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ONE BORN EVERY MINIYYE: Let's call the following discourse of National Public Radio's Steven Bancker "The Aesthetic Revelations of a Dupe" and Raise a Stein to Andy Warhol who has been...
...Pass the ba- Syria...
...Where students are encouraged to help each other on examinations...
...Northwestern Report BUREAUcRATESE: Delousing language, as practiced by the high-minded geniuses of our Welfare State: Administration sources said they also are seeking to replace the word "poverty" in the official vocabulary with what one official said should be a more "neutral" term...
...No more chiffon and lace...
...For obvious reasons I order my dress-up pretties from mail-order catalogues...
...ONE BORN EVERY MINIYYE: Let's call the following discourse of National Public Radio's Steven Bancker "The Aesthetic Revelations of a Dupe" and Raise a Stein to Andy Warhol who has been successfully trepanning New York's haute culture crowd for many moons, never giving the suckers an even break: What fascinates me, Stephen Koch, so much about Andy Warhol is that what he does he doesn't comment on and this is just as true in his movies in which he has several hal~rs of the Empire State Building, or a man asleep or just people doing their thing and the camera zooming in and out at no particular purpose or predictability as it is in the paintings and sculpture that he does...
...New York Times March 3, 1974 THE LIMITS OF PRAGMATISM: Learning the hard way with the intellectual, Mr...
...He has this country so nervous and upset that truck drivers are killing each other and people are kidnaping in order to feed the poor...
...It's all blue denim and hard fabrics with heavy stitching...
...Ve try to avoid value-laden terms...
...Now it's in existence and raising hell...
...Yes, I'm referring to the oil companies...
...Poverty' is a value-laden term," he insisted...
...Group spirit has enabled the Chinese to lessen the effects of natural disasters . . . . But moves towards greater equality have not totally eliminated sexism from Chinese society, according to Chinese actress Chen Yuanchi...
...For years I was able to get lace lingerie, organdy blouses, silk dresses, and chiffon hostess gowns...
...We need help_9 aChicago Sun-Times SPEAKING IN TONGUES: The Rt...
...Washington Post The Alternative May 1974 29...
...Tqe need to live this way, we are determined to live this way...
...Bloomington Herald-Telephone February 26, 1974 BEYOND FREEDOM: Another stirring report from the People's Paradise, this time published in Northwestern Report, one of the many splendid, freed0m-loving publications of Northwestern U.: A Northwestern alum, in two appearances on the campus in May, described life in a nation where the price of food has not risen for 18 years...
...It's about time for black beauty to be explored...
...I haven't seen a satin underslip in three years_9 The lesbians are ruining it for thousands of transvestites...
...I can't find femininelooking clothes for myself...
...I remember when the Consumer Product Safety Commission was a gleam in Senator Magnuson's eye...
...Just as we have resisted in the past, there will be other occasions to involve us all in the future...
...My problem is exactly the opposite of the mother who can't find masculine-looking clothes for her sons...
...But, she noted, Chinese factories have nurseries where working parents can leave their children...
...Newsweek February 4, 1974 DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGE: Another triumph for the sexual revolution: A sign of Kissinger's growing popularity came after dinner Friday night when Assad bid him farewell with kisses on both cheeks...
...Mrs...
...National Public Radio PROBLEMS OF MODERNITY: One of Ann Landers' correspondents reveals that the unisex movement is a cultural achievement that is not without its costs: Dear Ann Landers: I am a transvestite...
...loney: "The only way to live sanely today is to live in resistance," he said...
...A place where centralized planning and group spirit make life more stable, he reported, than in the more individualistic competitive society of America...
...He described rehabilitation programs in which addicts and prostitutes were educated to see the oppression of the old China as the source of their problems...
...Richard Nixon is for the rich and he's making the rich get richer...
...China has eliminated drug addiction and prostitution and has only a minor incidence of alcoholism, Tannebatun said...
...Robert Redford: I had always loved the profotmd pragmatism of Jack London's story, '~ro Build a Fire," and one night in France I learned what it was like when I got warm by standing neck-high in a pile of manure...
...Gerald Tannebaum, a 1939 Medill grad who returned to the States last year after 2 6 years residence in the People's Republic of China, described the country as a highly organized place...
...While kissing is common in the Arab world--Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi seems to kiss Kissinger on Philip Berrigan displays the high state of intellect typical amongst Catholi- " every possible occasion--this was a first in cism's religious radicals...
...Nixon is going to persist in the American presence in Indo China and as long as we are there, there will be war there . . . . "We approach people in order to find out if they want to call their lives into question _9 _9 . to assume some nonviolent responsibility for the most atrocious war machine in h i s t o r y . . , peace will come through peacefulness . . . it will come through nonviolent means or not at all...
...Now what's your reaction to that...
...We like neutral terms...
...Coleman said the magazine would help open career possibilities for black women the way white magazines did for white starlets...
...Whom the gods destroy they first make mad- Euripedes MELDING THE METAPHOR: The chief counsel for the Senate Commerce Committee displays the kind of imaginative use of language that makes American legislative secretions so eminently readable and amusing: Mr...
...Women, she said, "are slowly winning the right to drive water buffalo in the fields and are still underrepresented on governing bodies...
...And where men and women dress alike...
...Now that the dykes have taken over the women's fashion industry, I see nothing but man-tailored suits with zippered flies, button-down pockets, plaid shirts, and cowboy boots...
...Pertschuk, sitting in his shirtsleeves with his feet propped on a bookcase, waved his hands and declared: "The people on the staff have an opportunity to start with a problem on the ground floor and see it develop and come alive...
...New York Times --Louisville Courier-Journal March 3, 1974 SKIN DEEP BEAtYIT: Wanda Coleman, intellectual editor of the Aframerican equivalent of Playboy, speaks of the benefits of black centerfolds and of the high purpose of her journal: It is not that black women have different standard equipment from whites, she said, but rather, that the wider range of options among black women has not yet been explored in the white press: "Many of our women with dark skin have thin features and straight hair and many of our women with light skin have lightcolored eyes and red hair...
...Los Angeles Times THE IDIOT: Proof of the public service performed by newspapers with capacious Letters to the Editor column: I have just heard on the news that gasoline is going up two cents per gallon and if I don't write this to let off steam I'll probably explode...
...What's the explanation and why in heaven's name should it be popular...
...Berrigan also was recently arrested for praying in the White House ('~ great crime is to pray in the White House outside the scheduled services") and faces trial...
...Food and cotton cloth are rationed in China, for instance, to insure against shortages but, he added, the rations are more than enough for ordinary living...
Vol. 7 • May 1974 • No. 8
