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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЖОВТЕНЬ 2010 33 From the Editor’s Basket Comments from Lydia Burachynsky (OL editor from 1961 through 1973 ) on the eve of the magazine’s 15 th anniversary . Translated and abridged from original Ukrainian tex t published in the June 1959 issue of OL. Another anniversary! Not, of course, as grand as the 65 th anniversary of Svoboda, or the 250 th anni versary of Mazepa, or the approaching 100 th anniversary marking the death of Shevchenko . . . only 15 years . . . this is not a lot , but also not hing to sneeze at. I can’t say that I am particularly fond of anniversaries. Mostly, such events are syrupy an d sugar - coated, official. On the other hand, I like the pre - anniversary preparations: the tensi on, the sharp exchange of ideas , all the behind the scenes activities and maneuverings. And this story will reveal some of that “behind the scenes” business . I arrived at the Our Life editorial office rather late — you never find any member of the editorial board there until midnight anyway — planning to wait until someone showed up so I could hear about the subscription status, about any misunderstandings amongst e ditorial board members, about the number of men writing articles for us under a fem ale pseudonym, about which of our regularly featured female authors write under the influence of their husbands, and other interesting “anniversary” - type things. Midnight a pproaches, no one comes. I suddenly feel that I have been wasting time. And then my eyes happen to spot a small editorial basket or in - box, filled to the brim with letters. So I start reading, discovering in the process that these letters touch upon annive rsary matters as well as ex press - ing various opinions about how Our Life might be improved. Here are a few of these ideas! ♦ Why did you start publishing the column “Our Problems”? Like all of us don’t have a pile of problems that we deal with from morni ng to night already — is there any reason to write about them too? ♦ Don’t publish anymore advice about raising children. Our poor kids have enough troubles with parents, teachers, coaches , etc., already. And be - sides, our own kids are already grown up, and our grandchildren don’t read Ukrainian anyway. ♦ Why don’t you publish modern poetry? It would be so refreshing to see something different, some - thing incomprehensible. ♦ Why do you keep publishing all those embroidery patterns? And in color yet! Wouldn ’t it be better to have comics? ♦ Why do you publish so many recipes? We cook bea utifully without any recipes . . . And those culinary terms you publish are even more useless; the only word we need to know is “can opener.” ♦ Do you think it would be a good idea to publish the penultimate, representative recipe for Ukrainian borshch? Since our political organizations can’t seem to create a unified and coordinated front to present Ukrainian issues to the world, perhaps a “pan - Ukrainian” bor s hch would accompli sh this? ♦ Are you doing anything to commemorate the 75 th anniversary of the women’s movement? This should be done because we have a lot to brag about: women are making their presence felt in all aspects of life — among authors, especially, most are women. So let the men clean or take care of the kids. ♦ Why do you feature so many articles about accomplished Ukrainian women? Wouldn’t it be more interesting to feature biographies about Hollywood movie stars? ♦ I see that the UNWLA raises money for a number of causes. . . would it be possible to set up a fund for the poor readers of Our Life , so that we had some money to give to all those other funds? ♦ Would it be possible to have Spanish - language pages and Italian - language pages in OL in addition to the pa ges in English, so that people in other countries could learn about our women’s move - ment? This would, of course, mean cutting some of the Ukrainian pages, which very few people read anyway. ♦ Dear Editor of “Young Life.” And this wraps up a sampling o f what went from the in basket to the trash basket. ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
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