The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS July 15 to August 16, and our government continued to go from triumph to triumph. Inflation rose, unemployment rose, the prime rate rose, and productivity dropped. The SALT II...
...Marcuse think of the state of liberty in Hanoi...
...The FBI was investigating him for drug trafficking...
...And "The Movement" has lost one of its finest...
...In El Centro, California, 35-year-old Mr...
...In international news Turkey has suspended "The Muppet Show" during Islam's sacred month of Ramadan, it being feared that appearances by Miss Piggy might offend devout Moslems...
...Surely the Central African Empire cannot be disparaged for ignoring its citizens...
...Finally, Mr...
...Naturally American universities lusted to have these interesting minds on their faculties, and, whether drawn by the quality of the Coca-Cola or by the quantity of straight white teeth that, until recently, filled the mouths of American coeds, thousands obliged...
...He was a guest of something called the Max Planck Society, but that leaves us with no clues...
...What was on his mind when the archangels summoned will never be known, and probably only the old windbag's mother would care...
...the Freiburg prof split for the California sun...
...Soviet troops might bludgeon East German workers, Soviet tanks might crush Hungarians, but the dullards of the European salons worried mainly about Uncle Sam...
...and for a while a shaken Dr...
...Recent history repeats itself...
...It expels them in leaky boats...
...Mr...
...American treachery never ends, but still it is nice to be buried in San Diego...
...It also re-educates some and executes others...
...The late Herr Planck was a physicist, and Dr...
...Marcuse was an early arrival, and at Harvard, Columbia, and Brandeis this quaintly attired Hun pedagogue doggedly espoused his vague gospel of American bourgeois madness...
...The SALT II debate began, faltered, and was temporarily adjourned...
...RET...
...In Philadelphia, Mr...
...Park...
...Hoang Van Hoan, formerly of the North Vietnamese politburo, appeared in Peking claiming that even ordinary Vietnamese have been reduced to "a life of humiliation and repression...
...This computation made him an ardent opponent of liberal democracy, and one can wonder onto eternity as to the old haranguer's estimate of His Excellency, Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa I. In August an international commission confirmed that Emperor Bokassa, the anointed sovereign of the Central African Empire, had personally participated in a springtime slaughter of one hundred schoolboys, some no older than eight...
...And in Teheran, Islamic justice marched Pari the Tall One, Ash-raf the Four Eyed, and Soraya the Turk, three of the city's most eminent ladies of rapture, before its hard-pressed firing squads...
...Marcuse went further...
...And without doubt he would share Mr...
...Much of his life was spent in well-deserved obscurity...
...Remembering his response to the Hungarian uprising, one even sees him excoriating the boat people...
...James Anthony Ma-loney-a long-time peace advocate, a member of the Mexican-American Political Association, and until last month a compliance monitor in the local CETA program-shot two FBI agents from ambuscade and then himself...
...Marcuse served mankind as a mere melder of two quacks: Marx and Freud...
...And there in the land of skateboards and Tan-fastic a brief but fabulous notoriety fell on him about 1966...
...Yet musing on violent revolution was one thing, American celebrity quite another...
...Curtis Hines, 36, a sixth-grade teacher at the Friendship Learning Center in southwest Washington, D.C., and his charming wife, Vera, are being harassed by authorities for allegedly kidnapping and torturing a boy in a dispute over a small quantity of marijuana...
...Herbert Marcuse, the German-born philosopher, died of a stroke in Starnberg, Germany...
...Supposedly the Hineses set the boy afire with lighter fluid, which-if true-is yet another argument for the anti-smokers' bulging arsenal...
...And what would Dr...
...Jimmy did this two days after the tenth anniversary of Chappa-quiddick, perhaps fearing that were Teddy's ill-fated ride to dominate the news that week Jimmy's Presidency would suffer by comparison...
...My guess is that, were he upright today, he would still hang in there...
...during a White House fete honoring America's space program...
...All that militates against it is the suspicion that Mr...
...For them anti-Americanism became the postwar piety...
...And if so, would he be moved to revile Vietnam as soundly as he always reviled America...
...Yet on August 9 Mr...
...Then something astonishing happened...
...Before its fall in early August, London's Sunday Telegraph reports, thousands of dissidents were publicly hanged to the strains of Mary Hopkins singing "Those Were The Days...
...Repressive tolerance" was his best-known idea, and once its feathers have been removed, it amounts to saying that people who are free to speak against the system are not free if the system ignores them...
...His colleagues ignored him...
...Marcuse judge this kind of repression as comparable to the "repressive tolerance" practiced in America...
...He also left the five children of one FBI agent without a father...
...Maloney left a long and eloquent pronuncia-mento elucidating the inequities of our economic system...
...Speaking of deceased persons, Jimmy Carter kept seeping into the news despite a strenuous effort by all patriotic Americans to ignore him...
...Eros and Civilization became a favorite, perhaps owing to its short title...
...He unveiled an energy program that attracted approbation from so few that when Dr...
...Here, he was typical of many European intellectuals of mediocre accomplishment...
...How he had gotten there no one seems to know...
...Others were stabbed and shot...
...And then he was off to flood-damaged southern Indiana, where he was seen wearing a business suit and standing in ankle-deep water, asking the citizens of English, Indiana, "Is everything all right...
...Maloney was something of a free enterpriser...
...Later in the month he revealed some good news to an adult Bible class at Washington's First Baptist Church...
...On July 29 Dr...
...The West German government disposed of his body by sending it to San Diego, California, which is as it should be...
...A 75-year-old Kenyan man was beaten by neighbors for allegedly hiding seasonal rain in a cooking pot...
...That government does not ignore its citizens...
...Kunstler's speculation that Miss Baez is now in the employ of the CIA...
...His classes were small and populated by sheep...
...Park was apparently wobbling, and Jimmy left the matter "in God's hands...
...One nine-year old had an eye ripped out by the Emperor...
...Francisco Macias Nguema's government in Equatorial Guinea...
...Then Andy Young-slayer of hydras, strangler of dragons, and butcher of meaning-retired, vowing never to shut up, never to apologize, and never to admit having told a lie...
...Apparently last June, while in a car with South Korean President Park Chung-Hee, our President attempted to convert Mr...
...For all his 81 years he was an Orphic grumbler, a leaden, Teutonic inspirer-of-snores, given to boiled beef, Kartoffel Klosse, and damp .wool socks...
...One sees him joining Jane Fonda and William Kunstler in excoriating Joan Baez for overreacting to the boat people phenomenon...
...Marcuse hid...
...Nor was "repressive tolerance" the custom under Mr...
...Yet Mr...
...A group-therapy session in Dreux, France, took the life of 37-year-old Mr...
...Back in Washington he added another episode to the legend when he asked Senator John Glenn, the former astronaut, "What are you doing here...
...Marcuse extolled Marx, but more salient still he hated America...
...Yet his moving declaration speaks for itself, and one would not be surprised to see it published in the Nation or the Progressive...
...Stanley Culbreth, the dapper president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was indicted on charges of leading a multimillion-dollar drug ring...
...Wonder," the genial host of a children's television show in Louisiana, has been accused of molesting young boys...
...Not likely...
...Evidently the motor trip was a short one, and the Buddhist chief of state escaped without being dunked...
...Then Jimmy proudly announced the firing or retirement of his only competent cabinet heads...
...he denounced the Hungarians...
...Albert Speer, formerly energy czar of the Third Reich, applauded, Washington's wise coves rather expected the administration to have him testify before Congress...
...Would Dr...
...Pierre Beaumard, who was mortally stomped between two mattresses as therapists "stamped out his complexes...
...But during the 1960s the enfants enrages of the suburbs needed sausages of esoterica to abut their slogans, and someone led them to the old dolt's tedious hallucinations...
Vol. 12 • September 1979 • No. 9
