LETTERS
LETTERS On HHH Editor: I think that Marvin Rosenberg-in his letter in the Spring 1974 issue-was justified in protesting that Senators Jackson and Humphrey should not be lumped together...
...Progress . . . its a snail’s journey...
...In the same issue Dennis Wrong writes matterof-factly of Nixon’s being emboldened by the landslide “handed him as a result of McGovern’s candidacy...
...SCHIER Lancaster, Pa...
...He rewards those refusing to concede that the “crackpot realism” (to use C. Wright Mills’s phrase) personified by Franz-Josef Strauss and other German Rightists will continue to dominate industrial society...
...Far from disappointing (as Mr...
...No mention of those intellectuals (and others) who supported Senator McGovern for the nomination...
...0 Reconsidering Editor: In your Fall 1974 issue Irving Howe suggests that “there ought to be some looking-back at political choices...
...But Robbins complains that “a reader longs finally for a full discussion of contemporary politics in Germany at some point without all the convolutions...
...This would seem to be a sufficient indication of Senator Humphrey’s willingness to dissociate himself from the foreign policy of the Johnson administration after he was released from the vice-presidency...
...Robbins puts it well in describing the book: “. . . the road back from despair is slow, leading to hope but not utopia...
...This last observation is a bit opaque, but if it means anything, Mr...
...American readers have their own list of characters to consider and the fiction of Giinter Grass pertains not only to Germany...
...He then urges this retrospection on George Meany and his cohorts for their neutrality in 1972 and on those intellectuals who supported Nixon as a presidential candidate...
...This last observation is a bit opaque, but if it means anything, Mr...
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...Admittedly this was not a significant point in the original article-“Are American Jews Turning to the Right?’ by Bernard Rosenberg and Irving Howe, Winter 1974 issue-but the extended discussion of it in the Spring issue makes it worth commenting on...
...Robbins puts it well in describing the book: “. . . the road back from despair is slow, leading to hope but not utopia...
...Clark is saying that Muskie, if nominated, would have gotten even less than the 37.5 percent of the vote that McGovern received...
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...But Jack Clark, discussing the quarrel between the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and the reformers over the representativeness of elected officials as ex oficio convention delegates, writes that, “given the Muskie experience, there was little reason to believe that elected officials represented their constituents’ views on presidential preference...
...From 1971 to 1973 Senator Humphrey voted in support of every serious motion to end American participation in the war, including even a controversial filibuster by Senator Gravel...
...The Diary compels attention for more than the fascinating detail expected of Giinter Gnass...
...Meanwhile, Senator Jackson voted against every one of these motions: on the final vote, which terminated the American bombing of Cambodia in 1973, he was joined by no other Democrats except Eastland and Long...
...This would seem to be a sufficient indication of Senator Humphrey’s willingness to dissociate himself from the foreign policy of the Johnson administration after he was released from the vice-presidency...
...Far from disappointing (as Mr...
...Robbins suggests) Giinter Grass rewards in this book...
...self-addressed envelope...
...The Diary compels attention for more than the fascinating detail expected of Giinter Gnass...
...THE EDITORS 96 LETTERS...
...But Robbins complains that “a reader longs finally for a full discussion of contemporary politics in Germany at some point without all the convolutions...
...0 Reconsidering Editor: In your Fall 1974 issue Irving Howe suggests that “there ought to be some looking-back at political choices...
...One such “full discussion” was printed in 1968 with the collection of essays titled Speak Out...
...Robbins suggests) Giinter Grass rewards in this book...
...0 A Word for Giinter Grass Editor: The Richard Robbins review of Giinter Grass’s From the Diary of a Snail in the Summer 1974 DISSENT accurately describes the book...
...Since some of his original backers transferred their allegiance to Senator Jackson on account of this reversal, and supported Humphrey in 1972 only after Jackson was eliminated, it seems unfortunate that opponents of the war have been slow to give him credit for it...
...THE EDITORS 96 LETTERS On HHH Editor: I think that Marvin Rosenberg-in his letter in the Spring 1974 issue-was justified in protesting that Senators Jackson and Humphrey should not be lumped together as supporters of the Vietnamese War...
...0 A Word for Giinter Grass Editor: The Richard Robbins review of Giinter Grass’s From the Diary of a Snail in the Summer 1974 DISSENT accurately describes the book...
...From 1971 to 1973 Senator Humphrey voted in support of every serious motion to end American participation in the war, including even a controversial filibuster by Senator Gravel...
...One such “full discussion” was printed in 1968 with the collection of essays titled Speak Out...
...American readers have their own list of characters to consider and the fiction of Giinter Grass pertains not only to Germany...
...SCHIER Lancaster, Pa...
...Admittedly this was not a significant point in the original article-“Are American Jews Turning to the Right?’ by Bernard Rosenberg and Irving Howe, Winter 1974 issue-but the extended discussion of it in the Spring issue makes it worth commenting on...
...Clearly, if looking-back is to be productive, we are going to have to employ a more wide-angled lense than is currently fashionable...
...In the same issue Dennis Wrong writes matterof-factly of Nixon’s being emboldened by the landslide “handed him as a result of McGovern’s candidacy...
...ROBERTBANVILLE Taos,N.M...
...Clearly, if looking-back is to be productive, we are going to have to employ a more wide-angled lense than is currently fashionable...
...self-addressed envelope...
...And I assume that a second volume simply awaits the attention of translator and publisher...
...He then urges this retrospection on George Meany and his cohorts for their neutrality in 1972 and on those intellectuals who supported Nixon as a presidential candidate...
...But Jack Clark, discussing the quarrel between the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and the reformers over the representativeness of elected officials as ex oficio convention delegates, writes that, “given the Muskie experience, there was little reason to believe that elected officials represented their constituents’ views on presidential preference...
...Meanwhile, Senator Jackson voted against every one of these motions: on the final vote, which terminated the American bombing of Cambodia in 1973, he was joined by no other Democrats except Eastland and Long...
...Since some of his original backers transferred their allegiance to Senator Jackson on account of this reversal, and supported Humphrey in 1972 only after Jackson was eliminated, it seems unfortunate that opponents of the war have been slow to give him credit for it...
...Progress . . . its a snail’s journey...
...And I assume that a second volume simply awaits the attention of translator and publisher...
...Clark is saying that Muskie, if nominated, would have gotten even less than the 37.5 percent of the vote that McGovern received...
...LETTERS On HHH Editor: I think that Marvin Rosenberg-in his letter in the Spring 1974 issue-was justified in protesting that Senators Jackson and Humphrey should not be lumped together as supporters of the Vietnamese War...
...ROBERTBANVILLE Taos,N.M...
...No mention of those intellectuals (and others) who supported Senator McGovern for the nomination...
...He rewards those refusing to concede that the “crackpot realism” (to use C. Wright Mills’s phrase) personified by Franz-Josef Strauss and other German Rightists will continue to dominate industrial society...
Vol. 22 • January 1975 • No. 1
