Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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...I type my initials in upper case next to the upper case initials of those of the originator's at the bottom of whatever correspondence it might be...
...J. Anthony Kosove proffers a very wholesome and sound resolution of this nuclear nonsense in the soap box section of the New York Times: Precisely because Paul Bracken's July 29 letter, "The Hair Trigger in Nuclear Strategy," was clear and moderate in tone and effectively made its point...
...The sense of proportion revolts...
...The year before I was into kale...
...The novel's chilling ending reveals who was behind the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, how the viciously sexist future society emerged and how Megan struggles courageously to end its tyranny...
...University attorney Jaffe Dickerson said Dr...
...Our task now is to prepare the way (not to describe it) to radically changing the course of history, and we are least served by the kind of discussion contained in Mr...
...readers who are secretaries may be interested in my daily assertiveness practice, which never fails to give me a boost...
...Megan fiercely clashes with an enigmatic leader of this ultimate male chauvinist society, and the story revolves around their intense conflict and eventual romantic involvement...
...She is seized in a time warp and finds herself in the year 2084, where men outnumber women ten to one and all females are brutally enslaved...
...August 4, 19821 The Daily Californian Sociological finding of Dr...
...Betty Brooks will resume teaching the course "Women and Their Bodies," but she also has agreed to attend counseling sessions with a departmental dean concerning her teaching methods...
...August 21, 1982] Ms...
...A response card is enclosed for your convenience...
...I found it as depressing a letter as I have ever read on a public issue...
...Rule by Caspar Weinberger and William Buckley and Joseph Coors...
...It's usually been nuts who jam razors into apples or needles into candy bars who are on the minds of the Protectors of Children...
...The sight causes me grief, and I wonder if I shouldn't go back to the civilized way of dispensing junk food...
...Harry Edwards, identified by this illustrious campus paper as "one of the more political members of the Berkeley faculty": "Reagan is not a racist," said Harry Edwards, the vocal UC Berkeley sociology professor involved in civil rights and political activism...
...Ruth M. Stern Decatur, Ga...
...The senator has earned his stripes on the political battlefront...
...From the correspondence page of our favorite fruitcake, two epistles, one to rue, one to glory in: While traveling Nova Scotia, I was browsing in a rather nice gift shop when I noticed, among the expensive items, a tourist gimmick-a wooden mallet with the words "wife tamer" printed on it...
...Casting themselves in the role of psychotherapists, the reporters may be seeking to serve the nation by behaving so cooperatively, avoiding the prospect of the real Reagan bursting forth and threatening the future of the globe...
...Instead, I have taken the vegetables inside, rinsed them and cooked them all up for dinner-my annual post-Halloween stew, a high-nutrition and low-cost delight...
...Small, but daily...
...The American Civil Liberties Union earlier this month filed suit against the university on behalf of the Women's Studies program faculty, claiming administrators were planning to dismantle the program because of political pressure...
...Also, they said, she invited a female model to partially disrobe in class to,demonstrate gynecological self-examination...
...November 27, 1982] 48 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1983...
...Ms...
...Tom Wolfe, from what caliber of experience I do not know, found radicalism laughable long before he read or read [sic] about Solzhenitsyn...
...In so many ways fellow evangelicals, whether they agree with him or not, recognize that all along the lonesome path he has been "our senator...
...Some years, I admit, the lawn on the morning after has been strewn with kale leaves and broken carrots...
...He has reaped fame and fortune from his slight but elegant talent for ridicule...
...George F. Will the stress becomes unbearable: Whales, which have quite enough problems, have now got caught in the angry waters of United States-Japan relations...
...2084" is available directly from Ringa Press after March 1, 1983...
...January 1983] The Nation The incomparable Nation discovers the cauldron of violence that is our Ron: Precisely why the press corps should abase itself in this fashion is puzzling...
...At that point, I felt that discussion would be useless and told him I would not buy anything there, and walked out...
...The Washington Post Dr...
...There is a function, however, to putting pressure on Presidents at press conferences: it allows the citizenry to take full measure of their elected servants...
...The novel tells of a woman biochemist, Megan Wendeline, Ph.D., who suffers sex discrimination in her research work at UCLA...
...Ringa Press] 6833 West Grand Avenue Chicago, IL 60635 The Washington Post Writing with uncommon veridity the verdant Colman McCarthy describes a Halloween abounding in verdancy -he remains at large: Halloween alarmism about predator adults is an annual rite...
...Brooks, 52, is a part-time instructor in the university's Women's Studies Program, which has been under fire since last spring from various conservative and fundamentalist Christian groups as being "anti-family...
...My windows would be broken, they warned, the porch railing bent and the doorbell ripped out...
...Outside the shop my traveling companion, a single career woman like myself, told me that my behavior was uncalled for and that the tourist item was "only a joke...
...Perhaps it intuits the chaos and rage beneath the Presidential surface, a glimpse of which was provided a few weeks ago at the meeting with Republican candidates where Reagan told an annoying questioner to shut up...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M...
...A decade ago, other parents in my neighborhood warned that I was asking for retaliatory trouble by giving kids vegetables like kale and carrots...
...But I have never taken offense at the leftovers on the lawn...
...We are so imperiled by the existence of any kind of nuclear arms or strategy that the only useful voice is one of alarm...
...What indeed will the defeat of the E.R.A...
...I have some expertise in this issue, because for the past 10 years I have gained, in some of the more fright-prone parts of my neighborhood, a reputation as one of those weirdos the kids had better avoid...
...My offense is that on Halloween night I open my front door and hand out vegetables...
...Halloween is about the only time of year I get near to proselytizing about my vegetarianism...
...He then added: "I thought you were going to buy it...
...Click...
...I was disappointed in her and angry with myself for not being able to convince even one of the two people involved that this was more than a trivial point...
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...October 7, 1982] Press Release A press release from the incomparable Ringa Press apprises all Americans of a literary event of the first water: The Equal Rights Amendment has been defeated, leaving American feminists anxious and worried about the future of women's rights...
...October 30, 1982] Mother Jones A Mr...
...Bracken's letter...
...April 1982] The Great Books Series The definitive description of a creep: Thus, Senator Hatfield wants first to be a political prophet to his own "country," his own people-a lonely role that frequently is frustrating but which also can be immensely rewarding...
...In a polite but assertive manner, I carried it to the proprietor, a friendly and helpful gentleman (who had given us advice on where to stay, eat, and so on...
...Said he: "Maybe some women need taming...
...And he proposes-what...
...The students claimed to be offended by Brooks' classroom use of slides depicting her genitals and then asking the students to imagine themselves "doing things" with other women at the beach...
...From people as informed and honest as his letter suggests he is, we need an agonized scream...
...2084" ($6.95 trade paperback novel) explores the possible aftermath of the E.R.A.'s failure to be ratified...
...January 9, 1983] The Washington Post For Dr...
...mean a hundred years from now...
...Last year I gave okra...
...But the persons protesting on the whales' behalf during last week's visit by Japan's prime minister have a grand cause...
...I suggested he return this item to the manufacturer, as it was an overt message suggesting that women be abused...
...The campaign to save the whales is a rare and refreshing example of intelligence in the service of something other than self-interest...
...Lonely Walk: The Life of Senator Mark Hatfield [Multnomah Press, 1979] New York Times Mr...
...It takes the reader through 96 action-packed pages of adventure, romance, and the struggle of the human spirit against vicious oppression...
...In attempting to explain to her that wife abuse was no joke, I got nowhere as she continued to tell me I was wrong and that carrying the item in the shop did not mean that the owner advocated abuse...
...He proposes a return to theocracy and discipline...
...In other years, I have treated the innocents at my door to carrots, potatoes, onions, broccoli and turnips...
...He just hates people...
...That is one reason why it has progressed tremendously...
...Kay Kavanagh Oak Park, Il...
...January 23, 1983] The San Bernardino Sun An apercu into the amazing heuristic approaches now available to the gals at one of California's leading institutes of higher learning: A controversial women's studies instructor at California State UniversityLong Beach who was suspended in June after three students branded her teaching techniques as pro-lesbian will be back in the classroom this fall...
...Others opposing the cruel regime are the "Libras," guerilla fighters of both sexes who are committed to women's rights...
...George F. Will begins to show the stress of presiding over history: The ongoing emancipation of women is this country's finest social achievement...
...Christopher Hitchens lustily extrudes the product of his cartoonist's mind, sadly unassisted by a cartoonist's talents: The Ayatollah Solzhenitsyn is not the first person to conclude, from bitter and intense experience, that the impulse for freedom and equality is a destructive one, leading only to collectivist nightmares...
...None of these Druidic horrors has happened...
...As the story begins, the staunch feminist retreats to the Big Sur to brood about her sabotaged career and passes through a strange cave by the sea...
Vol. 16 • April 1983 • No. 4
