Oslo Matters
oslo Matters Despite Charles Krauthammer's reputation, his article "Oslo Is Dead" (April 14) is deeply flawed. Oslo, when completed, necessarily means the end of the Palestinian Charter calling...
...Last, an overemphasis on egalitari-anism contributes to the problem...
...W.H...
...And, as far as we know, families, neighborhoods, and churches are conservative institutions...
...Her sparkling delivery brings to life beautiful old music that otherwise might go unheard...
...Let him do what he is doing well: giving us Bubbas and tin ears something to do besides watching Beverly Hillbillies reruns...
...Please keep publishing his views...
...Oh, please...
...Otherwise all parties involved will disintegrate as war-torn, backward, economically retarded nations...
...Could there be value in the effort and achievement of a true World's Fair, focusing the national attention, establishing a new goal, and helping us to define more clearly the next era in our story...
...George Will and Tom Clancy are baseball fanatics and part owners of the Baltimore Orioles...
...According to Nordlinger, Bar-toli is "frightfully undisciplined and libertine...
...A lack of relationship with the Divine has also influenced this state...
...A sense that the future was ours was the most common conviction in the American experience...
...But I wholeheartedly agree with the substance and tone of Brooks's piece, and have spoken to this point for the past six years...
...Ultimately, Israel and its Arab neighbors must join together under the peace movement...
...Jim Roberts Washington, DC...
...His article is arrant propaganda...
...It's the "worse" with which I argue...
...Yet I take issue with his appeal to Congress for action...
...The trend toward androgynous anhedonia has been helped by peer pressure...
...But these were issues of law and justice...
...More people play the game (counting softball, its close relative) than any other sport...
...More people watch baseball games than any other sport...
...Fred, it's time to take yourself out to the ballgame...
...Would such an effort necessarily be drowned under thoughtless consumerism or suffocating political correctness...
...Richard Dreyfuss West Hollywood, CA Baseball is Back—Again The baseball season has begun, but Fred Barnes remains sadly off-base with his claim that "baseball is a liberal sport, so boring it's adored by liberals" ("My Sports, Right or Left," Jan...
...Its history is essentially coterminous with that of the American Republic...
...When 53 percent of America's teenagers cite "the need to belong" as the reason why people join gangs, one sees how the need to look like everyone else influences the way they dress...
...Minor-league teams are thriving...
...Charles Krauthammer is one who sees clearly and is blessed with the ability to communicate...
...Meanwhile, it lowers the standards of your magazine to carry such an obvious polemic...
...He refers to the civil rights era in the following manner: "What had been a great national crusade for justice evolved into a series of petty squabbles over spoils...
...I offer this idea: Why not another World's Fair...
...Obviously peace and the Charter cannot co-exist, and Oslo cannot be fulfilled without the termination of the Charter...
...Indeed, parents taking nude pictures of their own children have been arrested under the law...
...Couldn't the interests of the business, science, and academic communities find common ground, with techies and media types and artists...
...In the past, a World's Fair defined our future hopes, not our futures...
...Well, Congress has already bought quota hiring...
...Ronald Reagan got his start as a baseball announcer...
...Oslo, when completed, necessarily means the end of the Palestinian Charter calling for the destruction of Israel...
...Does Lindberg want 4,000 people sent to prison for upwards of 20 years (at an expense to the taxpayer of at least $40,000 a year per inmate plus litigation costs) for the possession of one digitally transmitted image...
...In its rush to adjourn in the fall of 1996, Congress reauthorized legislation dealing with airport improvement...
...The implication is that the Left did something fundamentally wrong and damaging to the nation...
...William Nixon Alexandria, VA dreyfuss for greatness Iam writing to vigorously applaud David Brooks's "A Return to National Greatness" (March 3...
...Ironically, the profoundly disturbed and cruelly exploited David Helfgott fares far better under Nordlinger's pen...
...Marks, FL Congressional Quotas John Barnes's "Quota Hires in Blue" (April 14) continues The Weekly Standard's tradition of stimulating reporting...
...Perhaps some conservative intellectuals said so at the time, but my memory tells me that they were not heard above the din equating change with communism...
...Listen to Leo Tolstoy: "Complete unity with the highest and most perfect reason and, thereby, perfect well-being is an ideal toward which humanity strives...
...This is the issue, not borders affecting what Krauthammer describes as "uninhabited territories...
...Maybe someday when this country comes to its senses, Krauthammer will be the opinion-shaper and the world will be a better place...
...Michael F. Bishop Alexandria, VA After reading Jay Nordlinger's piece on David Helfgott, I remembered the antics of Oscar Levant...
...Maurice Rosenfield Chicago, IL Thank you for publishing "Oslo Is Dead...
...That mindset has been replaced with uncertainty, doubt, and a small-ness of imagination...
...Unfortunately, most teenagers are unable to heed Goethe's advice to "trust yourself [to] know how to live...
...These cases sought to answer the questions of how we were to live together under law while the perception of justice was changing, the franchise was enlarging, and the new realities of drugs and technology were dragging us into a new world...
...It's also true that mulishness has been so stubbornly maintained that it has increasingly affected our ability and willingness to share the nation's civic space...
...Those elites have a good point, and they are a lot more impressed with the talents of Cecilia Bartoli than the sad spectacle of David Helfgott...
...As the father of a 14-year-old daughter, I see these trends playing out on a daily basis...
...Baseball and softball are games of choice at neighborhood picnics, church socials, and family reunions...
...More over, a situation then arises whereby it is almost impossible to return to a reasonable, decent life...
...Likewise, David Helfgott is showtime...
...Second, Brooks writes: "Worse, under the influence of the New Left . . . at a time when a teenager's haircut was a political statement to be adjudicated by the Supreme Court, all the issues of the private realm, smoking, methods of raising children, sexual preferences, began to overshadow the traditional subjects like order, justice, and the distribution of wealth...
...Riddell Tampa, FL Kiddie-porn Prisons Tod Lindberg's "Unmolested Molesters" (April 14) was almost hysterical...
...The Weekly Standard should publish an expose on how the law defines child pornography to see if anyone is safe...
...Despite baseball's problems at the major-league level, the game continues to exert a powerful hold on the American people...
...Both were less evil than the other perceived, and both were so mulish as to make agreement with articles such as Brooks's more and more impossible...
...It is loathsome, this paucity of belief and self-regard that has overtaken us...
...Page, Swed, and all the rest of the snotty highbrows can go soak their heads...
...Michael J. Sheber Monterey, MA Close the Masochist Cafi Regarding "Springtime in the Masochist Cafe, or, The Revolt Against Self-Esteem" (April 7): Though I agree with David Brooks that masochist chic is rebellion against the self-esteem movement, I believe it is a pathology of even more disturbing trends...
...Forrest p. Clay Norfolk, VA Artists and the Elites Itake issue with two recent articles by Jay Nordlinger: "The Cecilia Bartoli Claque" (March 31) and "The Assault on David Helfgott" (April 14...
...But, when reason diverges from its own particular function (the clarification of the relationship with God and the activities that conform to it), and is directed not only at service to the flesh, or bitter strife with other men and other creatures, but also at justifying this evil existence, so contrary to man's nature and purpose, then these dreadful misfortunes occur from which the majority of today's people are suffering...
...Henceforth you should be known as "The Weekly Substandard...
...The biography of Bartoli is indeed fawning and ridiculous, but Bartoli's fans are not pathetic...
...He was out of control at times, but no one whom I know of ever accused him of being a lousy piano player...
...Our youth scorn meaningful distinction as a result of the aggressive drive for political correctness...
...Baseball is an American tradition, thus a conservative sport...
...What is wrong with that...
...Again, I truly loved this article...
...Under the law, if Michelangelo were working today, he could be sent to jail for using a 15-year-old nude male model for his David sculpture...
...Cecilia Bartoli is a remarkably talented and charming performer...
...Palestinian intransigence on the termination of the Charter is clearly a counterpoise to Israel's intransigence on an undivided Jerusalem...
...Judith Silber Chicago, IL Charles Krauthammer, the Likud apologist, is being demagogic again...
...His sarcasm and demeaning wit were a drawing card...
...It's true that both sides, both ways of looking at the world, were struggling with new definitions and demands...
...Was the Right at that time in agreement that the civil rights struggle was a "great national crusade...
...But he sure could pack a house...
...Regarding Brooks's wonderful article, I offer two points on which we disagree...
...A breakthrough on the latter is indispensable to a breakthrough in the peace movement...
...Music critics have been unanimous in their condemnation of those who would parade such a pitiable man before huge audiences, and rightly so...
...This airport program mandated that, at a minimum, 10 percent of airport operations have to go to companies owned by women or minorities...
...People like the music he provides, and they like him...
...Rush Limbaugh worked for the Kansas City Royals...
...Daniel H. Frazier St...
...Its legends and lore are part of the fabric of the nation itself, and its evolution has been slow and organic—all of which speaks for the conservative nature of the game...
...Barnes's prayer to Congress is followed by his correct analysis that if Congress does nothing it will be "buying quota hiring...
...At the height of his fame, he was a showman first, musician second...
...The messages were muscular and vivid, yet unintentional and sub-textual...
...Nordlinger chides those "elites" who "balk at the introduction of high art into popular culture, where distortion and degradation lie in wait...
Vol. 2 • April 1997 • No. 32
