Dear Editor
Dear Editor Morgenthau Quite obviously, since he was dealing with the future, Hans J. Morgenthau's grim analysis of Israel's position ("The Geopolitics of Israel's Survival," NL, December 24)...
...New York City James T. Farrell Oil Slavery There is another side effect of the oil embargo and price rise (Walter Goodman, "Over the Oil Barrel," NL, February 4) that nobody I know of has mentioned so far...
...Assuming Too Much Marvin Kitman, in "The Thing About 'Calucci'" ("On Television," NL, February 4), writes that Fred Silverman of CBS "should leave his brain to science so that future historians can find out what makes the mind of a vice president in charge of programing tick...
...New York City Eric Bentley Pearl K. Bell replies: Nothing in my review of the Casement biography warrants Mr...
...For the underdeveloped African nations, the cost of energy is of vital importance...
...Application of his first proposal, it appears, would result in a significant increase in the number of cases going to full trial...
...Dear Editor Morgenthau Quite obviously, since he was dealing with the future, Hans J. Morgenthau's grim analysis of Israel's position ("The Geopolitics of Israel's Survival," NL, December 24) cannot be proven or disproven...
...Anyone who was not a television executive, or possibly a television critic, could certainly have foreseen that long in advance...
...was like turning The Lower Depths into a barrel of laughs, and of course it flopped...
...The Fatal Disease of Ireland," NL, February 18) indicates a preference for heroes who are sturdy...
...It remains in danger...
...Allowing, however, for some exaggeration in this last phrase, wouldn't one have to concede that heroism in mere human beings is bound up with something like its opposite...
...I hope that our Afro-American admirers of the Arab cause will come to understand this nefarious scheme and change their tune...
...The point of Inglis' book is not the greatness of Casement but his poignancy...
...He is even more arbitrary in suggesting that the phrase "psychopathic derangement" is an exaggeration...
...And she quotes an even worse slur from Richard Crossman—his crack about Casement being inclined to fall from his high horse into dung...
...Now that he has been appointed New York County District Attorney, he has the opportunity to put his theories to work...
...Only in the Cloud Cuckoo Land of show biz would anybody imagine that sustained jollity could be derived from joblessness, its victims, and its bureaucracy...
...Having said this much, though, one must add that his effort to handle it, in an age when such handling was humanly impossible, truly was . . . yes, heroic...
...It outlines one possibility that might come to pass in Israel's more or less immediate future...
...This sounds encouraging on the surface, but the oil price rise will have a calamitous effect on the poor African nations in any event...
...Pray, where did Kitman find evidence that these creatures have minds...
...New York City Peter A. Martin Saints and Sinners Pearl K. Bell, writing on Roger Casement...
...In the New Testament, for instance, St...
...Ron DeWitt...
...Yet I hope that Kuh will undertake to implement his approach...
...referred to this problem not long ago, stating that plans exist to supply oil to friendly developing African countries at lower cost than to industrial states...
...As a politician Crossman must be an expert on dung...
...either by enemies or by thorough going biographers such as Brian Inglis...
...As such, it should be taken with grave and great seriousness...
...The facl that they have broken with Israel, a state that has given them help to develop their own resources, a state with more socialism and democracy than can be found under any of the Leftist or Rightist authoritarian regimes of the Arab world, will no longer matter...
...In the light of this fact, it seems to me that the contributors to The New Leader symposium ("The Geopolitics of Israel's Survival: An Exchange of Views," NL, February 4) would have been better advised to consider how to prevent Morgenthau's prediction from becoming a reality than to scout it as impossible, or at least utterly unlikely...
...I conclude that Ms...
...But Casement was no politician at all...
...Bell to this extent: It was not the homosexuality that was dubious, but his by no means total success in dealing with it...
...There are more modern examples in the recent film The Sorrow and the Pity...
...Walter A. Sheldon Kuh The Honorable Richard H. Kuh has shown us "How to Make Plea Bargaining Work" (NL, January 7...
...The spokesman for the Arab League, Clovis Maksoud...
...I believe he has the right idea in refusing to acquiesce in the de-humanization of the criminal justice system?just because we can't find the time to humanize it...
...Calucci s Dept...
...Port Chester, N.Y...
...Jesus, on the other hand, not being deranged, is not merely human...
...It is clear from his article that Kuh recognizes this and I believe he accepts the challenge...
...One of these days they will realize they have exchanged colonialism, as it was exercised by the Western world, for a more insidious dependency on the fickle good will of the Arabs, Africa's former slave-hunters...
...Their future will be decided in conformity with Arab grand design...
...If the black Africans toe the line, they will receive the oil they need, though at a higher cost than previously...
...on this aspect of Casemem...
...He had faults (he was not divine) but nothing unclean has ever—ever—been dug up about him...
...And it will undoubtedly become more demeaning to the self-esteem of these young nations, which recently won their independence, than any former white colonialism or neocolonialism...
...The survival of Israel has been at stake ever since it was established in 1948...
...Director Marcel Ophuls' whole point is that the heroism of the Resis-tants was rooted in the personally dubious...
...They will find themselves tied hand and foot to their Arab oil suppliers, as their ancestors were shackled by the Arab slave-traders who ravaged African humanity in the past...
...If Bentley can still insist on this greatness after a careful reading of Inglis' study, with its authoritative evidence of the Irishman's desperate hypocrisies, he gratuitously slurs the name of a fine and by no means unsympathetic biographer...
...Dallas Merlan De Bolt, M.D...
...We will never reduce the backlog of business in our criminal court system until we make the system work properly, and we cannot simply accept the argument that the volume of business makes reform impossible...
...As for Roger Casement, I agree with Ms...
...Their idealism, she gives us to understand, should not be founded on "psychopathic derangement...
...Lido Beach, N.Y...
...Bentley's conclusion that I require inhuman purity in a hero...
...Now here's the thing about Calucci's Dept...
...Inglis is incontrovertibly clear...
...otherwise, they will be prevented from ever attaining devel-oped-nation status...
...As a source of humor, unemployment ranks next to psoriasis and paraplegia...
...This dependency will dictate not only the economic growth and foreign policy of the sub-Sahara countries, but also such internal matters as freedom of the press (as is being demonstrated by Libyan ruler Muammar el-Qaddafi's efforts to punish the Italian newspaper La Stampa for an article he found offensive...
...In fact, a doubling of the trial caseload is not hard to imagine...
...Paul is a hero, and as a result has been roundly condemned as a sinner and neurotic (by himself first of all...
...Bell's article constitutes yet another gratuitous slur upon the name of a great man...
...And that, if it were not, our hero would be, not human, but divine...
Vol. 57 • March 1974 • No. 6
