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• "Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides , Current Wisdom NEOTERICISMS: The very latest in ad• vanced thought carefully excavated from the pages of the New York Review of...
...The Nation May 31, 1975 HE-MAN POLITICS: The authentic achievements of 30 postgraduates of good governmentism, as chronicled by Neg Times, the lively journal of silver-spoone urban guerrillas: Whatever you think of their politics, look at the record convinces you that th Weather Underground can no longer b dismissed as post-graduate dilettante...
...They wanted to disprove ti popular assumption that the white radic movements of the '60s all died on Jan, ary 1, 1970...
...You Can Get There from Here NORMATIVE NOODLES: Andrew Kopkind, typical journalist, plumbs American opinion on a recent Bicentennial jamboree, interviewing a typical American on a typical page of the amazing New York Review of Books: So far, as we enter the Bicentennial year, the American Revolution seems as dormant as a dinosaur's egg, although itwill take some nerve for anyone to admit it...
...it took the Senate four hours to voice its commendations, with the conservatives being the most laudatory...
...I don't have anything against mothers but I do have something against a society that forces or encourages them to become mothers...
...Only one person I spoke with in the week before the beginning in Boston called it that way...
...I asked her...
...As for the public, it has been almost as enthusiastic as Ford and Kissinger, who have been filmed congratulating each other and patting themselves on the back in a manner reminiscent of a team of freshmen wrestlers after their first intercollegiate victory...
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...These are new times and history makes new waves...
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...New York Review of Books May 15, 1975 THE ASS SPEAKETH: Honest Edward launches another beauty: "Health care in America is restricted to the privileged few...
...On this day th 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator August/September 19 so-called inadequacy is made to stand out like a missing leg...
...Congress was virtually unanimous in its approval (there were some conspicuous exceptions, Sen...
...Capitc the Pentagon, New York City Polio Headquarters, I.T.T., the State Depar ment...
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...There is opportunity in America...
...Kizzinger learned at the knee of John Foster Dulles...
...I'm going to Cincinnati...
...The Weathc People went underground to conduct campaign of sabotage against symbols American power, but they had more mind than blowing up buildings...
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...Mother's Day is one of the wo times for such women...
...Bloomington, Indiana The Alternative: An American Spectator August/September 1975 39...
...Enclosed is my check for $6.00...
...I used to see that kind of thing when the McCarthy investigations were taking place—guilt by association...
...But there were other freedoms: freedom from starvation, discrimination, exploitation, slavery and early death...
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...The wanted to build up a permanet underground-based political party an support system—the first of its kind America...
...Garry Wills, elevated spirit, describes another poetic moment experienced by one of his literary colleagues: Tom Wicker was summoned abruptly down into this sewer, as an "observer" at the standoff between rioting prisoners and their guards in upstate New York...
...She stood under a portrait of Sam Adams, an earlier governor...
...Print your new address and mail this form to The Alternative...
...New York Review of Books April 3, 1975 SEXUAL EMANCIPATION: Reassuring news from the Latin American underworld, an equal opportunity employer: Unlike Mafia wives who stay in the kitchen and cook lasagna, women have a prominent place in Latin America's illicit drug traffic, filling every role from courier to godmother of criminal organizations, according to American drug-enforcement officials...
...United Press International May 10, 1975 MISSION TO PEKING: Shirley MacLaine, ingenue terrible, appraises freedom's auspicious metamorphosis in Mao's China, a republic without flies: "The notion of freedom was suddenly suspect...
...The reaction suggests that we have learned little from our experience in Indochina...
...Newsweek April 28, 1975 OLD FAITHFUL: Applause for American valor from the redoubtable Nation, a journal dedicated to the proposition that, in foreign policy, mountains are best made into molehills: By far the most troublesome aspect of the Mayaguez action has been the jubilant, backslapping response it evoked...
...Schneider bridles at these criticisms: "I don't understand what that means...
...They didn go underground to hide out, the way, generation before, the leaders of th Communist party hid when they wet underground in the early '50s to escar Smith Act prosecutions...
...They went underground, about 30 c them, in the winter of 1969-70, most c them with heavy assault and conspirac charges hanging over them...
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...They've succeeded...
...What do you think of the things going on this weekend...
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...The swiftness such "symbolic retaliation," as they a it, suggests that the Weather Unde ground has developed an ability to cor municate coast-to-coast among its cell coordinate complex sabotage schem, against closely guarded targets at a m ment's notice and still preserve securit —New Tim, May 30, 19' INTELLECTUAL DIGEST: Intellectu news from Oak Park, Illinois, where t WCTU drinking fountain has been I placed by the Rev...
...Hell no," she replied...
...Euripides , Current Wisdom NEOTERICISMS: The very latest in ad• vanced thought carefully excavated from the pages of the New York Review of Books, a magazine of cleverness: The failed experiment is considered a permanent fixture, so that even the daring speculator talks of reforming the prisons when he should be considering their abolition...
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...For too long childless women ha been made to feel that they were infer and unnatural...
...A Woman's Accent" by Mary Daniels United Features, May 7, 1975 THE GORY DETAILS: Mr...
...on the contrary, the defeat of United States policy in Vietnam seems to have evoked a jingoistic mood which, as long as it lasts, is likely to encourage future follies...
...Is Picasso's `Guernica' Communist propaganda...
...If there is any more disastrous survivor of the Enlightenment still gasping at a death-like life, I do not know where to find it...
...And they wanted to blow t the myth of FBI invincibility...
...Representative Elaine Noble, a lesbian feminist who was elected last year to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, was posing for a Bicentennial film crew in the Governor's Office of the State House...
...New York Times May 4, 1975 QUALITY OF LIFE DEPT.: Shana Alexander, resident sage of Newsweek magazine, glows, as she rattles off the benefits of life in a Red paradise, benefits about equal to the benefits of life in any American penitentiary: If we know one thing about the government founded by Ho Chi Minh, it is that its social services are excellent: good health care, day care, and educational programs abound, especially for the poor...
...The time has come to celebrate non-Mother's Day and to recognize those whose social conscience has persuaded them not to have children...
...Are you going to be out at Concord...
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...Gerald L. Krick: While everyone else is celebratii Mother's Day Sunday, the Unitaria Universalist Church of Oak Park will to things around and celebrate No Mother's Day...
...New Times May 30, 1975 CEREBRATIONS: A brilliantly analytical gust from movie producer Bert Schneider, another genius from Hollywood's rising generation of metaphysicians: A few critics have charged that "Hearts and Minds" is a propaganda film, one-sided in its attack on American policy in Vietnam...
...Larry L. King, New Times' leading authority on international relations, delivers up a new foreign policy for Arkansas: We must come to understand that it really doesn't matter whether Park or Kim rule as despots over the whole of Korea...
...Senator Edward Kennedy, speaking before the National Conference on Rural America, Washington, D.C., April 15, 1975 CHURCH MOUSE: Magisterial pronouncement of Senator Frank Church, the new Borah: "It is the CIA, not the Russian KGB, that is feared all over the world, and this is undermining the legitimate foreign policy efforts of the United States...
...Gerald R. Krick said Frick "The time has come to honor the women who have not had children...
...It is not a choice of supporting Freedom over Slavery, no matter what Dr...
...New York Times May 18, 1975 changing your address...
...in American terms, there were no freedoms here of the variety we cherished: no freedom to publish, no opposition of political parties, no freedom to write books or create works of art...
...They've claimed credit for the: and 20 other bombings over the past fr years, many of the claims documents with fingerprinted communiques contai ing convincing details and postmark Most of these bombings have follow( immediately upon such events as the ki ing of George Jackson, the bombing Hanoi, the coup in Chile...
...He came to look, and stayed to vomit, and vowed to write—and has now written, almost literally in blood...
...SARKES TARZIAN INC...
...Hereafter, when North fights South, let America go fishing—unless the battles pit the domestic Carolinas or Dakotas against each other...
...OF ADVANCED THOUGHT: A Mr...
...Gaylord Nelson for one...
...If I say the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, and we discover that Karl Marx also said that, am I a tool of the Communists...
Vol. 8 • August 1975 • No. 10
