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Novelist and essayist Wilfrid Sheed wrote about his battle with polio in In Love with Daylight...
Some may confuse many songs written in that Gershwin era as music by George, as Wilfrid Sheed observes in his piece "Setting the Standards" [MUSIC, Oct. 5], but no one could ever miss the unique alliterations of Ira Gershwin. Who else would ever come up with lines like "he made his home in dat fish's abdomen" and "maybe Tuesday will be my good news...
...Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...Wilfrid Sheed is an author and critic...
With their generous literary gifts, Sheed and West elevate an often dreary, self-absorbed genre. They are also above-average grousers. West on medical bureaucracies: "How many tyrannical oafs does a hospital need before it dwindles into incorrigible uselessness?" Sheed on members of Alcoholics Anonymous: "People who talk in bumper stickers and have only one mood." It's a good sign. The patients are sitting up and taking umbrage...