Dear Editor
Dear Editor Clarification I read with interest Richard J. Margolis' article on small post offices, and in particular on the process whereby patrons of a post office can appeal a Postal Service...
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...New York City Jerome Finley...
...Margolis' contract with us calls for an "issue paper" to help the Postal Service and interested postal customers identify issues that might arise in any particular post office closing with respect to effects that action might have on the community...
...As Chairman of the Postal Rate Commission, which hears those appeals and which, as Margolis states, has contracted with him for some research in this area, I should clarify one point for your readers...
...Nevertheless, your continuing commitment deserves congratulations...
...Asahina is referring to Bram Stoker's Dracula, a novel he obviously doesn't care for...
...But Romano's largely negative remarks were memorable, and perhaps definitive, precisely because they were so unideological...
...But your readers should understand that his work is not intended to help the Commission itself interpret that clause of the statute...
...1 think some readers might take Margolis' statement that he has been "asked to help" in our "effort to discover what the clause means" to imply that he is advising on the legal interpretation of the clause, rather than identifying possible issues that might come before the Commission under the statute as we have interpreted it...
...NY Lee Fischer...
...Going Nowhere Selden Rodman's article on Paul Theroux' travel book, The Old Patagotuan Express, suffers from the same fault ascribed to the work in question-point-lessness ("Nasty Thoughts on Nice Places," NL, November 5...
...white Plains...
...Dear Editor Clarification I read with interest Richard J. Margolis' article on small post offices, and in particular on the process whereby patrons of a post office can appeal a Postal Service decision to close it ("The Little Red Post Office on Pike Street," NL, October 8...
...I've read many reviews of the book in many magazines...
...Was not Murnau's film based on the Stoker novel as well...
...beginning at a time when other publications were either unaware of the pending holocaust or reluctant to give the story extensive and thoughtful coverage...
...Those effects must be considered under the statute...
...He demonstrated how Podhoretz failed the tests of reason and humanity, the prerequisites to any kind of tenable political position...
...New York City Alice Fryman Dracula Robert Asahma cites Werner Herzog's Nosferaiu as an example of how "hackneyed source material" can have "deleterious effects" on a film...
...What critical sense does it make tor Rodman to insist that what Theroux found ugly he finds beautiful...
...I am concerned about this possible misimpression because i( overlooks the progress we have already made in giving concrete meaning to the community effects clause, and because it might lead your readers to think we have delegated to a contractor a decisional responsibility which rests on us and which we take very seriously...
...1 know The New Leader has long been publishing articles on this modern tragedv...
...Los Angeles Anthony Mendea Refugees The pictorial essay on the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian boat people and land people was extremely well done...
...A few were scathingly critical, but from a purely ideological standpoint: A liberal objecting to the conservatism of Breaking The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on an> of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...This kind of disagreement leads now here...
...Ranks...
...Commission Docket No...
...Washington, D. C. A. Lee Fritschler Reasonability John Romano's review of Norman Podhoreu' Breaking Ranks was a pleasure ("Making Politics Simple," NL, November 5...
...admirable in purpose and certainly moving ("Life Among the Refugees," NL, November 5...
...But in the very next paragraph Asahina calls F.W...
...We have already done that, to a substantial degree, in a May 1979 decision captioned Lone Grove, Texas, et al...
...It would have been more appropriate, and interesting, if Rodman had explained why, as he seems to imply, Latin American culture and an is inaccessible to the type of Anglo sensibility Theroux represents...
...Most were laudatory, perhaps because they were written by neocon-servatives with the same passion for macho rhetoric that burns in Podhoretz' breast...
...Murnau's Nosferatu a "classic," one of the "triumphs of German expressionism...
Vol. 62 • November 1979 • No. 22
