Corrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" BELLES-LETTRES: Mr. Arnold Gingrich, illustrious editor of Esquire, engauds the trite: History has been known to evince a tendency to repeat itself, so the possibility probably ought to be faced...
...SDS was like that, at Missouri anyway...
...Time January 20, 1975 THE USES OF TERROR: Another example of the masterful ratiocinations of Consumer Reports, a journal which supports the consumer...
...New York Times Book Review March 9, 1975 DEPT...
...New Republic January 25, 1975 HOBGOBLIN OF SMALL MINDS: An odd testimonial from the very same people who would save us from such irrefragable hazards and conspiracies as cyclamates, Wheaties, Wonder Bread, Coca Cola, and the horseless carriage: Out of all of these many studies (and others not reviewed here), a general pattern is beginning to emerge...
...Arnold Gingrich, illustrious editor of Esquire, engauds the trite: History has been known to evince a tendency to repeat itself, so the possibility probably ought to be faced that another spin-off might occur, resulting in still another new entity...
...Tom Wicker's recently published outburst tells us about the land of the free, the home of the brave, as perceived by an American St...
...But, for the most part, cost, like "socialized medicine," is a scare word...
...Strike fear in evil hearts...
...But that doesn't mean New Times isn't busting evil in the chops, fighting for the little guy, stripping the pants off phonies and generally shaking hell out of the establishment...
...Shake the rafters...
...Tom Snyder, currently earning $500,000 a year for his muckraking commentary on NBC news, reveals the intellectual ingredients necessary for the brewing and bottling of a tv genius: "I do have an ego," he says, "but I'm the best at what I do because I talk good and I think good on my feet...
...OF GIBBERISH: Another careful definition of Affirmative Action, showing once again the deep reverence American bureaucrats have for the American language: "The affirmative-action program assures that discriminatory acts of the past would not be repeated...
...Neu l'or-A Times 130ok Review March 9,1975...
...My daughter and our chapter at the University of Missouri were born almost simultaneously...
...Francis: Finally, it is American mediocrity and racism and gun-craziness which Tom Wicker and "Wicker" damn and damn...
...New Republic January 25, 1975 MELLOW TOSH: The closely-reasoned thesis of Mr...
...Give the tremble to fat cats...
...We simply called it "it" for six months or so...
...Progressive April 1975 ART OF THE SLOB: A Mr...
...Then it got to be real, and we began to love it...
...Communist governments are not gentle...
...It is not a preference system, not a quota—just a device to make certain that people are not discriminated against...
...We should not be so quick to pass out firearms to the honest yeomanry, Thus this book signifies...
...You say, "The baby did this" or "he or she did that"—meaning that he or she is too new, not yet real enough, to call by the name you put on the birth certificate...
...Newsweek February 24, 1975SURPLUS LABOR: The quintessence of ritualistic liberalism, collected from another hollow rumble across the editorial page of the New Republic, a Journal of Politics and the Arts—though not necessarily in that order: The experience of the two decades since the Geneva agreement has made it plain that continued American aid to anti-Communist clients in Vietnam has polarized the situation there, and as a result has prevented the emergence of leaders ready to reconcile differences...
...When a research finding can be readily checked—either by repeating the experiment or by devising a better one—an allegation of adverse marijuana effects is relatively short-lived...
...The Mouse that Roars, that's us...
...Norfolk] Virginia-Pilot February 2, 1975 CONSCIOUSNESS, ARISE: The illustrious New York Times reports on the first stirrings of yet another liberation movement whose time has come: Cleve Backster, the patron of emotion in plants (on the basis of one unduplicated test), now reports finding evidence of feeling in yogurt...
...Out of all proportion to our size, we make waves...
...if you were of it, it was home...
...Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., distinguished criminologist and social scientist: It argues that we must negotiate with the unluckiest members of our society when they turn to collective violence, because they themselves are victims of perpetual violence and because they can make their voices heard only by becoming hideously dangerous themselves...
...Esquire March 1975 WHAT INTELLECTUALOIDS READ: Intellectual sales pitch of New Times magazine, journal of modern urban sophisticates, egghead stenographers, and liberated sales clerks: Supermen we are not...
...New Times advertisement GROWING UP ABSURD: The tough-minded Progressive reminds its tough-minded readers of the horrors of revolution experienced during the glorious '60s when a handful of idealists defied the Nixonian brutality: SDS—If you weren't of it, it was just another alphabet-soup newspaper headline...
...New York Times February 2, 1975 THE AWFUL FIFTIES, REVISITED: A chill of Cold War rhetoric howls from the pages of the incomparable New Republic: Nobody can reasonably deny that a Communist takeover of Vietnam, if that is the alternative to Thieu, would createhuman hardships...
...it is the producers who must be eliminated: Cost is often raised in objection to a comprehensive federal plan for national health insurance...
...He said he had found a trace of jealousy (or pleasedness) between one yogurt container and the next, which had been fed some milk...
...Parents will recall that when one first brings the baby home from the hospital, it somehow seems unnatural to speak of it by name...
...Consumer Reports February 1975 EXPERIENCING DEMOCRACY: A book review of Mr...
...Tom Wicker's new book on the Attica prison rampage served up by Mr...
...No damage is found—and after a time the allegation is dropped (often to be replaced by allegations of some other kind of damage due to marijuana...
...Like Mighty Mouse, we are small but powerful feisty...
...Consumer Reports March 1975 WORDS TO LIVE BY: Another insipid declaration from John Dean, one of the least interesting criminals of all-time: "Telling the truth is an extremely cleansing, happy way to live...
Vol. 8 • May 1975 • No. 8
