Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods destroy they first make mad"- Euripides Current Wisdom ZOOLOGY 1. F. Stone remarks on the Great Republic's greatest achievement: We got ourselves a moral monster for a...
...The New York Review of Books LET GEORGE SAY IT In the calm of a post-election interview George McGovern, the Lion of South Dakota, proffers his sober appraisal of the choice of 60 percent of America's voters: I won't go so far as to say he's insane...
...The Washington Post THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE An auspicious new political alignment in progressive Massachusetts as reported to history by one of that state's engage gazettes: Directors of the Greater Lynn Mental Health Association have voted to publicly support the City of Lynn's Rent Control Program...
...2. Vigorous massaging of face...
...I don't like it when everyone wants to interview me and no one pays any attention to my teammates...
...When my bad knees are acting up, it's no fun...
...hold them...
...If a black man drove by and gunned me down right now, I'd figure it was all right because of what whites have done to blacks...
...Francine du Plessix Gray The New York Review of Books THE ALL-AMERICAN HIND These unexpurgated musings of Mr...
...King Features Syndicate ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT The valiant Progressive sounds the call for all hands on deck...
...Rest a moment...
...And everyone likes to play games...
...The Progressive GREAT EXPECTATIONS Mr...
...Money doesn't mean anything to me," he says...
...Raise leg up, lock hands over knee, pull legs up to chin, spreading them out as you do it...
...4. Turning of head to right and left...
...I laugh at them...
...I'm built for basketball and I have the potential to be a top player, but I'm not sure that I want it for a profession...
...I think I've gotten twice as much publicity as I deserve because I'm the Great White Hope in a game that has been dominated by blacks...
...And sinking...
...I will go so far as to say I find his behavior peculiar...
...5. Pulling ear lobes...
...And I want to do more with my life than win a few games...
...Stretch legs and arms...
...Both deserve every ounce of support the people can provide, for we will be needing them as we never have before...
...I could make more of a contribution to mankind that way than by basketball or by giving away the money I'd make...
...And I wonder why those who aren't playing find it so much fun...
...Carlyle Hall, who first performed these occult gesticulations, is still swinging at 98: I. Pulling my hair, massaging scalp...
...When my pregnancy was confirmed seven weeks into the term, I was sure my figure was going to blossom out the following week, leaving me with nothing to fit my expanding girth...
...Newsday...
...The Greater Lynn Mental Health Association viewed the action as part of its efforts to prevent the incidence of mental illness in the Greater Lynn area by working to reduce the sources of stress in the lives of individuals...
...I wonder why our fans will stand outside for hours just to get into Pauley Pavilion and then, when they're inside, go stark raving mad over us...
...I don't know precisely why...
...It keeps morons at their typewriters and off the streets: Two fragile and fallible institutions- the Congress and the press-stand in the way of incipient fascism...
...Wilfred Sheed VOYAGES IN ENGLISH The perils of linguistic experimentation in the Nixonian Age: Postal inspectors have moved against The Daily Rag-a local anti-establishment newspaper, for displaying on the cover of its current issue a popular four-letter Anglo-Saxonism that officials view as unlawfully obscene...
...I think I'd rather become a criminal lawyer and offer a free service to those in the ghettos who are discriminated against by our society...
...It can't buy happiness, and I just want to be happy...
...Jim Bishop, America's equivalent to the Oracle of Delphi, reveals seventeen secret exercises to be performed - upon awakening so as to keep a step ahead of the angels of death...
...I ran out and bought two outfits, for more than $80, which weren't worn until my seventh month because they were so maternity looking...
...To the extent that they expose, debate, and resist, democracy in America will be preserved...
...To the extent that they knuckle under, it will be lost...
...It's a game, isn't it...
...Wilfrid Sheed, Bishop without portfolio, reveals the trivial state of his moral life: To some of us, this war is the greatest sin we ever expect to find ourselves involved in, and our private spiritual lives are comparatively trivial next to the task of stopping it...
...Daily Evening Item Lynn, Massachusetts GALLIMAUFRY OF HEART No, no, the ensuing passage is not from the diary of the incomparable Arthur Bremmer but from the pages of the incomparable New York Review of Books: When Richard Nixon walked onto the inaugural stand - it was the first time I had seen him in the flesh and I was only twenty yards away from him, in the second row of the press section - I began to weep...
...I can't believe them...
...8. Whip arms up and down vigorously...
...Cross arms over chest, lift upward and downward...
...Take seven deep breaths...
...In taking this action, the Mental Health Association said that unreasonable rent increases and substandard housing are sources of stress for many Lynn residents and contributors to mental illness...
...I'm white and I wouldn't blame the blacks if they took up arms and went into outright revolt...
...In basketball, I want to be judged for my play, not my color...
...Both are likely to be subjected to inordinate pressures in the months and years to come...
...Vigorous massaging of neck, back and front...
...For the moment, we are waist-deep in the quagmire of despotism...
...If I were black, I would be just another center who plays well...
...This is a team game, and I'm just one of the guys on our team...
...Without them I'd be nothing...
...I don't deserve any medals for my color...
...The London Times CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING A revealing glimpse into the intellectual world of the modern American female offered by the liberated women at the new Chicago Tribune: One of the first thoughts a woman probably has after she learns she is going to have a baby is how this will affect her wardrobe...
...Keep arms crossed, move right and left...
...The Chicago Tribune HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Mr...
...7. Place arms alongside body and twist...
...9. Lock hands over chest, move back and forth...
...It's just not right...
...I'm just starting in sports, and already I'm being called a superstar...
...Bill Walton, a six foot, eleven inch metaphysician from UCLA's sweat shop, reveal the precious state of virtue, beauty, and intellectuality in college sport: When UCLA started practice for the 1972-1973 season, Walton said: "I enjoy basketball...
...Open and close jaws six times...
...Try not to make the same mistake...
...That's what it's called...
...Grasp bedpost, -move body right and left...
...We live in a time of calamity and worse-thank God for calamity...
...Whom the gods destroy they first make mad"- Euripides Current Wisdom ZOOLOGY 1. F. Stone remarks on the Great Republic's greatest achievement: We got ourselves a moral monster for a President...
...6. Raising head up and down...
...Games are for having fun...
Vol. 6 • May 1973 • No. 8
