The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS May through June 4, and a bravc.battlc is being waged in our nation's capital. Such honorable gentlemen as the Speaker of the House, the Chairman of the Ways and...
...The government reported that New York and New Jersey accounted for more than half of all wiretaps authorized in the United States, and Mrs...
...Charles Manson that the local fuddyduddies shaved his head and burned his seraglio...
...The cause of science suffered a painful setback when Mr...
...The U.S...
...House of Representatives on May 7 voted to give the federal budget the pruning that President Reagan has urged...
...The new policy is "non-negotiable," the administrators insist, but the campus's young intellectuals are fighting back...
...Unfortunately he only succeeded in charcoal broiling his feet and in getting badly battered by enraged firedancers who viewed him as a shameless infidel...
...One can buy a lot of votes with $1 trillion, and with that kind of treasure available one has a very good chance of mystifying the doltish as to the source of the attendant inflation, unemployment, and economic malaise...
...Clark's squawks had gone unnoticed for five days...
...There are also fragrances and visual effects...
...In the memorable words of Dean Thomas Blackburn, "the implicit violence of the fire places the act in a category not far from cross burning or the torching of synagogues...
...Peter's Square causing thousands of America's most sedulous television watchers to complain when bulletins interrupted their soap operas...
...According to one sniveler-an aspiring broadcast student-Professor Neusner "called me a jerk in- class...
...However, the estimable pol admonished his audience never to imitate the repressive right's "philosophies," for the "New Right hate groups" such as Moral Majority and Stop ERA ' 'support old fashioned ideas of sexism, racism, and anti-semitism...
...How will the university duplicate the priceless experi ence if coeducational toilets are banished...
...At any rate, by 8 p.m...
...As further provocation the brutes had worn three-piece suits...
...The Reagan Terror continues to spread...
...Albans, Vermont have established a committee to revive the pillory...
...Helen Steiner Rice, the queen of neoconservative culture, died...
...They think he remains ignorant of the fact that the aforemen tioned lucre belonged to him in the first place...
...On May 10 M. Francois Mitterrand, vowing to transform France into the Great Britain of Continental Europe, triumphantly carried the banner of French Socialism to victory over France's equivalent of Jimmy Carter...
...Nonetheless the liberals still have their little victories...
...Jona Sitohang, the possessor of 15 wives, so frightened his neighbors in a remote Indonesian village by proclaiming himself the spiritual heir of Mr...
...Finally, in an act eloquently illustrative of the sheer gasconade into which the New Politics has devolved, 5,000 demonstrators appeared at the Lincoln Monument on May 25 to protest the killings of 30 children in Atlanta...
...In fact if they have their way they will have windfall tax revenues totalling over $1 trillion a year by 1985...
...Nor was scientific rationalism's repute enlarged when Mr...
...They have published a learned bull proclaiming that "shared toilet facilities is a valuable part of the educational experience," an insight understood by educators for thousands of years...
...They like the grateful beam in the lowly Americano's eye when they bestow a little lucre into his outstretched palm...
...Some 50 members of the Assembly of Yahweh religious sect sold their earthly possessions and gathered at Coney Island on May 25 to await the crack of doom...
...and police with emergency vehicles were standing by...
...George Mills, a computer expert, endeavored to strike the scales of superstition from the eyes of Greece's fanatical firedancers by scudding barefooted across their sacred coals...
...And in Trenton, New Jersey city officials responded arctically to the owner of the Reiss clothing store when he presented them with a $450 bill for damage done when the local fire department extracted from the store's chimney Mr...
...Then again at Swarthmore College, where Men's Cooperative-a "men's support and discussion group"-observed Blue Jeans Day by inviting students to wear blue jeans in support of homosexuality, three students face expulsion for having burned a pair of blue jeans in protest...
...Felicita tions to the prof...
...Such honorable gentlemen as the Speaker of the House, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and the House Democratic leader are defying our debonair President and fighting nip and tuck against his tax cuts...
...T-shirts, buttons, and ribbons were on sale but no one had a good word for capital punish ment...
...Auditory experiences are only part of the educational benefits available with coeducational toilets...
...RET...
...Glenn Clark, a burglar who had become stuck there in the course of carrying out professional services...
...And at Brown University, Professor Jacob Neusner will be very lucky if he is not charged with child abuse...
...the faithful began shuffling back to the pawn shops...
...Surpris ingly, Yahweh never went to work...
...Powerful forces in St...
...And in Indianapolis, Indiana ex-Senator Birch Bayh notified the National Federation of Democratic Women that Ronald Reagan and the "repressive right" had shown impressive organizational skills in the 1980 election...
...Rice had writ ten thousands of religious, inspirational, and greeting poems for the Gibson Greeting Card Company of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...On May 12 the New York State Court of Appeals defied the hate groups and ruled that the state could not prohibit the use of children in the portrayal of sexual activities...
...Administration members spoke at dozens of university commencements, there being only a handful of campuses where students and faculty were courageous enough to have the fiends barred...
...They like their perks...
...On May 13 Pope John Paul II was shot in St...
...The historic event was scheduled for 3 p.m...
...Perhaps he was too preoccupied with the absurd spectacle...
...For 49 years Mrs...
...That's his style...
...Mills opined his touching belief that a "right mental attitude" would have carried him over the fire intact...
...On May 6, the United States boarded up the Libyan Embassy, ordering Colonel Qaddafi's diplomatists to pack up their goats and chickens and assassination paraphernalia and vamoose to the land of the sand and the high-pitched execration...
...Professor Neusner published com mencement objurgations in the student news paper that were so abusive toward Brown's graduating seniors that over 50 sniffling seniors were roused to write letters of protest-an astounding show of intellectual vigor for the class...
...At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the educational experience has been imperiled by timorous administrators threaten ing to end university policy of coeducational toilets...
...If the honorable gentlemen have their way we shall be paying vastly higher taxes...
...And there are hard days ahead for Planned Parenthood in Newport, Tennessee, where a jury ordered Stokely Van Camp to pay $2,500 to a man who had found a condom in one of the company's cans of pork and beans...
...Will it offer cassette recordings of members of the opposite sex on the stool...
...John D. Thompson who last month motored a 47-ton bulldozer through a two and one-half mile residential district of Gillette, Wyoming, has been handed over to the shrinks of the Wyoming State Hospital...
...If our President has his way we shall all be paying slightly higher taxes next year...
Vol. 14 • July 1981 • No. 7