Current Wisdom
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CURRENT WISDOM Daily Nexus A communique from Tony Pierce, senior literature major in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in the student paper of...
...The soldiers who ruthlessly bombed Iraq on the 16th were the largest conglomeration of yellow-blooded pussies to have worn the American flag on their sleeves...
...Yeah, it's weird to be this way...
...He was condescending about what Gorbachev was doing, and he was even more condescending about those poor Americans who were taking it all so seriously...
...You think about a gyrating butt and about a man and a woman boffing each other in the butt and that can be absurd," she said, "and that can be very funny, and that can also be very horrendous at times because of the pain...
...Bork is right to suggest that much trendy "theory" runs rough-shod over these distinctions...
...I am often bewildered, surprised, inspired and in love with our species in light of all the revulsion and evil we inflict on one another...
...I feel the butt can be hilarious and it can be horrendous," she said...
...January 23, 1991] Sacramento Bee An unfortunate misconception regarding the scortatory feats of the American feminist leads a noted man of the cloth into grievous intellectual error: . . . mainstream America can't learn from history because the lessons are taught in the wrong place...
...As for theologians, would they serve God, country and George Bush with the just-slaughter theory...
...Clearly, a barrel of oil is worth more than any number of Palestinian lives...
...It's reprehensible, disgusting and appalling," said Terence Kelly, vice president of MDCC North Campus...
...I say we need a rising up, an Intifada, U.S.A...
...The Germans don't think this about Reagan and history...
...January 24, 1991] The Great Books Series Archbishop David Halberstam in his World Council of Churches mode, after an appearance before the nation's governors: Just two weeks earlier I had sat in a meeting with Barbara Tuchman, the esteemed American historian, and she had said in the most casual way that the events taking place in the Soviet Union were the most important ones in her lifetime...
...aid may be provided to countries engaging in a consistent pattern of human-rights abuse...
...Friends, this is called Bullshit...
...Instead of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War, call them World Slaughter I, World Slaughter II and the Vietnam Slaughter...
...If revised to be relevant to the Persian Gulf War, the Brethren statement might now forbid learning the language of war...
...When this madness ends, however, our president will say that our soldiers were brave...
...Summer 1990] Miami Herald What happens when the art of Andre Serrano is employed by less well-trained aesthetes: Miami-Dade Community College has hired a private investigator to find out who urinated and defecated on a North Campus administrator's chair...
...It's beyond me why someone would do something like this...
...The Rev...
...Even the most intelligent people in Hungary and Poland startled me with the opinion, widely held in Budapest and Warsaw, that this world-historical change, the end of an epoch, the decline of the Soviet Union and its astonishing retreat from Europe, was due to one man: Ronald Reagan...
...March 1991] Progressive Miss June Jordan reveals the unwholesome consequence of missing her daily slug of Valium: Does George Bush rush 250,000 American troops into Jordan, threatening to invade Israel unless Israel relinquishes the "Occupied Territories" that amount to what's left of a homeland for the Palestinian people...
...I heard this again and again...
...And why the hell not...
...And I have a feeling that a lot of them know they're doing the latter...
...To this New York-based photographer the human butt represents her own definition of perpetual motion...
...December 1990] American Prospect Indignant that snooty fellows make fun of Liberalism, and full of confidence that there is no truth to the bum rap "Liberalism is dead," the heirs to Brandeis and Frankfurter have found a stupendous new journal defiant of trendiness and mawkishness and apparently convinced in a review of Robert Bork's latest book that the grizzled judge is—egad!—a gal: One mark of a great judge is the way she confronts this tension: When she finds that the law does not conform to her own vision, does she recognize that politics is one thing, law quite another...
...CURRENT WISDOM Daily Nexus A communique from Tony Pierce, senior literature major in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in the student paper of that very same institution—let 'er rip, Tony: For the record, I am vehemently opposed to violence in any form...
...In Barbara Shinn's latest exhibition the focus of her artistic talent is on one particular part of the human body—the buttocks...
...The mighty warriors grasped the effects of their aggression only after their history lesson was personalized...
...21 Miami Herald Neighbors article in which she spoke about her goals at the academy...
...January 3, 1991] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1991 43...
...I am a lover of man...
...So I feel in that way it's a very loaded imagery, and the butt to me is sort of a symbol of the existence of the human body...
...February 10, 1991] Harper's John Lukacs proves once again that there are those with eyes who do not see and with ears who do not hear, but with egos to compensate for all perceptual defects: The German people, by and large, like Americans—for which they have plenty of reasons, I must say...
...They know the Russians better than that...
...A few times after the article appeared, she noticed wetness on her chair but thought it was only a leaky ceiling...
...But whenever I doubt mankind, I am quickly rejuvenated by our beauty, capacity for love and ability to be miraculously wonderful...
...They are a disgrace to our nation and rank in my heart next to Hitler's SS weasles [sic...
...Clearly, a barrel of oil is worth more than the safety of the 250,000 young African-American and Mexican-American and Latino and poor white men and women now sweltering on the Arabian desert while they await Godknows-what horrible and undue and untimely death...
...As Kissinger continued to hammer away with his Cold-War rhetoric, they began to lose interest...
...An organized, angry feminist movement modeled after the Iroquois women is our only hope for a realistic new world order...
...Because of that, I am personally pained whenever I see or hear about suffering of any kind inflicted on a fellow human...
...Their political judgment is more realistic than that of the people in Eastern Europe, whence I had flown to Berlin...
...Teresa Everett, the fire program's training director, said problems began after an Oct...
...Actually, Miss Shinn is not a total moron: Artists through the years have considered the human body an inspiration for their work...
...Lawrence A. Castagnola, Society of Jesus Sacramento [February 18, 1991] Crimson White An interview in the student paper of the University of Alabama with New York artist Barbara Shinn demonstrates that when speech is consigned to print, much is lost...
...According to him, only the Nixon-Kissinger team had remained immune to this temptation...
...No, no, no, no...
...The last time, she also found feces on her chair...
...Kissinger was having none of it...
...The governors are today, I think, quite possibly our best public servants...
...The definition contains a statement that the perpetual motion machine is self-creative and self-reactive which means, Shinn said, the butt is producing excrement and, in that way, it is a machine...
...This American law stipulates that no U.S...
...In the 1600s the women of the Iroquois Nation grasped the fundamental insight when weary of wars, they told their husbands they would produce no more warriors...
...Immediately we confiscated the chair," Kelly said...
...All of this makes it very hard for me to support the soldiers across this planet who have blindly followed their gutless commanders to stage this meaningless pain upon Iraq...
...The proper place might well be the conjugal bed...
...His theme was simple: Not only should we be wary of Gorbachev, but if there was any great weakness to American policy during the entire postwar era, it was American naivete, our belief that we could make deals on a personal level with a succession of Soviet leaders...
...The victim says the harassment was directed against her efforts to increase women and minorities in the school's fire-fighting training program...
...It's hard for me to support them because, even though I care for them and understand their positions as employees of their nations, they are still human beings with brains and feelings, and they're old enough to know good from evil...
...Does Bush freeze all loans, aid, and accounts tied to Israel until and unless Israel complies with our Foreign Assistance Act of 1961...
...A first linguistic shifting would be dropping the word "war" itself...
...and, after so many times stuttering "nonsense," I simply gave up...
...from The Next Century, by David Halberstam William Morrow & Co., $16.95] Washington Post Colman McCarthy pens yet another column for those seven years of age and under in the greater Washington environs: In 1957, the Church of the Brethren, understanding the essence of Christ's teaching as many Catholic bishops and their brothers in arms, the broadcast preachers, do not, stated: "We declare again that our members should neither participate in war nor learn the art of war...
...Some things you can't help...
...He made no mention of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan...
...But others you can...
...And most of you are buying right into it...
...They know what they owe to Gorbachev, which is to their credit...
...Contrary to those who say boycotts don't work, their boycott of sex, even though temporary, worked...
...His speech struck me then (and even more so today) as the last speech of the old order...
...Or does she seek to dissolve the tension by treating the law as if it were a malleable vessel for her political and moral ideals...
...Reagan made Gorbachev do what he had to do...
...Replace it with the more accurate word—"slaughter...
...CNN would change its "War in the Gulf" programs to "Slaughter in the Gulf...
...It was Reagan who, with his brilliant armament program and his Star Wars, forced the Soviet Union into bankruptcy...
...It is used so often and so broadly that its meaning has lost impact...
...I sat three seats away, facing the governors, and I watched their reaction...
Vol. 24 • April 1991 • No. 4
