Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM American Historical Association Lively and exigent panel discussions as promulgated in program notes booming the winter meeting of a revered band of scholars leavened by an...
...Thatcher's England...
...I was again troubled by Judge Bork's extremism and admission that he had been a socialist, a libertarian, that he nearly became a communist and actually recruited people to attend a communist party meetings [sic] . . . and had a strange lifestyle...
...December 1987] WHMA (Anniston, Alabama) Senator Howell Heflin displays his belief that the radio audience of greater Anniston is composed of morons: It appears that Judge Bork wants to be a martyr, by insisting on a role call vote when it is obvious that he can't win...
...He'll perform this feat in the Millberry Union courtyard of UCSF...
...August 7, 1987] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1988 51...
...Anticommunism is as much a religion of the forces of the Reagan right as it was of the Nazis of the Third Reich...
...This leads to some esoteric complaints: big grain-trading companies that mix sand and gravel in the corn they export, giving Iowa a bad name...
...The U.S...
...One farmer takes him through a sophisticated exposition of international trade problems, from Australian-beef imports to Japanese protection of its own rice market...
...Michael Kinsley Washington, D.C...
...But there is room for this fellow Tircuit in the Washington press corps: On Monday, the Chronicle ran a review by Heuwell Tircuit of the San Francisco Ballet's performance in Stern Grove Sunday...
...Homosexuality: The Primitive and the Modern in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe Sheraton, Atrium 8 Joint session with the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History CHAIR: John Fout, Bard College The Geography of Perversion: Nineteenth-Century Interpretations of Primitive Homosexuality Rudi C. Bleys, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The Metropolis, Modernity, and Homosexuality: The Case of Berlin Dennis M. Sweet, Bates College Homosexuality and the Left: The Netherlands, 1890-1911 Gert Hekma, University of Amsterdam COMMENT: Randolph Trumach, Baruch College, City University of New York [1987] The American Spectator From a magazine of the arts, namely the art of self-defense: Of course I ought to resist replying to your editor-in-chief's almost clinically self-revealing review of my book, Curse of the Giant Muffins, but on one small matter you got my goat...
...Dukakis gamely tries to follow the increasingly complex discussion...
...It's something that Britain's got to come to terms with," he says, "having had and dissolved an empire, having accepted waves of immigrants through the 1950's and 60's, being a deeply racist country which can't cope with people with different colored skins, cultures and religions...
...Marines, 1846-1851 B.R...
...I stand accused of being "an embarrassingly insecure self-promoter" because of my alleged "habit of repeatedly introducing persons in this book as 'my friend .' " I count four people identified as friends over 286 pages: Marty Peretz (my boss, in the acknowledgements), Mickey Kaus (a writer at Newsweek), Maureen Dowd (a reporter for the New York Times), and James Fallows (an editor at the Atlantic...
...Sodomy and Pederasty among Nineteenth-Century Seafarers Sheraton, Atrium 1 CHAIR: Clifford L. Egan, University of Houston Pirates and Pederasty: The Practice of Homosexuality Among the Maritime Underworld of the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China Dian Murray, University of Notre Dame Pederasty, P C. Buskirk, and the Music Boys of the US...
...I don't want to sound naive," he says, "but I've been in politics twenty-five years...
...Not to insult my friends, but it's a bit hard to be accused of social climbing based on this list...
...He was admitted for medical tests, and was not released until Wednesday afternoon...
...Bill Doyle Professor of History Los Angeles Southwest College [October 30, 1987] New York Daily News A patriot and aesthete speaks out: After seeing Donna Rice's picture in the Daily News, I can say truthfully that I would rather spend one night with Donna Rice than be President of the United States...
...Officials of the Ballet said the review caused "embarrassment and pain" to distinguished members of its company, as indeed it has to the Chronicle...
...October 1987] Parade Sociological descants for the high of brow on Sunday morning just before the cartoons come on: Q.: Was William Casey, late director of the CIA, money-mad...
...Pass the Valium: Reagan's nostalgia for HUAC, and his conviction that the restoration of a measure of political freedom and decency in America was something "the Soviets were able to do in this country," are widely shared on the Right...
...This country stinks anyway...
...October 16, 1987] Progressive Don't say he didn't warn you—Dr...
...media is as biased in this respect as the German media of the 'thirties, our right wing clerics redbait with the same kind of Goebbels fury...
...William Greider, an apostle of the American husband-man and pitchfork-lugger: Throwing the meeting open to questions from the audience, Dukakis gets a further education in the mysteries of agricultural economics...
...D.L...
...November 2, 1987] Los Angeles Tidings In the letters column of a distinguished Papist gazette, a learned professor makes a point that students and nonstudents alike often do not hear: . . . We tend to minimize or even ignore this political aspect of the Holocaust because it comes out of a politics which are very much with us today...
...John's Law School, so money occupied a top rung on his ladder of values...
...A.: "Money-mad" may be too strong an adjective, but it is not very far off the mark...
...November 19, 1987] San Francisco Chronicle Art put to a public purpose as reprinted once again in San Francisco's infallible Chronicle: Art Grant, the mad conceptual artist, is coming up with another major work ofwell—Art...
...The condoms, trade-named Kimonos, are being donated by Mayer Labs of Oakland, and will be passed on to the sheriffs dept...
...Burg, Arizona State University COMMENT: Vern L. Bullough, State University College of New York, Buffalo Lawrence R. Murphy, Wayne State University 120...
...This example, by the way, illustrates the general honesty and fairness of the review...
...government possibly justify that...
...Ed McGee, Phoenix, Ariz...
...This newspaper has always been proud to stand behind its reviews in the expectation that readers and members of the artistic community find them informative and useful...
...William Casey was a poor boy from Queens, N.Y., who worked his way through Fordham University and St...
...This review left many readers perplexed and disturbed...
...This martyr approach is further evidence of his extremism...
...How can the U.S...
...In these twilight months of the Reagan Presidency, we're likely to witness some serious attempts to revive the climate of hysteria and fear that marked the early years of the Cold War—the period the late Lillian Hellman aptly characterized as "scoundrel time...
...officials who allow Canada to import pork that has been treated with chemicals so dangerous that American farmers are forbidden to use them...
...CURRENT WISDOM American Historical Association Lively and exigent panel discussions as promulgated in program notes booming the winter meeting of a revered band of scholars leavened by an occasional nitwit: 46...
...I gotta hand it to you, Gary, you made the right choice...
...Thatcher receives the comeuppance from one of the brightest 1960s minds now gibbering in the Western World on the Art page of New York's tedious new weekly: "What we want to celebrate in our films is freedom, choice, openness and anarchy," declares screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, whose latest collaboration with director Stephen Frears, "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid," is a virulent assault on the wholesale denial of those values in Mrs...
...December 1987] Rolling Stone Lurid moments on the campaign trail with Dr...
...All of this as well as other reasons gave me doubt on risking him to a life time position on the United States Supreme Court...
...November 8, 1987] New York Observer Poor Mrs...
...I am further disturbed by his refusal to discuss his belief in God or the lack thereof...
...It contained critical comments about the dancing of Ludmila Lopukhova and David McNaughton in the ballet "Bizet Pas de Deux," a work which in fact had been replaced on the program and was not performed that afternoon...
...Shortly after he arrived at the Chronicle office on Monday morning, Tircuit collapsed at his desk and was taken to a local hospital...
...In keeping with this concern, Tircuit has been removed from his duties as a critic for the Chronicle...
...to be given to prisoners leaving jail...
...As we brace ourselves for a possible new onslaught by the peddlers of political paranoia, it's worth recalling who were the real scoundrels of scoundrel time...
...On Oct...
...Writing about Asians in Britain is a kind of excuse for me to write about London, class, colonialism and decay...
...The candidate has said he wants to learn more, and the farmers are taking him at his word...
...22, he's fashioning 100,000 condoms (retail value: $32,000) into the dove-and-cross logo of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic...
...Himself the suburban born 30-year-old son of a Pakistani immigrant and his English wife, he says it's the relationship between post-imperial Britain and its Asian communities that chiefly fascinates him as a writer...
...Gates [September 17, 1987] San Francisco Chronicle The depressing effect illness can have on a great art critic, put on display for all readers in the heroic pages of the Chronicle of San Francisco...
...He said that he believes he was ill when reviewing the performance Sunday and has no clear recollection of how he made the error...
...It's a society in decline, becoming more and more divided and right wing, and sinking into the sea...
...Irwin Knoll notifies his readers of the Reaganites' impending Kristallnacht...
...Yesterday was the first opportunity to hear Tircuit's explanation...
Vol. 21 • January 1988 • No. 1
