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The Alternative October, 1971 21 tending various white ethnic groups will be wih us for some years to come. Why Can't They Be Like Us? states why they are not and urges the same temperance...
...My best, George Carey Washington, D.C...
...And we must oppose government activities which inflame those ever-present human appeties which cause men to abandon principles...
...Political liberalism is not fed by this stream, but by another - - and some would say, a stronger -- stream going back to the eighteenth century at least...
...Eliot and Karl Mundt would have gotten along famously...
...Liberaiism...
...If a student in a lit...
...Willimn f. guckiey, Jr...
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...Lazy Joe Fish Slippery Bear Shoot, Indiana To the Editor: I think my phone is being tapped...
...Henry Kariel The Works of David Easton...
...I am writing to the Washington Post to express my deep-felt anxieties on this score...
...Confronted with the welfare state's, dismal record and confused rationale, liberals resort to the claim that the irapulse behind the welfare state is benevolent, and "therefore" the welfare state is better than its record or rationales...
...LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Baton Rouge 70803 The Alternative October, 1971 23 continuing crisis (continued from page 4) a verse of the hymn, "Amazing Grace," ending with an extraordinary corn shucking yell...
...But Mr...
...Nobody is safe anymore...
...Jurgen Gebhardt The Political Science Reviewer is published annually at Hampden-Sydney College...
...states why they are not and urges the same temperance and understanding in the area of civil rights that Presidential advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan called for when he advised "benign neglect," and I expect it will attract the same wrath from Liberaldom that Moynihan received...
...If I understand him correctly he is suggesting that when I condemn teachers" "who don't give a damn whether or not students read" that I am somehow or other making an argument for coercion of students...
...Spiro T. Agnew "..,stands almost alone among a welter of New Left, radical and revolutionary publications...
...1 September, 1971 Eric Voegelin's Order and History, Vol...
...At best the welfare state is a bland leviathan, a cumbersome, flabby, incompetent, expensive impediment to the people's energies...
...i LT_J here is opportunity...
...But it is a writer's duty to make his ideas clear the first time and I obviously have not done so...
...Gerhart Niemeyer The Works of Hannah Are,tit...
...These tendencies are at the heart of much of the great literature of our century...
...Stanley Rothman F.A...
...Indianapolis WPTA-Roanoke m America...
...If he is at all serious, he'll never make it anyway because of his cultivated ignorance...
...Christian Bay Edward Banfield's The Unheavenly City...
...He condemns the "assistant-assistant-assistant professors" who "don't give a damn whether or not the students read...
...to corrupt the practice of popular government...
...The article only goes to wove how many a well-meaning conservative can become an ideologue, intent only on finding in literature, even ltterature totally unrelated to politics, justifications for his conservative beliefs...
...But that claim is like Mark Twain's remark that Wagner's music is better than it sounds...
...has at its center certain fundamental tendencies...
...George Meany, head of the A.F.L-C.I.O., excoriated the President's controls on wages and prices, calling them "discriminatory" against labor...
...The leftists at Ramparts did the same thing your poet from Slippery Bear Shoot, Indiana has done: read great literature not for its value as literature, but for its supposed value as a source of conservative (or leftist) ideology...
...The thesis of "Fiction and Conservatives" is "that fiction - - fiction embracing poetry...
...One day he shows up in Virginia, then he is in Tennessee, a week later in California...
...J. F. Freeman Introductory Textbooks to American Government...
...The conservative program is clear...
...I am seeking a court injunction to stop this business because it is driving me and my poor cat crazy...
...Liberals are always finding from Twain's works support for their ideology...
...Hayek's The Constitution o] Liberty...
...Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the eminent baseball pitcher, was raised to the "Hall of Fame," and on 20 August the life sentence of Lt...
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...I am sure of it, though the phone company tells me that it is not...
...He names T.S...
...JeIferson Davis, a disc jockey in Pike County, Indiana, is a connoiseur o] rock and roll music...
...There is no reason why a free society should have to tolerate this business...
...Jefferson Davis CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor: The April 1971 issue of The Alternative contained an article by one Lazy Joe Fish entitled, "'Fiction and Conservatives...
...Anyway, I thought cor~ervatives were the ones who opposed coercion...
...The structure of the democratic welfare state determines its motives...
...Bernard Anderson Eric Voegelin's Anamnesis...
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...2. I thought that I had made clear that Twain is Twain and that he is his own mail...
...Is Twain.- How does he find m Mark Twain support for ideological conservatism...
...and who know that the government's proper business is preserving for the citizens the freedom to mind their own business...
...H. Mark Roelofs Ellis Sandoz Mulford Q. Sibley Richard F. Staar Gordon TuHock A New Journal Devoted Exclusively to the Task of Reviewing the Major Works in Political Science...
...class does not want to read the book, the high schoolish prodding of a professor is not going to make him read the book coercion will only cause resentment, resentment of reading...
...If they can tap me, well - - bell -- they can tap just about anyone...
...A Reader e Enclosed is...
...I did say - - and continue ~ to say - - that Huckleberry Finn could not (continued to page 23) Language is Sermonic Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric Edited by Richard L. Johannesen, Rennard Strickland and Ralph T. Eubanks This book brings together for the first time Richard M. Weaver's most significant and influential essays on the related subjects of rhetoric and language, providing a full view of his rhetorical theory apart from his political philosophy...
...The only answer is to elect men who wil insist that the government mind its own business...
...I did not mean to suggest (and, in all honesty, upon re-reading what I have written, I do not think I did suggest) that we read, say Moby Die.k, to "find support" for some "ideology...
...While being only a pioneer endeavor, Greeley's work is a valuable contribution to understanding the phenomenon of American acculturation...
...Eugene Miller The Works of Gabriel Almond...
...The introduction provides a critical interpretation of Weaver's writings on rhetoric...
...Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain as authors in whose writings he, as a conservative, finds grea{ solace and support...
...I never know where Agnew is from day to day...
...We are all under surveillance...
...correspondence (continued from page 81) have been written by a man infected with n i n e t e e n t h - c e n t u r y p r o g r e s s i v e Liberalism...
...If a student refuses to read, it is unfortunate for him, and it should not be the function of the university to force him to read...
...Now these same tendencies are, by and large, not at the heart of the predominant ideological force of the past two hundred years, i.e...
...The Alternative would be a fine magazine if you'd cut the cursing and name-calling...
...The Alternative is a welcome addition to the ranks of American opinion journalism...
...He states, most probably correctly, that no one who has read great literature would want to go out and burn a University down...
...I thought this paragraph had made it clear that I was not claiming the writers in question are (to use Mr...
...Sincerely, Lawrence Polon Los Angeles, Calif A reply to Mr...
...Allow me one more try...
...Ellis Sandoz Four Recent Works on Liberalism...
...P o l o n ' s L e t t e r : 1. The entire sixth paragraph of my article reads as follows: "English literature during the twentieth century, then, has been, if not conservative in the sense that Robert Taft was conservative, at its center deeply anti-liberal...
...And, finally, these tendencie~ are at the heart of political conservatism...
...It deals with national issues and personalities and offers insightful, original and sometimes offbeat reviews of current books...
...is and has been a great source of conservative strength during this cruel and wonderful century...
...If the article simply implied that great literature, literature which affirms such human values as freedom and individualism, lends support to fundamental conservative tenets such as individual freedom and free choice, there would be no problem...
...And it is delightfully written...
...3. Mr...
...And one final point is in order...
...Ramparts Magazine once published a huge article "proving" that Twain was a radical socialist...
...What I am saying is that great literature (exemplified but not exhausted by the examples I gave) and political conservatism are fed by the same spiritual and intellectual stream...
...My point, stated briefly, is this: that way of looking at the world which most intelligent men describe a.~ "conservative...
...Forcing students in a university to take required literature courses outside their area of interest and forcing these unwilling bodies further to read books they do not want to read, is not the answer to the radicals...
...SARKES TARZIAN I NC \._A...
...God help us...
...I...
...One name for this middle ground is "teaching," an art sadly neglected in universities...
...Nor am I saying that the great works are somehow or other "conservative" in a strictly ideological sense...
...M...
...His reference to "high-schoolish prodding" is, shall we say, loading the dice...
...If he can fake a "C," then, so what...
...So what...
...Polon re-read this section of my article and I am certain if he does he will find that I did not try to pin some kind of "ideological conservative" badge on the great Twain...
...These motives cause it to distort the market's rational husbanding of resources...
...Not so...
...He says from Huckleberry Finn...
...So the crisis continues...
...and to hurt most those with the least discretionary income--that is the poor...
...Now comes the hard part...
...I, No...
...I suggest Mr...
...The point of my article was not that Herman Melville would have necessarily voted the straight Republican ticket or that T.S...
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...Louisville Courier Journal "1 predict for The Alternative a leading role in philosophical and political battles to come...
...William Calley was reduced to twenty years...
...what I had reference to were "'English majors...
...Fish goes out of his way to name specific writers and pin them down as being without a doubt, avid supporters of ideological conservatism...
...Polon's phrase) "avid supporters of ideological conservatism...
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...There is a great middle ground between letting students do what they damn well please and coercing them to do what they don't want to do...
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...I am not saying that because great literature has a "conservative" basis that therefore the great authors are "ideological conservatives...
...welfare (continued from page 8) oThird, the nature of polities in a large and pluralistic society virtually guarantees that the welfare state will misuse its vast and meddlesome powers...
...George Carey Leo Strauss' Thoughts on Machiavelli...
...Polon's last point is a curious one...
...Most of the time the welfare state is acting as the defender of the strong against the disorganized who are being made to pay for the support of the strong...
...The welfare state's habits undermine the citizens' inclination to mind their own business and to respect other people's private desires...
...The fact of the matter is that I do not believe students should be forced to take "required literature courses" and my article was not meant to deal with that ugly phenomenon...
...As Fish put it, "Twain...
...His hobbies are "mingling with the Crowd" and dancing...
...Consider The Alternative The Alternative is an insipid iournal of polarizing inconclasm whose style is intellectual, argumentative and satiric or so they :~y...
...We must explain the principles and efficacy of freedom to the people...
...Fish attempts to explain the preponderance of radical humanities majors (as contrasted to the scarcity of radical math or science majors...
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