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□ Dear Mr. Buckley:

You may be pleased to learn that national review can be put to a most humane use: smashing stress among word processors and other users of video display terminals. Instead of tensely exhorting my slow- to-respond VDT to complete a function, I now incline my head to the left, where my latest issue of national review is propped on a copy stand, and chuckle over W. H. von Dreele, D. Keith Mano, or John Simon. When the gears stop whirring, I tilt back to the right, where my work is perched on another copy stand, and forge on. My only regret is that national review sits to the left of the terminal. Good work habits dictate that I keep my word-processing copy on the right, where I am much more efficient and comfortable.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

□ Dear Mr. Buckley:

You may be pleased to learn that national review can be put to a most humane use: smashing stress among word processors and other users of video display terminals. Instead of tensely exhorting my slow- to-respond VDT to complete a function, I now incline my head to the left, where my latest issue of national review is propped on a copy stand, and chuckle over W. H. von Dreele, D. Keith Mano, or John Simon. When the gears stop whirring, I tilt back to the right, where my work is perched on another copy stand, and forge on. My only regret is that national review sits to the left of the terminal. Good work habits dictate that I keep my word-processing copy on the right, where I am much more efficient and comfortable.