Public Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Public Nuisances" Arab Opposition D-WASHINGTON - id you see the recent television footage of the Arab summit? What went through your mind? All those sheiks and their associates sitting there glowering into the...
...That the Sun's rival is the behemoth Neu'Y'ork Tinges is no cause to worry...
...I have not seen so many men clad in sheets since viewing old pictures of Ku Klux Klan meetings in the 1920s...
...Such mothers and fathers are obviously accessories to murder...
...And, then, were there fisticuffs when the affable Jennings introduced me to the first person standing nearby as I entered his elegant apartment...
...These courses will begin Western civilization at the Middle Ages...
...At this writing I cannot think of one significant Clinton scandal broken by television...
...Nonetheless, a dozen years later and at the darkest hour of World War II, with America's future in the balance, the New Dealers placed this zany at an important position in one of their great bureaucracies...
...All those sheiks and their associates sitting there glowering into the cameras, what did you think...
...Holding terrorists and supporters of terrorism accountable is the answer...
...These suicidal terrorists have introduced a new element into warfare, as the civilized world discovered on September 11...
...As you know, liberals approve of anything that disturbs conventional people...
...That would be Frank Rich, the man who had just pronounced me "insane" in The Neu, lurk Tinges, where he, with clockwork regularity, deposits such prep osterosities...
...Simultaneously, I think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.What does the New Deal have to do with nudism...
...For 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • MAY/JUNE 2002 JISANCES Y R R E L L, J R. generations, it was the leading Jewish paper in the country...
...It is well known that American universities are becoming sanctuaries for grimly earnest disseminators of the dubious: women's studies programs, ethnic studies, sex studies-most of which are not far removed from the silliness of Dr...
...More on that anon...
...worst of all, he can only with the greatest difficulty be prevented from accomplishing his slaughters...
...The Israelis should lock them up...
...and several thousand words in print make a deeper impression on the audience than five minutes of mediocre acting-which is what television often is...
...Well, I neither belted the hyperbolist nor defenestrated him.The occasion was all conviviality, and the reason Jennings had gathered us was to celebrate the arrival on the NewYork scene of a new daily broadsheet, The Neu'York Sun...
...Parmelee is today, who doubts that he sides with the University of Chicago's new deal...
...Given the lack of opposition in Arab communities, one can conclude that Arafat knows quite a lot about these zealots...
...Parmelee had been the butt of fun in the 1920s from many sophisticates...
...The various sexual liberation movements of recent decades have unfortunately overshadowed nudism, but its place remains...
...Print employs more journalists and gives them more space...
...Both are famously provocative, even playful, but you can be sure they will find nudism too hot to handle.Yet, it is springtime, the sap is running and my thoughts do turn to nudism: nudists, human body parts leaping and dancing under the sun...
...Conservative nudists such as myself heartily approve of and even advocate nudism in the shower...
...Lipsky will handle the Times with no bodily injury ensuing...
...They should be arrested...
...Well, then, how is it that they keep emerging from his jurisdiction, insinuating themselves into Israeli public places and blowing everything and everyone to smithereens...
...It reported politics and culture with a high and liberated intelligence...
...It arrests the attention and penetrates the mind more deeply...
...Ironically, the same Clinton apologists who claim the Boy President cannot be held responsible for the growing strength of Osama bin Laden during his presidency, should now be held responsible and even honored for the relative peace in the region during his marathon negotiations...
...He was also in the early 1940s an employee ofVice President Henry Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare, where he advocated "universal nudism" both at work and at play, until, at the behest of Congress, Wallace's right-hand man, Milo Perkins, fired him...
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...American print journalism has fallen into the pudgy hands of monopolists.Without competition in city after city, local newspapers have become dull and lazy...
...Simply stated, print is more muscular...
...In fact in the Arab world there is no opposition of any kind...
...No other groups that Arafat opposes exist in the West Bank...
...There were also nudists, and from time to time, they brought Franklin and Eleanor's project to grief...
...Broadcast media failed even to report whole stories and accounted for very few...
...Liberals approve of nudism everywhere else-public beaches, in national forests and probably at the suburban supermarket...
...Wherever Dr...
...Negotiations are not the answer...
...It will be a long time before J. Crew or L. L. Bean opens a shop in an Arab country...
...Edited by a Wall Street Journal old hand, Seth Lipsky, the Sun is right-of-center...
...One of the New Deal's leading nudists, as erudite readers will recall, was Dr...
...The father is Abu al-slgahid, father of the martyr...
...The Power of Print VV W-WASHINGTON - hy, you might ask, was I invited to a NewYork dinner party last week hosted by mainstream media's Peter Jennings...
...Arafat did nothing...
...He says he opposes them...
...The Sun will be good for NewYork and Rood for the quality of journalism and political debate in the country...
...Americans recognize the wisdom of the Bush administration's dictum to oppose terrorists and all those who support then...
...The foundations of our civilization among the Greeks, the Jews and the early Christians, will be obscured...
...Parmelee...
...It proposes to replace most of its illuminating and demanding Western civilization core classes with European civilization courses...
...In fact, now that the Israeli army has taken over Arafat's headquarters, it has discovered documents that show that Arafat has known their identities, their intentions and their employers...
...It is energetic in coverage of the city and uniquely cosmopolitan in its foreign coverage, using the foreign services of London's Telegraph newspapers and of The Jerusalem Post...
...Lipsky has lined up the support of some of NewYork's most successful businessmen...
...Having disposed of that vexed question-will the Sun be conservative or liberal-I move on to an even more troubled question, to wit, why another newspaper in this age of broadcast news...
...They claim to know the identities of prospective suicidal terrorists.They actually had asked Arafat to arrest the suicidal bomber who went on to commit the "Passover Massacre" at Netanya...
...He was a Ph.D., a member of the Institut International de Sociologic, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Anthropological Society...
...In brief, broadcast journalism is light drama...
...I handled Frank Rich without violence...
...That is the mark of an educated person-the ability to analyze right from wrong, seriousness from absurdity, good sense from nudism...
...Nude Deaf 0 - WASHINGTON - f all the learned columnists in the country I am willing to bet not one, aside from me, is going to tackle the vexed topic of nudism...
...It played a role in the New Deal...
...That element is an enemy who can never be held accountable for his evil deeds...
...Read George Will...
...Well, there is a significant connection, as came to mind when I read that another great school, the University of Chicago, is dumbing down its curriculum...
...Moreover, print can always be more independent than radio or television journalism, even if it is the journalism of such a large corporation as The New York Times...
...Another thing I wondered was how does a fellow become a political leader in an Arab country...
...Maurice Parmelee, a very learned man, draped or undraped...
...Thanks to research in the Soviet archives, we now know that there were Communists in the New Deal, for instance Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss and Laurence Duggan...
...All of which brings us to the University of Chicago's dumbing down of its curriculum...
...No great reform movement and no blockbuster story has ever been launched and sustained by broadcast media...
...It is more difficult to edit out meaning, as broadcast media's sonorous lilts so often do...
...President George Bush's critics claim he must get deeply involved in Middle East peace negotiations, as his predecessor was for seven years...
...Nor does it register that after Clinton's fruitless negotiations, the Palestinians unleashed the most barbarous atrocities since the days ofJapanese kamikazes (who of course only targeted the military...
...print journalism is history's early edition, and, at its best, a herald's call to civic action...
...Carville and Begala always look sufficiently angry for an Arab summit, but we all know that their talents are not needed in the Arab world.What elections are held are similar to the old Soviet Union's: elections, that is to say, free of the clutter of a loyal opposition...
...He cannot be arrested or punished...
...That Clinton's negotiations led to heightened Palestinian demands on Israel (the "right" of Palestinians to return to Israeli lands) in response to Israel's most generous offer of land for peace, does not register on the minds of these advocates of marathon talks...
...It would be a prudent step in allowing the West Bank to proceed toward what no Arab nation now has, democracy...
...The development of Western reason and spirituality, law and human rights will get short shrift...
...Perhaps he (here I do not have to employ the politically correct, "he or she," do I?) hires a political consultant, say, James Carville or Paul Begala, and runs a populist campaign...
...Newspapers produced muckrakers and the fall of presidents.The Clinton scandals were cov ered by The American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, The WashingtonTinaes and spo radically by other print media...
...The suicide terrorists have had community support...
...The voice of Vie New York Sun will be unlike the gentle moo-mooing ofjournalism's bovine herd...
...Possibly the only reason they do not talk much nowadays about nudism is that it causes much less disturbance than their other enthusiasms...
...Under Lipsky, it did many things well, but two departments stand out in my mind...
...That the Arab world does not tolerate opposition within its borders should get us to thinking about the presence in Yasser Arafat's West Bank of suicide bombers...
...Read Ellen Goodman and Maureen Dowd...
...In an earlier life, he edited The Forward...
...Surely there are many Palestinians who recognize the danger they pose to other Palestinian families and to peace in general...
...Arafat might claim not to know the identities of suicidal terrorists until they blow themselves up, but the Israeli intelligence services could help...
...or, if one is daring, the bath...
...He will not touch the topic...
...Their families are honored.The mother of such a zealot is honored as Umgn al-slgaliid, mother of the martyr...
...Parents who take pride in their B Y R. E M M E T children's suicidal bombings of innocent people certainly fall into that category...
...Now there is a serious police presence there to keep an eye on potential suicide bombers.Yet I have another idea now that the Israelis are on the West Bank to police the area...
...Even that was impossible until the Israeli tanks rolled into Arafat's chaotic neighborhood...
...Yet there might be another reason liberals do not talk much about nudism...
...The writer and editor, George Jean Nathan, mocked Parmelee in a pleasant 1929 book, Monks Are Monks, for writing such silliness as "Nudity aids materially in bringing mankind closer to nature and in promoting more genuine and sincere relations between the sexes...
...All of these propaganda courses at the expense of serious studies of history, art and literature, which for generations developed discriminating minds...
...I wondered: How do they keep their sheets so clean...
...Just as the parents of unruly children in America are held responsible for their children's actions, these parents ought to be held responsible for the slaughter their children have committed...
Vol. 35 • May 2002 • No. 3
