Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM
The Great Books Series How Shangri-la was being heaved up by revolutionary fervor before the ar-rival of Reagan's legions, as reported by a delusional Virgin of Ideology: Although...
...Abruptly, a burly man in khaki, his face contorted in rage, plunged into the circle of youthful dissidents flailing at them with his fists...
...March 16, 19891 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1989...
...Textbooks were being rewritten to reflect the history and heritage of the Grenadians...
...Perhaps it would do us good to spend some time in a grittier town, a place in touch with the more prosaic concerns of most Americans...
...What mat ters to me now is why I was so angry with this otherwise unprepossessing middle-aged man...
...As a child growing up I remember that most public toilets for women had pay stalls...
...He was just about as confused as we were about the big questions—life, God, the meaning of it all—and he helped to make our journey a little easier...
...October 19881 Ferndale Enterprise (Ferndale, California) The true red-blooded American conservative spirit ventilated in the cor respondence pages of a great American gazette: Concerning "Dash of Bitters" medicine child-proof lids: I find that backing the car over the bottle saves a lot of wear and tear on the fingers...
...The man had planted himself front and center in a fast-paced class and refused to budge when the class began moving back and forth across the room...
...rather I believe that the presence of urinals in the men's rooms, along with a few stalls allows these rooms to accommodate more users than women's bathrooms do...
...17.95.1 Handbill (Women Lawyers Association of Michigan) Advanced cogitations to spin the mind of a New Age gal: W.L.A.M...
...Craning our necks out the window, we saw some 3,000 people massed before the gleam-ing facade of the Art Institute of Chicago...
...I don't want to be predictable...
...I am not convinced...
...For approx-imately the same cost, men's bathrooms can be built to accommodate more users than women's bathrooms...
...Young teachers enthusiastical-ly taught adults the basic skills of reading and writing, while new schools were estab-lished to provide free public education to all...
...Don't you ever push me again...
...He just stood there, doing his own little duck paddle...
...G.) Allin, 32, a member of the group Tbilet Rockers, has been charged with disorderly conduct after a performance in which he allegedly cut himself with glass, exposed himself to the audience and defecated on stage...
...Answers can be in scribed in two ledgers set on a shelf against the wall...
...There may have been one or even two free stalls, but they were often filthy and usually lacked toilet tissue...
...Checking into an establishment on Michigan Avenue, we woke late Sunday morning to the blare of loudspeakers...
...Flag...
...Never mind that I felt foolish...
...PLACE: CHURCHILL'S 340 S. Saginaw St., Flint GUEST Derald C. Heath, President Metaphysical Association of Flint Discussion of Palmistry and Palm Readings Washington Post On the correspondence page of the dis-tinguished Post, some really beautiful writing from the owner of the largest Teddy bear collection in the greater Washington area: `Cat Stevens Is Gone Now' I feel as if I should go about in mourning...
...I've done it before, but I don't do it at every show," he said...
...Andrew White Arlington (March 6, 19891 Los Angeles Times Magazine The battle between the sexes gets rough, as the god-like Susan Littwin reports from the aerobics field of honor: I'm middle-aged and middle-class and I have no history of violence...
...Cat Stevens is gone now...
...This suggestion ignores the biological differences between men and women...
...The spirit that sang in our ears and did so much to help us is just a ghost...
...One male friend maintains that men simply hold their waste longer than women because men dislike using public toilets...
...In fact, the only thing I do with any physical force at all is exercise, and I do that in a fancy health club in the Valley...
...Some may maintain that women insist on privacy which requires building enclosed stalls, whereas men do not...
...from Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Y Davis...
...Another male friend suggested that women's bathrooms be constructed with rows of toilets making the costs similar to that for a bank of urinals...
...For most readers, this little article probably didn't mean all that much...
...The thought police have got to go...
...We stood toe to toe, eyes blazing...
...It often cost a nickel or even a dime to relieve yourself in a public toilet...
...February 5, 19891 Baculus (University of Tulsa School of Law) In a memorable essay titled "Toi-lets As A Feminist Issue" Taunya Lovell Banks, professor of Law at the University of Tillsa and a lec-turer of both Criminal and Consti-tutional Law, displays the powers of high ratiocination that would make her a natural collaborator with the other distinguished authors of The Federalist Papers, if only she were writing in the late eighteenth cen-tury and all her readers were drunk by 8:00 a.m.: One can measure the degree of equality be-tween the sexes in America by its public toilets...
...Mary O'Reilly Trinidad [February 2, 19891 San Francisco Chronicle The auspicious consequences of an all-bran supper on Art: In Milwaukee, Kevin (G...
...Why even bother to think about it...
...thus, unless the toilets face the wall, women would have less privacy than men under this arrangement...
...What we had witnessed that Sun day morning in Chicago was the latest—and largest—challenge yet to an exhibit recently installed at the school of the Art Institute...
...The events on Michigan Avenue were ample evidence that the "Rushdie affair" was no exotic literary cause celebre...
...23], and it hurts...
...The truth is—and I'm fully aware that I'll be called a reverse sexist, but I've lived with direct sexism a long time, and now it's my turn—I'm highly annoyed by men in aero bics classes...
...When I crossed what he considered to be his territory, he pushed me—hard...
...I turned on him like a kid in a schoolyard fight...
...I said, teeth clenched...
...There is no valid reason why women should have less access to bathroom facilities than men...
...On the island of Carriacou, for example, the traditional Big Drum Dance was being reverently taught and studied as one of the most powerful cultural affirmations today of the Grena-dian people's African heritage...
...We hadn't waited long for an echo deep in the American heartland, a somber warning that many of our fellow citizens are as willing as mullahs in Teheran to silence dissident voices that offend their sacred symbols and beliefs...
...Men use urinals facing in-ward whereas women use toilets facing out-ward...
...You'd better watch out...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series How Shangri-la was being heaved up by revolutionary fervor before the ar-rival of Reagan's legions, as reported by a delusional Virgin of Ideology: Although the revolutionary process in Grenada was abruptly interrupted in the fall of 1983 by the internal coup and the U.S...
...It had been an intense few weeks as the city's writerly community sought the appropriate response to the Ayatollah's death threat against Salman Rushdie...
...The fact is that for many of us growing up in the '70s, Cat Stevens was much more than a pop star...
...A big, precious part of my youth has been irrevocably torn away from me...
...Cat Stevens has come out in favor of the Ayatollah Kho-meini's death sentence for Salman Rushdie [Style, Feb...
...The.music stopped...
...it looked like some kook of a pop star had gone off the deep end, as pop stars are wont to do...
...military invasion, almost five years had been devoted to the creation of a new edu-cational structure that brought literacy, a new cultural identity, and an increasingly complex political consciousness to the masses of people...
...Up the avenue came a chant from a smaller group: "Mandatory patriotism—we say no...
...So as my wife and I flew to Chicago last Saturday, we wondered whether we had lost some perspective...
...The work of a student named "Dred" Scott Tyler, it is entitled, "What is The Proper Way to Display a U.S...
...So I surprised myself a few weeks ago when I nearly came to blows with a half-naked man in my aerobics class...
...At the time, I just felt that he was an intruder, an intolerably male and self important intruder...
...He was a songwriter who touched us deeply and helped lead us through that rough terrain of adolescence...
...Granted economic considerations are valid, but I contend that economic claims mask the deep-rooted reasons for the inequality of access, the desire of men to keep women at home...
...Above them, a forest of American flags bobbed in the sunlight...
...Even though I know I have no reason to, I feel betrayed...
...During that time, bill-boards bearing slogans such as "Education, A Right Not A Privilege" decorated the entire island...
...Spread out on the floor in front of the shelf is a large American flag, which offered visitors the option of trampling on the flag to get at the ledgers...
...Culture had begun to flourish during those four and a half years, and im-portant research was being conducted for the very first time into the African roots of the Grenadian experience...
...WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN The Women Lawyers Section will be holding its February meeting as follows: LUNCHEON MEETING DATE: Monday, February 27, 1989 TIME: 12:00 p.m...
...he lashed back, jaw jutting...
...Random House, 239 pp...
...luckily, no fists flew...
...This was an outright mean shove...
...This was no warning nudge...
...March 3, 19891 New York Times On a visit to gritty Chicago, the gifted J. Anthony Lukas speaks for the liter-ary nerds of the "writerly community," who apparently cannot distinguish be-tween a veteran throwing a punch and an arsonist or a murderer: As our jet dipped a wing over Jamaica Bay and soared toward the greening plains, I slipped free of New York's nervous preoc-cupations...
...In the earliest primary grades, books had already been published in the people's spoken language, as opposed to the queen's English, thereby facilitating the transition from the spoken to the written language as well as legitimizing the rich oral tradition of Grenada...
...Some critics have dismissed the Rushdie affair as a bout of literary grandstanding...
...Men would say this is economic equality...
Vol. 22 • May 1989 • No. 5
