Current Wisdom
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"Current Wisdom" LEAKS: The flagitious state of civil liberties in France, as reported in the wonderful pages of Newsweek: During Brezhnev's state visit to Paris in early December, many French officials were struck...
...We want to hear from prisoners, their relatives, and friends, about any attempt to withhold the Progressive from its proper recipient...
...New Republic January 25, 1975 JOURNALISTS IN FALSE FACE: Deceptive packaging gets an exquisitely sanctimonious rationale in this memorable reply by the editors of Harper's, the dedicated nemesis of big business, mountebank politics, and all such bamboozlements of the poor Americano: The title "How Banks Destroy the Economy" on your January cover was placed above my name without my consent or knowledge...
...National Public Radio January 30, 1975 VISIONS OF SHELDON: Someone by the name of Sheldon S. Wolin discusses not Russia, not China, not Paraguay, but America, as he sees it...
...New York Times January 12, 1975 WHAT KIND OF MAN READS THE PROGRESSIVE...
...Spiking has, by and large, been initiated by black players, who increasingly dominate the sport...
...It won't buy some wino his wine...
...LEAKS: The flagitious state of civil liberties in France, as reported in the wonderful pages of Newsweek: During Brezhnev's state visit to Paris in early December, many French officials were struck by the visible puffiness of the Soviet leader's face, and inevitably comparisons were made to French President Georges Pompidou's appearance when he was receiving cortisone treatments just before his death from cancer...
...For that act, the Buckeyes were set back to the Southern California 24, and, more to the point, had to score a touchdown for a first down...
...Progressive February 1975 THE PRESIDENTIAL FINGERS: Mr...
...Some day, Rousseau wrote, the slaves will rush to put on their chains...
...Garry Wills, the body beautiful of American journalism, mercilessly reports on a recent public address delivered by our flabby-fingered President: The speech was choreographed like a Motown back-up chorus...
...The colleges have apparently taken the position that players are expected to keep the stiff-upper-lip stance traceable to the origins of football in the Ivy League, while the pros have apparently taken the view that "showmanship" is not out of order...
...It is essential that the many never comprehend that the benefits are the source of their dependence...by the time a student graduates from high school, he or she will on average have been exposed to 350,000 television commercials...
...And it won't even pay the busfare for a person to pick up his unemployment compensation, if he qualifies...
...Bloomington Herald Telephone January 25, 1975 THE BENEFITS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: Dr...
...the changing of teams takes much longer than spiking, and balls are usually changed anyway...
...Martin Mayer New York, N.Y...
...Black culture tends to lead to more demonstrative behavior on the part of players, and for that violators are handed harsh penalties...
...Each "rising" had an illustrative gesture as if we did not understand basic English He counted everything off on flabby" fat fingers—three fronts, and two elements, and two objectives...
...One spectator said, "He'd be in trouble if he had six points...
...Harper's February 1975 IN HUMAN TERMS: The flaws of Mr...
...I request that you print this letter as an apology to the many people who helped me in my work toward a serious book on a serious subject...
...This put Ohio State in a bad position, the results of the interception were nullified, and Southern California went on from there...
...One other aspect of this situation deserves pointed comment...
...New York Review of Books February 6, 1975...
...New York Review of Books February 6, 1975 DEPT...
...It remains unclear, however, whether the United States has in return received assurances that the food will be used to feed hungry people in India and not be resold by India to other countries....Indian officials refused to promise not to resell the food, because, they said, it would represent an American intrusion into the decisions of their government...
...Frederick C. Thayer, Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, displays the fruits of higher education in this learned communication to the correspondence page of the New York Times: In the Rose Bowl, an Ohio State safety-man, Neal Colzie, intercepted a Southern California pass when Ohio State was threatening to pull far ahead...
...Ford's tax rebate plan as seen by Maudine Cooper of the National Urban League: Eighty dollars in two installments won't pay the rent for a person's flophouse...
...New York Times January 26, 1975 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY: A flight into the incomprehensible: The United States is not a middle-class society: over 60 percent work with their hands...
...In every case, this "mistake" has been rectified in response to our protest...
...Mayer's serious article on a serious subject...
...Colzie ran the ball back inside the 10-yard line, went out of bounds, then spiked the ball...
...Public notice found in the incomparable pages of the Progressive, where—as a public service—the world is regularly perceived upside down: Repression: Scores of prisoners in Federal and state penitentiaries across the country are subscribers (or recipients of gift subscriptions) to The Progressive...
...Sometimes the college position is defended on grounds that spiking delays the game, but this is nonsense...
...A treat offered only in the prodigious New York Review of Books: This ideology of corporatism and populism serves mainly to conceal that the great power and wealth of the few represent the real price of the material benefits available to the many...
...Harper's takes full responsibility for the title, which happily enlarged the audience for Mr...
...OF COMPARATIVE IDEOLOGY: The fabulous Susan Sontag, live and on stage in the New York Review: Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism...
...Newsweek February 10, 1975 THE HUMAN CONDITION: Another astounding episode in the Tale of India: A deadlock that jeopardized negotiations to send 300,000 tons of American grain to India has been broken, and India will soon begin to . receive the needed food...
...Upon Brezhnev's departure from Paris, reports began circulating in Washington that French intelligence agents had obtained a sample of a Brezhnev bowel movement, and that by analyzing the excrement the French had concluded the Soviet leader may have cancer...
...I feel that it misrepresents the content of the article and the style and substance of my work...
...From time to time we learn that prison authorities are interfering with delivery of the magazine...
...It is not too extreme to suggest that the rule itself is a form of racism...
Vol. 8 • April 1975 • No. 7
