The post had to pass through the Vichy censors' office which checked some 360,000 letters every week but evidently there were sympathetic members of staff because during 1941 and 1942 around 100 letters a month got through.
Whatever the call of morality and natural justice may have suggested, John Chiesley's daughter evidently did not command a sympathetic audience in her home town.
He had a series of warm conversations with President Bill Clinton, who evidently saw the show as a sympathetic forum — he gave Smiley his first interview after admitting to his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.
But those warm feelings evidently don't extend to those sympathetic to the alt-right, that frothy mix of nationalistic and sometimes plain racist beliefs.
In spite of how it reads, the piece is apparently not a parody of its genre -- evidently it's meant to be sympathetic to Fox's "plight" as a crazily symmetrical woman.
He handled Nixon cordially but rather sternly, evidently anxious to not appear too chummy or sympathetic.
He evidently regards "balance" as a pass given to chicanery, and even readers sympathetic to the argument may find it hard to get all the way through the book.
He had evidently prepared an indictment, thin in specifics but skillfully delivered in front of a sympathetic studio audience.
