Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / The shocking thing about the White House transcripts [May 13] is that they reveal the President to be a man so absorbed in denning the thin line between illegality and immorality that he has lost sight of the fact that both are equally unethical...
...Sir / Again President Nixon has come across with too little, too late. His televised transcript offer is yet another in a long career of politically motivated turnabouts when his position of power is threatened...
...Sir / What just about breaks the heart is that while the nation lies wounded and confused, the President of the U.S. still thinks, in his fantastic arrogance, he need do nothing more than barnstorm, nothing more than instruct his "children" in speeches that are not only embarrassingly transparent but absolutely enraging in their efforts to persuade us dumb (expletive deleted...
...Sir Charles's special whipping boys are writers. He claims that not one American writer "with any class" has grappled seriously with technology or offered anything more constructive than a "scream of horror" at industrialization. There's enough truth in that; it's found in a string of American writers from Thoreau to Henry Miller who wouldn't object to being labelled "Natural Luddites...
BENEATH HIS POMPOSITY and seeming scorn Sir Charles was in earnest. And he probably did search hard for a writer probing the same problems that engaged him. I wonder if he would have embraced Robert Pirsig delivering his own "talks" from the seat of an old high-miler. I do not know enough about science or philosophy to assess Pirsig's originality from that perspective, but he did not write the book to be weighed in as a philosopher. The autobiographical threads that connect his chautauquas possess the urgency of self-revelation. An attempt to exorcize and thrash the "ghost...