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CURRENT WISDOM
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Another enlightened progressive dares to make a stand:
As the evidence keeps mounting that the horrible disease of AIDs was intentionally created as a form of germ...
...When I taught undergraduates such as these a few years ago, I was appalled by the lack of depth evident in their thought...
...March/April 1985] Village Voice An eminent remover of bed pans and practitioner of other advanced medical operations proves irrefragably and seductively that Stalin was a real sweetheart: Stern made his point with some accuracy, but he left out one part of the story that has some relevance...
...How have fundamentalist Christian theologians used Jesus to promote patriarchal societies which inhibit or prohibit equality of women, when in fact Jesus would have been a champion of today's feminist revolution...
...And the press is utterly complicit and utterly cowed...
...How quickly the people turned on the Iranians, who had been friends of the United States under the shah...
...If the question intrigues you, Dear Jesus, a one-act play written by Pearl Ross, will offer even more intriguing questions...
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...They are easily turned and don't have a lot of depth...
...Historians have recounted the efforts by the Soviet government to protect their Jewish citizens as the Nazi armies swept across Russia...
...There's been a tremendous change" since the anti-Vietnam War days of draft card-burning and sit-ins," said Harvey Holtz, chairman of the sociology and anthropology department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania...
...support of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a resident sage at the Humanist stumbles upon an intrigue of Machiavellian intricacy and devilishness: The IPPF funding cutoff, along with President Reagan's strong advocacy of federal aid for parochial schools and his precedent-setting establishment of full diplomatic relations with the headquarters of the Catholic Church (not with the sovereign Vatican City microstate), make it clear that Reagan is eager to sell out his country's religious liberty guarantees and national interest to an ambitious clerical autocrat...
...25] was so strong as to make me physically ill...
...For this we've missed him, miss him still...
...Elvis Presley could sing...
...September 15, 1984...
...I just wish we could have a few more failures of that kind...
...What they fail to see in their rejection of the values of the '60s is that the '60s were a reaction necessary to save the country from such unenlightened self-interest run amok...
...It was the turning point in my life...
...51 pp., $7.00...
...February 21, 1985] Washington Post A local Socrates laments the rise of Neo-Babbittry and delineates briefly how a country can be saved by ten years of dope and venereal disease: My reaction to the people portrayed in "Young and Restless on the Right" [Style, Jan...
...Such is the superficiality of this "movement" that people are judged on the quality of their possessions rather than on the quality of their thought...
...The abortion was the first time I'd empowered myself, and I liked it so much, I've been doing it ever since...
...Most of us who remember him are over 30...
...In clarifying an earlier order restricting sex at gay bathhouses and private clubs as a means of slowing the spread of AIDS, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Roy Wonder yesterday charged the San Francisco Aids Foundation and the city's health director with the task of defining "safe [December 21, 1984] Ann Arbor News More bosh from the Paleolithic 1960s: A professor at a university where "ugly" contests draw more attention than social and political events says he sees a "new emptiness" in today's students that makes them ripe for fascism...
...Have these creators of death never known or just forgotten that we're all really one...
...Grief produces apathy...
...John Bateson Berkeley, Calif., Jan...
...If indeed this proves to be the case, how short-sighted to think that this disease, introduced to specific populations deemed undesirable by the insane perpetrators, would remain within that population forever...
...could he ever sing...
...Was Jesus a feminist...
...January 13, 1985] The Humanist A review of another modern masterpiece exposing with pith and poetry a 2,000-year-old cover-up: DEAR JESUS: A FEMINIST RETRIAL OF JESUS by Pearl Ross (P.O...
...In their rush for "success," do such people ever stop to probe the social or moral implications of their behavior or the shallowness of their I'm-out-to-get-mine attitude...
...March 9, 1985, still] Family Weekly Rich, gorgeous prose from a leading journal of the New Intelligentsia: Some of us will turn 50 on this phantom 50th birthday of the King of Rock 'n' Roll...
...Cockburn always has a good word for Uncle Joe, whom so many of the bourgeoisie have so obdurately misunderstood: On NBC Nightly News for February 4, Tom Brokaw announced that in the view of "critics," the agreement at Yalta was a "brutal division that gave Joseph Stalin and the Russians an advantage they could never have won on their own...
...I propose that if AIDs was created intentionally, those responsible should be held liable and tried for the heinous crimes they have committed...
...I kind of go into class and basically can't believe what these students believe...
...CURRENT WISDOM Santa Cruz Sentinel Another enlightened progressive dares to make a stand: As the evidence keeps mounting that the horrible disease of AIDs was intentionally created as a form of germ warfare, my anger also mounts...
...There was one country-the Soviet Union-which correctly sensed the horror of the Holocaust, and did not hesitate to act...
...So myopic are these people in their "moral" values that the only problem that they see with outlawing premarital sex is "an enforcement problem...
...I also propose that government research for a cure for this disease be stepped up...
...Until we are outraged by what we see and hear rather than merely saddened, hunger will continue...
...The most probing question I ever received from the likes of these "bright young people" was, "Is it going to be on the test...
...27, 1985 The writer is assistant director of the Community Food Coalition, a nonprofit food bank and United Way agency...
...I'm scared," Holtz said...
...The Soviet government took the time and mechanics to relocate such peoples into less-exposed areas...
...we send a check, the pictures disappear from newspapers and television screens, and soon we forget that millions are starving to death...
...I see the students as really ripe for fascism," said Holtz...
...I encourage anyone who like myself resents having their morals dictated to them due to fear of serious health repercussions to look into this matter in more depth...
...Richard B. Carter Washington [January 31, 1985] The Nation Once again, the late Adolph Hitler's colleagues and our President's receive low marks from Dr...
...Don Sloan, MD East 73rd Street [January 8, 1985] Washington Post The Reaganite Post of Washington gets a condign scolding: Am I the only American who is distressed at the constant unchallenged references in The Post and other newspapers to the "failed Carter administration...
...Roberta Labovitz Santa Cruz [January 9, 1985] New York Times The celebrated Mr...
...Outrage produces action...
...Holtz, 36, who was at the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, said he saw a Ronald Reagan rally on a recent visit to his old campus that 15 years ago was teeming with radicals...
...her illegal abortion took place in the clean, pleasant office of a Madison doctor...
...We get notions the old times were better times, less complex, like Elvis himself, who helped to make them that way...
...Who was Jesus...
...February 12, 1985] San Francisco Chronicle A Solomonic decision in Gomorrah as reported by the enlightened Chronicle of that same great city: The city's health director has the final word in deciding which sexual practices will be permitted in gay bathhouses, a San Francisco judge ruled yesterday...
...March 9, 1985] The Nation (still) . . . but Dr...
...That was an odd way of putting it...
...John Bateson takes leave of polite society to lay down a nostrum that is the result of years of experiment in many of the best restaurants in greater Berkeley: The now-familiar pictures of starving children in Ethiopia are heart-wrenching, but feeling sad or guilty isn't enough...
...The truth is that the Russians had fought the Germans back through Eastern Europe and thus had won an advantage entirely on their own...
...March/April 1985] Village Voice The triumphant tale of jaunty, long-striding Miss Maggi Cage, since 1971 the happy object of endless abortions and so many other interuterine conflicts: In 1971, when Maggi Cage was a sophomore at the Stevens Point branch of the University of Wisconsin, she told her high school sweetheart that she was pregnant...
...The first thing he said was, 'My father is going to kill me,' and then, 'It's your problem, get rid of it,'" recollected Maggi, a long-striding, jaunty blonde, as she was settling in for the first night of the NOW vigil at her clinic She was one of the lucky few...
...October 22, 1984] The Humanist Bugged by the Administration's mysterious plan to withdraw U.S...
...In times when the human spirit seemed lost in speech and concept, times of silence despite the sounds, he taught us how to sing again, to love the song...
...Yet what remains, beyond compromise or the distortions of recollecting, is the honest, endearing, authentic music of the man, and the gratefulness with which we greeted it...
...This is only one example from history that seems to dispel the myth of Soviet anti-Semitism...
...Alexander Cockburn, the celebrated historian: You have to go back to the Nazis to find expressions of thuggish intent so laced with ignorance and mendacity as those made by Reagan and George Shultz in recent days...
...Why was he crucified...
...Instead, we should feel outraged that in a world of plenty, hunger still exists...
Vol. 18 • May 1985 • No. 5
