Word: letterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legal mag publishes a Ginsburg open letter: "Congratulations, Mr. Starr!" he writes. "As a result of your callous disregard for cherished constitutional rights, you may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Oops...
...President to tell his story, it is Starr's weakest political option. As Lewinsky's father Bernard pointed out last week, many Americans might have trouble with the idea of a special prosecutor sacrificing a pawn to corner the king. Lewinsky's lawyer William Ginsburg, in an open letter to Starr published last week in California Lawyer, wrote, "Congratulations, Mr. Starr!... You may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults"--which of course seems to suggest that his client perjured herself when she denied the affair under oath, but nonetheless appeals to a widespread public indifference...
...asked Roger Rubin, the president of the National Society for Graphology, to discuss Lewinsky's penmanship, and he showed us this note, written by Lewinsky to the six-year-old son of an acquaintance. His findings: "She has high intelligence. Her letter formations show aesthetic awareness and sophistication... She's not a wimpy little girl, but a person of purpose... [I]n her writing, there are different styles, which show her adaptability. This is a person who will try a variety of methods to get what she wants...
...Waste Land was interpreted as a prophetic statement: he referred to it (somewhat disingenuously) as "just a piece of rhythmical grumbling." Yet World War I had intervened between the writing of most of the poems included in Prufrock and the composition of The Waste Land; and in a 1915 letter to Conrad Aiken, Eliot had said, "The War suffocates me." Whether or not Eliot had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines. Nothing could have been further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than the music-hall syncopation...
Many alumnae said they saw Knowles' letter as atacit appeal for donations, adding they had neverreceived letters like his before. Twelve alumnaesigned and delivered a letter to Knowles andPresident Neil L. Rudenstine, criticizing Knowlesfor not consulting Radcliffe President Linda S.Wilson before sending the report...