Besides which, aren't we entitled to some editorial word on whether the 94-page "Night of the Hunter" screenplay printed here is the same one published in "Agee on Film: Five Film Scripts," which Bergreen suggests was really the director Charles Laughton's rewrite of Agee's hopeless 350-page original?
Your March 11 editorial "When Words Collide" concerns three juniors at John Jay High School in Cross River who "got in trouble for saying the word 'vagina' at a school function after faculty members told them not to".
I have to disagree with your Sept. 15 editorial "Hopeful Words: On Helping the Poor".
For example, they may confront editorial controls, word limits, time limits and deadlines, and most importantly the facts about sources with financial ties may be difficult to discover.
In an sharply worded editorial, the Detroit News editorial board backed Johnson, setting aside the newspaper's 143-year history of supporting only Republicans.
The Los Angeles Times opens its editorial with the words "Protectionists, rejoice!" and writes, "Rest assured, the nation is now safe from dangerous Middle East accountants".
Once cryptics began to appear, this real-world constraint meshed well with an editorial imperative: fewer words give the solver more of a chance of finding a foothold.
"Judge Alito, in His Own Words" (editorial, Jan . 12 joins other critics in complaining that Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. has tended to favor "big corporations" against "the 'little guy.' " Could it be possible that in most of the cases Judge Alito heard, the law was on the side of the corporation?
Before Mr. Nader's supporters make a Bush victory possible, they should review your endorsement and then ask themselves which candidate is more likely, in your editorial's last words, to "lead the country into a creative, productive and progressive era at the beginning of the 21st century".
