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Christopher Andersen's "The Name Game" [Sept. 26] is plain obnoxious. He should note that "plain" Patricias include two Academy Award actresses (Neal and Duke-Astin), a Cabinet member (Harris) and a bank robber (Hearst). Andersen better get his first-name vibes down pat before he publishes them...
...classroom, as one new guide to the field points out. The Lifelong Learner, by Ronald Gross, an adjunct associate professor at N.Y.U., chronicles a wealth of public library programs and television courses. And there is always, he adds, the old-fashioned correspondence course. One newfangled participant: Patty Hearst, who while appealing her bank robbery conviction is whiling away the hours with home-study courses...
Roxie tricks her husband into providing the lawyer's fee--cash in advance--and Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...
...also serves up some tough topical reportage. A recent article on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner's unsavory condition was followed by Publisher George Hearst Jr.'s resignation. A critical study of auto-insurance inequities contributed to a city investigation of rate structures; a look at some of the top Californians in Washington saddled doze-prone Senator S.I. Hayakawa with the possibly durable tag "the Sominex...
...apply to ants, but your article reveals it as just another pop simplification when it is extended to people. Rational theories of human behavior have to be flexible enough to account for both a Stevie Wonder, able to triumph over being blind as well as black, and a Patty Hearst, so much a creature of her environment that she seems to have no genes...