Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Barbarians With his special blend of erudition and logic, John Simon has...
...I particularly agreed with her estimate of the Judy Chicago autobiography...
...The duality of civilization has always been a topic of concern for intellectuals in the past, but its importance at present appears overwhelming...
...Though I still sympathize with what I think are their good intentions, I have come to recognize the naivete of their beliefs...
...One fears that the equilibrium of the "warring thesis and antithesis" is soon to be upset by a contemporary "barbarian" victory...
...John Milius' overblown, inaccurate and sensationalistic "historical" film is not only an insult to the art form, but a shameful effort to make a quick buck out of the country's 200th birthday celebration...
...As a college student in the late '60s,I was an avid McCarthyite (Eugene, not Joseph), staunchly opposed to the Vietnam war and an active member of a radical political organization...
...Surely, there is a truth somewhere in between...
...I suppose I was also guilty of the kind of reductive "good and bad" international moralizing that MacLaine and Schneider now seem to be championing...
...Cleveland Gary R. Matlock Nixon Jinx I was struck by the possible jinx Richard Nixon may innocently have put on Nelson Rockefeller, as suggested in Stephen Nordlinger's "Rockefeller as Mr...
...Boston David Wilton Women and Art Vivien Raynor's "Failed Missions" (NL, May 26) was a welcome respite for those members of both sexes who have been feeling bludgeoned by the feminist blitz...
...Reliable" (NL, July 7...
...and Calvin Fentress' review of The Wind and the Lion ("An Ill Wind and a Good Fortune," NL, June 23) shows to what lengths Hollywood, at least, will go at the expense of a patriotic public...
...Barbarians With his special blend of erudition and logic, John Simon has provided a keen insight into a disturbing cultural phenomenon ("Lying Down with the Barbarians," NL, June 9...
...The self-indulgent plaints of a mediocre artist are not only boring, they are an embarrassment to the many talented women who have achieved, or are worthy of, acclaim, and to bestow serious attention upon this female-traveling publicist is to undermine whatever strength the Women's Liberation movement may have...
...New York City Mark Forman...
...Philip David Weiss Bicentennial Bucks As July 4, 1976, approaches, it seems not one stone that could possibly be used for that garish mosaic we are calling the Bicentennial celebration will be left unturned...
...Muncie, Ind...
...In designating Rocky one of the "three men in America" who understands power (along with John Connally and himself), the former President nominates the current Vice President to a not-so-glorious fraternity, and while such statements may improve Rockefeller's reputation with the Old Guard of his party, they do little to strengthen his appeal among those people his presence on the Republican ticket is supposed to attract...
...But that recognition remains a far cry from membership in the John Birch Society, or support for the Mayaguez misadventure...
...New York City Edith Applebaum Rhetorical Chasm Walter Goodman in "Good Guys and Bad Guys" (Fair Game, NL, June 9) describes a problem many of us seem to be running up against these days-finding a way of separating ourselves from the Shirley MacLaines and Burt Schneiders without backing into the embraces of the John Ashbrooks...
Vol. 58 • July 1975 • No. 15
