Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reform leaders, in a letter to the Israeli government, called it an "attempt to read three-quarters of the Jewish people out of the Jewish fold." Even the Rabbinical Council of America, representing 90 percent of American Orthodox rabbis, said the measure had to be defeated in order to "preserve the unity and support of the American Jewish community with and for Israel...
...Letters of John Cheever provides a quick, easy answer: no. The author believed, as he once wrote a friend, that "the common minutiae of life" are "the raw material of most good letters." Cheever's letters are crammed with everyday details, although such information does not shed much new light on his fiction, which was luminous enough to begin with. To learn more about Cheever is to take a refresher course in the pleasure of his company. He could toss off a letter that made even a motel remarkable: "The furniture was of no discernible period or inspiration...
Although he was a faithful letter writer, Cheever assumed that his pen pals would destroy his missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire...
This sounds like overstatement, and probably was. But Cheever, as he confided in another letter, believed that "interest is the first canon of aesthetics." Whatever he wrote about -- his work, his wife and children, his Labrador retrievers, his problems with alcohol and homosexuality -- he never forgot to keep his correspondent engaged and amused. Those who received his letters were lucky. This book extends the range of their good fortune...
...words "stop withholding access today" suggest, SWAT has a broader agenda which involves publicizing and addressing the issue of sexism with regards to all nine final clubs. For example, a letter was sent this fall to all sophomores that included information on all the clubs...