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...Your special issue on the Republicans bent over backward to present McCain as an honorable man, but the transcript of your bizarre interview, in which McCain refused to answer simple and legitimate questions, was frightening. It showed a resentful, uncommunicative and un?cooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him ?unfit to have his finger anywhere near the Button. Lee Otterholt, Laguna Beach, California...
Your special issue on the Republicans bent over backward to present McCain as an honorable man, but the transcript of your bizarre interview, in which McCain refused to answer simple and legitimate questions, was frightening. It showed a resentful, uncommunicative and uncooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him unfit to have his finger anywhere near the Button. Lee Otterholt, LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF...
...last of the summer vacations are memories, and most of America's 55 million schoolchildren have shouldered their backpacks like draft horses shrugging into harness. You wonder why the littler ones--like these kindergartners in Carlsbad, Calif., who started Aug. 18--don't topple over backward. (Are they cantilevered?) And what the heck do those teenagers have to be so moody about? Chillax...
School is where some doors swing open, revealing vast opportunity. It's also a place where other doors gradually close. A child enters imagining a world full of ballerinas who are also detectives who also cure cancer and slowly works backward toward real life. Figuring out how to channel life without narrowing it, how to gather direction and velocity without sacrificing freedom--these are heavy weights for young shoulders...
...likely loss in status among the intellectuals whose favor he craved. He may have thought his work for the magazine was beneath his standard; Negative Space includes no Time reviews. I had guessed that the gig was painful, that editors rewrote his copy into Time-speak, with its backward-running sentences, space-saving but eye-irritating ampersands ("now & then"), capitalized job designations and film references shoved in as nicknames - "Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan" - often with the job title crushed into a compound cuteism ("Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa," "Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck"). I assumed that, when Manny left the place...