Correspondence
Correspondence Likud is the Party of Peace Thank you for David Bar-Illan's "A Vote for Realism" (June 10). I believe Likud is the only real party for peace. If Israel is to make peace with its...
...In fact, Kundera's works are replete with moral insights that, though often occasioned by "the crassness of Communist authorities," are not limited to it...
...Frederick C. Kelly Notre Dame, IN Frederic Raphael's torturously labored explanation of the name "Vivant Denon" in his review is just chi-chi interpretation...
...This is not mere ironic anti-communism, an attempt to show "the absurdity of trying to be 'serious' in an absurd society," as Raphael claims...
...I also said that we did not bear responsibility for Boorda's suicide, which is the same thing I said about the Wall Street Journal and Vincent Foster in 1993, if you bothered to read the piece...
...Don't you...
...Can religion be far behind...
...Lawyers will go nuts filing lawsuits and throwing legal wrenches into the adoption process...
...Human sacrifices are casualties of war...
...In a world so full of cardboard people, it gives me renewed faith that God is still in charge...
...What I did say was: "A guy applied for a job and didn't get it...
...It's no surprise that Howard Metzenbaum was the first to introduce it...
...Don Kirche Saranac Lake, NY Billy Graham's Example Carl M. Cannon's "The Decency of Billy Graham: An Education" (June 10) was a beautiful essay...
...Mary Kimbrough Rockport, TX Alter Good Boy "Gotcha...
...During the past couple of administrations, the United States has put enormous pressure on Israel to come to the table and discuss peace...
...Ironically, even the first lady's desire to adopt a non-white child will not be accommodated if this law passes: She would be "discriminating" on grounds of race...
...They know that a squeeze caused by a cutoff of American exports to Europe and a flood of Asian imports to America will cause a loss of jobs, allowing them to call for protectionism and greater power to the welfare state...
...Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) really did exist and was a man of some accomplishment...
...It's a law only a liberal could support...
...I don't see why this is a story...
...The right to live in one's country without fear of terrorism seems pretty basic...
...Why was Bill the parrot behind bars and not just on an open perch...
...They either respect their neighbors' right to exist or they don't...
...But he is wrong when he writes that American policymakers ignore this because they hope "that a United States of Europe will be just like the United States of America-free-trading, free-market oriented, driven to full employment by the efforts of relatively low-taxed entrepreneurs operating in flexible labor and product markets...
...Mothers who give up their children won't be allowed to request a certain type of adoptive parent, thereby increasing the likelihood of abortion...
...They hope America will transformed into Europe...
...He was an engraver and later in his career in charge of the brigade of artists and archaeologists Napoleon Bonaparte took along on the expedition to Egypt...
...Since the only other work of Kundera's that Raphael mentions is his 1965 novel The Joke, let us use it as an example...
...I think a little tossing and turning would do us all some good...
...The received view had been that this was basically an anti-Communist tract...
...David Hackworth...
...Denon was appointed by Napoleon director general of French museums...
...Barnes is outdone, however, by Michael Ramirez and his political cartoon, which is worth, as the saying goes, a thousand words...
...Deval Patrick at the Justice Department will have veto power over every adoption and foster-care placement in the country...
...But it is a fatal flaw in a review of any work by Milan Kundera to treat it with anything less than moral seriousness, since it is only for the serious that Kundera ultimately writes...
...My point about the Journal editorial page was that it had indeed hounded Foster for months, blaming him for every manner of sin, including those for which he bore no responsibility at all, like promoting Zoe Baird...
...If Israel is to make peace with its neighbors, it will have to be done in a fashion whereby Israel is guaranteed security, not by the Americans, but by Israelis themselves...
...People either have a desire to live in peace or they don't...
...Betty Robertson Miami Springs, FL Jonathan Edwards was no "full-time traveling evangelist," contrary to what Carl M. Cannon suggests...
...Just above this entry is the Salle Denon which leads into the Salle des Etats where hangs the Mona Lisa-observations Raphael might have made in one of his many visits to Paris...
...The review by Raphael, however, was frankly unfair to the seriousness of Kundera's moral vision, and is little better than a crude joke...
...Jonathan Alter New York, NY Suppressing Ronald Radosh In his article "The Suppression of Ronald Radosh" (June 10), Peter Collier attributes to me a statement I did not make...
...Jeffrey Tucker Auburn, AL Kundera's Tragic Vision Frederic Raphael truly appreciates the aesthetics of French sodomy, and his insights into the difficulties the demise of the Hapsburg Empire presented for postimperial cultural critics show that he has an eye for the witty and the intertextual ("Kundera Goes French," June 10...
...Despite being the only true democracy in the region, Israel was pushed harder to make more concessions than the terrorists (e.g., PLO) or those regimes sponsoring terrorism (e.g., Syria) that were sitting at the table in Madrid...
...This law represents a very dangerous intrusion into the family...
...Raphael's only critique of Kundera's novel Slowness is that the end of communism has taken away his "raison d'?tre...
...Alan C. Emdin Brooklyn, NY While Carl M. Cannon painted an informative portrait of the Rev...
...they should never be casualties of peace...
...Cynthia Harrison Washington, DC Peter Collier responds : I have double-checked my notes of our conversation, and what Professor Harrison says she said does not accord with what I heard her say...
...Still, he had been a minister in Northampton, Mass., since 1730 and would remain so until dismissed by the congregation in 1751...
...The fact that Kundera rewrote the English translation in 1992, after the fall of communism, indicates that at least he believed the work to be still relevant, presenting a problem for the received view...
...Above the old main entrance of the Louvre, "Porte Denon" is chiseled across the lintel...
...Prospective parents won't have their wishes taken into account, lest the agency they work through face federal fines and lawsuits...
...Billy Graham, one detail needs correcting...
...They don't hope Europe will be transformed into America...
...You were appalled that I wrote that editorial page editor Robert Bartley should lose a bit of sleep over Foster's suicide and reflect on the power of the press...
...But that is precisely what I said Newsweek should do in the wake of the Boorda suicide, though in that case we had not hounded Boorda-or published anything about him...
...I would not comment publicly in this fashion about the qualifications of any applicant for any position...
...It is true that during the Awakening of the early 1740s Edwards preached up and down the Connecticut River Valley, including in the town of Enfield, where he delivered his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God...
...If history really has its own reason, why should that reason care about human understanding...
...This view, parroted by Raphael, is demolished when one finds passages like these: "I was horrified at the thought that things conceived in error are just as real as things conceived with good reason and of necessity...
...Cannon notes that William Randolph Hearst's famous 1949 directive to "Puff Graham" was "issued from his San Simeon castle...
...William Van Nest Wayne, NJ Bill Wants a Cracker In "The Perils of Me-Too-ism" (June 10), Fred Barnes is right on in his observations of Bill Clinton's wily ways...
...Okay, you " got" me, if getting me m eans selec tive ly quoting from two different columns three years apart ("Alter Bad Boy," Scrapbook, June 3...
...As historian David Reid notes in his essay "The Possessed," collected in Sex, Death and God in LA., Hearst had ceased living in San Simeon two years earlier on doctor's orders...
...It is absurd to think that peace can be bought...
...Kundera's response to the whimsicality of fate is complex enough to merit an extended discussion in a review of his works...
...Dorit Moskovich New York, NY Statists Alive and Well Irwin M. Stelzer's "Europe's Welfare States: Dead and Kicking" (June 10) gives an accurate description of how the economies of the European Union will be damaged and how this will harm America's economy...
...As the president of the greatest nation on earth, Bill Clinton had a responsibility to stay neutral and give his support not to any party or individual politician, but to the cause of peace and stability in the Middle East...
...It is instead reflective of the same tragic insight perceived by, among others, Sophocles, Epicurus, and Heidegger, that much of our lives is determined by the unplanned, the irrational, the luck of the draw...
...His engravings and drawings have been collected in several editions during the last 200 years and are highly regarded by art historians...
...Paul Karl Lukacs Berkeley, CA Big Brother Adoption Have you read the federal adoption bill you are promoting ("More Adoption Nonsense," Scrapbook, June 10...
...He wasn't qualified...
...American statists don't suffer from such a notion...
...Perhaps another appropriate image would have been a female parrot in the same cage squawking "Paula wants a cracker...
...I said we all felt sick about it, and we should...
...It's pure big government...
...To see a man who has lived in the world's spotlight for so many years still walking and talking with God is nothing short of magnificent...
...It intervenes in family life by making it illegal to discriminate in placement decisions on the basis of national origin, race, or color...
...However Pharaonic the image of Hearst manipulating national news from his eccentric mansion, Hearst actually issued his edict from 1007 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills...
...I didn't give Newsweek a "bye" on Admiral Boorda's suicide, and if you don't believe me, ask Col...
...I did not say, "What's the story...
Vol. 1 • June 1996 • No. 40
