Correspondence: Letters from Carylton, Dayspring, Edminster, Barth, Adcock, Wortheim, Bosold, and Wislosky
Correspondence To the Editor: I find it singularly unfunny that in your DEATHS column, you should include the mention of the fact that a Mr. Helmer Haakenson drowned in a vat of sauerkraut. Now,...
...Whatever Mr...
...such as "xeroxed," used in the first paragraph of Editorial II, Volume 6, Number 5, for February, 1973...
...It is of no importance whether the G.D.R...
...With fond regards, Miss Hope Wislosky New York, N.Y...
...Try it...
...He saved this magazine from an embarrassing pickle...
...What is not is that a book which in spite of its openly anti-Communist stand received raving reviews from such diverse publications as The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and National Review, a book that so aptly tells us things we cannot learn anywhere else not guesses or fiction, but an intelligent and witty first-hand account of life in Poland under Communism8a book of this kind deserved a better fate than this immature, confused, and inept treatment, if it were to be reviewed at all...
...Shorey's faults as a book critic, and there are many, this is beside the point...
...It is my opinion Xerox is committed to making our nation into a socialist state, which I would die to prevent, just as I would die to prevent a Communist Amerika...
...Louis, Missouri To the Editor: One of the book reviews in the March issue brought back memories, the review of The Superfluous Anarchist...
...in so doing you conveniently ignore the Vietnam bloodbath, hunger in this country (see editorial) and elsewhere, and the fact that your cherished traditions of free enterprise have dismally failed to serve basic human needs for ALL of the people 8 and that, gentlemen, is what all of your corrupt institutions were ostensibly created to do...
...Shorey and had no opinion of him, other than the fact that Mr...
...We did spend considerable time together...
...Furthermore, the proposition to which he refers as absurd on page 5 is referred to on page 7 in the following terms, "one reason Hauser's prediction may prove to be correct...
...Patrick Bosold San Francisco, California To the Editor: The following has recently been brought to my attention, by a youngish thirty-year-old gentleman who, upon, receiving a subscription to your magisterial publication for Christmas (from me...
...C.Carylton St...
...We do not dispute the date of the founding of The Alternative, but turn your attention to the founding made "over a cheap domestic beer...
...You'll like it...
...Such lack of taste is appalling...
...Em-mett Tyrrell has published it in his fine magazine...
...Miss Hope, is a kind of beer, of a dark brown color and a bitterish taste, brewed from malt partly charred or browned by drymg at a high temperature (Oxford English Dictionary...
...We only wish to have it known that McSorly's does not serve beer...
...then, return to your offices rejuvenated, retain the title of your "publication," and use it as an information forum for REAL Alternative living...
...Dear Miss Hope Wislosky: Thank you for your scholarly research...
...Shorey so much about this book (is it that Mr...
...But his references to Tyrmand's "godawful style" take the cake...
...is the equivocal western position toward German reunification...
...McSorly's Ale House is indeed an ale house...
...I only relay this information for the sole purpose of correcting what seems to be an ever so slight misrepresentation...
...I can only be thankful that the sands of time will absorb the destructive energy you represent...
...Aside from this saving journalistic grace, you display the classic Neanderthal Conservatism which rails against state intervention in private affairs, sex education, decency in politics and every other time-honored Sacred Cow of the Goldwater-Agnew crowd...
...I knew Nock back in the late twenties and early thirties, knew him as well as anyone was concerned/was damn little...
...Live and learn, y'all...
...Shorey write so petty and vicious a critique of this wonderful book bothers me less, for I never heard of Mr...
...Regnery misses the point...
...Tyrmand so openly admits to hating Communism, or that he is still able to poke fun at it as no one has ever done before him...
...Now, if this is pure fabrication, it is unfunny...and if it is the truth, it is horrendously unfunny to include it in your column simply because it is weird...
...both of these "sins" seem to unnerve some of our conservatives who believe the subject must always be treated with great pomp, seriousness and "impartiality") and I don't care...
...He has to be the greatest conversationalist that ever lived...
...has a far better chance to succeed because it may be able to create a hundred percent Communist Germany...
...Ale is a malt beverage, darker, heavier, and more bitter than beer (Random House College Dictionary...
...A death, no matterhow unusual, is not funny...
...It reminds me of the time some national magazine (hardly a paragon of good taste) included the death of some lion in its column of human deaths and also of the time an Indianapolis paper, in what might serve as the chief example of sick wit, reported on the death of some poor human being who suffered the agonizing death of being gored by a wild boar...
...Regnery playing both ends against the May I suggest that proofreading should have WalterV.Barth Ridgewood,NewYork To the Editor: It is with a great sense of regret that I must confess the amusement felt by many Southern conservatives in regard to the hysteria evidenced in the March, 1973 issue of The Alternative concerning schemes have adopted various guises, these same proponents of democratic tribalism have been fighting the folk of the South for many, many years...
...Your point is well-taken...
...can hardly be considered a success when compared with the W.G.F.R...
...You might consider yourselves the "wave of the future...
...Until recently the "planners" have directed the entire focus of their crusades at the beleagured people of Dixie but now our comrades in the North are falling Your analysis of the effects of affirmative action are quite accurate but have been current in this section of the country for many years-perhaps the question of Reconstruction arises again...
...This is the main purpose of advertising and corporations spend millions in its So, I was set to wonder if you might be on the payroll of the Xerox Corp., what with your coining a word, not yet in the dictionary, in an effort, ever so subtly, to make the name "Xerox" synonymous with copy machines...
...Of course, this could be called trivial, but it isn't where I am concerned due to the political and ideological make-up of Xerox...
...I have sat and listened to him talk six hours at a stretch, over a bottle of Martell's Brandy, and been fascinated every minute of the six hours...
...So why help them...
...I still don't know what it is that disturbs Mr...
...So did many other first rate magazines...
...I enjoyed my first issue, congratulations on what you are doing Sincerely Charles C. Dayspring Santa Barbara, California To the Editor: The best thing that can happen in the sale of a product or service, is to have the tradename become a "household" word...
...The difference between conservatism North and South is that as a basic tenet we include foresight...
...The New Yorker, for all its regrettable ideological stand, is still the damn best literary magazine in this country, and The New Yorker has published many of Mr...
...Even better, I suggest you try going out on the land for a time, and know the feelings of the Earth better...
...How could Mr...
...much of what one reads of Nock nowadays-and you do read a great deal about him, a small cult is developing-is very wide of the mark as far as the actual Nock is concerned...
...Tyrmand's articles and excerpts of his book...
...Our own investigation, however, finds that McSorly's Ale House does indeed serve a beverage known as porter, and porter...
...Throughout your latest CJan 73) effort you display the essence of William Buckley conservatism-rhetoric which is cleverly written enough to defy quotation out of context but which, taken as a whole, is nothing more (or less) than sophisticated John Birch-ism...
...Ray Edminster Loma Linda,California To the Editor: In The Alternative for March Henry Regnery quotes Heinrich Hauser from which I excerpt the the following: "The Russian occupation...
...AU of us here at The Establishment have given Ralph a short prayer of thanks...
...Not being a women's libber, I myself have never been inside McSorley's, neither do I care to break tradition...
...Why not IBM-ed, or MMM-ed, or Speed-O-Printed, or Apeco-ed.etc, etc...
...Again, we do not dispute the fact that the beverage might have been cheap...
...Sincerely Yours David Adcock Southern Director, YAF Durham, North Carolina To the Editor: Your review of Rosa Luxemburg Contraceptive Cooperative by Leopold Tyrmand, in your February issue, was one fo those rare shocks life delivers to me once in a while from the most unexpected sources...
...About the only thing your despicable rag is an alternative to is common decency and a sense of responsibility for self-knowledge and your fellow man's well-being...
...What is important is the fact of the existence of the G.D.R This by itself invalidates Regnery's opinion...
...Regnery goes on to state, ". . . Hauser's propositions appear to be manifestly absurd...
...Is Mr...
...Anna Wortheim New York, New York To the Editor: "The Alternative...
...The paper captioned the article "Bored to Death"- funny, huh...
...noticed a slight error...
...h was first brewed in 1750 by a certain Ralph Norwood at the Becter's Brewhouse on the east side of High Street in Shoreditch, England...
...Mrs...
...I am amazed that you obviously think so...
...and you'll begin to appreciate what that analogy really means...
...The Russian occupation zone, now organized as the German Democratic Republic, can hardly be considered a success when compared to the West German Federal Republic...
...Bluntly stating that he did not want to be considered a picker of nit, he nevertheless thought justified in making a comment of some sort...
...As a matter of fact, the inclusion of the demise of Life and of the Whooping Cranes in a column on human deaths is a demonstration of extremely poor taste and of a lack of sensitivity...
...Becoming "a part of the pervasive movement towards liberated living that threatens to erode the heart of our Country's greatness" can be very self-fulfilling (in contrast to your present unfortunate position) and lots of fun, too...
...Well, The Alternative seems to be headvat of sauerkraut, or in a vat of molasses, should preclude your including these deaths simply because you apparently think they are funny ways to die...
...I simply remain outside while my date relieves his thirst (sigh...
Vol. 6 • May 1973 • No. 8
