Current Wisdom
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...He then spoke of his first visit to Africa and the sad realization that he was not at home there...
...The equivalence he made between free enterprise and free expression was no doubt a strategy to attract back the support of Yale alumni alienated by Brewster's "radical" administration: But it also marked a significant change in the political atmosphere of the university.: A few months later Giamatti would;announce that academic institutions were "tributaries of society, designed_ to service its needs and demands-the utilitarian definition of the university...
...Beverly Jones credited him with giving her a new awareness of the world situation and the The New York Tunes Interviewed in the New York Times, Jane Fonda speaks of 'Vietnam and sounds like a surprisingly good German: Two years ago, when Joan Baez and 80 other former activists drafted a petition criticizing the new Communist leadership of Vietnam for its treatment of political prisoners, Miss Fonda and her husband refused to sign it...
...Response afterwards was enthusiastic...
...I want to comment on the Billie J can King homosexual affair...
...This is what the story of Jean Harris and Hy Tarnower has done...
...Ann Carver of the English department called him "one of the most perceptive thinkers around...
...There is plenty for all...
...The woman says this with blistering vengeance...
...Phyllis...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M...
...Terry .. . Elizabeth . . . Janet . - . Barbara . Elaine...
...Those who dislike working should not be forcedd to, nor should they be penalized by depriving them of the benefits of our society...
...It is saying to poor people in Tucson, the Bronx and Oakland: You must not only live in substandard housing...
...You must remember that the grandeur of the cosmos is built by the dual origin...
...Theresa C. Burrows Alexandria, Virginia [May 16, 1981] The Washington Post Authoress Toni Morrison, the Jane Austen of Manhattan, displays that sublime quality of mind that recently made her a Newsweek cover story: President Reagan has stated that the government should not be used "to bring about social change"-meaning apparently, that the government role is to curtail social change...
...Fuller talked about his strong grandmother who nourished his interest in Africa and once healed his wounds by suggesting that he was a descendent of an African king...
...Most people prefer to work and that is fine, but others may prefer to sit in the park or go to the beach to observe the wonders of nature...
...Action is needed now, he said...
...and representative Larry McDonald's society to rebuild Western society...
...There are 3S women's names...
...This imperialist spirit is evident today in the freeing of black killers across the U.S...
...Therefore, when the government strangles the art community, it is saying to its own citizens: Your government has no interest in a future, only in a past...
...in the mornings...
...It was no secret, either, 'that Giamatti had voted for Richard Nixon in the presidential elections-both times...
...February 4, 1981] The Washington Post In the correspondence column of the Washington Post, an American logi cian of great gifts enunciates a moral crisis destroying the geniuses of our land...
...That, too, you must live without, even though it may be the single creative, constructive and joyful thing you do...
...Everyone does not feel the same way about working...
...People want to think what they want to think about the Vietnamese because they won and we can't stand that," she says briskly...
...John Kenneth Galbraith is making headway found in the correspondence section of a great American Times: There has been a lot of criticism of people who do not want to work, especially when they are collecting welfare...
...Fuller sees the social problems of the world today as a result of the spirit of western imperialism...
...She is an academic who normally adds historical footnotes and "allegedlys" to her measured opinions...
...Is it possible, therefore, to belittle one element of it...
...It is the duty of blacks to use their inborn healing spirits to counteract these problems...
...March 22, 19811 The New York Times Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, that steatopygic truth-seeker of the New York Times, makes bold to remind us once again of all those various and sundry and multifarious and soporific atrocities committed by our boys during the late holocaust: Nevertheless, for all the detail and horror of "Nam" and "Everything We Had," there is something tedious about the experience of reading them...
...The woman puts the last scoop of cottage cheese on the platter and brings it to the table saying, "I don't know if she did it on purpose or not, but I hope she gets acquitted...
...Frances...
...All the present and coming miseries and the cosmic cataclysms to a great degree result from the subjugation and abasement of woman...
...Why can't we all live and lett live with each to his own style...
...Said Fuller, ''It is our duty as black people to reject the inclination towards the horrible and it is our task to transform America so that we can be at home here at last.'This can be done by allowing the African spiritual values within to come alive...
...March 4, 1981] The Washington Poet The heretofore auspicious sexual revolution meets the women's libera tion movement, during another of Miss Ellen Goodman's dramatic com mentaries on the Tarnower Massacre: BOSTON-"If you want to know what I think, 1 think the guy deserved to die...
...After all, each was devoted to freedom-the one in the classroom, the other in the marketplace...
...the relish of working at your own art...
...January3l, 1981] The Minneapolis Tribune Moral notification to the liberty loving readers of the Minneapolis Tribune: Editors note: Beetle Bailey does not appear on today's comics page because the subject matter of the cartoon strip for release today was considered by Tribune editors to be sexist...
...Our society provides for them and should do the same for those with a natural dislike for work...
...February 16, 1981) 38 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1981...
...February 24, 1981] The Great Books Series In a brave and passionate publishing achievement of the first water, Professor Robert Brustein speaks of the heinous ploys of A. Bartlett Giamatti, Nixon's man at Yale: In a speech to Yale alumni in Boston that summer, Giamatti told the assembled bankers and brokers that private universities had much in common with private enterprise...
...Well, from our perspective, that's rotten, but I don't know enough about what's going on there to criticize...
...She is standing at the sink, briskry chopping the six walnut halves for her Scarsdale diet lunch...
...The Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon) A learned bull from a member of the intelligentsia of J acksonville, Oregon very apt to turn up at the next Democratic National Convention if she still has her freedom: To the Editor: The approaching epoch is closely connected with the ascendency of woman...
...Beetle Bailey will return in Thursday editions...
...June 11, 1981] The Carolina Journal An inspiriting account of a veritable saturnalia of thought and scientific inquiry, recently occurring at the University of North Carolina before the ambulances arrived: "Keep talking, I like to hear the truth," exclaimed an enthusiastic student as Hoyt Fuller delivered his soon to be published lecture on Pan Africanism last Wednesday night in the Lucas Room...
...I had tried to dispute in Venice...
...I feel that she has done so much for the women in this country, in sports and out of sports, it is a shame that we can only see her sin as 'her'' sin...
...June...
...It is saying to that part of the public that can least afford it-to struggling artists and art organizations that have absolutely no access too corporate funds: You must wither while these others flourish...
...For the better part of two hours this author, teacher and black leader held the crowd's attention and called on blacks to contribute to the salvation of this country...
...Listen to this," she says, turning back the pages of the paperback to the acknowledgments...
...Sharon Ruth...
...Some have built-in feelings about it that make it very unpleasant for them when required to work...
...March 30, 1981] The Los Angeles Times Proof that Dr...
...But today she sounds like some advocate of capital punishment for Lotharios...
...We do not punish others with handicaps...
...June 11, 1981] United States...
...with poor health care, inadequate protection and subsistence diets, you must also relinquish your cultural life-line-the reason, sometimes, you get up...
...I smile at her for a moment, because this irate friend is so rarely belligerent...
...It's a country that was totally devastated by war, and I'm sure that harsh measures have been taken to try to rally people around the cause of rebuilding, and that means taking intellectuals and urban people and saying you've got to go into the country and work in the fields, and they don't want to and they're forced to...
...We must all take part of the blame for what happened to her: the pressures, the need we all have for our athletes and movie stars to be so "perfect...
...Alas, we have read it all before, from the stories of live Vietnamese children who were turned into booby-traps by the Vietcong, to the reports of wanton rape and murder by American soldiers driven mad by the elusiveness of the enemy...
...She reads down the list: "Suzanne...
...As in the best days of humanity, the future epoch will again offer woman her right place alongside her eternal fellow traveler and co-worker, man...
...the respite you took forward to of an afternoon...
...The creep should have worn a scarlet B for bastard...
...No wopder William Buckley, conservative columnist and author of God and Man at Yale, remarked, soon after Giamatn's inauguration, that he was the Yale president with whom Buckley felt the closest ideological affinity...
...Making Scenes, Random House, 1981] The New York Review of Books Whilst scrutinizing another of Marilyn French's scholarly tomes, Professor Anne Barton makes a point never too infrequently made by the gals of the feminist enlightenment: Although she sees Shakespeare as the prisoner (like all men) of the misogyny upon which Western civilization is based, a supporter of false and distorting "gender principles" and fraudulent male ''legitimacy,'she believes that he at least subjected these inherited prejudices to a certain amount of scrutiny...
...This could be looked upon as a handicap...
Vol. 14 • September 1981 • No. 9
