Current Wisdom
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THE EXORCIST Psephologist Harriet Van Home spies yet another political constituency for the McGovern charisma to enrapture: The selection of Sargent Shriver to be Senator George McGovern's running...
...When the anti-Daley delegation from Illinois two nights later put McGovern over the top for the nomination, it seemed as if, incredibly, the battered legions of the Lord had won themselves a victory at last...
...On occasion he was even known to dance...
...He^had long since become skeptical of the worth of petty abstinence, and for that matter dubious of the value of organized religion itself...
...Arthur Schlesinger right out of his head: McGovern will win rather emphatically in November...
...By that they mean something very precise: Not more well-meaning but casually designed demonstration projects, but precise, clinical experimentation that is not prejudged to be a success...
...The New York Times THE WINNING TEAM The last muckracker, I.F...
...So AM radio is dumb...
...Leon is the people's friend...
...He sleeps easily...
...Those who had been in the streets in Chicago were now, only four years and one convention later, in the delegates' seats in Miami...
...The Harvard Crimson HIS MAJESTY'S TOILET The lovely Eleanor McGoo avers a fascinating glimpse into her famed husband's curious cerebrum while remarking on one of those unique characteristics of his oratory which we have all come to appreciate: He does his best thinking between 3 and 6 a.m...
...Stone: It was a joy to be at the Democratic convention this year...
...He is always there when his service is needed...
...I pray, as all of his and our friends are, that Leon Haley will be well before long and make a comeback and help all of us who know him and have missed him...
...Hubert Quarles Jr...
...He can doze off in the middle of a sentence, wake up and finish it...
...He is never too busy to talk to the people of Hamilton County, and that is what I call a friend to the people...
...he would take a drink or two, and when at special ease he would lean back with a good cigar...
...But by that time he felt neither the guilt nor the exhilaration that might have come from deiying the law when it meant something...
...The Miami News SCHOLASTICISM Another New Age neurotic lost at sea in the illustrious pages of The Harvard Crimson, a leading voice of the brightest generation in recorded history: AM radio can help you make it through some pretty tough times...
...Hubert Quarles, Jr., speaks out for the silent majority of one of Tennessee's model cities: -The New York Review of Books To the News-Free Press: I want to state again that I hope that Chief Deputy Criminal Court Club Leon Haley's friends will honor him in every way...
...The convention was a triumph for the young and the young of heart...
...It's supposed to make you dance or make you sing or make you feel sad: in general, to take you out of yourself and to help alleviate the tedium and-or downright misery of your life...
...Washington Post CLEANLINESS Audrey Topping reports from the mysterious Orient on the triumph of personal hygiene where nothing is personal: The People's Republic of China is faultlessly clean...
...Stone, again dares to tell those sordid details that official Washington does not dare to let out of the bag...
...To be certain, most of it is stupid, but it's not supposed to be smart...
...In Sargent Shriver's keeping are the helmet and the plumes of Camelot...
...The New York Review of Books GOOD GOVERNMENT After blowing billions in the Great Society catastrophe, the Brookings Institute has come up with a sounder way to spend the government's loot: The Brookings authors came down on the side of experimentation...
...It adds a touch of romance, awakening old dreams....Scoff all you like at symbolism but the new ticket has it...
...THE EXORCIST Psephologist Harriet Van Home spies yet another political constituency for the McGovern charisma to enrapture: The selection of Sargent Shriver to be Senator George McGovern's running mate adds more to the ticket than an attractive man with a fine public service record...
...I will say again, God bless Leon Haley...
...The New York Review of Books TOURISM Touring the zoo with one of the great apes, Mr...
...From McGovern or Eagleton, who wouldn't be glad to buy a used car...
...The Stones, the Who, and the Faces are great sure, but so are the Honey Cone, Aretha Franklin, the Osmonds, Glen Campbell in his better moments, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Tommy James, Joe South, maybe even the Carpenters, if it's late at night and you're someplace on the Ohio Turnpike eighty miles short of Cleveland...
...He wrote his last speech at breakfast...
...Some of it, like Bobby Dylan and Smokey Robinson and Mick Jagger, is not so dumb as the rest, but even that stuff avoids obscurity...
...3615 2nd Avenue -Chattanooga News-Free Press THE STATESMAN AS A YOUNG RAKE Landmarks in one man's heroic struggle against horror: In later years, George would gradually break all his church's archaic strictures...
...The New York Post FASHION NOTES Radical chic's fall fashions sweep poor Mr...
...THE SOCIOLOGY OF SILENCE An obscure genius, Mr...
...When I'm tired enough, I can get behind anything on WRKO...
...President Nixon hardly needs a Merlin to advise him that in this campaign he'll be up against legends, ghosts and a certain old glamor...
...How could Nixon and Agnew, or Nixon and Connally, Mr...
...Stone was into something stronger than his customary Geritol at this summer's Democratic Jamboree: I shook hands with lively ghosts out of a dozen forgotten crusades...
...Still George would never, not even as a senator, lose entirely the legacy of his fundamental upbringing...
...The New York Review of Books LIFE AFTER DEATH Even in a civilization as advanced as that of New York, the nostalgia rage is reviving the very best of the good old days, as the distinguished urbanologist Dr...
...The most obvious vestige of the experience, and the one he values most, deeply, is a love of the Bible, not only as an ethical blueprint but as a masterwork of literature...
...I managed to wangle a floor pass and wander around among the delegates during the decisive vote on the California credentials, and I felt I had lived to see a miracle...
...Let the Establishment journalists beat this bit of behind the scene reportage: . . .when he presented his running mate not some crafty choice of Southern strategy like Wilbur Mills, but a like-minded freshman senator from Missouri who has been fighting the Pentagon, in the lobby of 'Members of Congress for World Peace Through Law," (sic) who could help cheering...
...The New York Times...
...The New York Post THE MORNING AFTER Evidence that the incomparable I.F...
...Oil Depletion Allowance, match the youth and vigor - the simple decency - that shone in the faces of these candidates...
...Pete Hamill observes: The best thing that has happened on the streets of New York in the past ten years is the re-emergence of the teenage gangs...these young people stand for human values, and what they are doing, on the whole should be applauded and encouraged...
...Sometimes he stays in bed and makes notes, other times he goes into the den and writes...
Vol. 6 • October 1972 • No. 1
