tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661564308017569791.post1876522619820875117..comments2022-12-11T00:21:39.667-08:00Comments on Leon's OpEd: ....AND A WORD ABOUT DAVID BROOKSLeon Wofsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806963540250706661noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661564308017569791.post-16546968767498107042016-02-09T19:01:46.324-08:002016-02-09T19:01:46.324-08:00Thanks, Leon. I liked David Brook's column in...Thanks, Leon. I liked David Brook's column in today's NYT. He misses Obama:)<br /><br />Marthafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05884739808590623623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661564308017569791.post-39057394948688864242016-01-27T14:36:45.288-08:002016-01-27T14:36:45.288-08:00Please publish my Comment as "Anonymous"...Please publish my Comment as "Anonymous"<br /> Henry FonerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661564308017569791.post-15639575418592353202016-01-27T14:34:39.694-08:002016-01-27T14:34:39.694-08:00Dear Leon: I cannot read your e-mails without fee...Dear Leon: I cannot read your e-mails without feeling a deep sense of pride over having<br />attended the same college as you did, If I could write as well as you with the cold you<br />complain of having, I would sign up to be afflicted by a similar cold. Anyway, get well<br />soon. David Brooks needs you to keep him from going completely berserk. <br /><br /> Incidentally, I am working on my autobiography, for which I have usurped the title, "Just for Fun." It happens that while I was in high school, a classmate of mine, who later went on to City College, was Kalman Siegel, who used to edit the "Letters to<br />the Editor" page in the New York Times. When we went to Eastern District High School,<br />his horizons were more limited. There he edited the school newspaper, "The Gold and White," and he wrote a humor column called "Just for Fun." Believe it or not, I have<br />usurped that title for my autobiography. One of my assignments in the period ahead is to have my colleagues at "Labor Arts" send you a copy of a book of my poems and songs<br />called "For Better or Verse," which bears a cover designed by Milton Glaaxer of "I Love New York" fame and warm words of praise from Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, of "Peter, Paul and Mary," and Vinie Burrows. I need your mailing address to have my colleagues send you a copy of the book. Meanwhile, I am sending you, under separate cover, a copy of the present status of my Autobiography. In it, I don't reprint most of the poems and songs that appear in "For Better or Verse." I hope to be meeting soon with Larry Bush,<br />the editor of "Jewish Currents," on whose Editorial Board I have served for lo! these many years, to discuss prospects for publishing my Autobiography. Under separate cover, I shall also be sending you a copy of a letter I sent to Georgia Wever about my early activities in the labor movement. I think you know that I was the president of the Fur, Leather & Machine Workers Union for almost half a century. I was also president of the Paul Robeson Foundation and when you receive "For Better or Verse," you will have an opportunity to read a poem I wrote to him when we came to the Fur Workers Resort in White Lake to deliver a concert. He wrote on it, "Thanks a million, Paul," an inscription I still treasure.<br /><br />I think that will serve for the present. I am so happy to note that you have leveled<br />your arrow at David Brooks. He really deserves it. Meanwhile, get well and stay in touch. It has been a genuine delight establishing contact with you. I just realized that I don't have a profile to enter. I hope it will not prevent me from sending off this letter.<br /><br /> Henry <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661564308017569791.post-43741999483107436912016-01-27T13:21:13.637-08:002016-01-27T13:21:13.637-08:00Prof. Wofsy, I believe your late friend, VFP membe...Prof. Wofsy, I believe your late friend, VFP member Nathaniel Brooks, would have heartily endorsed and supported your comments about Fascism possibly coming to America (hell, aren't we already about 75% there)? Be well and thanks always for your incisive and succinct comments. Much appreciated.Zinn Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09236067512618741611noreply@blogger.com