Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR VIEW FROM THE CAMPUS When I first read Messrs. Kyper ("Vietnam and Beyond," NL, January 1) and Abrams ("The Sky Is Falling," NL, February 12) I thought I was being middle-aged and...
...Well, kiddies, tough on you...
...Take for a ride" is prendere in giro, "have it in" for someone is ce avere con qualcuno, "make [someone] boil" is fare la rabbia...
...And Nat Hentoff, in turn, congratulated Gilman in the Village Voice for his insight and said his review was the greatest Gilman ever wrote, "and more...
...Washington, D.C...
...New York City Name Withheld NIXON I would like to raise a specter that, in their ravenous hatred of Lyndon Johnson, people tend to forget about: Richard Nixon as President of the United States...
...Nixon is something else...
...Previous generations, yes, mine, had a hell of a lot of faith and more, we had guts and grit, and stick-to-itness...
...But at the funeral of Dr...
...praise of everything black (you messed up on that already...
...But Johnson is a liberal who is stuck with an inherited dilemma: Vietnam...
...One doesn't want to fight (I do not blame him...
...R. W. Flint FROZEN BARRIER Judith Sklar's discussion of The Last Angry Man in her review of Gerald Green's To Brooklyn with Love (NL, March 25) called to mind the recent murder by two Negro youths of 71-year-old Dr...
...I am afraid that what it tells us is that the barrier between Negro and white is finally reaching that frozen point where Negroes lump all white people together as a mass evil...
...I live in the East Village and I observe a lot of these little, sniveling permanent students: kids who at 24 and 25 are still accepting money, clothes, etc...
...Let me put it this way: All three of your little boys there are little boys...
...that we feel that what money cannot solve, can't be solved...
...And how often their pads (and their bail where needed) comes out of evil old daddy's pocket...
...The votes of these states could either be completely disregarded, or else they could be considered to have been carried by the major party condidate running second to Wallace in each particular state won by him...
...At least Richard Gilman in the New Republic, in a review of Cleaver, had the good sense to declare that as a white man he wasn't qualified to review a black man's book...
...Such an arrangement would preclude any chance of Wallace being in a position to determine U.S...
...Acceptance of this type of agreement would be a good test of each candidate's willingness to forego the possible advantages of a deal with Wallace...
...Sears) "a faith in [y]ourselves which . . . earlier generations of students did not feel...
...Wallace would arise...
...While his every gesture is a defensive, self-pitying one, he hasn't demonstrated he is anything but a traditional liberal caught in a bind...
...Dear, merciful heavens...
...Perhaps, but I doubt the number would have been vastly greater...
...Let me clue you in on what's happening: Sex is happening, mainly homosexual...
...If ever there was a materialistic generation it is the now generation: They go to school (forever) on scholarships or dough from home...
...The great writers are Terry Southern, Pauline Reage, Joe Heller and the whole Grove Press crowd, not the old-timers you're pushing like Pavese and Jean Toomer...
...These are all fairly literal renderings...
...He doesn't stand on any liberal platform whatever...
...Then in case Wallace should win enough votes to prevent any candidate from receiving a clear majority in the Electoral College, the Democratic or Republican nominee, whichever ran second, would release enough of his party's Electors to assure the election of the frontrunner...
...when they march it is in shoes paid for by their parents...
...This is the worst of Robert Kennedy's "miscalculations" ("The Kennedy Gamble," NL, March 25...
...But just as the urban decay of our cities renders them unrecognizable, so does the hardening of people's conduct toward each other seem a new and troubling phenomenon...
...Zimtbaum, according to the New York Times, there were perhaps four Negroes among 500 mourners...
...Scanning National Review, it is clear that the friendship between that magazine and Nixon is not strictly a practical one...
...There would be, of course, some questions of detail regarding such a pact...
...one does not want his future burdened (I do not blame him) by today's mistakes...
...You want a different world from my world, you change it...
...If I'd used "put me on" for "took me for a ride," 10 years from now some new Mr...
...If the second alternative is adopted, the question of how to treat the Electoral votes of those states carried by The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, bat letters should not exceed 300 words...
...You'd be amazed how many of these protesters wear Saks and Brooks and Abercrombie clothes that I still can't afford...
...In order to prevent this eventuality from ever arising, why couldn't the two major party candidates openly come to an agreement to the effect that they would totally ignore the vote cast for Wallace and consider only the votes cast for themselves as meaningful...
...Abrams complains that we are materialistic...
...they're parasites...
...I use "skunk" for the sake of a possible suburban idiom of the late thirties...
...me, me, me is their only concern...
...Many of his potential supporters would be discouraged, of course, for a Wallace vote would much more clearly be a "wasted" vote...
...With the alternative, liberals will be confronting a vastly new, and strange quantity...
...And perhaps Sears is right that his generation may never be adults, because it sounds to me like what they want—at least those three little boys—is that us rotten oldsters should change everything now, so that the kids can have a totally carefree time...
...Leo Zimtbaum while he was making a night call on a welfare patient in Brownsville...
...Because quite frankly, right now what I think needs changing is you...
...their insurance and dental and medical bills are paid for by their parents...
...and one wants power now...
...some Communism is a drag (Russia mainly) but some Communism is a gas—like Cuba and China...
...If I'd had my druthers I would have avoided World War II, been born after the invention of penicillin, after the Depression, and born rich too...
...Four people out of 500 is indicative of something, no matter how you look at it...
...Voters who are opposed to the interjection of racism into the campaign and who are concerned to have an orderly, straightforward contest that would result in the election of the candidate able to win the most votes, not the one most capable of coming to a satisfactory arrangement with George Wallace, could well apply this test to good effect in the upcoming primaries and the November election...
...it would also greatly reduce the impact of his campaign, since it would be much less newsworthy with the loss of its "balance of power" hopes...
...I'm afraid you guys just aren't tuned in to the beautiful people and the way they think...
...he is obviously most at home with Goldwater-type Republicans...
...through taxes, or simply by not needing the money the kids could earn during the summer...
...Cambridge, Mass...
...One of the Negroes present attributed this to the funeral's being held during the day, and thought many more Negroes would have come if not for the problem of taking off from work...
...there is a strong sense of kinship and identification that goes beyond formal friendliness...
...This is virtually impossible to discuss rationally...
...Kyper ("Vietnam and Beyond," NL, January 1) and Abrams ("The Sky Is Falling," NL, February 12) I thought I was being middle-aged and difficult in finding so little sympathy for their plaints...
...Johnson, no matter how difficult, is familiar ground...
...Sorry boys...
...Stephen J. Harrison PAVESE'S HUMOR May I answer a few points in Geoffrey Wolff's review of my Selected Works of Cesare Pavese (NL, March 25...
...The main difficulty seems to center on a disagreement about Pavese's humor...
...Then I could have played games during my youth instead of having to go to school full time, work a full shift, and never know what a vacation was...
...Chicago, 111...
...Some of Wolff's later quotations are not spoken by the narrator but by a character with whom the narrator half sympathizes and whom he half despises...
...The brave Mr...
...If he is the monster, the "Macbird" of Barbara Garson's play, he has yet to prove it...
...This is difficult to learn at first, but you'd be amazed how many people are absorbing it...
...They're not materialistic...
...and when they "give" a summer to helping the Negro in the South, or "give" a year here and there with the Peace Corps, it is because their parents—my generation—are paying for it...
...Humor exports poorly—this supercooled variety...
...As I remember The Last Angry Man, the entire neighborhood turns out for the doctor's funeral...
...Conk out" may be bad, but it's in the spirit of the narrator's mood at the moment...
...Since many whites have been viewing Negroes that way all along, it is not a surprising development...
...Perhaps being an adult is facing the existential reality that all of us are dropped into the stream of history and have to take our chances...
...policy, racial and otherwise...
...The assumption, of course, is that Johnson is as bad as Nixon...
...One problem would be in determining whether the candidate obtaining the most popular votes or the one getting the most Electoral votes should be considered the winner...
...Wolff would make the same objections...
...But nearly every phrase Wolff objects to in my translation derives from a sort of ritual off-handedness in Pavese's colloquialisms...
...Now I am happy to see from your letters column that I am not alone in finding these young gents deplorable...
...New York City Daniel Goldberg WHAT'S HAPPENING As a new reader (since your Times ad), I was stunned by David Evanier's critical review of Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice (NL, March 25...
...But I find that young Hal D. Sears, attacking his peers, still exhibits the same deplorable arrogance ("Dear Editor," NL, March 11...
...Summing it up, everything that is awful is groovy...
...And slang ages rapidly...
...Joel Sargent WALLACE TEST The candidacy of George Wallace ('Tapping the Resentment Vote," NL, March 11) has aroused considerable speculation that he might secure enough Electoral College votes to throw the Presidential election into the House of Representatives...
...So from an old-time Bohemian, kiddies, from one of the old gang who worked her ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-housed way through school, fully self-supporting, sans Blue Cross and Medicaid, let the word go forth: You do not have (vide Mr...
...I do not know how we can arrest this dehumanization going on in our country...
...New York City Harry Smytiie...
Vol. 51 • April 1968 • No. 8
