Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Rolling Stone Jerry Brown's Simone de Beauvoir sounds off: A number of American musicians have defied the boycott and played South Africa: the Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, Cher, the...
...Service 2 p.m...
...I don't feel I belong anywhere, not at the senior clubs and not at the youth-oriented gay centers...
...he became world's richest house-husband...
...A Dallas homicide investigator testified at a bail hearing earlier this week that Ms...
...September 1, 1983] The Wichita Eagle-Beacon Sobering proof that one person can make a difference: Elda R. Haynes, 88, of 8100 E. Pawnee, retired proofreader for The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, died Wednesday...
...SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) began in New York in 1978...
...War is caused by greed, envy and business suits," said Nudepeace Society leader Korky Day...
...So when these guys came out of a car, well, it was different...
...Twice divorced, widowed, daughter by second husband, son by third...
...Leaving open the possibility of turning to the Soviet Union to build the Air Force considered necessary to counter rebel air attacks and potential conflict with neighboring Honduras, Ortega said in an interview that he saw "no reason why the brand name of the planes should worry the United States...
...Fall 1983] Institute for Policy Studies Adult reading for those urban sophisticates whose armor-plated visages show up at every progressive rally no matter how many Korean Air Lines flights vanish from the sky: NEW TITLE Ariel Dorfman THE EMPIRE'S OLD CLOTHES What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heros Do To Our Minds With wit and wily style, Dorfman snatches the shroud of innocence from the most successful cultural symbols of our time-Superman, the Lone Ranger, Babar the Elephant, Donald Duck, The Reader's Digest, and others...
...It's very strange performing here," she said...
...The baby, Cara Rognaldsen, was dragged from its crib and killed by Ms...
...Stunning provocative perceptions . . . these fierce essays provide thought-provoking, intense reading...
...Coming from such a key, loyal Committee contributor like you, Mr...
...Rognaldsen, when asked for permission to destroy the animal, refused, saying, "I can always have another baby, but I can't replace Byron...
...The day of her death was incorrect in Thursday's Eagle-Beacon...
...There is if you live in New York or San Francisco, and groups for older homosexuals are slowly organizing in other parts of the country...
...In San Francisco, we have at least 10,000 people sleeping in doorways tonight...
...SAGE services are free, and confidentiality is respected...
...Vivian, I know that your pledge, urging him to announce his candidacy, will have a major impact on the President as he makes his decision...
...Is there nothing out therefor me...
...Project GLOE (Gay and Lesbian Outreach to Elders) is run by Operation Concern in San Francisco...
...This nonprofit organization offers frequent workshops on topics of interest to the senior gay and lesbian community, visits to shut-ins and telephone reassurance...
...150 pages with photos from the Community For Creative Non-violence in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit group which operates soup kitchens and shelters...
...He hopes the 30,000 marchers expected for the march through Vancouver's downtown will strip off their clothes to prove "people get peaceful when they're nude...
...The project's 24-hour hotline number is (213) 621-3180, and calls are welcome from all over the country...
...Things seem nice...
...Of course she should have gone to North Vietnam...
...The United States was in the habit of abusing its military power long before the Soviet Union came into existence and is still...
...And I also want to thank you for making such a generous $1.00 contribution to help the Committee defeat scores of liberal Democrats, from the presidential nominee on down, next year...
...The best, the only, book out on this horror is Home-lessness in America: A Forced March To Nowhere...
...The Mexican-American war, the troops in China, the Spanish-American war, the attack on the World War I veterans who marched on Washington during the great depression, the marines habitually sent to the "banana republics," the Vietnam war- these are only a few of the most obvious abuses of U.S...
...My image of these things is that a bunch of scruffy guys come up to you on the street...
...September 24, 1983] New York Senator Christopher Dodd, the Wimp of the Senate, speaks of a recent "going-through-changes" experience: Having never been mugged before, I didn't know exactly what to expect...
...Lennon died 1980...
...The address is 2483 Clay St...
...This is an example of what happens all the time with provocative, social change material which has more mission than budget...
...Vivian: Thank you so much for signing and sending back to me your personal pledge to President Reagan...
...Like when they told Jane Fonda she couldn't go to North Vietnam...
...April 18, 1983] The Dallas Times Herald The fate of a true-blue animal-rights activist during the Reagan Reaction: The mother of a 4-week-old girl killed by the woman's dog Sept...
...3 remained in jail on $75,000 bail after being indicted Friday by a Dallas County grand jury for murder-a charge her lawyer said was sought by overzealous authorities pursuing a judicial "fad...
...Rognaldsen's 100-pound Rotweiller dog, Byron, which had access to the infant's room, according to police and prosecutors...
...It's scary, like the Twilight Zone...
...Born to banker in Tokyo, moved to Scarsdale 1951, attended Sarah Lawrence...
...today, Cochran Mortuary...
...Tells reporters she bases decisions on astrology, considers business an extension of her art work (painting, poetry, recording rock music...
...Be patient, the largely volunteer staff is small...
...My problem is social isolation...
...Rather, it is that of a mugger among muggers...
...In order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first...
...Write 208 W. 13th St., New York, NY 10011...
...left fortune estimated at minimum $150 million...
...August 18, 1983] The Cornell Daily Sun In the letters section of Cornell's student paper, David Blood '83 displays the fruits of his college education despite the Reagan Death Squads now being mustered: The Soviet Union's role in the world is not that of a mugger among law-abiding citizens...
...Married Beatle John Lennon 1969...
...Now, maybe there was some political ego involved, but the first thing that crossed my mind was that I was being assassinated...
...military power...
...Still: "I'm glad I came...
...I don't like being told I can't go somewhere...
...The Soviet Union is a relative newcomer to the "mugging" game...
...Sincerely, Frank Fahrenkopf National Chairman [April 15, 1983...
...Ran Lennon business empire: real estate, farms, Holstein cows, music companies, copyrights, etc...
...September 26, 1983] Library Journal Stirring news of yet another literary triumph in this Renaissance Age: Another common excuse I hear is that "we have no demand" for controversial materials...
...CURRENT WISDOM Rolling Stone Jerry Brown's Simone de Beauvoir sounds off: A number of American musicians have defied the boycott and played South Africa: the Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, Cher, the Osmonds, Sha Na Na, Tina Turner, Frank Sinatra and even a group called America...
...SAGE also arranges social and recreational activities for its members...
...For those who want to understand the connection between Ronald Reagan and Mickey Mouse, this expose provides a map to the secret world inside popular literature...
...Then people get drunk and talk about their fear of a knock in the night...
...The last place for a boycott is in the arts...
...Their advertising budget is down there in the soup-pot instead-because people are starving...
...call (212) 741-2247...
...February 18, 1983] The Washington Post Two friends of the earth, the Sandinistas' Daniel Ortega and the Washington Post's Karen De Young, hold hands and discuss the unhappy condition of good government in Central America: Nicaragua has sent out urgent appeals "everywhere" for combat aircraft to bolster its defenses against attacks by CIA-backed rebels, but "the United States has put ample pressure" on its Western allies to turn down the requests, according to Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega...
...You probably don't have this book because you have no one attentive to protest material, on mailing lists, and out in the streets...
...But, of course, Jane Fonda was not paid a half-million dollars to visit Hanoi...
...April-May 1983] The Chicago Sun-Times News of yet another powerful weapon in pacifism's arsenal: UNSUITABLE MARCH: A nudist who says clothes cause war wants anti-nuclear sympathizers in Vancouver, British Columbia, to strip and join Saturday's Walk for Peace in the buff...
...Linda Ronstadt is different only in that I thought she was special...
...Information and referral only is offered by Project Rainbow in Los Angeles...
...Herbert Kohl [Autumn 1983 Booklist] Republican National Committee Our spies intercept an ominous communication between two of the great movers and shakers of the day: Dear Mr...
...You may have no demand yet for the only book out on the new "street people" created by Reaganomics...
...She took a bite of chicken...
...It is certain that the publisher can't afford the ads and the marketing department necessary to get reviewed in the corporate media...
...I seem like a mirage to them, they to me...
...September 28, 1983] Forbes From Forbes's list of the "top 400" wealthy Americans, the story of a truly successful working woman: YOKO ONO: Inheritance...
...ALA Booklist "Not an academic exercise but an intellectual book of the highest order, one that uses criticism to point a way toward social action...
...Dorfman unmasks the smiling face of mass society and reveals a political culture that gives simple, disarming answers to the deepest dilemmas of our time...
...Send a stamped self-addressed envelope, and you will receive a resource list of gay and lesbian groups around the country...
...March 24, 1983] Modern Maturity An important New Age journal apprises one of the many happy homosexuals of our love of still more opportunities for gaiety once the plumbing fails to work: I'm a 70-year-old retired male who is gay...
...telephone number (415) 563-0202...
Vol. 16 • December 1983 • No. 12
