Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: A few philosophical observations roll from the well-greased tongue of Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the French Kennedy: Pressed to define his concept of a European community, he...
...While newspapers are employing a growing number of white males under the age of forty in editorial writing, giving the lie to the stereotype of the editorial writer as a vague gentleman in the twilight of middle age, there is still no significant hiring of women, blacks, or members of other minority groups whose presence would add an extra dimension to editorial deliberations and might even precipitate a change of policy on some important issues...
...New York Times Book Review September 29, 1974 NATIONAL PRIORITIES: One of Ms.' more cosmopolitan readers punctures yet another myth and offers a suggestion crying for a place on any sane national agenda...
...Especially if they didn't proselytize...
...The Nation September 14, 1974THE ACADEMY: The tocsin refrain of the enlightened to a monstrous renversement in university scholarship programs...
...I work at a photofinishing plant, and the men here will take pictures of nude women and no one says a word...
...Ms...
...the same powers that got me past Ken Norton and Joe Frazier will get me past George Foreman, I leave you by saying, "War...
...Is there no justice...
...POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: A few philosophical observations roll from the well-greased tongue of Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the French Kennedy: Pressed to define his concept of a European community, he replied that he had always believed it rather futile to discuss concepts...
...I listened to long conversations about the phenomenological weirdness of familiar reality and the great spiritual questions this entailed—for example, "Do you think Wallace Stevens is a head...
...I want a special children's day...
...Since there is a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, why isn't there a national Children's Day...
...Bloomington Herald-Telephone August 31, 1974 NICENESS AND WONDERFULNESS: Another gorgeous philosophical display from THE NATION'S bubble machine: Hope, too, is a civil right—probably it is the basic civil right...
...Once I drank absinthe...
...Edward Kennedy are you listening?: I am Kathie Hansen and I am nine years old...
...To me, this is a Holy War...
...He views man's aggression, obsessive sex drive, and unbalanced intellect as direct consequences of a carnivorous diet and explains how man can —indeed must—rediscover his true place in nature or face self-destruction...
...Therefore all the powers of the heavens are against him...
...One development they find particularly alarming is that some colleges have reverted to an older policy of granting aid on the basis of academic promise rather than greatest financial need...
...I finally did get my issue back...
...Ms...
...I'm looking at this man [George Foreman] as a Belgian, he is the oppressor of all black nations...
...The same powers that got me victory over the draft...
...I predict I will have no problem...
...He brought it to me in a plain brown envelope...
...The Nation September 14, 1974 SEDUCED AND ABANDONED: The grim trials of a Ms...
...Leonard Michaels, headache: In the fifties I smoked marijuana, hash, and opium...
...October 1974 EDUCATION TODAY: The torturous development of a PARTISAN REVIEW intellectual as related by Mr...
...magazine, and you would have thought I was going to corrupt the whole department...
...Most adults say that every day is children's day, but that isn't true...
...September 1974...
...Partisan Review February, 1974 HERODOTUS AS NEUROTIC: A Mr...
...We all have, or should have, the right to bring whatever we want to read on our own time...
...The Progressive November 1974 HOT AIR AND HISTORY: David Brion Davis, Ph.D., an otherwise abstemious historian, ventures onto the trendy pages of the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and makes a display of himself: The Civil War stands out as the Grand Canyon of our historical landscape not because it was the needless conflict of a "blundering generation," but because its origins and consequences laid bare the terrifying substructure of American life, revealing the price that we and our forefathers have paid for our world-envied success...
...New York Times October 27, 1974 INTELLIGENCE FROM THE GROIN UP: And so auspicates yet another thoughtful editorial from the redoubtable PROGRESSIVE, founded in 1909 by Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.: The editorial pages of the nation's newspapers, which are, at least in theory, the repositories of journalistic wisdom, are still predominantly a white male preserve...
...Anthony Gronowicz concludes a recent temper tantrum by listing his favorite historical fabulists and suggesting three desirable qualities of his kind of history, intellectualoid history: It is far more profitable, then, to read William Appleman Williams on Debs and Hoover, Gabriel Kolko on Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Sklar on Woodrow Wilson, or almost any revisionist historian on American politics than to read Hofstadter—that is, if one desires concerned, compassionate, and useful history...
...So he took it up to his office and put it in his desk...
...His point was that I could not have "that type" of magazine at work, where people could see it, especially when visitors come through...
...Every day is everybody's day...
...But I liked people who inclined the drug way...
...New York Times September 1, 1974 DELECTATIONS: Another example of the pervasive influence of Common Cause, Inc., now spreading its tentacles into the realms of scholarly anthropology: Can intelligence be eaten...
...Krock and Brentano's Book Chat Spring 1974 BLACK MAGIC: Muhammad Ali, millionaire pacifist and noted war protester, delivers another poetic lilt: I'm dedicatin' this fight to all the African people who are fighting for their freedom and independence...
...to work...
...The social effects of "drugs," unless sexual, always seemed tedious...
...I would like the same special attention my mother and father get on their special day, like breakfast in bed and no work on that day...
...intellectual: Today at work, my boss told me that I could not bring my Ms...
...We are not living in a world of constitutions now, but in a world of events, he added, so what will matter is what happens, not what is written...
...Most of them tend to be more creative than the run-of-the-mill...
...New York Times October 28, 1974 VARIATIONS ON A THEME: Another amusing variation on that dubious American theme so often applied to slobs, scoundrels, or simple cads: "I found through my almost five years in and out at AA that alcoholics are really beautiful people," Paula says...
...Once I swallowed twenty glycerine caps of peyote...
...That is only one of the surprising assertions advanced by anthropologist Oscar Kiss Maerth...
...In this profound, disquieting, and extensively researched book he concludes that the emergence of man can be traced to the practice of cannibalism...
...Here I come with one Ms...
Vol. 8 • January 1975 • No. 4
