Correspondence
Mary Quite Contrary The December 1992 issue features "Books for Christmas," an annual list of gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Most of those chosen to submit their list...
...who is not practicing law may properly use that title...
...And "WP" is certainly entitled to use any adjective he chooses...
...Shannon Mader Huntington Beach, California Mon Dieu...
...To some, M. le Pen may indeed be "ghastly...
...In the preface to the Russian edition of V.I...
...Apparently those "many historians" never bothered to read the Marxist classics...
...But in any pretense to responsible journalism, the least "WP" could and should have said was "ghastly to some," or "ghastly to many," etc...
...To say that bias is in the eye of the beholder is to say that the standards of objectivity are themselves subjective...
...But M. le Pen is not "ghastly" to everyone...
...or/and LL.M...
...The canons of ethics of the American Bar Association prohibit practicing lawyers, including judges and law professors, who have just a J.D...
...Lenin also advised of the need to use "Aesopian language" in his famous pamphlet What Is to Be Done?, as did Stalin in his History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolsheviks...
...from using the title "Doctor...
...As Klehr and Haynes note, the U.S...
...Including this writer...
...Frank" turned out to be Ramon Mercader, the Stalinist assassin who drove a pick-ax through Leon Trotsky's skull on August 20, 1940, in Mexico City...
...Then we come to Mary Matalin's list...
...Please cancel my subscription...
...If bias exists in the eye of the beholder, then it is no less true that objectivity exists only in the eye of the beholder...
...Stanley R. Pappas, J.D...
...The ultimate upshot of relativism is that it has rendered moral absolutism logically unassailable...
...So, let us say adieu, now...
...She sounds to me more like a feminist from NOW than the Bush/Quayle '92 political director...
...Louis, Missouri The Doctor Is In In "Witch Doctor," his December Presswatch column, Terry Eastland says, "J.D.'s are never doctored...
...Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, the father of Soviet Communism wrote that he was forced "to formulate the few necessary observations on politics with extreme caution, by hints, in that Aesopian language—in that cursed Aesopian language—to which Czarism compelled all revolutionaries to have recourse, whenever they took their pens to write a 'legal' work...
...Every book chosen by her was written by a woman, was about a woman, or was both...
...You can look it up...
...Most of those chosen to submit their list submitted titles on varied subjects...
...So, too, did D. Z. Manuilsky, secretary general of the Communist International, complaining in his official 1934 report to the Seventeenth Party Congress of the Soviet Union that Italian Communists "have not mastered the secret of using that language of Aesop which, without diminishing its revolutionary class content, may stir and capture the imagination of the workers...
...Several years before his death, Budenz told me his disillusionment with the U.S...
...John D. Boland Research Director Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation St...
...In the December issue's Continuing Crisis, signed with the initials "WP," the following appears: ". . . the ghastly Jean-Marie le Pen...
...Just compare Matalin's list with that of Phyllis Schlafly...
...Wauwatosa, Wisconsin On the Bias In his superb column on the love affair between Bill Clinton and the media ("On the Bus With Bill and Hillary," TAS, October 1992), Terry Eastland quotes Tom Brokaw as saying, "I think most bias exists in the eye of the beholder...
...Marvin Liebman also makes the one-track mind column, and to a much lesser degree, so does John Doggett...
...Florence Jorgensen New Milford, New Jersey Louis Budenz In their otherwise splendid article "The Comintern's Open Secrets" (TAS, December 1992) authors Harvey Klehr and John Haynes refer to ex-Communist Louis Budenz's "bizarre story that the Communist spoke in Aesopian language" as reason "many historians" dismissed the late Notre Dame, Fordham, and Seton Hall professor as a credible authority on the subject of home-grown Marxism, though he served as editor of the party's Daily Worker from 1940 to 1945...
...William P. Treacy Lake Forest, Illinois...
...In the end, . . . when you relativize truth, you succeed only in absolutizing "subjective" truth...
...Now that recently available secret Soviet files prove Louis Budenz's veracity in his testimony about the CPUSA, perhaps some of the "many historians" who dismissed this gentle, kind man as only a footnote in history will finally have some second thoughts on their rash evaluations of him...
...With a one-track mind like that, it is easy to see why Bush lost the election...
...Hill" was inappropriate...
...It is possible that Anita Hill has some other doctorate—M.D., LL.D., Ph.D.—in addition to her J.D...
...If not, then Eastland was correct in stating that addressing her as "Dr...
...Communist party began with the active involvement of the Daily Worker in arranging to smuggle a strange little man named "Frank" into Mexico illegally...
...But a J.D...
...Communist party in those days—far from being an intellectual club where members sat around discussing Marxist theory—was deep into espionage, subversion, assassinations, and more...
...That's not quite so...
...It starts out with "Reading is my number-one therapy and salvation," and I ask, who wants to know...
Vol. 26 • February 1993 • No. 2
