Correspondence
correspondence Edited byGeorge J. Nathan • To the Editor: I believe that I have not read any words so beautifully spoken and written, or so appropriately made, as those of the Solicitor General...
...But it was our reporter's considered judgment, before the shutdown, that freedom of press and speech was flourishing in South Vietnam...
...Or perhaps, "the departure of President Nixon from the national scene has given a great lift to Republican morale, although his expressed willingness to be of further service to the party is an ominous sign...
...But they were a predicate, always it seemed, for discussion on that subject which concerned him most: the Supreme Court...
...Your label is number 27496 0276 K and is, as you can see, a K label, which cannot be removed from our computer list unless we can provide the computer house with a copy of Form 26-397-J, the "Official Removal Request Form...
...Ibold's Black Peter is a great seegar...
...Dear Senator Percy: In response to your letter of 15 April, we regret to inform you that we are unable to remove your name from our mailing list...
...Bickel and their children in the years which come...
...I prefer to read about something besides the goddam bars of Gotham in your Great American Saloon Series...
...It may come if its conduct and positions become truly understood among the people of the United States, because then quite possibly its very independence may be at issue...
...James Grant Brooklyn, New York To the Editor: I enjoyed the article on cigars...
...He drinks not because he enjoys it but because he has to...
...I consider your journal to be a refreshing breeze of dissent against the current wisdom...
...Those were separate events, for another time...
...It was an honor for me to work with him on three cases, and to discuss at some length the subject of law teaching...
...McClaughry praises...
...Attached is the label from a recent issue...
...Printing bigotry is one of the quickest ways to end the dialogue that you are trying to create...
...And he combined this intellectual analysis with another element, almost as important to substantial reform, namely the platform for its expression...
...This is the man we need to report on national news...
...It would also be comforting to learn that "the latest strategic weapon negotiations promise to assure American military supremacy, although the provisions allowing the Soviets to exceed our hardware in almost every category are an ominous sign...
...Several of us had a substantial association with him, at various times over the years...
...It is only by the exchange of conflicting opinions that you and we can come closer to the truth...
...Bakshian was correct...
...Right on...
...William F. Harvey Dean, Indianapolis Law School Indiana University Indianapolis, Indiana To the Editor: Who can help but approve of the estimable optimism exhibited by Mr...
...I often disagree with you on a number of issues...
...I believe he wanted to avoid that perhaps above all else...
...correspondence Edited byGeorge J. Nathan • To the Editor: I believe that I have not read any words so beautifully spoken and written, or so appropriately made, as those of the Solicitor General about his great friend, Professor Alexander M. Bickel (April issue...
...as do many of us who called him a friend...
...And they permit me to recall one of Alexander Bickel's unique abilities: his ability to define risk to an institution and show how to avoid it...
...Charles IL Percy United States Senate Washington, D.C...
...And so I looked upon him not only as a personal friend, but, at the time of his death, as possibly the most important person in American legal education...
...Who gives a good drat...
...To the Editor: "Of Gimcracks" (A Recent Promulgation of the Food and Drug Administration): The FDA decrees herein That none shall warm their cold din-din In ovens using microwave Unless certain steps are taken to insure that the hazards of excessive exposure to microwave energy are effectively ized Dally not by oven doors Or sure you'll dally never more For waves of micro can and do Damage the eyes and reproductive organs of consumers' bodies, an FDA spokesman said yesterday...
...I thank...
...you for your interest in The Alternative, and look forward to hearing from you...
...And that to me is a measure of what we have lost, and of the gap we must attempt to fill...
...Yet how important to have a conservative journal picking holes in our liberal assumptions...
...I enclose a copy of this form for your use...
...Howe's style of reporting...
...One can see in those thoughts the rending sorrow which he felt at his death, and a colleagueship which must have contributed so much to the displayed genius of each man...
...His reports were submitted before the shutdown, which called for some editorial emendation of his remarks...
...He knew, as his teacher Justice Frankfurter taught, that the Court (and several segments of the Federal Judiciary) has placed itself in significant, but still potential, danger...
...John McClaughry Lyndonville, Vermont The Editor comments: Neil Howe is not responsible for the sentence Mr...
...We often suffer the same slings of outrageous criticism from readers who are intolerant of our liberal humanist views...
...We need more of this kind of welcome news in this troubled age...
...The serious drinker drinks alone...
...His two articles show an objectivity and a maturity that many a political science professor might emulate...
...Griffith Sun City, Arizona To the Editor: I wish to congratulate Neil Howe for his excellent reportage from Vietnam...
...We need, for example, to be told that "President Ford is finally beginning to restore an anti-inflationary fiscal sanity tothe nation, although his $52 billion projected deficit is an ominous sign...
...I hope that the memory of Alexander Bickel will continue to provide a part of the chemistry found in the mind and work of former Professor Bork, and, much more, that it will sustain Mrs...
...Neil Howe in his articles on the Thieu regime of South Vietnam...
...Karen S. Sapolsky Belmont, Massachusetts 34 The Alternative: An American Spectator June/July 1975...
...You help to keep alive the spirit of skepticism so important to a free society...
...Take yourselves a bit more seriously, and edit out such embarrassments as Raico's gratuitous reference to China as "that filthy anthill" (February 1975...
...While in fairness I suppose these ominous signs must be noted, they of course detract little from the essential thrust of Mr...
...We are told by this sanguine observer that "freedom of press and speech has flourished, although the recent shutdown of five Saigon newspapers is an ominous sign...
...George Nathan To the Editor: Unfortunately, at any given time, a goodly proportion of American conservatives can be found with one or both feet in their mouths...
...W.J...
...Thomas Molnar New York, New York To the Editor: I was chagrined to read the morally self-righteous letter from Charles A. Lave cancelling his subscription to The Alternative because he disagreed with your "snide remarks" and because you allegedly "had so little respect for the rights of others...
...Paul Kurtz Editor, The Humanist Buffalo, New York Gentlemen: This letter is to request the removal of my name from your mailing list...
...Alexander Bickel was a friend of mine, and of other faculty members in the law school with which I am associated...
...The question, of course, is now academic, for freedom of press will never again be even an issue in South Vietnam...
...Thank you...
...Thank you for publishing the Solicitor General's remarks...
...I do not remember having seen anywhere in the press a similarly many-dimensional yet accurateimage of that country's recent past, present, and—let us hope—future...
...He doesn't need any inane chatter to drink...
Vol. 8 • June 1975 • No. 9
