Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Jailbird belletrist Jack Henry Abbott, now suspected of having murdered a non-literary waiter while on parole, is submitted to the ultimate indignity, to wit:...
...They were in Ann Arbor to visit the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies and said they were presenting their own views, not necessarily those of the Soviet Embassy...
...July 13, 1981] The Ann Arbor News The independent views of two free-spirited Soviet alumbrado, wowing the gulls: Two Soviet officials painted a picture of a Soviet Union willing to negotiate and resolve differences with a United States which is becoming dominated by right wing extremists...
...Whatever I eat is good for me...
...For that, we all must bear some responsibility...
...But perhaps too easy...
...August 13, 1981] Vegetarian Times An iconoclastic outburst in the pages of the leading bunny-feed journal: A meditation Relax, take some deep breaths, close your eyes...
...Affirm the following: "My body is perfectly healthy...
...Children living near the canal where Hooker Chemical Company dumped more than 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals in the late 1940s and early 1950s are obsessed with fears of premature death...
...My body is perfectly pure and healthy...
...I cannot do that...
...So be it-JO it is...
...In the past, however, I never complained...
...The most wonderful expression of true human dignity we know-art...
...the other reportedly died of an overdose of her mother's sleeping pills-sedatives which were prescribed to help her mother cope with the problems of living near the nation's most notorious toxic-waste dump...
...Everything is not all right...
...Gerda Lerner, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was one of the star attractions at the most widely attended panel...
...C. Everett Koop, was a foe of abortion, that the Attorney General's office was being staffed "with assistants whose careers have been dedicated to the abolition of affirmative action" and that "the only high-ranking woman in the Administration gives no cause for celebration...
...I have seen your movies...
...Furthermore, I think that even Ronald Reagan has a soul, possibly a soul with potential...
...March 11, 1981] Federal Reporter Second Series The Queen's English as it is spoken in the august courts of our land: What begins as the employer's quest now ends in the employer's flight...
...Abbott say they find it difficult-and dangerous-to handle...
...Speaking on the final day of Indiana Black Expo here, the second-term congressman said blacks have become complacent since the passage of the Voting Rights and the Civil Rights acts...
...Civilization is a terrible burden...
...Perhaps if you could bask in the light of Mahler and Monet, you might appreciate truth and beauty...
...Abbott's writing may be unusual, but his state-sponsored rearing in rage and murder are not...
...The boy was 16 and lived in a largely forgotten public-housing project located 100 yards from the canal...
...Logan Packing Company...
...Mailer, who learned much about prisons in writing "The Executioner's Song," should have known better...
...I am civilized...
...I think that the illumination of the soul is more important than the annihilation of the species...
...Without exception, these views were far right and at times . . . pro-fascist...
...convicts who served shorter and easier terms than Mr...
...May 23, 1981] The Washington Post A sadly unaccoladed Professor Edward C. Smith of The American University presents some very glad tidings indeed in the correspondence section of Washington's leading morning paper: Architecture of the past has been essentially absent of any accommodations for the visually impaired and physically disabled...
...Ronnie is cutting desperately needed funds to the arts so that we can buy more MX missiles: having MX missiles makes us civilized...
...The oppression of women antedates slavery and made it possible," she said...
...A warning that "conservative forces have captured the power to fulfill our gloomiest predictions" was voiced by Joan W. Scott, professor of history at Brown University, in her keynote address...
...Who knows...
...Leland then issued an appeal...
...Mickey) Leland (D-Texas) exhorted his listeners Sunday "to stand up and fight . . . the evil called Ronald Reagan-ism...
...1966...
...May 23, 1981] The New York Times A stirring report from the front lines of the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women where the Our-Encmies-Are-All-Around-Us thesis was on every fleshy, sensuous lip: Feminism, the cultural patterns that perpetuated male dominance, the irrelevance of much of the current women's movement to women in minority groups and the dangers of a return to the anti-feminism of the 1920's and 30's were among the themes dominating the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which ended here today...
...Sure, white folks don't call us niggers anymore, at least to our faces, but it has the same effect...
...I'm asking you to commit ourselves...
...The U.S.S.R...
...CURRENT WISDOM The New York Times Jailbird belletrist Jack Henry Abbott, now suspected of having murdered a non-literary waiter while on parole, is submitted to the ultimate indignity, to wit: being made into an occasion for hackneyed moralizing in the editorial columns of the illustrious Times: The rage that builds up behind bars doesn't go away after release...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick is not someone I want to represent feminine accomplishment," she said, speaking of the chief delegate to the United Nations...
...And now no longer will his conduct be judged alone by what was said...
...One shot herself...
...So save the arts, Ronnie . . . for your own sake...
...368 F. 2nd 362] [4 Cir...
...We are in trouble...
...March 17, 1981] The Nation Surrounded by enemies and toxic molecules, Miss Tracy Freedman of the renowned Center for Investigative Reporting slogs on to apprise us of real-life conditions near Niagara Falls: Last summer, two girls and one boy who lived in the neighborhood surrounding the Love Canal chemical dump committed suicide...
...so we can save our people and at the same time rally the force that's going to combat the evil called Ronald Reaganism...
...George Sealdes-presently putting final touches on his twentieth book, The Great Thoughts, possibly in Moscow-takes time from his lucubrations to notify loyal Nation readers of yet another villainous plot against their freedom: Reader's Digest: From the start, the Digest was a repository for [George} Wallace's political and social prejudices and hatreds...
...officials spoke Monday night in Angell Hall as part of a multi-state tour...
...She said the Surgeon General-designate, Dr...
...It is anti-woman and anti-poor white folks, for that matter," he added...
...August 13, 1981] The Indianapolis Star The slops of idealism as pumped out on the hustings: Warning that many blacks have become "passive and complacent," U.S...
...With the regularity of a heartbeat, the Digest serves up articles attacking any national move toward "socialized medicine...
...The hour-long talk, a condensation of a book in progress, advanced the thesis that the oppression of women was the model for the invention of slavery...
...The KKK is on the rise...
...So perhaps Mr...
...The two girls were both 14...
...June 19, 1981] The New Haven Advocate The personal deposition of Miss Colleen Collins in the correspondence section of a leading revolutionary organ: I do not like wearing clothes, I do not like shaving my under arms, and I do not like sitting in polyurethane chairs...
...You see, Ronnie is suffocating the only consolation civilization affords, art...
...I would like to run naked in the woods and subsist on roots and berries...
...These cases are extreme examples of the insidious effects of Love Canal on the children...
...Reagan's policy racist...
...As even the most casual student of the Digest knows, the monthly is virulently antilabor, anticonsumer and antipublic ownership of almost any kind...
...Feel the life energy pouring through you, cleansing and healing you...
...However, during the past two decades many architects, often at the encouragement of their patrons, have attempted to compensate for their profession's past acts of discrimination by designing barrier-free structures that simultaneously accommodate the needs of the disabled and avoid compromising the building's aesthetic integrity...
...Now, I am complaining...
...I am addressing my complaint to (it hurts me to write these three words in an uninterrupted sequence) President Ronald Reagan...
...The psychological damage to young lives has been considerable, yet this aspect has been little noticed by the press...
...Some are shunned by their former friends, who call them "contaminated...
...After all, Ron, you have never been exposed to real art...
...Children of 5 and 6 seem shy and disoriented, according to teachers, doctors and parents, and they are bitter toward the company they say "poisoned" them...
...Now, through the unavoidable nature of our legal administrative machinery, * * * it will be judged by what interested partisans say one said was said, or what others said to have said say was said...
...I always tune into my body and eat exactly what's best for me...
...I know...
...It's easy to dismiss his efforts on behalf of Mr...
...Abbott as radical chic, or" the overly romantic celebration of literary ability...
...NLRB vs...
...What I fear most is the Moral Majority because they say God is on their side...
...September 1981] The Nation Mr...
...It is anti-black...
...The Digest thought our pursuit of the Vietnam War was just swell and delights in supporting our corporate adventures in Latin America...
...The circumstances of the 1980's bring to mind the 1920's and 30's," she said...
...Then, after the triumph of winning the vote, women faced a well-organized antifeminist movement which struck at the cultural and political bases of female solidarity...
...We think everything is all right...
...More than 500 people heard the new president of the Organization of American Historians outline "A General Theory of Women in History...
...Leland called Mr...
...Very young children have chronic nightmares of toxins oozing from their bodies, while others have regressed to bedwetting, baby talk and clinging to their mothers...
...See and feel your body in perfect, radiant health...
Vol. 14 • October 1981 • No. 10
