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Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...
...would jump in the tank." The Fourth came and went-and no completed aquarium. "I'm a man of my word," said Schaefer, and so, toting a rubber duckie and sporting a shoulder-to-knee Victorian bathing suit and a straw boater, the mayor walked the plank and plunked into the seal pool before 300 spectators. Will the aquarium open by Aug. 8, as now promised? Replied Schaefer: "You're going to see a mayor with tape over his mouth." But his lips were not completely, er, sealed. Added the mayor: "Tell the aquarium board chairman that...
...protests from the New Right were blistering. "We feel we've been betrayed," charged Paul Brown, head of the antiabortion Life Amendment Political Action Committee. Brown claimed that Reagan had violated a Republican Party platform plank, which declared that only people who believe in "traditional family values and the sanctity of the innocent human life" should be made judges. "We took the G.O.P. platform to be the Bible," he said. Carolyn Gerster, former president of the National Right to Life Committee and a physician from Scottsdale, Ariz., who knows O'Connor well, argued that the judge "is unqualified...
WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a movie which promotes itself by sending newspapers a piece of plywood which proudly announces itself as "a plank from the political platform of Manfred Link, President of the United States of America...
...consistently opposed Communism, detente and wage-price controls, while supporting increased defense spending and the deregulation of virtually everything. Recent articles have scoffed at equal opportunity laws, asked why sex education, but not prayer, is allowed in public schools, urged the Republican Party to stand by its tough campaign plank on judicial appointments. Though N.R. is hardly one of the handsomest magazines around, it does exhibit a rare appreciation for the power and variety of language. As Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I have spent many happy hours in my favorite chair, National Review in one hand, the dictionary...