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...
...Lots of evil Negroes butchering good guys...
...Nixon had not encouraged policies that made poverty p rofitable, a lot fewer people would choose poverty...
...9 O Lucky Man: O not so lucky filmgoer, and oh my aching rump--it runs for days, or nearly...
...After all, one gets so busy '~elf fulfilling" that one forgets there is no .iem after Birch, only an occasional er...
...He has contributed a great deal to our Ion...
...Leslie Lenkowsky's essay on "The Significance of FAP" in the June-Sept...
...John T. Pruitt, Jr...
...Anyway, give my best to Mr...
...1.eslie Lenkowsky . . . is completing his doctoral thesis on welfare at Harvard University...
...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...
...Also, some hungry crocodiles, sharks, and a gaggle of rednecks straight from the Dodge ad...
...I can't...
...This sorely needed doing, and Maddox's approach is probably the best as a semipublicistic tactic...
...guage...
...9 The Last of Sheila: Devilishly clever, eh wot--for game freaks...
...But she /s tall (6' 2") and dynamite, if you like that sort of thing...
...9 State of Siege: For professional Amerika-haters with no limits in endurance...
...9 Live and Let Die: Agent 007 returns, via Roger Moore, who frowns nicely, and should do some sit-ups...
...If so, this one won't convert him, A touch of class...
...ERRATUM Doe to confusion in this office, a statement in John Lulves' June-Sept...
...Five bucks for Brando's backside, inane dialogue (mostly mumbled), and Paris looking unusually ugly...
...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...
...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...
...review of Robert F. Turner's monograph, Myths of the Vietnam War, was erroneously distorted...
...You are to be complimented for having given space to such an excellent analysis...
...Lenkowsky...
...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...
...If the Right did it to President Kennedy (the once or the future President Kennedy), we would never hear the end of it...
...9 A Touch of Class: Breathes there a man with soul so dead who hasn't stirred somewhere to the charms of Glenda Jackson...
...Outrageous then, only a tad less so now...
...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...
...so do some of the corpses...
...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...
...the 96th lousy entry in the parade...
...They're wrong...
...So don't hold him accountable if he fails to understand that you're the Alternative to bbe...
...28 The Al~'~ative October 1973...
...Rosilond Steiner Chicago, Illinois To the Editor: Concerning Mr...
...issue of your stellar journal, I notice that he is listed as follows...
...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...
...the Nixon Court approves...
...Here he acts fine, only his character is utterly repulsive...
...same genre...
...9 Paper Moon: Ryan O'Neal, daughter Tatum, the Depression, and anyhow, nostalgia is in this month...
...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...
...Charles A. Maser Associate Professor of Russian The George Washington University Washington, D.C...
...Liv Ullmann, how could you...
...Doris Day and Rock Hudson did it better long ago, as did everyone else from 1930 on...
...But don't blame me if you feel ripped off...
...9 Hail to the Chief: Came out last year as Hail...
...Mrs...
...With that twit, Edward Albert, yet...
...William F. Buckley, Jr- has no peer-in or out of context...
...Your ethical systems are in the . . . . . What kind of Americans are you...
...And so would have beautiful words...
...9 Forty Carats: Can you endure another May-December romance...
...9 Hitler: the Last Ten Days: Seems like a fortnight, but Alec Guiness is magnificent...
...Robert Mitchum shines...
...I hope you all go to hell...
...Trashy and bering, propaganda to the last drop...
...Would that the blaxploitation flickers had such style...
...96 in the Blaxploitation Follies...
...but ha hum, another Godfather spin-off...
...Perhaps you only mean that his dissertation cmcor~ '~velfare at Harvard University...
...Also for those (like your servant) who thought Richard Benjamin would never be anything but an utterly repulsive actor...
...I Tom Sawyer: For those who've never read Mark Twain, never intend to, hate literature, but love junky "family" movies...
...El Sobrante, California To the Editor: You guys are a bunch of . . . . . . . I bet you make Richard Nixon happy...
...The United States of course did not "sign" the 1954 Geneva Conference Cease-Fire, bet gave only hedged verbal support to the agreement...
...In Miss Jones: More clever than Deep Throat...
...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...
...to malign Our President Which Art in Washington...
...It seems to me that the problem of welfare can best be solved by a government that says "being poor is going to hurt...
...So what else is new...
...Brudnoy's Film Index _9 Cleopatra Jones: No...
...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...
...James Mason, as always, showing up his inferiors...
...So thank God for Buckley, because without him the Oxford English Dictionary would hove passed on, here, unnoticed...
...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...
...9 Money, Money, Money: Funny, funny, etc...
...I loved it, but few other critics did...
...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...
...Stick with the 18th century...
...Walk upon my swimming pool...
...9 The Friends of Eddie Coyle: Boston looks great...
...9 The Harrad Experiment: Boys and girls shacking up at Har(vard)rod(cliff) with official blessing...
...9 Last Tango in Paris: Catch it before the Burger Court drives it underground...
...You should really try to pay your contributors more handsomely, so as to avoid this embarrassment...
...Keep up the goad work...
...Raquel Welch with her two great attributes...
...Perhaps I misread your introductory note...
...But I find Ferrell's approach intellectually more substantial, and probably in the long run more important...
...If Mr...
...Not even that...
...9 The De~d...
...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...
Vol. 7 • October 1973 • No. 1
