BRAYINGS FROM THE LEFT
Jackasses, Assorted
B r a y i n ^ S r r o m t i i e L e r t Summer session in Bloomington is nowhere near as amusing as the regular session. With most of the Yapping Left back in Scarsdale, the campus is overrun...
...B r a y i n ^ S r r o m t i i e L e r t Summer session in Bloomington is nowhere near as amusing as the regular session...
...But (his book) ought to be read, read urgently, and read hard...
...DISSENT Our favorite journal of absurd answers tenders us an absurd question: Is it really necessary to remind readers of Dissent that in politics what people intend is often different from what they actually bring about...
...W e have followed their advice...
...With most of the Yapping Left back in Scarsdale, the campus is overrun with mobs of dull scholarly types who do not relate at all...
...T H E W A S H I N G T O N M O N T H L Y A cunningly paraleptic suggestion from Dr...
...311...
...One wonders where N e w Statesman would find M c - Govem's, McCarthy's and Muskie's chairs...
...N E W STATESMAN Intelligence and Honesty revive in the left wing: Re New York's Mayor John Lindsay ". . . his conscience must be respected...
...The mother (Mrs...
...In such a tedious atmosphere, the jolly boys of the Saturday Evening Club had to resort to a less seasonal form of entertainment like pursuing the gorgeous prattle of ritualistic liberals, cluck clucking in hen-hearted journals like The N e w Republic, Nation,The Washington Monthly, ad nauseum...
...Erazim V. Kohak exhibits a subtly self-effacing sense of humor: Milovan Djilas writes badly...
...Kopechne) was . . . detailed...
...Then, after the Senate vote, Fulbright dug again and found that back in 1965 a similar deal had been made with the military who ruled Thailand, and kept secret...
...Th« way to do this is . . . (guess...
...T H E N E W REPUBLIC The enlightened T R B notes an eighty-two-year-old's courage in rising to one of the great issues of these parlous times...
...He belongs in some cushion chair in Washington where he can talk about the problems of the cities without actually being required to run one...
...Thank God Washington is not without its dirty old men: Ex-Senator Ernest Gruening (D, Alaska) had the guts (sic) to hold public hearings on birth control, sitting alone, day after day, when most of his colleagues fought shy of the delicate subject...
...In fact this sport proved so hilarious w e have decided to pursue it as another extracurricular activity and we will share with you...
...Not even Fulbright knows how many more of these covert commitments may still await flushing from the diplomatic depths...
...his urging in proclaiming the perils to U. S. cities has the ring of concern...
...Charles Peters whose wisdom holds a whiff of genius: I do not contend that the true path to good government lies in everyone's threatening to resign publicly, although 1 am convinced that there should have been more such resignations in recent years...
...Even The New Republic suspects that there is something Senator Fulbright does not know about the State Department's rest-rooms: What helped sway the Senators was the discovery by the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Fulbright, that this country last year gave a secret assurance to Franco...
...We received," she said, "a visit from two priests who have assured us that Mary Jo is in heaven and should not be disturbed...
...It seems a recent Purdue engineering graduate has taken residence in the editorial offices of the incomparable N e w Republic, and on behalf of the forces of sanity, he calmly exhorts us all to rally the strong screws and weaken the levers, or something — you translate it: The struggle for sanity must go on . . . The fight is in considerable danger of being waged unsuccessfully, or inconclusively unless strong screws can be put on the determined and powerful men who now hold the levers in the Pentagon and in and around the White House...
...L'EXPRESS Fired no doubt with the spirit of ecumenicism the Church makes an ignominious stab at relevance as the redoubtable newsweekly L'Express reports from the Parisian Ruins...
...The eminent Jesse R. Pitts offers a hippopotamus as well as a preview of his own literary future: My hypothesis is that there is developing in the United States (and probably in other industrialized countries of the West) a contra meritocracy (sic) which offers the failures or dropouts of the achievement society (sic) a haven that neutralizes the pains of failure (sic again...
Vol. 3 • September 1969 • No. 2
