Brayings from the Barnyard
Jackasses, Assorted
"Brayings from the Barnyard" "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." - Euripedes JULIAN BOND Sensible assessment of Supreme Court Justice...
...But one thing we do know is that we have coming another year of Dick-in-the-Box...
...New York-New Jersey area) New Republic Box 4970...
...Nicole is not permanently cured by marrying Dick, but only when she stops being dependent on him and stands alone...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY From the font of simple solutions, a torrent of drivel: "Being poor is having no cash in hand and damned little on the way...
...Alison Lurie proffers its trendy counsel on how to read a really good book: "Tender Is the Night is also extremely interesting from a women's liberation point of view...
...Incidentally, so have the sale of cigarettes and birth conh-ol pills -- eds...
...A redistribution of about $15 billion a year (less than two per cent of our Gross National Product that is now pushing toward $1 trillion annually) would bring every poor person above the present poverty line...
...THE NEW YORK POST Political philosophy as smoked by the illustrious Dr...
...CRAWDADDY Progress against bone disease as divulged by Miss Yoko Ono: "In my case, I am a small woman because people repressed me when I was young...
...Blessed if we do...
...The government is of his choosing, but often the men who run that government can acquire more direct power over the lives of American citizens than the President himself...
...But we have the handicap of being right here watching it...
...Peter Hamill --lover, author, soldier of fortune: "American s have become the subjects of elected kings...
...Put in these terms, poverty in the United States is almost a picayune problem...
...PARTISAN REVIEW Partisan Review, ~once the glory of Manhattan's magnificoes, makes a candid plea for feature material: "Editors' Note: We'd like to remind our readers that they are invited to send in examples of nonsense...
...As long as mariage (and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique) are central to our capitalism (and to its depressing SOviet counterpart) neither man nor woman can be regarded as free to be human...
...It might be easier from a distance...
...Nixon has thrown in his hat with Dixie and the gun lobby which prefers homicides to registration...
...flower of that thorny Puritan American conscience which was, when it was good, very, very good, and now it's quite gone and things are horrid...
...Buckley's National Review and who was also at the meeting, wrote an opposite editorial piece recently for the Times that throws some light on that state of mind...
...My bones stopped growing because of the repression that surrounded me...
...Romance and revolution abound at this enlightened journal of pure unadulterated radicalism: "Goed-looking, Interesting Woman (35) seeks possibility of indepth relationship with a very attractive bright and lively man...
...And it doesn't cost much...
...Nixon, but James' Burnham, one of the ancestral voices of the new conservatism, who works as a columnist for Mr...
...It is wrapped up in sex...
...Every four years they elect a President, but in effect that President serves as king...
...for many a handgun is a virility symbol...
...Yet another good reason why the liberated New York Review is more often quoted by learned minds than even McCall's: "Now that organized religion is of little social significance, the great corporations through advertising (remember "Togetherness...
...Your family and friends will appreciate it...
...In California, although deficit financing is prohibited by the state constitution, several major school districts are operating in the red this year...
...Nixon in I972...
...22 The A l t e r n a t i v e F e b r u a r y , 1972 Braqinqs trom the uarnuaru "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad...
...THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Dr...
...They are particularly numerous in the South (along with homicides) and Mr...
...The dehumanization of Eleanor: "After all, Eleanor Roosevelt was a last (the last...
...a man who believes that POETS are still relevant...
...THE NATION Sometimes it hurts very much to live in Amerika and be an editorialist for a journal of the New Establishment, as this anguished passage reveals: "Last week, some self-styled conservatives, about a dozen of them, met to discuss whether or not they should run one of their persuasion against Mr...
...THE NEW REPUBLIC Even in America's time of troubles The New Republic finds a silver lining: "Public schools across the country are slipping into bankruptcy...
...Dayton, Ohio schools have already closed, and Chicago faces closure the month of December...
...a man who has 'made it' in the Establishment but is not blind to its faults...
...The scrub woman of The New Repub1/r learns the perils of thinking out loud when one of that great journal's writers is faced with a deadline and an empty wall: "We catch ourselves wondering, sometimes, if readers understand what's going on in Washington...
...and hiring policies favor the married, while looking with great suspicion on the bachelor who might be a Commie Weirdo Fag or a pro-Crypto dyke...
...In case of a tie, single copies will be sent to the latecomers...
...We don't really know...
...William F. Buckle),, Jr...
...A free subscription to PR will be awarded for each contribution used...
...in Louisville, Portland and Philadelphia...
...the only...
...classified ad) An untouched masterpiece carefully disinterred from an editorial labyrinth at The New Republic: "Two-and-a-half million handguns are being manufactured or imported every year, they now account for half of all homicides, and sales have inCreased since the Gun Control Act took effect...
...A painful prospect -- The Nation is at hand to clear the mind and settle the nerves...
...In Gary, Ind., teachers decided to work for two weeks last month without pay checks...
...was of course present, and, according to The New York Times, said later on Firing Line that the real purpose of the meeting was to remind the President that he has a 'vast and slightly sullen constituency to his right.' It may be difficult for less polarized citizens to imagine what view of the world is taken by people who declare themselves to the right of Mr...
...Euripedes JULIAN BOND Sensible assessment of Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist by one of those many good Americans who so fear Vice President Agnew's violent rhetoric: "I think Rehnquist is the nearest thing to a Nazi we've ever had on the Court...
...It's a tricky sort of present...
...With incomparable style this elegant journal offers its readers yet another quack cure: "IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS...
...You can't exchange it-at least not until next year -- and you have to pay for it as long as it's around...
...Schools have been shut down temporarily or are near it in Independence and Kansas City, Missouri...
Vol. 5 • February 1972 • No. 5
