Current Wisdom
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...March 16, 1986] Washington Post Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., orator of the New Age, emits one more senseless whoop while explicating just who we Democrats are: "We are about opportunity, passion, excitement and a sense of adventure—and real heart...
...before the end of his term, but he may also complete the assured damage his regime has begun...
...Therefore, you come to Queens Boulevard, we can't make money with missiles, we can't do it with defense contracts...
...Great Books Series Dr...
...Times, reflects on the naughty rock group Kiss and comes away full of Rotary hope: There even may be an up side in the Kiss rite of passage...
...F H. Knelman, Professor of Science and Human Affairs at Montreal's Concordia University, swallows strychnine and capers with the serpents as is so often the custom when Ron is the subject of scholarly inquiry: We must accept that the old frontier spirit, the opening up of the West at the expense of the near genocide of native peoples, runs deep in the psyche of Americans...
...The ceremony ended with a Swedish workers' song set to music derived from the Russian Revolution...
...Go home and take a bath...
...Sinatra became a Reagan Republican...
...Anxious to avoid emotional wounds and the threat of disease, Betty has sworn off men for now...
...At a - pre-inaugural party in 1973, he shouted at Washington Post columnist Maxine Chesire, "Get away from me, you scum...
...Breslin: This nation—it starts in Washington...
...March 10, 1986] USA Today Professor Colman McCarthy, journalist and adjunct professor of "the politics of non-violence" at American University, renders another hypnagogic arpeggio to his pupils: McCARTHY: I tell them they have been cheated in school...
...His turn to the right coincided with a deepened contempt for women and his most offensive public behavior ever...
...Keith Hernandez tapped on the wrist for drug abuse and from the vapors of artistic imagination leap the demonic McCarthy and Brownshirts of unbeloved memory: The Hernandez case is also part of the national hysteria about drugs...
...March 3, 19861 New York Times Columnist Ira Berkow sees baseball prodigy Mr...
...Olof Palme, fraught, as would be expected, with contradictions: Perhaps the most moving moment for many Swedes came immediately after the Prime Minister's, address when a popular singer from Finland, Arja Saijonmaa, who often sang at Mr...
...We didn't do it well, but that was the goal...
...President Reagan took office with an ideological prejudice in favor of propping up anti-Communist strong men, but he has in fact presided over the culmination of Jimmy Carter's human-rights campaign...
...Far-fetched...
...Glen L. Robert: Another European visitor to my office who was working for a short period of time at the University of Michigan was simply outraged by the treatment of a child murderer...
...This country has been told now that we have a new standard...
...The kids are taught all about battles of Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Lexington, and Concord...
...After the second debate a British speech analyst stated that Reagan showed indications of early stages of senility (Gazette, Tuesday, 30 October 1984, Montreal...
...about here...
...His old politics of standing up for the little guy had been altered...
...While it may not be a panacea or a permanent solution, she explains, self-stimulation is one survival technique...
...we can do it with parking tickets...
...Hunter-Gault: All right...
...William Broyles, Jr., thinks the unthinkable and the off-the-wall: One man should not go unmentioned as first Haiti and then the Philippines threw out their dictators: Jimmy Carter...
...February 16, 1986] Los Angeles Times Robert Hilburn, resident J. J. Rousseau of the L.A...
...That was the standard we believed and we were doing it...
...And I think if you had to speak about a suicide, let's speak about greed...
...Fran-cis of Assisi, Jane Addams, Daniel Kerrigan, or the triumphs of non-violence from the salt march in India to the successful resistance of the Danes to the Nazis...
...Reagan may be impeached (re-placed) for incapacity...
...The new frontier of Kennedy and Johnson contained elements of traditional folk heroism also, but Kennedy at least had vigor, intelligence, and, seemingly, the ability to learn from history, not return to it...
...He did not—there was no power to help the powerless...
...Democracy is now blooming throughout Latin America, as it is beginning to bloom in the Philippines...
...The past has not died...
...He then stuffed two dollar bills in her drink, saying, "Here's two dollars, baby, that's what you're used to...
...Because I don't think this was a Queens tragedy...
...Hunter-Gault: All right, well, let's be specific then in terms of the kinds of corruption that we're talking...
...How big was it and what was it...
...This doesn't start on Queens Boulevard...
...Breslin: I think Donald Manes was a product of his times...
...But it is not to the point where our civil liberties should be violated...
...That standard has been changed to greed, now a new American standard...
...Sinclair Lewis, for one, understood that safeguards should always be in place, and suggested this when he wrote a novel with the ironic title "It Can't Happen Here...
...Palme's political rallies, approached the staircase and the coffin as if to sing to Mr...
...Fighting with those kinds of effective forces is the essence of pacifism...
...March 8, 1986] New York Times The final sepulchral moments of Mr...
...We romanticize the militarists: George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Davy Crockett, Patton...
...A few days before the 1984 presidential election, Reagan, who once hosted "Death Valley Days," visited the grave of the throwback hero John Wayne—who always rode tall in the saddle, who always hung tough, and always gave them hell as he defeated evil in the final shoot-out...
...January 28, 1986] Full Disclosure Museum-piece progressivism from Dr...
...Betty Sands, a pretty, cheerful writer coming off a bitter breakup, says she will do anything rather than sleep with an easy pickup—including masturbate...
...One cannot imagine the relatively articulate Kennedy saying "you ain't seen nothin' yet" or "over my dead body" or even "America is back," lines from a grade-B movie or even a comic strip...
...And I think that that has a lot to do with Mr...
...He made that kind of language part of his concert routine for several months, to the evident enjoyment of his new right-wing following...
...But they know little or nothing about Gandhi, King, Dorothy Day, Tolstoy, Jeanette Rankin, Jesus, St...
...Her song, the title of which was translated as "I give my thanks to life," was said to be based on a lyric of a revolutionary Chilean poet...
...Our old standard used to be to assist, to help, to lend a hand, to other countries, to the poor of our own...
...Ideally, the kids see through all the crude jokes and macho posturing (the same way they see through all the satanic imagery of other shock-rock acts) and get the real message: Hard work and dedication pay off...
...February 13, 1986] U. S. News & World Report In one of those bizarre capriccios that make American journalism so memorable, Mr...
...He was on a board of directors of a city where 78% of the blacks and Hispanics don't even finish school...
...from Reagan, God, and the Bomb, by F H. Knelman, Prometheus Books, 1985] MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour During a discussion of the expiry of Queens borough president Donald Manes, the heroic Charlayne HunterGault holds on tightly to her bonnet as a famous American wind tunnel runs out of control: Hunter-Gault: Well, how powerful was Manes...
...You know what that means, don't you...
...February 1986] sn THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1986...
...Now he em-braced the right-wing populism that defined the principal oppressor of the little guy as big government...
...You don't heal this mental defective man by shackling his arms-tight behind his back, pushing him around by a policeman without any expression on his face, by the consciousness of his power to control the meat-heap in his hands...
...Then the body of Mr...
...Manes' problem and it speaks for the condition of the rest of the country...
...What power means, in that thing...
...You've been laying down for two dollars all your life...
...We confer royalty on anyone who's got money...
...It didn't gall him as much as he had thought it would," reported columnist Earl Wilson...
...March 14, 1986] New Republic An aesthete plots the political evolution of another neoconservative: Always a public man, Sinatra explained the shift in his political thinking in a New York Times Op-Ed piece he wrote just after he appeared before the [House crime] commit-tee...
...Until she meets another per-son to share an exclusive relationship, she says, masturbation is it: "I know how to do it and I'm good at it," she says...
...For the rich and for themselves...
...We masterfully educate our kids in the history of war: Caesar's wars, Napoleonic wars, civil wars, World Wars I and II, preparation for World War III...
...And he saw his subpoena as a prime example of government oppressing a little guy...
...The comparisons to McCarthyism—to even the beginnings of Nazi Germany—have been evoked...
...He showed a picture of this man in the Ann Arbor News, in which the man was clearly identified by his full name with his arms shackled behind his back while in the custody of a powerful expressionless policeman...
...This is not a criminal...
...My guest made the following remark: This man is a product of your society...
...Wouldn't it be ironic if the Kiss Army looks back and realizes that its outrageous cartoon band was really a positive role model...
...This is a child murderer, a human being with a sick mind...
...We'll have to look at the power...
...That's how they were using power...
...No one even slightly aware of the terrible nature of drugs can say it's not a serious problem...
...I begin by explaining that it is OK to believe in force as a way to solve a problem or conflict—the force of justice, force of love, force of sharing wealth, and the force of organized non-violent resistance...
...Specifically, though...
...The force of violence has failed...
...This was a large act, committing suicide, and I think it should be addressed in large words and not in terms of a crummy municipal scandal...
...There was much power to help builders and to help politicians to help themselves...
...Palme, an agnostic, was removed for a Christian burial attended only by his family and a handful of guests...
...Palme alone...
...March 31, 1986] New York A celebrated New Age writer boasts of her small motor skills: One attractive 27-year-old has made some extreme changes...
...You're nothing but a two-dollar cunt...
Vol. 19 • May 1986 • No. 5
