Brayings from the Barnyard
"Brayings from the Barnyard" "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." - Euripedes NEW REPUBLIC Oh, so heady are the thoughts illuminating page after page of the contemporary New...
...What man who has ever fought a highway department or power company can feel anything but a kind of sadistic joy at the thought of hauling these people into court to demand, not whether they have followed their own pettifogging rules, but whether they have done the right thing...
...Mental health note from Bishop Paul Moore, illustrious Episcopal Bishop of New York: The health of a democracy can be judged by its debonair tolerance for dissent...
...Onassis one of those bra burners...
...Archaeological findings recently published by the spear-carrying editors of the cultured New Republic: That is one thing in barbaric America that even the most tolerant and sympathetic visitors from civilized countries outside cannot understand...
...It was only a few years back, after her marriage to Onassis, that Jackie's oid-fashioned "teddy" type panties and unwieldy, cantilevered bras were the talk of fitting room circles...
...Is our government verging paranoia, the most dangerous of psychosis...
...In resort areas abroad, Jackie is apt to behave as other sophisticated resorters do...
...I have tried hard to fulfill this Presidential mandate - - although at times it was near-impossible to hear the voices in the midst of all the shouting...
...STEPHEN HESS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: From one of America's foremost minds, the Grand Mullah of the White House Conference on Youth, comes this proud revelation coupled by a lush view of the future and an audacious prescription: When in December, 1969, President Nixon appointed me National Chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth my instructions were "'to listen well to the voices of American youth...
...The crafty New Republic heaves a juicy blandishment to the Redeemer of the Silent Majority: For a good many bright, sophisticated and ordinarily skeptical Americans, getting into the People's Republic of China at this point would be about as attractive as winning a million dollars by taking part in a chain letter operation...
...22 The Alternative October, 1971 "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad...
...principled kids, free and clear, unaware they had already won the struggle inside themselves which many of us who came into our politics earlier were still fighting...
...Wake up America...
...It will be in capable hands...
...Has our state ceased to be a democratic instrument of peace and justice...
...A sick state, lacking in confidence, quivers...
...Or, as in the Portofino instance, do without it...
...The U.S...
...Together they expose the underbelly of society in a more extensive, penetrating way than either could alone, uncovering the depth and extent to which predetermined masculine-feminine roles have governed social dynamics, not only allowing, but often forcing one group of people to exploit another...
...D.: In predominantly white middle-class Marin County, communism and black militancy are anathemas...
...They know that once President Nixon sets that date the days of the Saigon government are numbered...
...Emil Mrake ( P h . D . , M.D...
...G.R., Huntington, NY A. Jackie is definitely not a bra burner if you mean a women's lib type...
...It must also examine the community and racial aspects of the trial, and the peculiar but no longer unique combination of race and politics influencing the atmosphere of the trial in and out of the courtroom...
...THE NATION The Nation pronounces on Angela Davis' Ph...
...we come closest to it when, while operating in an imperfect system, we strive to remedy imperfections...
...The movement does not interest her a bit...
...THE WASHINGTON POST A sophisticated exchange lifted from the celebrated pages of The Washington Post: Q. I saw a picture of Jackie Onassis walking around in Portofino, Italy wearing a kind of tee-shirt...
...The much publicized rise in the tax rate attributed to this trial can hardly fail to influence the county's taxpayers, from whose ranks the jury may be drawn...
...is the only industrialized country on earth that permits gun sales...
...If the last year and a half has taught me nothing else, it has certainly taught me to both like and respect this youth (sic) generation...
...The worst we can do is deny their existence...
...Is Mrs...
...I, for one, have absolutely no fear for the future of this country...
...SENATOR HUBERT HUMPRHREY A rhetorical triumph from the old master: The cities are "mortally sick and getting sicker.' BISHOP MOORE Sophisticated pronouncement on democratic process from that ardent engine of Christian Endeavor and Patriotic Renaissance, Bishop Paul Moore, DD, Episcopal Bishop of New York and multimillionaire: When the state wages illegal war against the will of the majority the claims by which the state are traditionally honored by the church come into question...
...is not yet ready to set the date...
...Both the state and the accused have an interest in obtaining the fairest trial possible...
...Yet another specimen of the workings of a really high-grade intellect: It is perhaps amazing - - and certainly encouraging - - that we were able to have such an essentially moderate gathering as the White House Conference on Youth (and I say "moderate" despite the sometimes "radical" nature of its recommendationsL THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY A futile attempt at seriousness by the clowns and buffoons at the humorous Gay Lib and Women's Lib have played a crucial role in each other's development...
...In reality, fairness can only be approximated...
...Euripedes NEW REPUBLIC Oh, so heady are the thoughts illuminating page after page of the contemporary New Republw : It is a powerful idea...
...In the meantime, however, I prescribe a dash of patience and a generous nip of goodwill...
...It was the dynamic designer Haiston who reportedly persuaded Jackie to "get with it" in the lingerie department...
...It was obvious she had no bra on under it...
...at the sight of opposition...
...CBS An authentic specimen of objective reportage from the innocent rictus of Peter Kalischer, Paris: Apparently the U.S...
...She likes being a feminine woman - - in the company of exciting, stimulating men...
...We're living in an era of Food McCarthyism...
...THE EVERGREEN REVIEW Presidential hopeful, Dotson Rader, tells all: I personally came to respect the guts appeared one day in Washington and disappeared the next...
...Accordingly, an analysis of the fairness of the Angela Davis trial cannot proceed on a purely legal level...
...Chairman of the HEW Commission on Pesticides, has carefully studied the entire issue and intoned this memorable line: We need a study of our total food habits...
Vol. 5 • October 1971 • No. 1
