Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Wall Street Journal Miss Barbara Ehrenreich and Miss Jane O'Reilly, authoresses both, put their persecution complexes to use in analyzing the fair Geraldine's recent...
...It was, after all, just under 200 years since the Constitution was written, only 136 years since Seneca Falls, only 64 years since women got the vote...
...And if the empire fell because of those traits, it would only mean Caesar was ahead of his time...
...Women in mannish, oversized herringbone jackets...
...Roman leaders, he said, decried the "foppish, feminine, perfumed males," and Caesar was likened to "every man's wife and every wqman's husband...
...he asked the other two women present...
...When unisex clothing first appeared in the late 60s, some were shocked and worried about its effect...
...Both mumbled and buried their heads in imaginary work...
...A chill came over the room...
...Glancing at the women I continued, "You know, what bothers me most is the climate is such that it really scares me to say what I think...
...In the ensuing shouting match, Jimenez allegedly started swinging at Wohl, who promptly threw him to the ground in defense...
...The professor then started kneeing Wohl in the back of his legs to vent her revolutionary frustration...
...The Oxford English Dictionary definition of stink is "to emit a strong, offensive odor, to smell foully...
...My files yield a news magazine article from 14 years ago, in which Charles Winick, a professor of anthropology and sociology at City University of New York, warned that sexual ambiguity foreshadows a culture's decline...
...Men buying cream for their skin and getting facials...
...Witnesses called police, and soon five DPS officers converged on Norris and tried to arrest Blustein and Jimenez, who had moved inside by this time...
...Like Big Brother really is watching...
...CURRENT WISDOM Wall Street Journal Miss Barbara Ehrenreich and Miss Jane O'Reilly, authoresses both, put their persecution complexes to use in analyzing the fair Geraldine's recent catastrophe: Chins up, ladies...
...The right-wing Wohl was walking to Norris when the left-wing Blustein and her companion, Antonio David Jimenez, spotted him...
...October 22, 1984] Washington Post Still more literary license among the illiterates: PONTIAC, Mich.-'To understand my presidential campaign," the polite, cheerful candidate said last week to an interviewer from WPON Radio here, "you only have to understand one principle: To be born female in our society is to be born behind enemy lines...
...But we were, just as they said, neophytes in the hardball world of macho politics...
...What kind of man wants to owe his victory to a woman...
...And that to me is not what America is about...
...November 8, 1984] The Nation Mr...
...I smell the fear...
...All other contributors were white males...
...September 18, 1984] Daily Bulletin (Santa Clara, California) A timely notice of still more New Age doings in progressive Santa Clara: Rights of Passage: A Celebration of Midlife ' and Menopause: by the Militant Menopausal Women...
...What about you...
...But the literal meaning is insufficient to convey the enormity of the Reagan entourage's wrongdoing...
...November 6, 1984] San Francisco Chronicle Ralph B. Elias, a sadly unaccoladed scholar and reader of San Francisco's famed Chronicle, rests his case: Editor-Reagan and his cabal must be removed at the November general election...
...October 1984...
...The resistance, when we said "How about a woman...
...9 following an altercation at Norris Center with CAS senior Frank Wohl...
...If you haven't been paying attention, Blustein was arrested on Oct...
...An eloquent interlude during one of Hong Kong Governor Sir Edward Youde's autumnal press conferences: [Reporter] I have a following question...
...November 3, 1984] The Progressive Still more dispiriting news for the lugubrious readers of a venerable source of flumdiddle: The economic and psychological imperatives of the American empire propel us inexorably toward intervention and war...
...Mark asked...
...Police finally handcuffed Blustein and Jimenez and packed them off to jail in separate squad cars...
...After all, with Walter Mondale at the head of the ticket, there was no danger of her winning...
...However, I couldn't help but notice that of the contributors only one was black, and he was solicited to write on racial aspects of the Court's decisions, while the only women were asked to write jointly one article on sex discrimination rulings of the Court...
...A friend of mine just came back from Kentucky where she grew up...
...They also direct us down a wasteful and destructive path of existence...
...October 29, 1984] F.B.I.S...
...Damn sure have...
...By concentrating on the earth in this way, I seem to be able to sense all that has taken place before and all that is yet to happen...
...It is responsible for the deterioration of life everywhere on this planet...
...Blustein reportedly called Wohl a fascist a-hole, and in reference to his recent sojourn to Central America, shouted that it was "too bad [he] didn't get killed [by communist guerillas] down there...
...October 26, 1984] Los Angeles Times Orphic vibrations from the dirt perceived by a modern Bernini, Miss Vida Freedom: Although photography and photographic concerns have been central to her art for years, Freeman began as a ceramicist...
...September 28, 1984] Village Voice Another inscrutable passage served up for the woebegone readers of the Voice...
...Women buying boxer shorts with fly fronts to wear under their jeans.1 What's behind it all...
...Blustein reportedly shouted insults at the officers, calling them racist, fascist pigs (three of the five were black), and attacked one of them with her purse and a shower of Coke...
...She was wearing a 'Dump Reagan' button...
...If I say I oppose Reagan, my income might dry up...
...October 1984]And in the process, we become enslaved...
...Said she was warned by a couple of people to watch where she wore it...
...Renee Ingold plays Classical violin Jonah's Wail, 10th & San Carlos, 8-11:30...
...Baked goods, coffee, tea, juice for sale...
...Roger Wilkins of the Nation's editorial board and the Institute for Policy Studies makes bold to apprise all thinking Americanos of our President's most minute secret: Pundits have offered a variety of explanations for Ronald Reagan's enduring popularity, but none of them encompasses the whole truth...
...Ferraro, apparently unaware that her real role in the 1984 campaign was to run around providing verisimilitude to the otherwise totally ephemeral proceedings, flew staunchly from city to city, event to event...
...It wasn't supposed to...
...Think about it...
...was suspiciously weak-just a bit of mumbling about raging hormones and a few references to a couple of shadowy white male southern contenders for the VP slot...
...They stink...
...There were even some small signs that they might have thought it was a good year for a woman to run...
...1 donation...
...Any American who votes to retain Reagan and his ilk is either misinformed, masochistic,- venal, crazy or a combination of these attributes...
...Youde] Well, 1 have no reason to expect, and I'm sure the Chinese Government have no reason to expect, that there will be any disturbances in Hong Kong...
...The ambience it has produced of fear, disgust and hate can't be adequately described...
...November 3, 1984] Northwestern Review A leading collegiate newspaper reports on the intellectual adventures of another enlightened prof: For those who have followed with interest History Professor Bonnie Blustein's Northwestern career, the news of her recent arrest on charges of battery and resisting arrest was not at all surprising...
...She was assisted on the ground by an absurdly underfinanced band of feminists, freeze voters and Rainbow coalition veterans who had been deluded into believing they were participating in an historic event: Some of us, - who didn't catch on until the very end, kept waiting for the Democratic "handlers" to "unleash" the gender-gap issues and mobilize the women's vote...
...Ralph R Elias San Francisco [September 14, 1984] Desert Dispatch (Barstow, California) Feminist columnist and sage, Rusty Brown, lucubrates according to the highest standards of New Age Liberalism and ends with the most auspicious view of Rome's Decline ever uttered in historic Barstow, California: Men in soft pink polo shirts...
...I accept that that's not quite logical, if you say that it was not going to happen anyway, the chances of it happening are now even less, but I think my meaning will be reasonably clear...
...We should have known all along there had to be a catch...
...Have you registered to vote...
...October 12, 1984] The Nation The editors of an eminent journalistic asylum;receive a reasonable complaint: I salute the excellent special issue of September 29, "Fifteen Years of the Burger Court," and the choice of Herman Schwartz as guest editor...
...He cited as examples the crumbling of ancient Greece and the Roman- Empire, when the lines between the sexes became less distinct...
...If this was an accurate description of Caesar, he was no doubt strong yet tender, assertive yet compassionate...
...There is one explanation, though, that is rarely written about in the press or even discussed in polite company...
...Just because Chinese leaders have earlier said that if there are disturbances in Hong Kong, they will take over Hong Kong, if there is no guarantee, and we have this kind of unexpected things happen, then what can we do...
...I don't like it...
...It was in fact a most fitting finale to her pathetic stay here...
...In working with earth, first as a source of clay, I started thinking about why I use it both as subject and medium...
...I think now that it is the sense of being connected-or grounded-both to myself and to the earth...
...Blustein then began kicking Wohl and hitting him with her purse...
...And indeed after, if there was any suggestion of that, which I don't think there was, there will be even less, it seems to me, of that possibility now that a satisfactory agreement has been initialed in Peking...
...And in the process, we become enslaved...
...Looking back, we should have realized it was too easy for us to put the first woman on a national ticket...
...Meanwhile, Mrs...
...We regret that Jonah's Wail is not wheel chair accessible...
...Republican country...
...Reagan's dirty little secret is that he has found a way to make racism palatable and politically potent again...
...That his policies are not only unfair but also demonstrably racist is crystal clear...
...We devote precious time, energy, and human resources to develop technologies that perpetuate our power...
...Wanna get that bastard out," I answered...
...It never happened...
Vol. 18 • February 1985 • No. 2
