Correspondence
Correspondence Sisterhood is powerful Dayton, Ohio To the Editors: Glad to read Abigail McCarthy on the parochial schools-and the nuns ["The spirit of Venantia, Sept. 24]. Like her, I have only...
...Kramer and Ordinary People, the leading female characters are shown to be: a deceitful, selfish woman, who cannot remember the number of lovers she has had in a brief time, and the wicked ice mom of the midwest, responsible for the decline of the family...
...To the Editors: Derrick Henry's article on listening to music.[Sept...
...This may take as much effort as learning to read music, and success is not so sure, but it is something to be done towards enlivening and enriching the musical experience, not just for ourselves but for all listeners...
...When such a project has been realized in the past the public has proved eager for the genuine article, for work done with conviction and vision...
...I was struck by his statement near the end: "How athletes with limited academic skills and poor high school preparation were supposed to maintain normal academic progress, while enduring this kind of regimen is an issue no NCAA halftime show has ever satisfactorily explained...
...10], Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...Your periodical is too important to the life of the American Church to allow yourselves to be supported by advertising that dishonors the church...
...In the old days, male chauvinists used to crack that women belonged in the kitchen and the bedroom...
...SEBASTIAN L. MUCCILLI Movie misogyny Los Angeles, Calif...
...And they can show their preferences at the sales counters and ticket windows...
...After all...
...The music industry under its present management, however, only occasionally takes such a risk, and quickly retreats to safe territory...
...So many people have said to me, "But you were just lucky" to have had so many fine nuns as teachers-but I am inclined to think that those of us with good, happy memories of the nuns just don't make as good copy as do those with horror stories...
...the wife is a breeding machine, without the slightest concern for her children...
...but the return had a definitely quantifiable cash value...
...The abuses in this system are quite obvious...
...It will come from lawyers who recognize the labor laws which such practices violate...
...CHARLES SAYDAH Music & industry Dorchester, Mass...
...In Author...
...seemed more concerned with the damage done to the image of writers than the blatant misogyny exhibited in these movies...
...I find the Holy Trinity Fathers' quarter-page advertisement for Mass intentions [Sept...
...Early 1970 graduates of a school as respected as the University of North Carolina told me that Chapel Hill would allow their basketball players to take only two courses - the minimum load needed to maintain student eligibility - so they could devote most of their time to the all-important basketball season...
...PAMELA KRISTAN...
...The flood of remakes is not surprising then since managers are only willing to invest in what has proven successful in the past...
...One can also consider the responsibility of the producers of musical culture to provide the raw materials for such enriched listening...
...By whom...
...It seems to me that this relationship makes their performances strictly professional...
...It will come from lawyers who recognize the money-making potential that a high school basketball star offers to a university...
...10] to be offensive, particularly the line: "Would you like to have Mass said . . . forever...
...And what powers does Father Anthony have - guaranteeing the Mass said forever...
...Author...
...10], is right to the point in handing the individual the responsibility for enriching his musical experience...
...In recent movies, with dads becoming such lovable, cute, homemak-ers, who only need their kids' love to survive, women apparently have no function left in our society...
...salaries for its coaches...
...While their classmates worked full time to help meet school payments, the athletes studied...
...The comment contains its own response...
...We are finally asked to like him because he is such a nice wimp...
...We might then see projects which strike out into unexplored territory, which fill an artistic gap, which stimulate new interest...
...operating costs to maintain the team...
...Listeners concerned with quality can write to local radio programmers, and talk to fellow listeners...
...Henry speaks of the proliferation of mediocre recordings, the padding of our culture with performances which, though they may not detract from the body of musical culture, certainly do not add significantly to it...
...For a relatively modest expense - capital costs on its arena...
...One of the reasons we never believe in these writers as characters in these works, is that the protagonists' professions have been conceived to camouflage the ugliness of the author's true intentions...
...But they didn't do it in the traditional four-year period of their non-athletic classmates...
...Why not put artistic decisions in the hands of music professionals who can judge the worth of a project on artistic merits, rather than on charts and sales records...
...Like her, I have only the fondest memories of the nuns, after fourteen years of Catholic education...
...Author...
...To the Editors: In his review of The World According to Garp and Author...
...Even though the ad states that all donations are applied to the training and education of priests, brothers, and missionaries, the celebration of Eucharist was not instituted for the procurement of funding to support any cause, no matter how noble...
...tuition, room, board, books, and some expenses for its basketball players - the University of North Carolina got a showpiece athletic team, one that regularly made postseason tournaments and achieved a great deal of national acclaim...
...Just as the citizen can legitimately expect consistent decent "government, so the listener can express a desire for quality from the music industry, not just occasionally but as a policy...
...DAN O'NEILL Sporting life Monsey, N.Y...
...During summer school, they were supposed to catch up with the courses they missed...
...24] was most timely...
...The World According to Garp, that "jolly," Dicken-sonian comedy, has as its heroines: a feminist who hates all sexuality and a wife who commits adultery for no discernible reason, and by her actions causes castration, disfigurement, and death...
...Letters can be written to management pointing to examples of worthy projects, suggesting that music professionals be given influence in artistic decisions...
...These portrayals are not isolated incidences of disturbed thinking...
...While their classmates were studying, they played basketball and went to school part time...
...To the Editors: You do yourselves a disservice by not being more discriminating with your ads...
...Even in the book, when John Irving devoted large sections to the supposed work of the title character, I thought, "What an ordinary, hack writer this Garp is...
...The players may indeed have received the kind of education for which Chapel Hill is known...
...Continued on page 607) Correspondence (Continued from page 578) The change won't come from concerned educators, parents, and civil rights leaders...
...It will come from lawyers who realize they can make a buck representing athletes in their negotiations with universities.A few good settlements will do more to change the situation than all the well-intentioned criticisms of activists...
...To the Editors: Mark Naison's piece on college athletics ["Scenario for scandal," Sept...
...SALLY S. MacDONALD Forever yours West End, N.C...
...There is no way the two obligations can be met...
...For their services, their total remuneration may not have been cash...
...In such popular, award-winning movies as Kramer vs...
...I am less pessimistic - but somewhat more cynical-than Naison about the chances for correction of such abuses...
...In many recording companies and performance organizations, vital artistic decisions, such as who plays what, are largely in the hands of people who base their decisions on past efforts...
...And what need would require Mass intentions celebrated in the hereafter...
...In a sense, the athletes' part-time jobs to help meet school payments were their roles on the team...
...Writers Wronged," Sept...
...there's gold beneath the ivy...
Vol. 109 • November 1982 • No. 19
