Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." TIMELESS POLITICAL VALUES Thinking the unthinkable with Dr. Harriet Van Home: I have never met a conservative with sex appeal. Never. Men who...
...Indira Gandhi, hands folded as in prayer, rejoicing over the military dismemberment of Pakistan...
...I would dearly like to think the book is authentic and that Clifford will prove to the world that it is, - - London Sunday Mirror THE WOMEN'S CRUSADE A recondite analysis of Mr...
...New York Times FAITH UNSHAKEABLE Nina Van Pallandt, renowned folksinger and love goddess, pays obeisance to the people's right to know and renews our faith in Mr...
...What can we know of a tribe that made no laws of its own, left almost no pictures or artifacts, and wrote only a few books - - in which important subjects were taboo and every attitude had to be acceptable to another tribe...
...And their spirits are small in ways that suggest cold nights in their boudoir...
...If they would have been a bunch of hoodlums when they were young, running around the streets, they would never have gotten in serious trouble...
...T h e Nation SONS AND LOVERS Mr...
...The Boston Globe APPROVED REA~NG William Appleman Williams proves that when a pedagogue tries his hand at belles lettres it can result in a metaphorical orgy that is sheer joy for funiovin~ readers: _9 ..it was Johnson rather than Kennedy who moved the system...
...A full appreciation of Lyndon's contraption, Euripides which would make either kind of trip, depends upon an understanding of two of the assumptions behind the Constitution...
...Boston Globe MALE CHAUVINISM James Reston lets slip his 19th Century sympathies: ...that other forlorn dream - - that women might one day lead us into a more peaceful and considerate world -- gets little support from Golda Meir's warrior policy in Israel or from the smiling picture of Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...knowing this man as 1 do I cannot believe the book is false...
...Nixon is possibly the most sexually insecure Chief of State since Napoleon...
...New York Post RENAISSANCE OF THE 100% 'MERICAN The executive secretary of the Massachusetts Grocers Association, Citizen Malcom McCabe, gives patriotism a new twist: The forces of subversion would do anything to destroy the old-fashioned hot dog...A turkey dog, tuna dog or chicken dog must be stopped...
...Now there may be right-wing conservatives, somewhere in this great land, who are warmblooded, greathearted, kind and gentle...
...I believe it is authentic...
...New York ReView o1 Books CLASSICAL HISTORICISM For those who read The Nation, that illustrious historian, Barbara Bellow Watson, rekindles memories of Gibbon, Trevelyan and the great historians of yesteryear, or worse: The inner history of women before the 20th century is lost, probably forever...
...It is true, of course, that ordinary men are also ignored in the history books...
...Sidney Hook and Mr...
...Always...
...New York Times 22 The A l t e r n a t i v e April 1972...
...Witness Richard Nixon...
...B o s t o n T r a v e l l e r INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES The cunning Mary McGrory reports on - - among other things - - how essential a sure g~asp of geography is for success in American politics: John V. Lindsay, five months a Democrat, almost one month, a presidential candidate, came to town to deliver his state of the union message...
...The Kennedy machine was like a freeway cruiser: beautiful on the way to the White House or the moon, but of little help in getting coal to Grandma in the snow...
...Sex appeal, in the final analysis, is a quality of spirit as well as flesh...
...Clifford Irving...
...Perhaps all those years of sitting .on the bench watching football players go by have given him an unquenchable thirst to come out Number One...
...If they did this, it is because they have a conscience...
...Donald Armstrong-- father of Karleton Lewis Armstrong and Dwight Armstrong, the alleged homicidal bombers - - speaks movingly and intelligently of his sons in what surely must be filed as notes on the nurturing of idealists: You know, I raised my sons well...
...T h e Boston Globe POWDER PUFFIDEOLOGY A superb causal explanation of Mr...
...But you find me one - - and to quote my tall, blue-eyed father - - I'll make you a watch...
...The Nat~on AUTHENTICITY IN LEFT-LIBERAL GOSSIP A grim reminder of the strange tricks undiluted ideology can play on the perceptive powers even of the precision journalists at The Nation: Mter a White House white-tie dinner, that was attended by almost all the luminaries of right-wing America, including Dr...
...and Mrs...
...Gloria Steinem to an august throng at The National Press Club: Mr...
...And I guess that's why I could never vote for Spiro Agnew in the sex appeal poll...
...There is a Bangladesh of the spirit in many corners of America," he told the ladies of the Women's National Democratic Club, in the most picturesque, all-inclusive summary of the prevailing view of his new party...
...With rare exceptions, if any, women have been in this sense prehistoric creatures, like a Stone Age people surviving among the space ships, unnoticed just because they are so visible...
...We are paying for that in IndoChina...
...Irving Kristol, the company retired to the East Room for entertainment, to be provided by the Ray Coniff Singers...
...The |(~ss secure a male, the more he has to prove...
...Men who grouse about welfare spending and foreign aid and help for ghetto children are always the wallet fumblers when the dinner check arrives...
...Men who are warmhearted and tender with women, men who have enough security in their own persons to care about others, tend to be liberal in politics, ardent in love...
...Generals hog the pages as they do the national budget...
...the more dangerous a leader he is...
...Nixon delivered by Dr...
...Nixon's Vietnam embroglio by that same profound intellect, Gloria Steinem: To lose face is a culturally masculine problem...
Vol. 5 • April 1972 • No. 7
