Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Dr. Paul Ehrlich at the height of his powers: In fact, one can argue that the most "human" behavior of Homo sapiens—the thing that most clearly separates our...
...Why kill new animals when those other ones have already been killed...
...Young, old, rich and hopeful are united by repulsion that a neauveau [sic] changeling by his tongue and his unproven change of ideology might entrap decades of innocences...
...Teas were strong and good...
...I'm speaking writing [sic] to express the unanimous fears that the art world has toward the nomination of Bork...
...In my experience, leather is the best material to make shoes out of...
...Despite the primitive conditions, it was clear that a historic event was taking place...
...But my whale's breath was mild and odorless...
...Where the Kissing Never Stops...
...The wind shall blow them none knows whither...
...If this country is to remain the enviable land of growth and promise, that's what has to be gardened...
...That reminds me of a suggestion I have for meat eaters: When you see raccoons and squirrels and dogs and cats that have been hit by cars and are over on the side of the road, why don't they just clean those up and eat those...
...dist...
...He reveals his chagrin over literally failing to keep up with his teenage son, who bests him in a track race without shifting out of second gear...
...1933 Was a Bad Year...
...As evidence of the fact that Soviets and Americans have a longing for peace, members of our Volga Peace Cruise of 142 Americans, 4 Canadians and 27 Soviets commemorated Hiroshima Day on August 6 in Moscow with tourists from Japan and New Zealand and citizens of the Soviet Union...
...The Machinery of Nature by Paul Ehrlich, Simon and Schuster, 1986] American Library Association A compilation of New Age lit for "young adults" recommended by drunks at the American Library Association: • Collier, James Lincoln...
...In this quietly bizarre story, 14-year-old Charlotte wants to become a saint—if only she could stop lusting after the gardener at the nearby convent...
...Law is not a fixed point of view...
...Why are you doing that...
...August 1987] Newsweek Depressing revelations about Bill Cosby, America's Olivier, who has just penned a book about turning 50 and apparently about onanism, too: The strength of this book is its author's willingness—highly uncharacteristic of Cosby—to bare so much of his private self...
...That's what I ask every meat eater...
...Fante, John...
...CH: I think people use- entirely too many leather goods...
...It's unhealthy...
...September 7, 1987] Robert Rauschenberg (Artist) The voice of pop art sets his tweeters and woofers to rumbling at the Bork hearings, under solemn and sober oath: Democracy is not the product of law...
...Democracy is the need of the people to be free in dreams and reality...
...West Books for Young Adults, 1986-87"] Publishers Weekly The Jane Austen of Reagan's America looks on the happy side: In a converted open-air market with tin roofs protecting books from torrential rains and searing tropical sun, representatives of 500 publishing houses from 44 countries came together with thousands of Nicaraguans July 20-26 at the first international book fair in Managua, Nicaragua's capital city...
...The TV business, we're told, is "the worst one for a fossil like me because it is run by people who look as though they are planning the senior prom...
...It's impractical...
...Dann, Patty...
...When the Stars Begin to Fall...
...Even supremely...
...I was then treated to the most majestic sight of all: with great deliberation, a whale swam slowly across the bow of the ship, directly below my eyes...
...To be sure, breads, thick and heavy, brown and black, were exquisite, and the sweet butter served with them was excellent...
...Most important was the fact that a vast amount of new age work also is being done by reputable, forward-looking scholars, activists and professionals, all of whom genuinely are concerned about the future of our society...
...Angry that he's treated as "thieving trash," Harry decides to prove himself by exposing a local carpet factory's illegal polluting...
...Seventeen-year-old Jim's relationships with his family and friends change when his older brother reveals he has AIDS...
...Atlantic Monthly Press...
...Harper...
...However, I wish that the hides were coming from animals that died of natural causes...
...I don't know where you can get leather goods from animals that died a natural death...
...The Supreme Court is a final discriminating force to guide us into the future of global concerns...
...The event concluded with all joining hands and the singing of Russian and American songs, ending with "We Shall Overcome...
...As the ship turned to make for port, I felt damp but happy, and much moved...
...Unfortunately, we know that these animals were slaughtered and there's not a whole lot I can do about it...
...Mermaids...
...This, without doubt, must be the history of the future...
...The doors of control should be broadminded and wise with experience, compassion and understanding...
...Koertge, Ron...
...September 22, 1987] 52 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1987...
...Why keep killing them...
...High school senior Dominic Molise dreams of making it in the major leagues as a pitcher and of making out with his best friend's sister, in this witty and poignant story set in the Depression...
...In the transparent water I could see his whole body...
...Florence Graves Jonathan Adolph Editors, New Age Journal Brighton, Mass...
...Kerr, M. E. Night Kites...
...It was truly an emotional event...
...Perhaps the most eloquent spokesman for many new age ideas was that quintessential American, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who 100 years ago, in essays such as "Nature," "Self-reliance" and "Man the Reformer," detailed a transcendental world view as bold in his time as some new age thinking is today...
...It's immoral...
...He was as big as a 16-wheel tractor-trailer and as graceful as Fred Astaire...
...This is a writer's paradise...
...Art is the nourishment of society and the energy leading to the continuation and the universality of life...
...Ten-year old Tipi Means of the Ogalalla Sioux tribe presented a medallion and handcrafted peace quilt from her nation to members of the Soviet Peace Committee...
...Controversy is part of creation and changes are essential to current survival nationally and therefore internationally...
...Most of the new age thinking we publish in the New Age Journal is rooted in time-honored philosophies, and addresses concepts as down-to-earth as self-reliance, personal and social improvement, respect for the environment, sexual and racial equality, fulfillment, peace, health and independence of thought...
...disappointments made more intense simply because the rich traditions of food in Russia had created high expectations...
...In my defensive research of Bork I have discovered a compulsive insistence on the letter of the law and abuse to the exceptional and the minorities...
...But a just love of people...
...by Little, Brown...
...Delacorte...
...A fixed point of view will only lead to disaster...
...Not since I was a child growing up in the South have I seen such a love of books and learning," said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker...
...Ticknor & Fields...
...by Doubleday...
...Flexibility, resilience, and sensitivity are tatamount [sic...
...This responsibility requires a talent as creative and tolerant as the world is unpredictable...
...September 4, 1987] Wall Street Journal Proof that there is merit in the drive by many municipalities to reinstitutionalize the mentally incompetent: Your June 23 front page article describing the somewhat eccentric beliefs of certain new age millennialists was a good fun read,but unfortunately a few serious points were glossed over...
...From there I could peer straight down into the water so clear and calm that I could see 20 or 30 feet below the surface...
...Jurisdictional responsibilities begins [sic] before law...
...July 28, 1987] Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado) Grand dawns and wild nights on the famed Volga Peace Cruise as reported by Darya of Canyon Boulevard: Editor: Commemoration of Hiroshima-Nagasaki Days in the Soviet Union is week-long, with vigils and visits to war memorials...
...But, aside from several isolated meals, the food we found, and that a traveler with Intourist is apt to find in Russia's two most traveled-to cities, was a let down...
...In a warmly humorous first-person narrative, 17-year-old Walker deals with his father's death, his mother's new job as a stripper, and his attraction to Rachel...
...When I say that, I'm not really serious, but, indeed, if you have to eat animals, why not eat the ones that are already dead...
...She points to the row of leather boots perched on the top of a cabinet behind her...
...There must be persons with less controversial and destructive qualifications to assume this highest office...
...Emerson realized then what more and more socially conscious people are realizing now: "The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience, and fall...
...August 1987] New Republic A Soviet submarine, probably of the Typhoon class, glides just off our coast and Mr...
...Then, breaking the surface a few yards from the bow, he let loose with a great blow, drenching us all in whale-mist...
...dist...
...Well, as you can see, I've got leather boots I use for stage...
...Speeches were made, posters displayed and a bell tolled...
...September 14, 1987] Vegetarian Times In a VT interview, rock star Chrissie Hynde of "The Pretenders" demonstrates that the thought and scholarship of James Reston, recently retired resident sage of the New York Times, were not in vain: VT': What are your views on leather...
...Black Sparrow...
...Paul Ehrlich at the height of his powers: In fact, one can argue that the most "human" behavior of Homo sapiens—the thing that most clearly separates our species from other animals—is the practice of birth control...
...Many of these ideas germinated in the intellectual foment of the '60s and gradually entered mainstream society in forms that are readily accepted now: the hospice movement, holistic health, renewable energy and conservation, natural foods, the women's movement, environmentalism, spirituality and ethical investing, to name just a few...
...Darya M. Noonan 5555 Canyon Boulevard [August 19, 1987] Gourmet More Reaganite propaganda, and in a journal where it hurts: . . . on our recent visit to Moscow and Leningrad our only disappointments were with the food...
...Under his gray-black back, his belly shimmered a dappled, whitish gray-green...
...The book's boldest chapter deals with Cosby's shattering discovery of his first gray pubic hair...
...This was beyond the experience even of Melville's Ishmael, who reports, at second hand, that the whale's exhalation is foul and acrid...
...Hendrik Hertzberg delivers this alarming vision of the thing: I was standing in the very front of the bowsprit, a tongue of metal that juts out from the boat...
Vol. 20 • November 1987 • No. 11
