferan orator to hit the campus lecture circuit: The asinine and hypocritical inanities of a William Buckley, perpetually inebriated by his own verbosity, are due not to ignorance but to defective moral development...
...Califano'splan would (a) emphasize the dissemination of information about the dangers of smoking and (b) place a further curb on tobacco advertising...
...Lest we for et he was elected twice—the second time by a historic landslide...
...February 6 1978 ,) New York Prettily put prodigies of radical thought from Angela Davis, "black communist...
...getting it in the mail...
...Flabbergasted, I sent off a note to Shedd's, and received a speedy reply...
...April24, 1978] District of Columbia Bar Journal A forward-looking moment with Theodore J. Garrish, Es q., the articulate general counsel of the United States Consumer ProductSafety Commission: Principally, I think it is going to be in the rule making area...
...People weren't .shipped off to the wastes of Siberia...
...If each individual is free tot according to his or her sense of sexual identity, preference, and role, then men and women will be truly able to express who they are...
...February 1978] The Great Books Series Stirring passages culled from Are 1Ve All Nazis?, a book of popcorn psychology written by Prof...
...And so on down to the Nazis and us...
...Bryant Avery, managing editor of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, informs agape readers of the Progressive about yet another stimulant to his concern, to wit: Shedd's Food Products, makers of Shedd's infamous peanut butter: Recently, Shedd's has been using a marketing gimmick: If you buy their five-pound plastic pail of peanut better, you also receive two free "Wacky Packs" inside...
...I've been wondering what other littlegoodies are being distributed to our heirs...
...In order to live agood life and make some intel- lectual andpolitical contributions I had to rid myself of paranoia....Having grown into a movement, my life is tied up with struggle...
...Are We All Nazis...
...I'm convinced that this country will one day be socialist....I have no bodyguard...
...As for Richard Nixon, let mejust say that he is by all objective measures a textbook psycho- pathic criminal whose misfortune was to have been born in a democratic country...
...Then Luther and witch trials...
...Which is food for thought...
...One of the things that is going to come up is our sleepwear modifications which will be changes in the sleepwear stan- dard...
...right-wing crack otter that defines itself as uardian of Our Way...
...I also related it to the g ideological insanity that led us to rain death and destruction upon Indochina...
...Leonid Brezhnev, moderate Stalinist: When the two men eventually sit down together, they will get along well...
...Wrong...
...The thrust of my complaint was that the label for "Extra Strong Commie Cleanser" obviously re- inforces the kind of bigotry most of us call McCarthyism—that persistent strain of U.S...
...NW are going to have increased activity in regulations of chronic hazards...
...April14, 1978] The Humanist Another laugh on poor Sr...
...I realize that the whole thing may have been intended as a joke, but it isn't funny...
...Since "Wacky Packs" are made by Topps Chewing Gum, Inc...
...His opponent apparently had the misfortune to have been decent...
Vol. 11 • June 1978 • No. 8
