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Editorials1 his Time Let%u2019s Do It RightT h e re is o n e m o n th b e tw e e n th e a n n o u n c e m e n t th a t a n e w ly s c h e d u le d e le c tio n w ill be h e ld fo r re p re s e n ta tiv e s to th e A rea P o licy B o a rd s and the D e c e m b e r 4 da te o f th e ir e le c tio n . It is up to th e C o m m u n ity D e v e lo p m e n t A g e n c y, w h ic h is ru n n in g th e e le c tio n s , to prove th is tim e th a t s e rio u s in p u t by c o m m u n ity re s id e n ts is d e s ire d in the A re a P o lic y B o ards. The B o ards are to be the re p la c e m e n t o rg a n iz a tio n s fo r th e o ld d is s o lv e d C o m m u n ity A n tiP o ve rty C o rp o ra tio n s , w h ic h a llo c a te d the $25 m illio n po t o f fed era l m o n e y g iv e n to N ew Y ork C ity .Sound Off R e a d e r s T a l k B a c kW hen e le c tio n s w ere c a n c e lle d S e p te m b e r th e 21, fo u r days b e fo re re s id e n ts w e re to vo te o n S e p te m b e r 25, m a n y p e o p le w e re no t even aw are o f th e u p c o m in g e le c tio n s ; th e y d id n o t kn ow w h e re p o llin g p la c e s w o u ld be no r w h o the c a n d id a te s w ere.A fte r a c h a o tic e le c tio n day in M a n h a tta n and a d is a s tro u s e x p e rie n c e in th e B ro nx, w h e re th e re s u lts w e re la te r in v a lid a te d , e le c tio n s in B ro o k ly n and Q u e e n s w ere c a n c e lle d .D e sp ite th e d is o rd e r w h ic h a c c o m p a n ie d th e M a n h a tta n e le c tio n th e re s u lts s till s ta n d . B u t w e h o p e th a t th e C D A has le a rn e d s o m e th in g fro m th e M a n h a tta n and B ro n x e x p e rie n c e . C D A has th e re s p o n s ib ility to see to it th a t e le c tio n s are run e ffic ie n tly and e ffe c tiv e ly .Terminal De Beaux ArtIt%u2019s nice to read that HPD (Housing Preservation and Development) is seeking development proposals for %u201c block 5%u201d on Flatbush Avenue%u2014a vacant area that once housed sound, turn-of-the-century structures and now provides parking space for trucks, vans and selling space for Greenmarket. (City Seeks Plans For Atlantic Terminal Area, Oct. 25) Also, plans for %u201cblock 1%u201d%u2014the block housing Midtown Florist%u2014reportedly include the %u201c possibility of rehabilitation of structures standing on the site.%u201dOne assumes that other possibilities include continued demolition that would result in yet another vacant lot in ATURA%u2019s (Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area) growing land bank. The encouraging note is that HPD/ATURA are even talking about rehabilitation, a revolutionary idea that may even convince the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) to save the L.I.R.R. Terminal from the wrecking ball and restore, renovate and redevelop the beaux arts terminal station. The Greenmarket would be a welcome tenant in the nearby sheds. A restaurant and speciality shops would give the building new animation. Can HPD/ATURA get together with LIRR/MTA and save the Terminal? It%u2019s the only Terminal building Brooklyn will ever have.%u2014Bill Novak, co-chair,CTSBLIRRTB, Coalition To Save Brooklyn%u2019s L.I.R.R. Terminal BuildingWhose Misconceptions?In reply to Sabra Moore%u2019s letter (Gallery Misconceptions, Oct. 18) commenting onmy article on the Atlantic Avenue co-op galleries in the Fall Art Preview of the Phoenix:The %u201c misconceptions%u201d she enumerates, if misconceptions they are, do not belong to the author of the article, but to the gallery members whom she interviewed. Each statement she complains of is clearly attributed to a specific gallery member. None of those interviewed spoke off the record, and Moore%u2019s own gallery was represented by its President, Rich Samuelson. Perhaps the very fact that it is not the author, but Moore%u2019s own fellow gallerymembers, who have been critical, is what makes Moore defensive.As to my taking a %u201c business attitude,%u201d it is the galleries which do this, as they must, when they decide that they cannot afford increased rents. The author nowhere states, nor did anyone interviewed, that the galleries were a failure. That the Atlantic Gallery is not closing, but moving to SoHo, was clearly reported in the beginning of the story in the interview with Samuelson.As to Moore%u2019s not knowing the collector interviewed, 1 fail to see the significance of this; nor do 1 think it important that I did not mention the name of the landlord nor of how many buildings he owns. I was, however, asked by Samuelson not to discuss the specifics of rents or rent increases in either the new gallery or the old, and I respected this.I find Moore%u2019s attribution of the negative comments by her fellow-members to me ironic. No one could be more aware of the advantages (and disadvantages) of artistrun co-ops than the author, a painter who was active in one of the Tenth Streetgalleries of the 50's and 60%u2019s, which are the grandparents of the present-day co-ops. In fact, the genesis of the article is the author's long involvement with and support of the co-op movement, including those on Atlantic Avenue.%u2014Patricia Stegman, Dean StreetStar At The OperaI was delighted to see the mention of the name of Magda Olivero in Jon Ciner%u2019s excellent review of the BAM appearance of Robert Merrill with Lucas Foss (Merrill and Foss Deliver Operatic Greats, Nov. 1). My wife Judy and I first saw this legendary soprano in Florence Italy in %u201c Adriana Lccouvreur%u201d back in 1966. It was a performance so gripping it haunts me still. She was 56 at the time. At her Met debut in 1975 she sang %u201cTosca\performances at age 64. And two years ago gave an unbelievable Carnegie Hall concert which I also attended%u2014and only last week appeared again at Carnegie. As operatic historian (designate) of Brooklyn I will do all in my power to convince BAM to %u201c beg, borrow and steal%u201d to get Mine Olivero to Brooklyn before it%u2019s too late. Her art is glorious and we will welcome her with cheers.%u2014Nino Pantano, 305 APresident St.Clearing The AirWe wish to thank The Phoenix for its coverage of our public meeting about the pollution/odor problem from the Ulano Corporation factory at 280 Bergen Street. (Residents Complain About Factory%u2019s Noxious Odors, Oct. 25) Although Ulanodid not attend, City Councilmembers Steingut and Gerges did, and both promised their support in our efforts to clean up the air.We have arranged another meeting which representatives of Ulano management have promised to attend, it will be on Tuesday, November 13, at 8:30 p.m. at the Ncvins Senior Center, 460 Atlantic Avenue. Ulano is a multi-national corporation with offices in Switzerland as well as in several states. It does business all over the world. We believe it has the resources to clean up our small part of it.%u2014The BoertunHill-South Brooklyn Clean Air CommitteeAccurate and FairI want to commend %u201c The Phoenix%u201d and your reporter, Ms. Libby Hayman. for her attendance at the meeting of Community School Board 13, in P.S. 8 on October 16th. In her article %u201c Board Fails To Expand Grades; Debates Integration%u201d (Oct. 25) her reporting was extensive, accurate, and fair.Rcportorial work of this quality is immensely beneficial to the whole community. It makes clear, even to the many people who do not have children in attendance at the public schools, the complexity of the problems that come before the Community School Boards.As a Member of Community School Board 13, I am happy that %u201cThe Phoenix%u201d covered our meeting in a manner so satisfactory and complete.%u2014Rev. SylvesterG. Benack, Treasurer Community SchoolBoard 13Coping b y J u d y L i n s c o f tAdults Of The World, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Furry SlippersIn my younger days, I imagined that adults were organized creatures, as if a strong sense of order and place came with territory. I guess I figured that since adults know so much right off the tops of their heads%u2014like the capital of Alabama, say%u2014that they must also have some internal mechanism for keeping all that confounding information straight.Organization, however, still eludes me, although I%u2019m several years beyond official adulthood. In fact, it seems to elude plenty of people in the same chronological boat. This wouldn%u2019t worry me too much except that it seems to worry a lot of other people. Measles I%u2019m immune to, but paranoia knocks me flat in a flash.First they blamed it on the women, marching into the dog-eat-dog workforce without a shred of experience in managing six hours of work plus two hours of lunch, minus a half hour either way for commutation. Thus commenced a nationwide frenzy of workshops, seminars, talk-outs, be-ins and pulpy paperbacks dedicated to the education of the female species vis-a-vis this thing called organization. With it came the requisite terminology, time sheets, learning tools, space savers, time trimmers and %u201c management techniques.%u201d Not surprisingly, this bevy of activity took up a great deal ot time and energy, leaving a good deal less of those six hours of the day to worry about killing off.Then, the guilt seeped into the mainstream. Maybe the men got nervous, envisioning legions of newly efficient women charging into the fray, organizing all those snuggly male loopholes right into oblivion. I%u2019m sorry, sir, after careful examination, we have determined the three-martini lunch to be an inefficient mode of conducting business. Why don%u2019t you try using the telephone?So now there are a lot of people running around brandishing time sheets and making money off of sloppy people%u2019s guilt. It%u2019s gotten so bad that a self-respecting adult can%u2019t even expect furs or diamonds for Christmas anymore. Too frivolous. Inefficient. If you must be silly, for God%u2019s sake, go for gold.Pocket calculators, desk organizers, five-part briefcases, disappearing wall units and watches that supply at-a-glance date, weather and time to the second are in their prime (as if anyone needs to know the time beyond the general thrust of hands, big and little.) Nobody gives furry slippers on Christmas anymore. Furry slippers slow you down on the way to the bathroom.Is there no romance left in the world?I have always been a list maker, which as anyone knows is the slob%u2019s pretense at organization. I make too many lists and snuffle mem too many limes. Gigauizcia' first golden rule: never touch the samepiece of paper twice. I am now imbued with a rampant paranoia about TouchingPaper Twice. It is not an efficient rule for me, since I tend to drop things, and therefore have to spend a good deal of time in contorted positions squinting at distant sheets. But I am proud to say that I leave them where they fall. I used to spend time crossing things off my lists and worrying if I%u2019d cheated. Now I can%u2019t cross off, for fear of the Twicely Touched. Consequently, I make new lists.I am over-reliant on seeing things put to paper, deluding myself that therein lies a certain reality. I got a little black appointment book, a very adult thing. All the Monday spaces look the same in this little book, and I tend to put things in on the wrong Monday all the time. This makes me chronically nervous and jumpy, especially on Monday, to no good end.I put silly things in the book, like %u201c call home,%u201d which I know is probably the only thing in the world that I will not forget to do, and I feel silly when I write it in, which makes me feel like a pretender, much the same as when I filled my first pocketbook at age five with kleenex, broken pencils and paperclips. A friend confesses that she writes in a visit to the laundry, much the same as she would note an appointment with the chairman of General Motors.What I mean to say is, it lends a certainm e a m n g ic b M ii'b b iu u e m a m c ic u i, w iin iileads to disregard, which leads to sloppiness of the most appalling order.Some people are fond of saying that thebest way to organize is to throw it all out. These people are most often high level executives whose secretaries routinely fish the important stuff out of the wastebasket. Other people attack the problem with a kind of vigilante approach, like wending one%u2019s day through the house brandishing brooms, mops and dust rags. You never know. I%u2019d like to point out, when a robber might be sneaking up behind in muddy sneakers.Covering all bases, as it were, demands a certain flexibility, I should think. Personally, I wouldn't know. Three out of four is about the best I can do, and for now I figure it%u2019s okay. In this adult world of maximizing your odds, you can figure there%u2019s always one dud on one base who isn%u2019t going to go anywhere until you get there.%u201c Prioritizing,%u201d I understand, is the place to start. Hell, if the laundromat plays an important role in your life, write it in the damn book. Posterity may find it significant, since posterity works in mysterious ways. Presumbably an entry in the nature of, say, %u201c May 10, Willie Chu, 10:35 a.m., pick up 12 lbs., drop 3 lbs. will count (when all is said and done) for about as much as: \with Marge, drinks at the club, Suzie fromEither way, it's priorities that count. Myself, I%u2019ll take a clean set of sheets over a sweaty game of tennis any day.November 8.1979, The PHOENIX. Page 7