Current Wisdom
CURRENT WISDOM The Ann Arbor News The inscrutable fate of a natural member of the Cranston-for-Presi-dent constituency: On the surface, Ann Arbor seemed the right town for Arthur Arroyo. A...
...I can have sexual intimacy with someone...
...Years ago, however, his hopes had crystallized into psychotic loneliness...
...We are all involved in that process, but our individual contribution is minute and, for the most part, the inadvertent byproduct of our intentional activities...
...Just because I went into the convent doesn't mean I became a woman of steel...
...Intelligent and sensitive, he was drawn to Ann Arbor's academic community...
...Heck, I always tell my classes I get turned on by men with mustaches," she said with a broad smile...
...Wild and wanton iconoclasm from the Society of Jesus proffered in a subscription solicitation to their lubricious magazine: Would you be willing to join a conspiracy...
...My heart is still too full to speak of it...
...The music is hardcore, the dance is slamming...
...Exercising this capacity is prerequisite both to the freedom and full development of each, and to the freedom and justness of the community...
...at his crucifixion he left only the clothes on his back...
...Without warning, these guys erupt on the dance floor...
...I also spent a little bit of time with Mrs...
...The Nation In his apocryphal Nancy Reagan diary the wry executive editor of the Nation pounces on a once-in-a-lifetime happening, turning it into, grist for his inimitable comedic mill: How true it is that we who live in the public eye often conceal a broken heart...
...The basic idea is simple: people can and should govern themselves...
...But life must go on,.and those whom the Director in the sky has chosen for the limelight must hide the tears they feel in their hearts...
...Carter and was quite impressed by her clear involvement in everything that he does...
...There are all these times you have these arousals, but you have to deal with them in a healthy and productive way...
...Simon after Christmas with the newly selected Cabinet, "I followed closely Carter's performance to get a sense of the man...
...January 18, 1983] Soviet Life Wonders Solzhenitsyn was coy about, as laid on readers of a recent subscription solicitation from Soviet Life, 4 Zubovsky Blvd., Moscow, USSR: *The people who live right below the Arctic Circle, coping with the year-round numbing freeze, while their compatriqts turn one of the earth's hottest deserts, the Kara-Kum, into a productive garden...
...Apparently trying to stay close to academia, he worked as a secretary and a receptionist...
...At a meeting on St...
...God, I'd be crazy if I said I didn't enjoy sex," Cherney said...
...suffice it to say that no girl ever had a better "Dad...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski chronicles the Legend as he witnesses Rosalynn trying to master the mysteries of modern furniture: Throughout, I kept observing closely the new President, my new boss...
...1982...
...Rather than catching the wave of Ann Arbor's cultural and social life, Arroyo sank...
...Gabriel's in Washington, said, are "Jesus preached the good news to the poor, the outcast, those who were in need...
...Each is capable not merely of self-control, of privately taking charge of his own life, but also of self-government, of sharing in the deliberate shaping of their common life...
...Suddenly the band-MOB-explodes...
...After all, most people need sex for survival...
...Implicit in that simple democratic creed is a more complex understanding of what it means to be human, simultaneously both creature and creator of history...
...Everyone has the capacity for autonomy, even quite ordinary people-the uneducated, the poor, housewives, laborers, peasants, the outsiders and castoffs of society...
...He lived humbly...
...Heads down, bodies hunkered over, arms flailing, they pound across the floor slamming into each other, the wall, and the watchers...
...On Thursday, the world that had ignored and rejected him finally took official-and stern-notice of Arroyo...
...Perceived slights from female coworkers paralyzed and depressed him...
...Among the questions put to the 100 couples attending "pre-Cana" sessions held every week throughout the archdiocese, Father Joseph O'Hare, associate pastor of St...
...I still have those feelings," said Sister Susanne Cherney, therapy director at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Drive...
...1983] National Catholic Reporter Washington, D.C.'s heirs to Lucullus get a sharp rap across the knuckles from local mullahs of Christendom while caterers cringe and wine merchants groan: Priests in the Washington, D.C., archdiocese are asking engaged couples to consider their plans for lavish, expensive weddings as inconsistent with Christian concern for the poor...
...You go to see these movies with all this nudity and my God...
...Extremely uncomfortable with his homosexuality, he was never, in his own words, able to "help people in some way and to be helped by other people and to share some kind of love...
...Out-of-touch, blue, and battle-weary from fighting his personal demons, he lashed out...
...It undermines the ideological support of bureaucratic state capitalism as much as that of bureaucratic state socialism...
...In a funk of holiday depression, his friends out of town for Christmas, he left his University Towers apartment on Dec...
...24 for a gay bar across town...
...The youth of the cities with their zest for jazz, and the astonishing senior citizens of Georgia...
...an innate craving that demands release, and one might think the celibate and chaste must truly be the chosen people because surely they must have been born robbed of the need for sexual fulfillment...
...Power and Principle [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983] The Scottsdale Daily Progress Kim Sue Lia Perkes, the Oriana Fallaci of Scottsdale, Arizona, interviews Sister Susanne aflame in her New Age purdah: A vow of chastity does not make sexual desires miraculously disappear...
...A homosexual, he was attracted by the city's tolerance...
...If we didn't have it, we wouldn't survive...
...The heat is up, the smell is randy, the music pounds...
...The whole body gets inflamed...
...He was fired from his last job at the University of Michigan...
...I used to mention masturbation and they'd fly under the table...
...I was on the whole struck by his coolness, deliberateness, and his obvious sense of systematic planning priorities...
...who are equally "with it" at 100 or 105 years of age...
...Sex is a biological need...
...God forbid nuns should feel that way...
...They do not need specially bred or anointed rulers, nor a special caste or class to run their affairs...
...democracy Professor Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Sara M. Shumer, two scholarly gals from the Rosa Luxemburg mold, hoist the black flag and recapture the spirit of 1848 for all Americans: Of all the dangerous thoughts and explosive ideas abroad in the world today, by far the most subversive is that of democracy...
...The craftspeople in a remote village who by hand transform hard wood into delicate lace just as their ancestors did, while in urban centers their brothers and sisters work on ultramodern mass assembly lines...
...September 4, 1982] The Great Books Series Dr...
...Circuit Court Judge Henry Conlin pronounced him guilty of torching the Econ Building...
...We are the species that makes itself, collectively, through the gradual accretion of technology, custom, and civilization...
...The opportunities available to each and the limits on private freedom to pursue personal goals are set by social conditions, which are humanly produced and sustained, yet not in our control...
...Their commitment is to refrain from genital sex, she added...
...Affection and intimacy are very important for the religious...
...The idea of democracy is the cutting edge of radical criticism, the best inspiration for change toward a more humane world, the revolutionary idea of our time...
...Nuns need sex like everyone else and their vow to be chaste does not bar them from sex per se, she said...
...Masturbation used to be taboo...
...In the dim light an ancient male ritual is being enacted which celebrates raw power and barely contained fury...
...It's not hard to conjure an image of the short, slight figure walking across the Diag-his eyes perpetually downcast, his head and shoulders stooped by the cold and by his own paranoia...
...And how ironic are the workings of fate...
...Your partners will be the Jesuit editors of America, and the aim of the conspiracy is to subvert the superficial certitudes that make up much of the conventional wisdom of the day...
...Taken seriously, the idea of democracy threatens every established elite of privilege or power, all hierarchy and deference, the legitimacy of virtually every government in the world...
...As he passed the Economics Building, he stopped, broke in and started six or seven fires that gutted the historic structure...
...It's difficult...
...The aura that surrounds those in religious life puts people under the misconception that nuns, and also priests, certainly must not feel the way we do...
...God, if anybody said it wasn't difficult . . . You have to be really honest with one's self...
...When he had been dismissed by a head secretary, he exploded in her face and cursed her...
...For example, she even sat in on the Cabinet meeting, sitting part of the time on the arm of his chair and part of the time at his feet...
...That is why governing and privileged strata everywhere seek to suppress the least sign of a genuinely democratic movement, and why those who would fight against oppression must take the idea most seriously...
...Trained in a seminary, he sought the company of the moral...
...Fall 1982] Village Voice Recondite reflections on the sublime and the beautiful as recorded by Sally R. Sommer in the illustrious Village Voice: Friday night, 2 a.m., A7 club on the Lower East Side...
...What does this say about your wedding plans...
...The same week that saw Ron's greatest triumphs as President dealt me the sad personal blow of the loss of my father...
...At first glance, democracy may seem a battle long won, but that is only because we pay lip service to the term without thinking about its meaning, let alone trying to live by its implications...
...Now, even the church accepts masturbation...
...But the circle swirls in on itself going round a private battleground, because these young warriors have no wars to fight except an elusive recession and amorphous unease...
...To all those wonderful people who sent me warm, heartening letters I can only say, "God bless you...
...Yet his work was always overshadowed by his troubled personality...
...He had been particularly bothered by his failure in his last job...
Vol. 16 • June 1983 • No. 6
