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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times What kind of stupid statement is this Herbert Mitgang reviewing Lou Cannon's President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime: . . . of course being President of the United...

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...CURRENT WISDOM New York Times What kind of stupid statement is this Herbert Mitgang reviewing Lou Cannon's President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime: . . . of course being President of the United States is the most important event in anyone's life, ex-actor or ex-anything else .. . [April 24, 1991] New Age Journal In an age so full of glum news, suddenly Glad Tidings and good times for all: For Green Women Only...
...Edward M. Kennedy on the record just after the avuncular senator's three-martini breakfast: "There's some additional something going on here, vaguely, and it's going to involve some kind of, uh, sexual harassment on Willie that because I was not told, I was not told ever, ever was told that the Palm Beach Police wanted to speak to me about an alleged incident of Willie Smith raping some girl...
...And not a few of the folk who have long defended him as a good senator are today embarrassed by him as a flawed man...
...In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always inspired by pacifism, equality, and justice...
...April 29, 1991]Common Sense (Notre Dame, Indiana) The pretty words of Fiona Pitt-Kethley ruminated upon by three excellent candidates for the Notre Dame cheerleading squad: A DISCUSSION OF FIONA PITTKETHLEY'S POEMS M: Gloria-Jean Masciarotte P: Kathy Psomiades S: Alicia Sierra M: When you first came to me the thing that immediately struck me was: What is our function...
...People want dignity in a 59-year-old...
...Lance Morrow, writing in the pages of a distinguished magazine of record, proffers an advertisement for a simple, unadorned, straightforward lout: Kennedy somehow calls forth nagging mysteries of American politics and psychology...
...He is a lightning rod with strange electricities still firing in the air around him—passions that are not always his responsibility but may emanate from psychic disturbances in the country itself...
...That's the first problem I see . . . which brings us to the second problem: Isn't discourse itself sexual...
...March-April 1991] University of California Press In the fall catalogue of the University of California Press, a sprightly notice for a study of a precursor of the National Organization for Women: Women of the Klan Racism and Gender in the 1920s Kathleen M. Blee Ignorant...
...May 11, 1991] Washington Post Ageism...
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...So, then you are getting more sex instead of less sex by us talking about it...
...And the record when you see it and when it comes out will never, will not suggest that I was, and since that time that, uh, I found out that was the allegation, I have been available, uh, to the police and responded to all those questions and I certainly would have if I knew that the charge had been rape, would have done it...
...Like their male counterparts, Klanswomen held reactionary views on race, nationality, and religion...
...Christopher Benfey gets to the bottom of Miss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's art: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of gay literary theory, cuts a stylish, even flamboyant, figure in literary studies...
...We hear lots of grumbling about the environmental toll of disposable diapers, while the effects of mountains of discarded menstrual products remains a topic of more taboo...
...Yes, anthropologist Ellen Goodman spots ageism in the latest brutal rounds of criticism leveled against Edward M. Kennedy, the senior senator from Au Bar: Down in Florida, Willie Smith is charged with sexual assault, but here the talk is of Ted...
...It doesn't have to be doing the sex act or talking about the sex act, but just talking about sex in general is sexual in that it is sexual play...
...May 18, 1991]New Republic In a review of poofter poetry, Mr...
...All the better people," a former Mans-woman assures us, were in the Klan...
...M: Well that's what I mean when I first said: "Isn't this discussion even more sexual...
...P: But then there's also, of course, the risk of our discussion becoming contaminated by the poem...
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...Ernest Hemingway wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life...
...It was a young woman who called the sight of the shirted senator "weird...
...M: Right, but . . . is our discussion supposed to be the repression...
...I mean, you're missing the point . . . using Foucault, . . . the repressive hypothesis is that you repress it by not having it there...
...What's the point of having a poem if we have to have this discussion about it...
...He has other versions—more interesting selves...
...I hope that some of the implications of these two ships—almost equal in size and their capacity to inflict so much pain and suffering to living creatures both animal and human—were appreciated by at least some of those visitors and pointed out to the thousands of children taken on to the battleship Missouri...
...There is an edge of ageism and even Puritanism—in the gossip and the groans...
...There's not an impeachable offense in the lot...
...An older man who makes a pass or who passes out is judged more harshly than his junior...
...But Ted Kennedy also is a remarkable and serious figure...
...In the news the questions are about legal behavior, but across breakfast tables people are discussing unseemly behavior...
...But isn't even our discussion of the poem furthering the sexual content or the sexual activity by continuing to talk about it...
...That's what I think .. . The way it's situated is that, instead of the repression being not printing the poem, you have this curious Foucauldian moment where instead of actually not printing the poem, we actually have the poem and then we're the repressive mechanism...
...That the senior senator woke up his son and his nephew in the middle of the night to go drinking...
...our discussion is going to contain the poems, or repress any sensational shock value...
...That this uncle and father drank with them in a bar until two or three...
...If I had been told that, if I had been told that I certainly would have...
...But I was never told that and you're gonna have to look at the records of who told what to who...
...That he walked around in front of his son's date in just a shirt...
...S: Professors...
...But that was never, that was never...
...Fall 1991]Boston Herald In Boston's greatest daily, ace reporter Howie Carr traps Sen...
...Alcohol, or some other compulsion, may drive him now and then to bizarre and almost infantile behavior...
...It's almost like we're the prophylactic on any . . . sex happening with these poems . . . because we have this privileged discursive moment in which we'll explain the poem . . . this is a problem...
...You get further discussion about women talking about sex, so S: Yeah, but, it's not just any women, it's women who professionally engage in sexual discourse .. . P: You mean professors or prostitutes...
...That he can't keep his story straight...
...Len Howard Falcon...
...But it adds up to a picture of conduct unbecoming—a senator, a father, an elder...
...March 18, 19911 West Australian An illustrious Australian pacifist breaks wind: I was one of the 100 demonstrators who protested against the presence of the USS Missouri in a West Australian port...
...I mean, . . . repression is talking about sex too, right...
...April 13, 1991] Time Mr...
...The picture of him as Palm Beach boozer, lout and tabloid grotesque is one version...
...P: Yeah, but it's a different discourse...
...M: Well, can it not be...
...These stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offer a misleading picture...
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...What is high-finks in the young is humiliating in the supposed-to-be mature...
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...But their perspectives on gender roles were often progressive...
...In Women of the Klan, sociologist Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country...
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...So, . . . the whole fact that even this has shock value is predicated on the repressive hypothesis being in play...
...Ted Kennedy is a complicated man...
...I was never told that...
...March 1991] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1991 43...
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...I mean, it's obvious . . . P: . . . I mean, there will be readers for whom our discussion is merely another one of those women talking about sex...
...Not all of this may be fair...
...During the 1920s, when the Klan was at its largest (about 5 million), perhaps half a million white native-born Protestant women joined the Women's Ku Klux Klan (WKKK...
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...After passing an enormous queue of thousands of sightseers to a ship that had rained 16-inch shells on to a small third world country coastline and towns that had its navy, air force and army immobilized by the biggest air bombardment in history, it was pointed out that the Missouri was moored near a giant sheep container ship (also from the Persian Gulf...
...She has supplemented her critical writing with a much-discussed series of autobiographical essays, one of which describes her early, imaginatively linked experiences of writing poetry and getting spanked`the two most rhythmic things that happened" to her as a child...
...America does not have a completely healthy relationship with the Kennedys...

Vol. 24 • July 1991 • No. 7


 
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