Letters: Sparkling Youth

To the Editors:

Diane Lane and the other "fresh faces" [Aug. 13] have lit up the screen with the badly needed sparkle of America's youth.

Robert Klinestiver

Indianapolis

I am shocked, angered and disgusted, as surely the other real people of this country must be. Movies like Pretty Baby perpetuate the myth that a woman is only as good as her performance in the bedroom, and "the younger the better." Sick.

Bernadette Terpening

Souderton, Pa.

After a reign of 75 weeks, Cheryl Tiegs has just been succeeded by Diane Lane as the prettiest face to appear on TIME.

Randal C. Franklin

Port Washington, N. Y.

It is truly a delight to see a pretty face on your cover, not another one of our nation's problems.

Alan Hattey

St. Clair Shores, Mich.

Sweatshop Talk

After reading Frank Trippett's anti-air conditioning Essay [Aug. 13], I suggest that he be employed as a correspondent permanently assigned to the equator.

Al Luther

Pawtucket, R.I.

If it's all right to heat a house in winter, why the outrage at those who cool it in summer? Would you be as scornful of central heating—or any heating—if it had appeared only "a generation ago"?

Robert Burnham

Milwaukee

Frank Trippett's analogies to France, Germany and Japan are poor choices. Most of the U.S. lies south of much of Europe in a climate not always amenable to human endeavors. The choice is not cool comfort vs. "sweatshops"; it is gross national production vs. noonday siesta.

Gail Winkler

Madison, Wis.

Of New Wineskins

It seems a shame that Episcopal church leaders remain blind to the fact that this abomination, the new prayer book [Aug. 13], is a much more explosive issue than the ordination of women. Personally I wouldn't argue with an optional "Hi there, God" liturgy as long as I didn't have to listen to it.

Shannon Fitzgerald

Durham, N.C.

The leadership of the church, after years of hard work, introduces a new prayer book. Resistance among the laity is vociferous and in some cases violent. Is this the Episcopal Church with its modern-language prayer book in 1979? No. This first happened when Cranmer introduced his then modern-language prayer book in 1549. All the reasons given against the 1979 book—"it's poor English, it's not traditional, it's poor theology"—were first used in opposition to Cranmer's book. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme chose.

(The Rev.) Robert Outman III

Rockland, Mass.

Marcuse Remembered

Herbert Marcuse's obituary [Aug. 13] is only as accurate as TIME can be when it addresses itself to the question of worldwide revolution. "The Revolution Never Came," says TIME, more to sum up its wishful thinking than Marcuse's thought. And when is "never," in any case? Is the future over?

Carlos Guevara

Dorchester, Mass.