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Anger, or at least spirited disagreement, is the most common impetus for a letter to the editor, and reader dissent surfaced early on-with the year's first issue, honoring the computer as Machine of the Year. This break with TIME'S tradition of choosing a living human as Man of the Year did not sit well with most of the 1,219 readers who wrote to us; 953 censured the selection. More than one called the choice "unbelievable." Other comments: "To glorify a piece of metal that could some day rule our lives is ludicrous" and "Byte...
...story that brought the year's largest response was the Jan. 24 cover on the death penalty. In all, 1,697 readers sent in their comments, and the overwhelming majority-1,009-sanctioned execution as an appropriate penalty for the most heinous crimes. "I, for one, have had enough of our totally inept judicial system and the money-hungry, word-manipulating attorneys who use it so well," said one reader. A number of correspondents claimed that the article was biased, ignoring the victims' rights in favor of the criminals', while a minority (273) argued, in the words...
...more successful conferences we have featured," said Cohen. "We got the best reader response from that issue, so we've decided to come back...
...piece of short fiction involving a crime usually leaves the reader with a solution of sorts to hold in his hand. Trillin's narratives often leave no more than a handful of smoke. In an odd way this takes the curse off what is really voyeurism. For a dozen pages or more, the reader sees so closely that he wants to excuse himself, to clear his throat so the figures in the drama will know he is there. Then the curtain closes abruptly, and he is left to brood about why psychological insulation burned through at just such...
After Lapham took over, the magazine continued in a holding pattern until January, when Lapham's "Letter to the Reader" hinted at the changes to come. He addressed the "aura of intellectual defeat" surrounding national magazines dealing in ideas, and advanced the profound observation that "fewer and fewer people find the time to even glance at the papers...