Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: What a sense of balance and equity there is at the U.N. and our State Department! Nigerians kill Biafrans, Russia invades Czechoslovakia, Arab terrorists kill Israelis, and Israel bombs airplanes and a terminal without killing one person. Who does the U.N. condemn? Israel. What a travesty of justice...
...Sir: Gloria Steinem's "feminine mystique" is showing [Jan. 3]. I can see nothing negative or unflattering in Mrs. Nixon's comment that she "never had time to think about who I wanted to be or to worry about who I admire and identify with." The comment is forceful, feminine and honest, and one that is surely echoed in similar words by thousands of other hardworking, happy, family-oriented and ultimately successful American women...
...Sir: Add this to the inventory on Steinem -dumb! The divorce rate among the young marrieds can be traced back to the cliché propaganda of the Friedan/Steinem ilk who perpetuate the cult of the beautiful, ever youthful, career-minded, glamorous, intellectual, competitive and glib nitwit who falls apart at the sight of an unmade bed or dirty toilet bowl...
...Sir: Your review of S.G.F. Brandon's books in "A Political, Patriotic Jesus" [Jan. 3] was very perceptive. His thesis that the Gospels provide an anti-Semitic view of the trial of Jesus that incorrectly tends to exonerate Pontius Pilate has, of course, much currency-indeed, any Jewish involvement on Good Friday is being questioned by some writers. But one wonders if the pendulum of interpretation may not be swinging...
...Sir: By observing that John Steinbeck "tended to diminish humans to the condition of animals, to reduce his characters to their simple biological needs and desires," [Dec. 27] Edmund Wilson commits the critic's unpardonable sin of applying his own standards to another's work. For to make this observation, one must first assume that man is, as Christian philosophy dictates, the earthly king of the universe. This assumption, however, goes entirely against the grain of Mr. Steinbeck's philosophy, which was based upon an intense, pantheistic love of nature, and led him to "animalize" his characters...