WASHINGTON REPORT: Notes on the Bicentennial:
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broken rural control of the state legislatures, and pro- ist" was lost as they tacked the new First and Greatest tected the individual rights of persons arrested and ac- Commandment over the...
...They his plans...
...more pathways to understanding...
...The Paper Chase prohibits recycling of diplomas...
...Let's begin with one's right to privacy-including Martha's...
...He wears monogrammed hair-shirts...
...Poet wrote: only Man says prayers-or needs to...
...But now, tions approach, the touchstone the people use to evaluate in what James A. Wechsler has appropriately termed a those who would be their new leaders should be the "grotesque parody" of the "law and order" hysteria that individual's attitude toward personal responsibility...
...Burns contradicts Debs...
...Forthcoming issues will be dated with a little bit of Help August 9, August 23, September 6 and September Moansday's medicant is Choseday's prince...
...enter the 20th...
...Juniority may then topple seniority...
...Do unto others as they would unto you-but first...
...Commonweal: 397...
...No exemption for campus Prufrocks in white-flannels eating peaches upon (oil-slicked) beaches and Enter the lists, you knights-errant, and try this trade...
...In keeping with the usual practice, Commonweal Via Finland Station, come home...
...Homestead and Kent State...
...WASHINGTON REPORT NOTES ON THE BICENTENNIAL Ring out the Old, ring in the New World loss of memory...
...But Saigon isn't Paris...
...The American Tentative Society's dues are W. Reuther's life nearly ebbs on his kitchen floor...
...a Constitutional amendment...
...barricade the Gordon Liddy and la Surete are back door (to avoid temptation...
...Woodstein writes that the Emperor wears none...
...McLaughlin, S.J...
...Assassination is as American as apple pie...
...Marshalled his troops and, Wheeling about, summoned you and me...
...For Nixon and his entourage rode to power, the basic inone of the healthiest results, from the point of view of stitutions of justice-through the juries, grand juries and public morality, of the Watergate exposure is the dis- uncorrupted civic officials-are turning on those who crediting of the ethical climate in which a group of men would have perverted them and telling us that the people swept along by the arrogance of power felt that their still rule and that each man must ultimately stand alone own words and deeds-because they were in the service before the bar of justice, where nothing can save him of the Chief-had no ethical repercussions: they were but his integrity and nothing can condemn him but his not just above the law but in another space and time guilt...
...inees to the Supreme Court, the Warren decisions still They said "law and order" with as much comprehension stand, and Warren the man remains a symbol of what as talking magpies...
...Civis Americanus Sum...
...Even Voltaire, no Jesus-freak he...
...The basic meaning of Emerson's max- typically "American," may still be playing outdoor and im that whoever would be a man must be a "nonconform- indoor tennis...
...Mao's blooming blossoms have communal foundations, SISYPHUS not feelings...
...red-white-and-blue pedestal...
...three squares a day...
...Join John Reed under the Kremlin-west of "A salesman is got to dream, boy...
...They first fall upon their Arthur Murray's studios are subject to knees and the Consumer Protection Act...
...not Fr...
...broken rural control of the state legislatures, and pro- ist" was lost as they tacked the new First and Greatest tected the individual rights of persons arrested and ac- Commandment over the gate of the Executive Office cused of crimes...
...They accumulated the trappings of Nixon never had-trust...
...Don't move yet, Henry, from your perch Politics is an ancient and honorable adventure, on Golan Heights...
...box your own compass...
...and "Arma virumque cano...
...One knight-errant fed on suspicions No federal funds...
...tax her knowledge to aid jobless eavesdroppers...
...and still insist that Ron Ziegler speaks truly...
...The Nation's in traction, Ann Landers chats McGuffey's Reader, Eddie Guest and -compound delusions...
...GNP recipes entice, but no first helping for us all...
...In real life, Randolph, Chavez and Dorothy Day labor...
...The Republic is knocked askew on its "Over there...
...Its celebrants snarl at each issue of Time The French had a word for it-Dien Bien Phu...
...and become...
...Vietnam-our war by stealth unto 56,162 GI dead...
...a topographical correction...
...Thus Jeb Magruder, who saw his own life as zone altogether...
...now, they've all dirty hands- He (not Voltaire) is the only living Generalist...
...Two Yankee players swap wives The Continent smells of musketry-Wounded Knee, in the "House that Ruth Built...
...except at Lordstown...
...LBJ,1908-1973...
...Where are the rosy homilies of yesteryear...
...Mon vieux, your credit card is my insecurity...
...is again appearing on alternate weeks during the The zoning's bad, but summer months...
...Ma Bell doesn't have to know all...
...From then on we will resume our normal weekly A new McGovern Commission to let America be publishing schedule...
...The Senate refused to confirm his worst nom- appropriated only the cliches of the American dream...
...Achtung, Watergate...
...A post-Constitutional age is America's Garcon, une verre de...
...Dreaming of systems so perfect that Summer Schedule no one needs to be good...
...26 July 1974: 396 His blue-collars shackled by shifts- One cheer for Democracy will do for now...
...others lobby or become SEC chairmen...
...Pollyanna, say it ain't so...
...Columbus seeks a new passage...
...Go abroad, but is grass greener there, even if it costs less in the Village...
...darkness-at-noon...
...Convert into an Alamo...
...The 1984 Presidential oath reads: "Nolo Episcopari...
...He brought carbons of himself...
...stand in the front brothers under the skin...
...Pull her plugs...
...tis rumored) then fall upon the Indians...
...success and public approval: beach houses, golf carts, the As the impeachment vote draws near and as fall elec- company of Jack Benny and Sammy Davis, Jr...
...where Oliver Twist's bowl is to be refilled...
...with higher gaze than George Corley Wallace...
...Galbraith God...
...But the Congress and the courts resisted Building: "Thou shalt get ahead by going along...
...A few are good losers...
...angrywhipped by muddlecrass critics Raise your voices and impersonate a politicianDe Jimmie Joyce nil nisi bunkum...
...summons JFK...
...sail westward Bob Hope's retiring, and and land near Route 128...
...Where are those certitudes of home and church...
...Dick grew strong and went to the White House...
...Paris is worth a Mass, For example, Joe McCarthy became venturesome but the W.H...
...Friedman Marx...
...the Pilgrim Fathers Forget Jack Armstrong is dead...
...It comes with the territory...
...Norman Vincent somebody...
...Fewer highways to the stars...
...20...
...but he's playing it in jail...
...Summon the Old World to redress the New...
...More was sunk in the Tonkin Gulf than gun-boats This country wants another Cherry Tree legend...
...Lacks those Cohan lyrics...
...Fairness is a good thing...
...A distant Disraeli settling in at 1600 Downing Street...
...Gulag Archipelago...
...Here's a Republic, if you can keep it, Travel farther, then, on your Mission to Moscow B. Franklin said...
...America is oldest, G. Stein warns, first to Joe couldn't tell who were Right-only who were Left...
...There's pot in barracks, but sergeants look away...
Vol. 100 • July 1974 • No. 17
