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...your article "New but Not Necessarily Improved" [ESSAY, July 22], you assert that "ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too." Do you not realize that a man is his handwriting, and his handwriting is his pen? The fountain pen is beaux arts, bold strokes, bound leather, polished brass and character. The ballpoint is Bauhaus, thin waterlines, paperbacks, plastics and personality. The fountain pen is John Ruskin; the ball point, Madonna. A man with a fountain pen in hand holds in the secret places of his heart starched cuffs and high collars, a company with "transcontinental...
...mute, but they managed to express deep fears for the survival of the race, which the language of policy analysis has not defused in the 40 years since Hiroshima. And they raised, too, 40-year-old questions of whether the Bomb should have been used at all (see ESSAY). Among the memorials...
Lance Morrow's article "Smile When You Say That" [ESSAY, Oct. 28], describing how cowboy logic figured in the recent terrorist incident, was most accurate when it depicted Theodore Roosevelt as a good guy doing battle with bad guys. This image of frontier justice has been a long-standing and powerful one in the American consciousness. After all, when T.R. succeeded the assassinated William McKinley as President in 1901, anguished Republican Business Leader Mark Hanna remarked, "That damned cowboy is President of the United States!" William M. Wemple Fort Washington...
...piece on Louis Farrakhan [ESSAY, Oct. 21], Roger Rosenblatt says, "The press may or may not 'create' Farrakhan, but it does not create the silent haters." This is true. The silent haters are produced by a nation that will not accept blacks as equals. If everyone in America were truly equal, Farrakhan would be delivering speeches to empty auditoriums. James L. Riddle Oviedo...
...fact, been there twice. The first time he accompanied a friend whose mother worked with Oscar the Amorous Octopus, a titillating sideshow at the amusement park. He returned on a family pass that he had won for his fawning entry in a typical-American-boy contest. The essay is heavy with irony. It also introduces a writer who knows what it takes to get on the bestseller list: "He roots for his home team in football and baseball but also plays sports himself. He reads all the time. It's all right for him to like comic books so long...