DEAR EDITOR
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Quebec Just a quick note to thank you for running Harold M. Waller's...
...Washington, D. C. Peter G. Winterble Program Officer Council on Library Resources Canada has traditionally been among the world's most hospitable countries when the persecuted and the downtrodden have sought a safe refuge and the chance to begin life anew...
...It is a credit to your staff that such consistently clear writing finds a home...
...New York City Davtd J. Russell...
...Waller does an excellent job of tracing the history of the conflict and the efforts in recent decades to deal with it, including the misguided Meech Lake Accords...
...Surely, therefore, it is an irony that deep-seated tensions between Francophones and Anglophones are again threatening the tranquillity of Quebec, as Harold M. Waller reported in his excellent article on "Linguistic Liberty in Canada...
...One hesitates to suggest that perhaps the root of the problem is to be found in the French make-up...
...Rodman appears to get some strange satisfaction out of making Love in the Time of Cholera seem distasteful...
...la essay grade...
...D'Monte's solution for persistent unemployment in West Germany is: "instead of pouring ever more nonlabor factors into agriculture—and creating environmental stress in the process—additional hands could be put to work on farms...
...Buffalo, N.Y...
...McKenzie properly labels such a proposal absurd...
...I continually find NL articles thoughtful and clear, whether I agree with them or not...
...MorganO...
...He therefore quotes extensively from the book's last episode, where the two protagonists finally come together but are now old—or very old, depending on your perspective—and attention is focused on their physical frailties and sexual abilities (or disabilities...
...Rodman, of course, has the right to prefer "Love in the Time of Blossom...
...I saw some of the defacement of English-language signs in West Montreal last summer, and expect to see more as I return at the end of this month to my own favorite North American city...
...A" for composition, "F" for economic analysis...
...Yet one can't help noting that the Dutch-speaking and the French-speaking citizens of Belgium have failed to bury their hostilities...
...And few outsiders who have lived in France for a while are likely to testify to the warmth and openness of its people...
...Rodman asks, "was it worth all the intricate plotting and sorting out of characters that led up to" the book's "clincher...
...Reynolds Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University Garcia Marquez I was distressed to see Seiden Rodman dismiss Gabriel Garcia Marquez' most recent novel ("Not Up to Standard," NL, July 11...
...Witness the Jews, the Russians, the Poles, the Yugoslavs, and lately the Vietnamese—to mention only a few groups—who have found a welcome place within its vast confines...
...But there remains the question of why the problem persists despite all the attempts to arrive at a solution that would satisfy the reasonable demands of both the English- and the French-speaking communities without compromising either one...
...I would say that he is confusing the structure of the novel with its subject-matter, and that he is really asking whether it was worth waiting 53 years to encounter "wrinkled shoulders," "sagged breasts" and "flabby skin...
...Robert Kistles Uneconomical Recently I received a copy of Richard McKenzie's new book, The American Job Machine...
...Quebec Just a quick note to thank you for running Harold M. Waller's excellent piece on Quebec ("Linguistic Liberty in Canada," NL, July 25...
...It is probably something Gallic that provokes the continuing tension about Francophone Canada...
...College Station, Tex...
...The Preface challenges the idea that the purpose of an economy is to create jobs by proposing a one-line statute that will create 60 million jobs in America overnight: outlaw farm machinery...
...D'Monte's Econ...
...But lo and behold, the next day I pick up The New Leader of July 11 with Darryl D'Monte's article on "Waste and Want in West Germany" and what do I find...
Vol. 71 • September 1988 • No. 16
