Correspondence
Correspondence Teenage Wasteland In his review of the Nicholas Delbanco novel that treats the lives of boomers with moral seriousness, Barton Swaim doubts that the "greatest generation" was great...
...Arabian Might Regarding Stephen Schwartz's "Big Saudis on Campus" (Jan 1): As Saudi Arabia has been under continuous terrorist attack since 1996, we have been leading a campaign to squash it locally and globally, and our deeds speak for themselves...
...My brother, my sister, and I were all born in the same house, but in three different countries: Germany, Russia, and Poland...
...Correction In Robert Zarate's article on the late Roberta Wohlstetter, we referred in passing to a RAND colleague of Wohlstetter's, Paul Baran, as a "Hungarian-born" engineer ("First Lady of Intelligence," Jan...
...Best damn decision I ever made...
...Additionally, Wahhabism is just like any Christian movement that calls for a "back to the basics" movement for a direct relationship between God and individuals...
...Misremembering Lipset Michael Barone's obituary of Seymour Martin Lipset ("Exceptional American," Jan...
...David Kary Elkins Park, Penn...
...Correspondence Teenage Wasteland In his review of the Nicholas Delbanco novel that treats the lives of boomers with moral seriousness, Barton Swaim doubts that the "greatest generation" was great since they produced the Boomers ("Debunking Delbanco," Dec...
...A word had to be invented for them: It was in the 1950s that the adjective "teen-age" (Webster II) became a noun (Webster III...
...Now it is Belarus...
...Nevertheless, they went on to produce a generation of youngsters less mature than any before...
...He adds: "I am flattered to be thought to have come from Hungary...
...When, in the Republic, Socrates suggests kids under 10 should be taken from their parents, he was just kidding...
...In fact, the book's subject was the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, an ideological adversary of Social Credit...
...I was 2 years old at the time I decided to come to America...
...15) misiden-tifies the subject of Lipset's Agrarian Socialism as the Social Credit movement in Saskatchewan...
...Our schools have been teaching the Islamic values of peace, compassion, and tolerance for all humanity...
...Michael Platt Fredericksburg, Tex...
...In the 1950s, the parents weren't kidding...
...Baran, one of the inventors of the packet-switched network, was in fact born in what is now Belarus...
...Certainly those who fought on two fronts in World War II must be deemed comparatively great...
...How men and women who braved war for so long could then quail before their own children, saying "Work it out on your own" as James Dean's dad does in Rebel Without a Cause—thus orphaning their own children—is truly perplexing...
...Since Professor Lipset is justly famous as an expositor of the isolationist American psyche, this gaffe in his obituary is only appropriate...
...This movement has helped to unite the different tribes of the Arabian peninsula after centuries of bloody conflict to become the leader of both the Islamic and Arab worlds...
...The Saudi king has allocated the biggest share of the Saudi national budget for a modern and tolerant education structure, and the king, with his open mind, has launched a mega-project to sponsor Saudi students at schools all around the world...
...He emails to clarify that "it was Poland" at the time of his birth...
...Khalid AlSaeed Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Stephen Schwartz responds: I quite agree that Saudi deeds speak for themselves: That 15 out of 19 of the terrorists on 9/11 were Saudi speaks more eloquently than just about anything...
Vol. 12 • January 2007 • No. 19
