Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Washington Post The first balmy paragraph of what the editors of the incomparable Post would like to call a news story: Marshall Hull was too far away from the Capitol grounds yesterday to see...
...But the object of my devotion is pledged to another...
...The speech, on paper, nearly 24 years later, is still passionate and eloquent and wise and "full of uncompromising language," as she would say later...
...She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid...
...She explored the tidepools, sharing her discoveries with the many other children on the beach...
...One far-ranging 1992 study reported finding evidence of the phenomenon in as many as 147 of 166 different cultures...
...May we draw out the good in others, seek bridges instead of barriers, reach out our hands when someone stumbles, and unite as one nation under God...
...Often, seatedin his office, studying his impassive expression as I babbled away about this or that, I had to restrain the impulse to blurt "Mr...
...We've had lots of empathy...
...May 31, 19691...
...December 27, 1992–January 4, 19931 Washington Post Resident hagiographer Miss Martha Sherrill expatiates melodiously on the oratorical prodigies of Mrs...
...So she's married...
...There is no hierarchy and no domination of one by another...
...Bill Clinton, president now...
...Some of my fondest recollections will always remain with Chelsea...
...I'm in love with Hillary Clinton, fortysomething wife of Bill and soon to be First Lady...
...Her husband, you see, is the next president of the United States...
...she gathered the neighbor's wet puppy in her arms to carry him over the rocky path...
...But from his wheelchair on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, the 52-year-old Hull, who has cerebral palsy, could hear Clinton from a giant, cone-shaped speaker strapped to a light pole—and his eyes filled with tears...
...Yet the Thanksgiving weekend visit touched the hearts of Santa Barbarans, and left me filled with hope for America...
...January 2, 1993] Boston Sunday Globe How to make friends and influence the people of South Los Angeles—as reported in faraway Boston: Seven months ago Steve Lim stood in the New Star Market in blazing South Los Angeles and encouraged his customers to loot the store...
...Lewis referred to the dances as movements that taught people how to move peacefully with one another...
...Yes, finally, he is...
...I did love him and I still do...
...I hope I'm making myself clear...
...And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible...
...cards and notes were read and saved to be answered...
...We are, all of us, exploring a world that none of us understands and attempting to create within that uncertainty...
...Our physical movements relate to all the ways we need to interact with one another in terms of peacemaking in a more global sense," she explained...
...She hates Tammy Wynette...
...I spent many hours each day at Padaro Lane and shared special memories with our next "first family...
...she met with strangers and left with friends...
...November 17, 1992] Santa Barbara News-Press On the pages of a great news organ of the Golden State, poetry, metaphysics, and worse: As the Realtor representing Linda and Harry Thomason in the Summerland house transaction, I was naively unaware of the impact that their close friends the Clintons would have on our community...
...This change must now begin with you and me...
...He had an oracular presence, and virtually every encounter with him felt loaded, full of intrigue and possibility...
...The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...
...Don't get me wrong—I realize the problems...
...The movements they performed have come to be known as the Dances of Universal Peace, a collection of simple folk dances combined with the singing of sacred phrases from various world religions...
...In fact, she's been married for nearly 20 years...
...They are encountering it even in so-called primitive societies where prearranged marriage is the rule...
...I like her...
...One of the most tragic things that happened yesterday, a beautiful day, was that I was talking to a woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world...
...Take what you need, take what you need," he remembers telling them...
...Details, details...
...My prospects don't look good...
...December 17, 1992] Toledo Blade Ghastly new perversities being practiced in progressive Toledo and soon to spread to other unchaste regions where unheard of diseases and calamities are as sure to follow as Gore follows Clinton: As 1993 dawned around the world, circles of dancers moved gently to the strains of ancient religious chants, expressing humanity's deepest desires to peace...
...Again, though certainly not for the last time, thank you...
...My friends tell me I'm crazy...
...You're crazy," they tell me...
...Developed by the late Sufi mystic and teacher Samuel Lewis in the 1960s, the dances are now performed regularly in the Toledo area...
...To them, love seemed a mainly Western thing, an emotion too complex for less sophisticated cultures to grasp...
...Hello, Mr...
...Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it...
...Please don't burn it down...
...That's why we're always in a circle...
...Singer...
...Now it appears that was a strictly Eurocentric view...
...we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of the possible...
...Is he...
...December 20, 1992] Harvard Crimson In the student paper of a once distinguished university, more puerile patter from another of the student body's ponderous mediocrities: I have a confession to make...
...Thank you for doing it...
...Continually I was struck by their depth of sincerity and caring...
...I loved him, though I never for a moment imagined that in some everyday, familiar sense, we were actually friends...
...Extra flowers were passed on to invalids...
...No, please, thank you...
...There have been few, if any, days since when I have not thought of him, always with gratitude and wonder—often with more complicated emotions—and asked myself what the hell this whole thing has been about...
...Not now...
...Is he...
...But in spite of these admittedly daunting obstacles, I plan to proceed...
...She'll be in Washington...
...Lois Landau Santa Barbara [December 20, 19921 New Yorker Some of the lascivious thoughts that Mr...
...You bond with people, let go, form new bonds, receive and welcome new experiences, and reverence experience...
...I was twenty-three years old, a bright-green rookie, and far from convinced that I was a writer, much less a writer worthy of Shawn's nurturing indulgence...
...Shawn, I love you...
...Thank you very much...
...January 12, 19931 Wellesley College (Publicity Office) And now, through the miracle of modern historical research, we publish choice passages from Hillary's 1969 commencement screed, which is best read aloud while a chorus of hyenas bark lewdly into the sweet night: Part of the problem with empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn't do us anything...
...They didn't...
...Hull asked...
...I'm Jewish...
...Shawn...
...I'm in love...
...And the word"consequences" of course catapults us into the future...
...January 18, 1993] New York Post The fey Cindy Adams finds the next Peggy Noonan hyperventilating under a palm at the Beverly Hilton: Susan Sarandon of "Lorenzo's Oil," known for her political roles as well as her movie roles: "I feel passionately about feeling passionately...
...adjacent neighbors were sought out and included in family gatherings...
...Over the past few years researchers have been tuning in love's old, sweet song in remote hamlets and time zones...
...It's being part of a whole and breaking off for the individual experience and then coming back into the whole...
...Without notes, Hillary addressed her class of graduating seniors...
...We must now learn from Chelsea...
...Bush could've used her as his speechwriter...
...Sister Mary Frances Uicker, a Detroit music therapist who leads a monthly group at The Barn, 529 Stewart Rd., Monroe, said Mr...
...You won't have any time for her...
...January 21, 1993] Newsweek Another black eye for Eurocentrism, thanks to the spreading enlightenment of multicultural audacity: . . . to anthropologists, the folks who study manners and mores on faraway shores, until recently it wasn't at all clear that falling in love is a global foible...
...She's Protestant...
...It is a rarity in its mostly black and Latino neighborhood: A store owned by outsiders that has cultivated relations with the community...
...Mark Singer has harbored in his fevered mind practically every day since the greatest moment on earth in 1974: During my first conversation with William Shawn in 1974, he astonished me by extending an invitation to work for The New Yorker...
...Hello, Mr...
...In keeping with her personality, she was balanced, mature—rather thoughtful...
...That's an ingenious and wonderful piece you wrote...
...Its absence in the other 19, say study authors William Jankowiak of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Edward Fischer of Tulane University, probably reflects a deficiency of their study methods, not of local ardor...
...I've finally found that ideal female, that perfect combination of brains and beauty, warmth and wisdom, legs and leftism...
...I'm in Cambridge...
...While six Korean-owned markets within a one-mile radius were put to the torch, the New Star Market survived...
...It's breaking into partnerships, then breaking off and receiving a new partner...
...He travels a lot on business...
...Just don't burn it...
...America has chosen the Clintons because we want and desperately need change...
...Occasionally, late on a day when I had submitted a Talk of the Town story, my phone would ring...
...More and more, as things get demeaned and deadened, I feel that political commitment is what can save us all...
...This is more than just another Harvard guy hitting on another Wellesley (class of '69) woman...
...You're writing a thesis...
...Hillary Clinton in her historic 1969 commencement address to the agog graduates of Wellesley College: In keeping with the times, she was outspoken...
...The assumption was that to be moonstruck, you had to have a few centuries of romantic art and literature behind you, plus the leisure of romantic dalliances...
...Washington Post The first balmy paragraph of what the editors of the incomparable Post would like to call a news story: Marshall Hull was too far away from the Capitol grounds yesterday to see Bill Clinton place his hand on the bible and recite the 42-word presidential oath...
Vol. 26 • March 1993 • No. 3
