Current Wisdom
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...The women are uniformly attractive, articulate, intelligent, good humored and opinionated, actively engaged in their community...
...February 15, 19851 New York Times After such modern American Medicis as Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan raise loot for the down-and-out farmer, advice on its miraculous distribution: "Because farmers face so much stress, perhaps the money should go for a crisis line, or to help with counseling on alcoholism or child abuse," said Corky Jones, a Nebraska farmer and president of the American Agricultural Movement who attended the meeting...
...What madness...
...I suggest that there is a race of women who choose to be other...
...She attributed Reagan's popularity, in part, to the use of such "mind-control" techniques...
...Think of Nancy Reagan," she told the group...
...Anthony Lewis: Soviet repression has always had a deeply puzzling aspect...
...The analogy made by feminists between men and our patriarchal nation itself is, it seems to me, rather apt...
...In the speech, entitled, "Bewitching: Recalling the Courage to Sin," Daly urged women to break away from what she called the "drained, emaciated nothingness women are reduced to in the patriarchial world...
...Ecology and a healing of the Eartheradicating pollution, restoring damaged forests, cleaning up toxic waste-is core to what we're about," said E.L.F...
...October 1, 19851 Los Angeles Times The celebrated expiry of the martyred Samantha occasions a fine new defini tion of being truly civilized from the Sophocles of Rancho Palos Verdes: The short life and recent tragic death of Samantha Smith, a child far wiser than most of the world's adult leaders, could most appropriately be commemorated by acknowledgments by the United States and the Soviet Union that continued production of nuclear weapons will lead logically and inevitably to the extinction of all life on this planet...
...We demonstrate incredible ingenuity in devising ever more powerful weapons of death and destruction...
...They exert constant ideological diversion through the broadcast industry, parcels, advertisements and visitors...
...I suggest that you realize this is manipulated behavior and that you try with all that is in you to save your own soul," she said...
...even the way he stands, feet slightly apart, like a boxer ready for a new sparring partner...
...Michael Blumen thal, teacher of poetry at Harvard and doubtless a perpetrator of same, in the New York Times Magazine's unfailingly idiotic "About Men" column: I am sitting around the kitchen table of a house in Ithaca, N.Y.-kind of a spectator to this gathering, being an out-of-townerwhen it dawns on me, in a way no longer at all abstract or metaphorical, how much the situation of men and women has changed in the 15 or so years of my maturity...
...Just as we find it, abroad, a sort of jarring injustice that Americans are not only not automatically welcomed everywhere with open arms, but are occasionally shot at, hijacked, kidnapped, ambushed, even (God forbid...
...It is expressed in subtle ways: the soft, authoritative voice...
...Officers of E.L.F.-Elf Lore Family Inc.-say they're angered by the negative publicity surrounding their "Wild Magick Gathering" Sept...
...September 17, 19851 Rruge e Partise From the stalwart party organ of Marxist-Leninist Good Government, Albanian alarums apropos the stringent pantaloon and other dark intrigues: Our enemies are numerous...
...members drinking blood and eating raw flesh...
...as the root of all forms of opression [sic]," she told the group...
...How can the people who run that system, with all their power, possibly feel threatened by Dr...
...Donald B. Louria does fain note in Newark's redoubtable Star-Ledger Another opportunity wasted...
...As I walk in and am introduced to Natalie, the owner of the house, and to the others by my friend Marjorie, the women's attention to me is merely friendly and polite, benevolently disinterested in any "romantic" or flirtatious sense...
...New York Times Magazine The bold adventures and concomitant lucubrations of Dr...
...Samantha tried, but it is quite obvious that we are not yet civilized enough to allow a child to lead us...
...he has the prior interest of consolidating his own power...
...Koryagin...
...20-22 at the forest in western Brown County...
...The officers quoted in the article and other representatives of the sheriffs department could not be reached for comment...
...The answer must lie partly in history, in a paranoia that marked Russian society long before the Revolution...
...According to an article in the Sept...
...September 29, 19851 New York Times Friendly advice, respectfully tendered along with some understandable puzzlement, from Mr...
...Accustomed to immediate respect, attention, deference, flirtation when we walk into a room full of women (or, by analogy, into a foreign country), it still comes, I think, as a shock to many of us that we are, in some measure, "no big deal"-in fact, are at times perceived as the enemy...
...treasurer Terry WhiteFeather, who helped organize the group in May 1983...
...25 Brown County Democrat, the officers reported they saw emblems associated with devil worship and observed ceremonies that resembled satanic rites...
...No one can expect Mr...
...Are we afraid that the other side may have developed a capability for reincarnation, and it is necessary, therefore, to be prepared to kill our opponents more than once...
...To compound this suicidal lunacy, we now are told that our security requires that we increase our arsenal of biological and chemical weapons...
...Because, as men, we have been like America itself-and still often are...
...The account told of "witches and warlocks," of people dressed in hooded robes and devil-like costumes and making animal noises, of marriage ceremonies and naked women dancing around a fire, and of E.L.F...
...We walk down the block to Marjorie's house, where she lives with her two preadolescent boys...
...sometimes ignored, so we men (no matter how "feminist" we may claim-or wishto be) are often still taken aback by the fact that the earth does not cease its turning by our merely walking into a room...
...What about the President of the United States announcing that he was declaring a six-month moratorium on nuclear weapons testing in response to the moratorium already declared by the Soviet Union and that he would think it historically appropriate to dub this the Samantha Smith moratorium...
...Is it too much to ask that our leaders show a reasonable amount of imagination in the search for peace...
...where a priest and two other men were killed after a man reportedly argued with the priest about girls taking part in the mass...
...And you'll know what I mean...
...Robert S. Coughlin Rancho Palos Verdes [September 7, 19851 Newark Star-Ledger Drat...
...Just suppose President Reagan had called Premier Gorbachev and suggested that they both attend the funeral services for Samantha Smith as a symbol of their determination to stop the arms race...
...Donald B. Louria, MD Bernardsville [September 12, 19851 Washington Post Crack foreign correspondent Michael Dobbs confronts the dashing Gorba chev, and collapses in poofter rapture: Watching Gorbachev in action over the past few days, it has been difficult not to be impressed by the sense of quiet authority he exudes...
...You might as well go all the way...
...Other suggestions were to provide counseling to farmers who might contemplate suicide when they lost their farms...
...A weakening of our striking power suffices for long hair and tight trousers to begin to seek citizenship rights...
...Having asked her husband of 13 years to move out of their previous home several years ago, she has, just recently, asked the man she has been living with for the last two years to do likewise...
...The whole world is groaning under phalic [sic] rule," she told the group...
...I see phalocracy...
...Besides myself, there are eight others gathered around the table-six women and two men...
...September 22, 1985] Sunday Herald Times (Bloomington, Indiana) Environmentalism marches into the New Age and picks up some exciting culinary tips along the way, as reported in the pages of a great American daily: A harvest celebration and national convention for members of a Bloomington-based folklore and ecology group has touched off rumors that satanic rituals and devil worshiping took place last weekend at Yellowwood State Forest...
...She said that term can define not only "the life-hating lechery that rapes and kills the objects of its aggression" which, Daly contends, is the primary characteristic of our society...
...Daly, who holds doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, invited women to join her in a philosophical journey in pursuit of "pure lust...
...July 19851 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1985 57...
...But if he wants to be seen in the West as a selfconfident politician, he must begin to act that way with those few of his own people who have begged to differ...
...the deferential attitude of his aides...
...If a child could so clearly see the ultimate consequences of nuclear war, why is it that our political and military leaders persist in their efforts to develop and produce more and more of these obscene devices when we already have more than enough to render the Earth uninhabitable...
...And it is a fact that they find opportunities to disseminate their evil seeds among some immature youth...
...But, in Daly's lexicon, the term stands for "the high humor and cosmic accord of those women that choose to escape," she said...
...Of Reaganism, of the systematic starvation of the Third World, of what is happening in Nicaragua, of what is happening in Waukesha, of what is happening in Onalaska, Wis...
...The colossal Samantha passes on and our insane President snoozes through this abundant vale of oppor tunity, as Dr...
...At one point, she accused the media of imparting subliminal messages to the public by hiding words and images in photographs and advertisements...
...October 5, 19851 Milwaukee Journal Enlightenment, this time in the hulk ing form of Miss Mary Daly, theologian, comes to a madcap crowd at venerable U of Wis Wau: "If you are just a little bit of a feminist, you will be punished just as much as if you go all the way," Daly, a lesbian, feminist and associate theology professor from Boston College, told an applauding, mostly female, standing-room-only audience at the University of Wisconsin Waukesha County Center's Commons Theater...
...Gorbachev to transform the paranoid tradition overnight, assuming that he wants to...
...All of them, insofar as I can tell, own their own homes-as single mothers, married women, single women or part of a lesbian couple...
Vol. 18 • December 1985 • No. 12
