Current Wisdom

...July 20,1983] Express (The East Bay's Free Weekly) Revelations of a modern-day Juliet full of wheat germ and pamphlets: This quest for miso and macho in one man was driven home to me some years ago while driving home from a feminist conference with a woman who called herself Shanti Litvok (not her real name...

...CALL SPIKE BROOKS 335-9724 [June 1, 1983] The Washington Post The latest orphic findings of Dr...

...One painted by a chimpanzee from Atlanta's Yerkes Primate Center...

...She is diffident about calling him "Don" and is "damned if I'll call him Doctor," so the upshot is that Warren calls her physician nothing...

...Maybe I'll just loll around up in the astral plane for a while...

...There can be no defense against madmen and fools...

...She declines to reveal his identity...

...As an expletive: "By Goddess,"- "Goddess damn it...

...The activist said that arrests of elderly people increased last year by 80 percent and that most occurred in super markets where people were stealing food Gregory had much criticism for the education system...

...Pearson pointed out the shared leadership, the shared freedom and shared responsibility...

...And it takes only one...

...I AM my other half...

...Shanti, a sensitive soul if ever there was one, had done time in every ashram from here to Delhi...

...So I walked into a high-tech restaurant, sat at the neon red-and-white bar and ordered a neat J & B (because you can't order a pina colada when you're sitting alone...

...But na tional defense starts at home," Gregory said, critisizing the president's budget priorities...

...She says she doesn't have a clue what her next incarnation will be...

...He's like God," one normally hard-bitten Washington career woman said...

...He likened the education system to a "cesspool" from which students are fed into a green machine to make money...

...There's no class 'required' on how to deal with sexism...

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...First, she noted, the pagans speak of the god and goddess within-an internal-ization of religion...

...June 18,1983] The San Francisco Bay Guardian The post-Feminist blues before the catatonic trance: San Francisco is a lonely place when you're a single woman and all the straight men you know are undesirables...

...What's taken yon so long to realize that Reagan don't like you at all...

...She bites into a black olive...

...But his eyes were sympathetic-he'd seen me there before-and when he remarked, "Scotch is a pretty strong drink for a woman out alone," I knew he already understood my story...

...Whether it was George McGovern or feminism or China or name it...

...Self-defense is a fatuous concept...

...June 21,1983] Unitarian Universalist World The march of civilization as reported in a leading theological journal published on Gutenberg's marvel: Several of those present felt strongly that the Judeo-Christian teachings were inherently sexist and could not be salvaged...

...Ellen Warren, a member of the Sun-Times Washington bureau, said she gets "livid" when her male gynecologist calls her "Ellen...

...It seems naive when I say it, but it does come to pass...

...The neo-pagans have no creeds and no scriptures, she said...

...May 4, 1983] Chicago Sun-Times High drama in the realm of social nomenclature as reported in one of the Windy City's famed organs of info: Many women who say they detest first-naming by doctors they don't really know are reluctant to object...

...Racism connotates power...

...Linnea Pearson pointed to the neo-pagan groups growing in popularity today...

...February7,1983...

...The Conservators by Elliott Roosevelt [Arbor House, 1983] The Atlanta Constitution A historic alarum sounded by a Georgia aesthete in the pages of the renowned Atlanta Constitution: -$250 REWARDFor information resulting in the recovery of two abstract tempora finger paintings, removed from my office at 2120 Marietta Blvd...

...There's not one class dealing with racism," Gregory said...

...He told a Harvard Class Day audience Wednesday that he based his feelings partly on student reaction to recent campus appearances by United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick...

...We talk like we had everything before Reagan got in and how we lost it when he did get in," Gregory said to a two-thirds filled Zellerbach Auditorium...

...Hastings, appointed to the bench in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, became the first sitting federal judge to be tried on criminal charges...

...June 10,1983] Ann Arbor News Propitious signs espied by an eminent augur of the progressive school: Yale came to Harvard in the person of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who said he sees signs that college students are about to begin another cycle of protest activity like in the '60s...

...College teaches you how to make a living, bat it doesn't teach you how to five," Gregory said, complaining that curricula are set and do not allow for diversity...

...I'm gonna be too soon on this too for some people, but that's what I've chosen for myself and that's the way it is...

...Maryell Cleary added the following anecdote: Since taking on this assignment I have tried using the word "goddess" instead of the word "god" in all the customary ways...

...Trudeau, who attended Yale, has taken a sabbatical from his cartoon strip "Doonesbury...

...Yet it turns out she had finally achieved Perfect Bliss with a simple flesh and blood man, an artist, a sculptor who possessed "magic fingers...

...November 15, 1982] The Washington Post As they say in Boston, more mush from the wimp: Former President Jimmy Carter said . . . today that President Reagan's support of the government of El Salvador was underwriting a regime that was "the most bloodthirsty in our hemisphere, perhaps in the world" and he accused the administration of taking "the leadership role" in trying to overthrow the Sandin-ista government in Nicaragua...

...Second, she stressed the pagans' concern for the well-being of the earth and their emphasis on our interdependence with every part of the natural world...

...In the book, she describes a long, passionate love affair with a member of the British Parliament whom she calls "Gerry...

...These groups, she felt, were of interest to UUs in three ways...

...Not only could he cook up a mean bowl of tofu but he would often pause in the middle to grab Shanti, throw her over his shoulder, and carry her up to the bedroom...

...You might be inclined to go dancing, or sip espresso in North Beach, but if you don't have purple hair, or a knowledge of avant-garde theater, or a steady date, then the only seat reserved for you is in' some singles bar on Union Street...

...Usually...

...I]t's just a matter of time before you realize deceit for what it is-deceit...

...Of course, women still aren't supposed to sh alone in public even if Cosmopolitan says it's OK, which is why the bartender threw me a piercingly knowing look when he handed me my drink...

...I think I'm terrific," she grins...

...Thank Goddess," "Goddess is in her heaven, all's right with the world...

...Hastings said Reagan is "a racist in more senses than we can imagine...

...Most people don't begin to understand or do not ponder what the meaning of power really is...

...CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Reflections on the mental hygiene of chief executives from one who ought to know: Our leaders prate of self-defense, bankrupting the future generations of our nation to supply our generals and admirals with the deadly toys of their trade...

...May 6,1983] San Francisco Chronicle Proof that Jimmy Carter's promise to bring us the best was fulfilled: Alcee Hastings, Florida's first black federal judge, has accused President Reagan of being "a racist...

...I'm a marshmallow," the 41-year-old convict said in a rare, copyrighted interview published Friday in the Rockford Register Star...

...And we have no guarantee that the men who have access to the nuclear triggers are not fools or madmen...

...Third, Ms...

...Reagan was a racist on the eve that he came here and he was a racist on the eve that he left...

...You know," she said, pausing to cast a glance towards Mecca, "sometimes you really need that male energy...

...June 9,1983] The Chicago Tribune Proof that wimpishness has moved beyond the world of unisex and graduate schools of education: Convicted mass murderer Richard Speck says he has changed since 1966 when he stabbed eight Chicago student nurses to death in a frenzied attack that some heralded at the time as the crime of the century...

...Still, she's no longer looking for a man to "ratify the other half of my existence.'' She crunches on a scallion...

...When she is unceremoniously hooted from the stage as she was at Berkeley this year, she is experiencing a free and open society at its most bracing...

...But she knows that the two have shared past lives together...

...When Jeane Kirkpatrick appears before an audience she is submitting her ideas for approval," he said...

...One painted by former President (then Governor) Jimmy Carter, and signed by him...

...Shirley MacLaine, adviser to Presidents: "Everything that I've said or believed, seeming to be gullible and naive at the time, turned out to be true...

...This jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important...

...I had a date tonight, but he left...

...And lots of other ways...

...On the contrary, it is a pretty good bet that among this select handful of the world's nuclear commanders there are some whose mental and emotional stability could not withstand close scrutiny...

...Ask me that question when I've had my final shot at this one," she says, polishing off a slice of chocolate espresso cheesecake and asking the waiter to wrap up the remains of the salad bowl so she can munch on it in her hotel room later...

...She noted the neo-pagan's use of scientific and psychological interpretations of the cycles of nature and seasons of human growth...

...June 2, 1983] The Dairy Californian A sought-after campus sage breaks wind at UC Berkeley, as reported in that university's illustrious newspaper: Calling for change in national and individual priorities, political activist and comedian Dick Gregory had strong words to say about government, President Reagan, education and race relations during a speech Friday in Zellerbach Auditorium...