Dear Editor
Dear Editor Private Eye Walter Goodman's review of Who is Teddy Viltanovja? ("The Shamus as Schlemiel," NL, May 23) is one of the keenest I have seen. I thought I should tell you that, and also...
...On a slightly more serious level, "fears of social and particularly sexual inadequacy" are not limited to adolescents, as my good friend here, Sigmund Freud, will testify...
...A. Fred Collins Correction Due to a typing error...
...Pomona, N.Y...
...The prelate was famous for his devotion to the sick and for his contributions to Catholic education in America...
...Thomas Bergfr Growing Up Absurd Film reviewer Robert Asahina is correct about Woody Allen's latest film, Annie Hall ("Don't Play It Again, Woody," NL, June 6): it bores...
...I know Allen...
...Diane Keaton is definitely one of the silliest and most limited actresses around...
...Joel M. Gershowitz1 article ("Crime and the Race for Mayor in New York...
...or in any case the majority of the audience I saw , the movie with was frightened—enough at, least to respond to its childishness...
...Still, the merger of Commentary and Dissent giving rise to Dysentery was, I thought, pretty funny...
...Anxiety may be out—and with so many pimping for Number One, it's no wonder—yet it will not be gone forever...
...The author of the first regretted the limpness of our current bards...
...Ever since my first "heavy raps" on Plato, Aristotle, Levi-Strauss, and other such stars of the college circuit, I've wanted to pull a similar stunt...
...Edward Turnbui.l Literary Fashions I have a little postcript to add to Charles Deemer's excellent disdain for the literary fashion follies ("An Old Faithful," NL, June 20...
...There is, however, another dimension—his satire...
...There were two of these...
...So much for criticism...
...This is where Woody Allen fails...
...and his canonization by Pope Paul VI last month was well-deserved...
...But then again, I was among those who found the Marshall McLuhan bit hilarious...
...Woody, and explore other phenomena...
...It's time to grow up...
...Mount Desert, Me...
...A few months ago, I picked up a rather well-known poetry magazine and worked my way through some abominable, hypersensitive verse to the reviews at the back...
...And it's true that New York Jewish intellectual jokes have lost some of their lustre...
...his gags are funny, sometimes perceptive...
...I thought I should tell you that, and also that my first published work, in I think 1949, was a book review in The New Leader—then a weekly tabloid, on newsprint...
...Jersey City, N.J...
...We are all frightened...
...that of the second waxed ecstatic over the present modern-poetry renaissance...
...The correct figure is 88 per cent...
...Elliot A. Cohen Robert Asahina makes some good points in his review of Woody Allen's Annie Hall...
...He was indeed a man "as capable cf practical good works as of spiritual ones...
...These days, when great puns are going the way of the dodo, a quip like that deserves our heartiest groans and appreciation...
...By the age of 41 one should be past sophomoric critiques of sex, family, religion, school, and politics—unless one can also contribute deeper insights...
...Miami, Fla...
...New York City Harvey Wahlen Bishop Neumann | Vivien Raynor's discussion of Bishop Neumann ("Bringing Back the Portrait," NL, June 20) came at a particularly appropriate | time...
...Incidentally, that in the first edition Rus-sel Wren is called "unlicensed" (on page one) was an error, corrected in succeeding editions...
...NL, June 6) stated that ple;i bargaining "accounts for 98 per cent of all felony convictions...
Vol. 60 • July 1977 • No. 14
