Brayings from the Left
Jackasses, Assorted
Brayings from the Left "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." -Euripedes NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS The New York Review of Books avers a drastic solution to campus unrest: ... the best way...
...Great moments in history as recorded by the distinguished historian and sage, Mr...
...Unless he accidentally destroys the world playing macho (sic) across a line drawn on the ground, with some insecure leader, he's not going to do much except kill thousands of Asians and make more homeless...
...troops and in addition they would begin immediate discussions on the exchange of prisoners...
...The New Republic's chief editorial writer not only reveals deplorable table manners but odd preoccupations in this shocking passage from that once serious journal of American vegetarians: There wasn't much meat in that warmed-over stew the President served up over television last week...
...Never before in modern warfare has there been a general prisoner exchange prior to the end of hostilities...
...but couldn't he stop trying to get into bed with Balaguer...
...From The New Republic comes this revealing note on the extent of the sexual revolution in America: No one expects him (President Nixon) to climb into bed with President Allende...
...If Richard Nixon should be killed, I'd consider that an excellent thing...
...But if you stir it carefully, looking not for what it had but for what it didn't, the dish becomes more interesting, though no more palatable...
...This is the nadir I have reached in this winter of my discontent...
...Every Senator here is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave . . . (The other part of the responsibility probably resides with the 50,000 boys, certainly not with our friends the Viet Cong -Ed...
...Madame Binh said that if the United States would agree to withdraw its forces from South Vietnam by June 30, 1971 the communist forces would refrain from attacking the withdrawing U.S...
...SENATOR CHARLES GOODELL The dynamic ex-Senator from New York, now a resident of Wall Street, looks at the positive aspects of Our Generation and almost turns the dirty business of politics into lovely poetry: This is the most beautiful younger generation in the history of our country...
...Kempton: Frank Sinatra's decision to support Governor Reagan for re-election in California might be seen as the most portentous single political event of the seventies, being an enlistment in the war against the young so at variance with this consequential recruit's whole prior history (sic) as to suggest itself as a token of a sweeping mass shift from tolerance tc outrage...
...This is how close I border on treason...
...it has great educational value...
...NEW REPUBLIC Cheery appraisal of man's progress by the erudite editors of the New Republic In spite of the fashionable anthropology of our day, which identifies him (man) as a predatory beast, it seems to me clear that man, in his evolution,' has already made noticeable progress in rising above the level of his pre-human ancestors...
...Alan P. Bell, director of the Center for Human Growth in Bloomington, Indiana, defies all the hoary old taboos to propose an historic summit meeting: I think the time has come for homosexuals and heterosexuals to sit down together, to share their impressions of each other, to get a better idea of the reason they feel the way they do about each other...
...Without thinking, I nodded and said, 'Good.' And having said it, I realized the bitter truth: Now I root against my own country...
...I find myself discouraged . . . that many politicians are running against the future generation...
...The incomparable Times of New York reports on the lofty ambitions and youthful idealism of Eldridge Cleaver, patriot: There are advantages in political assassination...
...the best way not to have student protests is to congregate (sic) in a small college homogenous groups of extremely pious, dumb, conservative students . . . Proof beyond a wisp of doubt that the great people who govern North Vietnam are among the most noble of history's just men: The North Vietnamese should not, however, be viewed as intransigent on the issue of prisoners of war...
...On 17 September 1970, the Viet Cong's representative at the Paris Peace Talks, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, presented-with North Vietnamese concurrence-a new peace proposal that included a remarkable concession on the question of prisoners of war...
...Kempton: Grand Juries indict policemen for taking money from gamblers and refuse to indict them for shooting citizens...
...HUMAN GROWTH Dr...
...THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS The remarkable Arthur Hoppe, columnist and humanist, tells all: The radio the other morning said the allied invasion of Laos had bogged down...
...And finally the distinguished Senator admits his faculty for communication with the spirits...
...There are still some people left alive...
...MURRAY KEMPTON An informative report from that worldly-wise reporter, Mr...
...NEW YORK TIMES Hard-headed analysis handed down our intellectual-spiritual patriciate, the New York Times: . . .it will be a pity if the rising political reaction against the student movement succeeds in crushing it because it is still all that the middle class has going for it...
...This is how far I have come in this hated and endless war...
...George McGovern, the Sage of South Dakota: This chamber reeks of blood...
...Anyone wishing to keep any containers pick them up...
...Reasonable estimation of President Nixon's administration, set out in The New York Review of Books, the Reader's Digest of America's penthouse revolutionaries: It might have been worse but it's so far not so bad as it could have been...
...GEORGE McGOVERN Unexpurgated effusion calmly delivered on the Senate floor by the Rt...
...there aren't many of these blasted and broken boys who think this war is a glorious venture...
...ECOLOGY NOTE Ecology note found in one of the luminous gazettes of the American Heartland: Rose Hill Cemetery will be cleaning old flowers off graves the last of this week, so we can resume moving...
...Al Featherton, director of Center for Dialogue, reports to the nation: Black people are sick and tired of voting for crackers and participating in this jive political system...
...My ambition is the destruction of the American system...
Vol. 4 • May 1971 • No. 6
