Current Wisdom
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...For a long time afterwards though, I cringed whenever I'd hear a helicopter...
...Their only sin is that they are helpless and mute . . . . If subjects are needed to render accurate knowledge about the workings of the 9h uman organism there is an endless supply...
...They are much too attractive for the American people...
...You must love...
...There's a great imbalance, and we pay very dearly for itmwith our divorce rates, our alcoholism, our drug abuse, our suicides, our child abuse, and our wife beatings...
...Reader More shanty intellectualism from one of Hollywood's gifted minds, Mr...
...This current administration, I'm afraid, is flirting with an awful lot of evil and it really worries me...
...May 6, 1985] New York Review of Books Something for the gray NYRB's gloomy pedants to experience true joy over--in a reminiscence of Tennessee Williams ("the Bird"), the late Gore Vidal recounts a long lost lunch and but one more Camelotian tragedy: Actually, the Bird had never heard of Kennedy that day in 1958 when we drove from Miamito Palm Beach for lunch with the golden couple, who had told me that they lusted to meet the Bird...
...We realized the [school authorities] were lying...
...It protects maternal and infant health by providing for child spacing, granting a woman control of her reproductive life, a basic human right...
...The United States has only six percent of the world's population yet we use fifty-three percent of what the world produces...
...March 20, 1985] Policy Review Policy Review, a quarterly of unsurpassed perspicacity and good looks, invites Dr...
...Jane Hodgson, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, into its pages to exhibit her steadfast intelligence: After delivery at 40 weeks the fetus is called an infant, destruction of which is called murder...
...He, in turn, was charmed by them...
...How many students spend more time on the arms race than their arm pits...
...You even make an attempt to love a man like Ronald Reagan...
...We wouldn't have time to call parents, walk home or sit in a cellar...
...and Jack would look a bit glum...
...Castro has survived because he is intelligent, realistic and flexible...
...1985] Santa Barbara News and Review The mayor of modern-day Santa Barbara answers the query "What were you doing during the Vietnam War...
...Legalized abortion is therefore a humane medical service--often an act of love...
...and conjures up her heroic past: It was an awful period of time...
...May 19851 Los Angeles Times Professor Ron Westover departs from his friendly rodents, bugs, and bats to deliver a timely elucidation of New Age Ethics" So, you think you have some sort of divine insight as to who should and should not be sacrificed on the altar of medical research...
...It was not a particularly popular point of view at first, but it became plainer and plainer that we had no business being there...
...They are largely useless and doomed anyway...
...It stockpiles weapons, it thrives on paranoia...
...Ron Westover San Diego, California [May 3, 1985] Wall Street Journal Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...Animals are innocent of any crimes against humanity...
...Later, I told Jack that the Bird had commented favorably on his ass...
...They are being made toworry about taxes and financial concerns--that's at the top of the list...
...Finally, he proposed that...
...At one point, while Jack was shooting, the Bird muttered in my ear, "Get that ass...
...Think about it," he told an audience at Arvada (Colo...
...Then the Bird would sternly quiz him on America's China policy...
...He beamed...
...It prevents unwanted pregnancies, battered children, juvenile delinquency, congenital defects, and compulsory teenage pregnancies...
...It worships death...
...He has an interesting capacity to admit mistakes...
...But, fun and games to one side, it is, of course, tragic that both men were, essentially, immature sexually and so incapable of truly warm mature human relations...
...June 12, 19851 Indianapolis Star Eloquence in pursuit of the metaphysical from the Republic's most venerated ax-grinder: Americans have become so manipulated by corporate interests and big government that their values are askew, says consumer advocate Ralph Nader...
...This is an administration that believes in death...
...Now, that's very exciting," he said...
...Now tell me again," he would ask Jack, repeatedly, "what you are...
...makes a pilgrimage to the holy city of Havana and returns sparkling with the bromides of his faith: First it must be said that Mr...
...June 13...
...So the cultural split between men and women functions to socialize each into accepting their limited roles and spheres of life...
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...This work-home dichotomy is a development of modern industrialization...
...William R. Harwood reveals the morbid state of those women he has known: While all but the culturally Schlaflyed applauded the attempt to drag religion into the twentieth century, even at the price of altering "revealed truth," what nobody seems to have realized is that a translation of the Judeo-Christian Bible that does not offend women is analogous to a translation of Mein Kampfthat does not offend Jews...
...We pay for it with our killing each other and we pay for it with poisoning the earlh and poisoning the atmosphere and poisoning the water and poisoning our hearts . . . . But Reagan disturbs you...
...and proved to be a better shot than our host...
...While jackie flitted about, taking Polaroid shots of us, the Bird banged away at the target...
...Take the extreme elderly, the senile, use the criminally insane, rapists and murderers...
...it makes a great deal of money off of death, and a lot of people around the world suffer as a result...
...I don't have that much faith in the Ameri, can leadership, at this time, but I have a greater faith in the people...
...I was tending my children then, mostly...
...But I have great faith in the American people...
...Our American brothers were taking blood and we wanted to have a sign ofgiving it back...
...His frustration is that he is a leader too big for a small country--too big in his ambitions, in his energies and in his ideas...
...When asked how society can judge whether a child desires a role in the childadult relationship, Sonenschein said children usually express their desires verbally...
...Each time, Jack, dutifully, gave name, rank, and party...
...This is the most dangerous man on earth . . . . I struggle to love my fellow man, no matter if it's the President or whoever...
...May~June 1985] L.A...
...A governor or a senator...
...Stereotyping does not allow those who engage in "sex in the family" or pedophilia the freedom to conduct their lives as they choose, he said . . . . When people assume that sex in childadult relationships is damaging for the child involved, Sonenschein said they are reverting back to the 1960s view that "children are sexually innocent...
...we shoot at a target in the patio...
...in fact, he said, "children are sexual...
...And I gave my blood in the name of my brother Ronald Reagan...
...As he has grown older and experienced setbacks, he has scaled down his dreams...
...May 6, 1985] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1985 47...
...Negative reaction to child-adult relationships has put this society into an inquisitional era not unlike past "antimasturbation campaigns" in which "witchhunts" were part of a campaign to eliminate behavior that was considered morally deviant, he said...
...not, alas, much visible concern for individual or political freedom...
...Sonenschein also addressed the question of incest, saying "sex in the family is not traumatic...
...Both the patriarchal image of God and of the flight of the soul to eternal life have been deeply shaped by this said, and the same idea has become' concept of masculinity as transcendent to associated with pedophiles, mortality, and the abhorrence of femaleness Sonenschein added that "stereotyping as the image of mortal life . . . . and scapegoating" have resulted in "a lot Dichotomized psychic profiles of of psychological baggage placed on these masculinity and femininity have particularly become exaggerated in modern bourgeois culture as the reflection of the dichotomization of paid work outside the home and unpaid "housework" inside the home...
...Well, so do I. It has never been right and never will be right to slaughter animals on behalf of mankind for any reason...
...Martin Sheen: How do you view the awareness of the American people at the moment...
...I said, "Bird, you can't cruise our next president...
...And we finally got out...
...The Bird chuckled ominously: "They'll never elect those two...
...He would like to run the world, or, failing that, the Third World, or failing that, Latin America...
...One could weep for what might have been...
...This is morally unjustified anywhere, anytime . . . . Legalized abortion is justifiable...
...When we were at the Cruz Roja [Red Cross] in Managua we gave blood as a sign of solidarity...
...Right now it's nil...
...His motives, to do him justice, include not only love of power but also a genuine desire for social betterment...
...United Methodist Church Saturday...
...Very early on, I thought we had no business being there, though I kept quiet...
...Spring 19851 Gambier Journal Another paraverbal assault from the authoress of ~rism and God-talk, Miss Rosemary Radford Rue,her: The ultimate root of this concept of transcendent masculinity is the fear of finitude or mortality and the desire to establish some basis by which the masculine ego can remain ultimately secure from the threat of mortality...
...Aprit 12, 19851 Indianapolis Star Miss Joan Baez reveals that she too has been a victim of child abuse: "My father was a physicist and we figured out how long it would take a missile to get from Moscow to Palo Alto High School...
...April 25, 19851 Cornell Daily Sun The enlightened views of anthropologist David Sonenschein, a former research assistant at the Kinsey Institute and now apparently a fulltime performer on the college Chautauqua circuit" Moral panic has created a notion of gays and lesbians as "folk devils," Sonenschein individuals . . . . These are the same psychological and stereotypical instruments" used against blacks and Jews...
...Some children seek out child-adult relationships, and those who do are "resilient" enough to overcome whatever trauma may be involved...
Vol. 18 • July 1985 • No. 7
