Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
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...Humaneness is but a whisper, a strand of thread across the eons of time, a puff of smoke dwindling down to meandering wisps, the cry of a lonesome whippoorwill fading away to shadowy stillness...
...To the disgruntlement of county law enforcement officials, phone calls have been trickling through to the sheriff and district attorney with the message that it's not just "working girls" who oppose the recent county crackdown on massage parlors...
...The alchemy of the White House would probably turn Gore into a kind of American Gorbachev...
...Missiles and throw weights," said Rep...
...So Schroeder swept through five primary states with a Hollywood producer (who told Arkansas teen mothers about Michael Fox's love life) and a famous pediatrician (who delighted a South Carolina crowd by imitating baby faces and uterine wall noises...
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...I mean, she keeps a drawer full of everything: condoms, foams, sponges...
...We never considered dealing with the Iranians," said Carter...
...And the public has double claim on the frequencies assigned to public stations, which by law exist for the community's benefit...
...She's always been very hip on me dating-as long as I'm careful," Chynna, 20, told US magazine...
...In discussing someone who writes about the subject of homosexuality, must we always have an intrusive "signalling" of his or her putative heterosexuality to the reader...
...The poor are still poor, the homeless, homeless, the exploited, exploited...
...But only recently have their sighs reached the volume, however tenuous, of shouts forged within the local feminist community...
...It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to talk about it...
...In These Times...
...A UCSC forum in late January, an organizing meeting last week, and events and protests planned through March point to a curious collaboration of sex workers and feminists...
...The former Democratic president, speaking to a capacity crowd at Ball State University Wednesday night, claimed his administration never resorted to covert operations in getting the Iranian hostages released...
...Evelyn Citak Park Forest, Ill...
...Never Mind Nietzsche Please cancel my subscription to the Wilson Quarterly...
...The Sun (Santa Cruz, California) In historic Santa Cruz's newspaper of record, a report on an auspicious entente between the ladies of delight and the women of the fevered brow: Sex workers have been quietly sighing in protest since the September winds brought a county-wide crackdown on massage parlors and prostitution...
...The presidential candidates are not any better, responding to questions about family "by talking about how wonderful their own families are," she said...
...He fairly radiates possibility...
...George R. Stahl Landisberg [February 6, 1988] Wilson Quarterly A consumerist of modern sensibilities strikes out against a leading institution of American kultur...
...William V. Shannon has written that "of the serious candidates in both parties, he is the only one who has the potential for greatness...
...Only then will they see their editing as a violation of the intellectual and creative process of anyone who writes...
...Patricia Schroeder, making her best "ugh" face for a press conference here this week...
...They're there for everybody, for me, all my friends, for anyone who needs them...
...We never considered paying any kind of ransom like that...
...My friends have always envied me having a mom like that...
...He has not been a charismatic candidate...
...And only then will they truly understand the connection between writing and ownership...
...Who cares about people like Nietzsche anyway...
...Johnston to make a point of it in this context implies that there is something shameful or embarrassing about being taken for homosexualeven by mistake-which there is not...
...February 11, 19881 Los Angeles Times Miss Betty Cuniberti, a Times staff writer of unique daring, takes readers to the front lines of New Age combat and lives to tell of it: Little Rock, Ark.-Presidential candidates talk about a lot of boring stuff...
...This allows all of us to grow as individuals in ways far more valuable than the cruel and unusual punishment of "teaching" grammar rules in an irrelevant vacuum...
...Schroeder never hesitated to tell gatherings of several hundred people that her congressional colleagues are men with "Rambo" fixations, afraid to crusade for family issues because "they'll be accused of having lace on their underwear...
...The conservative biweekly National Review supplies the hosts for three shows on public TV, all of them backed by corporate money: Firing Line with National Review's editor, William F. Buckley...
...How many shows do the editors of The Nation host...
...But increasingly, that claim is being usurped by the Right and its corporate benefactors...
...he would be, I think, a charismatic president...
...Spring 19881 54 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1988...
...The Progressive...
...So it is and always will be until man self destructs or science reroutes his genes away from selfism and outward toward humanism...
...Harper's...
...Gore is attractive as much for what he might become as for what he is...
...Terry Castle takes ex ception to a brutal lapse of etiquette descried in the faculty bulletin of a very weird place: I very much enjoyed Theresa Johnston's profile of Sir Kenneth Dover, visiting professor in the Classics Department (Campus Report, Feb...
...Alas, no shows...
...Instead it's the same old thing...
...Alluding early on in the piece to Dover's groundbreaking work Greek Homosexuality, Johnston has the following passage: " `The Greek male was essentially bisexual, in the sense that he was equally attracted to young males and females,' explains the 67-year-old grandfather, elaborating in terms that would make the Queen Mum blush...
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...Call the DA Today...
...The editors of Mother Jones...
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...March 19881 Patriot-News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Belles lettres makes one last stand on the op-ed page of one of the country's most illustrious gazettes: One need not be a psychiatrist to know that greed and violence have always had a commanding presence in the psyche of man...
...March 17, 1988] Hartford Courant The editor of the correspondence page of Hartford's estimable Courant has some fun at the expense of Steve Shifnadel, a local forwardist: Our teachers should write with their students and assume the role of peer writers, because only when they dare to bare their souls and see writing as a liberating experience will the entrenched mind-set of their role change...
...Centuries of religions and governments have done little to alleviate inhumanity...
...April 18, 19881 Campus Report (Stanford University) Very politely, Dr...
...I would like to make one small criticism, however...
...CURRENT WISDOM...
...Terry Castle Associate Professor of English [February 17, 1988] New York Times For those cursed by inferior powers of observation, novelist Alison Lurie reports that invisible hazes are blue: But sometimes, even as I watched, the air would begin to blur and thicken...
...Perhaps most notably, last week sex workers and local organizers circulated a handout reading "Support Sex Workers...
...Wars and catastrophes nurture its existence briefly and it rides along on the crest of its wave, only to end a dying bubble on the sands of indifference...
...What about day care...
...Leaders in the feminist community-individuals unrelated to a perceived lifestyle of sex, drugs and prostitution-seem to be lending credibility to the protests...
...March 3, 19881 Progressive Evidence of nefarious domination of the airwaves by the Reagan clique, grimly adduced by a left-wing Spiro T. Agnew, Dr...
...He was nuts...
...Gore by Hendrik Hertzberg, the celebrated tutu collector: Nevertheless, on balance-the way Gore likes to judge things-a Gore presidency would be a pleasing prospect for liberals...
...February 26, 19881 New York Post A public testimonial from Chynna Phillips, whose telephone number can be found in the Los Angeles telephone directory: There was no teenage pregnancy problem for Chynna Phillips, whose mother, Michelle, was the scenic quarter of the Mamas and Papas...
...Soon, though the sun still shone, an invisible blue haze would erase the mountains...
...I am not sure the admirable Queen Mum would blush, but that is not my objection here...
...What about family medical leave, the Democratic congresswoman from Denver wanted to know...
...May 22, 1987] New Republic The highest accolade known to New Age Liberalism is extended 'midst the requisite paralogisms to the Hon...
...Steve Shifnadel New Britain Editor's note: The writer is an elementary school teacher in Windsor...
...Dover is a grandfather, but for Ms...
...The McLaughlin Group, hosted by National Review's Washington editor, John McLaughlin, and One on One, McLaughlin's interview program...
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...April 3, 1988] Herald Telephone (Bloomington, Indiana) What the man who offered to send $150 million worth of the Shah's military equipment to the Ayatollah in return for freeing the American hostages now says as he lies his way across the Heartland: MUNCIE-Former President Jimmy Carter says the Reagan administration's arms for hostages initiatives and attempts to aid the Nicaraguan Contras are two policies that have had a negative impact for the United States...
...I thought your magazine would stimulate contemporary thought...
...Nowhere is this more obvious and pernicious than in the political talk shows on public television...
...Meanwhile, they are approaching controversy about the sex industry from a purely pragmatic standpoint: Sex work is safer when confined to massage parlors, says Wendy Chapkis, feminist organizer and UCSC graduate student in Women's Studies...
...Jay Rosen: The great forgotten fact about American television is that the public owns the airwaves...
...The writing-conferring process highlights expression, both written and oral, in a way that fosters support and trust in the vital areas of valuing, responding and receiving...
...I am delighted that Prof...
Vol. 21 • June 1988 • No. 6
