Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Magazine A mysterious missive, allegedly sent to the Times Magazine by our President's chief interpreter: "Carter Agonistes," by Eugene Kennedy (Aug. 5), which...
...Why don't you and I, who elected "Jimmy Who" give him our support-write to the members of Congress, to the media and ask them to listen with the president to what we have to say...
...People know they are being ripped off, but there's no consensus on what should be done...
...Washington: An Insider's Game," by John Herbers in The New York Times Magazine...
...August 11-18, 1979] Pravda La Fonda, embalmed by Mr...
...There is no shortage of energy supplies at all...
...In the energy area there are two: immediate reimposition of price controls and an American energy corporation structured something like the Tennessee Valley Authority, only more open and accountable...
...Sure...
...Why then, does he not receive the support of Congress and the media...
...For those readers who, correctly, suspect that the President's comments were based on other than personal musings and misgivings, may I suggest a sampling of writings on this subject which the President found relevant: "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism," by Daniel Bell...
...William Sloane Coffin, Jr., takes a dive into the ontologkal occult: Q: Is there a way in which we can develop our spiritual selves...
...1, Higly Hill Rd., Wilmington, VT 05363 [July/August 1979] Rolling Stone An interview with an American aya-tollah, Mr...
...A cheer for the representative who had the personal integrity and courage to dress comfortably in the oppressive atmosphere of the House...
...Look at the sun, wind and biomass...
...September 1979] The Nation The wowser Alan Wolfe looks up from the sad debauchery that is Amerika and laments once more the Nixon-Kissinger cabal: They never defeated their enemy in Cambodia, but they did manage to destroy much of what is decent about the United States, including its (somewhat) independent press, its separation of powers and whatever humane values it had left...
...Ellen was right...
...A tie is a useless, nonfunctional piece of synthetic cloth that is supposed to reflect the pomp of monarchy and privilege, whether it is bought in Brooks Brothers or one of the more brightly lighted clothing distribution centers...
...Why is he held to blame for the energy problems and inflation which he inherited with the office...
...Press Secretary to the President Washington, D.C...
...She is like Joan of Arc, and they are threatening her with the same fate...
...It is the most powerful defense of this great man that we have ever read in all Christendom: Editor, News Press: Mr...
...August 19, 1979] The New York Post The Rev...
...The Future," by John Maynard Keynes in "Essays in Persuasion...
...The Culture of Narcissism," by Christopher Lasch...
...September/October 1979] The Boston Globe From the correspondence section of the dangerously Jacobin Boston Globe come audacious musings from behind the sartorial barricades: Bouquets and kisses to Ellen Goodman for her July 31 column riposting men's ties and other overdressing, and hisses and boos to Tip O'Neill for diminishing the image of Speaker of the House...
...See, any social movement not only has to have an organizational instrument, not only has to have organizers, but has to have a relatively clear objective that is meaningful...
...They are manipulating the production of gasoline and home heating fuel, but as long as they can say, "It's the loss of Iranian oil, that's what started all the ratchet effect," then they think they can get away with it, because they've got Schlesinger and Carter in Washington and they're not going to be challenged...
...They are getting away with it right now...
...August23, 1979] The Santa Barbara News-Press After years of irresponsibly lampoon...
...Who, among the media, "that makes no moral judgments," will stand up and be counted in his support...
...August 9, 1979] The New York Review of Books Another red-hot Christian homily from the Rev...
...Write: Mike Moone, PO Box 940, Morro Bay, CA 93442 (805) 772-2096 DEDICATED FEMALE vegetarian-28 years old-wants/needs to devote life towards liberating animals from all forms of abuse...
...I love the beach and sunshine and visits to fruit orchards and other trips that are simple...
...Crude oil stocks are higher now than sixteen, eighteen months ago...
...August 14, 1979] Mother Jones A stupefying manifesto judiciously issued in Mother Jones' buxom pages: The time is now ripe for another upheaval in organized labor and the overthrow of the labor-fakers who share the bedrooms of the corporate bosses...
...The refineries are operating at only eighty-four to eighty-five percent capacity...
...September 27, 1979...
...That's what the oil companies need as a pretext to put in motion their system of manipulating shortages...
...tour and to extend to them a word of kindness and love...
...Goals and Attitudes," an essay by Henry Ford 2d in The St...
...The natural beauty and artistic talent which Mother Nature bestowed on Jane Fonda would seem to mean a cloudless life for the Hollywood star....But she, who was to be the idol of the American philistines, refused to conform to the Hollywood mold...
...John Kenneth Gal-braith, Pastor of the Church of the Good Galoot and Noble Pauper, Cambridge, Mass...
...ing the Genius of Campaign '76, we hereby retreat from the field, admitting for all time that we were wrong...
...If you know of work available toward this goal or if you share my deepest concern for animal rights, please contact me...
...Will the oil companies get away with it...
...You believe it was provoked by the oil companies as part of their campaign to get decontrol and higher prices...
...September 13, 1979] Vegetarian Times Two dynamic Americans reveal themselves in the classified section of Vegetarian Times, the magazine for those who would live to be a thousand and never suffer acidosis, priapism, or the common cold: FRUITARIAN MALE, 32, wants to find female fruitarian or raw vegie...
...He has taken his case to "We, the People...
...Why not, a movement to save the president and the future of our nation...
...B. Bart-ley, R.D...
...European address: Gstaad, Switzerland): For the free market purist, the poor do not count...
...That's what Jesus did, says the Rev...
...Every time you see a disturbance overseas in an oil country, watch out...
...Not only are they getting away with it, but they are getting away with something more serious, which is the near doubling of home-heating fuel prices in one year...
...A caring person who loves just being together is most important...
...Human Conditions for a Good Society," an essay by Robert Bellah in The St...
...Here in California we back every cause from saving the whales to safeguarding the environment for the future...
...Will relocate for work...
...Kennedy condemns in the same article...
...It may be through music...
...A Collision of Ethics and Econom ics," by Albert Sommers in Across the Board...
...Ralph Nader, presented as religious fare for the perfervid palm-sweaters at Rolling Stone: Do you think the gasoline shortage is a hoax...
...Democracy in America," particu larly sections in which de Tocqueville warns of the problems of affluence...
...Of course, neither the President nor any of these writers will be found in com plete agreement on causes, definitions or remedies of the problem...
...Carter was elected to the office of president by those who voted for him and by default by those who neglected to exercise their privilege to vote...
...If there are other and better suggestions to correct these problems, why are they not advanced to help the president in his effort to help the country...
...American Politics: Then and Now," by James Q. Wilson in Commentary...
...V. Krivchin, the Joseph Kraft of Soviet journalism: The name Jane Fonda is now on all the blacklists of America The Pentagon, CIA, FBI, all are vigilantly watching her...
...Joseph L. Powell Jr...
...Why when "they" have used every means to put him down, have they raised the question of his mental and physical ability to cope, without proper cause...
...He is the president of all the people...
...It is also a very crude and non-artistic phallic symbol and I believe that millions of females have chuckled about this during the past few centuries...
...Kennedy's analy sis...
...Morale," by John Gardner...
...We suggest you visit an area ol female prostitution-actually walking the streets there, meeting with persons face to face-and issuing a brief statement," Genska said in a letter to the Pope...
...August 8, 1979] Self During a historic interview with Self magazine, the Rev...
...Why does everyone overlook his achievements-the Panama Canal Treaty...
...A Platform for the 1980's," by Charles Peters in The Washington Monthly...
...peace in the Middle East...
...5), which concludes that the President's comments about a crisis of the spirit and of confidence in the future stem from "echoes of his own profoundly troubled spirit," seems to fall into the category of "amateur theorizing of the psychohistorians" and "clinical guesses made at a distance" which Mr...
...Louis Post-Dispatch...
...What follows is an epistolary defense of Mr...
...and the re-establishment of relations with China...
...Professor Milton Friedman, the acknowledged leader of the free market convocation, is not a thoughtfully hard-hearted man...
...COFFIN: The important thing is to liberate yourself out of the tomb of yourself...
...Carter that sobered us up and showed us the light...
...Why do not the programs he suggests to help correct these issues have the support of the Congress...
...The use of high prices to deny gasoline and heat to the low-income family is, for him as for his communicants, a technical matter devoid of moral content...
...Depaul A. Genska, and he says that for the Pope to do so would manifest Jesus' love "again in our time...
...However, it is not unreasonable to suppose that some familiarity with the substantial body of serious literature on the subject might have enlightened Mr...
...I cannot believe that an Irish politician would show subservience to the stylistic dictates of the ruling class who decided how the working class should dress in order to gain and hold employment...
...Open yourself up to feel things that you haven't felt before, to see things you haven't seen...
...Depaul A. Genska offers the Pope a swell suggestion on where to see the Real America: A Roman Catholic priest has urged Pope John Paul II to meet some prostitutes on his U.S...
...Louis PostDispatch...
...Yes...
...I like walking, etc., and love animals...
Vol. 12 • November 1979 • No. 11
