Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Current Wisdom THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN The illustrious president of Yale University, Dr. Kingman Brewster, magisterially announces the needs of his children: As we approach the bicentennial of...
...More important, the cultivation of callous indifference to suffering can be emotionally upsetting to the young mind by participating in the harming or killing of God's lesser creatures...
...Come home, America...
...We're going to have to bite the bullet and admit that we were virtually defeated...
...Evergreen Review...
...Experiments which result in considerable pain foster an improper regard for animal life and an unbalanced view of biology in the immature mind...
...Then we could rediscover the sense of purpose, and once more know the satisfaction, of making them into a nation...
...Kingman Brewster, magisterially announces the needs of his children: As we approach the bicentennial of the Republic, perhaps what we need most for 1976 is a resounding Declaration of International Interdependence...
...Current Wisdom THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN The illustrious president of Yale University, Dr...
...The award presented by Holy Angels' parish in a black area of Chicago's South Side honors outstanding contributions to the race...
...Miss Cheryl Kelton, Indiana University student, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a cosmopolitan girl: It's like when you go out to eat...
...We're not the self-confident nation we were after World War II...
...He comes on not as a bomb thrower, but as an old-fashioned American idealist of a traditional sort - the minister down the street or the teacher across the block...
...Ah, the intellectuals of the air waves...
...It seems to me a lot of the organized leadership is pretty bad...
...It is a fact that less than one percent of the children performing these operations will ever enter medical school...
...Why then, must the overwhelming majority of young students be subjected'to this cruel strain on their conscience...
...I live in Illinois and there's this one restaurant where it's all candlelight and it's just gorgeous...
...Associated Press AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY In a recent interview, television's old master, Chet Huntley, fretted about how his medium had become "overly obsessed with the negative story - with tragedy, despair, and failure...
...A proper regard for all lesser animals is instinctive in a young child and the teaching of abnormal conditions before the student has a sound grasp of normal physiology is against common sense and does not enhance scientific education...
...The fact that O'Hare is white did not trouble the parish...
...The current Black Man of the Month: George O'Hare, a Sears, Roebuck executive who was awarded the plaque for his work with the late Martin Luther King, Jr...
...Said Pastor George Clements: "Blackness is a way of life, not merely a skin color...
...Many of the nation's best plans have become distorted...
...We need to talk about what is right with America - so he proceeded to catalogue some of the rosier things he sees in the Republic...
...I don't think there's any reason to be...
...Congress just has to reform itself or people are "going to turn away in disgust...
...Time QUESTION GIRL Responding to the metaphysical inquiry "What's your idea of a Romantic Evening...
...Bloomington Courier Tribune RAW FLESH Shocking revelations by the New England Anti-Vivisection Society concerning the brutalization of American school children...
...We know where he stands...
...Welfare is a noble concept but suddenly the nation has found it is a way of life for several millions of persons...
...This damn war has demonstrated to us that we can't have our way, even militarily, all the time...
...If we spend the money we can clean this country up...
...We're tragically short of outstanding political leadership right now...
...New York Times MINISTER DOWN THE STREET The indefatigable Arthur Schlesinger, M.A., brings us more Good News about the unbelievable George Mr Govern: McGovern is simply not a believable radical, nor do voters, once exposed to him, perceive him as a menace to society...
...The cities are getting worse and people are in despair over it...
...I'm confident that it will come along, but for some strange reason, we haven't had it recently...
...Foreign Affairs ETHNIC AWARENESS From Time Magazine, journalism's equivalent to the dime store, comes word of yet another delirious episode in the fight against racism...
...The anxieties are eating away at us...
...Another color barrier falls: Previous winners of the "Black Man of the Year Award" have been Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers and comedian Dick Gregory...
...moreover, as a practical idealist who can pilot bombers, win Distinguished Flying Crosses, build party organizations, distribute farm surpluses abroad and win elections...
...Then after dinner you can go to a concert and then to a few bars after that, and then you go back to the room...
...We, in our turn, might save the peoples of nations by making them into a world community capable of survival...
...in Chicago and his efforts to improve education and other conditions in the city's ghettos...
...Both boys and girls in elementary schools receive scientific assignments in their biology classes that frequently entail vivisection of live frogs, mice, and even rabbits, who writhe under the inept scalpels wielded by childish hands...
...The New York Times Magazine THE GRAPES OF WRATH Using the esoteric rhetoric of the New Democratic Party, Senator Kennedy addresses Mexican-Americans, and reveals the villainy afoot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Assailing President Nixon, Senator Kennedy said that Mr...
...A lot of people are in despair about our environment...
...There's this plush carpeting, too...
...Maybe by 1987 we could then celebrate the two hundredth year of the Constitution of the United States with at least the beginning of global arrangements and institutions to safeguard the common defense and the general welfare of humanity everywhere...
...This is going to sound funny, but then you have anchovies and crackers and wine...
...Nixon "took pride in eating grapes" and ordered enough lettuce to feed the army for two years...
...The Chicago Daily News VARIETIES OF HISTORY Noted historian, Tom Seligson, testifies to the stupendous achievements of our pop youth, the brightest generation since Attila's: And as James Dean represented the young of the fifties with his unarticu-lated lack of ease and his alienation, Manson and Sir nan, with their social bitterness and criminal rebellion, signify the mood of the contemporary youth...
...The labor movement that was once a bright and noble concept forty years ago is a disappointment...
Vol. 6 • January 1973 • No. 4
