Dear Editor
Dear Editor El Salvador I have just finished reading Irving Louis Horowitz* "The Next Step in EI Salvador" (NL, April 5). Like Horowitz, at times I feel overwhelmed at the overabundance of...
...To be more specific: As the Soviet political leadership moved opportunistically and openly toward embracing Arab interests, Commentary became more vociferously anti-Communist and nationalistic...
...Jesse Friedman Plugging Along Robert Lekachman's beguiling article ("How to Become a Best Seller," NL, May 17) once again exposes his critique of Reaganomics to the public...
...I happen to agree with Davis' assessment of Edel's antiquated and scanty use of psycho analytic theory...
...Some of his conclusions are correct, albeit for the wrong reasons...
...Some neoconservatives are revolted by the Left's self-delusions and double standards...
...How arrogant are those individuals who fervently advocate democracy in the United States, yet at the same time are so willing to accept that other" lesser" people in far off lands do not need or desire the same...
...New York City Frank Peterson...
...As one trained and experienced in law, 1 concede that as an evidentiary matter, perception per se is hardly competent evidence...
...Washington, D.C...
...Like Horowitz, at times I feel overwhelmed at the overabundance of double-standard thinking, especially in the academic world...
...Davis* comments did not fit in with what I remembered about the piece...
...And when his witty contribution engenders a response in the form of a letter to the editor, the momentum of publicity is maintained...
...second, a predisposition to callousness and a yearning to be respected by esiablishment-conformist types...
...Not a few abhor what they deem to be convoluted notions of egalitarianism...
...Nevertheless, I think he does the great biographer an injustice in this instance...
...No longer do either its editor or its contributors represent a fresh current for the exploration of political, social and economic issues that are not noteworthily tendentious...
...Did Shakespeare know economics when he wrote "Neither a borrower nor a lender be...
...Instead, the stress is on Wilson's patience and sensitivity in persuading a poet in an exalted mood to read and discuss his verse...
...Yet I fear true glory has eluded him...
...1 have been very close to the Salvadoran situation and was an observer to the March 28 elections...
...Greed Is Not Enough: Reaganomics, is mentioned by the new guru of the future leaders of America, Dr...
...Ruth Weslheimer, on her voguish radio advice show, Sexually Speaking...
...Sure enough, a bit of the context was left out...
...That will be grasped only when his book...
...standards that have survived the test of time...
...Pomona, N. Y. Elliot A. Cohen Details Robert Gorham Davis complains thai Leon Edel in The Stuff of Sleep and Dreams did not consider Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ("Plumbing Writers' Depths," NL, May 17...
...Fort Lee, N.J...
...Others are appalled by the Left's neurotic response to valuable societal The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Shorris is importuning acceptance of his insight psychopolitical analysis...
...Nevertheless, I also well know the limited parameters of proof...
...New York City Jonas Prager Author, "Fundamentals of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions" (Harper & Row, 1982)I deserve a plug, too...
...Neoconservatives Leon Wieseltier's review of Earl Shorris' Jews Without Mercy: A Lament ("Dogmatism of the Left," NL, May 17), although incisive and cogent, slights a particular dimension of the book...
...Modern commentators ought to stop the nitpicking...
...Stephen Housman Intrigued by what Robert Gorham Davis had to say about Leon Edel's methods, I reread Edel's essay on Edmund Wilson, which Davis apparently faults for dwelling at reductionistic length on Wilson's "latent homosexuality...
...But I, for one, perceive other aspects to the neoconservatives* critique of the Left: First, the need of some to atone for their earlier jejune Leftist views...
...Shorris has grasped a bit of the elusive truth...
...Edel's recollection of Wilson speaking to the poet John Berryman in a caressing voice, for example, does not harp on homoerotic feeling, as one would guess from looking at Davis' review alone...
...I wish that my own children would value democracy as highly as the workers and peasants of that country...
Vol. 65 • June 1982 • No. 12
