Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" Clear-headed commentary by one, Hunter S. Thompson, Ph.D., professional idiot and current geek in the salons of advanced culture: Nixon, at least, was blessed with a...
...I don't want to do a movie where Raquel Welch runs around in a bikini . . . I want to do things my people can relate to...
...If all you have is a check, sign it so that it can be ca,shed," instructed the mahatma...
...By bringing in hundreds of thugs, fixers and fascists to run the Government, he was able to crank almost every problem he touched into a mindbending crisis...
...Washington Post "'Whom the gods destroy they first make mad-- Euripedes THE ~ OF SCHOLARSHIP Proof that even the most prodigious scholars fall into moments of despair while probing the wellsprings of a genius: We'll never know about Marilyn Monroe...
...or costumed in 17th century finery for her role as Madame Bonacieux in the forthcoming remake of The Three Musketeers...
...LUMPEN INTEI J JGENTSIA Clear-headed commentary by one, Hunter S. Thompson, Ph.D., professional idiot and current geek in the salons of advanced culture: Nixon, at least, was blessed with a mixture of arrogance and stupidity that caused him to blow the boilers almost immediately after taking command...
...Raquel is "Hollywood" at its finest, and even though she is way out of my class, I find her most enjoyable to "relate" to...
...7), actor in Mean Streets, as saying that he wants to make movies he believes in...
...Allen, 23, who teaches at two local Montessori schools as well as the Chicago Institute of Art, said, 'Tve been listening to Dylan since 1966...
...Newsweek KULTUR Cultural reflections offered gratis to the Correspondence column of the f a b l e d Post of g r e a t e r Washingtor~ Tom Shales quotes Harvey Keitel (Nov...
...The first step was for everyone to take all the money out of his pockets, present it at the foot of the altar and express eternal gratitude and devotion to Guru Maharaj Ji...
...One bey was found to be holding out enough for his bus fare home_9 ' ~ ' h a t if Guru Malmraj Ji doesn't want you to go home...
...New Republic CULTURE FOR CLODS Another glimpse into the colossal minds that make high American art what it is today: Still, many of his most avid fans regard Dy]an's later work far less exciting than his earlier, more troubled writing...
...Many college women perceive similarities between their status and the problems of blacks...
...I mean, I was going through some personal changes, and his crazy imagery was a good escape for me...
...There is a purity of intent in journalism that is unique...
...Sexual discrimination is the last ~)cially acceptable prejudice," charges Bernice Sandler, director of the "women's project" for the Association of American Colleges...
...New York Times January 15, 1974 FROM PLATO TO CRONKITE Walter Cronkite, gas bag, reveals an advanced theory of justice: _9 . . I'm proud of those (newsmen) who have the courage to expose the culpable even when they know they might hurt the innocent . . . . --Human Events December 8, 1973 AN ODD FELLOW Walter Cronkite, T.V...
...Washington Post The Alternative April 1974 29...
...H e r b e r t Mitang: At the Pentagon the other day an Air Force general, with straight face, declared that the thousands of craters caused by B-52 bombing had a positive effect...
...New York Times RELIGIOUS NEWS Proof that certain of man's universal proclivities pop up even in the arcanum of eastern psychoanalysis: After a lunch break we settled into the serious business of making contact with the primordial vibrations of the universe...
...Charles J . Carney, M.C., one of the House's most respected orators, manifests his great debt to the classics in discussing some red-hot legislatiom Spending this time going through legislative histrionics indicating how we feel about busing is not answering questions about the energy shortage...
...She lives in mystery with u s . --New Republic SILVER LININGS Curious observation related by an observant r e p o r t e r from the New York Times, Mr...
...Or myths...
...Robert C. Herber Cinnaminson, New Jersey --Washington Post THE NEW WEBSTER The Rt...
...We were instructed to sit up straight, keep our eyes on the mahatma and answer all his questions in loud, clear voices...
...It was rather the on again, off again work over three years of a man police called a "sexual pervert" and neighbors called a polite . . . . etc...
...That is the secret of her power over our imagination, the essence of her sexual myth...
...As Mr...
...About the only disaster he hasn't brought down on us yet is a nuclear war with either Russia or China or beth . . . but he still has time, and the odds on his actually doing it are not all that long...
...Shales reports, it conveys environment brilliantly and the acting is first-rate...
...Tie came to Detroit in 1964," said Toth, "which means I was in the 6th grade, so obviously I didn't get to see him then...
...I am not about to knock Mean Streets...
...asked the mahatma...
...New York Times STRAIGHT THINKING Another p e r s u a s i v e , rationeination from the women's fever...
...No man is our master . . . . (addressing the National Press Club) --Human Events December 8, 1973 THE MAKING OF A PULITZER An ambitious young reporter for the incomparable T/rues of New York makes a daring grab for stardom in the world of journalisrm It was not a record for mass murder...
...Nothing like My Lai...
...I really liked his earlier stuff, from the mid-'60s...
...George Toth, 20, a university student, hitchhiked to Detroit to hear the concert...
...In any number of situations, just substitute the word 'black' for the word 'woman.' Could you say 'I don't want to play against a black' or 'I don't want to hire a black~ But you can say that about women...
...p e r s o n a l i t y , solemnizes the idiotic: _9 . _9 as a class when all of our wrongs are many, we do not sin...
...or wearing skating togs for her marvelous portrayal of a roller games champion in the first-class actionmelodrama, Kansas City Bomber, or smartly dressed up as a movie star in the excellent mystery film, The Last of Sheila...
...I've been really heavily into him for about the last five years...
...We are literally fiddling while America is running out of gas...
...Nashville Skyline (one of Dylan's country albums) is okay, but it's not the Dylan I needed when I listened to him back then...
...Ve have helped to create a fish farming industry in the watered holes for the Vietnamese peasants," he said...
...If Mean Streets, one of the most violent films of any year, is something his people can relate to--and they are unable to relate to someone as wonderful as Raquel~I feel sorry for them...
...It's full of such clear vision...
...I find it hard to "relate" to this kind of "realism," as my life has been spent among people who are basically peaceful, kind and lawabiding...
...But I can take only one or two of these brutal films a year...
...But we will get to that point in a moment...
...I hope he performs the old things and not too much of the country stuff...
...On the other hand, I find it easy and most satisfying to relate to the beauty, glamour, excitement, sense of adventure and fantasy, the charisma and delightful style that Raquel puts on the screen, whether she is cavorting in a bikini...
Vol. 7 • April 1974 • No. 7
