Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Washington Post Another stirring account of how the Clinton administration is succoring the "forgotten middle class": From the sidewalk outside, Jacqueline Nesbitt's gray,...
...These days, their social schedule is glamorous...
...I remember wondering then what kind of childhoods had led them to such narrow views of the world so early in life...
...They have lived together ever since...
...If we go out to dinner, I pay one night, he pays one night," said Ms...
...MARCH 24, 1996] 76 June 1996 • The American Spectator Window In a Hong Kong news magazine of dubious repute, a retired Hong Kong politico makes a shocking observation, singling out our country for grievous wrongdoing against the benign forces of Communism: Since World War II there have been concentrated and even savage efforts to stop the spread of communism in the world, which some Western countries, in particular the United States, considered a threat to rampant capitalism...
...Imagine a group of women dressed up in painted slanted eyes, buck teeth and kimonos screaming "ching chong choy...
...And that in turn means sharing benefits with Americans in need...
...A feminist and a supporter of women's rights, Ms...
...Across their bellies are the humiliating bright pink dots that symbolize that their time on this earth is near...
...We are suspicious of reflective souls and of intellectualism...
...A KKK rally couldn't have hurt us any more than they did...
...Our society is obsessed with cheerleaders who march to the beat...
...Yet in many ways, they still seem like a young, open-minded, down-to-earth couple from 1978...
...As a capitalist, I may receive less from government than what I pay to it...
...I was robbed by Hispanic men a year ago, and I still believe that unless society takes the responsibility to give needy people more than token help, the needy must get subsistence the best way they can...
...MARCH 12, 1996] New York Times The ongoing saga of two of the intellectual titans of our time: Judy Collins, the singer, and Louis Nelson, a designer of everything from album covers to the Korean War Veterans Memorial's mural wall in Washington, met on April 16, 1978...
...And that is driving a wedge between those families and area homeowners, who say their suburban world of Sioo,000 to $5oo,000 houses is threatened by the steady encroachment of housing for the poor...
...And there is something that's going to sort of defame the idea of him being such a womanizer, but I found, with him, that he sort of, you want to mother him...
...It draws me into the world of common citizenship—into a civic culture that transcends markets...
...We don't carry scales, but we share equally...
...She was a star...
...You know, just get the shoelaces double-knotted, everything would be okay...
...It is troubling that Mr...
...APRIL 20, 1996] Our Town (New York, New York) A treatise on right and wrong by a born sap: In your "Police Blotter" column (March zi), you wrote about a man who was six-foot-tall and weighed as little as 45 pounds who got caught stealing...
...Nelson, 59...
...The more I'm taxed, the harder I work to maintain my income...
...Tyrrell went on to become editor-in-chief of the archconservative American Spectator...
...So it came as a surprise that I found an article in Tyrrell's magazine worth reading...
...Not long ago this nation sat riveted to the murder trial of a fallen icon...
...To have evaded the Government's pooled technology and manpower for so long is a feat in itself...
...WE DEMAND RESPECT [MARCH-APRIL 1996] The American Spectator • June 1996 77...
...You know, the eternal boy...
...and I don't mean necessarily in the sexual sense...
...WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THEIR HATE AND RACISM WE ARE ALIVE: WE ARE REAL PEOPLE NOT MYTHS OR CARTOON CHARACTERS...
...APRIL 15, 1996] Telegram Tribune (San Luis Obispo, California) Stupendous leaps and pirouettes into belles-lettres by a strangely corpulent columnist, J.E...
...Collins pursued him...
...They need to steal...
...He hasn't changed any...
...Is it so wrong to take a tiny step in the direction of a society which I think all of us secretly dream of...
...Timothy Leary, mellows into a simple 1990's megalomania: "I've led the league as a human being over the last 30 years, but I've only batted one out of three...
...Charles Abernathy Lexington Avenue [MARCH 28, 1996] Son Jose Mercury News One Miss Barbara Riverwomon, an "activist" for the "homeless," speaks of the Golden Age opening up in old Santa Cruz, where the city council plans to integrate homeless people into state parks midst all the L.L...
...he knows how to woo them...
...Quite the opposite, in my case...
...APRIL 21, 1996] Yale University Posted on a tree at Yale, a sly attempt to make Red Indians appear stupid: RACISM AT YALE YET AGAIN • Imagine a group of women dressed up as Aunt Jemima in black face paint running down your street singing "Swing Low...
...Its un-flatness, indeed, is what I like most about my federal tax...
...They spend weekends in their house in Connecticut, where she likes to record dreams in her journal while he paints watercolors and listens to the wind chimes...
...MARCH 12, 1996] Good Morning America Sunday That's why they call him the Boy President: NANCY CoLum: Last summer I interviewed President Clinton, and I had, I came up with a few observations which is first of all, this is a guy who is really, and the subject of my piece was for Good Housekeeping magazine and I can guarantee 15 million women voters so, of course, they leapt at it...
...They mocked the Native American race, our religious practices and spiritual way of living...
...APRIL 10, 1996] Los Angeles Times What passes for broad-mindedness from a duly unaccoladed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, calumniating one of this journal's Renaissance men: When I was a student reporter at Indiana University in the late '6os, one of my assignments was to cover the campus right-wingers led by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr...
...In my book, trees are the poster children of the environmental movement and are the barometers of our planet's ecological health...
...Well, people so underweight should be fed, and have their health checked by a doctor...
...Mitchell, on behalf of a pollen-belching pest: They quietly sit there marked for execution...
...Nesbitt, a formerly homeless, recovering cocaine addict who has been unemployed for more than nine months, was allowed to choose her housing location under federal guidelines...
...It will be revealing to observe public reaction to the trial of the Unabomber and to gauge the manner in which each of us confronts the anarchist within...
...If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life...
...After being witnesses to zoo or 300 years of history—both human and natural—the oak trees of Cal Poly's Stenner Creek Canyon have been marked for destruction in the name of "progress"—progress, that is, which takes the form of a new water pipeline bearing this state's great seal...
...I mean, he's very comfortable with women...
...Yale Women's Lacrosse Team ran all over campus in ridiculous face paint, fake feathers and headbands, whooping like idiots...
...Besides, if they are hungry, as they are apparently are, they should rob for food...
...It's worth a few bumps in the road...
...But having said that, I also believe we should listen to what he has to say...
...I was flabbergasted that she would be interested in me...
...There's a bit of maternal, he brings out the maternal in you, because he's the eternal boy...
...They share a rambling Upper West Side apartment filled with colorful candles, guitars and oil paintings by friends, not necessarily framed...
...They will all be sitting around open campfires, living in tents and delighting together at the beautiful trees and ocean and bird songs...
...In a recent interview, they were even careful to talk for equal amounts of time...
...But in her case, $1,000 a month in rent is paid entirely by the federal government through a housing subsidy similar to those received by hundreds of low-income families along the Route 1 corridor...
...But the redistribution draws me into a process that goes beyond getting and giving money...
...In conversation, they talk about angels, peace, the design of toasters, therapy and the importance of equality in relationships...
...They do nothing but give...
...I owned all of her records...
...She called me the next few days every day," said Mr...
...APRIL 3, 1996] New York Times A voice of sanity and reason, and no, it's not Anthony Lewis but one Thomas J. Campanella of Somerville, Massachusetts, which is near Harvard Square: Although I deplore the criminal acts of the suspected Unabomber, I also find myself in begrudging admiration...
...During a recent week, they went out to dinner with Patricia Duff and Ron Perelman on one night, Princess Margaret the second and Erica Jong the third...
...Collins, 56...
...Kaczynski's reclusiveness and apparent disregard for appearance have been pointed to so hysterically...
...This community is lucky that these people aren't committing murder...
...The other two times I went up there and probably shouldn't have swung at that outside pitch...
...WILLOW BAY: If you could just help him out a little...
...A flat tax would merely flatten my incentive...
...Imagine a group of women dressed as priests wearing construction paper crosses throwing communion wafers and sprinkling "holy water" on you...
...If Theodore J. Kaczynski is indeed guilty of the crimes that he is believed to have committed, he is a murderer and should be severely punished...
...But the Unabomber seems a prophet, albeit a misguided one, a Thoreau gone berserk, emitting a hi-tech yell in the desert...
...Their actions are a slap in the face not only to the Native American community at Yale but to all students of color...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Another stirring account of how the Clinton administration is succoring the "forgotten middle class": From the sidewalk outside, Jacqueline Nesbitt's gray, four-bedroom town house off Route 1 seems identical to those of her solidly middle-class neighbors in Mount Vernon's Clusters at Woodlawn complex...
...APRIL 29, 1996] Washington Post The venerable James MacGregor Burns, hagiographer of a generation of Roosevelts and two generations of Kennedys, celebrates tax day by revealing a little-known fact about how taxes make work more plentiful: Hold on, the tax critics tell me—what about the graduated tax system that takes a higher percentage of your money, the more you make...
...He's that American archetype...
...H]e is used to dazzling women, and having women be dazzled by him...
...Her four boys roller-skate and play ball outside with other neighborhood kids and ride the same school buses...
...But look around—I'm still leading the league, I think...
...They were introduced by friends during an equal rights amendment fund-raiser at the Ginger Man restaurant, which had changed its name to the Ginger Person for the evening...
...Bean aristocrats: One of the intriguing things about this plan is that it will create a truly integrated community, with rich people as neighbors to the poorest...
...MARCH 8,1996] Time The 1960's gasbag of drugs, Dr...
...Doesn't this discourage your output as a capitalist...
...A few days later they went out for dinner, and they "talked about all those things like, you know, the handle of a cup and the rim touching your lips, and purple and green," he remembered...
Vol. 29 • June 1996 • No. 6
