Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Euripides Current Wisdom • • THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION: Sorrows of a young idealist as related by her confidante, one Sandra Good: Squeaky is...
...International Herald Tribune July 7, 1975 IN PURSUIT OF A BETTER WORLD: Ms...
...Such a diet has brought back my soul's consciousness...
...Dallas Times-Herald September 9, 1975 IRVINGISMS: Clifford Irving launches an axiom anticipated by Washington politicos years ago: "It's fruitless to worry about the future...
...Changing my diet to vegetarian, which consists of fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds, herbs and juices has done wonders for me...
...I have no way of challenging the veracity of Mr...
...AP)—Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, a multimillionare, says one of the nation's problems is a Judeo-Christian ethic that makes Americans generous to a fault to the needy...
...Most astrologers are amused by those astrological skits in the daily newspapers...
...Better vibrations occur...
...Ms...
...It's on her back...
...New York Daily News September 15, 1975 AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS: Social philosopher Peter Hellman elucidates the political mysteries of exhibitionism and the venery arts to an agape audience: In England, the miniskirt rebellion mothered by Mary Quant in the late nineteen-sixties took hold as a nose-thumbing gesture at the upper classes—just as rock had been a musical affront...
...are the only films to come out of Hollywood in a long time to show us a woman who is independent, resourceful, self-confident, strong, and courageous...
...But in America, miniskirts and other boldly antiromantic styles were more an assertion of the ascendant power of women as independent beings, no longer subordinated to the careers of men...
...But if this transparently uninformed and irresponsible slander of the new government in South Vietnam is characteristic, then serious doubts must be raised about his other writings...
...I am stronger now, and weigh more now, than when I was a garbage disposal in college...
...magazine, a journal dedicated to enlightenment and social justice, reports on the uplifting films of actress Pam Grier: "In Foxy Brown she avenges the cold-blooded slaying of her brother and boyfriend by castrating the villain, putting his penis in a jar filled with pickling juice, and making a present of it to his girlfriend...
...New York Times September 24, 1975 ANGST: Another sociological observation lovingly sepulchered in the endless pages of the New York Review of Books, Bible of America's Cadres of Virtue: It is because our society is a failure that poetry is not eminent in it...
...I respectfully submit that Mr...
...Every day we would wake up and think, "How many whales did they kill today...
...Euripides Current Wisdom • • THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION: Sorrows of a young idealist as related by her confidante, one Sandra Good: Squeaky is very, very gentle and that's why all this monstrousness out here hurts her...
...Solzhenitsyn has not one iota of evidence to back this assertion, and that, to the contrary, the end of the war has marked the end of a 10-year bloodbath and the release of 200,000 political prisoners from Thieu's prisons...
...Fritz Efaw, London...
...New York Review of Books July 17, 1975 IDIOTICA: In the correspondence section of the International Herald Tribune poor Mr...
...And I'm sorry I involved my wife Edith, and I'm sorry I put my children into such jeopardy...
...United Press International May 1975 EPISTEMOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH: A scientific statement advanced in the soapbox section of the esteemed Dallas Times-Herald by Mr...
...Solzhenitsyn is vanquished again, this time by the prodigious ratiocination of a London philosopher whose last name seems to be an acronym: Those who have been waiting with baited breath for the bloodbaths may have at last gotten some satisfaction from the article by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (IHT, June 24) in which he refers to the [Vietnam] war ending -tragically in the assassination of thousands and the imprisonment of millions of others...
...Perry Jottenburg, sage, as reported in the remarkable New York Times, a journal of national record: Psychiatrists expressed concern yesterday that violence might be becoming more legitimate in the eyes of some disturbed people alienated by government policies, and that the two gun episodes involving President Ford might prove contagious...
...Solzhenitsyn's much celebrated writings on the Soviet Union...
...The consciousness comes back when we stop eating the carcasses of dead animals...
...It was exciting...
...she carries that weight...
...I have always been easy going and irresponsible and things have always worked out...
...But I feel better and more experienced for having gone through it all...
...Grier's...
...This is to be expected...
...Owen Shivers, valetudinarian: Dogs hear sounds that human beings cannot hear...
...Anyway, I believe in astrology, not in most astrologers...
...Above all, they are the only films to show us a woman who triumphs...
...And there's a certain satisfaction from meeting difficulties, conquering them and coming out relatively whole...
...Letter, International Herald Tribune July 7, 1975 be Alternative: An American Spectator November 1975 37...
...Perry Jottenburg, senior attending psychiatrist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, said in Philadelphia that government leaders' "lack of candor, their hypocrisy, their inaccessibility, manipulation of media, prolongation of a nasty, dirty war, lack of follow-through on many social and health programs" had "created a situation where desperate individuals feel a_ certain legitimacy" to invoking violence...
...New York Times Magazine September 14, 1975 SIMPLE SOLUTIONS: Another orotund discourse from Bill Walton, cosmic jock: "Caring for one's body is very important...
...International Herald Tribune July 7, 1975 THE GENIUS: Ratiocinations of one Dr...
...Chicago Daily News September 13, 1975 BEING AND NOTHINGNESS REVISITED: Clifford Irving, fresh from 17 months in the slammer for his controversial writings and bankrupted by debts of $55 million against assets of $410, reaffirms the existential quiddity in his typically abstruse style: "I'm sorry I got caught...
...I know that nearly all of my major troubles have come when Saturn was in either Libra or Aquarius...
...Or do those scientists think that I have merely magined that broken arm, that disocated kidney, that pneumonia and that iervous breakdown...
...Our values are to learn that health, our bodies and our lives are more important than the value of money...
...August 1975 REPORTAGE AND ART: An impressively informative news story about a member of one of America's more obscure families of wealth, from the arty pages of the Chicago Daily News: Little Rock, Ark...
...Some human beings detect astrological manifestations that one hundred and eighty-six scientists do not detect...
Vol. 9 • November 1975 • No. 2
