Dear Editor
Dear Editor Terburi If the point of David Terburi's self-righteous "Confessions of a Summer Law Clerk" (NL. August 7) was to disclose that Wall Street law firms are in business to make money, so...
...Surely Vladeck is too wise an analyst really to believe that in a subject as complex as this one there is such a thing as "proof...
...Walter R. Storey New Left In recent years the term "New Left" has become the marker for a certain kind of political obscurantism...
...I think Beichman deserves a certain measure of praise for this...
...Vladeck criticizes those who "claim a love for the people without much liking people . . . [and) claim to support and advance the interests of oppressed classes while actually fearing and distrusting them...
...Nor does Vladeck ever forgo the chance for a gratuitous attack, taking on, among others, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Lyndon John-son, the Weimar Republic, the Black Panthers, behavorial science, and smalHown Rotary clubs...
...In the latter part of 1970 I worked as a messenger for the huge law firm of Schnader...
...is substantially in agreement with my own...
...I cannot foresee anything other than four more years of Nixon...
...Michael Baranovskii Tyler Gus Tyler's analysis of the current campaign...
...Beichman, at least, is saying things that need lo be said to an audience that might lack your reviewer's sophistication: America isn't insane, politics isn't a fraud, bomb factories are not morality...
...David Delate...
...Union leaders especially are wary of a man who has taken over the party they traditionally support without first coming to terms with them...
...Cambridge...
...They supported Hubert Humphrey more strongly than any other group-though he was actually the candidate of the blue-collar workers- This is the class with the most to lose if blacks are given equal employment opportunities, since, in the short run, the heaviest competition will surely be for those jobs requiring the least education...
...A better use of his time and the maga-z;ne"s space might be to provide some...
...August 7), it seems that Vladeck falls into the latter camp, and that Beichman falls into the former...
...It seems to me that Terburi's experience on "the Street" with one firm for all of 10 weeks-spent mostly in the office law library-hardly qualifies him to issue the sweeping indictments put forth in his article...
...Advice to a Candidate" (NL, July 10...
...August 7) was to disclose that Wall Street law firms are in business to make money, so what else is new...
...McGovern made few promises but, by so doing, made few friends...
...Ironically, the one promise on which McGovern stuck his neck out hasn't helped him much either...
...Helping those who cannot see they are being helped is no way to get elected...
...But the legal profession also contains about the same percentage of boors, liars, profiteers, racists, and male chauvinists as most groups, including Yale law students...
...Philadelphia...
...Yet the liberal Bernard G. Segal was traveling the length and breadth of the country urging other lawyers to be sensitive to the needs of the poor, the blacks and the women...
...Authors who use the phrase invariably end up either castigating something as a heap of worthless foolishness, or posing as defenders in order to take cheap shots at the enemies of their own particular dogma...
...When I was working there, the firm employed no women or black attorneys...
...While performing my duties I was hit by an automobile, but in order to settle my accident claim successfully, I had to retain an attorney from outside this impersonal firm...
...Segal and Lewis, whose senior partner, Bernard G. Segal, was then Chancellor of the American Bar Association...
...His $1,000 bonus idea was apparently designed to give blacks a larger share of the country's wealth, but they seem oblivious to who their friends really are...
...Yet he chides Beichman for writing to a popular audience and proceeds, in the space of two pages, to drop such names as Benda, Rogin and Hacker...
...Terburi's '"Confessions" reflect life on Wall Street about as accurately as his starched white shirts reflect current fashion...
...Mass...
...Vladeck says "we need new analytical categories, new definitions, new ideas.'''' I fully agree...
...Articles about the New Left always end up striking a dozen sparks and setting no fires...
...No one in authority in (he office even asked me about my injury...
...New York City George P. Felleman David Terburi's "Confessions of a Summer Law Clerk" accurately describes the social gap between top legal professionals and their "hourly employes...
...by the way, $350 per week, which, I am sure, the indignant Terburi did not turn over to charity), then he has done your readers a serious disservice...
...But if he is saying that most Wall Street lawyers are as gross, boorish and money-grubbing as are the ones with whom his bad judgment led him to associate for a summer (at...
...New York attorneys, including the Wall Street kind, engage in a broader spectrum of social, political, professional and charitable activities than probably any other single group...
...Although his tones of righteous indignation and moral superiority make for interesting reading...
...Fort Lee, N.J...
...Instead, Vladeck complains that he "almost never proves" (italics in original) those he is criticizing are wrong...
...From Bruce C. Vladeck's review of Arnold Beichman's Nine Lies About America (NL...
...Harrison...
...Nor were my former bosses insensitive only to their messengers...
Vol. 55 • September 1972 • No. 17
