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Dear Editor A Woman's Praise As one of your female subscribers for over 20 years. I thought it lime I broke my silence to let you know precisely how I feel about The New Leader. I find the...
...I am in complete disagreement with the critical letter from Paula Thorndike Heller in the August 17 issue...
...and if there were, no state--or group of states--would be prepared or entitled to enforce it...
...One hundred million barrels of oil would gross about $300 million...
...I wonder whether he really knows anything about Houston...
...Nations do not always act cynically, of course, but each nation has its own distinctive perception of the right and idea of the good...
...This shows about the same degree of understanding as the earliest analyses of student demonstrations, which saw them as modern equivalents of panty raids...
...Who does he think would go to Alaska for "as much as 100 million barrels of [crude] oil...
...cold, hard facts are given...
...United Nations I often wonder how intelligent, energetic journalists like Richard C. Hottelet manage to occupy their time at the United Nations, when the sum of the constructive achievement compiled by that organization in any one year may be limited to such feats as the admission of Fiji ("The UN at Twenty-Five...
...He states that the blacks of Houston do not riot for fear of deadly suppression by police racists...
...But it is not merely reactionaries who dismiss the UN...
...New York City Thomas E. Goldstein Associate Professor of History City College of New York Hyman When I was a freshman at Bennington College...
...What is preserved in the UN charter, I think, is not a "potential," as Hottelet hopefully suggests...
...Cambridge...
...Let me add that I thought Ray Alan's "Drug Traffic in the Middle East" (NL, September 7) most timely, and it disclosed facts without lecturing...
...September 7...
...W. L. Tipton Mr...
...Eleanor Druckman Houston Roger Kingsbury's "Antic Haze" ("Correspondents' Correspondence," NL, July 20) contains a couple of items so absurd as to be amusing, if not tragic...
...I studied "Lang...
...The UN Mideast role would still not have been presented in any better or more constructive light...
...Where else has justifiable fear of suppression stopped riots--Watts...
...His warmth and humor and perceptivity embraced the people he knew and the works he studied...
...I made sure my three teenagers read it...
...Is Kingsbury kidding...
...When I tried, in one of my classes, to advocate such calm, rational political action as working in the coming election campaign, one student--whom I consider to be quite even-tempered and reasonable--asked me with undisguised passion: "How can you expect us to be calm when we must learn, as I did last week, that our best friend has been killed in action...
...Borjs J. Todokovich Roche I think The New Leader is ill-advised in discussing the campus crisis from the perspective of academic conservatives...
...Mrs...
...Stamford, Conn...
...While both Egypt and Israel apparently believed they could not ignore--in public at least--a summons from the most powerful nations on earth, the UN (representing, I suppose, the collective hopes or fantasies of mankind) could never have obtained this sort of response from Jerusalem or Cairo...
...July 20...
...The failure of their parents and teachers to do just that is one of their complaints...
...and have difficulty imagining what it will be...
...it should have read billion.--Ed...
...I am inclined to think these are sufficient, and perfectly logical, reasons for the increasing student radicalization (and the growing influence of extremists upon the unradicalized majority of the student body) with which we are faced...
...with Stanley Hyman...
...No doubt there were some who welcomed the general disruption because they could avoid final exams, or get by with a passing mark...
...The Soviet Union, us Hottelet points out...
...Our own country has not shown any great solicitation for world opinion in regard to Vietnam...
...I am sick and tired of the watered-down intellectual fare fed to women in many other periodicals, and I read The New Leader because T want to read what men of intellect and guts have to say...
...But to understand today's students --even to grant them a hearing--presupposes that we regard them seriously, instead of denouncing them wholesale as exam-dodgers and lazy bums...
...A pipeline would take yet a larger share of the total gross...
...Lit...
...Mass...
...It also seems to me the most unbiased journal in existence today: no matter how emotional an issue may be...
...John P. Roche, no matter what his convictions on other issues may be, has set himself on the academic far right by attributing the unrest last Spring to the student majority's sudden discovery that revolution is a marvelous gimmick for dodging exams ("Back to School," NL, September 7...
...I find the magazine unique because it never talks down to women...
...New York City Georgia Dreisen Duffey My compliments to Richard Margolis on his "Duffey vs...
...The threat posed by the war to the student's education, career, and very life has caused him to think critically about the country that would engage in this kind of venture (and be unable to effectively disengage itself), and the society and values that have made its behavior possible...
...Her comments on John Simon, whose reviews are the most refreshing and stimulating to appear in many a decade, were especially irritating...
...His evaluation of the oil industry, too, is naive and witless...
...The tanker Manhattan alone cost $40 million to build...
...He was my first real teacher...
...As Roche himself observes, there was a sudden radicalization among students after the shootings at Kent State...
...Tipton is correct...
...No Texan would go to Alaska for only 1 million barrels of oil...
...we must realize that the impact of the war on the young continues to mount, and will continue to engender bitterness...
...If Simon's criticisms induce some soul-searching on the part of actors, writers and producers, it is high time...
...I doubt that this critical scrutiny can be stopped once it has been set in motion...
...That amount would just barely qualify as one major Texas oil field, of which there are dozes...
...Louis, Mo...
...But if one took the time to discuss the issues with students, one had to be struck by the number of them acting from serious motivations...
...most of the "cynics" simply wonder who will provide this "global standard...
...Moreover, there is no international standard of conduct, even in theory...
...Although the record of the past few weeks makes one skeptical enough about peace proposals of any kind, let us suppose that the Rogers initiative had not been so quickly frustrated...
...Newark...
...He was both critic and artist--combining the essence of scholarship and creativity...
...No Texan would go to Alaska for only 1 million barrels of oil...
...Million was a typographical error in the manuscript...
...Each well in Alaska now costs more than $1 million...
...Hottelet maintains that the United Nations has not "justified the cynical contempt of those too far behind the times to recognize a shrunken, independent world community's need for a global standard of right and conduct...
...Besides providing an enlightening postmortem of the Democratic state convention, Margolis1 prognosis for the August 19 state primary proved to be quite astute...
...Students have become genuinely radicalized--and are probably in a process of further radicalization--primarily because the things that embittered then" in the first place have not changed, despite all their protests...
...That is ridiculous...
...What actually motivates today's students--and how that affects the awesome and widening gap between the universities and the rest of society --is a problem deserving of more penetrating attention from The New Leader...
...Leading the list of student grievances--the catalyst for their radicalization--is of course the Vietnam war, which has a frightful meaning for their lives and those of their close friends...
...Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y...
...Not a single one of the world's powers has ever demonstrated any inclination to allow its sovereignty to be even slightly impinged upon by United Nations action, when it has had any choice in the matter...
...Remarkably, and I hope not uncharacteristically, that particular debate swung in favor of peaceful political action...
...I also find it difficult to accept Hottelet's contention that since the United Nations is a member state of the UN, the world organization is therefore not "demeaned" by, say, the American peace effort in the Middle East...
...And it is still true, as Margolis said in closing his article, that "nobody, not even his opposition, is telling Joe Duffey he can't win...
...James Heilemann...
...Genuine thanks for the satisfying experience of being one of your subscribers for such a long time...
...has been particularly, though not uniquely, obstinate in this respect...
...The Charter merely preserves some of the internationalist euphoria of World War II and is by now as much a quaint and historical document as the Code of Hammurabi...
...I knew him only briefly, yet 1 loved him and will miss him very much...
...the Bailey Machine in Connecticut" (NL...
Vol. 53 • October 1970 • No. 19
