Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.natrev From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: NOTES & ASIDES Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 13:09:31 EST Message-ID: NOTES & ASIDES Dear Mr. Bill: Enclosed is an article written by Margaret Truman [''GOP Lucky Tru- man Isn't Around to Shoot Back.''] She is whimpering that George Bush is stealing Harry's best lines and therefore is a political plagiarist. You are the wordsmith. Would you please explain to her that a plagiarist is someone like that Democratic senator that steals entire speeches and passes them off as his own? Would you also tell her that the next time she wants to give George hell, she should stifle the urge and stick to playing the piano? Regards, Lorelei Tuttle Garvis Humble, Tex. P.S. Can you play ''I'm Just Wild about Harry'' on the harpsichord? Dear Mrs. Garvis: In answer to your two questions: 1) Your letter needs no embroidery from me or, for that matter, from Shakespeare. 2) Yes, I can; and it sounds terrible. Cordially, WFB Dear Mr. Buckley: Earlier this year, on a shuttle to Boston, I discovered NATIONAL RE- VIEW. The hour flight from La Guardia consisted of me insatiably flying through each glorious page. Upon landing I mailed the subscrription card. Being 28, I recognize few of my peers understand the difference between conservative and liberal. I was blessed by a special senior seminar guided by the wise Indiana University Business Professor Harvey C. Bunke, who posed questions regarding the nature of man. Only on the last day of class did he answer any questions and it was then he explained the class's two polarized sets of opinions were in fact the basis of the conflicting philoso- phies of conservatism and liberalism. Half the class graduated to a higher level of enlightenment while the other half, confused, probably enjoy The New Republic. My point being, NATIONAL REVIEW is a secret to the twentysomething age group. May I suggest that your readers buy an extra copy and give it to someone in their mid to late twenties who is already of a clear mind or who, as I was while at Indiana, is currently seeking to understand the truth? Your new follower, Ronald A. Rawald New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Rawald: A splendid idea. I wish I had thought of it! Cordially, WFB Dear Mr. Buckley: Sir, I have respected your mastery of the English language for a long time. I need your help. I am trying to write two protest letters; one to the Democratic Party, regarding the current presidential candidate and the other to CNN's Crossfire program. Please tell me, should the following one-sentence paragraph have a pe- riod at the end or should it be left open for future additions? Incidentally Mr. Clinton per VP Dan Quayle's lexicon is the self-same lib- eral fellow which he denies being running for President which his wife wants as a candidate in a far left-liberal political party which says it's cen- trists that initiated a personal call to Governor Cuomo whom he doesn't like to apologize for a statement that he didn't make on a telephone call of record that didn't occur documenting a conversation with a woman who was not his girlfriend about a job he didn't cause her to get as she leap- frogged over a tenured black female applicant which he says he didn't do all being recited during a late night hour that was not business and spo- ken as he possibly smoked a joint but definitely not inhaling while he re- laxed with relief at his being successful in dodging the draft into the United States military in order not to fight his country's war for those pa- triotic support he claims to possess but in which cause he did not believe nor whose defenses he did not come to aid. Thank you for any insight forthcoming. I considered inserting a few ran- dom commas but was afraid I might ruin an otherwise perfect sentence. Very truly yours, Joe F. Hamilton Russellville, Ala. Dear Mr. Hamilton: Insert a comma in that sentence? Why, that would be like playing tennis with nets, which is unconstitutional. If you decide to put your sentence on a T-Shirt, kindly take my order. Cordially, -- WFB This article is copyright 1992 National Review. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM