A NOVEL REACTION TO CRITICISM
Jamie Buckingham writes in Coping With Criticism: For a number of years, until her death in 1976, I worked off and on with Kathryn Kuhlman as a writer. Although Miss Kuhlman was very sensitive to criticism, she never let it deter her from her goal. Instead, she used it to help her get there — always seeming to make the very best out of even the harshest criticism. Shortly after she went on nationwide television with her weekly program, she received a letter from a public school official in the little town of Iredell, Texas. “I love you and love your program,” he wrote. “It would have been much better, however, if you didn’t have to spend so much time tugging at your skirt trying to pull it down over your knees. It was really distracting. Why don’t you wear a long dress instead?” Kathryn read the letter. “You know, he’s right,” she said to her secretary. She never…
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