The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
The Bootblack Stand - Dr. George Washington Plunhitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now...
...Adolph Doltheimer, a hitherto obscure scientist and part-time dishwasher, received his early training at the Munich Institute of Popular Mechanics...
...If personal happiness is your personal problem why not keep it personal...
...At any rate on National Public Radio he recently disclosed his breathtaking discovery that there are calculable amounts of useful ehergy i n decaying human feces...
...It has hexachlorophene and it will turn your mind into a mass of saponaceous goo and the fishes will not be able to swim in it...
...Unfortunately most of this interest has tended to focus on the battlefield narrative...
...Where previous studies have attempted to probe the subtleties of white perceptions of the Indian, and where others have treated the evolution of an Indian policy, until now no one has attempted to explain in any depth the relationship between the two...
...And do you think Dr...
...George Washington Plunhitt, our prize-winning political analyst, is celebrating the publication of his new book, which is now available at avant-garde bookstores throughout New Jersey...
...I am the child of Neptune and Joan Baez, and I love the surf, the earth, and budding things...
...The result of Sheehan's labors is a first-class piece of historical scholarship...
...Sadly, his first scholarly publication, "The Static Dynamism of the Bovine Feces," received such furious ridicule in the professional journals that he was literally driven from his post as research gardener at the University of Bavaria and . . . well, he was incarcerated in a local asylum for certain early morning experiments he insisted on engaging in...
...GWP Dear Dr...
...Doltheimer's political past as controversial...
...Generally they are from Senator Kennedy's staff, and I am getting pretty tired of them...
...Plunkitt's book is about the importance of altruism in politics and it is titled What's in It for Me...
...Simon: After looking over some of your other proposals, rationing, mandatory speed limits of 55 miles per hour, federally policed living rooms, and so forth, I am surprised that you would view Dr...
...And while such ~arratives have contributed to a popular awareness of such outrages as the massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, they have contr~buted little to an increased understanding of the historic complexities involved in Indian-white relations...
...The Bootblack Stand ~k by George Washington Plunkitt # Dr...
...Peace and freedom, Sky Dear Mr...
...Professor Sheehan's work is concerned not so much with the nature of the Indian as with the white perceptions of his nature and how these perceptions were to be translated into an Indian policy...
...While listening to the daily six-hour wrapup of the news on National Public Radio I found the solution to the energy crisis when one of the learned commentators interviewed a German emigrant now residing in Teaneck, New Jersey...
...After the war he turned up in Teaneck and continued his researches, the pursuit of which earned him the somewhat curious reputation he now holds in that town...
...I t is the author's contention that while Americans may have differed significantly on many issues, a consensus of opinion 24 The Alternative March 1974...
...As to your other problem, I suggest you leave the people of Oklahoma alone, and instead conduct your program in and around New York City...
...Sky: I am always getting letters like this from ex-Capitol Hill staffers...
...And stop sending me plastic flowers...
...In fact I love Bud...
...We use sand...
...What is more he has developed techniques to utilize this energy, and--according to his extrapelations~if scientists lay a field of human feces across an area the size of Oklahoma enough energy can be extracted to supply all the needs of New York for the next twenty-four months...
...During his incarceration he became politically active in the new politics of the time, and his career was vindicated in the miadle thirties when he was raised to a high research position in the German government...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, c/o The Establishment, R.R...
...Thus, in the" words of the author, the uniqueness of this study "lies in its juxtaposition of thought and event and in its effort to describe the manner in which the two depend on and are influenced by each other...
...While it is impossible to do justice to the line of argument in this important work in a review of this size, it is possible to sketch the broad outlines of Sheehan's interpretation...
...But we never use soap...
...In fact the last time I was there, it appeared someone had beaten you to it...
...There have been exceptions to this of course...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...If you people are so dratted happy why do you always have to tell people like me about it...
...He is my roommate, and we take showers together...
...I am sure you could spread your revolutionary new energy source all over the city and the average New Yorker would not even notice its presence...
...Although Dr...
...For the most part the reader is served up clichd-ridden, shabbily researched accounts of the slow and torturous destruction of the native American, sometimes portrayed as noble, sometimes as ignoble, but rarely as he really was...
...Plunkitt: My name is Sky and I live on nothing but seeds, seeds and small things...
...William E. Simon Federal Energy Office Dear Mr...
...Dear Dr...
...Plunkitt expects to earn ten million dollars from sales of his new book, he has agreed to continue to advise public figures through this column...
...It is, consequently, an attempt to infuse into into the study of Indian-white relations, and into the history of disparate cultures, a deeper perception of the importance of thought and attitude in the making of historical event...
...GWP Seeds of Extinction F~te w SUBJECTS HAVE received so much atntion from historians as that of the gradual but seemingly inevitable retreat of the "savage" before the march of American "civilization...
...Plunkitt: I am faced with an'indelicate situation...
...If his purpose is somewhat awesome, so is his accomplishment...
...Doltheimer's unfortunate political background will influence the success of our program...
...My problem is how do we break the news to Oklahomans...
...Roy Harvey Pearce's study of the Indian as idea and symbol, Robert F. Berkhofer's study of Protestant missionary efforts, and Francis Paul Prucha's survey of federal Indian policy (all three covering the same period as the bookunder review, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) have been espedally valuable: But these have been the Jeffersonian Philanthrophy and the American Indian by Bernard W. Sheehan University of North Carolina $11.95 exception rather than the rule...
Vol. 7 • March 1974 • No. 6
