Monday, Jun. 16, 1980

Picasso's Genius

To the Editors:

In these times of riots, exploding mountains and angry Iranians, we needed to see Picasso on the cover of TIME [May 26]. The extraordinarily beautiful painting and accompanying article on Picasso and his art provided a blissful, if temporary escape.

James Burnett

Dallas

Robert Hughes' article was cogent, incisive, powerful--a word portrait worthy of Picasso's Picassos.

Edie Brown Eisenberg

Woodmere, N. Y.

You say, "The sense of the cubist moment can never come again." Let's fervently hope you are right. That such a hoax has lasted so long is a tragedy for serious painting.

Ken Downs Sr.

Islip, N. Y.

Picasso painted women as though he truly hated them. Maybe our woman-hating society has something to do with his immense popularity.

Julie Crofoot

Emporia, Kans.

Rioting in Miami

Although I smell a stench coming from the trial of the Miami ex-policemen [May 26], I cannot condone or respect the acts of those individuals who have used it as an excuse for murder, arson and pillage. What is destroyed in the end is not inequality, discrimination or injustice, but everyone's rights and freedoms.

Dan O'Brien

Anchorage

I am outraged at the recent acquittal of the four white policemen by an all-white jury in the brutal death of Arthur McDuffie. This mock trial has transported the state of Florida back to the days of the pre-civil rights South. Unfortunately, the phrase "justice for all" is not intended for all Americans.

Gayle B. Glazer

Orlando, Fla.

No Justice, No Peace

I was pleased that the story on the march for jobs, peace and justice [May 26] focused on the severe social and economic problems blacks and other minorities face in this country. Now we are faced not only with the cost of cleaning up Miami but also with the cost and lack of confidence in the justice system, and the continuing cost that poor education and lack of jobs engender.

Balance-the-budget hysteria must be preceded by a balance of trade and by balancing the scales of justice. No jobs, no justice. No justice, no peace. This is not a threat, it is therapy. It is not talking about the problems of jobs and justice that will interfere with peace in our cities but the failure to respond to the just demands of the poor.

(The Rev.) Jesse L. Jackson

President, Operation PUSH

Chicago

The Tito Rites (and Wrongs)

Why should we blame President Carter for his rare display of courage in withstanding pressures to attend Tito's funeral [May 19]? How could he, as a defender of human rights? Too many Serbs and Croats whose relatives have been persecuted by Tito's goons are still alive bearing witness to his inhumanity.

Kornelijs Purgalis

Seattle

The ERA Fight

In spite of losing the vote in Illinois, today's women do not intend to give up the battle for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment [May 26]. There can be no time limit on equality!

Colette Roberts

East Longmeadow, Mass.

I find Phyllis Schlafly's anti-ERA "logic" fascinating. She fears that her daughter will be drafted and treated as a "sexual playmate." Isn't the ERA a national acknowledgment that women are capable of being more than sexual playmates?

Susan Hoffman Adams

Lansing, Mich.

No real American is against equality, but plenty of us are against ERA.

Nancy Layton Skousen

Redlands, Calif.

Women at the Point

Why should women go to West Point [May 19], which should be training young officers for combat? The President has decreed that women will not be employed in a combat role, and, in the opinion of one old combat soldier, he is absolutely right.

Ian S. Johnston

Toronto

Cubans in the Melting Pot

Carter is welcoming the Cuban refugees [May 19] with open arms. Will those arms be open when they come to him for good jobs, housing and food?

Scott Ivins

Grenoble, France

The melting pot runneth over.

Susan Weber

Hazleton, Pa.

Why not put the Statue of Liberty in mothballs until we can assimilate the overload we are now carrying?

May Bradley

Castro Valley, Calif.

Repulsive Film

While your film critic Richard Schickel does list some of the unsavory images in the film The Tin Drum [April 28], he gives no warning of the many scenes that reduce sexual love to obscene bestiality and make women grosser than men in their lustfulness. It is a repulsive film.

Fitzroy Davis

Putnam, Conn.

Therapy Over the Air

The condescending tone of your article "Dial Dr. Toni for Therapy" [May 26] did your readers a disservice. They may have been entertained, but you failed to inform them that Dr. Grant's program is one of the most significant in the history of broadcasting.

Ray Sherman

Palmdale, Calif.

All hail Dr. Grant, whose sensitive (and affordably priced) on-the-air counseling has saved thousands thousands.

Angie Castagnola

San Pedro, Calif.

What this world doesn't need is a Dr. Toni. I cannot appreciate her glib solutions based on today's loose morals.

Marjorie Kranich

Horseshoe Bend, Ark.

Heavenly Windows

O Lord, who will wash the windows in the Rev. Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral [May 26]?

Ann Taylor

Mansfield, Pa.

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