Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: It appears that Nixon doesn't know which are the best roads to a peaceful solution of our problem. So he turns toward Europe, fritters away time making peace with Truman instead of our Asian "foes," and toys with the idea of what kind of an ABM system we should have...
...Sir: When John Kennedy took office as President in 1961, he inherited few critical problems. Within his three years of tenure we were to experience the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall and the assignment of the first fighting troops and the first American deaths in Viet Nam. The reply his detractors receive is that three years was not time enough for him to have accomplished anything constructive...
...Sir: The TIME Essay "The Danger of Playing at Revolution" [March 28] was thoughtful and incisive but irrelevant. It is, of course, absurd to believe that the U.S. Government can be actively overthrown by any combination of New Leftists, Yippies or Black Panthers. But your Essay considers only the classical type of revolution of the French or Russian variety. Certainly other kinds are possible-not only possible but apparently inevitable...
...Sir: Sociologists Simon and Gagnon have stretched behaviorism to its absurd limits with the assertion that sexuality in man is a learned behavior pattern. It is a sad comment on the limiting influences of specialization in any field when a sociologist tries to refute such a basic biological tenet as evolution and natural selection. For behavior patterns and their modification possibilities through learning are fixed in the genes of species, consequently modified but not eradicated in individual development. Just as ethologists are beginning to find that man has more instinct-caused behavior than we thought, Simon and Gagnon rush...
...Sir: The toga into which you place Gore Vidal [March 28] is, of course, that of Gaius Petronius, the blasé arbiter of tastes under Nero who finally incurred the emperor's wrath and calmly severed his veins. The analogy could be extended: Petronius authored another "bad-tasting" book, the Satyricon, which, like Myra Breckinridge, is a dazzlingly unique contribution to the world's comic literature. Only those whose discrimination is flawless can achieve what Brigid Brophy calls "the dizzying, the rococo heights of true bad taste...