Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Commonweal : Another odious example of what passes for thought in a leading religious gazette: You must draw distinctions between authoritarian and totalitarian governments. This...
...I erred in saying that I stood "a thousand percent" behind Senator Eagleton, only to be forced by subsequent information into changing my mind...
...leader Medgar Evers...
...It is not accidental that the word "Tylenol" which, to put it bluntly, does not have the most pleasant associations for Americans, has moved into the lexicon of politics...
...A desperately lonely or weak* person could be inclined to cross over the line with whomever is near...
...For a start, President Reagan's Environmental Protection Agency was discovered "going slow" on lead poisoning control in poor black neighborhoods hi Dallas...
...it is enormously enhanced by the "natural" .sounds of life...
...The University administration and a number of people are upset that she was denied "free speech...
...Reagan's game plan since he took office has called for a twin redistribution of the nation's income, from the poor to the rich, and from the poor to the military The Reagan budget certainly will be amended...
...With hundreds of thousands of Americans sleeping on the streets or hi cardboard Reaganvilles, with farmers by the thousands losing then* farms, with a class of new poor joining the ranks of the old poor, the nation is in no mood for deeper social cuts-and it is becoming tired of more guns and less butter...
...The music is provided by Paul Winter and the Paul Winter Consort, with the chorus, choristers, and pipe organ of the Cathedral, and the voices of wolf, whale, loon, and harp seals...
...John's Abbey, 1983] Krokodil A major Soviet gazette renders Walter Mondale comprehensible to the hardcore: Is it really cause for surprise that the machinations of the Tylenol fiand were taken as an example and imitated by other American citizens...
...We disagree...
...May 26, 1983] Catalogue of the Liturgical Press Notice of artistic offerings now available to all New Age believers still at large: The sounds of this Mass in celebration of Mother Earth were recorded in the Cathedral of St...
...Are not such examples likely to be followed in a society which has elevated contempt for one's neighbor to a moral absolute (and even to the level of government policy...
...Then, Reagan's Justice Department began beating up on Representative Ron Dellums, alleging-that is, rumoring -that the leftish California Democrat used drugs...
...She came to organize support for the murderous strategies of the US, strategies that she helps develop at the international level...
...March 14,1983] Natiqp&l Republican Congressional Committee Recent correspondence from the patriot, Guy Vander Jagt, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, to Paul Vivian, anthropologist and Republican: I am honored to have you as a contributor to the NRCC, and I thank you for your support of our work...
...June 1983] The Nation The scholarly observations of Dr...
...Yet my husband says when he was in the service no one cared about modesty in showers or even in bathrooms...
...Yet the celebration is not profaned by these themes...
...So, I especially appreciate your extra sacrifice in these inflationary times...
...John the Divine and in the Grand Canyon...
...Our sons-swim in the nude at camp and they say the same thing...
...You've done a great deal hi many ways to strengthen the Republican Party...
...Poland is an authoritarian country, El Salvador totalitarian...
...The feeling of insecurity-itself a source of instability-is not confined to the ranks of committed nuclear.djsarmers...
...Chairman P.S...
...George McGovern, Old Meathead: Once nominated, I selected as my running mate Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, an effective Senator who was later revealed to have had a history of mental illness for which he had been treated with electric shock therapy...
...February 18,1983] The Daily Californian Another arcane notification from Ralph Nader to any UC Berkeley students willing to take up The Cause: He said it's harder to get rich practicing public-interest law than it is practicing corporate law, but said, "You're reverberating off someone else's status machinations...
...There is no such thing as "free speech" in the abstract...
...Now, President Reagan and I are especially grateful that you have decided to give your generous support directly to our 1983 GOP Victory Fund hi order to help us elect Republicans to the House in 1984...
...We think it was a stand taken by people for freedom against someone responsible for mass murder and genocide...
...February 1983] The New York Times Historical observations from the Hon...
...There is speech that is for freedom and human dignity, and speech that is for oppression...
...St...
...I will work even harder to merit the confidence you have shown to our work.der to merit the confidence you have shown to our work...
...April 2,1983] Bangor Daily News Proof that enlightened judicial practices have finally arrived in historic Bangor, Maine, from the "Court News" section of the Daily News: Steven Blake, 20, Lubec, attempted criminal mischief, attempting to throw a bottle through the passenger side window of a pickup truck owned by Stanley W. Fletcher, dismissed by state, because of evidence that the attempt was not to break the window but to hit a person...
...But the incident received more abuse in the press than Mr...
...In addition to some traditional music, which receives new treatment hi this recording, several themes for various parts of the Mass come from such unlikely sources as an Alaskan tundra wolf and a humpback whale...
...February 10,1983] The Washington Post Public speculations of another frightening opponent of Gay Rights-the night rider mentality lives I When I was in high school I remember that we girls were always given privacy in gym class when we showered and changed into and out of our suits...
...After a brief period of official good behavior, the government, in its various guises, is back in the racism business...
...Jeanne [sic] Kirkpatrick came here as a leader of the US government, every bit as much a war criminal as the leaders of the death squads in Central America that she supports...
...May 16,1983] National Catholic Reporter Sidney Lens hands down reassuring news to the adepts of New Age mysticism and heartburn: The main thing to consider in President Reagan's proposed 1984 budget is not the numbers-$848 billion expenditures, $659 billion receipts, a $189 billion deficit, a $30 billion or 14 percent increase hi military spending-but the philosophy behind it...
...She's right...
...May 11,1983] the New Republic Another adulatory testimonial to our President from a leading schizophrenic source: His combination of insensitivity to his allies and belligerence to his opponents, fired by a self-righteousness hardly seen since the days of John Foster Dulles, has done nothing for European confidence hi American leadership...
...The Democratic former vice-president Walter Mondale, for example, has christened Ronald Reagan's policies "Tylenol...
...This is Kirkpatrick's major point...
...The point, he said, is this: "Are you going to be a primary human being or forever afflicted with retainer astigmatism...
...If only I dared, I would mutter to myself through clenched teeth, pushing back the realization that I didn't dare not because I was afraid of seriously hurting him-I would have loved to do that-but because even in the extremity of my anger I was afraid that if I cracked his head with a frying pan he would leave me...
...The country seems to have journeyed back in time to the pre-1964 Civil Rights Act days, when Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett could enter a courtroom and warmly shake the hand of Byron De La Beckwith, the man on trial for assassinating N.A.A.C.P...
...I believe this may be the reason there is so much homosexuality today...
...I was grateful for that privacy...
...Nixon's prosecution of the Vietnam War, his refusal to meet me hi public debate and the Watergate coverup...
...A President who seldom reads, listens with difficulty to long explanations, and has little comprehension of the complexities of the world around him is rapidly making Carter look superior...
...There was no dishonesty in my handling of this complicated dilemma...
...Gerald Peary, visiting zoologist at the Nation, where the LSD comes with the morning muffins and Cream of Wheat: The advertisements promoting Nancy Reagan's guest appearance on the March 19 segment of NBC's Diffrent Strokes showed the First Lady in a white dress opening a door and getting a warm welcome from a happy black child...
...Spring 1983] Esquire The nocturnal cogitations of feminist Sally Kempton, who, if presented with the life of, say, Mother Teresa, would doubtless esteem her slightly Unbalanced: I used to lie in bed beside my husband after those fights and wish I had the courage to bash in his head with a frying pan...
...My staff told me that your $2.00 contribution is more than you've ever sent before...
...June 3,1983] Miscellaneous An urgent handout distributed by leftists of the Khmer Rouge mentality to dopes indigenous to the Bay Area: A week ago UN Ambassador Jeanne [sic] Kirkpatrick was shouted off the stage in Wheeler Auditorium...
...Commission on Civil Rights charged that the Reagan Administration had all but given up on civil rights and was not cooperating with the commission's request for documents...
...that's a useful distinction...
...Your sacrifice to send $2.00 for our congressional campaigns shows that you are someone very special who is willing to back your political convictions...
...I would do it while he slept, since awake he would overpower me, disarm me...
...Evidently young Arnold (Gary Colemanj had not been informed of the racist week that was, and that the First Husband was in many ways responsible...
...Sincerely, Guy Vander Jagt, M.C...
...Next, the U.S...
Vol. 16 • August 1983 • No. 8
