Mass Hara-Kiri?
Sirs:
My answer to Robert Sherrod's Saipan question on the possible suicide of Japanese civilians when we reach Japan (TIME, Aug. 7):
Mass hara-kiri will be effected, in front of family and military shrines . . . and in front of the Palace in Tokyo. . . .
JAMES R. YOUNG*
Pawling, N.Y.
Inconclusive Normality
Sirs:
". . . Pablo Picasso, the melancholy, anarchic, 62-year-old Spaniard whom many consider the greatest living artist" (TiME, Aug. 7). This is inconclusive. Can you name five normal persons who consider Picasso the greatest living artist? . . .
HI SIBLEY
Nuevo, Calif.
ΒΆ "Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake,...
