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CORRESPONDENCE _9 S p l i t t i n g Hairs New York, N.YI To the Editors: Ronald Christ, reviewing Suzanne Jill Levine's translation of Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires A//air (June 24)...
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...For instance, the leaky boats crammed with Vietnamese on high sea and open ocean are no phenomenon of a sudden urge to travel for travers sake...
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...It was a self-defeating debate for the peace activists, as no one stood to gain other than possible rhetorical victory...
...The first is a single instance of "comma splice": that speck of mispunctuation, known to induce fits of indignation in junior high school composition teachers when they discover it, as they often do, in classics of English prose...
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...More sadly, the contention was defeating in terms of its essential topic matter, for lost in the welter of words were the problems of a substantial number of Vietnamese...
...The appeal quickly spun off an acrimonious argument within the peace community about the purity of concerns and respective vulnerabilities to the claims and counterclaims of parties at interest in the Vietnamese issue...
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...ELIOT WEINBERGER REPLY: Rereading my review (in(Continued on page 543) NEWS & VIEWS: 514 CORRESPONDENCE: 515 EDITORIAL: 515 WASHINGTON REPORT: K i l l Him, Save I t : Frank Getlein 516 UPSET AT THE POLI~: Desmond Fisher 518 A MEMORY AND A CONTRAST: Peter Steinfeis 520 LA UN-DOLCE VITA: lohn Ahem 521 THE BISHOPS PLAY III01VOPOLY: Daniel Morrissey 528 T I l E PRESS: The Night The L i g h t s Went On: Thomas Powers 530 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, It...
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...To the Editors: In my review of Michael Grant's book, Saint Paul (Commonweal 104/14 [8 July 1977]) an editorial embellishment of the text has made me sound disparaging to "sociologists," and I should like to correct that...
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...Last spring, on what seemed indisputable evidence that the new government in Vietnam was not living up to its proclamations and the hopes of its friends, the American peace community addressed an appeal to the government of Vietnam asking that it honor the concern for human rights which it had expressed both in formal agreements and innumerable conversations with peace activists...
...CORRESPONDENCE _9 S p l i t t i n g Hairs New York, N.YI To the Editors: Ronald Christ, reviewing Suzanne Jill Levine's translation of Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires A//air (June 24) accuses Ms...
...444) I originally wrote, "But in the last analysis, it [Grant's book] is Paul for the sciolists:" If that sends you to .the dictionary, then my point will have been made--unless, of course, it was a printer's devil...
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...Levine's ability to transform the complex texts of Cortazar, Bioy Casares, Cabrera Infante and Sarduy (to name only a few) into remarkable English prose...
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...Precisely because I am aware how easily errors infiltrate publieations, I was scrupulous not ot attribute any blame and went on to say that the "off-notes," of which I gave two examples, were "easily correctable by a copy editor...
...RONALD CHRIST Corrections In Marilyn Moorcroft's article, "Floundering With Grass" [July 81, the paragraph on page 435 beginning ".No matter...
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