Dear Editor

Dear Editor The Release of Laughter While Robert Asahina certainly makes his aversion to the films of Mel Brooks clear before attacking him ("Suffering in Silence," NL, August 2), what he...

...To say a comedy need contain deep thought in order to be truly funny is like declaring pornography must deal with social grievances to be dirty...
...Dear Editor The Release of Laughter While Robert Asahina certainly makes his aversion to the films of Mel Brooks clear before attacking him ("Suffering in Silence," NL, August 2), what he does not do is demonstrate that he has a sense of humor with which to give Brooks a fair appraisal...
...August 2) _with one exception...
...The delegates listened attentively...
...He had been in exile from America because of his belief that the Vietnam war was wrong, and in returning he risked imprisonment...
...The partial, unworkable "pardon" in the Democratic platform is simply not enough...
...The cinema is an escapist medium: what better escape than the total, unrestrained, "anarchic" release of laughter...
...New York City E. Schiff Amnesty Calvin Fentress seems to have captured the essence of the Democratic convention in his "Convention Notebook" (NL...
...but by the dishonorable discharges given arbitrarily, without due process...
...Finally, the nominee took the microphone...
...Less than one per cent were related to behavior under fire...
...For conservatives appear to be fundamentally alienated from liberal democracy...
...With tremendous persistence they broke through the Carter acclaim and took the podium...
...For it seems that Asahina has made the fatal mistake of taking comedy far too seriously: Silent Movie is not, as he believes, indicative of rampant anarchy in our society...
...I had originally written: "Conservatives seem to have larger issues on their minds and do not seem unambiguously content with liberal democracy at its most moderate...
...And we cannot forget until we have corrected the wrongs done the hundreds of thousands of veterans who were hurt, not by the "enemy...
...Louise Wilson For the Record The conclusion of my review of George H. Nash's The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (NL, August 2) was edited to read: "And there...
...Indeed, none of us can forget the war until we recognize the justness of those who said they could not take part in it...
...Brooks' films help release us from the alternately mundane and tragic world around us...
...They were granted the Democrats' quiet attention because their message was compelling...
...and introduce us to a place where there is no cultural, emotional or mental anguish...
...When it became apparent that issue was not to be discussed, they decided to run Fritz Efaw, a delegate from Americans abroad, for Vice President...
...When these people addressed the delegates, there was a conspicuous absence of the milling around described by Fentress...
...I think, is the clue to what separates the Right from I the rest of the political spectrum...
...One can be sensible, sensitive, intelligent, believe in order, and still laugh at a pratfall or ridiculous sight gag...
...Palo Alto, Calif...
...New York City Fred Baumann The following information was inadvertently omitted from Ruth Mathewson's review of Mirra Komarovsky's Dilemmas of Masculinity (NL, August 2): Norton, 274 pp., $9.95-Ed...
...A small band of men and women came to Madison Square Garden to promote the cause of universal and unconditional amnesty...
...may I Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and all of us do the same and in favor of total amnesty...
...The first to speak was Louise Ransom, a Gold Star Mother who transcended her sorrow for her son's death in Vietnam by speaking for total amnesty...
...What little trouble there is serves only to heighten an appreciation of the resolution of an outrageous plot...
...Next, the convention heard from Ron Kovic, a veteran wounded in body but not in mind or spirit...

Vol. 59 • September 1976 • No. 18


 
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