Volume 12, Number 1 · January 16, 1969
"Reply to a Non-Reply"
By Dwight Macdonald
The editors headed Michael Harrington's piece last issue a 'Reply,' but they should have pondered his own title: 'An Open Letter to Men of Good Will (with an Aside to Dwight Macdonald).' Or they could have used their rulers. Out of a total eighty-two inches of type—he's even more long winded than me, by two feet—the 'Aside,' which is the only direct reply to my letter, takes up twenty-three inches. And two-thirds of them are devoted not to the question but to complaints about an alleged impropriety I committed by quoting a private phone talk (leaving seven inches of specific response to my own fifty inches of specific argumentation). The allegation is true but his indignation seemed to me excessive.
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