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...What strikes one about this book is the human callousness it displays throughout...
...After all, Elvis is dead and not even here to defend himself...
...The party favors included Susan B. Anthony posters, and the cake candles were in the shape of the numbers one, five, and eight...
...Kennedy and King were murdered, leaving no people large enough to lead us any more...
...An elegant declaration from another brave American standing on yet another frontier: I have realized that when I am attracted to people their sexuality is entirely secondary...
...It's a beautiful place that I hope the city of Memphis will preserve if it's ever sold...
...has confirmed their worst fears about the fanatical character of the Khomeini movement...
...We also played other games, and watched a 16 ram...
...Even though members of The New Class may never have harbored the drives and designs Kristol attributes to them, his attack against them, though this may not be his intention, makes them sitting ducks for vicious assaults by all those anti-intellectual forces that have for long awaited an occasion to attack the spirit of modernity and its proponents...
...Look at that man's eyes, aren't they beautiful...
...The clearest expression of ethnocentrism, in all countries, appears in war news...
...Roger Wilkins, erstwhile assistant U.S...
...While reporting the Vietnam War, the news media described the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front as "the enemy," as if they were the enemy of the news media...
...Why don't you pick on the living...
...The easy answer is that Richard M. Nixon came along and, in a mean-spirited way, split all the dreams down the spine...
...Yet it is never brought to court, and its printers and purveyors are never jailed...
...I might add, the show itself was seen by more people than man's first walk on the moon...
...Febmtary 19791 The Nation A dizzy report on the Ayatollah's Iran turns up exciting news for the circulation department of Ms...
...Kristol is, to be sure, a gentle and civilized man, yet one cannot help but feel that Nixon and his entourage of blackguards may have learned much from him when they established their "enemies list...
...NASA wants to build equipment to contact intelligent life on other planets or just to listen to sounds of the universe at taxpayers expense...
...The Abiblical Society of San Jose is offering an alternative to NASA's fourteen million dollar space communication program...
...child abuse...
...Anthony would have been 158 years old...
...I don't know of anyone staying on top for over 20 years...
...incest...
...We decorated the house with streamers and balloons in green, white, and purple--the colors of the suffrage movement...
...I feel most comfortable with them...
...I'm La Verne Gagehabib...
...It was his home that he loved, and if he liked fuzzy toilet seat covers, that's his business...
...The end of the war was typically headlined as "the fall of South Vietnam," with scarcely a recognition that, by other values, it could also be considered a liberation, or, neutrally, a change in governments...
...And there is another easy answer: mortality...
...Have you ever done any wrong...
...Who is condemning your house like the fault you found with his ? He loved his daughter, and I don't know of many men who loved their mother like Elvis did his...
...Nothing decent is ever printed about him...
...My parents helped me plan it...
...I guess it's left up to people like myself to stand up for him and believe me, there are plenty that will do it...
...February 1979] KFRC, San Francisco Another progressive member of the liberal community speaks out, this time it is Miss La Verne Gagehabib, in a press release from radio station KFRC: Greetings out there in space...
...For instance, the concert he did in Hawaii for cancer donating $75,000 and even buying the first ticket himself...
...We disagree because messages arrive instantly through aerial lines of mind in contact with a personal self...
...It is that Lyndon Johnson squandered the Roosevelt legacy and left it vulnerable for Richard Nixon's coHp de gr~e, a solid kick in the head...
...magazine: There have been incidents of execution for homosexual rape and flogging for theft and alcohol consumption...
...there is no exultation, because there is no reason for it...
...Pamela J. Cook Portland, Oreg...
...Attorney General under LBJ, now urbanologist for the New York Times: The advance we have made since those early days in 1968, compared to the advance we expected to make, is woefully and discouragingly small...
...Yet the evidence is mixed...
...JANICE GREEN, Greensboro [November 7,I978] The Humanist Miss Gina Allen, coauthor of Intimacy: Sensitivity, Sex and the Art of Love, divulges findings from a recent and strenuous forage into Biblical studies--forsooth: The Bible describes, condones, and frequently gives instructions for: rape...
...A Miss Blake Ariel Morgan Pitchford relates the full details of revolutionary happenings that took place in her very home, as all faith~l readers of Ms...
...version of "Free To Be You and Me...
...Why spend money for this program when the members of the Abiblical Society, a non-profit organization, are already sending and receiving interplanetary conversations with people on another planet...
...Demonstrations have been organized by women, their consciousnesses raised, their voices heard...
...take heart and look to the future: Since my birthday is in the summer when my classmates are all away, I wanted to give a party during the school year and I decided to celebrate my ninth birthday last year on Susan B. Anthony's birthday: February 15...
...How did it go so sour, so fast...
...Maybe he did gain some weight...
...It certainly did not affeGt his voice...
...To Western liberals it...
...In this last game, on a map of the United States, we pasted felt cutouts over those states that had not yet ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, and threw Velcro-covered balls at those targets...
...There are no witches, of course, but if people believe in witches they have been known to viciously kill old women so perceived...
...I have been to Graceland, which I did not find gaudy at all...
...We created special games: a huge crossword puzzle, biographical charades, and "Hit the Unratified States...
...Summer 1978] .~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ee~e~ee~oeeee~eo~eo~e~eoee~o~e~eo~eooee~eeee~oee~ Dissent More bad news for those of the hawkish persuasion from Noam Chomsky, an early debunker of the now discredited Domino Theory: Those who failed to devote their energies to ending the American war in Indochina bear a double burden of guilt: for the atrocities committed under American initiative, and for the legacy of starvation, disease, hatred and revenge that was a direct and predicted consequence of the attack on rural Cambodia...
...I have chest pains...
...March 24, 1979] Dissent Lewis Coser, professional crybaby, reviews Irving Kristol's latest assault on the New Class, a class composed of "educators, journalists, city planners, social workers, editors, and civil servants," and comes away with visions of Kluxian horror and Nixonian intrigue...
...o~eeoee~e~e~oeeeee~ea~oo~e~ The Greensboro ~.C.] Record Abounding with high purpose, a lover of culture leaps to the defense of the late Mr...
...So what...
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...The Bible is more graphically obscene than modern pornography would dare to be...
...This ethnocentrism is most explicit in foreign news...
...January/February 1979...
...The fans still loved and respected him...
...Anyone interested in alternative research concerning this outrageous expenditure of the taxpayers money, please call (408) 244-8995...
...wifebattering,-swapping, and -selling...
...His concerts were sell outs...
...December 16, 1978] 42 The American Spectator May 1979...
...November/December 1978] The Nation The sociopolitical blues as sung without resort to clumsy statistics or cloying facts by Mr...
...It is so refreshing to have my male lover turn around and say...
...I would pose still another answer---certainly not, in all its parts, as easy for me to state...
...Believe me, people like us are hard to find...
...Elvis PresleyPeople...tend to overlook all the good and charitable things Elvis did...
...the hope we had then, compared to the hope we have now, is also woefully small...
...We had lots and lots of fun and we'll do it again this year--maybe celebrating Elizabeth Cady Stanton's birthday (November 12, 1815) next time...
...At the center, there has been a struggle mounted around the issue of the status of women...
...I have made the decision to become sexually involved only with other bisexuals...
...Fall 1978] Ms...
...Similar remarks apply in the case of Viemam and Laos...
...December 6, 1978] Columbia Journalism Review Revelations of diabolical phenomena vouchsafed a grateful citizenry by Professor Herbert J. Gans, sociologist: Like the news of other countries, American news values its own nation above all others, even though it sometimes disparages blatant patriotism...
...NASA says it would take thousands of years to get a signal from outer space...
...Do you...
Vol. 12 • May 1979 • No. 5
