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CORRESPONDENCE Reform Party, Anyone? It's a shame that Mordecai Richler' s impatience with academic writing styles led him to dismiss Tom Flanagan's Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and...
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...King crossed Spring Road to go to Raymond School, she must have lived south of that, making the walk to Central only about ten blocks, Ogden to Clifton, hardly a distance necessitating use of Capital Transit and a school ticket...
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...This counts for something, and Mr...
...It served the more (now) well known Mount Pleasant, my former environs...
...To sum up: Robert Crumb is about a thousand times more interesting than your reviewer would allow the reader to suppose...
...But, DSS remains a monument to nineteenth-century organizational styles...
...Tom Bethel...
...National agencies called our system a mess...
...Engler's people were quick to make promises and he brought in good people...
...Though St...
...Her observations about the morose theme of Walk Two Moons reminded me how I became more involved in my children's choice of reading material...
...Sound familiar...
...George Cloos Deerfield, Illinois Thanks to The American Spectator and P. J. O'Ronrke for the extended coverage of our little book on bias-free writing...
...Undeveloped" and "underdeveloped" were invented as benign substitutes for backward, primitive, or uncivilized...
...Karla D. Henderlong Dublin, California An Earful This is in response to a very selfish and disgusting letter (Correspondence, TAS, September 1995) written by Justin Levine of Playa del Rey, California, whereby he extends "kudos" to James Bovard concerning the Americans With Disabilities Act, specifically "closed captioning...
...Thanks to her, I remain a coward at the dentist's, and I recognized her name immediately about ten years ago when her obit was published...
...That's all there is to it...
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...There will be none of that invisible hand stuff at DSS...
...Again, this is just plain wrong...
...It is my hope that these liberal Catholics will take a hard look at the recent history and failings of the Episcopal Church and take heed...
...As a Protestant convert to Roman Catholicism who is also the offspring of a pastor, I am perhaps more sensitive than most Roman Catholics to the slurs and barbs flung upon the pope and his steadfast, conservative leadership of the Magisterium...
...As for the "on premises" dentist, I too remember her ("iff hitt hoitz, race yur hant"—raising your hand did not deter her drilling...
...If the latter, the existing policy makes perfect sense...
...First, Cone's endangered species considerations influenced only 15 percent of his land...
...The non-partisan U.S...
...I only regret that your wonderful magazine doesn't come out every day...
...When I fully comprehended that Texas was in fact five times as large as Illinois, I became curious about the disparity in population density...
...Hiatt is where 15th should be, but that ends at Irving and 16th, where it inexplicably slants into another numbered street...
...Ross Mandell Norwich, Connecticut With more space O'Rourke might have pointed out that some of the words Ms...
...O'Rourke was looking for an excuse to exercise his vocabulary in defense of conservative values or what he takes to be common sense...
...At first we thought it was an example of coastal prejudice toward the Midwest, or that Mr...
...This is false...
...The Governor has surrounded himself with good people and he has done a good job selecting administrators who know how to administer...
...As to the challenge, where do we start...
...There are many flagrant violations of the ADA, and I just hope that "activists" still keep calling and reminding the television programmers that it is time that they consider assisting Americans with disabilities in this endeavor—and by the way, we don't all go to bed at 9 p.m...
...You don't have to go to China or study New York's rent control plan...
...Retarded" seems to me to be more kindly than "disabled" because it suggests a slow starter who may catch up as opposed to someone who is permanently out of competition...
...The whole system cries out for private control...
...Rodgers, a bald man, affectionately or unaffectionately known as "Chrome Dome...
...Maybe that goes too for his familiarity with what dullness abides in state college classrooms...
...This is unfortunate because Robert Crumb is not only an artist of astonishing gifts and a monumental ouevre, but he is one who truly merits the name "American Spectator...
...Adelman's view that "an adulterous fly-by-weekend encounter between two sexually frustrated lonely people" makes for an implausible love story...
...2) As to mental health, Engler Single and Christian...
...It is government's job to keep the playing field open and fair...
...But then Mr...
...I frequently find myself sympathetic to New Yorkers, who don't know that the night sky is filled with stars...
...Driven by winds of eighty miles an hour, walls of flame 100 to 150 feet high jumped six-lane interstate highways...
...Teachers are being asked to function as baby-sitters, parole officers, therapists, cops, nurses, health care assistants, and lawyers...
...he began his career without any publishing company or wealthy foundation or highbrow reviewer to back him up...
...O'Rourke had trained his powers of knowingness on Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing, published by Indiana University Press...
...Miss Wells's prescience deserves an A...
...Bernard Adelman Winthrop, Massachusetts James Bowman replies: Mr...
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...To my best recollection, the cafeteria at the home of the Rough Riders did not sell hamburgers but a very good blue plate special for 25 cents, including milk and dessert...
...But in that "no jeans or polo shirts allowed" era, over 85 percent of Roosevelt grads went to college, as did over 95 percent of the graduates of segregated Dunbar, probably then the match of any high school in the country for academics...
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...He also doesn't seem to understand that without a true restructuring of these organizations, he hasn't made things better...
...I just laughed and laughed...
...O'Rourke gets it wrong—the book may have skewed his mind's eye—is in his description of Indiana University (presumably the mother campus at Bloomington) as "that cow-besieged, basketball-sotted sleep-away camp for hick bourgeois offspring...
...It brought back pleasant memories of a formerly excellent educational system and a formerly great city, despite the onus of partial segregation...
...A couple of years ago, while my then–nine-year-old daughter was choosing books, I saw a poster celebrating the Newberry Award winners over the last seventy years...
...Shame on you, Levine...
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...You see, in those dark ages of real discipline, education, and safety in D.C.'s schools (and on its streets), married students needed not apply for day classes...
...But, we need the teachers in the classrooms...
...But, five years have gone by and the system is still a mess...
...Nicholas I (858-67) who closely followed in the theological footsteps of his illustrious predecessors, pressing the claims of the papacy and sharing "an exalted view of the papal office...
...His abetting the destruction of our planet by urging impoverished millions to populate the inhabitable is not just a cardinal sin, it's a papal one...
...Want to see a little Marxism at work...
...But, good write-up on a good man...
...As to the question of whether John Paul H will ever receive similar recognition, the way things are going I wouldn't bet on it...
...And there were a number of non-coach male teachers...
...1) In education, Engler has won big over the Michigan Education Association and has turned funding on its head...
...Indeed, when the bad guys come back—and eventually they will—he may have given them new ways to make life less comfortable for all of Us...
...I have no doubt of the artist's enormous talent either as a draftsman or as a wit, but the film was about Crumb the man, who, though quite charming, is obviously a sick puppy...
...I'm personally concerned that the Governor's background may not have prepared him for the end-game of actually restructuring the way we run our government...
...The most virulent opponents to the Act apparently believe that if they repeat lies loudly and often enough, their claims will become true...
...The 1964 convention is even trotted out as having convinced the GOP that Goldwater's was the winning cause, the subsequent electoral debacle studiously but not quite logically ignored...
...What a service Mr...
...One day she did not show up...
...But then we realized the brilliance of what he has done...
...He flat-out doesn't understand that there are potential allies within all those organizations he has taken on...
...Right now that is what the administrators largely do, but we can spare them . . . . if not the money that is being burned up...
...One of them is to keep the system open and visible so that we can see what is going on...
...I asked a mutual friend and she said authorities had found out my Rosie was married and had to depart Roosevelt...
...And, of course, the upshot was rather predictable: the dogma of usage imposed on the publications of American university presses makes for an almost infinite regress of silliness...
...DSS's policy for licensing and contracting for foster care agencies is pure Mao in scope and intent...
...God bless Miss Wells...
...First, "Columbia Heights" was from my earliest memory over the post-office door right there on Irving Street—Washington 10, D.C...
...ATTRACTIVE ORIENTAL LADIES seeking correspondence, marriage...
...However, Eleanor Roosevelt notwithstanding, I believe Dr...
...What he has in mind is probably the state of Indiana's prominent land-grant university, Purdue, where cows are said to flourish to their hearts' content...
...Rudel destroyed 500 Russian tanks, sank one Russian battleship, and was the most highly decorated German pilot of WWII (according to his book Stuka Pilot...
...I acquired an airline map, cut the State of Illinois from it, and discovered that it would cover every major city in Texas but El Paso...
...Later he endorsed Gerald Ford for the 1976 GOP nomination over Ronald Reagan, appeared on national TV with Jane Fonda and Norman Lear to hype the brand-new People for the American Way, supported Sharon Percy Rockefeller forthe board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after having blocked the confirmation of a conservative woman, helped raise money for the radicalized Lowell Weicker to run for governor of Connecticut against a Republican, announced publicly that he no longer thought Human Events worth reading, and endorsed a very liberal Arizona Democrat over a conservative Republican for Congress in 1992...
...school system was then beginning its long (continued on page 82) The American Spectator October 1995 79 PERSONALS NICE SINGLES with Christian values wish to meet others...
...O'Rourke has proved his bona fides as a thoroughly informed observer, and we must take him at his word...
...The only nearby drug store on Georgia Avenue was a Peoples, which, along with all Peoples, never served hamburgers...
...The meeting, although scheduled, never took place...
...Bowman might have gone even further...
...Adelman notes, the movie's treatment is a big improvement on the book's...
...But, as with President Bush's lapse over the economy—he just didn't understand how the average person could be worried about things—Governor Engler has his own blind spots...
...But herpiece underscores the plain fact that sometimes there are worse things that may befall a city than segregated schools...
...Of all living despots, he alone has caused the most human misery...
...Where Mr...
...Whether the GOP believes it or not, the world is in a bad way, and adding millions of unneeded babies to it yearly is simply hastening its destruction and adding to individual misery...
...It is not clear whether Mr...
...In addition, the Fish and Wildlife Service repeatedly offered Cone habitat conservation plan proposals that would insulate him from future responsibilities under the ESA...
...As for Benjamin Cone, he will be thrilled to hear that he is still permitted to rake straw on his own land...
...I believe the principal of Roosevelt was Miss, not Mrs., Wells...
...Schwartz would ban as demeaning, e.g., "feeble-minded" and "retarded," were originally introduced as euphemisms for such words as idiot, imbecile, moron, or crazy...
...There is no need, at least on my part, to "concoct" reasons for loyalty to someone who stood tall against the Washington monolith in 1964 and paid the price for it in terms of liberal abuse and ridicule...
...That Republicans that year should have avoided an "electoral debacle" by nominating Rockefeller...
...There are too many indications of insider deal making right now...
...A moment later, my daughter asked me to help her find some good books since everything she found was about "dead moms...
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...No one is claiming the Act is perfect—saving representative natural ecosystems is a tricky business involving science, economics, and law...
...And what a verbally stout, hairy-chested, table-thumping review it was...
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...School buses were for the "country" folk, and to this day I have never ridden in or even entered one...
...Flanagan, a professor of political science, served as a senior official in the Reform Party...
...Second, and more significantly, these responsibilities did not prevent him from using the portion of his property upon which the woodpeckers are located...
...In the case of closed captioning, many of us have purchased very expensive applications to our televisions that enable us to have closed captioning, and we need the cooperation of the television stations, and people in general, to uphold this important law...
...Yes, there are some big challenges and many of us are concerned that a half-won battle eventually may become a lost battle...
...Clearly such a project deserved such a reviewer, for seldom does so ridiculous an exercise in academic sanctimony get thrust into the hands of so naughty a fellow as Mr...
...I also noticed how bleak and narrow in scope the recently honored books seemed...
...There is so much to be shared about life...
...Today Goldwater is a strident absolutist about excluding religious thinking from the fashioning of public policy...
...Wendell L. Jennings Grand Blanc, Michigan The Rudel Riddle In Ben Stein's "If This Is Tuesday" (TAS, July 1995), he mentions that Hitler, on his last day before committing suicide, had a meeting with Rudel—an unfamiliar name to Stein...
...In 1964, however, he said, "I think it is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions," adding that the so-called wall between church and state had become "so high and so rigid as to threaten the spiritual foundations of the American nation...
...As I continue to assist my children at the library, I am dismayed that the plots of so much recent juvenile literature are crisis-driven: divorce, abandonment, death...
...Donald F. Beach Falls Church, Virginia Engler's Unfinished Business I really enjoyed Robert Novak's July valentine to my governor, John Engler ("My Favorite Career Pol," TAS, July 1995...
...And that is where Republicans in general and conservatives in particular fall down...
...Elliott Banfield (former TAS artist) New York, New York 78 The American Spectator October 1995 James Bowman's review of The Bridges of Madison County (TAS, August 1995) deftly pierces Robert James Waller's bathetic fantasy of down-home adultery...
...He did much more than try to catch smokers in the loos...
...Mrs...
...Their property effectively becomes the government's...
...And shame on you, American Spectator, for printing this obnoxious letter...
...It is useful to compare The Bridges of Madison County with another story featuring adultery—Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which relates how infidelity sped the destruction of Camelot...
...Bell Vocational, for boys, was relocated from Southwest D.C...
...True conservatives understand that extinction is forever...
...Send age, interests...
...Bethell also misrepresented or omitted several key facts from the discussion of Benjamin Cone's red-cockaded woodpecker situation in North Carolina as well...
...stating, according to the Washington Post, that the students then at Roosevelt no longer wanted to learn and that some were incapable of being taught...
...But two challenges lie ahead calling for leadership: If there is to be cost-effectiveness, there must be a new way to monitor the schools and the money they spend...
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...Douglas N. Walter Ridgecrest, California Still Champion Although I'm not a boxing fan, I greatly enjoyed Michael J. McGrorty's beautifully written "The Unsweet Science," which appeared in your July 1995 issue...
...In the hands of Crumb this medium replicates or regenerates the artist's experience in a storytelling, character-and-dialoguerich format comparable to film, but in a way that is far more compressed and economical than is possible in the cinematic mode...
...Gail P. Dawson Alexandria, Virginia Mr...
...Even in the good parts of Texas there are large empty spaces, and it gives me comfort to be in them...
...Avalon Comm...
...Johnston got my attention in his article about the pope by saying that all the people on earth could move to Texas and still have as much living space as the average American...
...If government tries to take over and control it, we will have a mess...
...But Michigan voters aren't interested in having our governor settle for a Desert Storm-like effort...
...Janice E. Mathews St...
...The locker room bravado, gratuitous insults, and towel-slapping zingers are especially good...
...Cone refused to cooperate...
...King forget "Doc" Brown and the shop teachers...
...If this obtains any place else in the district, let me know...
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...Snape yet understands the problem...
...Laura Morrow Professor of English (and Heritage Foundation Salvatori Fellow) Louisiana State University-Shreveport Shreveport, Louisiana I agree with James Bowman that the movie adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County was leaner than the drecky novel...
...The ADA is about Americans getting a little assistance in their quest for good living...
...Why don't we let the man finish the job he has started...
...Does anyone believe that the book would have been a best-seller, and the movie good box-office, if Francesca had gone the way of Bergman...
...When I moved to Texas some years ago, there were still more people in my native state of Illinois...
...Renew my subscription for one year (twelve issues—$35) ^ Payment enclosed ^ Bill me later Name (Please AddressCityState- ZipDate of changeL VCAFRMCORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 79) downward slide...
...O'Rourke's review of Marilyn Schwartz et al.'s Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing made my day (TAS, August 1995...
...lust be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...But it's a book likely to prove immensely valuable to anyone interested in the Perot and Buchanan movements as well...
...There, his friend, George Bush, won an overwhelming victory on the field, but left the old guard in place to continue to run things...
...A word of advice to writers of juvenile fiction (not to be confused with Clinton speechwriters): Be original...
...That is not a good way to protect species...
...Banfield seems to fault me for reviewing the film rather than R. Crumb's art, as if this was some disparagement of the latter...
...It's true that his book lacks colorful political anecdotes...
...each of his successive comic books was, creatively speaking, a world unto itself with new characters, new settings, new techniques, new ideas...
...John Gallman, Director Indiana University Press Bloomington, Indiana My nominal connection with TAS obliges me to read the magazine from time to time, even if just to know what rumors of mischief may be scandalizing my name...
...William J. Snape Counsel, Defenders of Wildlife Washington, D.C...
...General Accounting Office has determined that the ESA did not contribute to the loss of homes...
...Miss King should also know as a native Washingtonian that it has many areas still known to us by name, e.g., Tenleytown, Deanwood, Trinidad, Cleveland Park...
...It won't wash...
...As the Anglican historian J.N.D...
...The poor blokes in the middle, many of whom are small business owners or workers in small companies, get zilch...
...No review has considered how this chick-flick would have fared at the box office had the sexes in the story been reversed: what if a hard-toiling farmer-husband, the wife and kiddies safely away, had rolled in the hay with a passing photographeress with an itch, then spent decades mooning about her while taking advantage of the comfort and pleasures provided by his wife...
...O'Rourke's characterization of the IU Press as "a traditional dumping ground for academic deadwood so bereft of talent, intelligence, and endeavor as to be useless even in the dull precincts of Midwestern state college classrooms," it is to his moral credit that he has paid such searching attention to the many years' worth of catalogues, when lesser sorts might have found more compelling things to read...
...Among all men, the pope is the guilty party...
...This was probably Stuka pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel...
...While discussing the Domenigoni family in Riverside County, California, Bethell spreads the misconception that habitat-protection measures for the kangaroo rat placed property at risk during the tragic California wildfires of 1993...
...but parallel to and west of 14th, running only one long block from Irving St...
...After all, seniors did not deign to speak to underclassmen, oops, I mean underclasspersons...
...Authors like Robert Newton Peck, Jean Craighead George, Beverly Cleary, Ann Cameron, and others have proved that children's literature can reflect poignancy, humor, and anguish without knocking off mom or dad as a plot device...
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...There are single panels or frames in Crumb comic books that in terms of creative impact completely blow away the typical Hollywood product...
...Only a New Yorker would say that, a person who thinks that oranges are made from orange juice, who doesn't realize how much of the earth's surface is dedicated to providing him food, clothing, and paper to write on...
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...I am thankful that your publication, which is not ecclesiastical (much less denominational), has printed a positive article on this Bishop of Rome...
...Frank Cash Desert Hot Springs, California The American Spectator October 1995 83...
...Joseph, Michigan Crumb Takes the Cake In his review of Crumb ("Crumb and Crummier," TAS, August 1995) James Bowman seems to applaud the film, but he is very condescending toward its subject...
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...If the present pope were someday to receive the appellation Magnus ("the Great"), he would in fact be the fourth not "the third in his line" to be so called...
...I also disagree with Mr...
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...But the master stroke comes in setting up tension in the female viewer or reader because of the certainty of illicit romance, and then letting that viewer or reader feel good and moral when Francesca doesn't pull an Ingrid Bergman but (predictably) stays with the family...
...Like R. Crumb, Mallory is another illustration of how a great artist can be a not-so-great human being, and I very much doubt that he found the story of Launcelot and Guinevere "ugly...
...How many men, dragooned by wives or girlfriends into sitting through this repellent film, sat there and wondered whether the rapt female beside them would spend decades dreaming of an itinerant photographer or cab driver or Federal Express man...
...About the moral of Mallory I disagree with Professor Morrow, who does not mention that the "acts of questionable morality" included rape...
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...I'd have to say he's right up there with Sir Thomas Aquinas, and I would love to read anything he's written...
...Absent that, he said that we would end up with a "tawdry palace coup rather than a glorious revolution...
...In the form of a critique, he has cleverly found a way to demonstrate the kinds of culturally encoded bias that engendered (!) the book in the first place...
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...It pleased me that I had read most of the books as a child myself or with my children...
...Jeb Bush was in Michigan recently and he spoke of the importance of making our chance to change things actually work...
...But, it is in the interests of conservatives, in particular, to be sure that a move toward private control does not mean a continuation of the present unfair three-tier system: Good insurance or money goes first class, Medicare or Medicaid goes second class but gets the job done...
...Given his reputation for scrupulous accuracy, he would no doubt wish to know that the terrain of Monroe County does not invite cows in great number, much less in any force large enough to mount a respectable siege...
...It was perhaps risky (public display of hysteria, that sort of thing) of Mr...
...The governor likes to talk about what he has done and he has won some victories...
...As for Mr...
...O'Rourke to support our book in this way, but in the end it works very well...
...We have ordered a second printing in anticipation of the orders that will come pouring in when your readers learn about the availability of our Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing...
...3) The Department of Social Services is the biggest department and offers the biggest challenge...
...Crumb was never content to repeat himself...
...Reveling in such a tale is also ugly, and reveals something questionable about the moral character of the reveler...
...Right now programs are funded according to a mish-mash of special rules that require some students to receive ten times as much public money as others...
...O'Rourke...
...It's a shame that Mordecai Richler' s impatience with academic writing styles led him to dismiss Tom Flanagan's Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and Preston Manning in TAS's September book review section...
...Some of us would like to see closed captioning right into midnight...
...Governor Engler has won his share of victories, but despite the campaign-friendly numbers quoted by Novak, we see a long road ahead before Michigan is the way it needs to be...
...William M. Klimon Baltimore, Maryland Heather Has Two Mummies I read with head-nodding agreement Diana West's reviews of juvenile literature ("PC Mommy Knows Best," TAS, July 1995...
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...Bowman's observation that when Francesca (the over-heated, middle-aged farm frau) renounces Robert Kincaid (the over-heated, middle-aged wandering shutterbug) for the sake of her children, her vaunted "nobility" doesn't yield much by way of results—her daughter, for example, winds up just as unhappily married as her mother, and for just as ill-defined and goofy reasons...
...But I would suggest that the very banality is primarily what accounted for the fantastic (bad pun...
...Only a brilliant Barnum could have a reader or viewer accept or approve of an adulterous fly-by-weekend encounter between two sexually frustrated lonely people as a great love story, a grand passion—as if Francesca Johnson, Mediterranean and hence hot-blooded, were Dante's aristocratic Francesca da Rimini come to middle-aged life, and not a woman born in Italy to a humble family and hence presumably brought up to believe that committing adultery was a mortal sin...
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...The fact is, he was severely penalized for his own good stewardship...
...It is your providing a forum for brilliant and insightful people like him (and many others to whom I mean no disrespect by not naming here) that makes you, in my opinion, the finest monthly in America today...
...I also agree that the story is a banal fantasy that has nothing to do with what Caryn James deludedly regarded as the nobility of ordinary life...
...High School remained over the new "Bell," which is on Hiatt, not "Hyatt" Place—and not "above" 14th St...
...Certainly he has been a hard working and very active leader and he deserves to receive credit for what he has done...
...Kent Owen Indiana Editor, TAS Bloomington, Indiana Bethell Endangered It is disappointing to see your publication fall prey to the wildly exaggerated claims of opponents to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), particularly as the Act relates (continued on page 12) 10 The American Spectator October 1995 to private-property rights...
...William P. Campbell III Fort Walton Beach, Florida "Pope Culture" is one of those articles that gives you the warm breakthrough sensation of total understanding and that very soon your mind will grasp "time is space...
...Michael Rowe did create an illegal firebreak, and his home was saved, unlike those of his neighbors...
...Crumb never went to Harvard or to Yale or to any other college...
...Public Schools, 1941-1953" by Florence King (TAS, July 1995...
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...We're either going to have to get a collar on the bureaucrats or we will end up with schools where everyone spends all their time filling out forms, attending conferences, and sitting in meetings...
...And it isn't Debbie Does Dallas...
...Bethell states that Cone "lost one-fourth of his property to the woodpecker...
...It is almost axiomatic that in America real men (the John Wayne icon) are made uneasy by the requirements of civility and interpersonal sensitivity...
...18 plus only...
...Especially adroit is Mr...
...Johnston does for this faith-poor world in offering such explicable reasons of why God exists...
...I personally have all premium channels, and pay quite dearly for repeat performances on these channels...
...As with education, there are two major challenges: Change is coming and it is coming from every direction and it is coming fast...
...America was a better place when it had half as many people...
...Therefore they have an incentive to shoot and shovel before government agents appear on the scene...
...If Ms...
...The problem with Bridges, both book and movie, is not the plot but the treatment—though, as Mr...
...But everything he did was infused with a sort of sweetness or good-heartedness that is easily overlooked because he never censored the very ribald, Rabelaisian, politically incorrect impulses that were always at or near the surface of his mind...
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...Your veneration of the pope left me stunned...
...How could Ms...
...The day may not be far distant when words favored by Schwartz such as "disabled" and "disability" will be moved into the pejorative class forbidden in proper writing...
...King's puzzling reference to Goldwater's having captured the 1964 GOP convention only to lose the general election, what is he suggesting...
...As for Mr...
...Conservatives do themselves no credit by concocting reasons for loyalty to someone so undeserving of it...
...Nonetheless, as a graduate of the last all-white class at Roosevelt, Miss King's piece has sufficient errors that I must set her and our fellow readers straight...
...replies: The Domenigoni and Cone cases are neither fanciful nor anecdotal, as Mr...
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...King and I know she can't place me...
...The only way for Rudel to make Berlin was by air, and area airfields were under attack...
...The goal, however, should be to arm private landowners with the incentive and information to be goodland stewards...
...But at long last someone has discovered how to make academic writing, already much slew-footed in phrase and thought, even worse...
...It befuddles me why the New Conservatism curries such senseless ideologies...
...Snape knows...
...However you choose to interpret 1964, Barry Goldwater has changed a lot since then, and all for the worse...
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...On the other hand, at a time when populist movements are sweeping North America, it offers a detailed examination based on first-hand observation of how populism can go wrong when it is not securely tethered to conservative principles...
...Corrected School Work I read with nostalgic interest "The Way We Were: My Life in the D.C...
...As a long-time reader of The American Spectator, I'd like to see more of his work grace your pages...
...Too expensive" won't cut it anymore...
...I hope this publication takes a more constructive position on this issue in the future...
...While there may be a move toward more equity between districts, there is now a crying need for more equity within the schools themselves...
...The Fish and Wildlife Service used the ESA to put rat protection above fire hazard...
...public students (white) who needed dental work...
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...On the other hand, I wouldn't bet against it...
...Snape want: to save species, or to bring private property under state control...
...The assistant principal was Mr...
...But there are roles to be played...
...Goldwater Canyon In the August American Spectator Victor Gold insists that "the Goldwater we know today is pretty much the Goldwater we've always known...
...David Frum Toronto, Ontario The New John Wayne P.J...
...I don't begrudge an author's right to tell any story he wishes, but you have to admit that the dead/absent parent theme is, face it, weird...
...Cone is free to continue thinning the woods, raking straw, and leasing the area for quail hunting—all the activities he had been doing before the red-cockaded woodpeckers were discovered...
...As for the student expelled for pregnancy, less than that could lead to expulsion...
...Gary D. Jensen Lake Jackson, Texas My heartfelt congratulations and gratitude for the eloquent article on Pope John Paul II...
...Kelly has written, "Through his efforts the papacy came to be recognized, for a brief moment, as the supreme authority in the void created in the west by the steady erosion of the imperial power...
...He came out of nowhere and achieved fame in a few years simply on the basis of his formidable creative gift: he singlehandedly invented, then developed and marketed, a new art form, which, for want of a better name, is referred to as the underground comic book...
...Papal Blessings Having just read the article "Pope Culture" by George Sim Johnston (TAS, July 1995), I must say I was deeply impressed by his depth, clarity, and concision...
...John Bush Brooklyn, New York (continued on page 77) 12 The American Spectator October 1995 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) Papal Blessings (cont...
...I daydreamed, mooned over, and lusted after a beautiful classmate named Rosie who sat next to me in homeroom (Doc Brown's) my junior year...
...Evangelium Vitae is a resounding message to the West, America, and its wayward Catholic clergy and laity in particular, to wake up to the fact that the Church is the Rock that the waves crash against but will not break...
...The GAO Report confirmed that the Feds did not allow plowing (disking) to create firebreaks...
...Such fires go where they want, and disking several acres around a home would have made no difference...
...Need I/tone phone...
...Both of these men, Levine and Bovard, probably have never known the discomfort of the deaf or hard-ofhearing person, for if they did, they would not publish remarks like "the ADA is about those who cannot help themselves" and, in Levine's case, the deaf can now "read 'Ooohr, `Aaahr, and 'Oh yeah, baby!' the next time they sit down to watch Debbie Does Dallas...
...He went on to mention nongovernmental institutions, but the reality is that we have to use the governmental institutions as well...
...Gregory I (590-604) are generally recognized as "Great" popes, less well-known but also traditionally crowned with the title Magnus is St...
...Johnston describes as unpopulated is completely unlivable...
...I hope you will print more of his work in the future...
...Tom Bethell is a victim of this propaganda machine ("Species Logic," TAS, August 1995) and relies on two fanciful anecdotes to support his assertion that "Beltway environmentalists and their government allies" seek "to invade private property and usurp the rights of owners...
...i.e., one who observes American life and times from an American point of view...
...Drill was in Raymond only because that was where the free dental clinic was for all D.C...
...Thus, as Congress begins the process of reauthorizing the Endangered Species Act, it should do so with the facts...
...Get to know someone you'll really like...
...Mallory wrote his tale while locked away in the Tower of London for acts of questionable morality, yet he recognized that, although infidelity makes for an engaging story, adultery unmitigated by penitence makes an ugly story...
...The Endangered Species Act is a hazard to wildlife because it punishes, rather than rewards, land owners who play host to endangered species...
...Gold blithely adverts to the "get off [Clinton's] back and let him be president" remark without admitting that an equivalent admonition to Goldwater about LBJ in 1964 would have been as valid, that is to say, as phony...
...You can imagine my gladness when I found that P.J...
...TAS Address Changes Made Easy...
...Box 655, Mt...
...Recently, I have taken to delineating myself as a Roman Catholic in order to dissociate from the "Catholics" who insist on cafeteria-style Catholicism—picking and choosing the doctrines they enjoy, but passing over the "liver and onions" they don't like (read: abortion "rights," inclusive language, women "priests," etc...
...He likes to campaign and fight, so he has missed opportunities to build coalitions...
...success of the book and the (so-far) good box-office of the movie, which, I bet, is what largely concerned the author and the movie makers...
...The potential exists for true cost-effectiveness and for more equity between districts...
...John D. King Austin, Texas Victor Gold replies: I might agree with the writer in everything save his conclusion...
...She left in 1958 to become principal of the American School in Beirut...
...A lot of Texas is not suitable for people, and much of the 98 percent of the earth's land mass Mr...
...It's probably worth adding that I have no personal connection to Mr...
...What does Mr...
...Bell existed at the SW location and was still used—"Bell Vocational" carved over the entrance—as an FBI fingerprint facility until the sixties...
...We had moved from being a national leader to a national bad example...
...Bush also said that "We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time—at the local level and through local institutions...
...I don't recall Ms...
...Marcie Impastato Houston, Texas One small correction to George Sim Johnston's otherwise good piece on Pope John Paul II...
...The current themes have literally been done to death...
...O'Rourke does a bang-up job of revealing how far offensiveness-avoiders and sensitivity-enforcers mean to go in pursuit of cosmic equity...
...Pope John Paul H is our guide, leader, and the protector of the Gospel and tradition that has come from our apostolic fathers...
...In Canada, Flanagan's book has been nearly universally hailed as the most penetrating analysis of the Reform Party...
...They need help and the kids in their classes need help...
...Singles Voice Mailbox...
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