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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post An understandable slip-up: CORRECTIONS Pol Pot was mistakenly identified as anticommunist in Mary McGrory's column yesterday. The reference should have said the...
...Vivien's death wish, in Jay's analysis, was the result of a tortured feminist consciousness that saw death as the only alternative to surrender...
...In any case I know that I feel real pain when I see a bulldozer scooping up the topsoil or a forest being clear-cut...
...Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination...
...The dance steps were exactly the same...
...It's no more than another romanticized and dated war zone, a useless place where the stupidity of military violence was unleashed...
...The "Cassandras" I know are amazingly courageous...
...Both nights Michael spontaneously began to cry in the middle of a certain song...
...I think that most of us "environmentalists" feel that way...
...Dramatic lawsuits are making employers acutely aware of their civil liability for criminal violence against their employees," he says...
...The reference should have said the Khmer Rouge leader, a Marxist, is anti-Vietnam...
...Such a reading skirts the issue of whether the philosophy they developed, liberating though it might have been, exacted its price...
...We feel that we are voices crying in the wilderness for the wilderness...
...June 1988] Mother Jones Anthropological investigations in the first person singular from Dr...
...Being on the plantation reminded Luis of his days as a guerrilla...
...With guns exceeded only by moving vehicles as a source of fatal injury at work, it is extraordinary that there are no OSHA regulations specifically designed to keep workers from being murdered on the job...
...from The Cassandra Conference: Resources and the Human Predicament, edited by Paul Ehrlich and John Holden...
...I would call such extended identity, whether it extends to persons or things or ecosystems, love...
...Until then, mi companera...
...Jay's analysis is thorough, complex, and productively frustrating...
...Without discussing it, we both knew I planned to return...
...June 10, 1988] New Republic Camelot vs...
...September 5, 1988] Cosmopolitan Scortatory nights spent in the smelly embrace of a Sandinista Romeo as reported in the revolutionary journal of American womanhood by Mary Farley, whose telephone number can be readily retrieved from the walls of the men's room at the downtown Greyhound station in Miami, Florida...
...The phenomenon must be addressed not only by the criminal justice and tort systems, but also through the administrative rulemaking of regulatory agencies...
...That brought a smile to his face—the smile I still see in my mind a thousand times a day...
...With a tearful smile, I said yes...
...Dietz suggests that OSHA's inattention to homicide "probably reflects the still-prevalent notion that homicide is a criminal justice problem rather than a health and safety problem...
...Everyone is trying to get along under one roof...
...We are motivated not by greed but by love...
...Jay suggests that although we should not excuse Barney her devotion to Mussolini, we should remember that Barney and Vivien were "products of their era...
...Joel Achenbach for all the victims of substance abuse who read Mother Jones and learn from it: I first sensed that nothing is real anymore a few years back during the Victory Tour by the Jacksons...
...July 12, 1988] The Great Books Series Mr...
...But we managed to get away...
...I do not know which comes first...
...Colman McCarthy espies the Manassas Battlefield National Park and runs amok once again with a familiar 1960s theme: Unlike the other nine endangered national parks, Manassas is not worth protecting...
...But employers who wish to improve workplace safety by preventing violence don't have sufficient guidance today...
...I will never eat monkey again...
...In six months, when I've learned some Spanish...
...Richard Hall elucidates why homosexual fiction has become even more tedious than feminist fiction or even than the newsletter of the National Education Association: Indeed, finding a family of sorts has become the chief interest of characters in much gay fiction...
...We slept in hammocks and had to catch our food...
...Even monkey," he smiled as he cradled me in his arms...
...her concern throughout The Amazon and the Page is to establish Barney and Vivien as feminist foremothers...
...For complex reasons I went to see them two nights in a row...
...OSHA has failed to address the serious problem of occupational homicide," says Park E. Dietz, MD, professor of law, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Va...
...September 1988] Village Voice Two giants of an earlier era, disinterred and deloused by the venerable Stacey D'Erasmo in a review of The Amazon and the Page by Miss Karla Jay: When Natalie Barney, 23, met Renee Vivien, 22, in Paris in 1899, they not only fell in love at first sight but immediately got busy laying the theoretical and artistic groundwork for an entirely new lesbian self-consciousness...
...Despite the hazard you find nothing in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act or in regulations and standards dealing with violence in the workplace...
...Not only do we study the workings of the planet, but we have some sort of personal identity with them...
...One time, I got stuck so deep that three companeros had to pull me out...
...Something of me has been hurt...
...Protagonists are settling down with relatives, heterosexual women, buddies, lesbians, lovers...
...We are motivated to our work by an extended identity, one that goes beyond our own skins and our own comforts...
...And that was the strange thing: it was exactly the same...
...This is a tricky procedure, particularly if Barney, who later became a fascist, and Vivien, who committed suicide at 32, are taken as exemplars of their own ideology...
...From Reunion: A Memoii by Tom Hayden...
...He never really asked me to stay...
...Random House, 1988] Washington Post More of the pretty prose of young Ellen Goodman, describing dermatological conditions in America on the day Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro was chosen as Walter Mondale's numero duo: That summer morning, there was a televised wave of goose bumps skimming across the arms of millions of women...
...we loved the earth, so we chose to study it, or we studied the earth, and thereby fell in love with it...
...May 1988] New York Times Book Review In an earnest communique on the latest metamorphosis of the poofter novel, a Mr...
...I see people who are extremely well informed, who go out of their way to keep themselves plugged into the world's information currents—people I know I can go to for the most recent data, or for a succinct summary of the latest hypotheses about acid rain or nuclear winter...
...Most have as deep an understanding of the way the planet works as any other human beings have...
...It takes courage as well as endurance to go out again and again to say things people do not want to hear, to listen to the names people call us as they ignore our warnings and go on with their depredations...
...We are often frustrated, angry, sad, and lonely...
...Nothing wrong with attacking Teddy, but one would have thought that jeering references to his status as a brother would be omitted as a matter of taste...
...August 5, 1988] Washington Post In a dithyramb inspired by the peril that stalks ten national parks, the aging Dr...
...The second night was exactly the same...
...and bring your own condoms: We made love for hours, until a far-off bell announced dinner...
...Historic barbarism occurred at Manassas, an event that at best deserves only a roadside marker saying that for a few days in August 1862 mass insanity overtook 125,000 armed people...
...The sexual outlaw, long a staple of gay fiction (the phrase was the title of a book by John Rechy, one of the pioneers in the genre), is giving way to the sexual in-law...
...There is a moral side to this understanding...
...August 7, 1988] Occupational Health & Safety An unexpected delectation for readers of this redoubtable journal of science and hypochondria: Violence is a social phenomenon that has become an occupational hazard...
...It especially takes courage because most of us do not really think we will prevail...
...Even the spontaneity was the same...
...I was near here most of the time, often marching through the mud...
...Tom Hayden, in his lubricious memoir, suggests to all readers of a patriotic cast of mind the positive aspects of birth control and the gruesome side of left-wing amour: Then, on a spring day in a New York hotel room, fresh from a trip to Vietnam, where she had seen women having children in the face of death, Jane was moved to create life as her answer to numb alienation...
...But we keep at it, day after day, year after year...
...When I look at the people who call themselves Cassandras, including the speakers at this conference, I see a lot of good, and a lot to work with...
...Orwell in New Orleans: Pat Robertson . . . said that the Democrats would have us all be in one big family with "Teddy Kennedy as Big Brother...
...It would be so much simpler to be in some other business...
...The stage chatter was exactly the same...
...It was a moment matched only by the evening in San Francisco when this woman accepted her nomination, saying: "My name is Geraldine . ." [July 9, 1988] The Great Books Series A look in the mirror, a pat on the back, and another proclamation of self-love from a New Age Liberal: Who Are the Cassandras...
...Like all the Sandinistas I had met that week, he was very pragmatic...
...We could hear them coming through the bush...
...We were being chased by the National Guard, and I was afraid my friends would die trying to get me unstuck...
...But as he saw me off at the airport, he did whisper, "When are you coming back...
...With a slight sigh, she stood behind me, naked, and whispered, "I want to have a child with you...
...Young men were lied to by the shameless Lees, Jacksons and Popes that firing bullets and cannonballs at other young men, being lied to by their shameless generals, was rational...
...The first night was great...
...Most of us are at home with numbers, equations, and theories and are clear thinkers...
...Texas A&M University Press, 1988] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1988 51...
Vol. 21 • October 1988 • No. 10
