Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / I apologize for responding so promptly to your Essay "The Fine Art of Putting Things Off." One reality that must be propounded is that only those of us loners (freelance writers, artists, commission salesmen, et al.) are entitled to claim it as an art or skill. For us, risk is involved. We gamble our livelihood against losing work or sales. For people on a salary, it is simply called dishonesty...
...Sir / I shall never forget the advice of my favorite uncle as I left home on my first day of school-"Never procrastinate in the middle of the street...
...Sir / Why is it we never put off until tomorrow what we should not do today...
...Sir / Any time wasted is time well spent...
...Sir / Your article "Tule Lake 30 Years Later" [June 10] evoked many feelings that I thought I had worked through over the years. The years spent at our "relocation center" at Rohwer, Ark., are the lost experience of childhood, since I was six months old at the time of internment. But later the puzzlement of why one nationality was so treated haunted me throughout the postwar years. At first I thought that it was a Japanese shame since my parents did not talk about the internment (and one does not speak of that of which one is ashamed). Then gradually...