Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" REPORT FROM L.A.: Definitive report on the SLA's last stand from one of THE NATION'S resident imbeciles: There is not as much difference as law-abiding citizens would like to believe between the...
...However, use the word "shit" in a private meeting with your aides, and you are in a different sort of trouble, for this is a violation of social customs, which go deeper and are more demanding than law or ethics...
...A tury, and not have thought it disrespectful...
...sustain the positions of a few...
...meet of a Chase bank in Moscow, and the His best of times were the worse (sic) of hope for arms limitations have made the U.S...
...time alone will tell...
...Was this land ing said...
...In this instance, both sides were imbued with the politics of desperation and unlimited force...
...I begin to suspect we have seen founded then only to satisfy the desires and the best time in this country...
...Our thanks to the was given the opportunity to put into reality authorities of the Maryland State Mental what America since 1776 has said on paper...
...John F. blacks or the supposed inability of East Kennedy was a great man and a fine man, but European backgrounded Americans and he was also a man in the manly sense, one of blacks to co-operate, and the new "new- the manliest of the masculine...
...The Progressive June, 1974 smugly as we approach our end that our day was the best of times...
...But John F. Kennedy was young, phalanx...
...The conviction that a particular group "by —Time virtue of its breeding and intelligence and July 15, 1974 disinterested love of service, ought by right MEDITATIONS: Athlete and actor Robert to manage the country" is historically and Redford defines politics and proves the sociologically passe...
...Most of ances of a dying social order clinging fran- our country's leaders in previous administically to its self-perpetuating fantasies...
...past, the order is rapidly fadin'/and If one is a scion of the WASP Yankee the first one now will later be last /for families as the Alsops (their cousins, the the times they are a changin...
...In recounting a conversation with his late Now, even before the country is 200 years brother, Stewart, Joseph Alsop, in his syndi- old, are you already mourning its decline cated column last week, quoted him as hay- because your sun has set...
...And this adds found evidence" to support an hypothesis of a new dimension to the humanness of JFK...
...The New York Review of Books June 27, 1974 A QUACK ON QUACKERY: Documented proof that there lingers a whiff of hope for all rational, forward-looking persons in this abominable country we call Amerika: The Divine Light Mission and the Unification Church, not to mention dozens of similar sects, may be only pseudo-mystical at bottom—if social and religious reform are intrinsic consequenses—but perhaps even the facade of mysticism is sufficient to constitute a deviation from the expected conformity to the standards of our demented society...
...The Nation June 1, 1974 BELIEVE IT OR NOT: The incomparable NEW REPUBLIC reveals Glad Tidings, heretofore unnoticed by the Taxpayer Americanus: The Department of Health, Education and Welfare does not move with the light step of the thoroughbred, but with the earnest, plodding tread of the workhorse...
...the genetic inferiority of blacks are contriv- For what is more human than Sex...
...As a revolutionary, at least as a scout, Rennie Davis is probably far ahead of us all...
...The New Republic July 6 & 13, 1974 GEOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS: Proof that in the eyes of THE NEW YORK TIMES all that lies beyond the Hudson River is one vast Kansas: Replying to gibes yesterday by his colleague, Senator J.W...
...But in American civilization—are thankfully detente, the benefits of itrade, the establishnumbered...
...Alsop, there is hope for the future, but I don't think you would have been very happy or comfortable in it...
...Yes, Mr...
...anyone who is passionately and healthy, and virile...
...anyone who is in love with have approved my contention that he was life in America now is angry...
...Fulbright, Democrat of Kansas...
...trations had been too old to enjoy loveAnyone who is a member of the new making...
...Out of her bowels has arisen a new the Pentagon and in office taking it out culture—diversified in nature, but unified in on the country because they never the goal of equal access to the positions of made the squad when they were kids...
...Yet Presibreakdown of coalition between Jews and dents, as other men, are all things...
...REPORT FROM L.A.: Definitive report on the SLA's last stand from one of THE NATION'S resident imbeciles: There is not as much difference as law-abiding citizens would like to believe between the psychology of the SLA and that of FBI agents and most police in battle...
...Your world assumed that if others were not as fortunate as you it was because they did not aspire diligently enough to those things (SIC): What follows is perhaps the most which you valued so highly...
...economic and political governance in the —The New York Times Magazine land...
...Roosevelts), the Rockefellers, Whitneys, —The Baltimore Sun Fords, Vanderbilts, Astors, Lodges, Cabots, June 8, 1974 Lowells, and Adamses et al, I would agree THE CAPITALISTS' ROPE: While review-any pessimism could be authentically . portentous ing "cold warrior" Alexander I suspect Stewart Alsop, in his dying, Solzhenitsyn's latest book, TIME magazine glimpsed enough of the future to recognize exposes the illusions of an idiot: that the days of the reign of his class—their In the old cold war days, Americans might values and prejudices, so deeply ingrained have joined Solzhenitsyn in his urgings...
...My respect for John F. Kennedy as a PresiThe recent over-emphasis on an alleged dent and person was enormous...
...more tolerant of the Kremlin...
...It will be instructive to see what happens next...
...These are Earl Wilson, an American Gibbon: the new vantage points...
...For your world assumed that if it were happy and comfortable and free, all men were happy and comfortable and free...
...Perhaps Abbie Hoffman will become a Jesuit...
...Angry because the sexiest, swingingest President of the cenAmerica has reneged on its promise...
...Hospital who gave Mr...
...The New York Times July 9, 1974 HATE AMERICA, INC.: The American Scene as viewed by a house fabulist at the distinguished NEW YORK REVIEW of BOOKS: For one may violate the Constitution in the name of national security and remain a saintly patriot in the eyes of a majority of Americans...
...Locked in combat, the actors, lawful and lawless alike, behaved as if their roles had been written for them in a movie script, stripped of everything human except violence without limit...
...promise of social freedom and economic —Show Business Laid Bare opportunity to allow all of us to say G.P...
...originality of his fabulous intellect: America's true strength and long-range Just a game, the public always getting durability lie in its cultural and social plur- ripped off, all those infantile minds in ality...
...times for too many others...
...gorgeous specimen of ethnic neurosis ever Too many times in our history your world displayed on this page...
...Putnam's Sons...
...I truly believe he would completely alive...
...July 7, 1974 This new phalanx is black, Jewish, women, Chicano, American Indian, and PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS: From Mr...
...those of East European extraction...
...And that is a sign of hope that there are still alternatives open for the future, whether the current options are genuine or not...
...Paul Johnson free- Too many times your world chose to be blind dom to exercise on the op-ed page of the and securely locked itself inside its illuhistoric BALTIMORE SUN: sions...
...Yet one's optimism or lack of it—on the Bob Dylan told you what to expect, but future posture of the nation is largely deter- you couldn't hear him: mined by the vantage point from which the As the present now/will later be nation is perceived...
Vol. 8 • October 1974 • No. 1
