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...They do not mind humiliating the mentally ill or those on food stamps or those with small farms...
...There is in Fidel something of the grand seigneur...
...By becoming the Court Jews of the Right they can identify with the power and pre-tend it is theirs...
...A radical idea, to be sure: taking children from their parents and sending them to a strange land, where they would be in effect captives to the cause of world peace...
...from Fidel: A Biography of Fidel Castro, by Peter G. Bourne, Dodd, Mead Co., $18.95] Rolling Stone Evidence of still more tergiversations in the Age of Reagan, as noted by a modern Gibbon lamenting back home in Indiana...
...KK: Well, you know, if you're talking at a home for the elderly, you talk about Teddy's policy with the elderly...
...KK: I went for a number of weeks and traveled with two friends, Rajeev Sethi and Sam Green, who put exhibits together...
...July 1986] Ann Arbor News Miss Jenny Workman, obviously a professor at the University of Michigan's Women's Studies Program, tenders a thoughtful critique to the local news-paper: Would you please do something about your terrible comic section...
...They brought in a cow first—Nellie the cow—and they would auction that off, and the next thing would be this box with maybe two ice skates and three books in it...
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...David Demaree Indianapolis, Indiana [August 28, 1986] California Law Still more bad news for a hard-luck group of fellows if ever there was one: One of the sad side effects of the AIDS crisis is that women won't take the sperm of gay men...
...There were a lot of craftsmen in India who spent enormous numbers of hours and used incredible skills to come up with knickknacks...
...Can you win an American presidential election running on virtue...
...On what topics...
...One day, in West Virginia, I went to the farmers' auction...
...She acknowledges calmly that her new enterprise, Aplex Corp., leaves many who first hear of it stunned just long enough to gather up and expel a guffaw...
...It is, however, infinitely more tragic that Rolling Stone would even consider publishing such naive trash...
...At the same time, when he feels that he has let the people down, he shows remarkable public contrition...
...We wanted to learn about the ways in which art can work with private industry to improve people's lives...
...Each candidate gives the civic virtue theme his own rationale...
...health care, whatever it is...
...The initial reaction is, `You have got to be kidding,' " says Harp...
...He advocates the compulsory exchange of all children from age seven to eight to live for one year with a family in another country, specifically a country considered to be an enemy...
...Peter G. Bourne, late of the Carter White House: He asked what she was doing, and she replied that she had intended to get married but her husband was a political prisoner on the Isle of Pines...
...I also went to a prison...
...Rolling Stone was once a magazine that wrote about rock & roll—the music that prides itself on transcending race, religion and class to bring people together and to enable them to understand one another and live together...
...And if, on the road to New Hampshire, the theme begins to fade in Pat Caddell's polls, expect the others to look for another one...
...Another rising Kennedy—Kara, daughter of Teddy—makes a difference: I've traveled with my dad to the Soviet Union and China...
...GC: You gave speeches...
...You know, especially from me—who the hell am I? But Teddy had a lot of sup-port in the gay community, so I didn't mind...
...Just beautiful work, and that's all the family has been doing for the whole time, and now they're making ashtrays—so it's a tragedy...
...You treat it as if you just expect 3-year-olds to read it...
...KK: That was really fun...
...Not Cuomo...
...But behind it lies a realization that cannot be reiterated too often—namely, it is the children of the world who will soon be deciding its fate...
...Without a recession, doubtful...
...The publication of "Terror of the Euroweenies" by P. J. O'Rourke (RS 477) marks an all-time ebb in the history of Rolling Stone...
...Critics argue that such actions reflect not his generosity but his need to be like a Caesar holding in his hands the power of life and death over every citizen...
...After reading the pages and pages about nuclear arms, murder and Reagan, people need a little cheer to lighten them up...
...Timothy J. Madison takes up a piece of capital crackpottery and wraps it in a favorite progressive bromide: Jacques Cousteau, the famed explorer, inventor, and humanitarian, has long been noted for his concern over the fate of the human race...
...They call for a Jewish identification with those who have instead of those who want because they were so humiliated by their helplessness beneath the Nazi power...
...What areas did you cover...
...Jenny Workman Ann Arbor [June 27, 1986] Interview A Kennedy of the rising generation, Victoria Lawford, reveals how they cut their political teeth nowadays: GC: Tell me about campaigning...
...when you talk to professors, you talk about education...
...Cool Hand Hart: it is a technical requirement for the machine of state (if we are to compete with the Japanese, etc...
...August 15, 1986] Venture From the American purdah emerges a feminist dream-come-true: In her decade-long career, Lore Harp has often faced the derision of fellow entrepreneurs, but it's been a breeze compared to what she expects in the next few months...
...What did you do...
...We took a trip to Africa, which was powerful...
...Cuomo's is perhaps the most extreme form, but the idea of sacrifice or "true patriotism" is the Democratic alternative to the self-congratulatory, narcissistic patriotism of Reaganism...
...The worst offenders are: Winthrop, Boner's Ark, Wee Pals and Amy...
...The Right in America affords Jews a safe place to vent anger on other helpless peoples who stand in our place as we stand above them...
...March/April 1986] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1986 53...
...They'd auction that off, too, and then the next thing...
...He believes that the deep sincerity of his commitment, which few dispute, should obviate any criticism of his absolute power...
...The Great Books Series The Stalin of the Caribbean gets yet another Yankee hagiographer, this time in the preposterous persona of Dr...
...Although he has just passed his seventy-fifth birthday, he has not allowed age to slow down his rapid pace and has in fact just come up with a plan which he calls "my number-one priority'=a plan devoted to averting the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction...
...It is a European, Hispanic style in which he sees himself as the good and benevolent ruler who, while secure in his right to permanent power, feels a deep moral obligation for the welfare of his humble subjects...
...We went to all these gay bars and gave speeches in the evening, but who wants to listen to political speeches on a Friday night...
...I realize that kids need something to read, but some of us who haven't outgrown the funnies do too...
...I don't see how a nation could press the button of those horrible things when it knows that three million of its children are over there...
...They call for bigger and bigger arsenals because Jews once were so power-less...
...Vol...
...Equally, and perhaps more accurately, it also shows a certain paternalistic quality—he treats all the Cuban people as though they were a part of his own giant family...
...That's be-cause she wants to persuade millions of women to stand up while urinating—using a disposable paper funnel she markets as Le Funelle...
...VL: I went up to New Hampshire with my cousin Kara, and to Detroit and California, where I worked with the gay community...
...Mario Cuomo, political ascetic: it is a moral necessity...
...GC: In 1980, you worked on your Uncle Ted's presidential campaign...
...This is my wedding present to you," he said...
...It might take them two months to carve an ashtray that was sold for 75 cents to tourists...
...1, 1986] Humanist Dr...
...Well, you are wrong...
...I began doing fund-raising in New York and working out of the office there, and then I started traveling, going around the country as a surrogate, giving speeches...
...The same families can trace their origins back to people who did the inlay work for the Taj Mahal...
...Wired Joe Biden: we need the feeling back...
...Great examples of this attitude include Live Aid, Farm Aid, and the Amnesty International tour...
...It is tragic that so many Americans share O'Rourke's opinions...
...Out of all the cities I've lived in, The Ann Arbor News has the worst comics...
...It is a utopian notion and, as Cousteau himself recognizes, far from likely to ever take place...
...On feeling, on community, on Hands Across America...
...The publication of O'Rourke's article seems to point to Rolling Stone's transformation into a fashion magazine for people with a Rambo mentality...
...Harp, whose willfulness and marketing skill are legendary among high-tech executives, is deadly serious about changing womens' stance in the lavatory...
...Besides learning more about the country, we were able to help out—we went to the camps and the nutrition centers, where we loaded syringes and so forth...
...August 1986]Washington Post Charles Krauthammer pays the price to become an American media legend: Virtue—they don't call it that—is emerging as a Democratic theme for '88...
...In Ethiopia, we saw children starving...
...It was amazing just learning about this country and about how people live...
...They had about 300 people in this barn, climbing the sides and hanging off the rafters...
...Still more third generation Kennedy-think, this time from Kerry Kennedy, apparently sober: GC: What were you doing in India last summer...
...July 1986] Tikkun A helpful explanation as to why Irving hates the little people, provided by Anne in Volume 1, Number 1 of the left's response to Commentary: Some Jews bent under the yoke of the paranoid vision have turned to anti-communism as a safe harbour in which to exercise their rage, to vent their suspicions and to perhaps unconsciously take revenge against communities of non-Jews be they Vietnam villagers, Nicaraguan peasants, or Mexican migrant workers...
...Fidel, without inquiring any more about the case, turned to an aide and gave instructions that the man be released...
...We are paying you, not the 3-year-olds, to give us a quality paper that covers all of the bases well...
...The neoconservative movement as we read it in Commentary, has taken its Jewish anger, its Jewish rage and hidden it, folded it into an identification with the powerful and the strong...
Vol. 19 • October 1986 • No. 10
