Current Wisdom
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Book Series From what is bound to become one of the classic homosexual novels of all-time we lift these heart-rending passages in hopes th*t all our readers will wake up...
...How we conduct ourselves, what kind of a society we make and run, what kinds of values are upheld in our daily life -none of that is germane to our reputation in the world...
...Carter, it may be recalled, pursued a foreign policy based on thoroughly conservative assumptions, except in a few areas such as Latin America...
...Jenny's voice was shrill...
...What the voters repudiated in 1980 was not liberalism but the miserable result of the conservative economic policies of the last half dozen years...
...We'll just tell them we're in love...
...November 20, 1980[ The Toronto Star An undesirable alien takes up her position on the correspondence page of the Toronto Star: I recently returned from spending a week in Toronto at the First Global Conference on the Future where I participated in the symposium, Alternative Futures for Women...
...November 1, 1980] The New Republic The bizarre sound of Nicholas yon Hoffman's brains rattling sometime after the sad expiry of John Lennon: The reaction of the powerful and well-placed to John Lennon's murder tells more about Americans than all the pop psychology filling the feature pages since the killing...
...They talk about concentration camps for gays...
...You're really taking this seriously...
...She felt herself harden against the pleading look in Sandy's eyes...
...I wanted to call your readers' attention to this problem, particularly because research has shown that it does have deleterious effects on the personality development, aspirations and achievement of young females as they interact with such sex-biased environments and materials...
...Liberal policies haven't prevailed in Washington since 1966, when Lyndon Johnson decided to sacrifice the Great Society to the Vietnam war...
...He was assassinated months before the release of "Meet the Beatles" and the group's legendary appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show...
...Even the non-political ones...
...Jenny could see that she was really upset...
...Who's to say it couldn't happen here...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Great Book Series From what is bound to become one of the classic homosexual novels of all-time we lift these heart-rending passages in hopes th*t all our readers will wake up before it is too late, before the barbed wire is thrown up and San Francisco is turned into a veritable ghost town: "I don't want to date guys...
...Although the Science Centre did have many positive features, I was extremely dismayed and concerned about the excessive degree of sexism in virtually all of the films and displays...
...Jeana Wirtenberg Department of Health Education and Welfare Washington, D.C [August 9, 1980] The Nation The estimable Nation offers high laudation to the next president of the United States while prophesying exciting times ahead: In the nuclear era, however, based on the record from which we must make educated guesses before we can vote, he is the most dangerous person ever to come this close to the Presidency, and if elected he would be the most dangerous leader so far in history...
...But it's the Jewish lesbians who are really panicked...
...I see it in my practice...
...Sandy, no...
...The murder of John Lennon this week was the most personal kind of loss...
...Sandy shook her head...
...Never...
...Barbara interrupted her: "Margo, in most cases homosexuality is still a crime...
...I have been working to eradicate such sex bias in the U.S...
...I think we've basically come to the decision that we'll leave the country if things get too bad...
...But what will people think...
...Prohibiting homosexual teachers from working was one of the first repressive steps the Nazis took," Julie said...
...At Reagan's age, with his ideas and his advisers, in this era, he is a menace to the human race...
...American strength is seen as American power...
...If you do I'll never talk to you again...
...The '60's had begun with the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, a President whose youthful, iconoclastic style had started to change the whole tenor of American life...
...educational system for about eight years and am therefore very sensitive to this tendency to disproportionately represent males in science, math and technology...
...Shelly and I have talked about it...
...Women are freaked out," Sandy continued...
...Promise me...
...It will be difficult for the incoming Reagan Administration-on matters as diverse as nuclear strategy, new weapons systems, chemical warfare, nuclear proliferation, attitudes toward the Soviet Union, or relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries- to be more conservative than Carter was...
...Frank Rich, sage and thumbsucker: Is there anyone who grew up with the Beatles in the 1960's who can imagine life without them...
...You must promise me you will never tell anyone...
...December 27, 1980...
...The Kissingers, the Muskies, the Aliens, the Jacksons, the whoevers from the Committee on the Present Danger, all of whom have dilated on how low American prestige has sunk, have nothing to say about this assassination...
...That was 14 years ago...
...December 6, 1980] The New York Times Sublime and beautiful excogitations of a historical and metaphysical nature from Mr...
...displays the journalistic feats to be accomplished once one has successfully strangled and cremated his conscience: It is hard to see how liberalism was an issue at all in 1980...
...Twelve years ago, our most important religious figure, Christian prophet if you will, was gunned down...
...That is, almost all of the characters portrayed in the films were male, all of the narrators were male, all of the language used referred to hypothetical males, used male pronouns, and generic male terminology (e.g., mankind, early man, etc...
...Sandy broke the silence...
...It's very real for us...
...It's very real for them...
...December 14, 1980] The Wall Street Journal Professor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...In a sense, the world the Beatles made was born a few years before they actually arrived...
...Women come in and they're scared...
...It would be obvious...
...It's you I'm in love with...
...Margo was now shocked...
...Sandy misunderstood Jenny's fear...
...After the conference I spent one day at the Ontario Science Centre, which I found most interesting...
...I don't know...
...Now the madmen are going after the poets, and there's not a word from the people who claim the name "leader" about what events such as this do to our reputation in the world...
...When the news broke Monday night, ex-Beatlemaniacs, now poised on the brink of middle-age, raced to their phones to console each other, to sob, to remember...
...Surely Sandy must realize that people would talk if they didn't date...
...And the more we talked about those memories, the more we realized that our childhoods would have been empty without the Beatles...
...By sheer fate, it was the Beatles who picked up Kennedy's torch, and once they did, they ran with it...
...Choices by Nancy Toder [Persephone Press Book News] the Nation Professor Alan Wolfe, sociologist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Threat, ventilates another of the mysteries of the left-liberal murrain for the Nation 's sweating and swaying audience: Jimmy Carter will soon no longer be President, but the world that he faced has not changed very much at all...
...The group was silent...
...Go to Canada, I guess...
...Them...
Vol. 14 • February 1981 • No. 2
