Dear Editor
Dear Editor Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is certainly entitled to his opinions about Marxism ("Understanding Communism," NL, August 4). God knows, if anyone is, he is! Still, I think he has...
...After a while, I did find a job to my liking...
...Tsarism...
...But politics just isn't his bag...
...policymakers: How to maintain friendly relations with two allies of the United States who are not allies of each other...
...Marx may have been wrong, profoundly wrong, in his analyses, yet we shouldn't let the Soviet monsters who have acted in his name distort our understanding of him, any more than we should let Adolf Hitler stand in the way of a direct confrontation with Nietzsche's ideas...
...I tended bar...
...Like Yagerman, I drove a taxi...
...And similarly, I consider the Congress' action in cutting off aid to Turkey an exercise in shortsighted petulance, lacking any sense of historical perspective and displaying no understanding of the meaning of the word "diplomacy...
...But as I was quick to find out, there are many well-educated Eagle Scouts roaming the streets of Manhattan in search of a job...
...In fact, I am not sure Washington can do much more than take a wait-and-see attitude toward Athens and Ankara, serving as an arbiter whenever possible, with the aim of avoiding bloodshed, but not coming out strongly for one side or the other...
...He is undeniably a great novelist, and a man who has suffered more in his lifetime than any of us is likely to suffer in ours...
...So meager, in fact, that I was forced to drop out of my college alumni club because I couldn't afford the dues...
...After graduating from a prestigious Eastern college, I headed off to a prestigious Eastern graduate school...
...I was awarded my sheepskin in 1973...
...For this reason, I find myself basically in sympathy with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's efforts in the area-although admittedly there have been times when his realpolitik seemed to obscure his democratic sentiments...
...We should remember that Karl Marx was a 19th-century philosopher concerned with the problem of expanding human freedom...
...Although my training was in experimental psychology, I was looking for trainee positions in either publishing or advertising...
...Still, I think he has let his personal-and horrible-experiences interfere with his thinking...
...Much of his work was a battle against Hegel's veneration of the German State...
...After all, trying to settle the Cyprus dispute or the argument over rights in the Aegean is like trying to bring a thousand years of history to an end...
...And I got very discouraged...
...So I left my doctoral dreams for the bright lights of the Big Apple and its inviting promise of success...
...The Communist Manifesto," he writes, "contains even more terrible things than have actually been done...
...in short, possessing qualities that could serve as a sterling example to any Eagle Scout...
...Especially to me...
...Sylvia C. Bush Education Glut Howard Yagerman's painful reminder that recent college graduates are finding their academic training far from marketable ("Caught in the Education Glut," NL, September 1) points to one of the more depressing aspects of our depressed times...
...New York City Alan Wattenberg The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...It was sometime during the second semester when I decided that I had had my fill of ivy-covered halls...
...That is a disputable statement, to say the least...
...Besides, what does Solzhenitsyn himself have to offer the West...
...Since I was willing to accept a low-level and low-paying job, I figured I had it made...
...Of course, my salary remains a bit on the meager side...
...Authoritarianism...
...Russian Orthodoxy...
...Greenwich, Conn...
...Here I was, a clean-cut, hardworking, bright, honest youth...
...I passed out fliers...
...New York City Hyman Karnovsky The Art of Diplomacy Cokie Roberts' "Dilemmas of the Greek-Turkish Conflict" (NL, June 23) points up one of the major problems now confronting U.S...
Vol. 58 • September 1975 • No. 18
