Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Young Mary McGrory, mashed on the Soviet Robert Redford: The adjective that leaps to mind when Mikhail Gorbachev strides into a room is "clean-cut." The noun that...
...But I've only got one mother and the salami is something she really enjoys...
...We want very much to achieve a balance and overcome the stigma of being exclusively leftist but we can't because only individuals with liberal stances will contribute...
...But philosophically I feel my vegetarianism encompasses a broader view—a view that says 'I love you just the way you are.' I suppose I could buy her flowers or something, but maybe by buying the salami I'm telling her that I am capable of putting her happiness above my philosophy...
...Technically speaking, I suppose that buying my mother salami is logically inconsistent with my vegetarianism...
...December 1987] Ms...
...Read it and recall the writings of Prof...
...Incredible or preposterous, that is what has happened at the University of Massachusetts...
...This is the third time I have read about it, and I find it oppressive...
...Since her voice appears to be one of quiet reason that Mr...
...Mario Cuomo is as smart and purposeful, but he isn't in the race and he doesn't know as much about nuclear arms...
...Now Ed has an earring wardrobe: the Minnelli diamond, a little ruby, a little bone and a little ring of gold made by his womanfriend...
...He's fairly sure that means straight in New York...
...But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law breakers—and then you cash in on guilt...
...Gorbachev has made his mark in the campaign...
...We will stop running George Will and continue our attempts to include alternative viewpoints...
...I do not suggest that performers like Bessie Smith had any particular left-wing leaning...
...And really, I think this kind of love and understanding is what vegetarianism is really all about...
...Virginia G. Miles Gaithersburg, Md...
...As a lesbian, I am quite able to have good reproductive health without any sexual contact with a man, and I also find myself totally free of concern about pregnancy, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases...
...He is a political leader to make Americans weep...
...November 19, 1987] Vegetarian Times Adept philosophical wanderings from the editor of this sublime gazette: "I don't really feel that I'm compromising my principles," says Alice...
...George Will is disproportionately persuasive in his articulation of his ideology...
...We find it tacky to pay for our articles, and while we can (barely) afford it, George Will charges a fair amount...
...Who wants a nation of law abiding citizens...
...We have now decided that this was a mistake, and for the following reasons: •First and foremost, George Will is not a Rutgers student...
...November 5, 1987] Publishers Weekly An auspicious send-off for an actual farrago of crazy Cockburn's gas: Regular readers of Cockburn's stimulating and highly opinionated columns in the Nation and the Wall Street Journal, as well as his occasional articles in other publications, will hardly need any urging to snap up this first collection of his journalism...
...This charade is to be conducted a few hundred feet from Faneuil Hall, which Americans proudly regard as a cradle of this nation's freedom, liberty and equality...
...Ultimately these innovators left the old boundaries of the Europearitradilion in music in ruins...
...Unfortunately, much to our dismay and annoyance, we have for years now been branded as a "left-wing" paper and so persons with other viewpoints are hesitant to write for the Medium...
...Autumn 19871 GQ High adventure among the nation's electrified scribes, as reported in the egghead GQ: With the resolve that "this is my life and my ear," 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley has begun wearing an earring (through the left lobe...
...The noun that usually accompanies it is, of course, "American...
...Jazz, like socialism, has always offered a radical alternative to the status quo, and this is one of the reasons why, like Mr...
...November 1987] Chicago Tribune Dizzied by the colossal sapience of Nancy the Great, this great journal of Midwestern enlightenment makes an audacious recommendation to the Nobel Prize Committee: With the clock running and the President's disappointed right-wing followers snapping at arms control, deficit reduction and Central American peace talks, her interests today are perhaps more focused on enhancing his legacy...
...Under these conditions, a turn of incarceration is an ugly physical accident without any moral significance...
...Ronald Dworkin: There's no way to rule innocent men...
...helped give that music the status of an art form, against all the odds of commercialisation within a capitalist system...
...Ron Nash [October 19871 From a Federal Hoosegow One of our hundreds of secret agents working as federal correctional officers has passed this missive on to us after copying it from the inmates' public bulletin board...
...Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them...
...Unless somebody with a better sense of what is right and proper steps in and calls it off, the five white male award recipients will be honored at a reception and dinner in the Dome and Great Hall of the Quincy Market building on Nov...
...We've been banging our heads against the wall trying—so far to no avail —but we'll keep trying...
...on the contrary, they mostly saw themselves as entertainers making a living...
...Living together does enough...
...December 13, 1987] Boston Globe A bizarre communication from the editorial page of the illustrious Globe of Boston: If somebody said that in 1987 the president of a public university (a white male) would appoint eight white males as a panel to select recipients of the university's Distinguished Professional Public Service award, it would seem incredible...
...We have to if we are to retain any shreds of credibility...
...But he's trying to revise the famous question, "Who can stand up to Khrushchev...
...to, "Who can go into the room with Gorbachev and end the arms race...
...He's been wanting to do this for a long time, but says that he somehow lacked "the heart" until he spent an evening with Liza Minnelli, who not only urged him to pierce his ear but gave him a diamond stud as incentive...
...Reagan hears and trusts, the First Lady should be cheered, and encouraged to pursue her efforts to the end of the presidency...
...What's there in that for anyone...
...The similarities between the development of jazz and the socialist experience do lend support to the argument that people of left-wing persuasion have a natural affinity with the music and its participants...
...Jonathan Cott, reports on another of J. G. Ballard's masterworks: Ballard's controversial novel Crash, in fact, is a work about the psychosexuality of car wrecks ("In his vision of a car-crash with the actress, Vaughan was obsessed by many wounds and impacts—by the dying chromium and collapsing bulkheads of their two cars meeting head-on in complex collisions endlessly repeated in slow-motion films . . . by the compound fracture of their thighs impacted against their handbrake mountings, and above all by the wounds to their genitalia, her uterus pierced by the heraldic beak of the manufacturer's medallion, his semen emptying across the luminescent dials that registered for ever the last temperature and fuel levels of the engine...
...And finally, there is no way to respond to a syndicated columnist...
...Besides, she's always been accepting of my views, and whenever we have dinner at her place, she always has plenty of things that I like to eat...
...Cockburn is violently anti-Reagan, contemptuous of the press for having let him off so easily for most of his presidency and not optimistic about many of the Democrats now before the public...
...But the new star of the East has that same quality...
...The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals...
...December 1987] 50 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1988...
...I won't even eat Oreos because they're made with lard...
...And if somebody said that the award panel would choose as recipients five white males, it would seem preposterous...
...Green, I sense a strong affinity between jazz and the political left...
...November 13,_19871 Medium (Rutgers University) A lachrymose editorial on the trials that bend low the brave editors of this fabulous student newspaper, indispensable to all who frequent the Rutgers University campus for whatever reason: The Medium is an open forum for opinions of all viewpoints...
...September 23, 1987] Jazz Journal International Into the pages of the groovy JJI leaps a true heir to Marx and Engels, and a born dudelsock: As a longtime student of jazz music, I would like to add to the debate raised by Messrs...
...Now that's the system, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with...
...When this particular study is quoted, the fact that a close contact with the pheromones of other women also helps regulate the periods of both women is usually ignored...
...It's a Catch-22...
...In doing so I hope my contribution will not be dismissed out of hand by those readers who perhaps perceive the idiom in a different light...
...Let's hope Raisa Gorbachev has as positive a role...
...One declares so many things to be a crime that it is impossible for men to live without breaking laws...
...Green and Lewis in June and July JJ...
...Maybe she and Nancy Reagan could share a Nobel Peace Prize...
...So, we turned to the syndicates...
...None of the men who want to be president are in his league...
...A New Age woman of the cloth speaks from her mind, her heart, and her merkin: I am sick and tired of reading about how male pheromones are necessary to women's reproductive health ("The Essence of Sex," by Denise Fortino, September 1987...
...He is that rarity—an old-fashioned socialist thoroughly in touch with his times...
...December 13, 1987] Rolling Stone Professor of belles lettres and sewage, Dr...
...Rev...
...His work is pungent, witty and without pretense to that "objectivity" he so rightly sees as the bane of much written and all televised journalism...
...For women this contact does not have to be sexual...
...It is, however, clear that the contributions of Armstrong, Hines, Hawkins, Parker etc...
...We turned to George Will...
...Heterosexist assumptions about women's health sometimes make me sick...
Vol. 21 • February 1988 • No. 2
