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Anyone who has loved cotton candy, sno-cones, the smells of competing barbecue booths and the squeal of a Yorkshire pig can appreciate your Essay on county fairs [July 23]. I was taken back to the nostalgic time of an exciting week at a fair in Carroll County, Ind., more than 35 years ago. Thank you for reminding me that those smells, sights and moments untouched by city life still exist for many kids today...
Even as the country was devouring the “Harry Potter” novels, critics like Safire and Harold Bloom, the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale, were trying to get people to spit them out. Safire admits in his essay that he enjoys “Harry Potter,” just as he enjoys “short films, featuring anthropomorphic porcine cartoon characters.” Bloom ends his critique with the backhanded “hope that my discontent is not merely a highbrow snobbery, or a nostalgia for a more literate fantasy to beguile...
Thanks for Williams' essay. It is indeed time that Silvestre Reyes, Charles Rangel, John Conyers and other minority chairs in Congress get respect. They deserve it even if they choose to diverge from the centrist, play-the-game strategy that seems to be the very basis of Williams' defense of them...
...brilliant essay on exchanging credits for carbon use and child abuse, Kinsley has approached the paradoxical level of irony that Jonathan Swift achieved with A Modest Proposal. The logic is flawless, the intent is benign, yet the solution proposed is so repugnant. Perhaps that is the true nature of capitalism...