Dear Editor
Dear Editor Hilsman Roger Hilsman's qualification to write "The Way Out of Vietnam" (NL, April 27), may lie only in the fact that he was a prominent participant in getting us in. John Roche has...
...their gall in castinq themselves in the role of the repressed...
...Burgess' work is more parody than farce?and more linguistic lark than parody...
...The sooner we abandon all pretense to armed conquest in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, et al, the sooner we will be able to issue clear, and credible, warnings to the Kremlin...
...In fact, I find it almost impossible now either to talk or listen to someone else without wondering if I am deceiving or being deceived...
...it is like saying '"this is mighty fine hamburger, but as chicken, it stinks...
...their . . . New York City Myron Field...
...And if Morgenthau had been a government official in the 1940s he would have argued that—Fascism having become polycentric—it didn't much matter who governed Yugoslavia or France...
...In the past Kitman has been quick to play majority American "culture" for laughs...
...Not every comic effort must adhere slavishly to tradition and convention, whether rebelling against the strictures or not...
...Good comedy," she writes, "is always serious at heart...
...He rejected neutralizing Vietnam...
...Harsh a judgment as this may be, their former deprivations are simply not our cross to bear...
...Frederick Laws Morgenthau Hans J. Morgenthau's review of Gustav Ichheiser's Appearances and Realities ("Genius in Madness," NL, May 11), probably was the shortest one in your Spring Book Issue, but I think it was also the most powerful...
...Should we wrap our feet in newspaper on Tuesdays and Thursdays to be more thankful for our shoes the rest of the week...
...between their prejudiced thinking and ccmmon sense...
...Miss Bolger has faulted a lovely five finger exercise for not being a symphony...
...He buries the very essence of the Youth International Party in a subordinate clause...
...their 'personality quirks" are their credo...
...Hoffmann and Davis do not "always tell it like it is...
...New Brunswick, NJ...
...Burgess works with transparent devices because he wishes nothing to detract from his linguistic play...
...the means justify the ends...
...But is that a legitimate basis for condemnation...
...know that Rubin...
...Perhaps because the characters are not "real and the plot contrived, The Eve of St...
...their suppression of dissenting views...
...But when confronted with the revolutionary counterculture, he moralizes: "If Rubin, Hoffmann and Davis were merely kidding around, I suppose the only disenchanted viewers would fiave been the millions of kids who sincerely believe that, whatever their personality quirks, the three always tell it like it is...
...their acquiescence to the slaughter at Hue: their failure to loudly condemn the Soviet concentration camps...
...Venus will not appeal to a wide audience...
...Rubin...
...Allan Giordano Hard Times Robert Lekachman ("Depression Voices," NL, May 11) seems perplexed by the failure of Young America to revere its parents for having risen from a one-room furnished flat in 1931 to a tidy seven-room, mortgage-paid pleasure dome in Lake Forest today...
...Windsor, Ont...
...I resent their smugness...
...Hoffman and Davis were one up on him from the start: Their marijuana stunt was intended to provoke precisely the sort of mystification and indignation he exhibited in his review...
...Morgenthau notes lhat Ichheiser recognized the inevitability of such deceptions...
...I have always marveled at the contrast between the pronouncements of academic leaders and reality...
...But the fact that they are "the very cement of human relations," as Morgenthau unhesitatingly observes, only makes them all the more difficult to live with...
...The Yippie revolution is not a matter of substance, but entirely one of style...
...Military confrontation in both the Near and Far East would likely lead the United States into all-out war...
...Venus ('"Words, Words and More Words...
...Chicago, III...
...Daniel Roth Burgess In her review of The Eve of St...
...By his reasoning, organized crime should be permitted to spread as long as its command is not unified...
...John Roche has described him as one of those in the Kennedy Administration who was gung-ho for American counterinsurgency to save South Vietnam from the Communists ("Johnson, Vietnam and Instant History," NL, April 13...
...It appears to many of us that our parents are so thoroughly polished in their recitations of those never-to-be-equaled success stories that they hardly need our small voices, except for polite concurrence...
...Skokie, 111...
...Harriet Rowe Warner Israel and Cambodia In "Russians Over Egypt" (NL, May 25) Eliahu Salpeter recites the same tired and false catechism heard in the Pentagon throughout 'the 1960s, that the Russians will quake and quiver with every sign of American displeasure only if the Stars and Stripes is not defiled in Asia...
...had an "unshakable commitment" to assure a South Vietnamese victory, "whatever it takes...
...New York City Gerald Rombach Hans J. Morgenthau finds a logical contradiction in one's realizing that a movement (in this case, Communism) is polycentric while desiring to halt its expansion...
...In fact, our escalation in Cambodia can only lessen the national ability, and will, to aid Israel...
...Would there not be more meaning to his present compassion for the lives of American soldiers if he had said then, as he indicates now, that American security was not involved in Vietnam, and that our national interests in Indochina were minimal...
...NL, May 25) Eugenie Bolger faults Anthony Burgess for not following the disciplines of farce, and for verbal excesses which diminish character...
...Incidentally, the course of Russia's involvement in the Middle East—supplies, ammunition, advisers, air cover, missiles, pilots —seems pathetically familiar...
...Mayor Daley didn't know that, and Kitman is only now discovering it, and Pigasus reigns...
...May 25...
...McLean, Va...
...Perhaps we would appreciate the abundance of food had our mothers not reminded us with each roast they put on the table that when they were our age, they were eating tripe and grateful of it...
...If our thanklessness is perplexing to our parents, their worshipful invocations of "hard times" is no less puzzling to us...
...we will not hastily mobilize forces for a second front, no matter the provocation...
...I cannot see where the contradiction lies...
...Sandra Goldberg Kitman Marvin Kitman has been taken...
...Miss Bolger has got her head too full of rules and has developed too nice a sense of decorum...
...Also, the cbs Face the Nation files will show that in a December 1963 program Hilsman said the U.S...
...The current form this foolish dogma takes is that Moscow will abandon its sam-2 and sam-3 sites along the Nile, and send its pilots packing, should the President succeed in the pursuit of his Cambodian "pacification" policies...
...Those "millions of kid...
...For the life of me...
...His attempts to point up the logical flaws in the behavior of the avowedly illogical Yippies is an exercise in futility, a parody of a parody ("After the Revolution," NL...
Vol. 53 • June 1970 • No. 12
