OpinionFebruary 2, 2007
Showing admiration for others
To the editor:That op-ed piece by Bill Springer on reading books was great. My favorite part of the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" was at the end of the trial and Gregory Peck is walking out of the courtroom. In the balcony an elderly black man tells Atticus' children, "Stand up, your father is passing." You don't see that kind of admiration for public figures anymore. It may have just been part of that culture...
To the editor:That op-ed piece by Bill Springer on reading books was great. My favorite part of the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" was at the end of the trial and Gregory Peck is walking out of the courtroom. In the balcony an elderly black man tells Atticus' children, "Stand up, your father is passing." You don't see that kind of admiration for public figures anymore. It may have just been part of that culture.
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HARLAN E. FIEHLER, Thebes, Ill.
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