Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Boston Globe On the Arts page of the suave Globe Dr. Kelly Wise, the Alexander Woo11cott of Beantown, heaves up evidence of the enlightenment that is spreading from the...
...Economist John Kenneth Galbraith calls it "private splendor and public squalor...
...One can only admire his refusal to join the mass-movement of Left-wing intellectuals to the opposite quarter of the political firmament, which has been so marked a feature of our time...
...I think I've got enough judgment to ascertain accurately the proper limits of my involvement in affairs that are of concern to me, and I honor those restraints meticulously...
...May 11, 1989]Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (Rhinebeck, New York) News of the intellectual attainment of a long-time wallflower, Miss Betty Dodson, in the bulletin of an eminent asylum for forward-lookers: The Joy of Self-Loving Betty Dodson Course #0806 $130 Betty Dodson, artist, sex educator and author of Sex for One, is recognized as an authority on female sexuality...
...The subject matter was raw, sensational, unnerving—offered without shyness or apology...
...Pillaging" becomes "wilding," and rape tags along because it was never buried that deeply in the unconscious anyway...
...But there's a great deal of liberation in what I can do now...
...At 42, Mapplethorpe died of AIDS Thursday at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston...
...March 13, 1989] Handbill (Harvard University) Erudite commentary on the human condition from some Ivy League gals with time on their hands: THE WITCHES RETURN: PATRIARCHY ON TRIAL A Dramatic Indictment of Gynocide: 1989 Wild Witches expose and condemn the massacre of Women's minds, bodies and spirits INTERNATIONAL HEXING is followed by A CELEBRATION OF ECSTASY featuring: MARY DALY JOYCE CONTRUCCI EMILY CULPEPPER JULIA PENELOPE DIANA BEGUINE BONNIE MANN THE NORTHAMPTON SINGERS MELISSA FLETCHER GAIL DINES the accused include: priests, pornographers, academics, rapists, serial killers, & a supporting cast of common snools TICKETS $7-10 ADVANCED TICKETS $8.00 Sanders Auditorium, Harvard University Sunday May 14, 1989 7 pm for more Information phone: (6171 251-0407 Tickets ere available at: New Words, Glad Day, °Mot-Town Ticket Agency, Arborway Video S Sound & Lunarla Bookstore In Northampton Washington Post The youthful David S. Broder sees Mikhail Gorbachev, high atop a Roman column, stripped to the waist, the sun glinting over his rippling musculature: Not since John E Kennedy lifted the hearts of West Berliners and made his face and name a symbol of hope in remote villages along the Amazon has there been a secular world figure of these dimensions...
...Most men don't have to live with the fear of being raped...
...May 6, 1989] New York Times How far we have fallen from the days of McCarthy, as revealed by a far-gone editorialist for the Times: Imagine that an alien spaceship approached Earth and sent the message: "Take me to your leader...
...I will buy products to support the rain forests and light bulbs that save wattage, and will stop using our coal stove...
...And I will tell everyone I know to read these articles...
...Louis Post-Dispatch The sick man of Europe is brought from death's door by a grocer's daughter, and a dour editorialist grumbles: Her laissez-faire economic policy of privatizing state-owned industry and dismantling Britain's postwar welfare state has produced an uneven economic recovery...
...I appeared in the movie version of James Dickey's book "Deliverance" 17 years ago...
...About the very dashing self-portrait in the leather jacket, which for some viewers recalls the potent charm of James Dean, Mapplethorpe once remarked, "In that one . . . I am as I'd like to go out looking, I guess...
...Kelly Wise, the Alexander Woo11cott of Beantown, heaves up evidence of the enlightenment that is spreading from the Republic's public toilets to the art galleries: Robert Mapplethorpe burst onto the art scene in 1977, when his work was shown at three New York galleries...
...May 16, 1989] Spectator (London) In a review of Christopher Hitchens's most recent omnium gatherum of bunk, Mr...
...She believes that the practice of masturbation can heal inhibitions and feelings of sexual deprivation...
...My character, Bobby, was forced to squeal like a pig as he was being raped...
...May 21, 1989] New York Times The actor Ned Beatty, playing the role of Socrates: Fate is kind...
...How would we know...
...That's one of the things I was criticized for when I was in the White House...
...Mapplethorpe will be remembered most for his phallocentric imagery and his eloquently textured style...
...While the middle class in the south of England is doing very well, the industrial Midlands, Scotland and Ulster are suffering badly...
...I hope the Globe will continue to keep its readers informed and tell us more of what we can do to provoke political decisions that will make many of these suggestions a reality...
...Denise Atwood [April 21, 1989] New York Times The immortal James Earl Carter still gibbering fantastically and preserved for all time in the pages of the estimable Times: "The trappings of office never appealed to me," he said...
...Mapplethorpe himself posed with a whip shoved up his backside...
...and then with rouge and lipstick in drag and then in a leather jacket...
...Participants share how they feel about their bodies and orgasms, and practice breathing patterns and other exercises that enhance sexual energy...
...The list is a long one, but it includes, among other things, a woman...
...Pillaging" is still allowable in sports, the stock market, the movies...
...Let's suppose men were being raped in great numbers...
...Summer 1989] Handbill (Columbia University) More missions of a lewd and egghead nature disseminated to the innocents of the Ivy League: THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES presents "THE NEW AGE SEXUAL RADICAL: A SPIRITUAL DEFENSE OF PROMISCUITY" JOSEPH KRAMER (Erotic Tantric Therapist) TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM (Author, Keep the River on Your Right) ANNIE SPRINKLE (New Age feminist pornographic activist) Moderator: DARRELL YATES RIST (Writer-in-Residence, CACS) Tuesday, March 28, 7:00 p.m...
...Without doubt, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...
...Squeal like a pig...
...I have given up disposable diapers and have begun a compost pit and a vegetable garden...
...I am energized with all the possible solutions the articles introduced, and I am impressed with the depth of coverage...
...How many times has that been shouted, said or whispered to me, since then...
...Would men who are raped be apt to report the crime...
...May 21, 1989]Washington Post Magazine Ms...
...My experience tells me we couldn't do it very well...
...One model, wearing backless leather tights, leaned over a table exposing his penis...
...John Grigg alerts readers to a mass movement of "our time" that conventional demographers have missed: Though he lives in the United States, he rejects the prevailing ethos of American life and continues to proclaim the gospel of socialism...
...603 Lewisohn Hall Information: 854-8253 The Writers-in-Residence Program is funded in part by the Literature Program, New York State Council on the Arts THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1989 51...
...Adolescents take their cues...
...What makes Gorbachev's feat all the more extraordinary is that he has done this while acknowledging—and perhaps because he admits—that the nation he leads is far weaker than anyone had reckoned...
...Mrs...
...For the past 16 years she has been leading workshops, lecturing and writing about self-sexuality as a primary source of pleasure and a key to sexual growth...
...With a focus on self-loving, the workshop inspires each individual, whether pre-orgasmic or sexually sophisticated, to take the next step on her sexual and spiritual path...
...Who would that be...
...She talks about the importance of creating an erotic environment and the use of mirrors for sexual self-knowledge...
...Before the cool eye of the photographer, gay men posed in leather, chains and shackles and enacted certain of their sado-masochistic pleasures...
...This may be her most lasting legacy...
...In a supportive atmosphere of women only, Betty shares her experiences with meditative masturbation, creative visualization, affirmations and sexual fantasy...
...May 28, 1989] St...
...May 2, 1989] Boston Globe The voice of hope eternally sprung, deranged even: I commend the Globe on its series of articles "Saving the planet...
...Richard Cohen demonstrates with charming ambivalence that she is indeed a woman: In fact, I would like to be almost anything or anyone that I am not...
...I would like to be a woman—not permanently, mind you, or, even really...
...Thatcher is a true Victorian in both her morality and her lack of social conscience...
Vol. 22 • July 1989 • No. 7
