European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns today crossword bundling memories in rubber bands by Goodman in the boxes hat f have moved from one address to arc Small packages of Summers letters from my letters from school love private history wrapped neatly in rubber most of them by More than 20 Summers the datelines remind me of they also remind me of my fathers the rhythms of my mothers daily the code words of adolescent Friend ships scaled with a kiss the intimacy of the my my family and i rarely mail our thoughts the mailman brings More Cata logs than Corre sponge inc to our the letters that come through our mail Slot Are mostly addressed in the Stamps we buy arc to go on we direct dial spoiled by the instant gratification and the ease of the we the Telephone Call has replaced the letter in our lives nearly As completely As the car has replaced the when we were i Long distance was reserved for the operator was almost an evil if we had called from Camp or Campus our parents would have answered the phone with whats wrong our own the products of Sesa me Street numbers and Telephone company have grown up knowing area codes before they knew they Bounce intercontinental Calls off satellites just to say i urn not railing against this a frequent dealer with the Bills to prove i often choose the give and the immediacy of the i accept charges from children with an uneconomical a Friend and separated by hundreds of have declared our phone Bills cheaper than its Good to hear a but it int the sometimes i think that the Telephone Call is As Earth bound As daily while a letter is an Exchange of on the Telephone you talk in a letter you there is a Pace to writing and Reading letters that Doest come from the Telephone company but from our own inner we live mostly in the  someone modern communications is an it makes demands of we Are expected to respond As quickly As a voice asks a question across the Ocean in a split second and we Are supposed to formulate an answer at this High Speed rate of we can interface by there is Leisure and emotional luxury in writing there Are no obvious silences to anxiously there Are no interruptions to there Are no nuances and tones of voice to a letter Doest take us by Surprise in the Middle of or intrude when we Are with other or ambush us in the midst of other it there is a private space Between the give and the take for i have known parents and husbands and who Send each other letters from one room to another simply for the Chance to Complete a Story of i have known people who could not hear what they could there is this advantage to slowing Down the Pace of the phone demands a kind of simultaneous satisfaction that is As elusive in words As in its letters that let us take let us sit and mull and say exactly what we today we Are supposed to travel to live in the the past we Are excess there is no question that the phone is the tool of these As Fine and As ephemeral As a Good you cannot hold a Call in your you cannot put it in a you cannot show it to your indeed there is nothing to show for it Doest leave a Tell me How can you wrap a lifetime of phone Calls in a rubber band for a Summers night when you want to remember c Boston glob Washington Post out town words visit us again by James Kilpatrick Joe Bryan the last of the has a charming Book coming out in merry gentlemen and one it is a collection of profiles of some of the Best wits of the among them Robert Perelman and Dorothy at Bryan writes with the smooth elegance of a Fred Astaire on the ballroom and his anecdotes go Down with the pleasant Tang of a Good Gin in his piece on Frank Bryan recalls that Sullivan developed a severe antipathy toward the City of new a contributing Factor was a Horri plating incident that happened in a Bookstore late in Here we i have fallen in love Horri plating is it not a magnificent word is it not a Nugget of purest Gold it is the most Beautiful word i have met since Bill Buckley introduced me to  two years but  is not the easiest word to slip into a dinner table it Means the Quality of being or or do you know what Horri plating Means i will re Lieve the it Means braising when a kiss on the Nape of ones neck i pick a delicate exam ple makes the Short hairs Rise and everything goes tin that is this love affair cannot Westbrook Peg less admonition was to avoid out town and the advice is whenever you feel tempted to insert one of these exotic Cut it everybody knows Goose nobody but Joe and and now knows my love the mail brings a Bagful of pet a gentleman in lists a of including i could care less and old what is he is that i  care and has anyone seen a cliche or a an a or a saw that int old several readers plea for preservation of the distinction be tween persuade and persuasive and convince and another plea is for the distinction Between eager and these Are not the this has been a summer of High flown the Northern Virginia daily reported a drug bust in which a Black vile was found on the Back floor of the the suspect admitted the vile was a wire service reported that Tony in an appear Ance in Sang whose got the last laugh the a radio wire noted that wildfires continue to ravish the from a Washington Post correspondent let us know that Jimmy Connors ill cited cheers from the in the Indianapolis readers Learned that the state legislature was awaiting a High court decision with baited the up had an item on the burial of a wrecker operator beneath a grave Marker that bore a picture of a Tow truck but no in the Mobile an attorney asserted that his clients injuries were commiserate with the the Miami Herald kept us posted on a 40yearold soviet expat riot actor in his first starring the Par Kersburg serving the mid Ohio reported damage after a window was broken when a Large Rock was thrown threw some splendid headlines from the playground daily news of fort Walton Yul Brynner 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