Current Wisdom
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." —Euripides Current Wisdom , • • HIGHER EDUCATION: The learned Miss Dorothy Harrison of the New York State Department of Education makes a...
...John the Divine, Bishop Moore charged that businessmen who pulled out of the city were perpetuating a cycle of unemployment, crime and economic decline...
...The telephones they use, the airports where they land, the clothes they buy, the restaurants where they eat—all float on the back of the poor," he asserted...
...Commonweal February 27, 1976 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR: New York's Episcopal Bishop, Paul Moore, on the occasion of his Easter diatribe, reveals his ability to speak in tongues...
...I still have traces of acne...
...The ou come, the decision, of the game would b unimportant...
...He declared that "we of the religious community will not stand by as this betrayal of the city takes place, because if it continues, we can look ahead to a nightmare town, resorting to physical repression of its frustrated victims made savage by despair...
...Sua cess would exclude failure and punist ment, and winning and losing would b seen in only a relative sense...
...Galbraith journeys to the Soviet paradise?: There should be some way for the government in Washington to stop this destructive nonsense and send Friedman & Co...
...businesses are leaving the city...
...back to their classrooms in Chicago, where the damage they can do is only to sound economic theory, not human lives...
...but] I found that my life did not change...
...Another myth, he said, is that people and businesses outside the city limits have no responsibility to the city...
...Joseph Kraft reveals the low estate into which "populism" has fallen since tilt glory days of 1972, when every intimidated liberal looked to it for poultice and political salvation: ORLANDO, Fla.—The primary here it Florida shows that the country is gradth ally nursing itself back to political health Both parties rejected right-wing populisn who had surged to prominence by skillfu play on emotional and divisive issues...
...What the hell is a loser...
...Is it how a competitive system really works...
...Why no such shouts when Dr...
...He called on business leaders "to reverse your decisions and stay in the city...
...High for the Game, by Chip Oliv^ (William Morrow & Co THE TRUTH: The eloquent faith of form+ foreign service officer Lee Dinsmore unveiled on the editorial page of the Ne York Times: If the United States stopped today i whole weapons development activit bridled the runaway military machii that now dominates our thinking in fo eign relations, and turned our producti, capacities to domestic needs, the resul ing worldwide awareness of what v were doing for our economy and the pe ple in our country would shake the Krer lin to its foundations and force intern change there as well...
...Each man woul...
...this time he has apparently chosen the tongue of Miss Shirley MacLaine: In an Easter sermon that electrified some congregants and offended others at the Cathedral of St...
...Hail the Nev Order: I have a vision of a team withou coaches, without silly restrictions o rules...
...Stressing that "it is not just a problem of New York" but of industrialized society, Bishop Moore said the very suburbs to which the corporations fled "become soul-less urban wastelands where social irresponsibility also slinks through the night to pull its victims down once more...
...Look over your city and weep, for your city is dying," the Bishop declared...
...New York Times March 21, 1976 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: Another overly optimistic report from Sydney Lens, patriot: The nuclear race proceeds on its own thrust...
...At one point, Bishop Moore, addressing several thousand people from the pulpit to the side of the high altar, remarked: "You may think this is a funny Easter sermon with no flowers, no bunny rabbits, no sunrise sermon...
...If so, it is not only the most un-Christian value ever held, but one of the most anti-Christian...
...The game itself, in fac would all but disappear...
...Euripides Current Wisdom , • • HIGHER EDUCATION: The learned Miss Dorothy Harrison of the New York State Department of Education makes a dramatic point: Research on Chaucer and research on lingerie are not all that different...
...The Progressive February 1976 LOST ILLUSIONS: Mr...
...the scientists and engineers continue to fashion new horror machines, and the generals deploy them...
...Citing other instances in which "hope is dying," he asserted that "perhaps the most sinister" were reports that "the rats are leaving the sinking ship...
...the public is conditioned for it with strident and synthetic anti-communism...
...Washington Posi March 11, 1974 GOOD BOOKS, THE INCALCULABLE TREASURE: An example of the stupendous wisdom that is finally being publishes in the United States after years of ram pant anti-intellectualism...
...Why should a society as rich as ours have any losers...
...There is nowhere to flee in a dying land," the Bishop said...
...In sections of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem, great hulks of buildings stand abandoned and burned...
...Washington Star February 25, 1976 A RAMPANCY OF PIETIES: One Raymond Bial, "writer, poet and photographer," waxes metaphysical, economical, sociopolitical, analytical, and puerile on the pages of Commonweal, where the Sermon on the Mount is regularly exposed in its more ridiculous variations: As I listened to a popular Chicago radio station, I frequently heard the DJ cracking jokes about "losers...
...big business, big banking, defense industry, and defense workers all have a stake in it, and therefore pressure Congress for its continuance...
...Eac man would strive toward the goal of bein good, but there would be no punishmer for failure except the natural punishmer of not being as good as you could be...
...control himself so as to be his best...
...New York Tim, March 12, 19' 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator June/July 19...
...New York Times April 19, 1976 INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Economist Milton Friedman delivers a few economic lectures in Chile and the liberty-loving Nation yells for the Feds...
...I firmly believe in a team livin together like that, as brothers sharin brown rice and doing everything in th spirit of meditation, including footba practice...
...It would be a communal tean where the players would live together eat only the finest natural foods and prat tice yoga and transcendental meditation The entire element of control fron coaches would be gone...
...Be part of the rising, not the dying...
...The members the team would do the Dance of Foo ball...
...The Nation April 3, 1976 AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE, INC.: Mellifluously pattering along in the curious language of the syndicated ideologue, Mr...
...Exploring some "myths" about the situation, he said that most crimes by blacks were against other blacks and that white fears of black crime were "basically a racist attitude...
...J. Anthony Lukas, author of Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years, offers some moral instruction, while providing a wealth of useful information for his nascent Boswell: " ...I believed when I became a New York Times foreign correspondent that my life would change, that my acne would disappear, that I would be suave and cool and debonair...
...Cut through the fog of statistics and see the moral decisions behind them, " he said...
Vol. 9 • June 1976 • No. 9
