Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on an; of its features, bnt letters should not exceed 300 words. Russian Realism I am pleased that Vivien Raynor made such extensive use...
...With good reason, too...
...New York City Elizabeth K. Valkenier The Environment I would like to take exception to Michael Gerrard's critique of the twisted priorities besetting the environmental movement ("Health vs...
...As an inhabitant of brightly lit Hyde Park in Chicago, I can vouch that the sole obstacles between a criminal and your wallet are a cop or a crowd...
...The situation is not as dangerous—for anybody—as he makes it out to be...
...though his own stormy subjection to Frieda was just as sentimentalized...
...What I actually wrote was that Lawrence in Studies in Classic American Literature "made cruel fun of the way Hawthorne sentimentalized his marriage to Sophia Peabody...
...In the first place, environmentalists are not the only ones leery of the project...
...Permanently...
...many residents of the neighborhoods slated for protection are equally unhappy...
...But if Lawrence put blood and the solar plexus above mind where marriage was concerned, he was against—or thought he was against—sentimentality...
...Among these, the one that piques me most is his contention that to discourage the installation of high-intensity street lights is tantamount to encouraging muggers...
...Albert Garvey Correction One of the editorial rephrasings in my review of Martin Green's Transatlantic Patterns ("A Study in Contrasts," NL, May 23) makes me seem to criticize D. H. Lawrence and Frieda for not having a "rational union...
...If all of nature is truly one—a single interdependent system—the irreversible disappearance of another form of life from the face of the earth diminishes us...
...Robert Gorham Davis...
...Finally, on the question of esthetics vs...
...This wording, a similar caveat in the Introduction, and the full title (not merely Russian Realist Art) gave a clear indication that my primary purpose was not to discuss paintings as works of art...
...the Environment," NL, June 6...
...May 23...
...My investigation was limited to the political, social and intellectual influences that shaped Russian realism and are often ignored or misunderstood in the West...
...A capitalist is a capitalist is a capitalist: and no amount of foresight will ever prevent him from exacting his toll...
...I wrote that my "study of several score artists, which covers more than a century, cannot linger over interesting features and details of individual canvases" (not "interesting features or individual canvases...
...Bright lights may seem like a trivial concern, but the controversy surrounding them exemplifies an increasingly inchoate conception of responsibility...
...Westport, Conn...
...Environmentalists cannot be blamed, not even indirectly, for actions whose deleterious effects are someone else's fault...
...Russian Realism I am pleased that Vivien Raynor made such extensive use of my book, Russian Realist An, the Slate and Society, in her discerning review of the Russian and Soviet art exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum ("The Rise of Russian Realism," NL...
...For the sickly pink light cast by these lamps has about the same effect on muggers as politicians do: none...
...Moreover, a faulty notion of responsibility leads him to some questionable statements and conclusions...
...How Lawrence would have snorted at this phrase, which sounds like the preamble to the American Constitution...
...When workers perish as a result of a robber-baron indifference to their health on the part of their employers, it makes no sense to insist that environmentalists shoulder the burden...
...health: There is no way to balance between the life of another species and our lives...
...Chicago, III...
...Not so...
...But I take exception to being criticized for not writing a book of art criticism, especially when the quotation from my text that was meant to cap her point was garbled in transmission...
Vol. 60 • June 1977 • No. 13
