Author Archives: Hugh Iglarsh

Dear editor: As a onetime freshman composition instructor, I thought I had seen it all in terms of wretched metaphors and tone-deaf prose. But I knew it was time to reset the ugly meter after reading in Deanna Isaacs’s “The Magic Bridge” [The Business, March 17] that the Art Institute’s proposed addition “has sprung a […]

Dear editor: So Michael Miner [Hot Type, January 6] thinks that the issue of the moment isn’t how we got into the Iraq war but rather “how it’s been run.” Perhaps he also believes that the real question for the Nixon administration wasn’t who conceived of and approved the Watergate break-in, but instead why the […]

To the editors: There are many objectionable assertions and implications in the “Neighborhood News” column of February 17: i.e., that suburban sprawl is a defensible pattern of land use, that the convenience of motorists should be a paramount consideration of urban planning, and that woods are undesirable in that they serve as cover for the […]