Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
`Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom • • STUDIES IN HISTORY: Another complicated historical exegesis confected for the lout intelligentsia: If the...
...Sunlight must be allocated in a man ner that will balance skyscraper construc tion against individual property rights,' said Assemblyman John J. Miller (Dem Oakland...
...call it a "war to save democracy" and the volunteers would line up in the millions...
...Village Voice December 15, 1975 BELIEVE IT OR NOT: A flabbergasted Sheldon Wolin reports to the New York Review of Books on curious creatures he has encountered while exploring exotic parts—hello, what's this: To a man The Public Interest contributors appear to have been traumatized by the Sixties...
...New Republic July 26, 1975 ECONOMICS MADE EASY: Mr...
...Here's one pile of money and there's another...
...George Wald, Hig gins professor of biology at Harvard Univer sity and 1968 Nobel Prize winner in physi ology and medicine, proves that one cat be a scientific genius and, at the same time a political idiot: Our country suffers from a condition think of as saturation politics...
...GOOD GOVERNMENT: The astonishing mental amplitude of a modern Solomon steadily rising up from the mundane buzz o the California legislature: SACRAMENTO—A lawmaker sai( yesterday he will investigate "who own: the sun" to help protect the solar right: of less affluent persons...
...The Progressive December 197...
...he sees the rich argosies of the Soviet merchant marine ploughing their way back to the Russian motherland, laden with African loot—gold, dia- monds, molybdenum, cobalt, ivory, anc all the other treasures of the dark conti• nent...
...If World War I had been explained as a struggle for colonial markets, Woodrow Wilson would not have been able to raise an army to go to Europe and fight...
...I don't want to be a stockbroker...
...Galbraith, are you listening?: Look, under the Constitution I have the right to earn as much money as I am capable of...
...One, I've only two years of college education...
...Sports Illustrated June 23, 1975 KULTUR NOTES: Proof of the vegetant condition of culture in liberated Saigon, the Vienna of Indochina...
...He announced that his Assembly Ju diciary Committee will conduct a hearing Thursday to consider whether the Legis lature should provide for solar easement or zoning regulations to protect individu als' solar rights...
...Two, I'm black...
...The American male was given some small edge: He could enforce monogamy on his wife, have her as his possession, and perhaps even beat her up once in a while...
...Jerry Rubin, former Yippie, dares to dream: I know that what we were part of in the 1960's will return in some other form...
...San Francisco Chronicl...
...Euripides Current Wisdom • • STUDIES IN HISTORY: Another complicated historical exegesis confected for the lout intelligentsia: If the American male was made to believe that it is somehow "manly" to endure discomfort and pain, then he could go down to the coal face every day and believe he was doing something valuable...
...Ambassador to the UN, Mr...
...Thii nightmare he shares with his master Henry Kissinger...
...What happens to George McGinnis then...
...He sees white South Africa put to the sword, a link up of black communism with insurgent Latin America the swift isolation of the United States and finally the triumph of the Thirc World, dancing to the Soviet tune...
...A movement that always tells the truth, that communicates love and positive vibes, that fights injustice with humanity and love...
...You Can Get There From Here by Shirley MacLaine INFLATION: The percipient Martin F. Nolan passes on two profundities from two "social commentators"—an intellectualoid banquet: ...recalling the wise words of two social commentators: one, Mary McGrory, who wrote, "To be a celebrity in America is to be forgiven everything," and the other, Nora Ephron, who finds herself "continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive...
...New York Times December 21, 1975 THE MEDIA: Catastrophe, at the UN, as duly reported by the level-headed Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway, mein Gott: With hair flying and fists pummeling the rostrum, the portly U.S...
...New York Times Book Review February 1, 1976 MODERN METAPHYSICIANS: Mr...
...Miller added, "Corporate constructioi plans must not be allowed to deprive les affluent property owners of sunlight...
...New York Times January 24, 1976 GLAD TIDINGS: The worthy TRB spots traces of a soaring dream in the Ford Administration: At 10 minutes to eight on the first morning of this month Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger met some 20 reporters at breakfast and continued what can only be considered an organized maneuver by President Ford and his administration to make the idea of nuclear war thinkable...
...Let's be realistic...
...Withit a month or so we could bring 100,000 t( 500,000 persons to Washington to pro test...
...My time is now...
...And, three, I'm not very smart, although I have a lot of common sense...
...They perceive the decade as a period of agitation and violence that threatened to destroy the universities and the public order...
...as we began t( organize a protest, the next crisis hit us and then the next, and then the next After several years of that, we ended witl a numbed, dazed, punch-drunk public incapable of further response...
...It doesn't take any intelligence to figure that out...
...Until a fey years ago, if something was done by the Government that upset a lot of people w( would organize a demonstration...
...He sees a Communist swathe bisecting Africa, red communes where once the tribal chieftains and the Peace Corps held sway...
...If only Beethoven had lived to see it!: More than 100 songs and other musical works have been composed in Saigon since the South Vietnamese capital was taken over by Communist-led forces April 30, according to a North Vietnamese broadcast...
...George McGinnis, professional athlete, explains the mysteries of capitalism for the untutored...
...Well, suddenly such crises began t( hit us about once a week...
...Village Voice January 5, 197( 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator April 197...
...December 9, 197 FROM ACADEME: Dr...
...I sign a six-year contract and then, maybe, just maybe, I might have two or three more years...
...In his fear-sodden imagination he sees vast Sovietarmadas dominating the waters around southern Africa...
...One pile is larger...
...I don't want to wear a suit and tie and work 8 to 5. I don't see why it's so complicated...
...New York Review of Books February 5, 1976 MYSELF WHEN YOUNG: Miss Shirley Maclaine, author, reveals one of life's turning points in a passage that could have been written by Richard Nixon: Somewhere along the line when I was two I believed it was possible to turn every disadvantage to an advantage if you knew the key...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, bellows out his denunciations of the "Soviet colonization of Africa...
...Wouldn't it be far-out if we could build a movement based on positive self-love andlove for everyone without destructive infighting...
Vol. 9 • April 1976 • No. 7
