Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: I am not surprised that our Government was not represented at the funeral of Ho Chi Minn [Sept...
...Sir: What a horrific background and path to tread to attain world infamy. His mother the worst kind of thief, stealing guns so others could kill. A father who defected and was a traitor to the French government for which he worked. Ho, a hard man who literally butchered his way to leadership-an opportunist who rode every horse as long as it suited his purpose...
...Sir: Despite Ho Chi Minh's shortcomings -and they were considerable-I think we would have to agree that he was a man dedicated to his people against Western colonialism...
...Sir: We would like to call your attention to an error in fact in your very fine article [Aug. 29] on new directions in the insurance industry...
...same sort of thing. Pundits who teach poetry as a matter of the palate-or of professional gain-naturally detest and fear a creative man of letters like Ezra Pound, to whom poetry was a passion in which the soul was engaged in mortal questions of great consequence. Sir Edmund Gosse, for instance, a pompous Edwardian booktaster of great influence and reputation, once referred to Pound as "that preposterous American filibuster and Provençal charlatan." Gosse's dislikes were cordially returned. The young Evelyn Waugh saw Gosse as an "ill-natured habitue of the great world." "I longed...