Trumpets for Sarah Terrific

To the Editors:

It seemed like forever, but you finally broke down and put someone worth noting on your cover [Nov. 10]. She's not a current or fallen leader, foreign oil baron, natural or man-made disaster, lunatic with a gun or expert on war.

Sarah Caldwell is someone who is contributing to the sane side. Terrific.

Kimberly A. O'Neill Luxembourg

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Sarah, you are beautiful.

Margaret Pavlik Minneapolis

I am proud to see women take their place in music. However, one cannot regard Sarah Caldwell as anything but a big blob of blubber.

Mrs. Henry Koehnlein Waukesha, Wis.

The English teacher in me knew that marvelous face right away. She stepped right out of Dickens.

Steve Campbell Studio City, Calif.

A striking resemblance to Ben Franklin.

Ted Kreis Jr. Grand Forks, N. Dak.

Lolitas they're not, but if Joan Sutherland and Sarah Caldwell really gave the first U.S. staging of Bellini's / Puritani, they'd have had to be in Philadelphia in 1843.

Alan Rich, Arts Editor New York Magazine New York City

To Sarah Caldwell, "Bravissima!"

Your cover story on this impressive artist has long been overdue as have all other accolades for her performance.

Now for an impetus to furnish Ms. Caldwell with what she so justly merits -her own opera house.

Lynda C. Honour Boston

Green Moon?

The assets of the "Reverend" Sun Myung [Nov. 10] suggest that the Moon is made out of something green.

Michael Alan Novak Detroit

It is true that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's movement may lead to personal, familial and social tension and change because of its moralistic ideas, but to suggest that this tension is unwarranted is irresponsible.

Steven R. Reuman Los Angeles

New Jersey Insurance Commissioner James Sheeran is right. We need laws to protect us from all proselyting cultists, including the most disgusting fanatics of all -Christian Fundamentalists.

Steven Perry Emporia, Kans.

I lived in a Moon community once and moved out, not because of any brainwashing but because I began to realize the heretical nature of their beliefs, in relation to Christianity. I think we should be careful, while shouting "Antichrist" and getting upset at the "abduction" of young people, to realize that they are some of the most loving, intelligent, talented and caring people I know. They are searching hard for some eternal values in a chaotic world.

Pamela E. Gailey Richmond Beach, Wash.

Jerry's Juggler Vein

All Gerald Ford has done in his Cabinet juggling act [Nov. 17] is to silence disagreement. President Ford has got "his team" now, but it is a team that will speak with one voice: that of Henry Kissinger.

Douglas Burkhardt Ashland, Ore.

President Ford fired the wrong man.

Schlesinger has been a perceptive critic of detente; Kissinger, the architect of that policy. Detente is surrender to the Communists on the installment plan.

Larry Bauer Cleveland

We need a strong United States.

Some day President Ford will regret his dismissal of a strong and honest man like Mr. Schlesinger. I hope the voters will remember this tragedy in 1976.

Peter Gorke Kiel, West Germany

Super Sidey

Hugh Sidey must be a classical playwright or a modern anthropologist or both. Neither Shakespeare nor Robert Ardrey could have done a better job depicting the court of Gerald I [Nov. 10].

Jose Figueres San Jose, Costa Rica

We Donkeys, You Jackasses

In the old joke, it took three people to change a light bulb (one to hold the bulb while two turn the ladder). That's nothing compared with the eight New Yorkers you show [Nov. 10] that it takes to raise a manhole cover.

Timothy G. Larsen Los Angeles

That picture tells exactly why we donkeys ain't willingly going to help you jackasses. Here we can do that three-man job with only six.

Phil Hart sock Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Canned TV

After viewing television [Nov. 10] religiously for 20 years, I was insulted for the last time three weeks ago and mustered the courage to stuff my 19-inch into the garbage can.

Steve Seals Spokane, Wash.

It is a little encouraging to see programs like PBS's National Geographic special The Incredible Machine receiving favorable viewer reaction, as a respite from the commercial networks' deluge of waste. TV should be an occasional form of entertainment or source of information, not a way of life.

Jon Saffell Glen Dale, W. Va.

In reading your article on why television viewing is dropping, I couldn't help noticing that nothing is mentioned about taste. Contrary to the opinion of the networks, there are still a great many people who are simply not interested in smut, prostitution, sadistic violence and other forms of "adult television."

Mrs. James J. Nugent New York City

Squeaky's Concern

Regarding your latest portrayal of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme [Nov. 10]: Do her conservationist beliefs apply to human beings or must one be a tree or an animal to qualify?

Edith L. Finn Hagerstown, Md.

Raw Nerve

Your sarcastic reaction [Nov. 3] to the Supreme Court's decision on spanking touched a raw nerve. I have personal knowledge of teachers severely paddling and punching children.

Violence begets violence. A child abused becomes a child abuser.

Michael Halperin, Principal

North Shore Elementary School Jacksonville

If we hit children instead of modifying their behavior in a positive way, how are they to learn to handle problems peaceably?

The George Normington Family Sacramento, Calif.

Nomination Time

I nominate Daniel P. Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as Man of the Year.

Betty Ravin South Orange, N.J.

I nominate Yasser Arafat for Man of the Year because he elucidated the only possible solution for the Middle East: one secular democratic state of Palestine where Jews, Moslems and Christians can live together peacefully.

Remkoter Laan Amsterdam

I nominate Ed Daly, head of World Airways, for all the humanitarian good he did in the Viet Nam airlifts.

Jeff Liss Plymouth, Minn.

A nomination for TIME'S Man of the Year: Oliver Sipple, who was there, standing near Sara Moore.

Magda K. Jensen Oakland, Calif.

Why not the filly Ruffian for Woman of the Year? She who gave her all and "died on the lead." (Mrs.) Antoinette Hungerford Du Vivier New York City

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