Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Writer's Newsletter Art in the Boonies as reported upon by the eloquent Elizabeth Krajeck Cohen in Writer's Newsletter, another prodigy of the Indiana...
...That's a lot more consideration than he showed for Muriel Harchell of Newport News when he broke into her home, took $3,000 and choked her to death when she refused to say where there was more money...
...I have gone as far as I can go with our lives...
...Ronald Leifer, author of Shamans in Scientists Clothing: John Hinckley, J r . prepared to shoot Reagan deliberately...
...Sometimes I do not look closely, so what is actually lying in the road is left to my imagination...
...Have fun...
...If you are, why...
...He was lying outside, on the grass, when R a s p u t i n - - t h e dog, long dead, of his childhood--began licking his face...
...The Courage to Love by William Sloane Coffin [Harper & Row, 1982] The New York Times Pidgin thought from the luminous editorial page of the New York Times: It's a phenomenon that adds a paradoxical twist to the endless debate over capital punishment: men who gave no value to the lives of others show contempt for their own...
...You and I are both part of this free market...
...Or it could be a dog or a squirrel or a bird...
...Police found the couple dead in their car with a suicide note, bankruptcy papeis, a rifle and an empty wallet, according to the New York Times...
...Despite your generous financial support this year, I just received a report telling me we are falling behind schedule in raising money for our campaign programs...
...I can raise my prices and take it away from them...
...I've put off writing to you about this financial crisis because I realize how much you've done already...
...Just as blacks used to be labeled shiftless by whites who made sure there would be no reward for their diligence, so s t r a i g h t s c a l l gays promiscuous while denying support for overtly gay stable relationships--the spouse in the parsonage...
...Unfortunately, after two minutes of flying debris and outrageously dense smoke, no one saw the promised "mid-station of formulating idea/structure . . . in which thought ignites and comes into contact with form...
...I can figure out one, and only one, reason for prices to go up'when the money supply goes up: The greedier businessmen say to themselves, "Hey, the customers have more money...
...When I don't look, I never know for sure what is there...
...Charles Robb stays this serrtence and insists on life imprisonment...
...The cure...
...Then, unions demand higher wages to match (or more than match) the higher prices, and inflation is under way...
...Lord only knows why...
...And when has an electrocution been so tailored to the personal preferences of the killer...
...The greedy rich have been doubletalking down to us in sneers for ages, and we all gobble it up...
...Winter 1982] Grapevine Weekly Magazine (Ithaca, New York) An introduction to logic by the eminent Dr...
...It was the day after Rasputin was put to sleep, years later, that Nell finally stood in the kitchen, his back turned to his parents, and said, with unexpected ease, "I'm a homosexual...
...Coppola wants to be executed in the summer so as to minimize the disruption later when his sons have to go back to school...
...But sometimes 1 do look closely as I pass by...
...If it is a shoe 1 feel good, better than I had been feeling, and I cheerfully drive on to wherever I am going...
...My wife, Kay, and I are hardworking people that have been reduced to beggars almost...
...I t ' s just the 'Invisible Hand,' nothing can be done about it...
...Frank Coppola has alr~.ady killed enough...
...If he's sane and responsible then we'd better stop preparing for nuclear war because there will be nothing left for us to do hut press the button and t h a t ' l l make us exactly like Hinckley...
...June 24-30, 1982] The Village Voice A pithy report on one of the recent masterworks of an aspiring Michelangelo: After signing personal-injury waivers, nearly 50 art lovers entered the Bonlow Gallery last Thursday to view the ignition of Dennis Oppenheim's monumental Launching Structure #2...
...We came to San Antonio to work, not to die," wrote Garza in a suicide note...
...Are you a traitor...
...An Armature for Projection...
...He felt a tingle he did not recognize, pulled off his shirt to give the dog access to more of him...
...I know gays have hang-ups...
...Money doesn't grow on trees, you know...
...Conservative economists keep parroting that inflation is caused by increased money supply, but they never say how or why...
...We are deliberately preparing to use nuclear weapons...
...No " I n v i s i b l e Hand" changes the prices on the tags in a store when the owner is looking the other way...
...July 22, 1982] The Great Books Series With the flap flap of angels' wings all around him, the Rev...
...Then his mother called out, " D i n n e r , " and Rasputin was gone, more interested in food than in him...
...What he felt frightened him, but h e couldn't bring himself to push the dog away...
...From the Fireworks Series...
...Accessibility through no-charge sessions and free chiidcare combined with selective but representational guest artists placed the emi~hasis on rethinking sexually defined notions of women in art and women artists to satisfy a need which perhaps cannot be defined by gender: freedom to create, recreate, and freedom to fulfill personal expression through art and sexual preference...
...Promiscuity is cruel and degrading in any sexual orientation, but straights bear a special responsibility for the promiscuity of gays...
...William Sloane Coffin lays down _9 sociological observations of a moral sort on the problem of our time: I think straight Christians have to reach the same position vis-a-vis gays...
...We hope Gov...
...It's a deliberate preparation for destruction...
...May 31, 1982] International Menu Bulletin The dismal science as illuminated by a genius: I do not believe the " B i g Lie" that economists pawn off on us: that an increased supply of money causes inflation because of some mysterious natural law--a law which is sometimes referred to as "The Invisible Hand...
...This condemned and self-condemned man shows no concern for prisoners on death row elsewhere...
...We must surely be aware that it is management that raises or lowers the prices...
...Rasputin's tongue tickled coolly...
...I am appalled at the promiscuity of some gays, but no more appalled than are many other gays...
...August 10, 1982] In These Times The Darwinian phenomenon sadly discovered in the Great Republic by two crack sociologists for In These Times, a progressive organ of thought: Searching for the American Dream where the sun shines brightly, .where money and rewards trickle down from the White House in the sky like early morning dew, Antonio and Kay Garza left their Ohio home for San Antonio, Texas, only to find their dream shattered in a deserted wasteland...
...Yet I know l'm not raising prices and causing inflation...
...I t ' s better in my pocket than in theirs !" So, they do...
...Or are you just a victim of this "free" market, like the rest of us ? There can be no uncontrollable or unusable natural laws regarding money or economics, since money and economics are man-made inventions...
...If it is a squirrel I am not happy--I am not sure how to feel...
...June 8, 1982] 42 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1982...
...What I have come to recognize is that just as "the black problem" turned out to be a problem of white racism, just as "the woman problem" turned out to be a problem of male sexism, so "the homosexual problem" is really the homophobia of many heterosexuals...
...Either a saner brain in the average human cranium, or strict wage and price controls...
...If " Hinckley's insane then everybody who's in favor of the arms race is insane...
...I call it "The Invisible Hoof...
...May 1982] Republican National Committee Richard Richards, chairman Of the Republican National Committee, begins another doleful yet urgent request for funds from Mr...
...It could be a shoe or a doll or a newspaper or a paper bag...
...so do straights, and I leave these hang-ups to the psychologists...
...But you're one of the few people I know who understands what's at stake in this election...
...May-June 1982] The New Yorker From Alpo to the groin, the innocent origins of another of-America's noble few: Nell was twelve the first time he recognized in himself something like sexuality...
...B u t Reagan economics has nothing trickling down to us...
...C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Writer's Newsletter Art in the Boonies as reported upon by the eloquent Elizabeth Krajeck Cohen in Writer's Newsletter, another prodigy of the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts: The Fourth University of Kentucky Women Writers Conference was held in Lexington, Kentucky on April 1-3 with the purpose of bringing together listeners and writers with guest writers and scholars . . . . The tone of the conference was set by the Department of English at UK which used facilities and funding sources which provided for an open and free conference...
...If they do change, why c a n ' t the owner change them back again...
...Then I know whether the lump is an old shoe or a crushed squirrel...
...And this could hurt President Reagan and our Republican candidates in Indiana and across the nation in a major way...
...August 25-September 7, 1982] Indiana Review A rising Proust blubbers and blubbers in another of the sprightly intellectual reviews supported by our lowly taxpayers via the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts: It is spring, and when I drive I often see lumps in-the middle, or along the side of the road...
...A wet nose started to sniff down his body, toward his bathing suit...
...Are you...
...This "Hand" is supposed to be just a term to describe the workings of the free market, but it sounds a lot like superstitious nonsense to me...
...Or, abolish money and live like civilized human beings for a changd...
...Paul H. Vivian, stalwart fat cat and contributor of $2 to the Republican campaign for an American Renaissance: I have been struggling with this letter for five days because what I must tell you, as a friend, isn't easy...
...They were too busy running for the door...
...Don't take any paper dollars...
...Men like Frank Coppola have no right to make or influence public policy, and there may be no more reverberating public policy question than for the state fo kill...
...His execution will make other executions easier...
...They are different--that's all...
Vol. 15 • October 1982 • No. 10
