Public Nuisances
Landers, Robert K.
lectures, probably delivered among criti- provide definitions of such terms, and tome? Easy, answers the Wonderboy: cal academicians, and this may account also references to...
...Well, thor of Ideology and Utopia in the United thing became a hollow sham...
...race relations, and so forth...
...The undergraduate as H.L...
...The IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ is Hannah Arendt would sweep into a capacious dustbin so Distinguished Professor of Sociology and capacity to discriminate was lost...
...can Catholics and Literary Places: A Guided ing way," he reports...
...Anyone who can write, as relentless world-weariness of the second, tics have allowed...
...After all, it has re- Tyrrell does, of the infamous Huston and aims to be as nastily abusive as the sponded admirably to many legitimate Plan hatched in the Nixon years that third...
...some tolerance for diversity...
...Is THIS IS A SILLY, repellent little book...
...Bryan advancing the figure whose name it bears as the Bask Books, $11.95, 248 pp...
...criticisms raised against it Vaised by "Arguably it was an imprudent scheme...
...What some a nuisance, how explain the almost PHILLIP CORwIN is a poet, novelist and criti was worse, these quacks and wowsers universal inattention to his most recent who works for the United Nations...
...A connotes on "processual symbolic analysis" phenomena...
...Easy, answers the Wonderboy: cal academicians, and this may account also references to previously published Reich was "blacklisted because the very for the unwieldly prose in which the book anthropological studies in which Turner boldness and breadth of his last book is written...
...Somehow American liberalism and decency ] is to deal prudently with the JOHN DEEDY...
...liberalism itself or merely its deforma- he really, as the Wonderboy maintains, Its author, who appears on the dust tion which the Wonderboy has come to "a typically American hayseed mounjacket the very image of a pretentious deplore, he does not entirely make clear...
...the that all might be well again with our Political Science at Rutgers University, auvalues grew from hideous to childish...
...Tyrrell succeeds merely in making him- whom, the Wonderboy significantly does " does not deserve to be thought so self that which he ardently imagines not remark...
...Some called themselves en- Among the other fearsome pests plaguing the Sociology Department of Loyola Univervironmentalists, some feminists, some our society is the greening-of-America sity, New Orleans...
...multitudes...
...but the Transaction/SOCIETY...
...The public Pilgrimage, New York and New England philosophy that had informed us with its And just who are these pests, these (Andrews & McMeel...
...undergraduate solemnly at work on some but if he is a liberal, the Wonderboy is the I think not...
...Galbraith, say...
...But enough...
...discriminating intelligence and elevated public nuisances, whom the Wonderboy values underwent a juvenescence...
...Westbrook Pegler, at least, he employs breed...
...ROBERT K. LANDERS is a newspaper editor in education, business, national defense, still, one might ask, if Reich is so bother- Connecticut...
...propriately, to Tyrrell the appellation he cency...
...venient formula...
...formerly Managing Editor of had metamorphosed in the most astonish- violent and idiotic pests who, if they had Commonweal, is the author of Seven Ameritheir way, would undo all this good...
...Public nuisances, indeed...
...nessee had no easier time of it than Ralph It makes little sense to try to argue why Robert K. Landerrs Nader or Betty Friedan advancing on this or that worthy should not be behind Berkeley or Scarsdale...
...What is more, they spe- Wonderboy's Enemies List is long...
...Whether it is the Wonderboy's bars...
...Heads the Wonderboy wins, and often eccentric terminology...
...versity was influential...
...Still others specialized in prophet of yesteryear, Charles Reich...
...the pristine American democracy...
...It has main- scrutiny his incessant, mean-spirited The Wonderboy (to apply, more ap- tained a modicum of freedom and de- rant...
...America John Kenneth Galbraith and Theodore States: 1956-1976, and editor-in-chief of was afflicted with not one Bryan but with White, for an incredible two...
...tebank retooled for a modern audience...
...The science theorists who study religious tails the left-wing culturati lose...
...But the multiple transplants fail...
...FATHER JOSEPH H. FICHTER, S.J., teaches in cialized...
...It has alleviated racial prej- profound a student of American democnearly everyone else he writes about to udices, aided the poor, and encouraged racy as to make worthy of sustained be: ridiculous...
...Commonweal: 446...
...The book will were simply too much for the left-wing ful for at1 understanding of the abstract probably be of greatest interest to social culturati...
...I believe," the Wonderboy As Johnson wrote of the plot of Cymthe odd argot and anachronistic stance of intones, "that for the most part American beline, criticism is wasted upon resisting the first, apes the elegant lampoons and democracy is far sounder than recent cri- imbecility...
...on the dirty-necked of backwoods Ten- zookeeper himself...
...What it has failed to do [and here applies to President Carter) gives us to the Wonderboy exhibits a little of his own REVIEWERS understand that liberalism has let him vast appreciation for diversity, freedom down...
...consumerists...
...especially as the Wonderextravagant thesis, evidently has tried to sort of liberal who has come to be known boy's principal assertion that Galbraith is turn himself into a combination of H. L. as a neo-conservative and, as such, not a taken seriously by no serious economist Mencken, Malcolm Muggeridge and very persuasive advertisement for the is a demonstrable untruth...
...doubtless it will come in handy to explain the almost certain blacklisting of the Wonderboy himself...
...Mencken In fact, moving from cage to cage in the Wonderboy's zoo, it eventually dawns were prospering not in the boondocks but on one how often the hideous pest within PUIWC UOI*ADCE$ in the universities and wherever the uni- turns out finally to resemble not so much R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Appendix A may prove help- has used such words...
Vol. 106 • August 1979 • No. 14
