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...Holiday Rush Thank you so much for Nancy Gibbs' essay about how bunching up the holidays for financial gain robs them of significance [Nov. 19]. I thought I was the only one who noticed the Christmas items unashamedly displayed in stores at the beginning of November. Christmas is a time for sharing and giving. Tricking consumers into spending is not necessary. Merline Jacques, New York City...
...risk "me too" alternative but with sharp differences from unpopular Howard policies, particularly industrial relations, where his campaign was helped by a multimillion-dollar campaign by the trade union movement. Howard will be remembered as an outstanding PM who ultimately outstayed his welcome. Good luck, Mr. Howard, and thank you for your service. Nick White, Brisbane...
Eulogy from a Colleague Thanks for acknowledging the career of comic Marilyn Martinez [Nov. 26]. She was embraced by the Latino/Latina comedy community, and thank goodness for that. But before she made her way to Los Angeles, she was based in Denver, where she was widely accepted by women and by the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. I was her comedy partner from 1977 to 1980. Marilyn got laughs for some raunchy material but was also political and avant-garde. We played throughout the U.S., and I'm glad to know that her work with me supported her subsequent...
...true you are a bad speller? -Andy Chu, Washington I'm terrible! [Laughs.] I'm better than when I started, but thank God for spell-check...
Jean-Paul Sartre, the giant of postwar French letters, wrote in 1946 to thank the U.S. for Hemingway, Faulkner and other writers who were then influencing French fiction - but whom Americans were starting to take for granted. "We shall give back to you these techniques which you have lent us," he promised. "We shall return them digested, intellectualized, less effective, and less brutal - consciously adapted to French taste. Because of this incessant exchange, which makes nations rediscover in other nations what they have invented first and then rejected, perhaps you will rediscover in these new [French] books the eternal youth...