Dear Editor
Dear Editor Some Friend As one of the objects of attention in Walter Goodman's article on direct mail solicitations ("Dear Friend," NL, September 6), I say Louche. Those of us seeking funds for...
...Alas, Margaret Thatcher appears to be a tougher customer than the British Queen of yore...
...Those of us seeking funds for worthy causes (like the ACLU) can get very earnest at times and we even engage in hyperbole...
...are doing the job cheaper, then Americans will simply have to do something else...
...Steven Fehr Television News The New Leader's Marvin Kilman and John Simon deserve a dual crowning as Kings of Bipolar American Writing...
...The adults in E. T. are not all filmed "in half-light, from waist level, so they appear menacing...
...The people revolted, and Bo-adicea led them in devastating the Roman-held towns of Colchester, London and Verulamium (St...
...The lady in question was a British Queen back in the days when the peerage was considerably more rough-hewn than it is now, about a half century after the birth of Jesus...
...I am grateful that Goodman is in fact an ACLU member and seems to regard me as a " normally sensible" person...
...But at the end he leaves us dangling...
...Reading his review was akin to listening to a witch doctor angrily explain why an internal combustion engine cannot possibly work...
...Wages have gotten so high that corporations must manufacture abroad if they are to turn a respectable profit...
...Asahina's bilious carping cannot be helped, of course, if he is determined to ignore just how captivating and affecting this film is...
...is the way the network parlayed its Wimbledon coverage into a contract to show BBC news clips on Overnight...
...The onus rests on labor: If the Japanese (and the Puerto Ricans, and the Taiwanese, and the Mexicans...
...This inaccurate description is of a piece with Asahina*s professing to have been so flabbergasted by the filmmakers' "transparent manipulativeness" that he did not have time to react with "mindless emotionalism...
...The greedy Romans grabbed it all, though, and began looting, raping and plundering...
...Austin, Texas Gary L. Jordan...
...Still, Kitman's offering on "The Snooze News War" (NL, September 6) shows that he has been snoozing, too...
...What makes NBC News Overnight "better than any news we had before at 1:30 a.m...
...Mary Clancy Historical Footnote An allusion in Norman Gelb's "The Falkland Factor" (NL, July 12-26) prompted me lo go to the encyclopedia...
...Denver, Colo...
...Los Angeles William Rahves E.T...
...Albans...
...Her campaign of vengeance undone, Boadicea took poison...
...Her husband, King Prasutagus, died in 59 C.E., leaving half his property to the Roman Emperor and half to his daughters...
...He finds the so-called "flight of American capital abroad" pernicious and bemoans the fate of American workers...
...Your film critic, Robert Asahina, completely missed the point of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ("Mixed Effects," NL, July 12-26...
...Other NL readers may be interested in my findings...
...Maybe this arrangement will be expanded to prime time as well, thus putting NBC's Roger Mudd out front in the ratings...
...I wanted to find out what Gelb was referring to when he cited the opinion of many Britons that, after the victory in the Falklands, they "finally had a female leader worthy of the mantle of Boadi-cea...
...New York City Norman Dorsen President, American Civil Liberties Union Outpriced Gus Tyler is worried about "The Deindustrializa-tion of America" in the ninth installment of "Charting America's Future" (NL, August 9-23...
...But her army of outraged citizens was eventually crushed by Romans under the command of governor Caius Suetonius Paulinus (no relation to the great biographer...
...Did he take pen in hand and contribute to any of the organizations that had the temerity to address him as "Dear Friend...
...A hard truth, but an inevitable one...
...Boston, Mass...
...But he might at least get his facts straight...
...Perhaps Gelb really meant that Thatcher's opponents are the ones who want her to assume Boadicea's unlucky mantle...
...The fact is that American workers, with the help of their unions, have priced themselves out of the market...
Vol. 65 • October 1982 • No. 19
