Current Widom
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"Current Widom" The Washington Post Another sozzled communique on be- half of Old World values from Henry Fairlie inveterate vagraflt and recipi- ent of handouts: The America...
...But it's not enough simply to blame "government" or "the system...
...The America now of the new evangelicals...
...Instead, isn't it possible that we must all share responsibility for allowing corrupt men to savage and rape our system...
...the America of the last funda- mentalists of the 1950s...
...The great division led to disharmony and 1o, the once good food was turning bad...
...Aren't we all responsible when only about half of all eligible citizens bother to participate in the electoral process, the most fundamental and basic act of citizenship...
...August 2-9, 1980] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1980...
...Can we imagine American without big business and multinational enterprise...
...9...
...And there was this America in control at Detroit...
...After all, it's doubtful if any public official has ever been corrupted by the American system of government--the best ever devised by man...
...Thank you for publishing the article, and thanks, sincerely to Crescent for sharing it...
...Gordon, however, sees a surprising uniformity among pagans...
...It was free for the taking and without karma and God looked upon the food as good and wholesome for it was delicious and nourishing and the same food was eaten by the people and the animals and there was harmony in the universe...
...Max Ellen New York City [July 20, 1980] The Nation Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, political science professors from Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, expatiate frothily on life in Guatemala: Can we imagine America without empire...
...Fight back the tears: The immediate reaction to allegations that a United States senator and seven House members were among those accepting bribes totaling nearly $700,000 is to blame government...
...The America then of "better dead than red...
...Young still has not made up his mind what to do next...
...May, 19801 The New York Times Magazine A Me Decade testimonial from another intellectual reader of one of Manhattan's foremost opinion maga-zines: I was deeply affected by Michael Nor- man's story ("Quest for a Father," June 15...
...A1Rice [August, 1980] New Age Mr...
...perhaps even women as a conspir-acy...
...But then the serpent came and the earth entered a period of great division...
...August, 1980] The Portland Press Herald Goo-Gooism on a metaphysical plane from the esteemed Press Herald of Portland, Maine...
...February 5, 1980] The Times Literary Supplement A troubling report from Dr...
...Its targets include anyone who seriously questions the further prolifer-ation of atomic technology...
...Can we conceive of this country functioning without a concentrated and utterly conformist national press...
...Let there be peace...
...The redoubtable Atlanta Constitution reports auspicious find- ings from a Prof...
...man and woman...
...The America once of the Scopes trial...
...the America of prohibition...
...the America of McCar- thyism...
...In Britain during the present century, the pacifists have offered the simplest of tar- gets for derision by the "realists...
...For it is in fear that the ungoverned and the unfree are doomed to live...
...The Reaganites on the floor were exactly those who in Germany gave the Nazis their main strength and who in France collaborated with them and sustained Vichy...
...Most Americans will follow their imaginations elsewhere...
...Peter Barry Chowka expands on the excitement of being an American: A new tyranny is loose in the United States--a secret, brutal campaign of official surveillance, suppression, and terror...
...July 27, 19801 The New York Times The incomparable Times reports on the inchoate developments that are sure to make the Wall Street Bankers sing: Even before the World Bank formally organizes its search committee for a replacement for Robert S. McNamara as President, some developing countries are pushing the name of Andrew Young, the former United States chief delegate to the United Nations, as a successor...
...This article (New Age, August 1978) came to mind recently when I, too, was attacked by a potential rapist...
...His bright-orange coat of paint was flashing...
...It is time that we reminded ourselves, and said aloud and more often, that it is from these people that nastiness comes...
...Without a vast military machine...
...Right now he's decided nor to decide," said Mr...
...George Orwell's caricature of the typical ILP socialist could be popularly applied to the archetypal pacifist as well--"a prim little man, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and above all, with a social position he has no intention of forfeiting," with a long list of "fads" from health foods to Women's Lib...
...They are Goldwater...
...From Agadir to Afghanistan, the peacemaker has usu-ally been cursed rather than blessed...
...good and bad...
...The man fled, but police had no trouble picking him up...
...us and them...
...God looked upon the world again and ushered in a period of grace proclaiming 'Let the people once again live in harmony and be merry let them eat the grains, the legumes, the fruits, and the vegetables and do harm to no creature...
...The conditions for an affirmative answer are staggering...
...Gordon of the Insti- tute for the Study of American Religion, findings that will put a smile on the face of every suburban anarchist and jubilation in the heart of every Reagan strategist...
...Having read Crescent's article, it inspired me to avert the rape...
...June 24, 1980] New Age Earnest missives from two of the bonsai brains who read New Age, a journal of Post-Aquarius radicalism: Some time ago, I read an article by Crescent Dragonwagon which recounted a rape she was forced to bear...
...If the neo-conservatives cannot sniff danger, surely the rest of us can be alert...
...August 8, 1980] Vegetarian Times God's work amongst the fruits and the nuts and the readers of Vege-tarian Times, melodiously put by one of that stupendous journal's arch- editors: In the beginning there was the food...
...Kenneth O. Morgan on how the foul Orwell once caricatured the noble pacifist, or "peacemaker," as Dr...
...Without heroin and network TV...
...In the past this anti-antinukes network has moved quietly, spying and collecting information on private citizens...
...I had a very unpleasant (to say the least) accidental kundalini experi- ence, and luckily my bioenergetic thera- pist had read the interview with Itzhak Bentov and was able to provide helpful visualizations...
...Offenburger...
...McNamara says his successor should show the following qualifications: a commitment to development, a knowl- edge of finance, political sensitivity and an ability to manage...
...Without pervasive racism...
...the America of ignorant iso-lationism...
...Inventing the term "new-speak" was, by the way, another of Orwell's misdemeanors...
...the America which can see homosexuals as a conspir- acy...
...But one should not lose faith in the Amrican people...
...Without labor movement populated with cold warriors and arms-enthusing bureaucrats...
...the America of the Moral Majority...
...Jan Bertisch New York, NY I would like to thank you for yourarticle on "Kundalini Casualties" (New Age, March 1978...
...They can easily be depicted as a miscellaneous, sectarian group of Utopian fanatics...
...Without a popular culture organized around continuous consumption and the extermination of memory...
...His intelligent and sensitive account of his emotions and his acceptance of an identity are admirable...
...C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M The Washington Post Another sozzled communique on be- half of Old World values from Henry Fairlie inveterate vagraflt and recipi- ent of handouts: The America which Europe fears is the America of the Reaganites...
...Without a regressive tax system and fantastic disparities of wealth, ownership and power...
...He walked up to her, pulled down his pants, and grabbed her leg...
...Another typical Boy-Girl relation as reported by the vigilant editors of Ms., the magazine with the chronic scowl: A flasher approached a Vancouver wom-an, Carole Carl, as she was painting the outside of a hotel...
...I expect to hear from my son--whom I haven't seen in 18 years--some day, and I only hope it can be as good an experience as was described in this excellent piece...
...Carl took her roller and painted him up and down...
...In at least one important respect their understanding of our political system is vastly superior to that of the scholars and media pundits who analyze it for a living...
...Mr...
...Without oil based transporation...
...In addition to middle class, he sees them as politically conservative...
...Save perhaps for the Holy Rollers, they realize that there is nothiug in it for them...
...No government is good government...
...The people rejoiced for they knew that the diet of the new age would assist them in their development.9 They cleansed themselves and became happy as the darkness lifted.9 It felt good to be healthy again and the angels opened the skies and shouted from the heavens "These are vegetarian times--what art you earing ?" [Issue #40, 1980] Ms...
...Morgan would have it...
...The road of the pacifist has been a stony one in this dismal century...
...Reagan Republicans...
...In 1980, those citizens not yet comatose with despair are more likely to be buying gold, practicing karate, flocking to disaster movies, or accepting Jesus as their personal savior...
...Recently, however, as the stakes have escalated, so have the tactics...
...Without scientific and educational communities dependent on that machine...
...The America of fear...
...water and fire...
...He was on vacation last week, but a spokesman, Tom Offenburger, said Mr...
...the America of a now ignorant interventionism...
...Behind it is an unholy alliance of government agents, private police, and the nuclear power and weapons indu's-tries...
...Aren't we encouraging misconduct by tolerating the full pardon of a president before a trial...
...Paganism is an anarchistic movement...
...June 23, I980] The Adanta Constitution Good News...
Vol. 13 • October 1980 • No. 10
