Wants the Word

There it is for all the world to see:

The Times is a practitioner and therefore an advocate of expletive censorship, as evidenced by Calendar’s Oct. 7 cover.

TRACY C. WINKLER

Cerritos

The reference is to a line from Wendy Wasserstein’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Heidi Chronicles.” The character Heidi is asking Scoop what mothers tell sons that they don’t tell daughters. The line, as it appeared on the cover: “I mean, why the (expletive) are you so confident?”