Correspondence: Letters from Wood, Docksai, Groff and Hornsaw
To The Editor: To accept an argument I think you would agree that it inevitably becomes necessary for one to purchase the prime example given to drive home the major contention of a polemic. It...
...The told me if I voted for Hubert Humphrey we would move closer to a minimum annual income and our great cities would be polluted with food stamps...
...wit: How like Chopin is Sibelius on the piano...
...Finns are tough people...
...Well, darn~ it if they weren't right...
...Rechtes Uber...
...The results of the Viet Nam war do not disturb Will's rightful vision of our "'manifest duty to use our great power on behalf of those principles we believe in...
...Until now...
...Especially, necessary...
...All in all, I was told if I voted for Hubert Humphrey our country would move further down the path of socialism...
...As for the other two Masters, Mahler and Sibelius, the former has been discovered by the contemporary musical establishment, by Everest Records...
...Accordingly, we have no moral options to our actio.q there...
...He decides, instead, to gain our faith in this by the examples of the war against Hitler, and by our intervention into Viet Nam...
...But in an ironic way...
...righteously involves the use of force...
...Part of Sibelius's raw treatment can be ascribed to a suspicion by ideological Disk-Studs of his Finnish patriotism which was, to be sure, complete "and unabridged...
...Thev told me if I voted for Hubert Humphrey the government would have a tighter hold on the economy and our dollar might be devalued...
...Better renditions of his symphonies are being prepared by Columbia...
...That is, to the opposite of what Will would try to convince me that the war there has shown...
...i.e., the recording of his works are generally seedy, prepared only by minor league companies...
...It is precisely here, however, that Will's proposition for "The World Role of the United States" (Nov., 1971) seems to fail...
...Tempered in spirit by a history of oppression, they react with a fierce anger and a sensuous enjoyment which is more energetic than it is tender...
...They are brooding, melancholy, temperamental versions of the old Hungarian...
...Will gives us no criteria, beyond some examples, for making a decision as to when the "'world role'of the U.S...
...I would agree with Will that the Viet Nam war provides -'general axioms of practical wisdom learned by personal coping" with this particular case of the exercise of our power...
...We are told these actions are at once of the same character, and thus are beth positive examples of "extensive good works" abroad...
...I voted for Hubert Humphrey and it has all come to pass...
...Sincerely, Charles Wood Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264 20 The A l t e r n a t i v e ; March, 1972...
...However, Sibelius waits to be appreciated, and I believe Bob Tyrrell is worthy of the task...
...But for this faith one must accept Will's contention that our military action in Viet Nam is 'morally mandatory...
...Reminiscently, Mort Hornsaw Gig Harbor, Washington 98335 To The Editor: Bob Tyrrell's review of Columbia's Tchaikovsky album (December Alternative) was on the mark and necessary...
...However, Johan Julius Christian Sibelius is still ignored...
...For too long, the agents of Nut Cracker Suite have oligopolized Tchaikovsky sections of good record shops only to leave the effect of relegating one of Modern Music's three geniuses to a sentimental but nonappreciative position in listening land...
...They also told me if I voted for Hubert Humphrey that our sacred federal bureaucracies would be infested with key agents of the Council on Foreign Relations...
...The exception is London Sterio's Ricci adaption of Sibelius's Violin Concerto Longon Symphony Orchestra-Fjeldsta...
...The results of the Viet Nam war have proved to me that the principle of physically intervening in the civil war of another nation (an action which anyone would agree we took in Viet Nam) is not an acceptable guideline to our world role...
...I wonder whose big thumb has been on the trigger...
...He offers "'no "general theories' of international stategies and tactics" for this purpose...
...To make sense of such a statement, however, one must name the principle in question, an explanatory step that Will does not take...
...Sincerely, Patrick Groff San Diego, California To The Editor: Back in '68 they told me if I voted for Hubert Humphrey the United States would move closer to a detente A Political Machine with the Red Chinese and those Ruskies...
...I found it a refreshing change from the usual...
...To The Editor: I recently came in contact with your November issue of The Alternative...
...I am anxiously awaiting your next issue...
...If one is convinced so far, then the results of the war there provide us with a special "'precedence in teaching nations how to live...
...As composers, they are in the Wagner class -albeit, Hungarians left us with, respectively, more fishermen and gypsies than music men...
...And by saying this I insist I am no less an advocate of the moral duty of great power to commit good deeds than Will is, but rather a more rational and heedful one...
...Ronald F. Docksai Flushing, U.S.A...
Vol. 5 • March 1972 • No. 6
