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Crossfire In another edition of the Gong Show, Pat Buchanan, therapist, begins bringing Evan Thomas of Newsweek to terms with a mental disorder that, alas, has come to afflict so many...
...Lasch once seemed to realize that...
...December 1994] Rocky Mountain News Evidence that National Review and The American Spectator still have room for improvement: Watch out, Rush Limbaugh...
...The glorious Reagan-Bush years...
...I would like to return to the Hill again in this life, if the Alumni Report will not continue to exaggerate the reports of my death...
...October 27, 1994] Mann Independent Journal Mary L. Kelley writing in the correspondence section of a great daily with sufficient malice and dementia to suggest that she is a stalwart of the Christian left or perhaps even an atheist: Hallelujah...
...Anti-immigrant bashing...
...Anybody home...
...Furthermore, the culture has been oppressed militarily and economically, which has empowered the grass-roots Haitian spirit even more...
...As for the lower middle classes, Lasch's claim that they are upholding civilization must have Revolt of the Masses author Ortega y Gasset, and Friedrich Nietzsche, whose scorn for the flealike "last man" inspired the Spaniard's 1930 book, rolling in the Elysian aisles...
...Similar myopia mars his cultural analysis...
...I left Averett College in that black year that Ronald Reagan was elected...
...I'm sure he hates Jews, but I don't know if he's come out with that yet...
...As per your specific question in regard to masturbation, I think that is something that is a part of human sexuality and it's a part of something that perhaps should be taught...
...As for my gay neighbor, I'll set some prayer time aside that he gets AIDS, which he deserves...
...October 24, 1994] CCC (College Composition and Communication, a.k.a...
...But we've not even taught our children the very basics...
...Then I can head over to the school to make sure there are no suspicious-looking illegal kindergarteners...
...And we know that many of our parents have difficulty teaching certain things and for that reason to make sure all of our children are informed I've always felt that we should make it a part of our school...
...We carry the National Review and The American Spectator, about the most extreme right you get," Ross says...
...Haiti has a powerful spirit...
...Other images—those included in the HyperCard interface commercial clip art collections, and in the Apple systems documentation—include a preponderance of white people and icons of middle- and upper-class white culture and professional, office-oriented computer use...
...I wish it would go away...
...Thomas Everitt Wilson was not unanimously as winning as he might have thought: I cannot tell you the sadness I felt when I learned from your August issue that I had died...
...With its history closely wrapped in experiences with the land, the animal world and the past, Haiti's particular and unique identity becomes inclusive and multidimensional...
...Initial reports indicate that the Christian evangelicals turned out almost 40 percent of the Republican vote...
...November 16, 1994] World AIDS Day (ECOSOC NGO) The transcript of the historic exchange that blew up the most amusing surgeon general of all time: DR...
...He offends my customer base and he offends me...
...A new day has dawned in America, and the Republicans are in control again...
...I went to Seminary at the University of the South, graduating in 1984, and was ordained to the Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, Va...
...And at present in our schools it's very incomplete and only 5 percent of schools have a comprehensive program...
...And please forgive me for trying to do my tiny bit by announcing that I masturbate and I do want to ask you what do you think are the prospects [for] a more explicit discussion and promotion of masturbation...
...So, as I send my husband off to cut down the last remaining redwoods, I can plan a busy day ahead for myself with joy in my heart...
...On 23 February 1994, the date of my 80 The American Spectator February 1995 reported demise, I was in Egypt as part of my sabbatical...
...It's all well and good to trash American society, but you gotta get all of it...
...I think I'll load my AK-47 in my pink Cadillac and give them a little wakeup call over at Planned Parenthood...
...It is a very holistic, integrated culture, with land, body and language touching each other...
...I feel that it should be age appropriate, it should be complete, and we need to teach our children the things that they need to know...
...We're not trying to make a judgment...
...He's just too offensive...
...It was a bad decade for social workers...
...It's the whole damn thing that is revolting, not just the "elites...
...And I feel that we have tried ignorance for a long time and it's time we try education...
...Crossfire In another edition of the Gong Show, Pat Buchanan, therapist, begins bringing Evan Thomas of Newsweek to terms with a mental disorder that, alas, has come to afflict so many post-Watergate Washington journalists: PAT BUCHANAN: Evan Thomas, let me ask you about the Whitewater thing...
...The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English) The interesting observations of Cynthia L. Selfe and her lovely husband, Richard, deposited in one of America's great learning holes and written for those who dwell in the nation's cemeteries or coma treatment centers or English faculties—wherever minds move slowly, if at all: Built into computer interfaces are also a series of semiotic messages that support this alignment along the axes of class, race, and gender...
...But when events force us to pay attention, Haiti frightens the American people, particularly the American government...
...Explains Newsstand owner Trudi Ross: "Customers started to alert me that Snapple was very pro life...
...This year's mindless anti-government mania...
...It wasn't Joe Sixpack...
...After they clean our houses, mow our lawns and raise our kids, maybe we could train them to eat our garbage and we could solve the refuse problem all at the same time...
...But it's all worth it, for on Sunday I can rest and attend church and receive God's blessing for doing His work and living in His image all week...
...For one thing, the elite isn't PC anymore, if it ever was...
...You've got Webb Hubbell, it's sort of a shocker today, he's going to plead guilty...
...But Trudi, Trudi, Trudi—isn't the newsstand, with 1,400 publications, the last bastion of the free exchange of ideas...
...in fact, I do not remember how good it felt to be alive...
...How serious is this...
...I think he had the potential of becoming a '90s Hitler...
...Hello...
...We can finally put to rest that silly health plan—and now if we can just get rid of "Socialist Security" and all the poor people, it will truly be a bright day in America...
...SURGEON GENERAL: I think you already know that I'm a very strong advocate of a comprehensive health education program, if you will, starting at a very early age...
...The trendy coffee house at Washington and East Sixth Avenue has posted this bulletin: "This just in...
...I enclose a check for the dues for the Report in the hopes that I will receive more news...
...Users of color, users from non-English language background, users from a low socio-economic class who view this map of reality, submit—if only partially and momentarily—to an interested version of reality represented in terms of both language and image...
...December 1, 1994] The American Spectator February 1995 81...
...The white pointer hand, for example, ubiquitous in the Macintosh primary interface, is one such gesture, as are the menu items of the Appleshare server tray and hand, calculator, the moving van (for the font DA mover), the suitcase, and the desk calendar...
...Chapel Hill continues to change a great deal...
...So much to do...
...I do not remember feeling poorly...
...You've got D'Amato calling the special prosecutor to investigate Ickes and Stephanopoulos for alleged acts of perjury, you've got allegations that the special prosecutor is looking into Lindsey and Betsey Wright, both houses are going to go into Whitewater hearings...
...I did return to Chapel Hill in the summer of 1982 to work at the Clinical Pastoral Education program at the University Hospital...
...December 2, 1994] Syracuse Post-Standard The rise of a new superpower does not escape the eye of Harvey Pinyoun, writing on the op-ed page of the illustrious SPS and betraying all the learning and ratiocination of a member of the Clinton National Security Council: The American people generally ignore Haiti because it is thought to have no resources of interest for us, except faceless labor...
...He hates women...
...Praise the Lord...
...Now there's community spirit...
...The Newsstand Cafe has had it up to here with you and it's not going to take it anymore...
...Since my return from the sabbatical, my appearances can be deceiving...
...The three strikes initiative...
...And from there, I'll head over to Urgent Care to make sure that some grape picker getting off a 16-hour shift for menial wages didn't have the nerve to get sick and need medical treatment...
...He hates queers...
...We can't verify that, but we can verify that Rush is a major sponsor...
...These images signal—to users of color, to users who come from a non-English language background, to users.from low socio-economic backgrounds—that entering the virtual worlds of interfaces also means, at least in part and at some level, entering a world constituted around the lives and values of white, male, middle-and upper-class professionals...
...EVAN THOMAS: Well, I'm sick of Whitewater...
...I feel it's the only institution we have where all of the children go...
...Ross Perot...
...Who bought all those copies of The Closing of the American Mind and Culture of Complaint...
...We will no longer serve Snapple products, as Rush Limbaugh is a company spokesman...
...ROB CLARK (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues): It seems to me the campaign against AIDS has already destroyed many taboos about discussion of sex in public...
...But aren't you being too rough on Rush...
...It seems to me that there still remains a taboo against the discussion of masturbation...
...You carry both liberal and conservative magazines, don't you...
...Those illegals surely do not earn their keep...
...In good health, considering, Thomas Everitt Wilson '68 [October 1994] San Francisco Examiner In reviewing the oeuvre of the late Christopher Lasch, columnist and problem child Gary Kamiya takes up an old theme made popular years ago by the late Nikita Khrushchev: Lasch's attacks on Hollywood stars and Beltway blowhards are similarly ham-handed: What do these weird subgroups have to do with anything except themselves...
...October 19, 1994] University Alumni Report (Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina) Evidence that—ho, ho, ho—whilst at Averett College the winsome Mr...
...To update you, I am no longer in social work...
...I will miss me, as there is no one that I know and love better...
...1 feel it's scary to help Rush make a living and stay on the air," Ross says...
Vol. 28 • February 1995 • No. 2
