The Continuing Crisis
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...or, as with so many other members of our gimcrack intelligentsia, he dearly wishes that there were...
...She looked relieved...
...You can be sure that Mr...
...Lowell Davis's invaluable contribution to American sociological study, How Many People Do You Meet in a Lifetime...
...C O R R E S P O N D E N C E...
...Spencer Sawyer, the former Little League coach from Sacramento who trained his players to knock off banks, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison and branded a "modern-day Fagin" by Sacramento's literary prosecuting officials...
...R.D...
...It is a thing to think about...
...Of the Hoover Institution's $8.4 million budget $2.7 million is provided by Stanford to finance the Hoover Library, and surely it could be put to better purposes, say, a really serious Gay Studies Program or a project to monitor political intolerance amongst conservative groups...
...Throughout May, such ornaments of American thought as Prof...
...And the guitar on which rock virtuoso Mr...
...Tree Stumping Robert Nisbet's otherwise adequate look at environmentalist silliness ["Modern Man and the Obsession," TAS, May 1983] was marred by silliness of its own...
...Caldicott went on, "My drive is fear, fear for my kids," she hollered...
...Caldicott's pants...
...Chesterton's biography of the saint...
...Thus far, ably assisted by wife Hazel, he has recalled 3,487 fascinating figures...
...Many parents and some bystanders were eager to oblige...
...John Manley of political science and Prof...
...Politically they already have made great strides, and by month's end their geopolitical pontifications had even gained the support of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder and director of the American Atheist Center, who endorsed their position "100 percent...
...He tells us that ". . . no human being can know what another thinks...
...Eric Hoffer passed on, as did Dr...
...Had Franciscan pantheism prevailed utterly, the cost would have been nothing less than Western civilization...
...Surely the liberals of Stanford will be able to find a place for this rising social historian once they rid Stanford of the diabolical Hoover Institution...
...Szasz's article-or anything else -is a waste of time...
...Edgar Bissantz Santa Barbara, California Who Thinks What...
...Still Dr...
...This time the progressive government was that of Afghanistan, though we remain in the dark as to what lewd readings the fellow had with him, possibly the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
...A baby is a baby is a baby...
...Szasz to suggest otherwise is an offense against common sense...
...To the doctrine of Papal Infallibility Roman Catholics now must add a bishops' corollary, to wit: if the Pope can never be wrong on some spiritual matters, the bishops can never be right on all practical matters...
...Pope, a Roman Catholic all his life despite the discrimination then enforced, was greatly mortified when the natural theology of his Essay on Man was misinterpreted as Deistic...
...And in Olathe, Kansas inhabitants of the Johnson County Jail will no longer have to wash their own underwear, a penal practice that has been going on in those primitive parts from time out of mind, thanks to the local American Civil Liberties Union pests...
...And then it was the century of the great hymns: Watts, the Wesleys...
...Well, good for her...
...On May 2, the Republic's Roman Catholic bishops put the final moronic touches on an anti-nuclear weapons manifesto that is to be used as a pastoral "teaching document" for their flocks, presumably with the same success as their teaching documents on hellish contraception, a teaching diligently ignored by more than three-fourths of the American faithful...
...diplomat has been bounced from a Communist country for conducting pornographic read ings...
...Nisbet thinks St...
...Virgil Davis, president of the Ugly Club of Greater Knoxville, when Mr...
...On page 11 the author states that "more damaging" were charges that Marva Collins, a foe of special education programs for minorities, accepted $69,000 from CETA in order to start her school...
...Now, as can readily be seen from Professor Nisbet's piece, liberalism in its environmentalist (or deathwish) stage professes to serve all humanity by preserving nature, but actually the only ones to benefit are the affluent few-who themselves are in the process of being progressively pared down, until even these are excluded in the name of "sacred nature...
...At Stanford University, liberal professors have commenced a campaign against one of the last vestiges of benightedness of Academe, the vicious Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace...
...Although Miller rightly excludes Samuel Johnson from his generalization, he has apparently succumbed to the cliches about the period popularized by Peter Gay and other "whig" critics...
...Mother's Day was observed with the customary poesy and melancholy, but this time there were also peace yawps, for instance from the odious Dr...
...A longtime American Spectator reader of Christian sensibility offered to change Dr...
...As a taxpayer, I am delighted to learn that someone has put some of my money to good use...
...Vladimir Danchev, a veteran announcer, read blatantly anti-Soviet accounts of the government's butcherings in Afghanistan...
...On May 1, Poland's government failed to scotch demonstrations by multitudes of mysteriously disgruntled proletarians, though police did manage to beat to death several of those whom they detained...
...Thomas Main Managing Editor The Public Interest New York, New York Deism and the English Having recently published a book on the holy and the daemonic in eighteenth-century literature, I really must take exception to Stephen Miller's remark, in "Religion and the Intellectual" [TAS, April 1983], that most English writers of that age were Deists...
...The Hon...
...Ronald Rebholz of English have sacrificed their usual springtime lucubrations on the sun deck in local saloons to circulate petitions calling for an "immediate inquiry on the relationship between the Hoover Institution and Stanford...
...Before an audience of several hundred at the Boston Childrens Museum Dr...
...This is a mellower, more caring Fuhrer than the no-nonsense type established in earlier scholarship...
...Stock Department of English University of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Your Tax Dollars at Work Rita Kramer's article on Marva Collins ["Marva Collins and American Public Education," TAS, April 1983] was informative and refreshing, but I feel that on one point she gives too much to the enemy...
...By this time small children were crying and asking to have their pants changed...
...Even the psychiatrists he vilifies so remorselessly know better than that...
...and who could doubt the perspicacity of Stern, a magazine distinguished for its splenetic antiYankism and its toney leftishness...
...I'm going to make sure, bloody sure, they grow up and live to be 92...
...Those who have had dealings with such agencies as the California Coastal Commission, and attended meetings of people whose aim is to "control" the coastlines not only of the United States but of the entire world, can understand what is going on in the name of protecting the environment...
...It follows that reading Mr...
...Stephen B. Miles Falls City, Nebraska Robert Nisbet's review essay on environmentalism was excellent...
...Helen Caldicott, founder of Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament and the Physicians for Social Responsibility...
...Older kids were becoming indignant, and some of the museum's live exhibitions were bleating and stomping their hooves...
...The clear implication of this statement is a sort of solipsism...
...Both Dryden and Swift despised and attacked Deism...
...In fact, only one major English writer was in any sense a DeistGibbon...
...As for the winner of dyspeptic Mr...
...Blake scorned the Deists as much as he did the jejunely pious, and Hume was too skeptical to be one...
...The papal envoy to Britain, Archbishop Bruno B. Heim, suggested in a letter to the laity that British supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are either adherents of Soviet rapacity, blinkered idealists, or idiots...
...Austen was too sensible...
...In Knoxville, Tennessee an ugly row brokeout between Mr...
...There has been a great deal of confusion afoot on'this whole thing...
...Glasser's contest, it is not the policy of this intellectual review to give publicity to sexism in any form...
...Missiles, of course, even if they resemble the shape of prophylactics, are a lot larger and much more dangerous, so the bishops may have some success...
...Twice across Radio Moscow's English-language broadcast Mr...
...Whatever one's favorite epistemological theory, it has no bearing on the fact that when one hears or reads an intelligible sentence, one is fairly said to'know what the person who said or wrote it thought...
...Anderson when they fill the vacated buildings of the Hoover Institution with new Aristotles...
...Davis announced plans to auspicate his Ugliest of Ugly contest just two days before the fabulous Miss USA revue...
...The economy continued to gain strength, and on May 13 the Federal Reserve reported that April's industrial production had leaped 2.1 percent, the largest monthly increase in almost eight years...
...Finally The American Spectator may have readers in the Vatican...
...and he has appended many scholarly annotations to the text, for instance: "Dick Edwards, he was quite a character" or "Leonard McKnight, fond of chicken gravy...
...Russell W. Martin Orange, California 5 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1983...
...Mr...
...The Philistines were out in force at the University of California at Irvine when they got wind of a "simulated rape" performed by two nude but painted students, coupled outdoors before Prof...
...Kenneth Clark and King Indris, Libya's last monarch...
...Nisbet should be told that the Church does not canonize people who think a godlet lives under every rock...
...Davis is writing down the names of everyone he has met since the age of three...
...Like everyone with a decent respect for good writing, I think that the opaque prose that is characteristic of psychiatrists-as well as other professionals-deserved the excoriation that Thomas S. Szasz gave it in your April issue ["Learned Psychotics...
...well...
...Mike Spring set off intent on becoming the first paraplegic yachtsman to make a solo round-trip voyage to the Azores...
...The mortician-turned-congressmanturned-corpse was a political science major in the university's alternative educational program, fittingly enough named "Without Walls...
...Environmentalism and socialism are on one side, Professor Nisbet...
...Gore Vidal believes that there is something to it...
...Caldicott expatiated over her favorite subject interminably, ending one particularly lurid passage by shouting that "Our 4 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1983 children know for a fact that they are not going to grow up...
...In Savannah, Missouri, work proceeds on Mr...
...But they best make haste...
...Readers of this journal will know where Burke stood, Whig though he was...
...All liberalisms are elitist...
...In Moscow there occurred the gravest threat to the regime since the Kronstadt mutiny of 1921...
...Harold Glasser, president of the Miss USA pageant, and Mr...
...Another U.S...
...However, while we are on the subject, let us consider some of Mr...
...Hitler diaries, indeed...
...The Adolph who emerges from The Diaries is a kind of Hun Hamlet: perplexed by stubborn Anglo deviousness, somewhat befooled by his colleagues' uncharitable acts...
...here is still more evidence of how our media lust for the bizarre and improbable, and doubtless millions of readers will all the days of their lives now believe that, "Yes, there probably was something to that Hitler Diaries story...
...Danchev who has evaporated...
...RET...
...The Diaries of Adolph Hitlerl The Diaries of Adolph Hitler...
...Jerry Anderson's "studio arts" class...
...The Enlightenment never took hold in England as it did in France, and the fairest flowers of English Deism must be sought among the likes of the third earl of Shaftesbury or Bolingbroke-not, after all, very hardy perennials...
...Let the Stanford liberals not forget Prof...
...There aren't capitalist babies...
...Francis was a simpleton who spent his waking hours conversing with periwinkles, I suggest he begin his homework with G.K...
...Anderson informed the Los Angeles Times...
...Perhaps the convergence theory works not only with superpowers but also with jackasses...
...Boswell was too much the gadfly to be anything very long, but a Deist he never was...
...I have no doubt that Marva Collins was right in taking that money, just as she is right in deploring such programs in general...
...At Poole harbor in southwest England Mr...
...Szasz may try to rescue himself from this position by introducing a distinction between what people think and their "linguistic expressions": we can know what people write and say but not what they think...
...He was 93...
...Charles C. Diggs, Jr., fresh from seven months in the jug for his congressional kickback ventures, received a bachelor of arts degree from Howard University...
...I can know that I think but there is no ground for extending the compliment to anyone else...
...Christianity is on the other...
...In that case it seems we are quite wrong to castigate the bombastic psychia trists, for their prose is no more thoughtless than anyone else's...
...Francis and his followers...
...The Syrians proved unwilling to go along with the Reagan Administration's plan for troop withdrawals, which Damascus described as "a grave threat to Syria's security"-a peculiar sort of security that, for it is apparently secured only by repeated military defeats...
...Even her dupes were growing uneasy...
...The movement so well started by Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot has been subverted...
...Szasz's absurd expressions as...
...For Mr...
...If Mr...
...To accuse St...
...There aren't Com munist babies," she roared...
...This strikes me as a distinction without a difference...
...Karl Keating San Diego, California Why did Robert Nisbet have to spoil his brilliant article on "Modern Man and the Obsession" by citing Christianity as a parallel to environmentalism (and socialism...
...he is eighty-three...
...Many thanks for printing Nisbet's excellent article...
...David Crosby composed his 1969 masterpiece, Guinevere, has been pilfered from his van, an incalculable loss...
...West Germany's Stern magazine had paid nearly $4 million to spectral agents for these documents...
...Yes, May was the month in which hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of European and American journalists and professors wrestled with the vexed question of whether the late Fuhrer actually had managed to scratch out sixty-two volumes of diaries heretofore unnoticed by the legions of scholars who have pored over his celebrated life...
...He wrote: "The greatest heresy preached in the Middle Ages was that of St...
...It [the simulated rape] was about gender roles in society and the problems they sometimes produce," Prof...
...Defoe, Richardson, Smart, Cowper, were as far from Deism as a Christian can get, and Fielding was at most a latitudinarian...
...Francis, a thoroughly orthodox Catholic, of pantheism is to misunderstand him entirely or to empty the word of all meaning...
...Finally she shut down...
...In sum and in fine, what steps from the haze of yesteryear is a preposterous persona, the kind of complicated wimp that we in the West have come to imagine as plausible and universal particularly amongst the male of the species...
...one still won't be able to know what he thinks...
...His argument itself showed that environmentalism is the most recent stage of that man-centered liberalism of which earlier stages were Renaissance/Enlightenment humanism, economic liberalism, and socialism-of all of which Christianity is the diametric opposite...
...Davis's contest was won by identical twins, Earl and Murl Householder, a corpulent couple of slobs who pantomimed a chanson on guitars made of toilet seat lids while spilling out of their women's swim suits...
...From Huachuca City, Arizona comes evidence of still more American jobs' being taken over by illegal aliens...
...The heroine of this blast for justice is Miss Claudia York, who crowed, "The underwear was not a constitutional question...
...It was just kind of tacky," tacky having become a nonce term of great popularity particularly with liberal aesthetes...
...Then the fiend disappeared, and a Radio Moscow spokesman warily laid the rebellion to a "personal mistake," probably by Mr...
...THE C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S...
...The Huachuca city government has brought in a team of three burros to replace the work crew that used to trim grass around- the city's sewage treatment lagoons...
...Despite pious lip service to broader and broader swaths of humanity, their effect has been to concentrate power and control ever more narrowly...
Vol. 16 • July 1983 • No. 7
