Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM Denver Post Look at this! David McQuay's proposal (May 31) to offer Managua and Havana major-league baseball franchises is wonderful—and makes a heck of a lot more sense than what...
...The book is criticizing us, me in particular I guess," Hackney said...
...Here comes the Bolshevik monster, there goes civilization: It's a tough image to get out of the American mind," he said...
...But astronomy—like other hobbies, such as stamp collecting, computer hacking, model railroading, and fishing—sometimes draws unfulfilled immature males who hide their insecurities behind a wall of technical jargon...
...Today's students come to the University with more knowledge than students ever before," Hackney stated...
...and a resident of this country for 14 years—requirements which he obviously cannot meet...
...Then our narrators demonstrate how easy it is to enjoy sex while protecting yourself and your partner...
...I've noticed an average of two or three in every club...
...Now he reached inside his white uniform pants, yanked the thigh pads out and handed them to the equipment manager...
...Halperin includes a cartoon from the 1920s in his book of a burly Russian wearing a belt that says "Bolshevism" crashing through a door marked "Civilization...
...No legal document, no official of the church blessing the union—because same-sex couples do not "receive such trappings...
...It takes a very brave woman to break into this scene, if indeed she wants to...
...A. Mikhail Gorbachev, 56, leader of the Soviet Union, is not the illegitimate son of Armand Hammer, chief executive officer of the Occidental Petroleum Corp., who will reach age 90 on May 21...
...He lifted off his turf-scraped helmet, but left on a navy blue wool hood...
...January 1988] Friends Journal In a magazine of Quaker enlightenment, Dr...
...It's not exceptional or unusual, it's a way of life...
...October 27, 1987] 54 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1988...
...David McQuay's proposal (May 31) to offer Managua and Havana major-league baseball franchises is wonderful—and makes a heck of a lot more sense than what the administration is currently doing in that part of our fragile world...
...He is the co-author of a book about the subject, The Other Side: How Soviets and Americans Perceive Each Other...
...Patricia Schroeder Congresswoman [June 21, 1987] Parade Yet another dazzling American dream cruelly dashed by the fact-checkers at the scholarly Parade: Q. Is it true that Mikhail Gorbachev is the illegitimate son of Armand Hammer...
...Perhaps it's the macho image of astronomy itself, as perpetrated by the "feel-my-massive-counterweight" brigade...
...December 1987] Monday Morning In the weekly journal of Presbyterian ministers, the Rev...
...People of the Third World become so frightened by our military and economic power that they are tempted to sacrifice their values to buy our protection as Abraham sacrificed Sarah...
...A country like Thailand has such broad acceptance of sexuality...
...He took off his wool hood, then he took off a blue sweatshirt and a white T-shirt...
...It was fun...
...This change is a source of joy and gives new meaning to the "always reforming" aspects of our Reformed church...
...January 1988] Washington Post Planned Parenthood's chief playgirl, Miss Faye Wattleton, singing a golden oldie from the songbooks of Margaret Mead: "It's amazing to me, we're progressive and enlightened in so many ways and so prudish in our attitudes towards sex," Wattleton reflects...
...It's such a contrast, she says, to "our kind of repressed, uptight approach...
...They blow them up as balloons...
...The mistrust is not new...
...Sitting at his locker now, Payton puts on knee-high black socks, gray jeans, a long-sleeved turquoise sports shirt and polished black cowboy boots...
...I find it to be a very faulty book," Hackney said...
...If so, would this make him eligible to serve as President of the U.S.?—R.E, Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Americans find it very, very difficult to think that there's anything that could be legitimate and positive in the Soviet Union, and if it is positive, the presumption is that there's a good chance that it's a setup," he said...
...Their jobs and home lives might be the pits, but when they're down at the club talking about the reciprocity failure of hypered film or the gate time of monostable multivibrators, they're real men...
...One by one, he tugged at the fingers of the gray thermal gloves and tossed them to Gary Haeger, the equipment manager...
...Most male amateur astronomers are very nice...
...Here, I'm afraid, the blame lies fairly and squarely in the men's court—or to be exact, in the court of a few men, of a certain kind...
...It took root after the Russian Revolution in 1917, came to full flower during the Cold War, gathered momentum in the paranoia of the McCarthy era, was resurrected by Reagan...
...So my partner and I are planning a gala "ceremony of love and commitment" as an alternative—something between a big party and a public ritual to seal our commitment...
...Dave Anderson, the Hemingway of American sportswriters, covers the action right there in the locker room: In another minute Payton began taking off that uniform, almost ceremoniously...
...January 17, 1988] New York Times After Walter Payton's last football game, Mr...
...One topic that generated a lot of interest from the roundtable and the audience was the educational status of students today...
...That's the main reason why I was playing," Payton said...
...The Cosby Show is the greatest teacher of morals in American society," he said...
...October 14, 1987] Sky & Telescope Miss Heather Couper, first female president of the British Astronomical Association, assays the heroism demanded every day of gal astronomers loose in a he-man world of hate: And what of grown women in amateur astronomy...
...He also criticizes Americans for not taking enough moral stands, saying that they are unwilling to judge anyone...
...Hackney also stated that he feels television plays an important role in education today...
...And—horror of horrors—they are usually making the tea...
...it's not intellectually defensible...
...Box 5, CDN, Montreal, Canada H3 S 2S4...
...T]hen he returned with a smudge of soap near his left ear...
...Quickly, he reached for a towel and wiped the boots . . . [January 11, 1988] Daily Pennsylvanian The complicated ideas of the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Mr...
...And wearing only his jockstrap, he walked to the shower room...
...It's faulty on his prescription for higher education...
...December 1, 1987] Catholic Update In one of the American Catholic Church's proudest intellectual reviews, a Biblical update for the moral dolt: Pressured by that fear, Abraham presents Sarah as his sister, to allow Pharaoh to add her to his harem...
...Judith D. Dean records yet another sacred ritual for New Age Presbyterians and those of a lascivious cast of mind: The sight of some women clergy breast feeding their infants in a professional meeting gives evidence as to how the church has changed...
...Sheldon Hackney, months after his historic brain transplant from the corpse of Liberace: In a roundtable on University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom's controversial book The Closing of the American Mind, President Sheldon Hackney called Bloom's theories "faulty" and "not intellectually defensible...
...In his book, Bloom says that "today's select students know so much less and are much more cut off from tradition...
...To be eligible to serve as President, Gorbachev would have to be a natural-born citizen of the U.S...
...First Jimmy and Vicky discuss their irresponsible friends who, until becoming infected, always "plunged in at every opportunity...
...We see a similar thing today...
...January 11, 1988] Library Journal Editor Leslie J. Gastwirt finds a scortatory masterpiece and passes it on to the Library Journal's urbane clientele: Condom Sense Condoms are Safes [sic] featuring Jimmy Penis and Vicky Vulva approaches a serious subject, the whys and hows of wearing condoms, with humorous (and graphic) cartoons...
...He sat down and tore the white tape off his shoes...
...We want to have a ceremony that is not sexual-preference-specific, meaning that it can be duplicated for same-sex couples...
...He unbuckled his shoulder pads and pulled them over his black, curly hair...
...Andrea Ayvazian, "Director of Training at the Peace Development Fund" of greater Amherst, explains how she and her heterosexualist love will chase the homosexuals' blues away and create a Wagnerian spectacle of love and gush: I cannot imagine looking into the eyes of any lesbian or gay friend and announcing that my partner and I are getting married, while thinking inside, "This is something you and your partner can never choose to do and receive the same acknowledgment and approval from church, state, community, family, friends...
...The cartoon booklet, available with option of brown, pink, or yellow skin tone, costs $2.95 from Fay Institute of Human Relations, Inc., P.O...
...They come with a vast knowledge—through travel, reading and movies—giving them a larger view of the world...
...December 9, 1987] Washington Post Infamy, discovered by Miss Barbara Vobejda of the venerable Post: Calculus, the foundation of college mathematics and a prerequisite for understanding physics, chemistry, engineering and other sciences, has been taught virtually the same way for decades, with little regard for changing times or student sensitivities...
...Children play with condoms...
...October 1987] Boston Globe The inscrutable Yank is placed on the Freudian couch by Professor Jonathan Halperin and interpreted to the world: Halperin has studied Americans' attitudes toward the Soviet Union—and Soviets' attitudes toward the United States...
...He took off his knee pads and his striped uniform stockings, then he cut the tape off his right ankle and left ankle...
...Three years high school, four years college and 13 seasons here," he said, "I've worn the same thigh pads...
Vol. 21 • March 1988 • No. 3
