Letters to the Editor
rcareaga
Published Letters: 7
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The Rabble Speaks
[Read the article: The power of King George]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Class act, MIBiH.
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also admiring "Rome"
[Read the article: History that hurts]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and I echo your applause for Ciaran Hinds' Caesar, an extraordinary figure who was the Leonardo da Vinci of the politics of his day. I admire the way the series has captured the sheer strangeness and remoteness, as well as the familiarity, of that ancient imperial culture (one reason that I forgive the excesses of Fellini Satyricon). I must object, though, to the screenwriters' traducing the memories of two Roman matrons who were, on the authority of all the sources I've consulted since I took an interest in the era over thirty years ago, nothing remotely like the monsters depicted as Atia and Servilia. Against the liberties taken by Gladiator, however, these slanders may perhaps be forgiven.
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A plug for "The Diebold Variations"
[Read the article: Will Diebold ditch voting machines?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Considering the number of pieces salon.com has published on electronic voting generally and Diebold in particular, I think its editors missed a bet when they let pass my offer of The Diebold Variations (Google same) three years ago. They're still out there gathering dust apart from occasional spikes of traffic in election season. I rather hope that events will have pushed the images into complete irrelevance by the end of next year, but...we're not there yet.
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John Williams as thief?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This sort of thing has been going on for a while. The incomparably more gifted composer Dimitri Tiomkin, upon receiving an Oscar in 1955, began his acceptance speech with "I would like to thank Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov."
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Carol Lay waylaid?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kindly divert Kansas O'Flaherty from her mission to save Shlomo and have her retrieve "Way Lay" instead.
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1977 called...
[Read the article: Can Amazon's Kindle remake e-books?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It wants its cutting edge "Apple ][" design aesthetic back.
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four centuries too long between tomes
[Read the article: The certainty epidemic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Loved your Anatomy of Melancholy, Doc. I hope this one is as gripping a read (if perhaps more stringently edited).