Letters: Sep. 19, 1969

Marvel of the Mets

Sir: I cannot tell you how happy your story on the New York Mets has made me [Sept. 5]. It was a beautiful story, written lovingly, with wonderful art. When I got to thinking of what the Old Master might be thinking about all that has happened this season, there was your man with the gospel according to Casey to wrap the story up.

CHRIS CONNELL

Brooklyn

Sir: Your unique blend of Biblical history and baseball is refreshing but obviously apocryphal. St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases, is more likely to show an avid interest in the Mets. On that great come-and-get-it-day, you will find that your "little team that can"—couldn't! Blessed are the Chicago Cubs for they shall inherit the East.

BILL BERG

WIND Radio, Sports

Chicago

Sir: Thank you so much for your fantastic article on our super-fantastic Mets! Fans in other cities have laughed at our "Amazins" all these years, most of the time rightfully so. But they're not laughing much any more; we're the ones doing all the smiling!

We Have Overcome!

NADJA WEHRBERGER

The Bronx

Aquarius in the Mud

Sir: From the mud of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair [Aug. 29] can be made the bricks with which my generation can build the Age of Aquarius.

EARL WILLIAM WILLIS

Wanchese, N.C.

Sir: So "the whole world needs a big wash, a big scrub-down." Granted—and why don't we start with the loonies who wallowed for days in Bethel's "beautiful" mud, litter and garbage?

Your whitewash of this youth culture may well precipitate the flood that will inundate us all. They plan to take over the helm, and apparently you've welcomed them aboard—but how long could even TIME stay afloat if manned by people who don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain?

MRS. JAMES C. FRAZIER JR.

Ponca City, Okla.

Sir: I traveled 800 miles to groove on three days of peace and music at "History's Biggest Happening"—a short journey to become a small part of history.

BERT DICKIE

Moncton, N.B.

Sir: The Message is that of all the different kinds of love in this world, there is no love to compare with the love of one bum for another. The other message is that they will, as usual, all end up in the gutter.

WILLIAM FAY

Los Angeles

Further Dissent

Sir: Dr. Bettelheim [Sept. 5] blames American parents of college dissenters for being permissive and authoritarian. Hungarian, Czech, French and deprived black American parents too? Dissent is traditional in democratic countries and feared by fascist societies.

TIME serves America badly by publishing the senile, regressive and unsubstantiated statements intended to defend the Establishment, no matter what.

IRVING SHAPIRO, M.D.

Newark