Dear Editor
Dear Editor Murder in the Suburbs After the extended brouhaha over Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, it was a pleasure to read Hope Hale Davis" review of the book ("Diana...
...No one wants a nuclear war, despite what the unilateralists would have us believe about the wicked old United States...
...Hanser says this is "a term dating back to the '30s and Little Caesar...
...Having read Trilling's book, I agree that the author of We Musi March My Darlings, despite her efforts to find compelling significance in a sordid shooting in a snazzy neighborhood, wasted her talents on Jean Harris...
...For a policeman to be called a Butt [corresponding to a 'pig' in English] is an act of denigration and must be considered demeaning to his personal honor...
...One wonders whether the earnest pastors and counterculture retreads who swell the ranks of the Continental anti-nuclear movement really would prefer existence in a collectivized Soviet satellite, where their sort of protesting would land them a berth in the handiest hard labor camp...
...Old Chatham, N. Y, William Herrick...
...nomenon of anti-Americanism may not be a protest against American power, wealth or policies so much as stubborn resistance to the American way of appearing to take over all other nationalities, cultures, races and creeds, and especially their leaders.'" Inelegant the statement may be, but it definitely is not baffling...
...Many are still in power: Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, for example...
...I bring to his attention the following from a recent issue of the Bonn daily, Die Welt: "According to the final decision reached today by the judges in the regional high court, to call the police Bullen is still, for ail its general slang usage in everyday language, an insult and therefore punishable by a fine for slander...
...The tendency to overwhelm other cultures is precisely the criticism that intellectuals-including plenty of Americans-have been leveling at the U.S.A...
...Norman Gelb's hard-hitting article ("Europe's New Anti-Americanism," NL, November 16) puts the latest round of harsh words against the U.S...
...Gelb is to be congratulated for reminding us that the West is worth defending-warts and all...
...in perspective and raises the issues that need raising...
...At the crux of the disarmament debate is a decision about the kind of life we want in the West, though the unilateralists rarely acknowledge as much...
...The sentiment has probably occurred to many an American tourist who has come upon the MacDonalds on the Champs Elysees, or has looked aghast at Italian television as Hoss Cartwright strides into a saloon and says, "Ciao, raggazzi...
...New York City T. Gordon Anti-Americanism Missing from the self-righteous maunderings of Europe's unilateralists is any mention of the frightening reality-Soviet power is growing while the nato alliance wavers...
...Davis' droll criticisms and informative asides went far beyond the huckstering and talk-show chit-chat that have surrounded this best-seller...
...Gelb helps make clear that the USSR is the big blindspot of the "better-Red-than-dead" faction...
...He reports that "A columnist in the London Times wrote bafflingly at the time of Anwar Sadat's assassination in Cairo that 'the pheThe New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Eliot, Ezra Pound, and so on, and so on...
...the purpose of a nuclear arms build-up is precisely to avoid any war, nuclear or conventional...
...The list of Yankees unhappy with what Henry James called "the crass, contagious omnivorousness" of American ways is a distinguished one: James himself, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, T.S...
...New York City David Cohen Bully Richard Hanser, in his review of my novel Love and Terror ("Idealism Gone Mad," NL, August 10) took exception to my having German terrorists use the term "Bulls" when referring to cops...
...for years...
...In the case of some other nations' leaders, the late, unlamented Shah of Iran is only one recent instance of a statesman in cahoots with the United States who has been deposed...
...As I point out in my novel, German terrorists and Little Caesar have much in common...
...Los Angeles Jonathan Townshend In his otherwise cogent discussion of Europeans' distaste for our nuclear umbrella, Norman Gelb misses an important point...
...The London Times columnist was merely citing a deplorable fact...
...Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, it was a pleasure to read Hope Hale Davis" review of the book ("Diana Trilling on Manners and Morals," NL, November 16...
Vol. 64 • November 1981 • No. 22
