Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
DECLINE AND FAI,I-" Political and economic analysis produced by the esoteric mind of a latent crank caller, Tom Hayden: Rule by the rich has created a country whose economy can't check...
...A recent trip to Dick Cavett's zoo as reported by Patricia Simmons: The program's barrage of revolutionary rhetoric begins with Tom Hayden, a cofounder of the Students for a Democratic Society, who tells.Cavett he believes young people should get the franchise at age 14 and that it should be taken away from all adults when they reach a certain age...
...John, unless they could be on it alone without other scheduled guests...
...That way I could live out in the open away from most people...
...That was the night Rubin told Frost that he and his followers wanted to topple Western society and replace it with one, not oriented to money...
...If her tastes were expensive Persian rugs, for example---they were tasteful...
...undercover agents...
...No man should be allowed to be president after he's 35...
...Which," Daltrey added soberly, '~was absolutely true...
...I'd like to make more of a contribution to mankind...
...Bloody politicians are $!&?7/8 terrified of rock music," sighed Daltrey...
...New York Review of Books March 7, 1974 RADICAL CHIC: A glimpse into the heroic class struggle as fought out in the Colossus of the North nowadays: New Republic magazine's new owner is a socialist millionaire professor who drives a Porsche sports car plastered with "McCarthy for President" stickers...
...But Daltrey was adama~nt...
...Jerry Rubin sprinkles his anti-government talk tonight with the importance of "eating the right foods," doing yoga every day and the great things the women's movement is accomplishing...
...Until her abduction, she seemed an almost ordinary child of the '70s--and open, easygoing California girl given to jeans and sandals, Paul Simon records and touchfootball games with Steve and his friends...
...Roger began to talk about the dangers of rock music: This conversation precipitated dissension within the ranks...
...He had to "research" narcotics for one of the books, he said...
...Further, Hayden and Fonda demanded to be on with only co-host Maury Povich, and with the understanding that "Povich would not challenge them...
...Christian Science Monitor March 27, 1974 TV's WONDERFUL WORI.I...
...Of course 'e was 'orrible...
...Mary McCarthy, our modern American de Stael, adumbrates an image of the awesome puissance that she holds over foreign powers and potentates: Looking back, I can see that Risner's behavior that day was consonant with his having been tortured...
...She seemed little affected by her family's wealth and position...
...Washington Post December 7, 1973 The Alternative June-September 1974 33...
...That's the only 7...
...China...
...In introducing Abbie Hoffman tonight, Cavett points out his arrest last year on a charge of selling cocaine to U.S...
...Newsweek THE CHARNEL NATION OF THE FUTURE: A fresh new a s s e ~ l n e n t of life in a giant morgue, served up by the visionary Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, Inc.: The atmosphere in which the Chinese worker lives seems to be a healthy one, a place where a worker can grow and develop into a well-r0unded person...
...New York Review of Books March 7, 1974 FOCUS ON FAITH: The simple faith of Mary McCarthy, intellectual: It is hard for me to believe that the North Vietnamese leaders (those I have seen anyway) would not find the abuse and degradation of captive men morally repugnant...
...Yet it is very much the same Rubin who caused an uproar on David Frost's show in 1970 when he lit up a "joint" and offered it to Frost...
...And they're &%$ right...
...itler was scarey...
...You're just telling people to enjoy themselves...
...Published my impression or gone to the North Vietnamese to warn them that this had to stop, in the name of humanity and their own best interests...
...The 'oo's message is there is no bloody message...
...Could it be that voices from the grave chn't congratulate the President on peace with honor...
...Frost made headlines with his response asking Rubin why he then had demanded "twice the fee" normally paid show guests...
...Oh no, Roger...
...Chicago Daily News THE ~ L I T I K OF THE PURE OF HEAR...
...Material things don't mean much to me . . . . I could live in a camper...
...Daltrey sighed heavily, and thought about that for a while...
...You're right," he said finally...
...That can't happen...
...l:~ayboy April, 1974 THE GENIU~ Three golden moments with the intellectual from UCLA's sweatshop, Bill Walton: I don't like being with older people...
...itler, 'e was a bloody genius...
...Had I thought so then, I hope I would have tried to do something about it...
...The field is wide open-wide open for some bloody Adolf 'itler to take over and make every bloody bloke in the $!&?7/8 audience go 'Sieg 'eil.'" The reporter from Crawdaddy shook his head...
...Playboy April, 1974 HOLLYWOOD HEURISTICS~ Jane Fonda, cheesecake radical, poses another thoughtful question, illustrative of her awesome intellect and swell personality: Why did Nb:on make heroes of the P.O.W.s, not the 50,000 men who died there...
...But 'e got to the Germans...
...Off Our Backs February, 1974 AIJIJ AM]ERICAN GIRL: The definitive description of an ordinary child of the seventies, laid down by the incomparable Newsweek: If Patty Hearst was the central figure in the drama, she was also the most enigmatic...
...Only last month Hayden and his wife, Jane Fonda, refused to participate on WTTG's Panorama talk show which happened to be co-hosted that day by Jeffrey St...
...They were dropped from the show...
...message there is...
...It could 'appen, though...
...I find this black/white hostility in the women's movement infinitely depressing...
...Result...
...And 'e told the people the Jews were ripping them off...
...Inside the People's Republic WORLI~ HISTORY: The remarkably learned rock virtuoso, Mr...
...Things got to such a point Frost left the stage in protest and took a seat in the audience...
...Everyone agreed that the Stones were qualitatively nowhere near The Who...
...Rock music doesn't give that kind of message...
...But," said the Craurtaddy reporter, '2hat isn't your.message...
...I want to do more with my life than just win a few games...
...By all accounts, the couple lived quietly together in their Berkeley flat, tending their cats and potted plants, occa-" sionally inviting a small circle of friends over for a glass of wine and a little pot, or zipping off on weekends in Party's perky blue MG to the Hearsts' secluded cabin at ~ e Tahoe, And lately she had been busyingherself with plans for their wedding this June...
...Roger Daltrey, philosophizes with one of the Washington Pos?s resident sages: Daltrey began to talk about the Rolling Stones...
...Washington Star-News March 21, 1974 PLAYPEN POLITICAL THEORY: Visionary political aspirations of a feminist Plato as recorded in the pages of one o f America's most prestigious freedom journals: I look, perhaps a bit naively, to the black lesbian to bring about an end to division between black and white heterosexual feminists...
...Hoffman launches into a plug for the women's liberation movement and for his books--on which, incidentally, he blamed the arrest...
...DECLINE AND FAI,I-" Political and economic analysis produced by the esoteric mind of a latent crank caller, Tom Hayden: Rule by the rich has created a country whose economy can't check inflation though thousands have malnutrition, a country unable even to provide enough energy to run itself...
Vol. 7 • June 1974 • No. 9
