Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Cross-eyed, hyperventilating, and sweating profusely, Mr. Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and writer, elucidates contemporary America, moments before swallowing his tongue at a...
...She called the violence "a tidal wave that's got to be stopped" and said the "unique kinds of crimes that happen in San Francisco, such as the Zebra killings, indicate to me that this area is a vortex of some kind of power, and this power can be used for good or for bad...
...CHICAGO: We have been totally brainwashed...
...It was so bad that even I didn't really want to know...
...I chafe when I hear high officials calling on Americans to "toughen up" for another showdown with the Soviet Union over Africa-as if nothing at all has been learned from the Vietnam war...
...And the Western power brokers of that status quo are delighted...
...China's future was to be part of a new world order, based on new values and a new theory of human existence...
...Why should anyone on my enemies' list have rights...
...these cranks are in earnest: I found out through my research that women in the Middle Ages had more power than women in the Renaissance, and that things did not get better and better for women, they got better and better for men...
...It is time to cleanse our press of all sex propaganda, to tear down our gymnasiums or convert them into churches, chapels, or to some other useful purposes...
...In the first chapter of the First Book of the Maccabees the story is told how there arose in Israel Jewish leaders who decided to abandon their own religion and join the pagans, leading their people away from God...
...November 1978...
...With this thought in mind let us remember that one of the Communist plans for taking over the U.S...
...June 30, 1978] The Progressive Professor Doktor Beau Grosscup of revolutionary Ithaca College delivers up a gloomy allocution, showing that the Trilateral Commission and the fierce Rockefeller Brothers are never to be ruled out, not even in the exotic Orient: The sum of these trends is that the China of Hua and Teng is headed in a different direction than the one Mao charted...
...November 28, 1978] San Francisco Chronicle A public-spirited bull from another Oakland, California, patriot...
...It is the Nixon in us who cannot understand civil liberties, when it gives the same rights to our enemies as it does to us, because that Nixon in us has its own enemies' list...
...I am depressed to find that today's college students have been cut off from their own immediate history: Most don't know whether SDS stands for the Students for a Democratic Society or the name of a detergent...
...Break out the paper airplanes...
...Not having Nixon we did the next best thing-we became Nixon...
...I don't know if Mr...
...abbesses, for example, had incredible power...
...The first thing those apostate leaders did was to build a big athletic gymnasium in Jerusalem, after the manner of the pagan Greeks and Romans, and thus take the minds of their people off of their own religion...
...MOTHER: I never heard of figures like that in relation to witchcraft...
...This was also true from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution...
...They seduced many...
...Because if you have to take the fact of homosexuality into your real picture of life, how in the world can you go home at night and relax over a few beers with the boys...
...December 1978] The Herald-Telephone [Bloomington, IN] While interviewing San Franciscans regarding the recent series of mishaps in that progressive metropolis, a dutiful UPI reporter encounters a plausible running-mate for George McGovern in 1980: Modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin, who was attracted to San Francisco by its "sensual vitality," said the events point to "a need for large groups of people to get together and channel their feelings in an artistic manner...
...Women were important in the development of the Church...
...The medical profession was really involved...
...Then came the Reformation, and we suddenly woke up to find out that the Reformation had wiped out the last vestiges of women's power-and that, coincidentally, is when feminism started...
...Nixon took up residence in the American soul...
...Under Mao, the Chinese people were taking bold strides toward a revolutionary society...
...Only people I agree with should have rights...
...We missed the Nixon in our lives...
...December 30, 1978] Catholic Review [Baltimore, MD] From famed Flaget Hospital the long-awaited tocsin sounds...
...Not Nazis or Kluxes or gangsters or pornographers or abortionists or prostitutes or, God knows, reporters-it's the Nixon in us that despises the press....The Nixon in us wants to kick the fags out of the schools-or for that matter, off the planet...
...I am bitter when I read that more Americans are poor today than when Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty started, and that an entire generation of minority youth is being written off as expendable...
...January 1979] The New York Times Book Review Another emetic moment with, fearsome iconoclast Garry Wills as he leaps from the gnawed carcasses of Nixon and Kissinger and pounces on Arthur Schlesinger's lovey-dovey biography of Robert Kennedy: All these aspects of the man [Robert Kennedy] are captured in this learned and thorough, balanced yet affectionate book...
...Schlesinger is right about the gradual but inevitable improvement of Kennedys with age...
...Some say millions of women were burned...
...Hear...
...Does anyone out there want to join me in trying...
...Maybe then the refineries will modify enough to use our own cruder oil that is coming down from Alaska...
...They just f--king burned them...
...I hope we ration gas and place incredible tariffs on oil used for any reason that comes from the Middle East...
...F.J.Gettelfinger Flaget Hospital Bards town, Ky...
...Halprin said politicians and other leaders should be analyzing what has created "this climate of human behavior...
...It was about then that the movie, The Exorcist, was released...
...When the convents were dissolved, that was the end of female education and the last remnants of female property...
...Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and writer, elucidates contemporary America, moments before swallowing his tongue at a recent dinner for Cary Mc-Williams, former editor of the Nation: Even during times when, as individuals, we may be having a very good time indeed, it seems to have happened that, having been obsessed by Nixon for all those many years and then having got rid of him, we discovered something was missing from our lives-something that had carried us through the 1950s into the '70s...
...I also discovered that many more women were burned as witches than we ever thought...
...but his own books about Kennedys keep getting better...
...We must defend ourselves...
...We were a nation that cast out Nixon and then pined for him...
...Hear...
...There were a lot of early Christian communities in which men and women had equal power...
...November 12, 1978] Current Tom Hayden raises the True Confessions genre to new heights as, midway in the Age of the Common Carter, he delivers up this alarming personal statement: Certainly a right-wing counterattack is under way at the moment, aimed at rolling back many of the gains of the past 15 years...
...I hope the President has enough backbone to tell the rest of the world to "sit on it" and I hope they strangle...
...We embraced the measliness, the miserliness, the nastiness...
...I will buy a Cadillac before a Mercedes, a Corvette before a Porsche, and a Ford or Chevy before a VW...
...For example, it wanted to wipe out all of the lay leaders, so it burned them-as witches...
...Editor-I am so angry with the European attitude about the American dollar that I hope the President pulls all our troops out of there and the Russians can have the dump...
...The Nixon in us knows that the little man, the small property owner, is losing out to the Marxist minorities...
...The Jewish people got so interested in the pagan Greek and Roman games that even the Jewish priests no longer offered sacrifice in the temple but went away to compete "in the throwing of the discus...
...They made an alliance with the pagan gentiles to adopt their ways and practices...
...We are forming a circle of wagons around the entire country...
...Maybe people in the art field can find new rituals, maybe politicians can find new ways to communicate...
...is to destroy one generation of our young people by getting their minds off of God and religion and by getting them interested in sex and athletics...
...Ms...
...Let an editorialist from the Saturday Review surpass this: OLD RED PLOY Editor, The Review: We might entitle this item sex and athletics...
...The one on Edward, when he gets around to it, should be a gem...
...Post-Mao China seems attracted by and attached to the international status quo in theory and practice...
...It is surprising how well the plans of the apostate Jews succeeded...
...Carol Ann Nelson Oakland [December 22, 1978] Mother Jones A luculent powwow between a Mother Jones apparatchik and the illustrious Judy Chicago, "artist, painter, sculptor," and one of the truly first-rate thinkers of the women's conspiracy...
...I will visit Hawaii or Canada or Mexico ten times before I'll spend another dime that will see its way to the Common Market...
...It is now long past time for us Americans to put an end to this Communist plan to take our country over...
Vol. 12 • February 1979 • No. 2
