Brayings from the Left
Jackasses, Assorted
Brayings from the Left "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." -Euripedes THENAT10N Proof that drunkeness impairs bird-watching: Richard Nixon knows the war is unpopular; there is hardly a...
...For this graceful hybridization of Karl Marx, Harpo Marx, Leary, Freud, Reich and Kipling we are indebted to the Jack Andersons at the University of Wisconsin's Badger Herald...
...I didn't know, uh, how I would label it but, uh...Psychedelic patterns in my head and, uh...There's really a lot to say and, uh, I'm just getting these vibrations of real power from us, you know, that we really, really are brothers and sisters and we need to understand to get together how much we...We have to make that count in the struggle that is happening and that's going to happen in the years to come because whatever evolves from the last year...
...We seem a lot to be really tur-moiled at this point probably because...and partly because I think people are responding to the repression in real scared ways...
...WASHINGTON MONTHLY While attending a "Gay Liberation" revival a prize-winning reporter from the Washington Monthly nosed around and came up with the following astonishing revelation: As one marcher put it, "So much has been accomplished in terms of who we are...
...THE NATION Mr...
...Courageous sellers are braving 52-degree below zero temperature (wind chill) to go subbing...
...People all over the country, black people, brown people, us...So we're digging into each other a whole lot...
...And not only were they people, but they were evidently quite happy...
...The destruction of the earth is really what's happening, you know, we have a lot of responsibilities as white people in the f---g belly of the monster to try and stop them in every way possible...
...Another sign that every day in every way, the world is getting better and better: What liberals found most interesting and hopeful about the Panthers were their efforts to supply dignity and direction to black street people...
...Nixon, in another scheme, is nabbed flagrante delicto by the ever-so-cunning Nation: Nixon has considerable room to maneuver, and he will use it for his own political advantage and pose as the President who ended Johnson's war, yet managed to keep communism out of South Vietnam...
...And I think that we have to deepen our culture and deepen our understanding of who we are to be not just songs and music and dancing and dope and loving each other, but also build a different culture of struggle on every level...
...We are people...
...THE NEW REPUBLIC Shrewd acuity characteristic of the luminous New Republic: The only time progressive Democrats are a majority in the House, or even in the Democratic caucus, is when there are enough of them, and there aren't now...
...A letter from the director of the campaign in the Twin Cities writes, "We're planning sub blitzes two or three times a week...
...Really heavy s---, you know...
...THE NATION Proof that there are no law and order nuts at The Nation: The Basque guerrillas who seized Eugene Beihl, the honorary West German Consul in San Sebastian some weeks ago, and who released him on Christmas Day, behaved intelligently and humanely...
...All hope is lost, as boosterism scores yet another triumph: At the end of the first week of the "blitz" campaign to obtain 7,500 new Militant readers, 20 areas are ahead of schedule, 28 new areas have taken quotas, and enthusiastic reports are coming in from all over the country...
...Harry Ring cannot restrain his playful wit: Poor Choice - We were pleased that shoplifting charges were dropped against former Secretary of the Interior Udall, who was busted for absentmindedly dropping a 95-cent packet of cigars into his pocket...
...Trying to decide what we are going to do...
...Their talk of violent revolution, their identification with third world political leaders, and even the weapons they carried seemed, by contrast, largely rhetoric and theater...
...WASHINGTON MONTHLY Optimistic social analysis from the decorous journal of Establishment Liberalism, The Washington Monthly: When people realize they're all up Queer Street together, the bonds of kinship can grow denser and stronger than any of the divisive factors of class, or caste, or suit, or kind...
...HE HAW!-eds...
...So you see and uh, and uh, a month and a half of freedom...
...LINDA EVANS (FREE SPIRIT) Cultural notes intoned at a recent University of Wisconsin anti-war menagerie, by an idealistic and knowledgeable member of the new left's fairer sex who is presently charged with bombings in California, Chicago and New York: I'm going to jail tomorrow so it's really, uh, you know...
...There are lots of indictments out, a lot of us are facing time in jail...
...THE MILITANT Even amid the serious business of revolution, Mr...
...I'd like to speak to you a little bit about culture right now and about the way we are getting into each other, and getting into real relationships and stuff-building families and building tribes that can fight together...
...Portraying Christ as a modern day prophet who has all the ego hang-ups and image confusions of a rock superstar is a fascinating and contemporary notion...
...off the NFL": The connections between the politics of facism and the mania for football are too many to be ignored: both ground themselves on a property-seizing principle, apotheosize struggle and competition, publicly idolize victory and the powerful, make authority absolute, and relate to opposing groups by violent aggression...
...THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS For the New Review of Trash marvels never cease...
...NEW YORK TIMES Aesthetic and theological profundity blended into one pungent passage in the most celebrated of Liberal gazettes: Obviously, the story of the last days of Jesus Christ was an attractive story choice...
...But, we do wish he would stay away from the nicotine...
...I didn't know I was supposed to talk about our culture...
...THE NATION Another courageous stand is taken by the Good Angels at The Nation...
...I had three of my friends blown up...Our culture and our people isolated from everybody for ten months...Our culture and our people...
...THE MILITANT Free enterprise rears its ugly head even at the organ of revolutionary socialism, The Militant...
...there is hardly a hawk left in the country...
...But in some ways we've forgotten our responsibilities...
...Getting closer...
Vol. 4 • April 1971 • No. 5
