Brayings from the Barnyard
"Brayings from the Barnyard" "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." - Euripedes Editor's Note: The following passages of joy and wisdom were made possible by )ust one...
...Will there be another Ellsberg next time...
...a point at which the cry is "return it to us.' " A self-made man from a farm-tenant background in Kansas, Hickel went to Alaska in 1940, at age 20, with 47c in his jeans, washed dishes, tended bar, performed other wage labor, till his savings and a persuasive pitch to bankers allowed him to start Imildmg houses, then hotels and shopping centers, and enabled him to acquire a fortune...
...But if he insists on someone tailm-ed exactly to his specifications, he is headed for further abrasive confrontations...
...Todd Gitlin, profers his eager audience a timeless truth about "insurgent politics" and stone: In a time of rapid change, amidst shifts not only in style but in the social bedrock beneath style, any person who maintains the same insurgent politics for more than thirty years is rcmarkable...
...Wally," as he has become widely known, is himself one of these, as his hook and his public career attest, and he adds the self-evident truism that "'we are at a time in our national history when mistrust of the responsiveness of government to the popular will has reached a critical point - - a point at which increasing numbers of Americans feel denied and even robbed of the power to influence public policy...
...A cheery travel note on cosmopolitan China from the renowned Roland Berger who has been to the Celestial Empire nineteen times - - eight trips during the waetieaily bloodless Cultural Revolution: The flood of foreign visitors pouring in and out of China today is a sardonic reminder that less than two years ago the commentators were telling the world that "'China is isolated...
...A formula for presidential greatness is proffered to Mr...
...So the United States is faced with a U.N...
...He had served in that Cabinet post for twenty-months...
...I remember Wally" by the venerable old ex-senator from Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening, long a devotee of Horatio Alger legends and all that traditional slop about rising from a log cabin: President Nixon fired Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel on Thanksgiving eve, 1970...
...Euripedes Editor's Note: The following passages of joy and wisdom were made possible by )ust one issue o] the famous Nation, perhaps the greatest student publication in Christendam...
...crisis which Peking will join Moscow in exploiting...
...AT THE EDGE OF HISTORY By William Irwin Thompson Harper and Row have published an entertaining tittle tome that shows the publish or perish syndrome at least produees a horselaugh or two: • "...classes can be so interest-hound that they cannot perceive reality outside the terms that sustain their power_At is extremely important that we adopt an alien point of view if only to open our minds and free ourselves of the ethnocentrism of our former position...
...Professor Marshall Goldman prescientlyremarks on what is bound to be a turning point in world history: From June to October of this year, at least seventeen international conferences have been called to discuss one or another aspect of pollution...
...Nixon by The Nation whose "statesmanlike view" is celebrated throughout Christendom mad even in New York...
...THE NATION The proud state of metaphysical inquiry at The Nation as revealed on the back pages of that illustrious journal: There is a desire for unity among the consciously oppressed groups in America...
...If the President wants a Southerner for 'balance," replacing Black, there are several whom he could name and who would encounter no difficulty in the Senate...
...Or failing that, he must fred an administrative device to prevent Rhodesian chrome from entering the country...
...And one issue that has emerged from the tragic events is the responsibility of judges to offenders after conviction - - an issue that, long neglected, now compels, and in part has arrested, the attention of the courts...
...Yet another ugly aspect of the misery endured by Americans during these Dark Days, related to us by that distinguished Solomon of the Supreme Court of California, Mathew O. Tobriner: In the last few weeks the lid has blown off that ugliest aspect of the American legal system: the penitentiary...
...The 1971 fair opened on a sunny Friday afternoon with twice as many neighborhood booths as participated the year before, rock groups on three outdoor stages, harbor excursions, five beer gardens, and a concert by the full Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (driven into the lobby of a friendly bank when it started to rain...
...The celebrated author of Uptown...
...The story thereof, and of his life, private and public to date, has been, as he declares, "'written for the young of all ages, the young of thought who refuse to be locked into the past, who do not fear the challenge of change, and who anticipate the hope of the future...
...Will we be so again...
...The condition of courage and darkness as seen by The Nation: Through one man's courageous act, the darkness surrounding our past involvement in Vietnam has diminished a little...
...Anything less like isolation than the Peking scene of recent months could hardly be imagined...
...He must move vigorously to block the chrome amendment while it is still on the Hill...
...22 The A l t e r n a t i v e J a n u a r y , 1972 "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad...
...An Australian friendship delegation had just departed...
...Vice and gaming as reported by the New Era Liberals at The Nation: Baltimore took a chance...
...What is it that feminists, blacks, Chicanos, homosexuals, West Virginia miners, et al., have in common, beyond their oppression...
...We were lucky, this time...
...Could it be that this little profundity aPl~ared in the very same left of liberal journal that urges Congress to assert itself and deny the executive branch all those accumulated "administrative deviees...
...If only, for once, he would swallow his prejudices and take a statesmanlike view of his job, he would not only do the country a service but might begin to be respected as a man who has been spiritually enlarged by the high office he holds...
...These sessions provide a foretaste of what promises to be the most dramatic of all scientificpolitical conference - - the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, scheduled for next June 5-16 in Stockholm...
...Can they combine their energies, and perhaps arouse and give a broad social direction to the vast forces of passive resentment and frustration now dormant in this country...
...Unless the President is prepared to flout the United Nations, he must, however reluctantly and tardily, jettison his "'Southern strategy" in Rhodesia...
Vol. 5 • January 1972 • No. 4
