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SNAKE OIL From t h e redoubtable Publishers Weekly comes an exquisitely written review that just might conduce to a startling new cure for viral pneumonia: President Nixon's Psychiatric...
...Baltimore Morning Sun THE OLD JOURNAIJ.~M The king's English as written in the literary capital of Hoosierland: City Police Inspector Howard Wilson advised local doctors to be aware of suspicious suspects . . . . --Bloomington Herald Telephone RETURN OF THE GARDYLOO Another startling statistic revealed in the renowned Evansville Press serving t h a t cosmopolitan c i t y t h e r e o f , herewith: I wish people would bear in mind that 50 percent of all the physicians now practicing medicine graduated in the bottom half of their class...
...The treatment involves slides of nude children and adult women flashed on a screen, he said...
...The Nixons and the Agnews particularly delight in the absence of dissent...
...King says, and the Navy suspended the program...
...not to mention the finality of all social arrangements...
...Senator Ervin's unconscious role as a threatening father-figure possibly precipitating Nixon's viral pneumonia last summer--are useful...
...6.95 The young psychiatrist-author of Religion May Be Hazardous to Your Health scarcely goes beyond what the well-read Nixon-watcher may have come to observe on his own in this year of the Watergate exposures...
...This will happen organically in a free society as blacks, with their possibly different modes of perception, push the old orthodoxies aside and help establish new, broader norms of intelligence...
...The process has already begun, in fact, with programs of open enrollment...
...New York Times THE AMERICAN CONDITION During the Nixonian Era a local gazette chronicles a typical American scene~ John L. Moale, a retired forman for the old Martin Company, died unexpectedly yesterday, apparently of a heart attack at the home of his tax accountant...
...Publishers Weekly November 12, 1973 CRISIS FOR PROFIT An intriguing glimpse at how one of the most bloodthirsty nations on earth trains its fighting forces: The Navy has suspended a pilot race relations program, in part because it was decided that the emotions of the participants had been rubbed too raw to continue...
...It completely removes the patient's desire to have sexual contact with children, but it does not affect his desire for normal sexual relationships...
...and Peter H. Wyden (McKay, dist...
...The act drew a protest from an irate woman participant, Mr...
...Chicago Daily News CLOCKWORK ORANGE REVISITED A report on the care and feeding of dirty old men in the enlightened state of Connecticut: A dozen convicted child molesters at Somers Correctional Institute are participating voluntarily in a program designed to reform them through electric shocks...
...Evansville Press CATNIP From the intellectual pages of the New York Review of Books, another blowzy apothegm for the I ~ f t ' s commonplace book: Paradoxically, fascist minded Americans tend to admire communist societies once they actually visit them...
...Dominic Morino, chief of the prison's mental hygiene unit, told the Hartford Courant that the shock therapy produces feelings of anxiety whenever an inmate thinks of a child as a sexual object...
...The day may yet come when the pendulum swings the other way, and whites won't get into medical school because they score 15 points below the ~en-fashionable norm on Soul...
...The conditioning process, he said, occurs subtly...
...Every slide of a nude child is accompanied by a painful electric shock...
...Israel has not abolished poverty and misery, rather she manufactures human waste, the by-products of her entrepreneurs, her military-industrial comp l e x . . , she has expanded the prison system, perfected her espionage, exported on the world market that expensive blood-ridden commodity, the savage triumph of the technologized West: violence and the tools of violence . . . In Israel, the democratic formula is twisted out of all recognition...
...it follows, as the imperialist corollary, that that measure of terrorism and violence and murder is applied to dissidents as shall guarantee the "well-being of the s t a t e . . . " ---address to the Association of Arab University Graduates October 19, 1973 30 The Alternative February 1974...
...Much that he says labors the obvious: but his fresher insights---the White House 'tplumbers" as an extension of Nixon's personality...
...From his own observations and his readings of S/x Crises and the well-known books by Mazo, de Toledano, Evans and Novak, Mazlish and others, he draws a plausible profile of Nixon as, broadly, an obsessivecompulsive personality driven to extremes of privacy--a "submarine effect"---and a need to control himself and his environment virtually absolutely...
...this is now the longest period in this century that we have been without a living former President...
...the citizens exist for the well-being of the state...
...Daniel Berrigan, S.J.: The dream of Israel has become a nightmare...
...Nixon's patriotic duty to resign at once so that this important position can be filled without further delay...
...The Making of the President 1972 THE FUTURE OF INTFIJ JGENCE A brief look into the future of the healing a r t from the journal for five and dime intellectuals, Newsweek: So the answer to black IQ scores may lie only partly i n rectifying the ghetto environment, and partly in looking again at the narrow academic conceptualization of intelligence that insists--without outside empirical justification--on the supremacy of IQ...
...Accounts vary, but the black civilian organizer of the program says a Navy admiral objected to demonstrations designed to deliberately arouse l a t e n t prejudices among both blacks and whites...
...Newsweek AN AMERICAN DREAM A knowledgeable reader of the Chicago Daily News p r o f f e r s a suggestion worthy of sober consideration: The death of Lyndon Johnson last January left us without a living former President...
...Washington Post THE NEW COUGI41JN Christian compassion as shown by one of the holy men of New Age Christianity, the gentle Fr...
...It is ,Mr...
...Charles H. King Jr., who heads Urban Crisis, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio, said he had kissed a white female assistant during the training program at the Naval base in Charleston, S.C...
...SNAKE OIL From t h e redoubtable Publishers Weekly comes an exquisitely written review that just might conduce to a startling new cure for viral pneumonia: President Nixon's Psychiatric Profile, Eli S. Chesen, M.D...
...There is no shock when slides of nude women appear...
...New York Review of Books BELLES LETrRES Elegant moment of modern political philosophy from Theodore H. White, Visigotl~ Always hitherto, in all cultures, at all times in history, the fruit of a woman's coupling had been legislated by males, and most frequently by elderly males shriveled in the groin...
...Written in layman's language, clearly but not eloquently, his book is interesting and valuable nonetheless...
Vol. 7 • February 1974 • No. 5
