The Continuing Crisis
oOn April 1 those two palefaces and that one Afro-American still in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination made a joint appearance in Manhattan and pledged mutual respect....
...Another is the rah-rah spirit elicited from these former radicals by a televised football game involving their alma mater...
...Does Chill succeed in its goal of being all things to all people...
...oNonetheless on April 3 the oldfashioned sycophancy of former Vice President Walter Mondale prevailed over Senator Gary Hartpence's occult agitations and the Holy Man Jackson's rants...
...Yet the bebosomed Jesus went too far, according to Bishop Walter D. Dennis...
...Brown is convinced that the portrait is quality stuff, and he has assured his loyal followers who still mill about in the state's numerous health-food stores and drug rehabilitation centers that the painting , is "a brilliant piece of work (which) reflects the period in which we live...
...It was April Fools' Day, and within minutes of their solemn declarations they were again bickering infantilely, as all the pundits noted...
...One is the apparent dearth of paid household help in a large house occupied by two rich adults with two young children and two demanding careers...
...Miss Germaine Greer's new book, Sex and Destiny, arrived at the bookstores arguing that a lady's vagina can be extremely useful and entertaining...
...How is it that almost thirty years after Brown v. Board of Education race probably looms larger in presidential politics than ever before, and in the party that prides itself on being the party of conscience and liberation...
...There are scenes and characters to appeal to the nostalgia of the erstwhile flower children...
...On April 26, radical-feminist-idealist Miss Kathy Boudin astounded officials and spectators in a White Plains, New York courtroom by telling the truth...
...According to a new book, written by David Horowitz and Peter Collier, this rising generation of Kennedys rises not only because of Kennedy money but also because of cocaine, hashish, LSD, and numerous other New Age health foods...
...Moreover it differs markedly from the male member...
...Perhaps he realizes that the American Bishops might just break with Rome, and form a de jure "American Catholic Church" out of what is now only a de facto one...
...In the final analysis, however, that monument was only to themselves and their pretensions...
...but he insists that he is black, and the president of Stockton's venerable California Black American Political Association backs him up...
...Stebbins's assertion...
...This new church would be able to point to the Anglicans as an example, and could take almost all of the American Catholic population with them, and away from the Vicar of Christ, the Pope, in due time...
...This typically Libyan counter-demonstration was followed by a frightening mobilization of armed British police, which the Libyan government was quick to identify as "racist harassment" and neocolonialism at its worst...
...Finally, the Episcopal Church administered a frightening blow to lady theologians when a 4-foot, 250-pound crucifix depicting Jesus as a woman was ordered removed from New York City's St...
...Apparently a feminist working covertly reported to Washington that these Confederates have been hoisting up "sex-designated road signs" such as "Flag Man Ahead" and "Men Working...
...oAt Princeton University, the forces of progress and liberality are mounting yet another attempt to bar Prospect magazine, the off-campus conservative journal, from the dormitories of Princeton's young...
...Bishops go to Rome, get lectured or warned by His Holiness, and return here unfazed, go_ ing right on with what they were doing before the trip...
...In my college days, no self-respecting "radical" would be caught dead cheering his college team...
...How did he get himself drafted...
...Archbishops' Synod would likely run the whole show from on high...
...After 400 years Mr...
...Cosgrove, M.D...
...It could be Fort Sumter all over again...
...He triumphed in New York's Democratic presidential primary, and seven days later in Pennsylvania a similar gasp from vox populi made him once again the Democratic frontrunner, despite his insistence that he remained a mere Joan of Arc...
...She pleaded guilty to murder and robbery charges, saying her life had been committed to political principles and "I can be true to those principles without engaging in violent acts...
...Now, as this movie shows, as Shelley put it so well in Ozymandias, " . . . Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away...
...And so the awareness dawns--that, regrettably, The Big Chill was meant to be all things to all people of a certain generation...
...A U.S...
...Presently, U.S...
...but the Hon...
...Loyal Kennedy servitors have reputedly fanned out to scotch the book, The Kennedys: An American Drama, but David Kennedy's wretched expiry on April 25 is going to make their work the most difficult act of Kennedy magic yet...
...As an historical artifact, it will be of enormous value to future generations...
...I am optimistic that groups such as Catholics United for Faith (CUF), the St...
...Now fifteen years after the New Age Liberals began arguing that women are the same as men and that the rich are the same as the poor and that the United States has much in common with the Soviet Union, how can they ever disprove Mr...
...Well, not to the Spectator's crusty critics from (continued on page 47) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1984 7...
...Thus Miss Greer has joined the Prophetess Betty Friedan in a growing movement of feminist revisionism, which might yet return Aphrodite and Doris Day to their rightful places at the center of gringo society...
...there are scenes and characters to appeal to the nostalgic impulses of the "straights" as well...
...Somewhere along the way the noble goal became the useful humbuggery, and now the humbugs have turned on each other...
...Again, no selfrespecting "radical" would have subjected himself to such indignity...
...Stebbins admits that he once believed himself to be white and that his grandparents, parents, and siblings have all been white...
...Daniel R. Kronemyer San Diego, California The best movie review I have read in years...
...Bishops will probably succeed in undermining his perceived authority, and his sanctions, if ever imposed, would only justify their schism...
...In Ulm, West Germany, scientists have developed a thimble-scale milking machine for milking mice, and evidence mounts that at least part of what the Liberals call the Kennedy Legacy is a growing slum around Ethel Kennedy's estate in McLean, Virginia...
...Francisco Pizarro, the explorer, got it together again thanks to an American anthropologist, who for $4000 went to Peru and attached Mr...
...John the Divine, though the statue featured two stupendous breasts and though the Bishop behind the banishment insisted that he was all for feminism and even for "enhancing" the symbols of Jesus by depicting him as a colored person or a Swede...
...Anti-Qaddafi demonstrators outside the Libyan embassy in London were fired upon by a gunperson from within the embassy...
...Phyllis Trible of the Union Theological Seminary insisted that a female crucifixion figure "does not deny the male Jesus of history" but simply lets the gals in on "Christ's mystical body...
...The use of science by the federal government for political purposes of any hue is, I feel, not only unethical but should be absolutely illegal...
...What remains unnoted is that these three enlightened progressives are running in the most racially divisive presidential campaign in many a moon...
...oIn progressive Stockton, California, the New Age Liberal logicians were presented with an awesome problem when former councilman Mr...
...If he waits much longer, the U.S...
...The Rhode Island Supreme Court voided Mr...
...Latham, New York Curia Bashing I had complete empathy as I read William McGurn's "The Befuddlement of American Catholicism" (TA S, March 1984...
...Ralph White, who is black, challenged City Councilman Mark Stebbins's claims to negritude...
...Pity some are still trudging that wasteland...
...Frank Church is dead...
...It reminded me of what my father said at one time, "Now there's a smart man...
...Bishops to the Vatican to be reprimanded or suspended from their duties in their Sees . . . . The Pope should take such action now while his authority still carties great weight with the vast mass of faithful parishioners...
...James R. Dunn, Chairman Dunn Geoscience Corp...
...James Parks Morton, in words that pretty much expressed the views of the Republic's most thoughtful atheists and agnostics who marked these wizards down years ago as morons...
...If this were meant to be one of the changes brought by the years to the Chill people, surely Nick would make a sardonic comment, and surely the group ritual of watching the game would lose its bonding potential...
...Claus von Biilow's uxoricide conviction, creating a climate of fear amongst the handful of feminists who remain undivorced...
...Only, I have in mind the "curia" of each of several mainline churches of the Reformation...
...Strangely enough, I have often felt that they are, as McGurn says about his church leaders, " . . . lusting for the sort of prestige and authority enjoyed by their predecessors...
...Many of those who grew up during that "era" thought they were building a monument that would endure...
...The cathedral's dean tried to propitiate the feminists by reminding them that the Church had gone through similar arguments before agreeing to the ordination of women...
...When their London diplomats were given a police escort from the country, the Libyans became even madder...
...Kramer and Kramer should keep on writing...
...Nick himself represents the greatest implausibility of all...
...RET Verifying the Lie With great interest I read the summary article by Edith Efron regarding the Great Cancer Scare ("The Big Cancer Lie," TAS, March 1984...
...Scientific data is the factual base for any significant activities in such areas as health, agriculture, and the environment...
...oThe Commerce Department reported that the economy grew at 8.3 percent in the first quarter, 3.3 percent more than in the last quarter of 1983...
...Sheila Ryan DeLuca, was found guilty of murder for killing a rookie fireman, Mr...
...Actually Mr...
...he says exactly what I've been saying all along...
...I have considerable familiarity with the asbestos component of that scare and I find that her data and conclusions check very well with my personal knowledge...
...On the other hand, Prof...
...mK.M...
...In California, controversy continued throughout the month over the unusual official portrait that artist Don Bachardy daubed of former Governor Jerry Brown...
...DeLuca's sworn testimony that the rogue had been foolhardy enough to have sex with her, albeit after preliminary doses of drugs and alcohol...
...Bachardy's series of smudges looks like a gigantic pap smear...
...Bronx, New York I liked the Kramers' review of The Big Chill immensely, but I could not wholly agree with it...
...In Toledo, Ohio, Miss Vicky Downey's pet rat, Yentl, saved her from death on a burning mattress when it clambered aboard her nose and licked her from a deep sleep, and the Hon...
...Ill fortune continues to stalk Miss Ann Seepo, the 73-year-old megalomaniac, who failed again last month to end it all by leaping in front of an oncoming New York City subway...
...They crack me up...
...Some even dare suggest that the Pope didn't mean what he told them, or shouldn't be taken seriously because he fails to appreciate the specially unique position of us Americans . . . . But what of the P o p e ? . . . Well, he could start by calling one or a select few of the lower ranking U.S...
...Conventional critics found it rude, insisting that it be hung without the fabulous pageantry that California's high and mighty customarily accord such occasions and in isolation from other gubernatorial mugs...
...and a spirit of rebellion filled the authorities in Orlando, Florida over a warning they received from the federal government...
...Pizarro's recently discovered skull to his skeleton...
...Alfred 0. Hahn Glen Falls, New York Thank you for the finely attuned article by William McGurn . . . . Certainly the Pope must know what is going on here, but why hasn't he acted to rectify the rectories...
...It was her second botched attempt in three years, and this time she came away in better shape than some of the badly shaken passengers...
...Where is the evidence that he is not a black...
...Thomas More Educational Foundation, the National Committee of Catholic Laity (NCCL), Fidelity Forum, and Keep the Faith will accurately inform the Pope of this crisis in the American branch of Roman Catholicism . . . . --Jeffrey R. Portico Grand Rapids, Michigan Figuring The Big Chill Thank you for Yale and Rita Kramer's essay on The Big Chill ("The Narcissist Generation Hits the Screen," TAS, April 1984...
...Robert Bisset, despite Mrs...
...Unfortunately, I feel that all three have been so politicized by leftists that sensible policies and actions vary from difficult to impossible...
...eFor the women of the fevered brow April was a gruesome month...
...Miss Seepo was again of the false opinion that her landlord had glorified her by evicting her from her apartment of forty years...
...Actually her landlord had no intention of turning the pest into a media hero, and after a checkup she was sent on her way home free to try once more...
...On that she will now get plenty of government assistance, for the court sentenced this exemplary representative of the nation's "brightest generation ever" to a minimum of 20 years in the hoosegow...
...I suspect, however, that the situation may actually be worse than she has indicated...
...I don't see anything really new here," said Very Rev...
...Besides the ones that bother the Kramers, there are several others that bother me...
...when they were known as "Der Herr Pastor...
...This has a good chance of occurring unless something drastic happens soon...
...oFeminist fortunes were no better off in the Bronx where one of the Republic's rare ex-lady cops, Mrs...
...It is indeed true that Chill demands audience acceptance of a number of implausibilities...
Vol. 17 • June 1984 • No. 6
