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...Fie, Says the Cowboy Sir: Fie on the reviewer of The American Cowboy for referring to Dr. Frantz and me as "dude professors" and "vicarious vaqueros" [Nov. 14]. I was riding an Indian pony and not "grabbin- " leather when I was "going on" seven, and I have broken more than one broncho. Furthermore, we don't the cowboy, and we believe that and the reality are inseparable...
...mentionable,' particularly in the Anglo-Saxon societies, death has become more and more 'unmentionable' as a natural process . . . Our great-grandparents were told that babies were found under gooseberry bushes or cabbages; our children are likely to be told that those who have passed on (fie! on the gross Anglo-Saxon monosyllable) are changed into flowers, or lie at rest in lovely gardens." The reason, says Gorer, is a shift away from religious belief in a life after death. "Belief in the future life, as taught in Christian doctrine, is very uncommon today, even in the minority...
...Fie on Readers Shryock and Grant (married name: Mrs. William B. Harris), president of Manhattan's Lucy Stone League,* for such an unflattering picture of the female of the species...
...Fie on Associated Press's Alan J. Gould for his definition of how old is old [TIME, Jan. 19] ... Rather, let A.P. reporters be guided by the brisk and innocent definition of my maternal branch, active until demise-usually after 80: a boy up to 21, a "young man" to 35, "in the prime" until you are 55, "middleaged" up to 70, "elderly" when you pass 80, and at 100 a triumph...
...fie" on the people of Washington, D.C. when I read that a Malayan, S. Thava Rajah, had to spend 90 days as a guest of our Government to show us that we only preach democracy. Racial discrimination, whether North or South, is the blackest spot on our nation's record of freedom for all men. If the national capital cannot set a better example, let's move the seat (and head) of our Government back to Philadelphia, "the city of brotherly love...