Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Shocking findings from Margaret Engel and Molly Peter, two stalwart feminist agents just back from Middle America: What is it about the female form that strikes...
...It became a wrenching cycle...
...We need to learn that the world is bigger than America, and that there are viewpoints other than our own...
...And why...
...But the natural differences between men and women give the necessary leeway for spoof and jokes to continue...
...in front of Tommy Trojan yesterday, volunteers from the School of Pharmacy handed out 1,600 condoms and distributed pamphlets about sex, AIDS, and drug abuse...
...Well, those guys are heroes for a whole lot of people," Hammond said...
...March 12, 1987] Esquire The things a freelancer has to do to make a buck these days...
...February 19, 1987] New York Times Another surprising exhortation from the New Age—Swami Anthony Lewis comes out for an American Official Secrets Act...
...a Police State!: For six years President Reagan and his Administration have carried on an obsessive campaign for secrecy in government, trying to keep information from the press and the American public...
...If one doesn't love to experiment with touch as a conveyance of affection and friendliness, one may never reach the zenith of sexual achievement...
...The copy is filled with double-entendre references—for example "its generous proportions let you make a clean breast of kitchen chores...
...This calendar is about religion as play...
...We are becoming as rotten and corrupt as the Russians once were...
...to 1:30 p.m...
...There always was the sense that this one was going to be the one...
...April 10, 1987] Rocky Mountain News Theological gibberings from a New Age holy cleric splendiferous in jester's cap and clown's bladder: On May 13 you should take your spouse to dinner, and tip your bartender on July 8. This advice comes to you courtesy of the St...
...But mostly, there was the trying itself...
...government sends weapons and organizes war," said Michael Replogle, national coordinator of the group...
...And why do the rest of us continue to tolerate the manufacture and sale of objects and postcards that ridicule women's bodies...
...A flood of bikes in the past four months has helped the campaign almost reach its goal of 1000 bicycles...
...Anti-women icons graphically point out the physical differences between the sexes...
...1 remember how one of our doctors took a rubber model of the female reproductive system and brutally contorted it into a facsimile of my wife's "tipped" uterus...
...How about the Sexy Apron, an item that resembles a woman's torso and includes round removable potholders shaped like breasts...
...Keep a rubber on hand" was the logo on T-shirts sold Wednesday at the university's National Condom Day festivities in celebration of National Condom Week...
...February 13, 19871 Washington Post A cautionary note, steeped in geopolitical savvy, from a moral colossus: If the sons of the upper and middle classes had been sent to Vietnam, "the war would have ended a hell of a lot sooner," Oliver Stone told a luncheon crowd at the National Press Club on Tuesday...
...In Esquire's "Ethics" column, the bashful Mr...
...In the struggle to eliminate racism, a key element has been the similarity of all races, the inherent human characteristics common to all people...
...we wanted the best of ourselves to come forth...
...Sensual touches must precede sexual intents for both men and women...
...The Bikes Not Bombs Campaign is part of a growing movement promoting affordable and environmentally-sensible transportation that meets human needs...
...Once I had to drive a bottle of my newly deposited semen to the hospital—motility and clumping were to be tested...
...April 10, 1987]New Woman The tactile prescription for sexual fortissimos from the learned Sherry Suib Cohen, the Autolycus of the Berkshires or wherever else she might perform: Our generation is supposed to be one of sexual sophistication, yet insidious double standards continue...
...Another quickly follows: Did we ever control our own bodies, and, if we did, why did we lose control...
...Making love is certainly closer to the Christian concept of religion than is the idea of work...
...I had to clutch the bottle between my legs as drawbridge after drawbridge opened to allow the ChrisCrafts through...
...In the author's account, the pediatric surgeon, surgical resident, anesthesiologist, and pediatric resident are male...
...The vocabulary of those times was remote, fear-intensive...
...But my anger comes without knowing (for sure) who invented these ceremonies...
...Feminist dithyrambs from another Ms...
...Faith is making love, not making money...
...The ICU nurse, ER nurse, and nurse administrator are female...
...That raised the stakes, redoubled the hope...
...April 1987] Ms...
...Touch is then relegated to a sexual provocation instead of being a mutual and enduring pleasure in its own right...
...It was ecstatic, untamed, tender screwing...
...Women or men...
...The respiratory therapist, an ICU nurse, and the ER nurse-in-charge are unspecified...
...April 5, 1987] Daily Trojan In the salubriously named newspaper of the esteemed University of Southern California, auspicious news of sexual hygiene and gymnastic love: "Show how much you care...
...While I will readily plead ignorance to the sex distribution of the anesthesia and surgical services at Children's National Medical Center, I know that many of the pediatric residents there are female...
...The zealots who thought up new ways to keep Administration policies secret, hounding suspected leakers and threatening the press, sat by in seeming indifference or incompetence as espionage reached record levels...
...The synchronized sessions on the couch, the scheduled dalliances in the bed, the programmed tumbles in the backyard...
...The condoms were donated to the university by Mayer Laboratories, and the literature was supplied by the Student Health Center and the Red Cross...
...It's a shady war run by people with gangster morals...
...It is that we wish to experience the unique benefits that an all women's community provides...
...Others may also question a Christian calendar that includes Marx and Lenin...
...Milk of Magnesia quaffer: The appalling article "New Theory: AIDS and Women," by Ann Hornaday (November, 1986), filled me with revulsion and anger...
...Are we paying attention...
...Also offered are swizzle sticks of six "strippers" whose clothes disappear when a drink is stirred...
...In many developing countries, bicycles, tricycles, and carts are among the most appropriate transportation modes for moving people and cargo short distances, yet they are often ignored by those setting transportation policies...
...foreign policy and likened the Vietnam conflict to the present U.S...
...The Bikes Not Bombs workshop in Managua now employs six Central Americans and is training new bicycle mechanics...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Shocking findings from Margaret Engel and Molly Peter, two stalwart feminist agents just back from Middle America: What is it about the female form that strikes some men as funny...
...These rendezvous were well delineated on our omnipresent charts and graphs, marked with arrows labeled SCREW...
...Meanwhile, real secrets—intelligence secrets—were pouring out to the Soviet Union in a flood...
...involvement in Central America, which he called a sinister repression of revolution in El Salvador...
...We were living in coastal Florida at the time but were in the midst of a cold snap...
...Thomas...
...The daily notes on Bible verses frequently undercut traditional views of miracles, he said, "because I don't think God needs to resort to a kind of `Zot!' magic...
...Marion Hammond, the 59-year-old rector at St...
...Stone, whose Vietnam epic Platoon took four of the eight Academy Awards it was nominated for this year including best picture and best director, began his speech with a 30-minute indictment of U.S...
...Ann Ford Union Lake, Michigan [February 1987] American Medical News In a leading literary periodical, the depressing genital count continues: I find myself forced to take issue with the overtly sexist presentation of the pediatric trauma service as described in a recent edition of American Medical News...
...terms such as endometriosis and hydrocele became commonplace...
...Too many people take religion too seriously, a problem that dates back to the Puritan idea that religion is a ticket to heaven, said the Rev...
...a Closed Society...
...For starters, roughly 33% of the pediatric surgeons are women, 66% of the pediatric residents are women, and 20% of the ER nurses are male...
...In my own institution, also a regional pediatric trauma center with a similarly constituted team available, it's a little bit different...
...Jonathan D. Klein, MD Boston [January 23/30, 19871 Bikes Not Bombs A hand-out sheet, intercepted by our agents at Washington, D.C.'s pestiferous Lafayette Park, vindicates this venerable journal's abiding suspicion of the bicycle and the la-di-da types who pontificate about them: Over 900 bicycles have been sent to date by the Bikes Not Bombs Campaign to aid Nicaraguan development workers...
...The author appears to lack an understanding of the traditional sexually stereotyped roles in medicine and the difficulty men and women have had in surmounting them...
...The personality of the school that its alums and present students value most will be forever lost at Wheaton, including full access to leadership positions, pajanias at the breakfast table, and a growing awareness of the global women's heritage...
...Thomas Episcopal Church, which for 15 years has published a calendar that may be unique in the history of Christendom...
...Current fiction portrays women in the near future as baby-making machines without self-will...
...My immediate thought was: When will women control their own bodies...
...February 1, 1987] Wellesley News Metaphysical reasoning as to why the gals at Wheaton College ought not to be treated like the guys everywhere else in Amerika, and probably will not in this liberty-loving land: It is not that women's colleges feel that men are "icky...
...Volunteer efforts by North Americans working together in small groups have sent bicycles and organized for peace while the U.S...
...From 11:30 a.m...
...May 1987] 52 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1987...
...That is the wonderful irony in the Russian spy scare that now grips Washington...
...We'd be in the supermarket thinking about how it was growing, one cell, then two, then . . . then my wife's period would come...
...Mark Jacobsen shares with his readers the rough time he and the missus had while conjuring up little Mark, Jr.: I remember the "trying" days...
Vol. 20 • June 1987 • No. 6
