Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Doublespeak I sympathize with Richard I. Margolis. His account of the...
...Yet it is somewhat appropriate, is it not, that a country whose way of doing business is characterized by a Kafkaesque maelstrom of corporate doublespeak and labyrinthine bureaucracy has a government which is run in the same manner...
...Events have shown, for example, that the President's goal of a "low-key working relationship" with the people and the press requires more significant steps than carrying his own suitcase, abandoning the playing of "Ruffles and Flourishes," or wearing blue jeans in the White House (which, by the way, Carter has yet to do...
...There is nothing sinister about Wyeth...
...Nereo Condini...
...Salt Lake City Aldous Nugent A Wolfe or a Lamb...
...Indeed, I found the story wholly moving?particularly since I and many of my friends had no inkling Christina was crippled...
...And although cynicism may come cheap these days, I could hardly control my snickers when I saw the leader of the Western world on TV, dressed in a plain cardigan with a cozy fire burning behind him...
...R. Stern's letter ("Dear Editor," NL, February 14) contends that my review of Mauve Cloves 6 & Madmen, Clutter 6 Vine "while in-' teresting, neglected . . . the essential problem in Wolfe's work—his relation to his audience...
...Whether Tom Wolfe is a wolf or a lamb is still hard to tell...
...I don't find anything apalling about his recounting of the genesis of Christinas World...
...What, after all, would be the consequences if government memos were written in decipherable English, if people were hired and fired rationally, if each job had a detectable purpose...
...Is he really the all-out hawk he purports to be...
...Gary, Ind...
...Is he a doree outsider, a courageous satirist, a historian of manners in the tradition of the Latin Juvenal...
...Cleveland Arnold Marcus A Question of Style While I enjoyed George E. Herman's "Kennedy and Carter in Contrast," (NL, February 14), I'm beginning to think that we are all paying too much attention to style and not enough to substance...
...In this ambiguity lies Wolfe's charm, and his danger...
...Although Raynor is consistently among my favorite NL critics, this time her psychological analyses led her to a wrong turn...
...Or does he connive with the unpleasant realities he describes in detail...
...Lodi, N.J...
...In any event, Mr...
...George Handel Too Far Viven Raynoi^s review of the Metropolitan's Andrew Wyeth exhibit ("On Art," NL, January 31) went too far for my taste...
...Jimmy Carter seems to want to do away with ail the mumbo jumbo, but I would warn him to watch his step: He may be messing with the American way of life...
...Personally...
...After all, the first glimpse of the Mona Lisa may rest on her mouth without proving that Da Vinci had a lip fetish...
...Margolis, I hope they got back to you...
...I, for one, can't help doubting that Carter is just throwing dust in our eyes...
...His account of the hazards of the Washington employment merry-go-round ("A Job-Seeker's Journal," NL, February 28) was truly harrowing...
...We can't be that naive: The differences between Carter's cardigan and Nixon's American flag are of style—not substance...
...The fact that the Siri picture had the crotch for its focus does not necessarily mean the painter was a dirty old man either...
...Worse yet, we often confuse the two...
Vol. 60 • March 1977 • No. 6
