• APOV: Go to any length necessary to make a good point
Donald Weyer, Daily News (Batavia, NY)
In response to William F. Brown Jr.’s exhortation, as he ended his regular Saturday column in the “Batavia Daily News” on Sept. 1, to writers to the “Letters to the Editor” pages, that they be more word-count conscious in their missives, to be less prolix and gassy in their worldly emanations onto the printed page. In effect, to attain more to the Hemingwayesque and Elmore Leonardian, and less to the Henry Jamesian and the Faulkneresque, and even the Ayn Randian.