Dear Editor
Dear Editor Silone Archive My late husband, lgnazio Silone, bequeathed his archive and correspondence to me with the understanding that I make them "available to future scholars." Since the...
...To attack the neoconservatives where it realls counts, then, requires not only show ing how their positions on specific questions are false, but how their whole premise is mistaken...
...A close reading of the second stanza of the poem bears out this interpretation: Now of my threescore years and (en Twenty will not come again...
...The "fifty years" in Housman'slast stanza does not mean the narrator's age, but rather the number of years he has left to enjoy nature (life...
...also anyone possessing, or knowing how to find, articles etc...
...Instead of a 50-year-old man who "had taken to wandering through snowy woodlands," the poet in The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Since the Italian Government has declared them to be a "national heritage" and forbidden me to take them out of Italy, the only way 1 can attempt to carry out my husband's wish is to edit and publish them...
...For instance, because capitalism is inherently good, it follows that government intervention—even if it is for noble ends—is bad...
...A state university system...
...He reduced welfare benefits...
...Carol Hunsbercer Neoconservatives In his review of Peter Steinfels' book, Steven Kel-man did a fine job of pointing out the weaknesses in the neoconservaiive argument ("Abandoning the Good Fight," NL, May 21...
...May 21...
...Thousands of miles of highway...
...Reading, Pa...
...Given the chaotic situation of the Italian postal service for the last 13 years, it would be best to send all materials to me by registered mail at the following address: Casella Postale 7196 Nomentano, 00161 Rome, Italy...
...It is precisely the belief in the ultimately beneficial effects of private ownership of production that results in the neoconserva-tive attitude on social matters...
...Unfortunately, there is litlle room for sympathy where Rocky is concerned, for he harmed New York State so much more than he helped it...
...He was responsible for the Attica massacre...
...Housman poem, "Loveliest of Trees," that he used as a take-off point for his own reminiscences ("Racing Through Childhood," NL, April 9...
...What is there to balance against all this...
...also of anyone possessing letters from him who would not mind sending me photostatic copies...
...The record is indisputable: In the years that he governed, the average New Yorker's taxes multiplied fivefold, the state debt and the state budget nearly fourfold...
...Rome Darina Silone Wrong Reading I believe Richard J. Margolis missed the mark with the A.E...
...Yet 1 think he missed one of the central issues—namely, the neoconservatives' defense of corporate capitalism...
...He set up agencies that could issue bonds?without voter approval—to finance his grandiose construction schemes...
...And take from seventy springs a score It only leaves me fifty more...
...by him or concerning him in any language...
...New YorkCitv Edward Littman Rocky It is all very well to commend Robert H. Connery and Gerald Benjamin for their "Sympathetic yet critical" account of Nelson A. Rockefeller's gubernatorial career, as Steven R. Weisman did ("Portrait ot an Imperial Governorship," NL...
...I have decided to publish the material in biographical form, probably in several volumes...
...I need not say how greatful I should be for any help of this kind...
...I hardly think the price of ha\ing Rockefeller was worth it...
...Housman's work is a 20-year-old lad who, recognizing that the 50 years he probably has left in his life span is but a brief period, decides to partake of the joys of nature in all seasons, not just during his favorite of springtime...
...For this immense task 1 shall need the help of all friends—of anyone and everyone who knew Silone before I met him (which was in December 1941), or who knew him since but in circumstances or places other than Rome, and would be so kind as to let me have their reminiscences of him...
...Albany, N. Y. Arnoi dSw i s.sos...
...He wasted SI .2 billion of the taxpayer's money on the useless and hideous Albans mall...
...If no acknowledgement from me is received, it means the letter has not reached me...
Vol. 62 • June 1979 • No. 12
