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...Trudeau's essay was right to the point. I think many people will have to agree with his "oath" that "at one time I possessed, consumed and probably distributed marijuana ... activities for which I may feel embarrassment but not guilt." You have opened a discussion that is long overdue. Trudeau's logic is magic. ROBERT L. DOAK Kissimmee, Florida...
...resent the claim repeated by Trudeau that every person of a certain age used drugs, especially marijuana. Perhaps I was isolated in special places, but I did not use drugs and know very few people who did. I accept Trudeau's confession as his own but consider it the height of arrogance that he feels the need to apologize for an entire generation when he really knows no reality other than his own. ROLFE HUNT Bainbridge, Georgia...
...GARRY TRUDEAU is so successful as a cartoonist--Doonesbury, his definitive evocation of the baby-boomer zeitgeist, appears in 1,200 U.S. newspapers and has won a Pulitzer Prize--that he may be neglected as a writer. This week we welcome him to Time as a contributor of a hybrid Essay form that proves he's as amusing in words as in images. Trudeau has never been afraid to aim at the powerful; just ask any recent resident of the White House. But for his first Essay, he tackles the merely pesky--"Those goofy apostles of gracious living whose catalogs...
...rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...
Last week newspapers pulled Doonesbury comic strips that suggested the Catholic Church once sanctioned same-sex weddings -- not the first time this has happened to cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Indeed censorship of the comics has a long and proud tradition...