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...the way your children are still being taught...

...And then by lunch time, you started to think, "Oh god, you know, it's a human being, isn't it...

...Very weird...

...i thought, what if we don't freeze nuclear weapons, and what if we then don't reduce the nuclear arsenal of the world...

...January 25, 1985] The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) Little Andrew C. Mills of Scotch Plains recollects some childish thoughts recently experienced during a ride with morn and dad.., or is this idiot Mills p~re...

...It is a curious portrait of nuns as people who were hired to serve rather than "called" to service...

...The tow-truck driver said he didn't look in the camper because he had no business back there...

...Not dominance but respect and love equalizes power among men and women...

...January 1985] The Herald (Everett, Washington) In the correspondence section of a great gazette, Mr...

...DW: Very weird...

...I suppose that's a Buddhist idea, isn't it...

...1 fear being shot...

...If mankind blows itself" up, what will become of the geese...

...Tyrrell's total ignorance of history and reality or his intentional distorting of the facts, or both...

...Today, as a male, I still represent to many women someone on the other side, feel isolated from other men who are scornful and fearful of equality, but work on my homophobic issues shedding my (supposedly) male supremacy tendencies and all for a new good-feeling man of the '80s...

...Also, no one is trying to enforce his own concept of "human rights" by bombing clinics...

...And we have an economic elitism that is very much like Robin Hood-in-reverse--it steals from the poor and gives to the rich, and then it is supposed to trickle down so that everybody participates...

...1 fear failure...

...Everyone wanted to know how a body could go undiscovered for so long...

...December & 1984] Washington Post Profanities from a thug move the goodgovernment crowd of Poland to dudgeon most eloquent: I deeply resent R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s piece of Dec...

...On the morning that it happened, it was like-2"Great...

...i am going because 1 believe that living in a democracy requires certain responsibilities...

...The patronizing "Poor, Brave Poland" syndrome reminds me of the condolences of our then Western allies similarly lamenting over our fate and leaving us alone to face the Nazi onslaught.--Andrzej DobrzynsRi First Secretary Embassy of the Polish People's Republic Washington [January 12, 1985] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1985...

...Only when the truck was being prepared for sale did someone investigate the camper...

...In fact, my credentials for dealing with the technology of contraception are first rate: l have a Ph.D...

...24 ["Poor, Brave Poland"] for its slanted statements and patronizing attitude...

...Women were on that side and 1 was on this side as the oppressor, the enemy...

...But that's only half the issue...

...Richard Ottinger of New York's 20th district: We are losing democracy very rapidly in the United States...

...There was a time when the body would have been discovered almost immediately-by people poking around for valuables to appropriate...

...George Beykovsky apprises us of the hell he has gone through to put a smile on Mrs...

...After a long period of consciousnessraising battles, men's rap group participation, workshops on self esteem and working side by side with other believers in feminism, 1 began to change from helper to sharer, from supporter to activist, from sympathizer to believer and moved from the bleachers to center field...

...George Beykovsky Mukilteo [January 3, 1985] The Nation Proof that Ronald W. Reagan is growing, learning, going through changes: President Reagan's decision to adopt a more conciliatory policy in American-Soviet relations tacitly confirms what has long been clear: after a decade of growing influence, the vaunted "hard-line" approach to the Soviet Union has failed completely...

...Yet in the context of American literature, this is simply to accuse Hemingway of being a male writer...

...While the incident suggests a need for prompt inspection of vehicles, we think the lot employees and the tow-truck operator deserve applause for not finding the body sooner...

...1 think there should be more Abbie Hoffmans and fewer Ronald Reagans...

...Half an hour later, we saw a huge flock of Canadian geese flying south in a gigantic U in the sky...

...Impound-lot attendants didn't find the body because they, too, had no reason to look...

...January 8, 1985] TV Guide The grim accusations of the otherwise flirtatious Joyce Carol Oates: More than one acquaintance of Hemingway's made the observation that, despite his several wives and liaisons, he seemed to dislike women, and since he rarely wrote of women with sympathy, and virtually never with subtlety and understanding, feminist charges of misogyny are surely justified...

...Ellen Goodman speaks out on the popish threat to dismiss 24 nuns and 4 brothers for signing a pro-abortion ad in the New York Times and reveals once again the high intellectual standards into which American journalism has declined: But there is in this controversy the implication that nuns and priests, like cowed employees, should say only what they are told as long as they receive support from the church...

...February~March 1985] The Progressive Sad evidence that the cocaine menace has spread to our Nation's Capital, as seen in a dithyramb from the Hon...

...Even though Abbie is anarchic and jokes about everything, the trip has been very serious," said Arlene Krebs, a communications prolessor at New York University...

...Nobody is denied a permanent job...

...In addition to the murder victim, he found a large amount of marijuana...

...Beykovsky's face in the '80s: There is a saying in feminist circles that there will be no liberated men until women are liberated...

...It's a portrait of the church as a corporation rather than a community, a club that one can belong to as long as one follows the rules, rather than a family with room for disagreement and feuding and belonging...

...accept that responsibility and now must do whatever 1 can to mitigate the evil I have caused through my government...

...As for the recent period, we have already surmounted the worst, while, of course, many problems remain to be solved...

...We are becoming more and more like the Russians every day--a militaristic society, a society that fears and doesn't trust its people, that runs secret wars, that denies people information, that wants to give all the people who work tot the Government lie-detector te~ts...

...But 1 am going because 1 believe in my responsibility as a citizen the way I was taught in school...

...Yes, that is abortions, plural (two in my case)--a possibility that is not confined to the promiscuous, the disorderly or the ignorant...

...December 28, 1984] Minneapolis Star and Tribune An editorialist at the renowned Minneapolis Star and Tribune focuses on the good news: Lots of eyebrows rose when a murder victim turned up Monday in a pickup camper at the Minneapolis impound lot...

...December 15, 1984] The Tribune (Oakland, California) A few self-effacing declarations from Miss Darrah Roy of San Jose, the perfect next door neighbor: I have decided that soon after Christmas 1 must go to Nicaragua to help pick coffee...

...I think he is terrific...

...CURRENT WISDOM New York Times In the ladies section of the illustrious Times Miss Barbara Ehrenreich parades the megalomaniacal inteUeclions of a typical New Age wretch: I cannot speak for other women, of course, but the one regret 1 have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might' otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks...

...1 am not going because 1 am a communist or because 1 want to help "export revolution...

...Homelessness is a notion of the past, unlike in some rich countries...

...l love Abbie," said Liz Loebl, 62...

...But 1 still felt isolated and not on the same team fighting for equal rights and against sexism...

...David Wakeling, whom dear old MJ defines as founder of the English Beat, "the most musically and politically inspired of Britain's punky-reggae Two-Tone bands": M J: Speaking of "Stand Down Margaret," how did you feel about the IRA assassination attempt on Thatcher...

...In modern America the answers do not always come easily: As my family and l were driving home from a weekend visit, we drove under an underpass on which were scrawled the words, "The Freeze is Communist...

...Darrah Roy San Jose [December 30, 1984] The Herald-Telephone (Bloomington, Indiana) High class intellections from the intellectual elites of the Yankee left transmitted to the heartland by the venerable Herald-Telephone of Bloomington: "There is more diversity in three dailies in Managua than in the three main papers in New York," [Abbie] Hoffman said...

...in biology that is now a bit obsolescent but still good for conjuring up vivid mental pictures of zygotes and ova, and 1 was actually paid, at one point in my life, to teach other women about the mysteries of reproductive biology...

...This macabre incident testifies to the honesty of people now working in the city's towing and impoundment process...

...His failure to notice the progress made in the 40 years after the war that left Poland in ruins and in need to start man}' things from scratch shows either Mr...

...While the level of" development may not be satisfactory yet, Poland has eradicated extreme poverty and illiteracy, has an educated and egalitarian society with free schooling and free social and medical services, cultural achievements known worldwide and farmers who lead a much more affluent and civilized life...

...Really glad...

...And then the idea sinks in that you can hate the crime in somebody, but you must never dare to hate the person...

...Pity they missed the bastard...

...there are no homeless veterans dying in the street...

...It brought out a mixture of emotions in you...

...As l started dealing with my issues with women (around 1973), 1 was very proud to help in the kitchen, babysit our kids, sympathize with their plight and supported my partner in her fight for liberation...

...I am afraid...

...The pickup was impounded a month ago...

...Andrew C. Mills Scotch Plains [December 18, 1984] Mother Jones Augustinian philosophizing from a truly astounding source, Mr...

...February 7, 1985] Washington Post Dr...

...Hoffman is a big hit with his tour group...

...To me it was their (women's) battle...

...That honesty is worth celebrating...