Correspondence
Correspondence BLUE MUSE SINCE WHEN did Marlene Dietrich end up on the Weekly Standard hit list ("The Ice-Blue Angel," Jan. 28)? In Lisa Singh's inexplicable zeal to dismiss Dietrich as a Big...
...Is it really necessary to go so far as to cast doubt on the credibility of the lady's cheekbones...
...Torres reviewed three books on Robert Hanssen, including my own, The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold...
...that Dietrich renounced Germany because she was "patrician to the core" and Hitler was of "bourgeois stock...
...Torres, who appears to be an Opus Dei sympathizer—if not a member—clearly has an agenda...
...MICHAEL DALE Houston, TX SPY DAZE AS ONE who reads The Weekly Standard often, I was disappointed in Justin Torres's "The Spy Who Went to Mass" (Jan...
...We sat in coach, and he was happy as he could be...
...And what about the bizarre claim (a joke...
...Wrong...
...A few pages earlier, I discuss the most important reason: money, and the need to put his children through Opus Dei-affiliated schools...
...Apparently no seats were available, but she protested again, saying, "Don't you know who I am...
...The excellent Frederick Hollander (another German emigré) composed songs for her...
...I was impressed with the class with which he carried himself and with his willingness to converse with me...
...She first sat in coach, but then began to protest loudly that she wanted to sit in first class...
...Lee was aboard...
...Or maybe Labash is just angry that anyone who considered themselves a Republican could find the party's right-ward drift unpalatable...
...Jeffords considered a time in which the United States had its first massive government surplus in decades a good opportunity to consider a remedy for a massively under-funded mandate which harms America's neediest children, and his decision put him as chair of a committee about which he cared deeply...
...and living in Houston, I flew home on Continental almost every Friday during 1997...
...Torres mentioned me several times, misspelling my name each time, and what is worse, he got most of the thrust of my book wrong...
...On another flight I had the privilege to sit next to Rep...
...Does conscience have a statute of limitations...
...Turn to page 66 and you'll see that I wrote, "Ego . . . was likely the second-greatest factor in Bob Hanssen's mind...
...For instance, he summarizes the reasons for Hanssen's betrayal in the second to last paragraph by writing, "For Havil [sic], it comes down to ego...
...Ken Bentsen, another Houston area representative...
...As a consultant working in D.C...
...In Lisa Singh's inexplicable zeal to dismiss Dietrich as a Big Zero, she shows a degree of contempt that seems more than a little extreme...
...JOE LIMEHOUSE Washington, DC...
...More disappointing, though, is Singh's apparent inability to appreciate, even minimally, any aspect of Dietrich's career (however antique it may seem in the age of Madonna and Jennifer Lopez), which made a notable contribution to the culture of her day...
...On one particular flight home, Rep...
...DIANA WEST Katonah, NY QUEEN LOUDMOUTH SAM DEALEY is right on the money about Sheila Jackson Lee ("Sheila Jackson Lee, Limousine Liberal," Feb...
...JEFFORDS DEFENDED MATT LABASH's review of My Declaration of Independence was not so much a book review as it was a petty slight against a man who took away the Republican majority in the Senate ("From Jefferson to Jeffords," Jan...
...She served as a muse to novelist Erich Maria Remarque (yet another German emigr...
...ADRIAN HAVILL Reston, VA EDITOR'S NOTE: We apologize for the misspelling of Adrian Havill's name...
...I don't think she was upgraded, but I was embarrassed that a representative from my hometown would be so arrogant...
...That he shouldn't have switched parties last May if he hadn't done so already under Reagan...
...I am Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee...
...Beyond all that, any Dietrich commentary that fails to mention the flawless Ernst Lubitsch comedy Desire and the postwar Billy Wilder gem A Foreign Affair—movies made, come to think of it, by still more German emigres—misses hefty chunks of the big picture...
...I'm confused—is Labash's problem that Jeffords is too unimportant a figure to be permitted to follow his conscience...
...His motivation for writing the piece seems to be to absolve Opus Dei of any part in Hanssen's crimes...
Vol. 7 • February 2002 • No. 23
