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Later, many Americans taught there. To these, their teaching and influence, I believe credit should be given.
MILTON Lu, M.D. Lancaster, Pa.
Sharing the Honors
Sir: In the Art section [Nov. 15] you have an excellent presentation of some of the new buildings at Yale. The color photographs and layouts are very beautiful. However, credit for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library should be given to the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. I was merely the partner responsible for the design, and my partner, David Hughes, was in charge of the administration of them. In addition, there were various other people in our office whose efforts made this building possible.
GORDON BUNSHAFT Partner Skidmore, Owings & Merrill New York City
Breaking The Silence
Sir: As a Swede, I am proud that Swedish craftsmanship stands for solid quality.
But American eyes are quick to turn from our stainless steel to some of our spineless, sordid screen productions. I sincerely hope that America will refuse to have filth poured over their country in the name of art.
As TIME pointed out [Nov. 15], there has been a strong reaction in Sweden against the perversion and dirt of Ingmar Bergman's film The Silence.
Movies and TV could help to restore national character in Sweden and America, along with definite standards of right and wrong. In those fields I believe Sweden can and will contribute daringly and decisively with productions that will last long after The Silence has been buried in silence.
(MRS.) BROR A. W. JONZON Vancouver, Canada
Inspiration
Sir: One evening in August 1955, I was reading the TIME cover story on Frank Sinatra, in which he was reported as saying: "If it hadn't been for my interest in music, I'd probably have ended in a life of crime." I stopped short on that sentence, remembering another TIME story, shortly before, that reported a murderer shot down in Chicago in a gun battle with the police who said: "I always been fond of music. Maybe if I'd been any good at it, I'd have done it that way instead." By about 3 a.m. the next morning, I'd written a short story about an encounter between a pop singer and a criminal on the run, which later emerged as a very successful television play called "The Man from Brooklyn."
A few years later, I read in TIME Magazine a haunting story about refugees in Europe, under the heading "Bitter Sanctuary." At once, an idea for a stage play which had been vaguely in my mind came into sharp focus, and I sat down at once and drafted it. That play is now to have its first production next month at the Salisbury Playhouse. The title? Naturally, Bitter Sanctuary.
I wonder how many other writers find inspiration — not really too strong a word — in TIME's detailed and sympathetic reporting of human events? Anyway, this is my grateful acknowledgment.
ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON London
La Vie de la Soirée