The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, December 22, 1994            TAG: 9412220008
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A14  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

PRAISE FOR IVINS

In a time when the vicious, vacuous vocalizations of radio talk-show hosts are generally to the political right of Attila the Hun, when many op-ed columns inanely parrot the popular party line and when hard-won gains toward social justice threaten to be Newtered by the Gingrich that stole Christmas - in such a time I thank you for carrying Molly Ivins' column.

Ms. Ivins' writing is creative, bright, insightful, erudite and always authored with a healthy, winsome good humor. May her tribe increase on the Perspectives pages of your newspaper.

DAVID SEYMOUR

Suffolk, Dec. 18, 1994 by CNB