Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad." Euripides Current Wisdom RECHAUFFf: Madame McGrory, old bulbous nose, reveals how far her wit has advanced since 1964: Most of the members of the...
...Since 1950, partisan politics—not the politics of open free debate on alternative policies but the politics of blackmail and scapegoating— has had disastrous consequences for American policy in the Pacific...
...Obviously, if I didn't have strait-laced beginnings, I would have had to make 'Shampoo.' I wouldn't have to express what's in 'Shampoo.' If I didn't feel that I had to deal with my own hypocrisies, I wouldn't have had to do the film...
...Jaworski that "rehabilitation" is the important thing in these cases is utter rubbish...
...The Nation March 8, 1975 DELECTATIONS: Miss Bette Midler, current rage of the slob ambience, recalls an exquisite moment of French cuisine whose American equivalent is probably most closely approximated by the hog brain sandwich: "I went to Paris, France, to become very elegant and I failed mis-er-ably...
...Even as they were being sentenced, former Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski voiced what constituted a plea for future leniency...
...What would be really important would be a demonstration that ours is a system of equal justice under law...
...If you examine your life, and you live in Beverly Hills...
...Viewed as an artistic work, I think the novel fails...
...If the suggestion had been advanced a bit earlier, with a boost from the media, it might have won acceptance, for it is in the post-Watergate spirit and alsoin keeping with the prevailing ethic, in the sense that we do not jail those who have attended a university, who are white and socially presentable, and who are devoted to laissez-faire economics and have prospered under "the American system...
...You try to lead a life and you lead it...
...It enables us to see and understand, perhaps for the first time, the choices certain women have made about how they will live their lives, and allows us glimpses at physical intimacies between women that have been, in the past, deliberately ridiculed or obscured...
...The sentences given Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mardian fall in this category...
...that high government officials and corporate executives who commit major crimes should be treated more sternly in sentencing than, say, an illiterate man who has lacked opportunities to make anything of his life...
...Dostoevski said that the unexamined life is not worth living...
...Coupled with redbaiting and a national witch hunt, this charge so unnerved the Democrats that they felt compelled to demonstrate their military machismo—with consequences in Korea, Indochina and Taiwan that still haunt us...
...The Nation April 5, 1975 MAU-MAUING THE CLODS: While arguing against the injustice of pay television Mrs...
...Wicker apply the lessons of Vietnam to our extravagant welfare state?: Samuel Popkin, an authority on Vietnam but by no means a dove, thinks the problem was largely intervention itself...
...Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, sounds a well-used alarum: While some children would be boasting of the shows they saw or the games they watched on their Pay-TV sets, the less fortunate would have one more reason to hate and to face the realization that they are not equal...
...Chicago Tribune February 1975 FREUD AND BOZO: Where else will you find the arcane arts of psychoanalysis applied to American politics other than in the eminent Nation, a journal of political occultism: If politics stops at the Atlantic shore it has never done so at the Pacific...
...This demonstration has been lacking in the Watergate cases...
...Euripides Current Wisdom RECHAUFFf: Madame McGrory, old bulbous nose, reveals how far her wit has advanced since 1964: Most of the members of the Republican National Committee, unlike their brothers and sisters of the Conservative Conference who met there several weeks ago, are recognizable politicians...
...The length of time," he said, "is not the important thing...
...But I ate my brains out...
...Moreover there is excellent reason to believe that none of these men will actually serve out the terms which Judge Sirica imposed...
...New York Times April 8, 1975 BELLES-LETTRES: Ms...
...It began with the false Republican charge that the Democrats had "lost China...
...The conservatives are theologians, whose roots are in the Spanish Inquisition...
...Then I got there and I realized I didn't...
...In simplified form, his complex argument is that an enormous investment of money and power, such as the United States made in Vietnam, was found to attract the sharpest and most opportunistic Vietnamese into competition for local control of such military, economic and political riches...
...Ms...
...The slightest deviation from their orthodoxy sends them out gathering wood for the auto dafe [sic...
...The Nation March 8, 1975 QUOTE-MISQUOTE: The only possible problem exhibited in the following learned quote from Mr...
...Washington Post March 13, 1975 The Alternative: An American Spectator June/ July 1975 33...
...Tom Wicker resorts to an argument dripping with libertarian prejudices, cogent prejudices, prejudices as applicable to Vietnam as to HEW—so when will Mr...
...As a result, we lost not China but contact with the Chinese for two decades...
...Newsweek April 14, 1975 DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY: In this latest homily against America's political involvement in Vietnam, Mr...
...With the exception of Gordon Liddy, the true believer, most of the defendants have received notably light sentences, considering the gravity of the offenses charged...
...magazine apprises its toney readers of a promising literary event: To my knowledge, Loving Her is the first novel about an interracial lesbian relationship written by a black woman...
...You know, I thought I spoke French...
...Rehabilitation is...
...Warren Beatty, Hollywood's goody-goody genius, is that when the great man was reading Plato's Apology he thought he was reading Dostoevsky—the perils of a crash course in literacy: "You try to tell the truth if you're trying to be an artist," he says, frowning...
...The Public Speaks about Losing Free TV, brochure distributed by the National Association of Broadcasters GOOD NEWS: The acute and remarkable Nation divulges why it is that the likes of Jane Fonda, Daniel Ellsberg, and Abbie Hoffman have gone scot-free: Ehrlichman, advised by a new attorney, saw the light and asked that he be sentenced to serve out his term as legal adviser to the Navajos on their reservations...
...April 1975 A THEORY OF JUSTICE: A howl of hypocrisy, ignorance, bigotry, brazen inconsistency, artless contradiction, and storm trooper cruelty—the commonplace patter of a gentle soul dutifully performing virtue's tasks in the zany editorial office of The Nation: If evidence were needed to sustain the proposition that criminal justice is the process by which in this country we attempt to discipline the lower-income groups—blacks, Chicanos, poor whites, and the so-called "criminal class"—it has been provided by the sentences meted out in the Watergate cases...
...If their sentences are not later commuted, it is likely that President Ford wilt pardon them before leaving office...
...But in its exploration of a daring subject boldy shared (and written by a librarian at Fisk University) I think it has immense value...
...The notion advanced by Mr...
Vol. 8 • June 1975 • No. 9
