Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: The article and the box on Nabokov were positively brilliant. They had all the best features of writing. They were condensed, informative, amusing and so forth but they were something more: eloquent. The erudition, laughter and whimsy of Nabokov himself seems to have rubbed off on your reporters and writers...
...Sir: Everyone agrees that Nabokov is brilliant. However, to this admirer of his style, his novels are merely the best told dirty jokes the world has ever known...
...Sir: It's always a relief to see on your cover the face of a man unrelated to current events. It means that there is no crisis, and the republic will survive another week...
...Sir: I was horrified by the incident at the People's Park [May 23]. The picture you published of the student with a stomach full of bullets will probably cause few of your readers the grief it deserves, and the casual tone of your reporting exemplifies the attitude with which many Americans will view this event. It is hard to believe that people will accept the maiming and possible murder of youth under the pretense of justice; certainly the students could have committed no crime equal to this...
...Sir: Let's face it-one of the first rules in life that a child learns is that you don't take something that isn't yours. This property was paid for and owned by someone else. What the hippies did with the property was a very gentle thing, but it still was not theirs. I would like to take possession of the Wilshire area to develop into a lovely park but it's not mine...