Dear Editor
Dear Editor Bismarck's Appropriation Richard J. Margolis' "Battle of Pill Hill" (NL, October 23) seems a true account of what is happening in North Dakota. But the author errs when he gives to...
...If you can't tell the difference between a building or program (novitiate) and a person (novice), you probably can't even tell the players...
...It's like the stuff we used to write for school parties in the fifth form...
...Medford, Mass...
...I was amazed to learn that Beckett was not a teenager, and staggered when fashionable audiences in London and Paris began taking Godot seriously...
...Greensburg, Pa...
...Nobert F. Gaughajm According to the Second Edition of Webster's New International Dictionary, novitiate means: "1...
...Please assure Sauvage that I, too, admire much of George Orwell's work...
...State or time of being a novice...
...The first time I read Godot (in a production script) my reaction was: "This could be fun...
...I got to like the stuff...
...Glen Mills, Pa...
...apprenticeship...
...So is Beckett...
...To prevent goiter," whatever the hell that was...
...How old is he...
...a place where novices are trained...
...Our school audiences were more intelligent...
...Howard Gillespie An Old Cure Thomas Land's article about controlling goiter with iodine ("Correspondents' Correspondence," NL, November 20) gave me a weird sense ofdeja vu, or dejd bu...
...John P. Roche Author's Reply The 18th-century pace of the transatlantic surface mail that brings me my copy of the NL, plus my own travels and a postal strike, have prevented me from replying earlier to Leo Sauvage's letter ("Dear Editor," NL, July 31...
...The editors reveal their lack of knowledge of the Catholic Church when they identify Tony Proscio, author of "Papal Politics" (NL, November 6), as "a novitiate" at Gregorian University in Rome...
...My description of Waiting for Godot as a "shallow high-school charade" was not a flippant aside: I chose the words carefully...
...I gather from a recent article (in Le Monde, I think) that he doesn't want Godot taken seriously...
...Incidentally, 1 am a great admirer of Richard J. Margolis...
...Now this folk-medicine—whoever served corned beef and cassava?—seems to have reached the stratospheric level of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization...
...My phrase "1940-ish Trotskyite journalism" referred not to Orwell's writing as a whole but to his three articles, first published between 1936-40, studied at the University of Toulouse...
...2. A novice...
...Maybe a few Irish witch-doctors could have solved the problem in Zaire without help from the Department of Isotopes in Brussels...
...Bismarck appropriated it—and some of their other ideas—to defeat them...
...You may be good on international questions but on Church matters, sorry, you flunk...
...Madrid Ray Alan Novitiate...
...As one can learn from the Encyclopaedia Brilan-nica, the idea was first promulgated by German Social Democrats...
...It seemed to me a pity to inflict outdated journalism on students, and perhaps discourage them from ever returning to Orwell, when it would have been just as easy to assign them one or two of his better books—Animal Farm, say, or the at times scrappily written but fascinating Homage to Catalonia...
...He also used other less praiseworthy measures, including severe repression of political opposition—one happy result of which was that Germany lost, and we gained, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the electrical wizard...
...As a kid in Brooklyn in the 1920s there was a ritual: Every night Mother would take an eye dropper, put a certain number of drops of iodine in a glass of water, and we would drink it...
...But the author errs when he gives to Chancellor Bismarck sole credit for bringing "to the Western world its first experiment in compulsory national health insurance...
Vol. 61 • December 1978 • No. 25
