Adams' Photos

To the Editors:

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Ansel Adams' photographs [Sept. 3] open up a boundless vocabulary.

Paul Cohn Wyomissing, Pa.

Adams' photographs are beautiful, and there are no words to describe the effect they had on me. Many thanks, Mr. Adams.

Sherry Pafford Hacienda Heights, Calif.

When I saw Ansel Adams on the cover, I was elated. I stopped on the way back to the house from the mailbox and took an especially long look at the Blue Ridge Mountains near my home.

Steve Harvel North Wilkesboro, N.C.

Many of us are still uncomfortable with the inclusion of photography in the realm of "art." The medium, for all its technical sophistication, is such a limited one. The finished product is pervaded by technology and by the physical properties of the subject itself. I enjoy Adams' work and respect his skill, but if I were he, I would prefer to have been known as a pianist.

Douglas Woody Eminence, Mo.

Brown's Friends

I would never vote for Jerry Brown [Sept. 3], even if my only other choice were a Big Business candidate. I do not care to have Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden that close to our national security.

Kayleen Kersch San Francisco

We did not leave Viet Nam because it was a lost war; we left because it was a wrong war. To hint at anything else is a doomed attempt to hide from the shame that we should all feel in being part of such an atrocity. We should praise the Haydens for serving to remind us and keep us from further evils.

Kevin Jaeger Novato, Calif.

Your report on the presidential ambitions of Governor Brown noted that he would "get a boost from the Haydens, who ... will tour 50 cities with the occasional assistance of such notables as Cesar Chavez, Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson."

Though you did not say that I was supporting Brown, I've received a number of calls and letters from people who got that impression. I am not supporting Brown's presidential candidacy, nor could I begin to consider such support until he renounces his current endorsement of a constitutional convention. It seems to me that this is a major and dangerous misjudgment on his part, and that he has lent credibility to the ultra-right-wing drive to rewrite and weaken the Constitution.

What I am doing is joining with Jane Fonda in speaking to women office-worker groups in Boston.

Gloria Steinem New York City

At Last, Hurrah!

I have been a secretary for almost 30 years, and if it takes a shortage [Sept. 3] to get paid what we are worth, hurrah for a shortage!

Margaret Myers Charleston, Ill.

Does any sane individual want to make a career of answering somebody's phone and peeling his grapefruit?

The corporate structure be damned! It is nurturing the growth of skilled but faceless fingers and voices. I for one want an identity other than as somebody's "girl."

Paulette Petretti New York City

It is hard to believe the statement by managers that they are offering "ample pay" to secretarial applicants. It may be ample for any one of a dozen roles a secretary performs, but certainly not for more than one.

Lynn E. South Minneapolis

Raquel's Stunts

It must have been a stunt double who wrote that item about me and The Legend of Walks Far Woman [Sept. 3] The truth is that I have done most of my own stunt work, much more than the insurance company would have liked, suffering numerous injuries in the process.

By the way, the Indians do not refer to their women as "squaws" --this is a demeaning term used only by whites--and though I have often been the object of sexism it wounds me deeply that TIME would stoop to racism in an attempt to make a joke. The Indian I portray in this film is no joke to me.

Raquel Welch Los Angeles

Another Cult

I can't believe it, another cult. All I can say is Bo and Peep--with their theory of a spaceship taking apostles to the "next level" of existence [Aug. 27] --are pulling the wool over someone's eyes.

Gino Sullivan Rockville, Md.

Unfair to Dad and Jane

Brooke Shields [Aug. 13] is a remarkably fine person with great acting potential. However, I stated that she was as professional as my father and understood more about the camera and lenses than my sister. She is certainly not yet a better actor. That would be unfair to Dad and Jane.

Peter Fonda Livingston, Mont.

Tracking

Your American Scene on Tracker Bernie Lawrence [Aug. 27] was interesting, but I question whether he and his team actually captured a DC-10, a $25 million jumbo jet, in the desert. C'mon.

Albert J, Berryman Fresno, Calif.

Shrink it to a Twin Beech D18.

Racquetball, Smaller but Faster

Judging from your article "Net Loss" [Sept. 3], it is quite obvious that your ECONOMY & BUSINESS reporters may know the size and bounce of the economy, but not of racquetball. Racquetball is more like handball or squash than tennis. It is played with a smaller racquet and faster ball.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Doyle Chicago

Klutzy Performance

I saw two beautiful performances of the Bolshoi at Lincoln Center, both far superior to the U.S. State Department's klutzy performance over Ballet Star Alexander Godunov's wife at Kennedy Airport [Sept. 3]. I doubt the Bolshoi will come back.

William J. Beckmann

Uniondale, N. Y.

Perhaps Alexander wasn't Godunov.

Richard Hodkin Patchogue, N. Y.

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