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Dear Editor Paybacks Three cheers for Richard J. Margolis! How sad Walter Mondale played the deficit cutter in the Presidential debates instead of pointing to the cruelties the Social Security...
...American actors hardly learn to act at all, because there is hardly any place for them to learn except New York, with its continually declining number of Broadway productions—many of them, in any case, musicals—and its wealth of Off-Broadway amateurishness...
...Many people have read and seen movies about the Boer War (1899-1902...
...Surely not Lyndon B. Johnson, who did too much...
...There remain two additional Presidents, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman, with possible claims to ranking ahead of Eisenhower...
...In fact, the islands were handed over to those countries 40 years before that, when they became self-governing Dominions in 1905...
...Otherwise Christopher Niebuhr is right, except that the inhabitants of the Pacific islands largely regarded the two as Britain's surrogates until its influence in the region waned, after World War II...
...Surely not John F. Kennedy, who could do little...
...Los Angeles Henry Weiskopf South Pacific In "Trouble in the French Tropics" (NL, October 29) David G. Knibb says that "After the [Second World] War, Britain's dismantling of its huge empire included transferring most of its South Pacific possessions to Australia and New Zealand...
...his mettle was never fully tested...
...This, in turn, implies that each increment of unemployment will produce a corresponding and predictable drop in the inflation rate, and that each increment of inflation will produce a corresponding and predictable drop in unemployment...
...The most important difference between the theater in these two cities is actually what lies beyond them, in smaller places...
...Phillips' depressant is the only remedy for inflation" ("Beyond the Reagan Landslide," NL, November 12...
...But Friedman's reasoning is really quite different...
...Christopher Niebuhr David G. Knibb replies: Australia became independent in 1901, New Zealand in 1907...
...Eisenhower Herbert S. Parmet thinks Stephen Ambrose (infi1-senhower: The President) reached "a doubtful conclusion" when he argued that Dwight Eisenhower "deserves to be ranked among the greats...
...Eisenhower, of course, did not have a chance to rise to that level, since he ended the only war he faced as Chief Executive soon after taking office...
...Do I hear any voices for William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Gerry Ford, or Jimmy Carter...
...Phoenix Philip Shotway...
...New York The existence of two government-subsidized classical repertory companies in London is not, as Oleg Ker-ensky argues, "the most important difference between the theater" there and in New York ("Britons on Broadway," NL, October 15...
...The Phillips Curve purports to show that inflation and unemployment vary inversely...
...in this century, behind only Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt" ("Unearthing the Real Ike," NL, October 29...
...The conclusion Ambrose reached may have been doubtful, but that is a rather small margin of doubt...
...Seattle Cyril Washburne 'Dr...
...Teddy Roosevelt served at a time of international peace and plenty...
...Troops from Australia and New Zealand fought in that conflict, and after its end a demand for self-government arose in both...
...Let's leave Ronald Reagan out of the reckoning, since the consequences of his Presidency have not emerged fully...
...Perhaps, though, we should consider the possibility that his success in avoiding armed conflict throughout eight years of intense international tension entitles him to even more gratitude than Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Truman earned by carrying the nation through their respective bloody struggles...
...Albany, N.Y...
...therefore, it is dangerous to accept a limited increase in price levels to control joblessness, since that increase, in the end, will probably turn out to be not so limited after all...
...Surely not Richard M. Nixon, a disgrace to himself and to his position...
...Britain's actors learn their business in a multitude of provincial repertory operations, so the pinnacle of the system, in the capital, draws on a considerable reservoir of trained talent...
...He argued that inflation, once started, tends to rise uncontrollably...
...Phillips' Depressant' I think Gus Tyler is mistaken when he argues that Democrats and Republicans alike "believe that Dr...
...As a result, in 1905 Britain granted them Dominion status, similar to what Canada had received in 1867...
...Yet there do not seem to be many other 20th-century Presidents we could even think of ranking before Ike...
...It is true, of course, that Friedman advocates deflationary policies of a sort that might, in certain circumstances, also be justified by the lights of the Phillips Curve...
...Harry Truman's achievements in the White House really did surpass Eisenhower's, but this simply means that in the present century, only three Presidents, all in wartime, were greater than Ike was...
...In any case, Eisenhower was certainly greater than all except three Presidents of our century...
...Along with self-government, in 1905 they also won control over nearby British islands...
...Milton Friedman, the high priest of orthodox Republican economics, came to prominence with an attack on this very thesis...
...In other words, the Phillips Curve provides encouragement for attempts to manipulate inflation and unemployment by trading the one off against the other...
...I hope not...
...How sad Walter Mondale played the deficit cutter in the Presidential debates instead of pointing to the cruelties the Social Security Administration has perpetrated ("Paybacks from the Poor," NL, November 12...
...Atlanta Robert Coram London vs...
Vol. 67 • November 1984 • No. 21
