Letters, Aug. 28, 1995

THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE

"Killing cultural funding will leave future generations with an educational, aesthetic and spiritual deficit far greater than the financial one we currently face." LYDIA S. CLARY Bethesda, Maryland THANK GOD FOR ROBERT HUGHES. I have been waiting for an eternity for someone to blow out of the water the crackpot contradictions of Republican anticulturalists [COVER STORY, Aug. 7]. I wish more of us could slam with such verity and elegance. SYDNEY BARTON Chicago

ROBERT HUGHES' ATTACK ON CRITICS OF the NEA and NEH has an all too familiar ring. In its partisanship and preference for diatribe over...

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