Twenty Years of Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM .44 vv'' 20th 4v 20th Annhersary VV V 4.4* 4Anniversary0 Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin) Cultural notes intoned at a recent University of Wisconsin...
...They are in limbo between the powerful organizations of both labor and management...
...You can feel sex in the atmosphere, on the street, in conversation, in people's actions...
...On their behalf, I urge my colleagues to lend their support to the Sales Representatives Protection Act...
...Of course, the degree to which White House officials may have been guilty of totalitarian attitudes is far less than in Stalin's Russia...
...March 1984] Chicago Tribune Vietnam's wonderful symbiosis of "military authority" and a "liberated attitude," as elucidated by the Rev...
...Women are freaked out," Sandy continued...
...He was lying outside, on the grass, when Rasputin—the dog, long dead, of his childhood—began licking his face...
...I ask Beatty . . . thrusting my tape-recorder microphone before him...
...And you draw these conclusions from a lot of things...
...Rasputin's tongue tickled coolly...
...I said, "Bird, you can't cruise our next President...
...George Will begins to show the stress of presiding over history: The ongoing emancipation of women is the country's finest social achievement...
...Louis Post-Dispatch A chilling analysis of Nixonian America by the UPI's Nicholas Daniloff, Kremlinologist and fictioneer: For this former Moscow correspondent, one of the sobering reflecturies [sic] of democratic practice, there is no guarantee against the development of totalitarian attitudes in the White House...
...Well . . . You mean, Why do I like Jerry Brown...
...Joseph Heller, champion of civil liberties, the whales, solar energy, a totally sanitary environment, personal growth, and an end to this CIA-inspired gabble about "boat people" and Pol Pot: A phrase that really gets to me, for instance, would be one of those neoconservative references to Vietnam as a national tragedy, but only because we lost...
...They deliver a quality of life to those people they've never known before...
...He beamed...
...At the suggestion of elders, Mr...
...Rimungi Arunja claimed on Monday . . . that Mr...
...Two or three Mohitos and you begin to understand...
...We simply must have faith in each other...
...After this, the witness went on, the M.P...
...The destruction of the earth is really what's happening, you know, we have a lot of responsibilities as white people in the f g belly of the monster to try and stop them in every way possible...
...January 9, 1983] Nairobi Standard From progressive Nairobi, a report on advanced electoral -techniques as yet unknown even to the pols of Manhattan: An oathing ceremony allegedly conducted by the sitting Member for Nyambene South, Mr...
...One is the path I've warned about tonight—the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest...
...Sublime, poetic, super-duper—a Gettysburg Address for jugheads...
...You're really taking this seriously...
...For almost 30 minutes, they raced from intersection to intersection near the White House, blocking traffic with their bodies and their banners...
...June 1983] Washington Post Nicholas Lemann caught in flagrante delicto describing the peace-loving reformers of the Communist Workers Party who, nonetheless, passed on violently when anger marred their otherwise peaceful "Death to the Klan" rally last November: The communists who died that day were, like those who survive, strong, intelligent, loving people...
...Jesse Jackson, in a discourse full of hope: I believe we should look to the Third World for an answer...
...You don't like it...
...We know the strength of America...
...from all indications, it will be flexible in interpreting the Koran, keeping the "book of research" open to amendment and adaptation based on contemporary needs and aspirations...
...That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves...
...Orville Schell interviews Mr...
...They talk about concentration camps for gays...
...January 28, 1979] Washington Post Dr...
...I promised to you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain and shares your dreams and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you...
...asked Suzette Rowe, a member of the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), which is organizing the protests, noting that most of yesterday's protestors were white...
...Even the nonpolitical ones...
...So you see and uh, and uh, a month and a half of freedom...
...All had given up promising careers to dedicate themselves to bringing about a violent revolution in America...
...But laid back...
...If 50 years ago we had had a foreign exchange program with Ronald Reagan at the University of Moscow and Yuri Andropov at the University of Oregon, we would be living in a vastly different world today," Simon said...
...The Willy Lomans of the United States still look to the Congress for the equitable working conditions they deserve...
...This country spends more on construction of one-quarter mile of interstate highway than on all faculty and student exchange programs with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries," Simon told the crowd...
...At one point, while Jack was shooting, the Bird muttered in my ear, "Get that ass...
...What follows are excerpts from the Wonderboy's recent utterance on energy lifted from the redoubtable Times of New York, our national newspaper of record: This is a special night for me...
...The Bird chuckled ominously: "They'll never elect those two...
...May 1, 1979] Esquire The nocturnal cognitions of feminist Sally Kempton: I used to lie in bed beside my husband after those fights and wish I had the courage to bash in his head with a frying pan...
...October 2, 1984] Santa Barbara News-Press Sobering utterances from Jerry Brown, Governor of the great State of California, as he addresses students at the University of California at Santa Barbara: "We can't abandon the essence of what is human, what is divine, what is sacred because that is the connecting path between what we are as individuals and what we are as a species, what we are as an ecosystem, biosphere, cosmos...
...One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: We've got to stop crying and start sweating...
...Park and District police on hand did not move to arrest any of the participants...
...There are lots of indictments out, a lot of us are facing time in jail...
...Women come in and they're scared...
...It's very real for them...
...Paul Simon of Illinois, called on graduates to help build bridges of understanding to the rest of the world in order to help avert a nuclear catastrophe...
...Now tell me again," he would ask Jack, repeatedly, "what you are...
...he has gained neither workmen's compensation nor unemployment insurance...
...Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom...
...The entourage around Khomeini, in fact, has had considerable involvement in human rights activities and is committed to a struggle against all forms of oppression...
...He himself was present at the oathing ceremony which Mr...
...They did it with military authority and a liberated attitude...
...I would do it while he slept, since awake he would overpower me, disarm me If only I dared, I would mutter to myself through clenched teeth, pushing back the realization that I didn't dare not because I was afraid of seriously hurting him—I would have loved to do that—but because even in the extremity of my anger I was afraid that if I cracked his head with a frying pan he would leave me...
...They call them Mohitos...
...Lowell Weicker returns from Cuba, having smoked long and diligently the Castro weed: The eight-and-a-half-hour encounter left the senator with the impression of "a man of enormous intellect and idealism...
...We can regain our confidence...
...Sandy shook her head...
...It was the day after Rasputin was put to sleep, years later, that Neil finally stood in the kitchen, his back turned to his parents, and said, with unexpected ease, "I'm a h omosexual...
...April 1971] Congressional Record Another emotional moment on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, provided by the Rt...
...stop talking and start walking...
...He, in turn, was charmed by them...
...One was a medical school dropout...
...Exactly three years ago on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States...
...Very laid back...
...I didn't know I was supposed to talk about our culture...
...Umm...
...Let your voice be heard...
...Everyone drinks them...
...Police responded quickly by rerouting lunchtime motorists around the protestors...
...He was not working when he died on the struggles, achievements and disappointments of his political life, but on the consoling influences of art, beauty and love in personal life...
...But there are some startling similarities...
...isn't there...
...Shelly and I have talked about it...
...Mwongo instead of the candidate of his choice, Mr...
...March 30, 1977] The Great Books Series From what is bound to become one of the classic homosexual novels of alltime we lift these heart-rending passages in hopes that all our readers will wake up before it is too late, before the barbed wire is thrown up and San Francisco is turned into a veritable ghost town: . . . Barbara interrupted her: "Margo, in most cases homosexuality is still a crime...
...July 16, 1979] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 103...
...Later, I told Jack that the Bird had commented favorably on his ass...
...Instead they have concentrated on rebuilding, putting people to work, inculcating new values and attitudes...
...The women are openly involved...
...The implication is that if we had won, the war •would have been somehow less tragic...
...A sprig of mint...
...March 26-27, 1977] The Great Books Series Proof of high intellectual attainment in Hollywood, California, as Mr...
...Mwongo administered an oath to about 2,000 people at the home of a teacher called Mr...
...A wet nose started to sniff down his body, toward his bathing suit...
...And I think that we have to deepen our culture and deepen our understanding of who we are to be not just songs and music and dancing and dope and loving each other, but also build a different culture of struggle on every level...
...Ibrahim Gachiata...
...It is a certain route to failure...
...This from a dispatch filed by the magisterial James Reston on January 27, short hours before the world was made aware of the nocturnal labors of Miss Megan Marshack: It should probably be remembered that Nelson Rockefeller died at his desk late on a Friday night after almost everybody else had gone home for the weekend...
...We are at a turning point in our history...
...That thought fills me with ire...
...Another was an honors graduate of Duke University, and another a student leader at Bennett College here...
...He could not do otherwise because he feared the oath dreadfully, he added...
...By Caribbean and South American, standards, it's Park Avenue I want to know why the U.S...
...There are two paths to choose...
...Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face...
...Warren Beatty, metaphysician: "Do you think that politics has just come down to people craving intriguing personalities...
...It's incredible—the signs and sayings of Mao are everywhere...
...Brown by Orville Schell [Random House, 1978] Inquiry A glimpse into.the inscrutable mind of Mr...
...The witness said that as a result of the oath, he changed sides and voted for Mr...
...Really heavy s---, you know...
...But the throng of U.S...
...December 1973] Old Oregon The sound of a United States Congressman on the prowl 2,029 miles from home and surrounded by pretty faces: The keynote speaker, U.S...
...Mwongo undressed and tied some banana leaves around his waist...
...Sandy broke the silence...
...We seem a lot to be really turmoiled at this point probably because . . . and partly because I think people are responding to the repression in real scared ways...
...and proved to be a better shot than our host...
...Louis Globe-Democrat A breathtakingly percipient essay into the polity of progressive Cuba from the typewriter of Miss Sally Quinn, an American Tocqueville: An attitude of sexuality is as pervasive in Cuba as the presence of Fidel Castro...
...They never attempted to break up the impromptu roadblocks or take anyone into custody...
...Choices by Nancy Toder !Persephone Press Book News, 1981] Ms...
...November 10, 1980] Foreign Policy A stupendous elucidation of the Ayatollah Khomeini's Divine Fascism from Dr...
...Muthinja of Mukuiru sublocation...
...I'd like to speak to you a little bit about culture right now and about the way we are getting into each other, and getting into real relationships and stuff—building families and building tribes that can fight together...
...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...
...The constitution he proposes has been drafted by political moderates with a strong belief in minority rights...
...It changes everything...
...Mwongo administered after stripping off his clothes so that it could be more binding and he was also among those who allegedly took the oath, he told the court...
...You begin to see more clearly...
...This is disgusting...
...It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans...
...First of all, we must face the truth and then we can change our course...
...While Jackie flitted about, taking Polaroid shots of us, the Bird banged away at the target...
...There have been no purge trials, executions or sentences of exile...
...Two of the five were doctors...
...We flew all over the place and I saw what he's done with my own eyes...
...And it necessarily colors their thinking...
...The strength we need will not come from the White House but from every house in America...
...Richard Falk, a Beethoven in the foreign policy art, famous for his many requiems to the American Republic and for numerous symphonies to foreign brutality: One of Washington's problems in formulating a position toward Khomeini's movement may be its relative ignorance of the ayatollah's philosophy and of Shi'ite Moslem doctrine generally...
...Example: 'We shall harness the Yellow River'—that's all he says and suddenly millions of people are volunteering to work on it...
...Now that's very exciting," he said...
...What he felt frightened him, but he couldn't bring himself to push the dog away...
...It is very Latin, without the old traditional cultural censorship...
...Each time, Jack, dutifully, gave name, rank, and party...
...It has been fascinating for me to observe what has happened in South Vietnam in the past year...
...CURRENT WISDOM .44 vv'' 20th 4v 20th Annhersary VV V 4.4* 4Anniversary0 Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin) Cultural notes intoned at a recent University of Wisconsin anti-war menagerie by Linda Evans, an idealistic and knowledgeable member of the New Left's fairer sex who is currently charged with bombings in California, Chicago, and New York: I'm going to jail tomorrow so it's really, uh, you know...
...I will do my best, but I will not do it alone...
...A fledgling feminist reveals how a confusion over female orifices can lead to a similar confusion over male protuberances and many messy situations: The daughter of a friend took her first bath with a male cousin when they were both four years old...
...And to understand Cuba it helps to understand Mohitos...
...I think we've basically come to the decision that we'll leave the country if things get too bad...
...In the long run what you're looking for in a politician is someone who's . . . you know . . . someone who's in the middle of his body...
...He was a worker, a yearner, and a builder to the end...
...Could you imagine a group of black demonstrators not getting arrested...
...Speaker, it is nearly 30 years since the playwright Arthur Miller first shocked the American people with his "Death of a Salesman," a grim portrayal of the grueling life of a sales representative...
...We can gain the affection of the Cuban people by working side by side...
...He felt a tingle he did not recognize, pulled off his shirt to give the dog access to more of him...
...A. R. Kapila, rigorously questioned the witness who made the allegation...
...April 18, 1976] New York Times Proof that the pitiless wheel of history grinds all who stagger before it—even renowned New York Times columnists...
...Despite their best efforts to misbehave, the demonstrators were permitted to do just about anything short of charging the White House gates...
...April 23, 1975] Washington Post The incomparable Post reports on the hard times into which protest politics have fallen midway through the reign of Reagan: "We are anti-Reagan women and we are voting, voting for our lives," the protestors sang as the straw-and-newspaper likeness of Reagan refused to burn...
...The animal was then slaughtered...
...The new Saigon leaders have spent little time talking about the Americans who carpet bombed and defoliated their country...
...That's clearly not a rational ordering of priorities" at a time when people "have the power to destroy the world," the Eugene native and former UO journalism student said...
...But it's the Jewish lesbians who are really panicked...
...Sugar...
...Go to Canada, I guess...
...All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path: the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values...
...Senate's most enormous hinds, upon returning from glorious and inscrutable Peking: [Senator] Percy, clad in brief blue swim trunks and a peach sportshirt, and equally exhilarated by the trip, jumps right into the conversation with a surprising remark: "Mao is the George Washington of his country," he contends...
...July 1983] People The Rt...
...June 22, 1980] San Francisco Chronicle A legendary California newspaper records the breathless observations of one of the U.S...
...Then his mother called out, "Dinner," and Rasputin was gone, more interested in food than in him...
...held the hind legs of a live he-goat against his shoulders and went round the crowd cursing those who would refuse to cast their votes for him...
...It's very real for us...
...The group was silent...
...Then the Bird would sternly quiz him on America's China policy...
...Yes, Cuba is a Communist country...
...Finally, he proposed that we shoot at a target in the patio...
...We are strong...
...Jacob Mwongo, was a heated subject in the High Court yesterday when the advocate for the M.P., Mr...
...Mwongo beating the he-goat and saying "May those who refuse to vote for Mwongo die like this he-goat...
...They have these drinks in Cuba...
...The salesman is not eligible for union membership...
...September 20, 1975] New York Times The most stupendous lucubration, the most divine sonority, the finest logical thread ever woven by an American statesman in this century...
...Being well brought up, she was silent about her anatomical discovery, but that night, as her mother tucked her into bed, she said: "Mommy, isn't it a blessing he doesn't have it on his face...
...Faith in our ability to govern ourselves and faith in the future of this nation...
...and Jack would look a bit glum...
...I didn't know, uh, how I would label it but, uh . . . Psychedelic patterns in my head and, uh . . . There's really a lot to say and, uh, I'm just getting these vibrations of real power from us, you know, that we really, really are brothers and sisters and we need to understand to get together how much we . . . We have to make that count in the struggle that is happening and that's going to happen in the years to come because whatever evolves from the last year...
...Castro's been known to snow people, but he didn't snow me," Weicker says...
...This is why, to understand Communism in Cuba, the difference in their political and ideological concepts, it helps to understand the nature of their sexuality...
...March 2, 1982] New Yorker From Alpo to the groin, the innocent origins of another of America's noble few: Neil was twelve the first time he recognized in himself something like sexuality...
...Lime juice...
...Them...
...We can regain our unity...
...The message from there is clear: Through the proper use of money and a positive attitude, we can stimulate self-development and give the people a vision...
...stop cursing and start praying...
...Who's to say it couldn't happen here...
...I see it in my practice...
...They are much too attractive for the American people...
...And neither do I. What can we do...
...A governor or a senator...
...The Cubans seem to be thinking of it much of the time...
...It is entirely different from the harsher Sunni variety that currently prevails in Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Pakistan, among other Moslem nations...
...The court was told that two other naked men followed Mr...
...The right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others...
...Well, umm . . . It's basically just a question of whether you think he is a good man or not, isn't it...
...Contrary to the superficial reports in the American press about his attitude toward Jews, women, and others, Khomeini's Islamic republic can be expected to have a doctrine of social justice at its core...
...Spring 1979] St...
...June 13, 1985] St...
...Margo was now shocked...
...After repeated attempts, it finally collapsed into flame and ash...
...People with that mentality, I have to admit, impress me as being the scum of the earth...
...Prohibiting homosexual teachers from working was one of the first repressive steps the Nazis took," Julie said...
...One could weep for what might have been...
...Soda...
...That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility...
...Richard Ottinger, Conscience of the House: Mr...
...Since that time, few advances have been made to improve the rights and working conditions of these important contributors to the American economy...
...Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country...
...Often, you see paralysis and stagnation and drift...
...May 31, 1982] 102 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 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 Miami to Palm Springs for lunch with the golden couple, who had told me that they lusted to meet the Bird...
Vol. 20 • December 1987 • No. 12
