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Novelist and essayist Wilfrid Sheed wrote about his battle with polio in In Love with Daylight...
Some may confuse many songs written in that Gershwin era as music by George, as Wilfrid Sheed observes in his piece "Setting the Standards" [MUSIC, Oct. 5], but no one could ever miss the unique alliterations of Ira Gershwin. Who else would ever come up with lines like "he made his home in dat fish's abdomen" and "maybe Tuesday will be my good news...
...Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...Wilfrid Sheed is an author and critic...
...Wilfrid Sheed's In Love with Daylight (Simon & Schuster; 252 pages; $23) and Paul West's A Stroke of Genius (Viking; 181 pages; $21.95) are similar medical memoirs, kind of Blue Cross specials in which the writers recount their tussles with diseases and the imperfect professionals who treat them. Sheed is a novelist, essayist and critic with few equals in the styling of buoyant observations on the decline and fall of just about everything. Prolific only begins to describe West, whose 14 novels, nine works of nonfiction and two volumes of poetry exhibit a range of imagination and richness...