Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
• "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides A fT:: Current Wisdom PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: Author Clifford Irving, the American Proust, enunciates the elements of his...
...Well, in this vindictive, vainglorious handling of the Mayaguez Mr...
...They were out to punish the insolent Cambodians, to show the Gooks and the world that the mighty U.S...
...Writer, widower, late 50s, good shape, wants middle-age woman in Bergen County, NJ for mutually enjoyable and financially advantageous romance and open marriage possibility...
...New York Times Book Review June 15, 1975 THE WHOOP OF A LOON: The distinguished G. William Domhoff confects a conspiracy theory curiously flavored with sour grapes: The owners and managers of large banks and corporations, with a little bit of help from their hired academics, lawyers, and public relations people, dominate everything in this country that is worth dominating—foreign policy through such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations, Council of the Americas, and Trilateral Commission...
...He sees a "people's movement toward democracy," internally alive, renewing itself, sloughing off tyrants, breathing free...
...And anything would do, even a rinky-dink rerun of Terry and the Pirates...
...40, No...
...of A. is still in charge, to vent their own rage and frustration, and—worse—to give their own people something to cheer about...
...Hale says it's not that he doesn't try to earn his $19,693-a-year salary as executive secretary of the Federal Metal and Non-Metallic Safety Board of Review...
...Chic, warm, witty Cape Cod courtesan, 36, own luxury apartment, offers confidential diversion to well-to-do gentlemen vacationers...
...Oversexed male with vasectomy would like to make it at Madison Square Garden during the Star Spangled Banner at the first hockey game of the 75-76 season...
...It is personal without being egotistical...
...Not the doing, but the cockadoodle-doing as the President and his men congratulated one another...
...To that force "More Power Than We Know" is not a benediction...
...Every one of these organizations is financed and directed by the same few thousand men who run the major banks and corporations, and every one of them is pivotal on governmental policy in its area of specialization...
...My motives were adventure, literature and money, not necessarily in that order...
...The Mayaguez affair exposed certain top level attitudes which had remained blurred while the war was on...
...No, Jack, it's the crowing afterwards I object to...
...NYR, Box 10878...
...Burlington Free Press April 21, 1975 SUBSIDIZING THE ARTS: Proof that the modern federal government is serving human needs and encouraging man's finer instincts: Jubal Hale admits he's a bureaucrat with little to do...
...1, 1975 THE HIGH BROW: What kind of person gorges himself on the cerebral viands of the New York Review of Books...
...Their motives were based on the extension of a corrupt government...
...For others the vision may be less vivid...
...that he is still alive...
...One of the staff has now received word from Arthur L. Rossbach, Jr...
...No sirree...
...Point Counter Point, CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" RETURN OF A ROSSBACH: The Bulletin, lively journal of the National Railway Historical Society, reveals an encouraging capacity for self-correction: Erratum: In No...
...I do not complain of the clumsy risky way the rescue was done—the invasion of the wrong island, the loss of so many Marines—because such things happen in a remote crisis...
...But his book is a reminder that, even if it is not an adequate counterforce against the rising manipulation in American life, still it was a force in ending the war...
...Kissinger acted like Stone Age bullies themselves...
...environmental policy...
...INSPIRATIONAL READINGS: The illustrious Governor of Vermont, Thomas P. Salmon, gives birth to a worthy candidate for the next edition of Bartlett's: "...Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace of mind...
...Dellinger, born in 1915, is old enough not to have been discouraged by the movement's errors and not to confuse a decade with a life...
...The Bulletin Vol...
...The Washington Star May 13, 1975 THE SOAP OPERA INTELLECTUALOID: New York Times reporter Lucinda Franks displays her reportorial talents: We cannot seem to alter the disturbing reality that our American leaders have destroyed nearly an entire generation of young men for no reason...
...it is an invocation...
...NYR, Box 10874...
...Ford and Mr...
...But I hope, Jack, that it can soon be seen for the shameful episode it really was...
...Our apologies to Mr...
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...Rossbach for this unfortunate mistake...
...Ray M., c/o Downstairs, 167 W. 21st St., New York, NY 10011...
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...Fat women welcome...
...NYR, Box 10706...
...Volatile, winsome, aesthetic divorcee seeking attractive, successful businessman for meaningful, fun-filled relationship...
...Also into erotic tickling...
...Retired, professional man wants to employ young male aid who looks like clothes model...
...economic policy through the likes of the Conference Board, Committee for Economic Development, and Brookings Institution...
...But last week their motives were quite clear and quite ugly...
...We didn't let l'il ol' Cambodia push us around...
...So this war ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, just the hollow sound from the Oval Office of King Kong beating on his hairy chest...
...Perhaps it reflects less sophistication than faith...
...Then younever knew quite what they were up to...
...So he spends his working hours reading and listening to Beethoven records at his office...
...Euripides A fT:: Current Wisdom PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: Author Clifford Irving, the American Proust, enunciates the elements of his afflatus in a rare interview granted to Jurate Kazickas: Asked if he saw any parallels between his own futile attempts at a cover-up and Watergate, Irving answered: "None at all...
...NYR, Box 10904...
...It was cynical politics of the lowest order: leaders trying to recover popularity by appealing to the most primitive instincts of the crowd...
...International Herald Tribune July 7, 1975 AUTOINTOXICATION: In reviewing another heart-warming tome about our glorious radical movement that sparkled with thousands of bombings, hundreds of maimings, many murders, and many more broken lives, sage Elinor Langer displays that exquisitely honed critical sense that is at once the triumph of the ritualistic liberal and the scourge of American hypocrisy: "More Power Than We Know" is neither manifesto nor autobiography...
...During the war, Jack, your side used to talk about "bombing them back into the Stone Age...
...NYR, Box 10771...
...New York Times Book Review June 15, 1975 INTELLECTUALOIDS IN ACTION: During one of CBS-TV's more cerebral moments, TV profundicator Shana Alexander reveals her exquisite sense of justice and statecraft to an astonished James Jackson Kilpatrick: The Mayaguez rescue is being hailed now as a great victory...
...It's just that the board has never had anything to review in its four years, Hale said in an interview...
...5, 1974, there was included a list of members who had passed away during the preceding year...
...Security considerations clouded everything...
...New York Review of Books July 17, 1975 36 The Alternative: An American Spectator October 1975...
...population policy through such groups as the Population Council, Population Reference Bureau, and Planned Parenthood...
Vol. 9 • October 1975 • No. 1
