Letters: Oct. 6, 1967

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Sir: Your article on Roman Catholic priests and their adverse reactions to celibacy [Sept. 15] indicates what little value some of those clergymen place in their vows. Their oaths of poverty, obedience and celibacy symbolize the patterning of their lives to that of Jesus Christ. Reverend John A. O'Brien and his "countless thousands" should realize that by questioning their celibate state they are contradicting the way of life they chose to follow.

JOSEPH C. NARDINI

University Park, Pa.

Sir: As I prepared lunch for my active four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, who was having her usual mealtime tantrum, I could not help thinking of those Catholic priests who were meeting to pursue a new church ruling regarding celibate or married life. If they could share some of our hectic meal ordeals, they would surely want to remain celibate.

(MRS.) P. B. MALLOY

Atlanta

The Real McGann

Sir: I herewith deny that I authored the tasteless albeit clever letter to the editor [Sept. 8] attributed to "Pat McGann."

P. (PAT) H. MCGANN

Captain, U.S.N.

McLean, Va.

Barometer Falling

Sir: In your review of "The Lure of the Limerick" [Sept. 22], I was aghast to read that "limericks have never been a popular art form with women." May I comment:

There was a young lady named Jean

Who preferred her limericks unclean,

To TIME she'd reply

That all girls by and by

Would rather hear limericks obscene.

JEAN A. GRAHAM

Sydney, Australia

Sir: Not all of the interesting young men and women in limericks are from New England cities. The Midwest has its share:

There was a young man from Livonia

Who loved nightly a girl from Ionia.

He became so entranced

He walked home without pants

And now he's in bed with pneumonia.

ROBERT R. MONTGOMERY, D.D.S.

Livonia, Mich.

Sir: —"

TIME'S booh ed. is in for rough weather

He's provoked limerickers to letter

In multiple verse

That will get worse and worse

As their thinking gets bawdily better.

JIM RICHARDSON

Covington, La.