Arts Endowment's Critics Aren't 'Yahoos'

To the Editor:

In his opinion article "Clinton Makes a Grand Ole Pick to Head the Arts Endowment" (January 15), Henry Goldstein hurls a rude epithet at members of Congress who favor the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts: He calls them "yahoos."

According to Webster's Dictionary, a yahoo is someone who happens to be "a boorish, crass, or stupid person." Personally, I can't vouch for the manners of the Congressmen to whom Mr. Goldstein