Author Archives: name withheld

To the editors: Bryan Miller’s interview with Peter Dominowski (6/22) sickened me. I will affirm that MOST WFMT listeners are/were “soldered” to ‘FMT, with occasional segues to WBEZ, and more rarely to WNIB. The man, “Dumbowski,” epitomizes the descent into mediocrity that is obvious in every area of American culture, both “high” and so-called “popular.” […]

To the editors: “Brother Bill” and “Gauntlet” in your June 1 issue are antipodes. The former elicited tears whereas the latter only sadness because, after carefully rereading both, I found the word, love, used 14 times in the piece on Bill Tomes and not once in “Gauntlet.” Karen Hoffman Nolan did, however, use the word, […]

To the editors: There are two kinds of poor people in this world: 1) those limned in “Getting Through the 80s” [February 2] and 2) many of those who read your “news”paper including the editors who approve and “improve” its articles before publication. The gulf between the two is a yawning chasm that can be […]

To the editors: The photo on the front page of your January 5, 1990 issue is absolutely disgusting. Since the cat is conscious & unshaven, it appears it is about to be tortured rather than operated upon. The picture on pg. 31 would have made a much less-offending cover photo, why didn’t you use it? […]

To the editors: I have just read your article entitled, “Babies Wanted” [May 12] and, while it appears that an attempt was obviously made not to misrepresent the issues, our experience has been vastly different than you have portrayed in a couple of significant areas. There is at least one agency which works very closely […]

To the editors: Re: “Babies Wanted,” May 12. We cannot believe the Reader and Bryan Miller did not check out the facts before writing such a false article. We just this week adopted our infant from Lutheran Social Services in a totally open adoption. We met the birthparents several times, had a ceremony where they […]

To the editors: I read with interest the article on emergency foster homes [April 28] and feel the need for a few comments based on my own experiences. The National Association of Social Workers has stated that the caseload size should be 27 per worker. The State says it should be 40 and the Reader […]

To the editors: I must say that I am shocked and disappointed that the Reader would allow itself to be used as a tool for the promotion of the gospel according to Bryant “Dwayne” Thomas [“Skinheads,” March 24]. As a victim of skinhead violence (I am the motorcycle rider who was stabbed and nearly died), […]

To the editors: A few comments on Doug Cassel’s “The Movement’s Next Move” [April 14]: (1) Cassel writes that “no movement candidate worthy of the name could legitimately support Sawyer.” So much for Danny Davis, Ed Smith, Jesus Garcia, Larry Bloom, the IVI/IPO, and NOW, all of whom endorsed Sawyer for the primary. True, they […]

To the editors: The March 24th feature article on skinheads is a bewildering display of the editorial policy of the Reader. Twelve pages devoted to perpetrator(s) of violent crimes. Who is Bill Wyman and where did he study journalistic ethics? The article is biased, irresponsible and uninvestigated. Mr. Wyman seems to be enchanted by the […]

To the editors: In her reply [Letters, December 23] to the interview with Jeffrey Masson [December 2], Judith Cooper seems to be implying that because Jungian analysts have long been aware of, and struggled with, the dangers in sexual acting out between therapists and clients, no such problem exists for them. Ms. Cooper ought to […]

To the editors: Speaking as someone who has a loved one at Oxford’s Minimum Security facility, I applaud John Conroy’s article [October 7]. Leave it to the Reader to give a more accurate account of this facility than the Chicago Tribune or the evening news. Name withheld Chicago

To the editors: If “overt politics of any kind in a movie are deemed suspect,” as Jonathan Rosenbaum writes [“Our Man in Nicaragua,” December 4], it’s no less true that some movie reviewers find the covert sort in every other film with an ease that, in truth, makes it covert only to a person who […]

To the editors: Robert McClory’s article “Good Buying” on the city of Chicago purchasing department [December 4] purports to tell the story of how that department works. Does Mr. McClory moonlight as public relations man for the purchasing department or is he simply naive? As a contractor of several commodities to the city I can […]