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C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Newsweek Reflections of an historical and metaphysical nature from a Newsweek reader and world citizen: Certainly the stories of the retui'nees about their treatment...
...They warn, says James Michener, of a "heavy psychologica I cost" if boys compete with girls...
...Beckmann's widely acclaimcd booklet The Non-Problem of Nuclear Wastes (reg...
...1 don't eat farm animals at my home, but if I were at someone's home and they served beefI would eat it...
...That it has not is a real national tragedy...
...Technologically informed, he consistently explains the technical aspects into understandable English...
...December 14, 1980] New York True love, illuminated by two American romantics, in the philosophical pages of one of America's most sophisticated journals of urban enlightenment: Neither Jacques Sammes, 51, nor Luther Travis, 50, thinks he could live with or love someone who wasn't good at his work...
...January 2, 19811 [] Do you know of any other newsletter provoking public comment like this...
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...Elvis Aaron PresIcy . . . he's history...
...They were family therapists and marriage counselors, and the consciousness-raising exercise they were performing was titled "Crossing the Border Between the Sexes...
...Box 1969 Bloomington, Indiana 47402 X91 "Song of the South" is a live-action film interspersed with animated scenes from the classic "Uncle Remus" stories, narrated by a live Uncle Remus...
...My generation may become the first to fight and die to make the world safe for polyester...
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...Relax and close your eyes," said their guide, Dorothy Sucher, a psychotherapist who practices in Washington, D.C...
...And if landlords disinvest, there must be backup ways of converting rental housing into cooperative forms of ownership...
...Personally, I compliment Iran on its ability, in its first shaky year of freedom, to make a complete fool of one of the world's most powerful nations...
...how it would be if they met their parents, and what would happen if they met a member of the opposite sex...
...It's not clear when the story takes place9 If it is the period before the Civil War, how could Uncle Remus, dejected at one point, leave the plantation on his own to live in Atlanta...
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...Jacques admits he gives in first if scmething is important to Luther...
...Even the tarbaby dummy wears a tattered hat...
...From "Song of the South" and "Beulah Land" back to 1915s "Birth of a Nation," the message has been clear: When it comes time for the entertainment of America and the profit of Hollywood, the black image has no standing, not even under the revered Disney name...
...Can a man marry his collie...
...Another said that it was a joy to realize that she could aggressively initiate a flirtation: "I felt I didn't have to passively wait for a man to do it--I was the man," she said...
...Being serious about your work," says Luther, "brings results...
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...DR EDWARD TELLER Preface to Access to Energy: A Selection of Brief Essays, publ...
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...Beckmann cuts through ecology cant and propaganda with style as well as substance...
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...History, too, is laid low in the service of fun and coonin...
...Now, for the sake of oil, "honor" and the "balance of power," we are ready to begin again...
...Toby, the black child assigned to be Johnny's companion and protector, gushing about how Uncle Remus' stories are the best in "all the United States of Georgia...
...When the imagining was over, the participants opened their eyes and began to talk about their experiences...
...If this should take place in the form of cash, then a whole battery of legislation and t'egulation must follow to keep it from being sucked back out by landlords as extra profits...
...The "dream" became a reality...
...Barbara Mikulski, patriot and progressive: Entertainers of America ! The entertainment industry is saluted with an "act of congress...
...Should Bishop Paul Moore admit cows into the clergy...
...I didn't want to visualize i t . " Another said that he was equally reluctant in making the attempt, "but when I finally did," he said, "I felt that I sure was having a whole lot more fun...
...Throughout most of those 442 days--until, finally, serious, secret negotiations were joined --our Government engaged in transparent posturing and truculence...
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...Medford Evans in AMERICAN OPINION ACCESS TO ENERGY is fiercely independent and beholden to nobody...
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...Petr Beckmann, who holds two earned doctorates, is an eloquent voice of scientific reason in the midst of art the antinuclear hysteria...
...He simply wants animals to have some of the rights of man--the right to move about and socialize with their fellow pigs or calves, or whatever . . . And asking if I'm a vegetarian is like asking if I'm a Christian...
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...February 7, 1981] Miscellaneous From Spotswood, New Jersey (08884) a singular missive proclaims news of our tumescent cultural renaissance and of the high-minded doings of the Hon...
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...How, you ask, can Bre'r Rabbit stories told to children be harmful...
...Oberbeck in CONSERVATIVE DmEST Although Petr Beckmann's primary purpose is not the furtherance of a free-market principle - his foe is the Luddite and technology-hater who is strangling our energy sources - he is actually doing more for liberty than all the amateur theoreticians in the libertarian movement put together...
...ment of revolutionary Iran and reveals Emperor Jimmy in all his terrifying splendor: If we belabor the thesis of American empire, it is only because there is nothing more dangerous in this nuclear age than such an empire behaving childishly out of national frustration and pique disguised as national honor and pride...
...For the first time in the history of the world, a bill has been introduced to congress for an entertainer . . . That's history...
...The animal cartoon characters are treated just as badly, all having either tattered hats or coon dialects--or both-just like the human coon characters...
...If Pulitzer prizes were given on an unbiased basis to outspoken and authoritative journals, one would certainly be given to AccEss TO ENERGY...
...LmEg'r,~a,~ REVmW [1974] Beckmann is concerned primarily with tilting at malicious windbags who befoul the environment with exhalations of technical garbage...
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...Then they were asked to imagine what it would be like to encounter a child...
...And if it is after the Civil War, why isn't there a single indication--in the scenery, in the dialogue or at least in the characterization of the blacks--that slavery is over...
...Jacques and Luther split all-their expenses (from a combined income of around 165,000) and see themselves as independent but together...
...the United States especially chose to ignore their inhumane treatment...
...Jeff Trachtman, "a senior in p o l i t i c s at New York University," available only in The Nation, for one hundred and fifteen years a journal of bulls and bull: I was a small child in the 1960s and breathed a premature sigh of relief when it seemed as if my generation might fall between wars...
...February 16, 1981] The Chicago Tribune Dr...
...Well, they can add Hollywood to the list...
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...December 2, 1980] Newsweek And yet another indication of the high-grade intellect that reads the dilenante's delicatessen, this time a reader full of helium: What a magnificent piece of journalism...
...he is also a formidable fighter...
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...But I hope it will not be forgotten that only since the ousting and death of the Shah--a Iongtime friend of this nation --have the Iranian people themselves tasted freedom, unknown .to them for dt...
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...HIS publication, AcCESS TO ENERGY, is one of the most powerful libertarian documents in the country...
...Yes, I am and no, I'm not...
...The staff at Newsweek should be proud-almost as proud as we Americans on that memorable day...
...Patricia Ann Emanuele Nationwide Holiday Campaign for "E/vis Presley" The Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning sage Miss Ellen Goodman hands down another universal truth about those members of humankind too hung up on macho 44 "~I-IE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1981 to shave their legs or underarms: BOSTON--In every female life there is an inevitable confrontation with something called The Secret All-Male Club...
...AccEss TO ENEROY remains an irreplaceable national resource for the layman who wants to understand what energy is all about...
...That's sad...
...This is the one crucial bylaw of every male club...
...Like every conservative, he is staunchly progressive on this matter and valiantly fights the reactionary conservationists...
...Ron Finney, a professional minoritarian: I.ately, black leaders across the country have been expressing dire fears of troubled times ahead...
...The entertainer...
...Jacques points out the two have "separate physical and metaphysical lives," as well as separate friends...
...February 15, 1981] The Nation Reproachful once again, the worthy Nation surveys our recent harass...
...Another said, "I just felt so, wellwtall...
...In almost those words, coaches and psychologists worry about the boy-ego and sacrifice the girl-ego to it...
...For most of us, the big moment comes in fourth grade when the boys who can say no more about the opposite sex than "Girls are yucky...
...He knows how to use facts, and he is an expert with that most devastating of literary weapons, humor...
...He is also a staunch advocate of free-market, limitedgovernment ideals...
...Another man, who also had got past his initial difficulty with the exercise, said that "it was the first time I ever thought I'd want to be a woman--because I sensed that it would make me feel closer to people...
...Says Jacques, an only child, "We know a lot of people, aged 20 to 50, who want to remain single and who are non-sharers...
...1 embrace many things...
...House joint resolution #488, introduced to Congress by Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, from Baltimore, Maryland...
...God bless and sustain him in his campaign for intellectually decent thought processes...
...Many of the Shah's prisoners dM not survive, and they never received the coverage the hostages have...
...anuary 17, 1981] The Richmond Times-Dispatch Zoo keepers tremble as one of the foremost journals of the late Confederacy reports on the doings of famed animal liberationist Michael W. Fox, author of Returning to Eden: Animal Rights and Human Responsibility and Understanding Your Dog...
...Mamb 19811 The New York Times Proof that the Toronto vice squad has grown fat and lazy: It could have been the ultimate antisexist exercise, although its purpose was more modest than that...
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...January 27, 1981] The Los Angeles Times The grim state ofkultur under the California sun, as unmasked by Mr...
...Stupid dirty jokes...
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...AccEss TO E~ERGY is the best single concise source of up-totheminute facts - facts to confound the anti-science, ant# technology, anti-free-enterprise demagogy of the eco-freak doom-criers...
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...Well, for a time, the fourth-grade boys succeed in making their fefiaale classmates mad and little sisters sad...
...Edith Efron in REASON Beckmann puts out (independent of the University) an excellent monthly newsletter called AccEss "re EUERGY, which he describes as being "pro-science, pro-technology, pro-free enterprise...
...Nineteen women and four men sat in a circle in a hotel conference room in Toronto, and began to undergo what their leader called a ',guided fantasy...
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...CULTURAL WATCHDOG NEWSLETTER ACCESS TO ENERGY is a voice of reason amidst the strident shouts of the antinuclear reactionaries--- Dr Petr Beckmann is author, editor, and professor of engineering at the University of Colorado...
...But one day the girls find out what is going on inside the club...
...Anthony Harrigan in SENSING TRE NEWS 9 ACCESS TO ENERGY blends science and technology with political reality in ways that open up and explain issues and policies concerning energy and environment especially...
...Luther says he has learned to anticipate, avoid, and give in where Jacques's feelings are concerned...
...Men have problems with female athletes largely because of the must-win mentality of "masculinity": Boys are better so how can a girl be best...
...C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Newsweek Reflections of an historical and metaphysical nature from a Newsweek reader and world citizen: Certainly the stories of the retui'nees about their treatment will cause outrage here...
...Not just because girls are invading the last male preserve of team sports, but because girls were the cushion that stopped a boy from hitting bottom: No matter how bad one was at games and sports, girls could always be counted on to be worse...
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...Surely Vietnam was crazy enough to keep us at peace for decades...
...Samuel McCracken in CO~amSNTARY In issue after issue, the editor cuts through the simplified thinking of the mass media...
...They point to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, challenges to civil-rights legislation, mysterious killings, the Reagan presidency, joblessness and inflation...
...Rent control laws, coupled with housing maintenance provisions, code enforcement, and the like, can then make sense...
...Some women spoke about their feelings of power: "I was King Kong," said one, smiling, "and it was great...
...They take half their meals together, but they think many of the problems that couples have stem from doing too much together...
...in US House of Representatives, June 6 and 13, 1979 Petr Beckmann is not only a good, conscientious engineer and a lucid writer...
...IMPORTANT: Allow six weeks for address change...
...February 9, 1981] The Nation A magisterial bull in the autobiographical mode from Mr...
...It accepts no advertising, no contributions, no subsidies, no dips into taxpayers' money...
...In a take-off on the coon-scared-oftheghost bit, Toby having to pinch Johnny to confirm that he is real...
...Tom Bethell in AMERICAN SPECTATOR A professor of electrical engineering, Dr Beckmann knows just about everything there is to know about nuclear physics, everything that happens to it in the ocean of ideological and political distortions, and everything being done about it in Congress to boot...
...Letty Cottin Pogrebin, heaves up another hopeful, albeit crackpot, lucubration on castration, masculinization, and the further propagandizing of American youth, this time beyond the classroom and onto the playground: If sexism is to be brought to an end in the years ahead, changing the ways our children play is a first and essential step, This is because while "having fun," children are supposed to learn the sex-role basics: Boys must be competitors and girls cheerleaders, boys must be fleet of foot, girls full of grace, et cetera, et cetera and not vice versa...
...1 don't like the 'isms' of any kind...
...The slaves returning from the fields, singing in perfect harmony about how fortunate they are to be on the plantation...
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...Fox is an expert in this field: Michael Fox, a mild-mannered scientist with a sagging mustache, is quite reasonable about his approach to animal rights...
...Luther notes, "I come from a big family with lots of close ties...
...I just couldn't visualize it," said one...
...In fact, I would be glad to eat happy beef and happy chicken...
...it issued threats it never intended--or was capable of--carrying out...
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...Common sense told us from the beginning that the use of military force would rescue only a highly inflated sense of national kidnapping, force is rarely a feasible option . . . . The national crisis just ended should have, at the very least, compelled us as a nation to face up to and learn from the hatred foreign peoples feel for our far-flung economic empire...
...Using the power of patient suggestion, she summoned her charges' imaginations in the quiet foom~ She asked them all to visualize how they would feel, how they would think and how they might move as members of the opposite sex...
...What is going on inside is this: the fourth-grade boys are sitting around, giggling and telling dirty jokes...
...2 special issue, "A Day to Remember," rates as one of the finest examples of inspired writing, editing, photography and layout I have ever seen...
...2) demolishing the utterly false myths about nuclear waste disposal FREE...
...February 9, I981] The Progressive Once again The Progressive shows its knack for capturing the spirit of the age: There is in fact no way that America's inner.city housing blight can be alleviated without a massive redistribution of income in society...
...I'm a conscientious omnivore...
...Or $1 in ore-1964 silver coins...
...Take a moment to stop and think...
...We are so proud of Elvis Presley, he knew this was the land of opportunity, and he set an example to "reach the American dream...
...suddenly hang a notice on some door or other that rules: NO GIRLS ALLOWED...
...The men, however, said they had had some difficulty in performing the exercise...
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Vol. 14 • April 1981 • No. 4
