Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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...We left a legacy at Yale which today's straight and narrow students look back on with envy...
...In those cases where the cervix (the opening into the uterus, or womb) is also removed, the vagina may be shortened but should remain able to accommodate a penis...
...December 1985] The Progressive From the ever-fertile Progressive, more fecal-buccal: Our economy and our culture are tied to models of industrial affluence that place an intolerable burden on individuals and on the environment...
...December 1985] New York Times Book Review In an ad for Dr...
...Reinisch: I'm scheduled to have my uterus and ovaries removed but still don't understand how my husband and I will have sex afterward...
...December 1, 1985] New York Times Pecksniffian declarations from a New Age cad: To the Editor: My colleagues and I should thank you for your support in the Accuracy in Academia affair...
...After all, there were hijackers and murderers aboard that plane—and that made it perfectly all right for us to engage in hijacking and to threaten murder...
...The Government should stimulate new modes of regional and self-sufficient agriculture, preventive health care, decent housing, and sensible transportation...
...Even the Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union voiced his enthusiastic approval...
...evidence a disciplined command of language, and are consonant in spirit with the life and times of the individual they honor...
...Missing are any playthings that reflect our struggles for peace, that hold before our children the occupations of peace, the images of peace, or the heroes and heroines of peace...
...That people everywhere must pursue the human, rather than the national, interest to avoid nuclear war and provide for the well-being of those who, it may be hoped, come after them...
...June Reinisch Dear Dr...
...On today's mass market, there are basically just two kinds of playthings: pistols, rifles, machine guns, daggers, bayonets, hand grenades—toys for playing war and violence...
...Deadline: December 31, 1985...
...Preference is for those that ex-press substantive ideas with unusual beauty...
...We have gone from hell to herpes in three generations...
...The card game of Old Maid has always implanted a negative image...
...December 8, 1985] The Progressive Unsportsmanlike Conduct espied by one of the venerable Progressive's stalwart editorial writers: That's the way the game is played these days...
...aircraft managed to intercept an Egyptian plane and compel it to land in Italy, virtually the entire nation applauded...
...They at first seem unnecessary, but then, the references hit you hard...
...In the Eighties era of $350 billion Pentagon budgets, conspicuous consumption, deficits financed off the backs of poor we can see the true spoiled and the spoilers: The Reagan revelers sucking up the spoils of greed and selfishness...
...November 14, 1985] Small Press The poet-pol's historic presidential candidacy continues to inspire verbal clink and jingle: Four Winds Press wants manuscripts for Jesse Jackson, A National Portrait in Poetry, a volume of poems commemorating the first African-American's run for the American Presidency...
...and tea sets, doctor's kits, fire engines and dolls—toys for playing ordinary life...
...As the details of the at-tack on free speech and academic freedom become clear, I believe they will be seen as an attempt by the radical right to prevent the American public from hearing three basic lessons that I and others in education are trying to learn and teach: •That war, domination and violence of all kinds (including verbal abuse) are, if ever they were, no longer functional in human affairs...
...Presbyterian Survey The elucubrations of Sue Nichols Spencer, Grand Strategist of Toys for Peace, finally pay off: Walking into any toy store, we may find a wide assortment of toys on display—but also a serious gap...
...We won, didn't we...
...We need a whole new pat-tern of public and private investment...
...Ellen Goodman's latest collection of metaphysical rumblings her publishers present a tantalizing chrestomathy: The Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist is at her very best in her first book in four long years, Keeping in Touch: On women: "The woman of another era who married her architecture and became a housewife is now a working wife with the double work load of a societal bigamist...
...Children playing the game would be acting out the negotiating process by tossing peace offers to a diplomat...
...When U.S...
...Mail submissions to Etta Ladson, Editor, Four Winds Press, Box 109, Laurelton, NY 11413...
...That only by compassionately addressing the global problems of inequality, poverty and alienation shall humanity be able to make the case for its own retention in the cosmos...
...forces invaded Grenada, pitting the world's mightiest military power against a tiny Caribbean Island, millions of flag-waving Americans didn't laugh or cry...
...we have just seen her in a sexual encounter with her boyfriend...
...On work: "For all the talk about stress, there is still a real tension between the life we want for ourselves and the work we want out of others...
...October 16, 1985] Chicago Tribune Egghead cackelocutions from Miss Joni Mitchell, songstress and meta-physician: "The church is very aligned with the right wing today, and Russia and communists are the enemy 'cuz it plays into their Armageddon prophecies," she says...
...Until next fall, vale...
...they cheered themselves hoarse...
...The time has come for Accuracy in Academia to lay down its verbal arms and join the rest of us in the painful search for ways to build a more peaceful, sustainable and democratic world...
...In The Skin Horse (Ch...
...No, nobody is unclothed...
...The film spends some time on showing us film clips from the movie, The Elephant Man, and stills of people from the old circus "freak shows...
...June 1985] Indianapolis Star Let us face the facts...
...For instance, in the game of ring toss the spindle could be molded in the shape of a diplomat with a sash across his chest and a top hat on his head, and each ring could be labeled "peace offer...
...Notwithstanding the journalists' boasts about their unparalleled daring and candor, one finds more frankness and controversy on the how-to pages of a conservative newspaper than on the op-ed pages of the great liberal dailies...
...Where will the penis go and will it feel the same to my husband...
...Mark Reader Tempe, Arizona [November 13, 1985] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 57...
...The popular Rubik's Cube could be changed: Instead of trying to get colored sides to match, the player could try to complete a picture of people representing the nations of the world holding hands around the cube...
...A young girl without hands watches herself eat in front of a mirror...
...All that re-mains is the political will to place these proposals on the political agenda and fight for their enactment...
...The late Sixties and early Seventies at Yale were a golden era when higher values than grade grubbing and financial competition motivated us...
...We pay the price in pollution and illness, in higher deficits and diminished productivity, in alienation and social disarray...
...On surrogate mothers: "I never expected to see a new breed of entrepreneurs arrive on the scene hanging out shingles that offer Wombs for Rent...
...They may deal with any aspect of Jackson's rise to prominence...
...There are no toys that say that they should involve themselves in working persistently for peace, as we all must do...
...No returns without SASE...
...On herpes: "Not long ago, extramarital sex . . . was weighted down with fears of brimstone, not to mention pregnancy...
...Any rebuttal from Reaganites or gradegrubbing graduates will be printed pursuant to the equal time rule...
...CURRENT WISDOM...
...They haven't gained quite enough power for persecuting yet, but they're playing with the idea, and there's a lotta pushing and testing . . . it's all pretty scary to me...
...The unwanted card could be changed to "War" or "Violence...
...30 at 8), an unusually candid British film, severely disabled people not only talk about their sexuality, but they are unflinchingly photographed...
...November/December 1985] The Herald Telephone (Bloomington, Indiana) The announcement of a forthcoming Public Broadcasting spectacular provides still more proof that the New Age Liberal's fundamental political value is merely to bring distress to his neighbor: Sex and love are not confined to the physically able of this world...
...Many people continue to need some sort of deter-rent, some external reason to abstain . . . to deal sanely with their sexuality...
...And now they have access through the media to a lot of public brainwashing, and that's very dangerous, 'cuz if you can't criticize the president without being branded a Commie, you're on the verge of witch-hunting...
...Behold this syndicated wisdom: The Kinsey Report by Dr...
...Chosen manuscripts receive $100 award and publication...
...December 1985] Yale Alumni Magazine The historians of the Yale class of '74 depart from the usual chronicling of marriages, births, and herpes to deliver a well-rehearsed homily: It seems appropriate to close out this year's series of columns with a cautionary note recently received from Charlie Finch: "I couldn't let Rurik Ingram's passing remark that we had been `spoiled as under-graduates' (by comparison to the Wharton School) go by without a comment...
...And when U.S...
...The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past, fondles the machine gun as lovingly...
...Dear Reader: Even if the surgical route for removal of the uterus and ovaries is through the vagina, a woman's vagina re-mains after the operation...
...It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep...
...The technology to design such programs is available, and the proposals to implement them have been formulated...
...The Skin Horse—you'll have to watch to find out the derivation of the title—is a small film that says a great deal about humanity...
...As Loren Eisley wrote in "The Immense Journey" (Vintage, 1957): "The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear...
...If Durocher was right, America is bound to finish first...
...There aren't many nice guys left...
...The financial risks involved in introducing totally new products can be reduced by making minor changes in toys that already have a successful track record...
...Manuscripts should be quality submissions of any length, in any writing style...
Vol. 19 • February 1986 • No. 2
