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□ Dear Bill:

In view of the Senate’s actions during the John Tower confirmation debate, it seems to me that certain senators would do well to live in houses of masonry or solid frame construction in preference to the more modern—and often hideous—all-glass construction. Sed quid opus verbis? Perhaps the sage advice of the seventeenth-century poet George Herbert?

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William F. Buckley Jr.

□ Dear Bill:

In view of the Senate’s actions during the John Tower confirmation debate, it seems to me that certain senators would do well to live in houses of masonry or solid frame construction in preference to the more modern—and often hideous—all-glass construction. Sed quid opus verbis? Perhaps the sage advice of the seventeenth-century poet George Herbert?