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I've grown weary of the constant publicity on Cardinal Mindszenty. It's about time some mention was made of the struggle European Lutherans have had in their Christian stand against Communist domination. It was indeed gratifying to read your article [Oct. 22] on Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass.
MRS. ROBERT GODLEWSKI Niagara Falls, N.Y.
¶Bishop Ordass, once imprisoned for nearly two years by the Communists, was recently reinstated as Lutheran Bishop of Budapest.—ED.
Soul Searchers
Sir:
Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment—even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics.
ROBERT WHALEN Detroit
Integrating the Blind
Sir:
As the parents of an eight-year-old blind child in the second grade, my husband and I were very pleased to read your sympathetic Dec. 10 article on the education of blind children alongside their sighted contemporaries in Chicago. The spread of the public-school program in this field is a source of gratification to the many people who have believed for years that blind people live in a sighted world and can best take their proper place in that world if they have not been segregated from it.
MRS. HERMAN LASS
Cincinnati
High Level Problem
Sir:
Your Dec. 24 Swiss sixth-grade problem* was subjected to the combined efforts of an education senior, a business administration grad student, a pre-med student, and an English lit. major. After about six hours we made a frantic call to our favorite Ph.D. candidate in math. He was kind enough to tell us that our solution was the right one. Next time, could you publish a fifth-grade problem ?
FLORENCE GUTMAN FRAN SPALDING DOROTHY ROSENBLOOM CAMILLE TROGAN Stevens Co-operative House University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich.
Refreshing & Gratifying
Sir:
Your Dec. 24 cover story on Edward Hopper gives me courage to go on painting and to be worthy enough to be called an artist.
ERNEST MEZO
New York City
Sir:
Congratulations on your fine color reproduction of Benjamin West's portrait of Guy Johnson. On what authority does TIME label the Indian in the background Joseph Brant? There is no resemblance between this and the portrait of Brant by Romney, painted in the same year, or those by Gilbert Stuart, painted later. It is more likely that the Indian is merely a symbol of Guy Johnson's office, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in succession to his uncle and father-in-law, Sir William Johnson.
MILTON W. HAMILTON Editor
The Papers of Sir William Johnson Slingerlands, N.Y.