Dear Editor
Dear Editor The Gift of Tongues John Simon's encomiastic forbearance is certainly no impugnation of his critical acumen, but simply the manifestation of an intelligence which understands that the...
...my wife reminded me that the quote 1 attributed lo Burton K. Wheeler was actually attributed by Senator Wheeler to his wife...
...Phillip Smith Planned Economy Given Robert Lekachman's remarkable track record in accurately predicting the ups and downs of Nixonomics during the President's first term, his gloomy forecast for 1974 ("How to Start a Recession," NL, July 9) is rather frightening...
...His review of Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment ("On Screen...
...The review was written before Eliot Roosevelt put forward a more plausible explanation...
...After the recession of 1974, he will have just time enough to get the economy nicely booming again for the '76 elections...
...Recahing the sixth point in the scenario outlined by Tyler?Take the country on a dizzying ride over the Philips" Curve by alternating unemployment with inflation and synchronizing the ups and downs to the political time-table"-ene wonders if there is not more behind Nixon's current inaction than embarrassment over Watergate...
...NL, June 11...
...September 4. 1972...
...Baltimore Fred Milton FDR Upon reading my review of Kenneth S. Davis' FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928 ("A President in the Making," nl, July 9...
...Perhaps foremost among these is the astonishing fact that-given its highly ambiguous stance toward the contemporary events it documents-such a film was ever granted the right of exhibition in Fidel Castro's Cuba, let alone a license for export to that island's leading enemy...
...June 25) is evidence enough that when a genuinely meritorious work comes along, he can be as lavish in his praise as the occasion demands...
...Indeed, that the film's one and only encounter with the barbarism of censorship should have occurred in this country as a result of the United States Treasury Department's addlepated intervention a few years ago, is bound to give an honest citizen of our troubled land more than a moment's pause...
...In addition, I did not mean to say that FDR did not fight in World War I "possibly because he was having an affair with Lucy Mercer...
...New York City Timothy W. Forrest Woodcock As an undergraduate at an Ivy League university whose Oxford-worshipping philosophy professors insist on "standing Wittgenstein on his head," I want to thank George Woodcock for his excellent review of Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin's Wittgenstein's Vienna ("A World Past Logic...
...San Francisco Joseph E. Illick...
...I regret this error...
...This book, which seems to have been as badly misunderstood by most literary critics as its subject has been misinterpreted by most professional philosophers, offers the first gleam of hope that academia may yet set Wittgenstein back on his feet...
...Ithaca, N.Y...
...It also brings to mind Gus Tyler's perceptive preelection analysis of a Republican game plan that "like Disraeli's Tory Socialism, uses politics not to restructure an exploitive machinery but to grease squeaky wheels" ("Saving the Party.' NL...
...Dear Editor The Gift of Tongues John Simon's encomiastic forbearance is certainly no impugnation of his critical acumen, but simply the manifestation of an intelligence which understands that the rigors of taste must never yield to the flippancies of generosity...
...Conceived with a skeptic's sneer and executed with a pessimist's disdain, it calls into question not only the "progress" that has been made since the Revolution but also the processes of civil justice that obtain under the present regime...
...I only regret that Simon did not choose to expatiate at greater length on the film's virtues, for many things that he neglected to discuss should not be passed over without comment...
...On the contrary, T thought his affair might have stemmed from his dissatisfaction with civilian status and a desire to prove his manhood elsewhere...
...It would have been worth noting, therefore, that this was not another fawning piece of Left-wing agitprop, devised merely to re-enforce the Manichean dogmatisms of sycophantic Party members and to soothe the wakeful slumbers of propagandists bureaucrats...
Vol. 56 • July 1973 • No. 15
