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...antiquarian nostalgia to argue that a letter is much the best way to communicate anything more serious than a grocery order. For one thing, it enables the writer to devote a little thought to what to say and how to say it, rather than babbling the first words that come to mind. For another, it enables him to reread what has been said to him, to make corrections in his own answer, or to throw it away and start again. And finally, it provides him a copy of what was agreed or not agreed a month earlier. All the telephoner...
...deploy rational argument against such dreck? Professor Dominguez's own confession to an "antiquarian and deeply sexist" bias is the same horribly coy refusal to tackle his own destructive prejudices that I have seen again and again among men his age. It has probably constituted the Harvard faculty's most powerful--because unanswerable--defense against what it perceives as the invasion of hordes of Amazonian scholars, armed with Ph.D.'s (and Lord knows who gave them those), shrill voices, and--worst of all--the gall (shall we say) to call a mild-mannered male professor in his own home during...
...antiquarian and deeply sexist note. I might say all of these examples deal with women. I used to think that women were more likely to distinguish between the office and the home because they may have reflected more on how their father's career in the olden days over-whelmed mother and children. Thus I confess that I regret at least one feature of the widespread professionalization among women at Harvard. Women are now apparently just as likely as men to disregard the autonomy of the home. Of course, just as many examples can be given of the same long...
...history chokes Podhoretz's imagination; in his pachydermish outlook. George McGovern is not much more than another Henry Wallace, and the early 1970s Congressional inquiries into the CIA are just about the same as the McCarthy hearings. This antiquarian outlook keeps Podhoretz from under-standing that the opposition to the war spring from something more than Communist tendencies or native. The unstated backbone of Podhoretz's argument is that there were really only two possibilities in Vietnam--Stalinist totalitarianism, or American-backed authoritarianism. What the New Left was saying--correctly--was that neither of those was any good, neither...
...Coolidge days, save a couple of pieces of undistinguished cherry bedroom furniture and an old Pullman menu from a trip on the Chicago & North Western Railway listing two broiled lamb chops at 80?, Coolidge's kind of fare. The White House curator sent off to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., for another portrait of Coolidge. It was painted by Frank O. Salisbury in 1934, and a few of the wrinkles and the drooping mouth were softened on order of the 30th President's wife and admiring friends...