The Best of Current Wisdom
Jackasses, The Usual
Foreign Policy A stupendous e l u c i d a t i o n of the A y a t o l l a h Khomeini's Divine Fascism from Dr. Richard Falk, a Beethoven in the foreign policy art: One of Washington's problems...
...Pulitzers from the USSR," VI, 4-5...
...Review of Lear's No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture...
...Especially if they didn't proselytize...
...Billy Bee," VIII, 4-5...
...April28...
...X, 29-31...
...in American terms, there were no freedoms here of the variety we cherished...
...50 percent of Congress will be female within 25 years...
...V, 30-32...
...CRUTCHER, ANNE...
...A Few Liberals Sober Up" (The N a t i o n ' s Pulse), I, 29-32...
...I just felt like it...
...III, 34-36...
...and Pink and Brown People, and Other Controversial Essays...
...Big Man On Campus" (The Talkies), X, 20-22...
...but he would love to take on the job--if only so he could make this country a moral and wonderful place to live...
...The True Liberal," XII, 20, 22-26...
...Summertime Follies" (Presswateh), X. 24-25...
...It is entirely different from the harsher Sunni variety that currently prevails in Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Pakistan, among other Moslem nations...
...As to the alleged murder of Anglican Bishop Janini Luwum, she said...
...In t h e l i s t i n g s , the Roman numeral refers to the number o f the 'issue, while the Arabic numerals refer to the pages on which the article appears...
...Sea sponges are sea animals...
...For too long childless women have been made to feel that they were inferior and unnatural . . . . " M o t h e r ' s Day is one of the worst times for such women...
...Review of Shorris's Jews Without Mercy: A Lament...
...Henchmen" (Presswatch), XI, 22-23...
...Naturally most of the shops were clean out of bunnies, it being the day before Easter, but finally one guy told me he might have one my size if I rushed fight down...
...Bitter...
...listened to long conversations about the phenomenological weirdness of familiar reality and the great spiritual questions this e n t a i l e d - - f o r example, "Do you think Wallace Stevens is a head...
...May 10...
...A New Flock of Sheep" (The Public Policy), 1X, 20-21...
...the patron of emotion in plants (on the basis of one unduplicated test), now reports finding evidence of feeling in yogurt...
...In this profound, disquieting, and extensively researched book he concludes that the emergence of man can be traced to the practice of cannibalism...
...BERNS, WALTER...
...The R**l*ty Principle," X, 4-5...
...19801 The Washington Post Honest Edward l a u n c h e s a n o t h e r whopper: Health care in America is restricted to the privileged few...
...D'SOUZA, DINESH...
...A Cross of Gold," V, 4-5...
...Losing that Populist Touch: Ronald Reagan's Crumbling Coalition," IX, 17-19...
...November 25...
...Cyrus Vance, r e g a r d i n g the common decency of the Plains, Georgia, Miracle Man and Mr...
...our first woman President will be the wife of a famous person...
...Eminentoes), V, 24-26...
...Ill, 38-39...
...Leonid Brezhnev, moderate Stalinist: When the two men eventually sit down together, they will get along well...
...September29...
...A dozen psychics tackled the big question...
...we do not sin...
...unless sexual, always seemed tedious...
...9 EASTLAND, TERRY...
...And he did--a white woolly one with floppy pink ears and a dumb round tail...
...II, 30-32...
...That is only one of the surprising assertions advanced by anthropologist Oscar Kiss Maerth...
...April 24...
...These findings are attributed to lvor Mills, professor of medicine at Cambridge University and a respectable endocrinologist of 56 with 22 lines in "Who's Who...
...FLEW, ANTONY...
...It doesn't matter who you're in bed with if you're in bed when the revolution comes," she said...
...that natural sea sponges could bc used as an alternative to paper sanitary napkins o1" tampons...
...The time has come to celebrate Non-Mother's Day and to recognize those whose social conscience has persuaded them not to have children...
...The men who died in Vietnam aren't any less dead than Bishop Luwum...
...He thinks there are so many nasty shenanigans going on that we need a,good man to go in and clean it up...
...19781 Family Weekly During a descant on boyfriend Hugh H e f n e r , Miss Barbie Benton rephrases the political thought of the New YoFk Times's editorial page: Hef is highly intelligent and very political minded...
...X, 38-40...
...Review of Poole's Instead of Regulation: Alternatives to Federal Regulatory Agencies...
...Gerald L. Krick: While everyone else is celebrating Mothcr's Day Sunday, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Park will turn things around and celebrate Non-Mother's Day...
...And I wore it right out of the store, got in the car, drove down Hollywood Boulevard . . . and this amazing thing happened...
...We are, after all, on the same side...
...No man is our m a s t e r . . . [addressing the National Press Clubl...
...no freedom to publish, no opposition of political parties, no freedom to write books or create works of art...
...AUSPITZ, JOSIAH LEE...
...Richard Falk, a Beethoven in the foreign policy art: One of Washington's problems in formulating a position toward Khomeini's movement may be its relative ignorance of the ayatollah's philosophy and of Shi'ite Moslem doctrine generally...
...BALDWIN, FRED D. "No Time for Fraud: Roberta Karmel on the SEC,'" a review essay of Karmel's Regulation by Prosecution: The Securities & Exchange Commission versus Corporate America...
...Review of Letwin's The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct...
...Review of Prange's At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor: Toland's Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath: and Lewin's The American Magic: Ciphers, Codes and the Defeat of Japan...
...GILDER...
...Contrary to the superficial reports in the American press about his attitude toward Jews, women, and others, Khomeini's Islamic republic can be expected to have a doctrine of social justice at its core...
...FAIRBANK, JOHN K. "Duck Soup," with a reply from Miriam and lvan D. London, XI, 18-19...
...V, 7-13...
...Hoff/nan's of San F r a n c i s c o " (The Great American Saloon Series), VIII, 28-29...
...Spring 19741 The New Republic Ken Bode, politics editor of the New Republic, r e v e a l s the f a i t h of a fundamentalist Liberal: I think Andy Young will turn out to be President Carter's best appointment...
...But there were other freedoms: freedom from starvation, discrimination, exploitation, slavery and early death...
...March 24...
...But I liked people who inclined the drug way...
...Review of Friedan's The Second Stage...
...He'd be a good politician because he likes to see everyone happy and he just can't stand the slums...
...Review of White's America in Search of ltself: The Making of the President 1956-1980...
...Pop's Diner" (The Talkies), VII, 26-27...
...P r o l e t a r i a n Evolution," Ill, 5-6, 40...
...Ayn Rand, R.I.P...
...DANNHAUSER, WERNER J. "The Trivialization of Friedrich Nietzsche," a review essay of A l l i s o n ' s The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Inter ~ pretation...
...Over Vinocur," includes review of G r e e n f i e l d ' s The Real Campaign (Presswatch), VIII, 21-24...
...On this day their so-called inadequacy is made to stand out like a missing leg...
...Reply to van den H a a g ' s " G i l d e r i n g the Lily" (The Nation's Pulse), V, 23...
...Review of Holl a n d e r ' s Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba...
...Don't these creatures have as much right to live as the creatures on the land...
...Other predictions: two women will run in 1976, one having light hair and an M in her name...
...VI, 40...
...December 8. 19731 The Washington Post Proof of renewed enthusiasm fl)r th,: legal code of medieval Germany fron~ feminist lawyer Florynce Kennedy...
...Review of Ginzburg's Within the Whirlwind...
...While two--a Tarot expert and a n u m e r o l o g i s t - - r u l e d out a woman President "for the foreseeable future," the rest thought otherwise, with seven pinpointing 1984 and 1988...
...Review of W o l f e ' s A Life in Two Centuries...
...Natural's answer to SueSeliny...
...BRENDA L. Review of Lebowitz's Social Studies...
...Supply-Side and Other S c a r c i t i e s " (Presswatch), II, 24-26...
...April 1982 V: May 1982 VI: June 1982 VII: July 1982 VIII: Aug ust 1982 IX: September 1982 X: October 1982 XI: November 1982 XII: December 1982 ASMAN, DAVID...
...A Question of Faith," XI, 4-5...
...He views man's aggression, obsessive sex drive, and unbalanced intellect as direct consequences of a carnivorous diet and explains how man can--indeed must-rediscover his true place in nature or face self-destruction...
...February 2. 1975] Newsweek Shana Alexander...
...Yet the evidence is mixed...
...November 12...
...19791 The Chicago Sun-Times Zoological findings full of dire import for New Age Homo sapiens: Career women in modern Britain~under the added stress of looking after husbands and children--are growing hairy chests and hairy stomachs...
...The Rev...
...Washington, D.C.I [April 15...
...While reporting the Vietnam War, the news media described the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front as "the enemy," as if they were the enemy of the news media . . . . The end of the war was typically headlined as "the fall of South Vietnam," with scarcely a recognition that, by other values, it could also be considered a l i b e r a t i o n , or, neutrally, a change in governments...
...The dog--named for the early 20th century a n a r c h i s t - - b e l o n g e d t o the t e a c h e r of a class on "Feminism and Socialism" and the karate moves were lifted from a self-defense course...
...VI, 36-40...
...IV, 38-39...
...Zone Defense" (Presswatch), VI, 27-30...
...The occasion: a Psychic Sail around Manhattan to benefit Long Island's Hampton Animal Shelter...
...resident sage of Newsweek magazine, glows while r a t t l i n g off the b e n e f i t s of life in a Red paradise, benefits about equal to the benefits of life in any American penitentiary: If we know one thing about the government founded by Ho Chi Minh...
...and opium...
...Sure I care about the trees, but they're plants, and sponges are animals...
...VIII, 36-38...
...The scientific method as applied to the study of politics by progressive and e n l i g h t e n e d women of t h e fevered brow: Is there a woman President in America's future...
...magazine: There have been incidents of execution for homosexual rape and flogging for theft and alcohol consumption . . . . At the center, there has been a struggle mounted around the issue of the status of women...
...February 1974] Newsweek The governor of the sovereign state of C a l i f o r n i a . Edmund G. Brown, betrays Kantian roots: The trouble with the drunk-driving laws is that drunk and sober are metaphysical concepts...
...DECTER, MIDGE...
...Or soon we'll be vomiting on each other...
...What better way to find out than to ask some of the world's most famous psychics...
...why not vomit all over him...
...December 1, 1977] The Index includes all articles published in The American S p e c t a t o r from January through December 1982...
...August 1. 1975] Ms...
...Whatever Happened to America...
...BISHOP, JOSEPH W. JR...
...BARTHOLOMEW, DOUGLAS...
...Whatever Happened to Liberalism...
...V, 37-38...
...Reaganism Meets the Third World" (Spectator's Journal), I, 24-26...
...1880-I920...
...February 28...
...Occasional Economics," IV, 5-6, 39...
...Senator Edward Kennedy speaking before the National Conference on Rural America...
...He said he had found a trace of jealousy (or pleasedness) between one yogurt container and the next, which had been fed some milk...
...BROOKHISER, RICHARD...
...it is that its social services are excellent: good health care, day care, and educational programs abound, especially for the poor...
...You Can Get There From Here, 19751 United Press International I n t e l l e c t u a l news from Oak Park, Illinois, where the WCTU drinking f o u n t a i n has been r e p l a c e d by the Rev...
...The Once and Future Israel," IX, 4-5...
...BECKER...
...Once I drank absinthe...
...Richard Ellman, n o t e d c r i t i c and b e l - l e t r i s t , c a l l s for emunctory demo n s t r a t i o n s on b e h a l f of peace and enlightenment: The next time you hear a politician talking about nuclear war...
...Once 1 swallowed twenty glycerine caps of peyote...
...1977] Time A comforting pronunciamento from the S e c r e t a r y of S t a t e , Mr...
...XII, 11-16...
...GEORGE...
...Taxing Interest Rates" (The Public Policy), I, 22 -24...
...1 don't ha~e anything against mothers but I do have something against a society that forces or encourages them to become mothers...
...Review of Mitchell's The Essential Earthman...
...COHEN, ELIOT A. Review of Hamilton's Monty: The Making of a General (18871942...
...He thinks the Presidency would be a step down from being Hugh Hefner...
...19741 Partisan Review The tortuous development of a Partisan Review intellectual as related by Mr...
...The two classes reflect the diversity of the five weeks of lectures and discussions at the institute, named Sagaris for the double-edged sword of the Amazons representing women's strength . . . . Linda, a young blonde who asked that her last name not be used . . . . said: "'It's been very politicizing for all the straights and now they know they should support us instead of being ashamed of us...
...19751 The New York Times The i l l u s t r i o u s New York Times r e p o r t s on the f i r s t s t i r r i n g s of yet another liberation movement whose time has come: Cleve Backster...
...Affirmative Voting Rights" (The Public Policy), IV, 24-27...
...Spring 19791 The Nation A dizzy report on the Ayatollah's lran t u r n s up e x c i t i n g news for the circulation department of Ms...
...David F e l t o n n o t i f i e s h i s a r d e n t r e a d e r s of y e t another learning experience available to all post-Kafka intellectuels: 1 wanted a bunny suit...
...from all indications, it will be flexible in interpreting the Koran, keeping the "book of research" open to amendment and adaptation based on contemporary needs and aspirations...
...1977] Kroch and Brentano's Book Chat New Age Enlightenment s p r e a d s from the e d i t o r i a l page of the New York Times to the realms of scholarly anthropology: Can intelligence be eaten...
...Spooks and Scholars" (Spectator's Journal), VII, 39-40...
...I: January 1982 II: February 1982 III: March 1982 IV...
...The Wimp from Outer Space" (The Talkies), IX, 26-27...
...Congress, Lobbied by Mountebanks," VII, 4-5...
...Capitalism is for G i v e r s , " II, 7-13...
...July 24...
...Back to Nature" (Sex), XII, 29-30...
...Baker Up, Moyers Down" (Presswatch), IV, 28-30...
...Mission to America," XII, 5-6, 53...
...The social effects of "drugs...
...Kicking Around Reagan" (Presswatch), III, 24-26...
...Both of them are strong men and have similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues...
...They sometimes become lustful as well, just like the tired businessman of contemporary myth...
...1974] The Great Books Series Shirley MacLaine, ingenue terrible, appraises freedom's suspicious metamorphosis in Man's China, the polity without flies: The notion of freedom was suddenly suspect...
...November 1974[ Columbia Journalism Review Revelations of diabolical phenomena vouchsafed a g r a t e f u l c i t i z e n r y by Prof...
...VIII, 33-34...
...DONALD, DAVID HERBERT...
...This ethnocentrism is most explicit in foreign news . . . . The clearest expression of ethnocentrism, in all countries, appears in war news...
...Herbert J. Gans, sociologist: Like the news of other countries, American news values its own nation above all others, even though it sometimes disparages blatant patriotism...
...People began staring at me...
...To Western liberals it has confirmed their worst fears about the fanatical character of the Khomeini movement...
...Jogging to the Finland Station" (The Talkies), III, 29-30...
...lI, 38-39...
...BAKSHIAN, ARAM JR...
...Demonstrations have been organized by women, their consciousnesses raised, their voices heard...
...A Conservative Paper Chase" (The Campus), X, 26-28...
...CRANSTON, MAURICE...
...He loves to spend money and would like everyone to have some...
...BAYLES, MARTHA...
...1977] Burlington [Vt.] Free Press Another stupendous achievement for the Mabels, the Beulahs, the Thelmas of t h i s w o r l d ; and a p r o n u n c i - amento t h a t will r i n g through t h e halls of history: The first institute for the study of feminist thought finished its opening session with the participants, all women, doing a dance of karate kicks as a red-haired dog named Emma Goldman roamed the floor...
...Leonard Michaels, chemist: In the fifties 1 smoked marijuana, hash...
...XII, 8-11...
...BETHELL, TOM...
...The constitution he proposes has been drafted by political moderates with a strong belief in minority rights...
...Kennedy said that much of the public criticism of Amin can be traced to the a t t i t u d e that " i f a black person is in charge of a country he i s n ' t really supposed to be in charge...
...February 15...
...Closing Time" (The Great American Saloon Series), VI, 32-33...
...Commenting on the charges that Amin has directed the killings of thousands in his country, she said: "'Sovereign governments are in the process of killing people all the time...
...Xl, 15-18...
...January~February 1979] Rolling Stone The i n i m i t a b l e Mr...
...The entourage around Khomeini...
...Review of Sowell's Ethnic America: A History: Markets and Minorities...
...CALINESCU, MATEI...
...in fact, has had considerable involvement in human rights activities and is committed to a struggle against all forms of oppression...
...Gerald R. Krick said Friday: "The time has come to honor those women who have not had children...
...We are all for women...
...19751 Vegetarian Times The heretofore irreproachable editor of Vegetarian Times is notified of a shocking d e r e l i c t i o n by an unsung rigorist now slowly starving somewhere amid our amber waves of grain: 1 cringed when I read Ms...
...Capitol Ideas" (regular feature): "Good Writer Greider," l, 5-6...
...Which 1 did...
...There is a purity of intent in journalism that is unique...
...long-time advocate of trial by ordeal and compurgation: Florynce Kennedy, a New York feminist attorney, called Uganda President Idi Amin "an outstanding figure" at a Yale Law School conference in New Haven Saturday...
...BARNES, FRED...
...S o l i d a r i t y No More," II, 5-6...
...BEICHMAN, ARNOLD...
...Because of his personal stature and the presidential confidence he obviously enjoys--and, yes, tiecause of his outspokenness and the color of his skin--he is the right man in the right job at the right time...
...and instead of feeling embarrassed, I f e l t . . . I don't know . . . strengthened, more confident, healthier...
...Name withheld by request [January~February 1980] National Public Radio Addressing the r a p t audience of NPR's n i g h t l y " r a d i o magazine," "All Things Considered," Dr...
...1975] Human Events Walter C r o n k i t e solemnizes the idiotic: . . . as a class when all of our wrongs are many...
...VIII, 34-36...
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