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...implored Professor Kilson, "What can we Americans do to soothe our collective soul?" Daniels takes a 25 year-old who denies any personal guilt for the slavery of 130 years ago and he attacks that person as one might attack a Patrick Buchanan. Kilson calls my letter "morally vacuous...
...toward other human beings be considered morally restored to the humanitarian side of the Christian value system and community--can very well remain issues we disagree on. Such serious and awesome intellectual matters do not require a final answer, Mr. Vanke. I do, however, grant Jeffrey Vanke his morally vacuous formulation--his intellectual right to it--when he observes that "I do have a choice....There is no 'reciprocity imperative,' at least concerning slavery." To each his own...Mr. Vanke. --Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government
...THIS WOMAN IS ON THE VERGE, I SINcerely hope she is teetering on the brink of obscurity, where she belongs. I am amazed that otherwise intelligent and accomplished politicos can fawn over a person of such small discernment, limited experience, vacuous observation and rare rudeness. JANICE PETERSON Santa Barbara, California...
...there is a single grating habit that has afflicted young writers of the past decade, it is a tendency to define characters not necessarily by their histories or heartaches or small triumphs but, more economically, as a sum of their pop-cultural tastes. Want to show that someone is vacuous? Put him in Gucci loafers. Want to convey sophistication? Mention a character's love of Godard. Want to suggest that a person has developed unrealistic notions of familial closeness? Have her reminisce about watching The Brady Bunch...
...tough, sober and humorous in the same instant. But for all his brilliance as a performer, what Powell says as he begins a nationwide swing ostensibly designed only to pitch his memoirs (for which Random House has reportedly paid him $6 million) is so essentially noncommittal and even vacuous that one reaches back to an earlier soldier-politician for instruction...