Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM Kentucky Kernel In an illustrious student newspaper, a victim of higher education at the University of Kentucky dares to speak out under the very eye of the Federal Bureau of...
...CURRENT WISDOM Kentucky Kernel In an illustrious student newspaper, a victim of higher education at the University of Kentucky dares to speak out under the very eye of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: On society's behalf, I not only apologize to the relatives and friends who have survived the victims of Bundy's ruthless rage and sanity, but to Ted Bundy, himself...
...Elise Brown, public relations manager for Ben & Jerry's, says its peace packaging has not hurt distribution at all...
...Full-time flight attendant, full-time honor student, full-time captain of industry...
...Handy things to have around in an age of AIDS, genital herpes, unplanned pregnancies, and genital warts...
...They would be unconfused by having looked at the catalogue, my duly cited source...
...That's all right," he said...
...It includes aid for battered women and the homeless...
...Ed Wagner says he has found evidence that trees talk to each other in a language he calls W-waves...
...others had taken the tougher hands they were dealt and found ways to make a dent—and to make strides toward the aforementioned idealism...
...Marandel writes "most everyone knows" where the pictures really are, which is indeed the case with respect to specialists...
...Marandel points out the truism that errors are not found only in exhibition catalogues, in which I have in other essays noted quite a few, some alas not "harmless...
...It was very good...
...The occasion was a dinner that we gave at the "21" Club in New York City, and the plan was to pay tribute to the men and women of the 1988 Esquire Register (featured in our December issue...
...I was back in the E.O.B...
...You could say she's working like a Trojan...
...This indicates they communicate directly...
...I'll be making a few changes in it, but I want you to know how much I appreciate your work...
...March 19891 New York Times British filmmaker Mike Leigh explains why Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has held that lofty office since 1979: "It's a widely shared view here—and not just among film makers—that Thatcher is a cancer, a disease," Mr...
...I awoke feeling an idiotic mixture of horror and affection...
...Explaining the phenomenon, Wagner pointed to a blip on a strip chart recording of the electrical pulse...
...In India, the country of my birth, the invasion of U.S...
...Everest of evidence at his disposal, he remains uncertain of Ronald Reagan's niceness: . . . after Reagan had been president for a while, I had a strange dream, one so vivid I remember it to this day...
...Unfortunately, exhibition catalogues are not the only "breeding ground of factual errors...
...Ben & Jerry's gives 7.5 percent of its pretax profits to social causes...
...Each was living a life of purpose...
...That seems to contradict his stated sole reason for writing in, to keep future "historians" from being "totally confused...
...Some had taken advantage of the gifts they were born with...
...Lee Eisenberg, fresh from that remedial writing class he has been taking to toughen up his prose: On the night of November 21, the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of John F Kennedy's death, many of us here had a chance to experience again what a room full of idealism feels like...
...The next voice was Reagan's...
...Hendrik Hertzberg freely admits that notwithstanding the Mt...
...Steven S. Ross in his investment advice column reveals what happens when dope fiends and free-love adepts take over an ice cream parlor: Ben & Jerry's Homemade...
...Pollard thinks nothing of going down to the local shop-and-save in her home town of Petaluma, Calif., and filling up her shopping cart with Trojan condoms...
...Eight years later, I cannot say whether Reagan is truly a "nice man" or not...
...If, as seems possible, the point is that I should hold back on recording them, lest I generate heightened interest in correcting mine, I would say just the opposite, provided the final goal is the general good rather than the status claims of specialists...
...Not from exchanges that were earnest, self-righteous, or smug, but from conversations that were laced with humor, civility, self-deprecation, and a dash of healthy skepticism...
...January 27, 1989/ Esquire A few self-effacing thoughts from Mr...
...If they ever succeed, it will be due to the fact that we never found an honest resistance to the terrorization of Salman Rushdie...
...AP)—Trees know when someone is chopping into them and let out a "tremendous cry of alarm" when the axe hits, says an Oregon physicist...
...The checkout clerks now yawn when she goes back for hundreds more, in a week or so...
...The Diana and Endymion is not in Boston, but in Detroit...
...I would rather not have done it wrong, but still there was a nice compensation, in that the numerous correcting letters (to me as well as to the editors) offered surprising evidence of how widely the piece was actually read, and how closely, even to a two-word parenthesis, and implied that it did not contain any other mistakes...
...January 8, 19891 New Republic Former Carter Administration speech writer and gifted oneirocritic Dr...
...It put out a tremendous cry of alarm," he said...
...Company sales have grown tenfold since 1984, and Ben & Jerry's now distributes in about 35 states...
...Creighton Gilbert replies: The correction is just...
...I erred for the all too common reason that I thought I knew without checking, and so labeled Minneapolis's as Detroit's and Detroit's as Boston's...
...And in Pakistan, my third home, President Zia ul-Haq is, like Pahlavi, Somoza, and Marcos, a bit of a Yank...
...one percent of its pretax income goes to support an educational foundation called Peace Through Understanding...
...J...
...Make that working with a Trojan...
...Somehow I had been given a job on Reagan's staff...
...All of which, you'd have supposed, entitles one to one's say...
...The Death of Germanicus is, as most everyone knows, in Minneapolis, not in Detroit...
...In his last sentence Mr...
...Oh, she doesn't use them...
...The list of charities isn't your normal, safe group, either...
...The adjacent trees put out smaller ones...
...In due time, and especially after a glass or two of wine, the guests discovered they had something in common...
...March 22, 19861 New York Times The old poseur, Normal Mailer, ever on the make for the main chance, hears Ayatollah Khomeini's death threats and envisages armies of American Baptists and Methodists, marching on Greenwich Village, heaving vinylcovered Bibles at the urban sophisticates, and vowing to turn the Upper East Side into Heritage, USA: in this week of turmoil, we can now envision a fearful time in the future when fundamentalist groups in America, stealing their page from this international episode, will know how to apply the same methods to American writers and bookstores...
...Please hold for the president," said a White House operator...
...Some Ben & Jerry's ice cream packaging pushes the idea that the federal government should divert one percent of its military spending into peace programs...
...In addition, it gives free ice cream to any nonprofit organization in Vermont that asks for it...
...Coming as it did on the heels of an election campaign that was long on marketing crap and bereft of the I-word, the evening sparkled...
...This one at least was "harmless," in the legal use of the word, in that no further statements were based on it...
...February 19891 Nation The sad life of Salman Rushdie, before life got sadder still—for him: In my British incarnation, I have America's bombs for neighbors and could find myself in the absurd position of dying for Ronald Reagan...
...She wants you to wear them—on your ears, around your neck, on your chest like a campaign ribbon—and later, in a clinch, wear them where they matter...
...If you chop into a tree, you can see that adjacent trees put out an electrical pulse," said Wagner...
...There's been no major opposition...
...It feels good...
...More than two dozen of them attended, along with a gaggle of honorees from past years: diva Kathleen Battle ('86), video artist Skip Blumberg ('84), chef Jonathan Waxman ('85), among many others...
...Gee, thanks, Mr...
...February/March 19891 New Criterion The joys of scholarship and the fine arts euphorically, ebulliently demonstrated by two happy aesthetes in the correspondence pages of Hilton Kramer's engaging mag: To the Editors: Just so that historians of the future will not be totally confused, let me set the record straight concerning the location of two famous paintings by Nicolas Poussin mentioned in Creighton Gilbert's review of the Fort Worth exhibition ("A Fresh View of Young Poussin," December 1988...
...The company is founded on the basis of linked prosperity," says Alice Tepper Marlin, president of the Council on Economic Priorities...
...President," I said...
...We've had great response to the product," she explains...
...Far more speculative is over-the-counter Ben & Jerry's Homemade, a $45 million Vermont-based maker of all-natural ice cream...
...February 19, 19891Daily Gleaner A rewarding new area of literary criticism sure to replace deconstructionism in every lit department in the Northern Hemisphere: GRANTS PASS, Ore...
...Which is exactly what a room full of idealism should sound like...
...February 6, 19891 Mother Jones Mr...
...What happened on that night was a kind of combustion, ignited by a mixture of people with ambitions that ranged from private enterprise to selfless enterprise...
...that of Bundy as well as those he committed...
...Hundreds of them, sometimes thousands...
...The telephone rang...
...Busy woman...
...No one in the company can earn more than five times what the least well-paid employee earns...
...February 23, 19891 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1989 51...
...Patrice Marandel Curator, European Paintings The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, Mich...
...February 7, 1989] Lansing State Journal Breathless reports on the artistry of the Paloma Picasso of Petaluma, California: Carol Pollard...
...For it is evident to me that a society which glorifies violence in its media, deals out death and destruction in its foreign policy, and leaves thousands to die from poverty, hunger, despair and sickness within its borders is the true root cause of senseless murder...
...The walls at Fort Worth were graced with three very similar major Poussins, belonging to Minneapolis, Detroit, and Boston...
...Leigh said in a recent telephone interview from London, where his latest play, "Smelling a Rat," is currently running...
...Tucker, Anthony & R. L. Day, Inc., expects continued annual sales increases of about 35 percent a year, and says 1989 sales could reach $57 million...
...The company also has a "1% for Peace" program...
...corporations gathers force, while in Bhopal the memory of Union Carbide's great poisonous cloud that ate people's lungs and eyes has not faded...
...Well, have a nice day...
...I just wanted to thank you for that draft you sent over," he said...
Vol. 22 • April 1989 • No. 4
