Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Great Books Series A random selection of epistolary art from a single page of a book certain to be a modern classic: After reading Gloria Steinem's political fantasy "If Men Could...
...July 16, 1987]Debbie K. Schlussel The Fourth Generation notifies Washington society of her coming out: For Immediate Release Contact: Debbie K. Schlussel SCHLUSSEL AWARDED NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATION TERRY DOLAN INTERNSHIP GRANT Debbie K. Schlussel, 18, of Southfield, [Michigan] has been named as one of three recipients nationwide of the National Conservative Foundation (NCF) Terry Dolan Internship and Internship Grant...
...She made an observation and the following conversation ensued: "You don't wipe your bottom when you tinkle...
...Because my tinkle comes out a different place than yours...
...and the Reviews intellectual response: Partisan Review The American Spectator, a neoconservative magazine that claims inspiration from Mencken, derides the sending of reading matter into American prisons...
...No, Kristin, I don't...
...Mencken as editor of The American Mercury welcomed good writing by all sorts of people with hard experiences...
...My interpretation of this sample event is that she does not see the society or the world in terms of masculine "norm," with her own status defined only in relation to that "norm...
...Crane, a 1980 Presidential candidate, is the ranking Republican of the Trade Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee and is one of the foremost conservative leaders in American politics...
...July 10, 1987]Rolling Stone How Amerika failed to live up to its depiction in literature as reported by a Mr...
...The highest peak in North America, Mount McKinley is an inspiring metaphor for the magnitude of the challenge we face in dealing with the social crisis of this decade...
...Congressional intern for Congressman Phil Crane (R.-Ill...
...No...
...Moreover his understanding of the crucial passage under discussion remains woefully inadequate and raises doubts about his earlier scholarship...
...The plot...
...Robert J. Shaw, Minister Tabernacle Christian Church Franklin, Indiana July 1981 Issue [from Letters to Ms.: 1972-1987, edited by Mary Thom, Henry Holt and Company, 1987] Harvard Outing Club McKinley Expedition A leaflet from the Harvard Outing Club (15 Linden Street, Cambridge, Mass...
...Yours faithfully, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...They're about illegally trading those arms, weapons of murder...
...This is now the second time that Professor Kazin has publicly drawn attention to his own courage in making it all the way to page 62 in my book (he made a similar boast in The New Republic two and a half years ago...
...The Editors New York Review of Books [February 23, 1987] 54 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1987...
...I do think it's fantastic that I have my own cycle corresponding to the moon's—if that's cosmic, so be it...
...Furthermore, throughout the summer, NCF will send Schlussel to its intensive Campaign Management, Campaign Finance, and Candidate Schools...
...Perhaps Professor Kazin has seen them...
...As parents, we must be doing something right...
...There I write, "Some were instantly slaughtered, set upon by wolf packs of . . . common brutes...
...Congressional intern for Congressman Donald E. "Buz" Lukens (R-Ohio), who serves on the prestigious Europe and the Middle East Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...Summer 1987] Washington Post From Ellen Goodman, the Walter Lippmann of our time, come still more cadenced immensities destined for the ages: These hearings are not just about the Boland Amendment or even the Constitution...
...I don't feel as comfortable living in America as I did four years ago," he admits...
...Another reflective pause, then, "Why...
...30 [July 10, 1987] New York Times Senator Robert Dole, bragging to an audience of young Republicans: "We get a rap that we don't care about people who have real problems...
...I was never encouraged to look forward to it...
...Schlussel will spend the first month of her internship as a U.S...
...We don't care much for black people or brown people or Asian-Americans or white people...
...Reflective pause, then, "Why...
...When I first got here, I felt welcomed with open arms...
...Since we receive thousands of letters and comments, we cannot reply directly to each one...
...CURRENT WISDOM Great Books Series A random selection of epistolary art from a single page of a book certain to be a modern classic: After reading Gloria Steinem's political fantasy "If Men Could Menstruate," I remember how, when I started menstruating, at twelve, I was very proud...
...02138) sings of another promising public policy initiative: Dear Harvard Outing Club Alumnus/ Alumna: In the spirit of charity and good will, the Harvard Outing Club is working to draw attention to the plight of the homeless by sending an expedition to climb Mount McKinley this summer...
...Of those who survived at least temporarily, some encamped on fashionable streets "jeering, flapping their ragged limbs at pedestrians and giggling lewdly—strutting loons ridiculing the lunacy of the New Age...
...NCPAC is the largest Political Action Committee (PAC) in the United States, raising the most money and number of contributions of any PAC across the country...
...Nor can we say in advance whether a letter will be published, although each one is carefully considered...
...We don't like low-income Americans...
...In The Liberal Crack-Up, published just in time to persuade any "liberals" left that they are "out of it," perhaps crazy, Tyrrell mocks the homeless in America's great cities (most of them released on tranquilizers from state institutions) as "the true heirs of Liberal progress . . . strutting loons ridiculing the lunacy of the New Age...
...We turn our back on the disabled...
...Why, I don't know—no one had ever explained to me what it was all about...
...Contrary to his assertion, I do not ridicule "the homeless in our great cities" but comment on those comfortably sheltered moralists who, unable to distinguish insanity from sanity, abandoned the helpless to the streets of our great cities...
...What counts in this drama is the public morality...
...One of every 520 Americans is in a federal or state prison...
...I was sharing the bathroom with my daughter, who is not yet three...
...I have in mind particularly his reference to The Liberal Crack-Up...
...In addition, Schlussel will serve as a U.S...
...The internship is named in memory of the late John T. "Terry" Dolan, the founder and past chairman of both NCPAC and NCF...
...Others perished from exposure...
...Jackson in the intellectual pages of RS: Jackson—who's been based in New York City off and on for the past four years—says he's grown increasingly disenchanted with the United States...
...It felt familiar to me, I'd see it on TV, I'd read about it in comic books...
...my point is that they need not suffer so...
...February 26, 1987] To The Editor: Alfred Kazin's essay on Mencken abounds with his usual recipe of honeyed observations, and, naturally, it made for agreeable reading...
...Dolan was known nationally as the top political fundraiser on behalf of conservative causes and candidates for public office...
...Name Withheld December 12, 1978 I recently had an experience that I suppose falls into the click category...
...Finally, Schlussel will round out her internship by spending her third and final month as an intern at NCPAC, the National Conservative Political Action Committee...
...Because boys and girls are different...
...I hope my interpretation is correct...
...Admittedly that is more combat duty than any other New York Review of Books writer has been able to endure, but Professor Kazin ought to allow us to admire him on our own...
...We don't like old people...
...he encouraged the "tramp" writer Jim Tully, Richard Wright, James T. Farrell...
...October 22, 1984] New York Review of Books R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., editor of the sophomoric, right-wing American Spectator, is a professed Menckenite and even claims to duplicate his style...
...Another reflective pause, then with certainty, "No, boys are different...
...The upper crust...
...February 13, 1987] Thank you very much for writing...
...As of June 30 one out of every 520 Americans is in a federal or state prison...
...Our expedition to climb Mount McKinley is a public statement---"Harvard cares about the plight of the homeless...
...July 17, 1987] What follows, in chronological order, are three specimens of Professor Alfred Kazin's drift into autism...
...We're sort of a hard-hearted party...
...We have enough of this Rambo stuff in our nation's capital...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s highminded response to Kazin and to the New York Review of Books...
...You don't want to be in the upper crust, you can't be a Republican...
...However, he ought to restrain the boastfulness that creeps in every now and then...
...And what would Mencken, who was at least capable of saying, "You cannot have someone starving on your doorstep," have made of Tyrrell's mocking the homeless in our great cities (many of them released on tranquilizers from state institutions) as "the true heirs of Liberal progress . . . strutting loons ridiculing the lunacy of the New Age...
...Your support will emphasize that we speak for Harvard, past and present...
...4, 1984] New Republic The American Spectator first came to my attention because it derided the sending of reading matter to prisons...
...These hearings are not just about whether 011ie North is a great character actor, a swell husband, a loving dad and all-around honorable fellow by his own code...
...The good, the bad and the very, very ugly...
...Schlussel, a sophomore at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the 1986-87 "Outstanding Teen Age Republican in the Nation...
...Nevertheless, it seemed so very natural, and I felt womanly...
...In spite of the jokes, the ignorance, the cultural taboos, cramps, and water retention, I still like my period...
...Schlussel, nominated by National Teen Age Republicans for the three-month Washington summer internship, was chosen from a field of many college students nominated from all over the United States...
...The magazine first came to my attention because it derided sending reading matter to prisons...
Vol. 20 • September 1987 • No. 9
