Correspondence
To the Editor: Do try, please, to think kindly of Patrick Bosoid (Correspondence~May), in spite of his outburst. You are no doubt aware that California's children are under par in education...
...I have recently read Robert Maddox's New Left and the Ode~ ef the CeM War, which spears the revisionist historians in their most vulnerable spot--their veracity-and which has luckily aroused a gn~d deal of controversy and done much to destroy the credibility of the revisionists...
...Not even that...
...You should really try to pay your contributors more handsomely, so as to avoid this embarrassment...
...Any number of Federal agencies, i~., O.E.O., EOs A.CJ.]J., HD.D., Hs Justice Dept., etc., will be only too glad to subsidize your stay at Walden's lacuna...
...96 in the Blaxploitation Follies...
...So thank God for Buckley, because without him the Oxford English Dictionary would hove passed on, here, unnoticed...
...Keep up the goad work...
...Would that the blaxploitation flickers had such style...
...so do some of the corpses...
...William R. Van Cleave Associate Professor Politics and International Relations University of Southern California To the Editor: Let me extend my congratulations to you, though a bit belatedly, for publishing the two articles by Robert Ferrell on the revisionist historians...
...I know this, because I watch "Firing Line" and when I hear him use an unfamiliar word, I can always depend on some alert (?) journalist to use it in an article a clay or two later...
...Then Kissinger uses it in his next press release, then the President, then our representatives, then newscasters, and so on down to the common people...
...Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" theme comes alive, _9 Jesus Christ Superstar: A familiar story, some excellent God-pop rock, a majestic set: (Israel's deserts), a wee bit of camp ("Herod's Song": "So you're Jesus Christ: Prove to me that you're no fool...
...Leslie Lenkowsky's essay on "The Significance of FAP" in the June-Sept...
...They're wrong...
...Gary North Irvingtoa, New York To the Editor: Your June issue was very good, but I take exception to Leslie Lenkowsky's discussion of welfare...
...Rosilond Steiner Chicago, Illinois To the Editor: Concerning Mr...
...I Tom Sawyer: For those who've never read Mark Twain, never intend to, hate literature, but love junky "family" movies...
...William F. Buckley, Jr- has no peer-in or out of context...
...28 The Al~'~ative October 1973...
...It seems to me that the problem of welfare can best be solved by a government that says "being poor is going to hurt...
...9 Forty Carats: Can you endure another May-December romance...
...Lots of evil Negroes butchering good guys...
...This sorely needed doing, and Maddox's approach is probably the best as a semipublicistic tactic...
...I hope you all go to hell...
...The United States of course did not "sign" the 1954 Geneva Conference Cease-Fire, bet gave only hedged verbal support to the agreement...
...Perhaps you only mean that his dissertation cmcor~ '~velfare at Harvard University...
...And so would have beautiful words...
...9 Hail to the Chief: Came out last year as Hail...
...Outrageous then, only a tad less so now...
...If Mr...
...9 Hitler: the Last Ten Days: Seems like a fortnight, but Alec Guiness is magnificent...
...You are to be complimented for having given space to such an excellent analysis...
...You are no doubt aware that California's children are under par in education (what they lack in brain, they make up for in brawn-~ xpelled six the other day for proving that with two teachers...
...issue of your stellar journal, I notice that he is listed as follows...
...I can't...
...same genre...
...After all, one gets so busy '~elf fulfilling" that one forgets there is no .iem after Birch, only an occasional er...
...Nixon had not encouraged policies that made poverty p rofitable, a lot fewer people would choose poverty...
...1.eslie Lenkowsky . . . is completing his doctoral thesis on welfare at Harvard University...
...9 The Friends of Eddie Coyle: Boston looks great...
...Robert Mitchum shines...
...Doris Day and Rock Hudson did it better long ago, as did everyone else from 1930 on...
...9 O Lucky Man: O not so lucky filmgoer, and oh my aching rump--it runs for days, or nearly...
...guage...
...But I find Ferrell's approach intellectually more substantial, and probably in the long run more important...
...He has contributed a great deal to our Ion...
...Charles A. Maser Associate Professor of Russian The George Washington University Washington, D.C...
...9 The De~d...
...I loved it, but few other critics did...
...But if you ever feel like "going out on the land for a time" to "know the feelings of the Earth better" your best bet is California...
...Perhaps I misread your introductory note...
...ERRATUM Doe to confusion in this office, a statement in John Lulves' June-Sept...
...So what else is new...
...9 Money, Money, Money: Funny, funny, etc...
...John T. Pruitt, Jr...
...El Sobrante, California To the Editor: You guys are a bunch of . . . . . . . I bet you make Richard Nixon happy...
...Here he acts fine, only his character is utterly repulsive...
...More likely people are persuaded to remain in it both by wrongheaded policies like FAP and by the present intellectual and spiritual environment that always aJibis for the under.achiever and socks it to the guy who works for his daily bread--not the rich guy, mind you, but the hard working overage man...
...9 The Last of Sheila: Devilishly clever, eh wot--for game freaks...
...Your ethical systems are in the . . . . . What kind of Americans are you...
...Also for those (like your servant) who thought Richard Benjamin would never be anything but an utterly repulsive actor...
...Brudnoy's Film Index _9 Cleopatra Jones: No...
...Barbara Mathews Hartford, Connecticut To the Editor: I have enjoyed Tbe Alten~e from the start, but the last two issues on the origins of the Cold War, revisionist history, and Truman's foreign policy have been superb and reflect high standards of quality...
...to malign Our President Which Art in Washington...
...If so, this one won't convert him, A touch of class...
...In Miss Jones: More clever than Deep Throat...
...Five bucks for Brando's backside, inane dialogue (mostly mumbled), and Paris looking unusually ugly...
...With that twit, Edward Albert, yet...
...I have long suspected that most of Harvard's graduate students are on welfare, but I had hoped that llllle Altermtlye's contributors might be of a more productive sort...
...9 The Harrad Experiment: Boys and girls shacking up at Har(vard)rod(cliff) with official blessing...
...the Nixon Court approves...
...James Mason, as always, showing up his inferiors...
...Lenkowsky...
...Mrs...
...the 96th lousy entry in the parade...
...Raquel Welch with her two great attributes...
...9 Last Tango in Paris: Catch it before the Burger Court drives it underground...
...Trashy and bering, propaganda to the last drop...
...9 A Touch of Class: Breathes there a man with soul so dead who hasn't stirred somewhere to the charms of Glenda Jackson...
...Also, some hungry crocodiles, sharks, and a gaggle of rednecks straight from the Dodge ad...
...review of Robert F. Turner's monograph, Myths of the Vietnam War, was erroneously distorted...
...9 Live and Let Die: Agent 007 returns, via Roger Moore, who frowns nicely, and should do some sit-ups...
...Anyway, give my best to Mr...
...But don't blame me if you feel ripped off...
...If the Right did it to President Kennedy (the once or the future President Kennedy), we would never hear the end of it...
...Walk upon my swimming pool...
...Stick with the 18th century...
...but ha hum, another Godfather spin-off...
...Call it a shameless statement if you will, but in a society where the proportion of people living On poverty has steadily declined an, d where there are pages and pages of jobs available in wont ads, I find it very hard to accept the idea that people are "locked into poverty...
...But she /s tall (6' 2") and dynamite, if you like that sort of thing...
...9 Paper Moon: Ryan O'Neal, daughter Tatum, the Depression, and anyhow, nostalgia is in this month...
...9 State of Siege: For professional Amerika-haters with no limits in endurance...
...Liv Ullmann, how could you...
...So don't hold him accountable if he fails to understand that you're the Alternative to bbe...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
