Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
C U R R E N T W I S D 0 M Rolling Stone William Greider, feminologist, tells us what the gals want: Women want the madness of the nuclear arms race stopped. Women want the natural environment...
...We were drawing up statements to submit to our guards requesting a more adequate diet, and outlining the legal bases for our requests...
...I am not now nor have I ever been a "cupcake...
...In the middle, Bashir Gemayel's fascist Phalange will rule over a Maronite rump state...
...However, assuming that warning France to stay out of Lebanon is the most plausible motive for terrorist attacks on France, Israel is not the only power that could be so motivated...
...Although you include some propaganda, it seems to me that you really like to stress that you consider tourism an important way of building understanding and peace between countries...
...Margaret W. Rockwell Washington Ear, Inc...
...To begin with, I take umbrage with the reference to Wellesley as "the Cupcake Factory...
...The Syrian secret service, which may be backing the mysterious Abu Nidal assassins...
...However after reading the '78 Class Notes column in the Winter, 1982 issue, there is, I am afraid, no other way for me to respond...
...That doesn't mean that we can't still enforce these preferences by removing offenders from society, perhaps to r e h a b i l i t a t e them, perhaps to punish them...
...Women want the natural environment protected against man-made depredation...
...Just before my release, we had our first (and perhaps last) Vegetarian Prisoners Nutritional Rights workshop...
...They form allegiances, l i t t l e social and political groups within special working situations...
...that would gain from the partition of Lebanon...
...Perhaps even the CIA...
...Women want an activist government that works to reduce the income gap between rich and poor...
...Air Force: " I t ' s almost like an air force within the Air F o r c e , " he said, grasping for an analogy...
...In fact, our ethical preferences, such as abhorrence of murder and assault, don't rest on any presumption of free will...
...August 25-September 7, 1982] The Nation Why do they do it...
...And you feel the subtle pressure to join...
...Yet whoundoubtedly stands to gain the most is the Phalange, one of the world's foremost havens of international rightwing terrorism...
...A lot of people d o n ' t like it...
...I am writing to express my anger at the editorial comment about Jerry Giovaniello...
...they are the natural prescriptions of our biological and cultural heritage...
...To suggest that the end result of the educational process at Wellesley is to produce "cupcakes" is an insult to the institution and its personnel, students and alumnae...
...I find them neither...
...In me this brought on like a fierce intoxicant a rare fit of national pride...
...I am appalled at the insensitivity revealed in this sentence...
...Israel will remain in the south " u n t i l the Syrians l e a v e , " and the Syrians will remain in the north "until the Israelis leave"--that is, forever...
...They want better living conditions for children and for the poor...
...The fundamentalist network is becoming parallel to the 'good old boy' d r i n k i n g network...
...No one wants to come out against the Bible, which is what these fundamentalists would throw at them...
...The days before and after my arrest were filled with wondrous experiences, such tha~ I personally gained far more from the blockade than I sacrificed for it...
...we have meddled in the internal affairs of Italy by subsidizing its Christian Democratic Party with millions of dollars...
...August 9, 1982] New York Review of Books Mary McCarthy makes another melancholy appearance in the bosom of cow-college L i b e r a l i s m ' s old mum: The Watergate break-in of June, 1972, culminating two years l a t e r in the resignation and virtual flight of President Richard Nixon, had the effect of reviving my b e l i e f in the framework of our republic, i . e . , in the Constitution as a practical political instrument...
...P e t e r Woudsma San Juan, Puerto Rico [August 1982] The New Republic A scientific mind makes bold to speak o u t on t h e correspondence page of the venerable New Republic: It is by no means proven that any of us, however sane, has the capacity for free choice t h a t serves as the basis for r e t r i b u t i v e punishment...
...August 19, 1982] In These Times The kind of luminous left-wing ratiocination t h a t stimulates America's activists to good works: petitioning, pamphleteering, composing graffiti, confecting small bombs in their suave town houses: For the first time, some people are saying openly what they only dared think to themselves after Rue Copernic--that the Israeli secretservice Mossad cannot be automatically taken off the list of suspects...
...We deeply appreciate having the Washington Ear added to your complimentary subscription list...
...One of the valuable things I learned first-hand was the plight of the v e g e t a r i a n prisoners who, for health or ethical reasons, cannot eat much of the food provided in j a i l s and prisons...
...Summer 1982] The Great Books Series A frightening r e p o r t on strange happenings now going on w i t h i n t h e U.S...
...The Begin government has been frantically trying to keep the French from sending a peace-keeping force into Beirut...
...But all Presidents since Truman have authorized intervention abroad by the Central Intelligence Agency and the military, in f l a g r a n t violation of that pledge and subsequent ones...
...They want handguns forbidden and social security increased...
...As is becoming increasingly clear even in public statements by people such as Israeli Labor Party leader Shimon Peres, I s r a e l ' s scenario calls for partition of Lebanon...
...Holy Terror by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman [Doubleday, 1982] Soviet Life Two r e a s s u r i n g e p i s t l e s from America to t h e l e t t e r s s e c t i o n of a r e - spected family magazine: On behalf of the blind and handicapped in the Washington metropolitan area who l i s t e n to the Washington Ear, may we extend our sincere thanks to you for supplying us with a subscription to Soviet Life...
...Now there's this different network of people who attend Bible studies together...
...The U.S...
...As a total vegetarian for ethical reasons, the only foods I could eat there were the oranges and "peanut butter and honey" sandwiches--the latter I gave up as a nutritional l i a b i l i t y . Though I swapped my bologna and cookies for extra oranges from fellow prisoners, my diet was still very deficient...
...I assume the exclamation point at the end means the writer found the sentiments expressed amusing or exciting...
...Only France might still try to work for a reunified, democratic Lebanon...
...Silver Spring, Maryland Your publication (I took a subscription in 1981) has been a real eye opener about the USSR--the country, its people, history and your present way of life...
...Although it was good to walk out a free person, it was also a bit disappointing to leave the workshops before they really got off the ground...
...and we have sent our troops to fight in Korea, Lebanon, the Dominican Republic and Indochina to insure the survival of governments favorable to U.S...
...They do not believe the " f r e e e n t e r p r i s e " conservatism of the Reagan government will benefit them...
...Nor, in fact, were any of the women with whom I associated while I was at Wellesley...
...We believe your publications will broaden the materials which we currently offer on our "Points of View: The World" program...
...September 1982] Wellesley Alumnae Bulletin Within the Wellesley Alumnae Bulletin Dr...
...We have overthrown Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala, Bosch in the Dominican Republic, Allende in Chile and possibly Sukarno in Indonesia...
...During shift changes, they'll intentionally leave behind Christian materials at their duty stations...
...In it, our class secretary states, "Jerry is the chief lobbyist of the Senate for the National Association of Realtors so for any of our comrades from the Cupcake Factory who are now striking gold by selling real estate Jerry will be the man to contact about changing laws for your special interest...
...They oppose the draft and they oppose military adventures in foreign lands...
...P a t r i c i a M. O'Brien ( ' 7 8 ) writes a l e a r n e d disquisition on the metaphysics of womanhood at this a u g u s t i n s t i t u t i o n of h i g h e r e d u - cation: I feel it is somewhat unfortunate that my f i r s t l e t t e r to Wellesley has to be negative...
...we have provoked strikes (in Guyana, for instance, during the regime of Cheddi Jagan) and broken strikes (in Marseilles, France, for instance, when dockers refused to unload shipments of arms in 1949-50...
...Sidney Lens reveals the troubling perfidies perp e t r a t e d by our l e a d e r s despite the [strictures of no less a document than the Atlantic Charter: In the Atlantic Charter, signed in 1941, the United States pledged to respect the right of other nations to self-determination...
...September 11, 1982] Vegetarian Times Billy Ray Boyd, educator and lover of g r e e n s , sounds t h e t o c s i n a t t h e journal of 1980s militancy: I recently took time off from my work with the San Francisco Vegetarian Society and from my teaching job to participate in the non-violent blockade of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo, California...
...You'll be going through your in-basket and this l i t t l e piece of Christian l i t e r a t u r e will come out of nowhere, and people at other work centers will discover the same kind of thing waiting for them...
...business interests...
...An impartial consideration of our environmental and genetic history shows that we don't exist as autonomous agents...
...They may bring it up in private, but they'd never say so out loud...
...government is clearly ready to go along with this arrangement...
...Therefore, it is possible that the attack in Paris was engineered by one of the secret services (The Israeli Mossad...
...Naturally this did not l a s t . . . [July 15, 1982] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1982 39...
...Biographical information always undercuts the attribution of autonomy...
...Several vegetarians were among the more than 400 men in the large gymnasium which served as our detention facility...
...You always had sergeants or colonels who would drink together and reminisce over old times, bloody battles in World War II or shared bombing raids over Hanoi...
...But to disallow the role of environmental and genetic factors in producing crime, thus blaming the criminal alone, is to return to a pre-scientific, manifestly false conception of our relations to the world...
...This is why the Hinckley jury found the p r o s e c u t i o n ' s case so unconvincing: the b e t t e r they understood John Hinckley and his circumstances, the less sense it made to suppose that there was in him an independent, blameworthy agent, separate from his behavior and able, because it connects us to our surroundings, to control it...
...The problem is serious and doubtless affects many prisoners, whether they're serving time for a serious crime, an act of conscience or a misdemeanor...
Vol. 15 • November 1982 • No. 11
