Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / In your article on the sale of the passenger ship France [April 8], you mention that "the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige," as though this were a rather unique national trait. Let's see now-just how much did the Apollo program cost...
...Sir / The equality of opportunity that exists in America is inadvertently illustrated in the photograph intended to portray the idle rich in the Essay "The Delicate Subject of Inequality" [April 15]. The unidentified person lounging in a luxurious swimming pool was so impoverished when he left his native Minnesota to make a career in New York that he had to make the journey on a freight train...
...Sir / Your article "Listening In" [April 8] brought to light the bugging of auto showrooms by dealers. In all fairness, auto dealers should not have to suffer condemnation alone. The funeral industry has been known to bug casket showrooms to find out what survivors could afford to pay for a funeral service...
...Sir / For an issue devoid of an Easter motif, running an article on St. Thomas Aquinas [April 15] was a good second best to the Resurrection of Jesus. In an era of philosophical and theological hopscotch, it is good to see that many can appreciate the one who transcends lifestyle, hope, change and the rest. The detractors of Aquinas clearly show that they have not read his works, and those who boast of the vacuous labels conservative or liberal do not realize that the pluralistic venture of seeking harmony between reason and faith has no need of such labels...
...Sir / Typical of the day is TIME's downgrading of St. Thomas Aquinas' mystical experience by comparing it with a "breakdown." Other religious leaders have had similar experiences, characteristically considered the crowning events of their lives. The "normal" Western mind does not recognize spiritual excellence when encountering it, and even the churches fear nothing quite so much as religion...