Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appalled by the letters of Messrs. Webster and Kootnikoff [May 9]. The former eulogizes the Sandinista government's supposed popularity, and the latter claims that Nicaragua is a remarkably free society. As an American businessman who lived in Nicaragua for 15 years, I protest. If these readers are correct, why have the Sandinistas not opened the country to free elections? Why were business leaders thrown in jail for criticizing the government? Why was I advised by our State Department not to return to Nicaragua after testifying before a congressional subcommittee on the Nicaraguan situation? The Sandinistas are terrorists...
...Mortimer Durand, His Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S. back then, was denounced as a fellow with "a mind that functions at six guinea-pig power." The Populist Senator William Peffer was immortalized as "a well-meaning, pinheaded, anarchistic crank, of hirsute and slab-sided aspect." That latter bit might make it a little difficult for the victim to throw off the effects with a laugh. Still, all of Morris' research on Roosevelt shows that deep down few adversaries could totally subdue affection for the Republican rouser...
...read in disbelief the majority editorial of April 27, 1983, supporting the naming of the new Kennedy School fellowship after former Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy. By concluding that McCloy's accomplishments outweighed his "failings," the majority editorial failed to put proper weight on the latter: It seriously underestimated the gravity of McCloy's denial of requests to bomb Auschwitz, his key role in the removal and internment of the entire West Coast Japanese American population during World War II, and his present outspokenness against redressing the wrongs committed against the internees. McCloy's failings with respect...
Clark's principal mentors were Walter Pater and Bernard Berenson. To the latter he maintained a long though not always harmonious apprenticeship. In an autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work...
...male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies of some of the founding fathers of geology and paleontology, including Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton and Louis Agassiz. He even takes time out to discourse on an evolutionary oddity called atavism: the inexplicable reappearance of long-lost characteristics in a species, like extra toes in horses...