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...criticism by regulating the content of newsletters and other large franked mailings. Until this year, the Senate regulations were so loose that an occasional proliferation of blatantly election-oriented newsletters was not uncommon. A close examination of Senate newsletters issued in the last year show a wide variety of styles and content, ranging from self-serving puffery to informative discussions of issues with a fair presentation of contrasting views. The style often has reflected each senator's self-perception--whether he views himself chiefly as a public "educator" or as a "promoter" and "persuader...
...newsletter content to legislative rather than "political" matters. Personal references to a senator--his name, any personal pronoun or the ubiquitous "The Senator"--now are limited to no more than five per page. Predictably, this limit surprised a number of Senate press secretaries, especially those accustomed to a writing style peppered with phrases like "I believe that..." and "I have sponsored a bill that would...." The Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct ("The Ethics Committee") agreed to this new rule last November 4, but did not notify Senate offices until the effective date of January 1. The committee action...
When asked what impact this rule had on newsletters, Barbara Dahlke, press secretary to Ethics Committee Chairman Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nev.), said a number of offices simply stopped producing them. "I'll bet some offices are having a tough time changing their style," she said. As for Cannon's newsletters, Dahlke said only "minor changes" were needed to comply with the rule...
Readers who examine these letters for evidence of Woolf's fits of insanity will be disappointed. There are only the slightest variations in style and tone. Generally the onset of her breakdowns (she had two during the years this volume of her letters covers) was marked by a particular bitchiness in Virginia. As she recovers, her letters are extraordinary for their clarity and maturity. She emerges from each breakdown refreshed, with a new power of vision. After one summer-long madness she writes to Violet...
What makes reading these letters worthwhile is the style in which they are written. She moves easily from one detail to the next, with no connection except an ampersand (which the editors wisely eliminated in favor of the less obtrusive "and"). Like her handwriting (which was wretched) her style was completely unstudied. It was simply the way the words came out. Nicolson, who heard her speak when he was a child, says the letters give quite an accurate representation of her conversation. One reason she charted the vicissitudes of character in her novels was that her style was flexible enough...