apropos  ep's treason conviction and today's news item:
clinton & co bribing prime-time tv-writers
to incorporate anti-drug (and who knows what else) themes
into their melodramas/sitcoms
to program us morons,
it bears repeating the old expose' in re
the us gov's covert ideological/cultural campaign
in the immediate post-war decades -
the Congress for Cultural Freedom,
kenyon review, partisan review, encounter, new leader...
ford & rockefeller  foundations...
spender, robt lowell, mary mccarthy,...etc.,
eagerly took the cia's pieces of silver
in return for us capitalist imperialist apologetics;
and their negative correlate,  suppression of the spirit of populism:
labor activism, political activism, ...
their philosophical and artistic expressions.
 
of course, for the polar extremes,
fascism/communism,
they reserved their sublimest hysterical vilification.
...and for bk-ends, their masterpeice,
by way of cautionary exempla for the colossally obtuse,
betrayed the representative exponents
...pound to prison for the criminally insane,
and julius & ethel....
 
finally, you yutes out there,
it needs to be constantly borne in mind that
the only-est and highest truth aimed at
by the actions and pronouncements
of our rulership is
...money.
it has to be assumed that that entire massive
merkun ideological-propaganda cold-war corpus,
emphatically including nuremburg/fascist
(pound trial being function of this) atrocity cant,
along with the incessant stalin-crimes cant,
is essentially meretricious.
 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pcockram <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thursday, January 13, 2000 11:56 PM
>Subject: Re: Animal House at the Ezuversity
>
>
>>Everett Lee Lady wrote:
>>
>>> What does seem to be true is that many of the academics who have devoted
>>> a significant portion of their careers to studying Pound seem to despise
>>> him as a person.  Maybe this tells us something about Pound.  Or maybe
>>> it tells us something else.
>>
>>I have to say that I don't think this is true (yes, there are a few, but
>not
>>many).  A so-called poet named Tom Dish, who reads his "criticism" on NPR,
>>recently came down in favor of the St John's banishment and claimed, in
>fact,
>>the very opposite: that academics who write about Pound completely ignore
>his
>>politics.  What I do think is that those of us who care about Pound as a
>poet
>>and person (and no one can claim he wasn't an amazingly interesting and
>>many-sided person whose opinions were based on ideas that were
>incontestably
>>moral, however misguided we may find them to be from our vantage point
>today)
>>cannot afford to tiptoe around the issue of his politics.  It is something
>with
>>which we are all forced to contend, however uncomfortable it may make us,
>if we
>>hope for anything we say about Pound to be taken seriously.  Of course
>there
>>are many annoying, outrageous, and just plain silly comments, but the
>>contention is worth it.
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>Patricia
>