Correspondence
Johnston, Robert & Hauser, Ronald & Johnston, William & Quigley, Billy
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor: Until today, I had great hope in The Alternative as a responsible organ for conservatism, and ergo, democracy. I had envisioned your fine journal as the voice of...
...In conclusion, I would like to commend your ingenuity in emulating a true conservative stance, and hope someday that you find yourself giving up this fraud and turning to the true conservatism...
...Really conservatively yours, William Quigley, Jr...
...Plottingly yours, William C. Johnson Denver, Colorado 80222...
...Moynihan, I fear my suspicions are correct...
...Buckley's nationally published column recently extolled The Alternative's zaniness-ed...
...You people are leftists...
...Sincerely yours, Robert F. Johnston, Jr...
...This alone I might have been able to understand as an example of the occasional irresponsible journalism that slips into any literary accomplishment...
...Sincerely, Ronald R.Hauser Cleveland State University Brook Park, Ohio 44142 TO THE EDITOR: I was recently introduced to your devious publication by a member of that insidiously rightist organization, ISI...
...Purdue University To the Editor: Enclosed is a check for a one year subscription to your excellent, and I must say fair, magazine...
...I have never read anything as intellectually stimulating and funny...
...I shall remain on your mailing list to keep my well-trained eyes upon further subversive tendencies...
...First, you ridicule the keystone of our democratic, or republican, system in "Great Moments in the Ninety-First Congress, Part I...
...In Moynihan's calling for "great complexifiers" he has insulted the native simplicity of Middle Americans, and you allowed this tripe to go un-rebutted...
...Being a poor graduate student (no pun intended), I am curious about the possibilities of free subscriptions...
...There is support perhaps more than anyone realizes for your position...
...Unfortunately, coupled with your article by Mr...
...But now I have been let down, and my disillusionment is not banishd by Mr...
...You probably could have maintained your facade of conservatism and continued to warp your readers by little subtleties-that-they-were-not-even-conscious-of-being-influenced-by, if your cover had not given you away...
...Keep up the good work...
...I had envisioned your fine journal as the voice of "what's right with America", tolling the sweet bell of insight in lucid contrast to most contemporary student journalism...
...will be humbly and rightfully accepted...
...I recognize that in one's youth it is difficult to restrain radical tendencies, but I must caution you that we don't need any more extremism...
...Your toleration of such ideas implies espousal of them...
...Any encouragement, nourishment, revolutionary-exterminator kits, etc...
...My incredulity has become disappointment - I had believed in you...
...Denison University Granville, Ohio 43023 To the Editor: The Alternative is fantastic...
...Really, Abraham Lincoln portrayed in a thinly-veiled black-power salute, don't you think that was a little flagrant...
...This may sound like a clever lotftt bid, but I find that your equally clever and dastardly need while I fiind out me in one of our country's citadels of learning, morality, etc...
...You might under-estimate our perceptive powers...
...Even this I could excuse, as imagaination, but all of the aforementioned indications plus my final observation left me no doubt...
...Not until today, when I received my February issue, did I become suspicious of your real intentions and begin to probe your positional innuendoes...
...not to mention a subscription...
...Buckley's compliments to your work...
Vol. 4 • April 1971 • No. 5
