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The Gold Bug, Nov. 11, 1966 Journalysis: Cancer from rthe Right ••• Can it happen here? by CARY WOLFSON while the liberal Left goes to beg because of its supposed com- but in essence a coalition of the Liberal center-c-the Humphreys "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; :~nJ~~:~~:~~t~0!~~t~,~~~d~~!1~.t~~~ti~ife~0~~~~, ~~;~~zl~~: ~~da ~~~:s;~g~~s·FO~~~or:~:~~l~h:h:::w~Sn~u:r!~~y t;:a~~~~ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, of freedoms councils and crusades flourish on the Right. controversial Democrat in the country is George P. Mahoney, The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The question of "who's threatening who?" becomes muddled, which is a sad, sad commentary on the state of intellectual in- The ceremony of innocence is drowned; for, as Trumbo writes, "Deeper in the shadows lurk the real fluence in the U. S. today. ~~: ~~~; ~~Ckp~;io~~~:ic~~~~~s~~~,l,ethe worst Communist-hunters, the ones who carry guns ., They call Trumbo may be right. Perhaps we don't like freedom any- -The Second Ccnni1lg, William Butler Yeats ~:l:~~:~:, C~~~~~~o:,s'Nt;~~~er:~:l~~~~m~~~~;g~i~~te:;o!a~~::~ ~~~~~!)':~~e ~h!e;:u~~~~g ~~~~~ti;~~ .:~rel'~:!~~~~~r~ri~:a:a:~ The death of a person. The death of a city. The death of ful . , . settled into the nebulous kettle of dead fish. Students, like most a people. The death of Biz 1ltiUion peopk. Not 6,000,000 or "What they especially dream of is a profound crisis . , . other people, don't demand any more, they whine. They accept, 6.0 x 10 6 • But your mother, your uncle, your friend,-your brother, one that will soften our hearts to the tall fierce strangers who rather than expect. . your brother, your Iover. Plus si:l; million other people who you stand outside the door and cry salvation. They are certain the An editorial from Thc Nation (1919) contends that the know are bound to you in some way. All dead. AU skinny, door will open; they have no doubts at all that a time will come democracy that cannot preserve the Tight of a law-abiding citizen stinking, rotting, smelling corpses. when the prevalence of devils will persuade us that freedom is to present for public consideration his ideas, no matter how er- But that was another place, another time. There's no one left best defended by surrendering it altogether. roneous they may appear, cannot live. "It is the men who are to remember, No one left to say, "This was the plight of MY "And perhaps they are right. Perhaps we don't like freedom denying that right, and not the Socialists or I.W.W.'s, who are people." You say that you're not Jewish and that it didn't affect anymore. Perhaps we have listened so long to the concatenation the most dangerous enemies of the social order today." you. You won't admit to yourself that it wasn't really six million from the swamp that all unknowingly we have passed our point The editorial closes with words which the Administration and Jews who died in the ovens, just as it wasn't a single Jew who of no return, and now drift closer to the heart of that thick, the Student of this college in particular, and indeed all men, died on a cross nearly two thousand years ago; it was all of man- nadiral stupor in which men no longer want to be free ... che should heed well: "Deny men the right to discuss their grievances kind. Beside.s, this is America and that kind of thing couldn't bellissima! ... The midnight air stutters with the magic word, and to redress them through changes in the law, and you develop happen here. Humane Americans simply would not accept that and men with pinched white faces steal through the street. They the temper recently expressed by one of the Socialist leaders: sort of thing. have long memories, and the shortest tempers you ever saw, and I, for one, have severed all relations with the enemy. I But you are wrong, the worst kind of wrong. So wrong that they fondle guns .inatead of girls. Yet I do not dread them as have stopped signing petitions or other instruments of a you won't believe it, even when it's too late. Americans are a much as I fear the others-the silent ones, the contented, the pleading nature. I will endorse dc·mnmd8 only. (Italics complacent people, secure in the fact that they have not fought alienated, the frightened, the acquiescent." mine). It is time that we came out in the open. We must a war on their own soil in a century. The man in the street is The American Left-wing is dead. Our only choices lie be- isolate ourselves-fight alone. This is the method by which shooting for nothing higher than the status quo, and isn't all tween middle of the road Johnson Democrats and a varie~y. of we will be able to demand-not beg--our rights, that upset if he doesn't make it. He's sympathetic toward the Right-oriented Republicans or renegades. As far as political "We adjure the holders of privilege and power solemnly to other guy, but he'll be damned if he's going to meddle in "what's organization goes, the only thing o.n t~e Left is the Americans consider whither their present course of repression leads. Per- somebody else's business." for Democratic Action (ADA) which IS not really Left at all, haps it is not even yet too late." "MINUTEMEN" PLOT FOILED ~~ ~ IN NEW YORK Editorial "New York, Oct. 30 (AP)-Police seized twenty men and OVE'r-A-ote¢hve~t! tons of bombs, guns, rockets and bullets today in predawn (omment r-v las :ti:{ raids that smashed a "Minutemen" terrorist plot. ,. -loco p"-"'~t\.~ the~~.!~::~~~~~t~~~r~:Y:ai~O~~~~nrue:e:~:,h~;::~~~!~i~~Hey, Ted!! ~s dedicll:ted to destroying 'Communist, left wing, and 'liber-al" The Free State has lived Stu de Ht-Ac;{I1\'.n'lstnJ,.+ioN mS~lt~~)~;id 'the investigation had linked the 'Minutemen' uP. to its name by electi?g COrf\~!JHi(a..+IO·NS to the distribution of a leaflet headed 'Kill the White SpIrO T. Agnew to the office "Ba.rrter - Devils' . . . of governor. Recognizing " 'The Itteeature was so written to make it look like it Mr. Mahoney's phony bat- was printed by negro racists' . .. It had so aroused residents tle cry for what it was, the that there was talk of forming vigilante groups to protect intelligent and informed themselves from Negroes, the district attorney added." voters of Maryland elected The self-righteous American: the classic Minuteman. He'd Mr. Agnew with true in- rather be dead than Red and doesn't care who he has to kill along sight into the real issue, the way to prove it. He is the latest in a distinguished line the qualifications of the r3' that ~as included the McCarthyites, HUAC, and the Hollywood candidates. ~ blac~l::ton Trumbo, a brilliant author and screenwriter black- of I~o:e~t~~e t~~e:~~ho:~eD:~!~ -~ ~~~~n~i:lh~s!~I~~tc ,~~~u~~a~~ !7:h~~~: !O~~'gw:~~sf~~ ~~!~~:ti~'o~!r~a~~~ bc~o~:~~edp!~~: 'fec~\. 1) IN I~9 ~ .. :">.' .~'. Democr-ats, the 1964 election "was abo the greatest victory their lines to ,1,,, Mr. Agnew by an Ha.1l .<:"" " . ~~~~h::lee~r cS::; i::e;~~~~r~oh~~~t':h!::: p~~p~~c:;o:lf~! ~~:u~~sr.~;.\~ah~na;;,:it~bs::~ Wa.\KO\)+ _._~....._...." platform of a national party. Money flowed to Its cause from of conviction and principle on -, ~~d:~a~~i::~{m:~~t~~~\;~~~~:~~r~~i:~~o::~t d;!y s:e~! !~~~al~e~:;\:;~;: ~~ h;!dc::~ /3.B'i£t-~ f (1m W CON~r;;TdNS' not r!ch, and. n~ver would be, and mi.ght, under t~e horrors ofIpolitical history had so many L -'- ----' creeplllg SOClahsm, Godless commUlllsm, do-goodism and the Democratic leaders outside of income tax, become even poorer." everywhere. Yet Maryand as well a~ within the tive. As a man who addressed Somebody Up There , The threat of communism is, purportedly, State, refused to indorse a Dem- himself serio~sly to the true is- =============~.=======:' ~~:;;::d~m~:~e~~ef:s~:~:o~! ~~~~le~~~h~~~~~5;~~er~~~r:~~~ • Ailinon the election, a politician who face, he made It apparent that Will grace spoil Rock Hunter? knows Mr. Mahoney well, said he understands. the demands of solemnly, "George P. Mahoney the governorship. Galatea is a man of destiny, a legend in The voters of Maryland have in a Annapolis to man his own time." A legend he may sent be; but as a man of destiny, he whose outlook, judgment, and by Dean Ira G. Zepp appears to have been shut up in executive ability they can have by HAROLDMARKS his own incoherent castle. faith and confidence. Through Spiro T. Agnew has demon- his background of achievement, The Apostle Paul once asked rhetorically "Shall we sin that Traditional ties, no matter /aga!n, maybe. rebellion strated his obvious competen~e his attitude tow,ard the w~rk .of grace may abound?" Heine (or. was it Voltaire?) was completely ~~: ~~~~~~;tf~eyb:rnegtob~~~:~: I:;t~~~~~ ~r PaU;~~~t ~~:h-:l~~~ ;o~~nen~~~h~:ht~:S;~;ee:nco:n~~ !~;ht~~~~r~:;~~ll~tiO~~~iph~f;~~ ~~~=d:;\~~~t h;o:y;;;~:A~ ~~~:;~: ,~~:~ ::1~e!e~~:" h~IttsS h~~ One of these ties is between old "birds and bees" fable. Ev- dence that he can deal with af_ State's different regions and business). Faust, after a lifetime spent in seeking truth lind sex, love, and marriage. This eryone has heard of the sweet fairs from the State House in comm0l! con:e;ns, we can rely knowledge was known to confess, "I now do see that we can proverbial Gordian Knot is be- young thing who comes to col- Annapolis as ably as he has upon .hls guldmg the State Qn nothing know." That was fine for Faust. But Kierkegaard ing slashed by many young pee- lege and becomes the campus dealt with the affairs of Balti- the rlght course. noted that it is quite a different thing when a freshmen comes p'le today who casually indulge flame in a few short months. more county as its chief execu- HSM up to the university and uses the same argument to justify his in extramarital sex. That they However, she is the exception. FILM PERSPECTIVE' laziness. could possibly love each other, Most people are 'more discreet. Part of man's predicament is the tendency to take advantage or one day be man and wife is Their flame only flickers at the; of privilege, to demand more favors, to abuse understanding, and one of the furtherest things right place and at the right to "make it" with the least amount of effort. Remember Adam ~~~:i:!~~:S m~;c~%e~:x~:~r e:~ ti~:eaking of rebellion, how It Happened Here ~~v:~~dasni:~rd!':i~~~P~ ~~l~~~~~r:~~e~tory who overstepped oU~V~::~()rU~t~::ed::l:~s::~ec~~ ~~~~e t~~at Se:h~~ts F:l~:~ . . by CARY WOLFSON . to th~h~r:~~~ a~~~~Xi~ ::::~~~:l~!~ ~:i~t~a~dSu~~~r E~~~ right or wrong is not for me which go: "Make Love, Not For the movIe viewer whose London. It IS reported that to the Great Society to a college campus free of regulations- to judge. Far be it from me to War," "Love Thy Neighbor," universe is limited to Hollywood ;ome of the actors who portray is because our nature is not equipped to exercise such ideal condemn what I shall merely "Sex before Finals." Who can grind-cuts and whose arenas are t~ese officials ru::e British F~- freedom and to handle the centripetal and self-centering inclina- attempt to describe. An average deny that love and sex are no ;onfined to Carroll Theater-type ;lsts, and that much of theIr tion found within it. Or as Anselm rather succinctly put it, young person in our mobile so- longer in a sense synonomous? houses or r~-runs on The Tube, anti-Semitic ad-lib dialogue had "You have not dealt with the gravity of sin." ciety, with its apartments, Not too many people have [T HAPPENEI? HERE. is prob- 00 be cut before the film was Grace spoils many a Rock Hunter because Rock does not models, and cars has had at thou~ht of love without sex. ~bJy not onl~ maccesslble, b.ut marketed. want any questions asked or 1imits fixed. He likes ibeing a river least some sort of heterosexual Why not sex without love? incomprehensible. For the dlS- Admittedly the amateur act- without banks He prefers his grace cheap. ~:i:;~:n~~e ~ie:;~twet~~~. A~~ ~~;ed~t:n~n k~~~h h~~n::'li!~ ~~~n~~dc~~:~:ic~l~~r o~~~a:~~: ~:~.ed~~~~io~~tH~\~~~~;~th~ :l~~~ tudeH:e;:~~:~~efo~~nc~o~i~~ft~~~~d:b~~~et~c~rat~~e;~~~~u~v~~~~t cordmg ~; l~e r:vlsl~d Kms~y How does one really make it ~ardl~~~~rb~~~e::;~re~~emOVle ~rtlshc ll'?pact o~ershlldows any conviction, grades without an education, love \~ithout tTIlst, free_ survef' t' ~h 0 a m~n ~ without affection? Some are L ~n little-known British pro- ,ow-movlllg par s. dom without discipline, community without order, conscience a;:ma~~:l Ysex.av;t \~~~e:ie~~~I_lucky. Please, old sir, don't be iuc;~, Kevin Brownlow and The :noral is two-f~ld .. One 'Qithout principle, matur.ity wit.h~ut experience, strength w~thout kn~wn fa~~ in the ~ast that ~he :~~t~~~n Cfe:~e ~v~o~:x ~~~~ <\~d~: ~rOll~~ha~~ ~~a~o~~~~~ ~~~;l: ~:illthhaatp:~~:;;;;~Ya:: ~~tue::!n~u~;~~~:~~ ,~~~~~~p::~;~: t~~t~s:::s ~~O!~~~~:~,;;~~~~~ male WOUldr~~~ar Ta~ a ~t other? I am reminded of the ~av~ ha~~~n:d '~ad Hitler's plan sovernment when their only voice without responsibility, administrative prerogative ,vithout ?I a e wou e lm'h 0 .~y, \ young husband who, in reply to. dEl d d d IT choices are organization or an- personal concern, morality without humanness, victory without I~ a r:rc~! to T~: o~ ~x~~m ~:s t~ his w.ife's inquiry on his wed- Hl;';E~E~g ~~;~~~:s e~ade arch? The. othe~ is that an? sacrifice, creativity without ~ain, .success wjt~out dedication, ~h:rneged~': "Baby, did you take dlllg ~lght ~nswers, "No, I ,)Ver a period of seven years at ~ghbn~ facb~~ will dec.ry their character ,;ithout suffering, faith WIthout commitment, and for· 'll~" 'T··t f I wouldnt say It was any better, !I. cost of (Cleopatra blush!) ~nemys atrocities but will adopt giveness Without repentance. ~~~\~~ ~oor ;:i~l ~h~nefor~ now that we':;e marrie~." Fun- $20,000. Professional Pauli~e the same he!nous measures when Will a forgiving girl friend spoil us? Will ad.ministrati~e theirs. But that's an 0 the r ny! yes, but m .many lllstances Murray heads up an otherwise they .find It necessary .. (The cooperation spoil us? Will a l~nient pr?fessor .sp~il us? Will story, to be read in another thiS statement IS closer to the amateur cast which, added to ~oyahsts, w_ho finally wm-out, the absence of parietal TIlles spOil us? Will. permissIOn to pursu,e ~h:~et~~gn~:,:~~~:~o:fe~eX~aa~ ~~~h s~~;~c:~~ ~v~~r:~~~t~~~:~~:ate~ra~; a!U:;ii~i :~ec:l~f ~~:du~;;;~~n~~i~'7n ~t~~r~~~~ ~~~ a~~11~n;~~l!~:!~d:,~e::;::il:n~~oi~o~ ?G~';:I!~:~~~!~~:r:;~i:~~I~ pleasure be worth a lifetime seems to be the new IdIOm of natural "thereness". manner .that the N_a~l~had ex- The odds are against this happening if we reahze the un-~ tied to a person with whom you our age. Have I go?e too far? Scenes showing British of- ecuted lllnocent cLvlhans.) merited quality of grace; , if we understan~ that there .is l!0 l ;~~rsiilmatched? Don't forget ~~~~~ps, What Will mother ~~i:lsth~~~~~~~t bl::b~~~;r~ to ~~~ rTaYH~;~:N~~v~~~~~ :~:~~u:~haO:; i~U!!n;~~t;na~I~Z::t r,~~o~~epr~el;:ac:~tinO~~yh:~r~~ Many people today are ex- It cannot be denied that mar_ symbols of British Nazism) because it's being circulated comes to us-a cost symbohze? most graphically by the Cross. perieneing sex without love. riage is the traditional pre- strolling arm-in-arm \vith swas- mainly among art theaters. Rock Hunter may be overmdulged by a cheap grace-a grace Have you ever heard of the New sidium of love and sex. Mar_ tikaed Germans, as well as an However it's worth the trip. which gives hil!l-a. carte bla~he, to do.as he pleases-and he may Year's Eve psychosis? Why do riage is a just end for any af- imaginary German propaganda This movie has a message that happily bask m It as any ~hlld might ~o. He may ?lso be they do it? Curiosity, kicks, just fair, and with it so ends this film, provide an incredibly be- Western Union could never de- cha.stened by costly, demandmg gra~e which matu,res hIm and good clean fun? Perhaps. Then one, lievable picture of occupied liver, makes him a_ grateful and responsible human bemg.