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...Your Essay "How To Cut the U.S. Budget" [Dec. 8], in the paragraph on Agriculture, raises some questions that cast doubt on the amount of research done by your writer. You claim the farm to be the home "of the nation's most coddled minority"-coddled by whom? Certainly not by the U.S. Department of Agriculture whose planning and continual changing of the Feed Grain Program has brought the price of corn down again this year. You blame rising food prices on Government subsidies-how about the fact that the U.S. housewife today wants her food completely prepared...
...bizarre concreteness of this alien reality seduces us to accept the fantasy. The convincing stylistic precision restrains the unreal reality from becoming nonsense. In the next paragraph we become involved in the magician who works to dream a man and "insert him into reality" and who later learns that he himself is "a mere appearance, dreamt by another." Borges has taken us from reality to illusion without our awareness of the change...
...fixed identity, despite such flashes of clarity. In the parable "Everything and Nothing," Borges describes Shakespeare exhausting all the guises of reality, unable to perceive any "fundamental identity of existing." The last paragraph imagines the playwright's final awareness...
...praised the late President without saying, as he had intended to, that if J.F.K. had lived the U.S. would not be involved in the war in Viet Nam on today's scale. Jackie had seen an advance copy of the speech and persuaded Sihanouk to leave the offensive paragraph out. In her reply, she said that "President Kennedy would have wished to visit Cambodia. He would have been attracted by the vitality of the Khmer people." Then she and the Prince rode down the avenue in a Lincoln convertible to Sihanouk's villa on the beach...
...final paragraph of the article 'From Dissent to Resistance" which appeared on Page 2 of yesterday's Crimson, was rendered incomprehensible by the omission of a line of type. It should have read...