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Sir: In your Essay "Look Back on Anger" [Aug. 16] you have taken a quotation from my book The Intimate Enemy out of context, thereby creating the misleading impression that we naively assume that anger cannot be faked or used in destructive-manipulative ways. I did write as you quote: "Anger cannot be dishonest," but added at length the conditions of authentic intimacy under which this statement is hopefully true.
GEORGE R. BACH, Ph.D.
Institute of Group Psychotherapy
Beverly Hills, Calif.
White Tests?
Sir: I have but these few words to say about the article "Is Equality Bad for You?" [Aug. 23]. It is nothing but white racist trash. Allow any white child to take an IQ test as biased in favor of the black culture as the present tests are oriented to the white culture, and you know who is going to come out on the low side. It does not take a brilliant person to realize that if you have been exposed to the material on the test, it is not too difficult to pass.
DAVID A. LEFURGEY Hays, Kans.
Sir: I would just like to know what gives Harvard Professor of Psychology Herrnstein the idea that the nation has a high-IQ ruling class.
ELAINE MERCER East Randolph, N.Y.
The Lindsay Candidacy
Sir: Your story on John Lindsay [Aug. 23] filled me with dismay. But let us screw up our courage and admit it: it could happen. This beautiful but dumb, confused, double-dealing, disingenuous, opportunistic, party-swapping non-mayor could make it to the White House. And how, after four feckless, extravagant, regressive years would he defend his record as President? He would surely aver that "the United States of America is probably ungovernable."
DOUGLAS MARTIN Glen Rock, N.J.
Sir: John V. Lindsay is the most attractive candidate to emerge from a field of dull, colorless men. I'm tired of political parties picking the most loyal party regular to run for office instead of the man who can win. Rather than cries of opportunism, why not unite behind the only man who can realistically beat Nixon?
(MRS.) BARBARA WINSTANLEY Concord, Mass.
Principle Argument
Sir: As one of the 56 "old grad" judges of the University of Detroit law school [Aug. 23], I heartily endorse the students who are altruistic, innovative and active in court.
If only the great jurisprudential theorists at the prestigious law schools would follow the lead of the "streetcar law factory" activists, perhaps all our courts would finally be forced to take time for argument over a principle and thus administer justice, which, incidentally, is the reason for their existence.
GREGORY T. ARSULOWICZ
Municipal Court Judge
Walker, Mich.