Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: There is nothing wrong with North American medicine [Feb. 21] that is not merely a reflection of the qualities of the society in which it develops. In fact, there is more common humanity in medicine than there is in society as a whole...
...under whose signed advice X was approved. All this, of course, is to establish some sort of credibility. You see, X is no one night stand; no, as they say, fair-weather baby; not a flash in the pan, you know; not this one, no fly-by-night, no sir...
...Sir: In your illuminating review of Harrison Salisbury's The 900 Days [Feb. 14], you describe the long, terrible siege of Leningrad, mentioning the famine and even cases of cannibalism. Many of your readers may not be aware that, for the people of Leningrad, this mass starvation was a repeat performance...
...Sir: Hugh Hefner remarked: "Whatever I am is unique" [Feb. 14]. Mr. Hefner may very well be unique, but so are certain rare diseases. He then stated that he was sure he "will be remembered as one significant part of our time." Whether or not he will be, I cannot predict. I can see no reason why he should be. People were enjoying sex and seeking pleasure long before Hefner made his appearance. Hedonism is one of the oldest and most common of all philosophies. In every age it has appealed primarily to men of the lowest character and intellect...
...this seems unhappily reminiscent not only of the Dark Ages but of what Sir Harold Nicolson called the "wolflike habits" of the Italian Renaissance, when Niccolo Machiavelli lectured Medici princes on the judicious use of power and perfidy. In those days, diplomats were regarded as no better than spies. An envoy's status abroad, in fact, was hardly assured until the Congress of Vienna established a European balance of power in 1815. The relative stability that followed, as Henry Kissinger pointed out in his 1957 book, A World Restored, "resulted not from a quest for peace but from...