OBSERVER Vol. 14 No. 2 March 9, 1971

Cover Page Photograph Nola Express Back Page Fat Freddy’s Cat Gilbert Shelton Page 1 Gas War In Vietnam LNS Map LNS Ginsberg At Bard Jonathan Kaplan Photograph Julie Gelfand Page 2 Film Dept. Arrives Larry Gross Excerpts From Film Committee’s Report Passed By The Faculty Rubble Books Lydia Ayers Letters [“ . . . ‘Government Trips On Wires’, . . . I knew you had written it.”] Daniel Cantor Page 3 Devlin: Ireland In Revolt Rich Tedesco [“Bernadette Devlin spoke quietly and convincingly at Vassar College last week.”] Bruce Warshavsky Page 4 Student Productions Photographs Carolyn Carlson The Critic’s Critic Bruce Chilton Page 5 Touch Of Evil Larry Gross Notes On An ‘Artists’ Paradise’ II—The Life And Difficult Times Of Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet Composer Sol Louis Siegel Moog Madness Sol Louis Siegel Page 6 Hear The Sound Of My Feet Walking . . . Drown The Sound Of My Voice Talking . . . Eric Arnould Odds Bodkins Dan O’Neill Page 7 A Sense Of Something Missing Derry Dyer Silent Spring Robert Koblitz Page 8 Soul On Linoleum Britt Jones Photographs LNS, AP, AP, LNS Page 9 Photograph UPI Photograph AP Page 10 Photograph UPI Photograph Reuters Page 11 Bard Lands Erik Kiviat Early Man Still Smarter And Older David Schardt Psych Dept. Seeks Dining Commons Page 12 It’s The Amazing Newshow Photograph Page 13 Four Weeks In Laos . . . Kurt Hill Abortion Info. [“ . . . International drug treaty designed to stop illegal traffic in 32 drugs, including . . .”] bernadette and allen .. . oil's weil in vietnam .. . the quaking of a counter-culture .... volume 14 number 2 march 9 , 1971 lA&• COLLeeJ ...... ,_..oo.. _.- ...... u ...... U. S. POSTNiiiE MIWYOIKI_...... ha ...... M.Y. IIIUIN IIQUB1ID ...... Ma. I IN VIETNAM

"One of the world's richest areas is open to the winner of lndochina," wrote U.S. News and World Report just before Dienbienphu, on April 16, 1954. "Tin, rubber, rice, key strategic raw materials are what the war is really about. The South U.S. sees it as a place to hold -- at any China cost." Sea

Speaking in Boston in 1965, LBJ's am­ bassador to Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, went a step further: "He who holds or has influence in Vietnam can affect the future of the Philippines and Formosa to the east, Thailand and Surma with their huge rice surpluses to the west, and Ma­ laysia and I ndonesia with their rubber, oil, and tin to the south. Vietnam thus does not exist in a geographical vacuum ·· from it large storehouses of wealth and population can be infiuenced and urider­ mined." • The American oil giants' stampede to Southeast Asia began after the 1965 ' coup in lndonesia by pro-American gen­ erals which left a half million communists dead but opened the door wide to foreign investment. Southeast Asian oil's import­ ance was heightened by the S ix Day War in 1967 which cut ott the Suez Canal to important Middle Eastern oil shipments. "Major companies are eager to diversify the1r sources of petroleum because of political uncertainty in the Middle East, the world's major source of crude [oil] today," wrote Fortune magazine in March, 1970.

Now the oil rush in Southeast Asia has reached the shores of South Vietnam, where exploration for long-suspected ott­ share oil reserves have been underway since 1969. Currently, sixteen American oil companies along with two Japanese firms and one Canadian company, expect to being negotiations with the Thieu-Ky Map:LNS regime in late February or early March • for seventeen major oil concessions. The oil companies clearly have a real interest in having Nixon hold on to lndochina at But with the "friendly" governments of any cost. lndochina, the possibility is much higher GINSBERG AT BARD for American oil companies to negotiate contracts on much better terms. The Allen Ginsberg, To some observers, the oil companies' Vietnamese leases will give American com­ Peter Orlovsky, and his lnstead of the cathartic poems he has been friend quick aetions for Vietnamese concessions paniesa 45/55 split with the government, Denise, were guests of Bard as uneavering in himself and his experiences Allen gave a reading indicates that they have received a clear much higher than the 32 1/2/67 1/2 split Sunday night, Feb. in HOWL, KADDISH, the drug poems, message from the President. Jacques they get now from lndonesia. the 28th in the gymnasium. He also read the poems from Mexico City and Havana Decornoy, the South east Asia editor of here December 3,1969. The realization and Lima, and the latest weird solipsisms, the French daily, Le Monde, wondered in that Ginsbergisa great poet struck the visions of universes within in PLANET that paper's January 8 issue, "Have the listener upon the finish of some of his NEWS, he read poems obviously written oil companies perhaps received some characteristic long, copious, and exact on his farm in upstate New York, solid assurances from Washington coneern­ But the ultimate reason for the American lines. It was a great joy to be in his pres­ "Eclogue" for example. StiiLone noticed ing the United States willingoess to "hold" companies passionate interest in the Viet­ ence, to watch him, to hear his curiously in such bucolics his late constant obses­ lndochina, and South Vietnam in particu­ namese and other Southeast Asian oil deep, husky, gravelly voice which seems sion with the government/Mafia heroin lar?" fields is not simple profit, but control of to echo within him, that turned beautiful conspiracy. Apart from his own poems, vital oil reserves. As has been the case when he read his poems. I noticed a with Peter Orlovsky he sang many of "In view of such haste, one is tempted to since WWII, American econom ic influence gentleness, as of someone aware of a new Blake's Songs he has happily put to his think so, " he concludes. "The companies in Asia rests on the American ability to finality to his time -- either to his own ow n music and recorded. have already begun to invest, even though control Japan's supply of raw materials life or to our furious era. President Nixon has begun using the and its available markets. An independent --- Jonathan Kaplan slogan of "Vietnamization." " socialist Southeast Asia would pull Japan into expanded trade with both itself and The importance of .Southeast As ian oi I China and end its reliance on the U.S. stems from predictions that within the next tan years the industrial world will Such a shift in the Pacific balance of pow­ consume as much petroleum as was pro­ er could deal a shattering blow to the duced in the entire previous history of American big business strategy to keep oil. A U.S. oil expert with fifteen years and extend its positian in the world econ­ experience in Southeast Asia has said that omy. in five years "the offshore oil fields of Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Vietnam, and lndonesia will be ready to produce ... more than is now produced in As the major source of the world's usable the whole western world." energy, oil has an importance in internat­ ional politics far out of proportian to its dollar volume. Emphasizing the link be­ The Vietnamese oil discovery has been tween oil and international relations, a made the more significant by the attempt Department of State Bulletin in October of OPEC, the international consortium of stated "Our investors are predominant in oil-producing countries, to force the oil world petroleum, and petroleum is by companies to grant them a larger cut of far the largest single commodity in world Middle Eastern oil revenues. The OPEC commerce." action will cost American oil companies at least $1.2 billian annually. to page 12 photo by julie gelfand 2

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Bargain­ David Schardt hunting in the Great Cultural Supermar­ And then, there's DR. BOWDLER'S ket." These are just a few of the stimu­ LEGACY, which isahistory of expurgatet lating topics covered in this handy lay­ DanaAhl~en books in England and America, with chap· man's gilide toward surviving in New LydiaAyers ters that claim to discuss "Shakespeare in York City. It also indudes a Survival Larry Gross Shreds," "Destiny and Mr. Plumptre " Kit for City Living {in alphabetkai order.) Jackie Keveson and "The Fall of Bowdlerism, and After." NancyScott POETRY Sol L Siegel The Sufi's ideal is "To be 'in the world ORIGINS, Aliving anthology of Transreal ?ut not of it' free from ambition, greed, expressian with readings by Rocheile V\lith: Eric Amould, Michael Bresler, Bruce Olilton Derry mtellectual pride, blind obedience tn Ratner (March 1) and W. Bliem Kern Dyer, Julie Gelfand, Kurt Hill, Britt Jones JÕnathan custom, or awe of persons higher in (March 8) during a regularly scheduled Kaplan, Erik Kiviat, Robert Koblitz Rich'Tects:o rank." THE SUFIS, by ldries Shah isa course 6:00-7:45 at the New School for Rick \Neinberg. I I detailed discussion of Sufism, and i~­ Social Research. (OR 5-2700). Rocheile cludes a great deal of information on has been published in THE NATION Eastern religion, fables and mythology. THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER ANTA­ EUS, SHENANDOAH and THE NEW YORK OUARTER LY. Kern will publish • • a section of his long poem IS IT in the ~orthcoming issue of MEAL. He is work­ film dePt mg on his fi rst nov el. arraves STUDY IN RUSSIA THIS SUMMER The State University College at New At long last! Bard College has a film de­ Excerpts from film committee's report passed by the faculty Paltz is offering a combination language partment. On Wednesday, March 2, the a~d.travel_course this summer. Anyone fa~ulty voted to support the recommend­ w1llmg to mtensively study Russian this 4. Considerable skill in the technical use atlons of the_ Film Committee and imple­ Film-making during the 75 years since its summer will be eligible for a five-week ment a real live program of film study of the camera, editors, optical printers, inceptian has become a considerable and trip to t~e USSR which indudes a Iangu­ to commence with the F all '71 semest~r. and ?ther essential equipment, and its age semmar at Dyuny, on the Gulf of Fin­ important art form, both as public com­ relat1on to the creative potentialities of munication and as private creativity, and land, anda seminar at Sochi, on the Black President Kline in his opening remarks to the art. their intimate interchanges; its study and S~a. The !ast week will include a trip to the faculty coneerning the state of the practice are both justified and feasible K1ev, Lenmgrad, Moscow, Vladimir and sc_hool, expressed his personal agreement 5. Reasonably comprehensive know­ Suzdal. College credit is offered. For within the liberai arts program at Bard. With the committee's report. While dis­ ledge of and interest in the historieal de­ mare information, write to Dr. Pierre We recommend a major of modest pro­ cussing the vagaries of the Bard admis­ velopment of film and its major monu­ Francois, Director of International Studies portions, to be included within the sions situation, he noted that the stu­ ments, and the ability to communicate it at the State University College. AMDD Divison. through lecture, to large groups if nec­ d~nts who will consider applying to Bard, essary. FRESH EXPERIMENT IN LEARNING w1ll look favorably upon the exjstence We think that this program should be Self expressian through the discipline of of a course in film study. HisJfemarks primarily, though not exclusively, orientoo 6. The ability to analyze and interpret art- drawing, painting, ceramics. For suggested a belief, shared by most of the towards the film-maker rather than the such works so that their values may be further information- The Summer Work­ faculty I think, that a school without spectator or critic: in this sensea Creat­ instructive both to the critic and to the such a program of study could not hope sho~, June 27 -Aug. 7, Box 351, Lake ive Art for majors at least. We recog- film-maker. to compete for top appi icants. nize -- and indeed insist on -- the opport­ Plac1d, N.Y. 12946. Mare information is also available in the Observer office. unities of personal "experimental" film­ making, and at the same time webelieve The first aspect of the discussion com­ that the program should engage the stu­ meneed with Mrs. Domandi's statement Lydia Ayers dent with the further public possibilities Phasing-ln Process: of support, representing the Faculty Sen­ of film. ate. Then, Dr. Wanning, the chairman of 1. Present Juniors should not be consid­ the Film Committee briefly stated some of the major principles in the Committee We recommend a two-year trial period, as ered as majors, but may continue in document. He suggested that film study a test of both the validity of the program courses according to experience. at Bard would consist of more than inde­ and of continuing student interest. 2. Present Sophomores with sufficient letters pendent film-making, that it would in­ interest and experience should be allo~ec valve a wide ranging approach to the me­ Dear Dana Ahlgren, dium, going beyond studia work. to transfer from their existing Trial Majars to Film. Spring moderations in Before I was finished with the first para­ ~iven two or three essentially responsible 1971, with or without a film representa­ tive on the board, might approve their graph of "Government Trips on Wires", 1 When the discussion commenced, a num­ mstructors, each of whom isa film-maker knew you had written it. How? You or_closely c~ncerned in film-making, we transfer; or early moderations in the tall ber of faculty members wondered out of 1971 with the then constituted de­ stat~d in three sentences what was hap­ laud whether the current intarest in film thmk that d1versity should be sought for penmg then plunged into an indictment not only in personality, but also in back.' partment might review their backgrounds on the part of the community, was simpiy we think both methods should be used. of the system that left the most import­ a fad. Reterenee was made to the stu­ ground, interests, point of view, and com­ ant factual questions either unanswered dents' fleeting interast in Greek. Mr. mitmant to particular forms. Since know­ or answered by implication only. How ledges, crafts and particular capabilities 3. Present Freshmen with sufficient inte1 Yarden of AMDD suggested that the in­ did the bombing happen? Who else could appear to be found in different combina­ est should be allowed to transfer to Film stitution of film studies might d rai n funds. have done it? What do Plamondon For­ tion, it may be mare useful to describe without special requirements of experi­ from departmental activities which have rest and Sindair have to say about lt? what we think the combined capabilities ence. already demonstrated viability. Mr. What evidence is there on either side be­ should be than to try to specify the Driver, also of AMDD, countered both sides the tapped phone calls? You cer­ qual it ies of each: 4. Transfers should be admitted to the arguments, I think, when he commented, Film program according to academic tainly have enough information about the after alluding to his own studies in Greek government's conspiracy to screw these 1. Background in the personal experi­ background and experience as above. and his positian in AMDD, that "Greek ' i people, so why don't you have any of the mental film, with the capacity to encour­ is dead, and film is very much alive." This 5. During the academic year 1971-72 basic facts? was the mai n argument of those who de­ age, but also to criticize objectively, self­ expressian through the mei:lium of film. the Advanced Aesthetics courses and the fended the proposal, that Bard's students Major Conterenee groups wl Repression in this country should be ex­ had already provided ample evidence of 2. Background and interest in the film posed, but if the truth is distorted in the the viability of a film department. The ~rocess, if one aspect of a story is empha­ students' real enthusiasm for film was a of wider public communication and point of view. Major Conterenee groups will probably ~lzed at the expense of the others, espec­ felt presence, in the minds of most of the not be called for and it may be desirable •ally at the expense of the basic facts faculty. then the purpose is defeated. ' 3. Knowledge of the techniques of nar­ to mount two sections of Film Aesthetic~ rative in film. 201-2. Larry Gross Daniel Cantar 3 • DEVLIN • IRELAND IN REVOLT Bernadette Devlin is now completing her second speaking tour of the United States. She says she has returned here as a revolutionary socialist, and wants to talk about the kind of lreland she seeks to build. The money from her tour will be used to finance the operation of a factory in Northern lreland to be run by workers, and to fund a socialist research center. Miss Devlin spoke at the Vassar College Chapeilast Saturday evening. Here are two impressions:

I have never been very much impressed Devlin said: "It is understandable that with the rationalizations of any particular these people should think they have a ideology. I also have never been very right to the wealthy they controi...The much impressed with the rationalizations money is theirs; the factories are theirs; of any particular political figure. I relig­ America is theirs." iously gave up listening to political figures a long time ago. It is Miss Devlin's contention that the workers have a right to this wealth, a I gave up listening to gurus and priests right to control the means of production. and Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Wizard, In Great Britain, 5 per cent of the popu­ and a host of other people who have ans­ lation owns 85 per cent of the wealth. wers to everything. Idistrust people who It is this absurd imbalance to which Miss claim to have answers to everything. Devlin addresses herself.

I mention all this so that you undarstand The workers in Belfast's ghettoes are this author's point of view. starving. Their unemployment rate never falls below 28 per cent. In over 90 per Anyway, the other night I went down to cent of their homes, no sanitary facilities Vassar to hear Bernadette Devlin. I really exist. The largest incidenee of bronchial didn't know quite what to expect. I knew diseases in Great Britain occurs in this very little about her politics, or anything charming city of 8elfast. Bernadette else, for that matter. I knew she was Devlin is not merely employing dramatic lrish and I knew she was a revoluationary. license when she says that the workers in From the little I had heard about her, I Beifast are desperate. thought sh e was insane. Insanity interests me, which is why I was interested in hear­ The docks of Belfast, where most of these ing Bernadette Devlin. people work, are owned by the British Government and Aristotle Onassis. The Great American Press was my only photo by carolyn carlsan reference source on Bernadette Devlin. Bernadette Devlin spoke quietly and con­ Addressing herself to the question of vio­ The Press never comes right out and calls Contrary to popular belief {popular Amer­ vincingly at Vassar College last week. lence, Miss Devlin said: "We have lived someone "insane." They employ tertns ican Press propaganda), Bei fast' s workers You listened to her, and you were im­ with the violence of poverty, the violence like "eccentric" and "radical" instead. are not rioting over religion, they are pressed not only by the clear vision of her of repression, the violence of imperialism, The American Public listens attentively, rioting about food. The Catholic Church political argument, but also by her own and you have the nerve to talk to us about sai ivates properly, and hears the word in lreland has refused to grant absolutian personal strength and brilliance. Her mes­ violence?" "insane," having been trained correctly to to members of the lrish Republican Army, sage was clear, her reasan exacting. As the not-so-subtle connotations of the lreland's underground revolutionary army. she spoke she answered questions, almost Miss Devlin's critique of capitalism went Press. In Miss Devlin's words: "lf you think clairvoyantly, before they were asked. beyond describing the poverty in which we're fighting for the Catholic Church, She has said that experience made her a most of the lrish working class lives. She I guess I am not well-trained, for, if the you're wrong. The Catholic Church has revolutionary socialist, and it was clear spoke with protound directness to her truth be told, I harbored a suspicion that never done anything to help us." that her ability to communicate this ex­ American audience of the history of pri­ Bernadette Devlin was at least as saneas perience makes her a compelling speaker. vate property in the United States. ln­ Walter Cronkite. That's why I went: to The current rioting in Northern lreland is The emotional force with which she spoke hear for myself. heritance plays a major role in the owner­ occurring, much of the time, between was conveyed through content, she never ship and control of American wealth, and the workers themselves. Government raised her voice. She handfed heckling when we look to its origins we find, for I didn't know quite what to expect and, propaganda, along with Press propaganda, and shallow questions with humor and instance, that John D. Rockefeller began quite unexpectedly, Bernadette Devlin serves to perpetuate a division between ease. And she refused to compromise toamass his oil empire during the Civil impressed me. It is difficult, indeed, not the workers, and conceal the actual rea­ her audience: the working class must to be impressed by her. War years, while the boy he had paid sons for the situations. This tactic of de­ gain control of the means of production $100 to take his place in the Union army visiveness has been &ffective and serv es to before poverty and injustice can be eradi­ fought and died. Miss Devlin isa quietly powerful speaker. point up the adamently aggressive attitude cated, in Northern lreland or anywhere Her power emanates from her soft-spoken which the ruling class assumes in dealing else. approach, engaging the at!diBnce in a per­ with the problems of the working class. sonal bond. She doesn't spend her time Rather than effecting a solution, the Ever since the Londonderry riots began Today Miss Devlin finds that there are e~uoting other politicians, nor does she Government has sent 7,000 British troops 18 months ago, the media has been treat­ only two economic elasses in capital ist subject her audience to a barrage of {members of the working class being ex- · ing the disturbances in Ulster as a relig­ countries, the working class and those empty slogans and meaningless generaliza­ ploited by the British government) to ious war between the Catholic minority who exploit the working class. This tions. Sh e does not play the part of a Northern lreland to "maintain the and the Protestant majority. Miss Devlin brought to mind some of the ambiguities demagogue addressing the inferior multi­ peace." This move has, needless to say, emphasized, as she has continually in the in American society (e.g., race or income) tude. She speaks rationally and coherent­ only succeeded in increasing the tension past, that the issue of religion has only which make such a class analysis mare ly, as one human bei ng addressing a tellow of the frustrated citizens of Belfast. been used to obscure what is really a class difficult. But Miss Devlin expiained that human being. conflict. When the civil rights movement in the United States 30% of the popula­ Bernadette Devlin does not claim to have Bernadette Devlin is no stranger to vio­ in Northern lreland was growing in 1968, tion live.> beneath the government-estab­ answers to everything. I like that. She is lence. She doesn't endorse the Beifast many Protestant workers joined with lished poverty fine, and that poor and quite certain of what she says, though, riots, but violence is part of her philoso­ Catholics in a march from Beifast to non-white people in this country com­ because she has lived it. Is she insane? phy. Sh e feels vi olenee to be the only Londonderry. It was only when the prise a majority. Sh e al so said that the No, uniess genius may be called insanity. method available to the working class, Catholic middle class entered the move­ middle class is actually a sector of the simply because the ruling class will not ment that Protestants became alienated working class, though middle class people Miss Devlin is, by her own definition, a refinquish the means of production peace­ from it. But this alienation isagain giving try in vain to climb out of this position. "revol utionary social ist." She separates fully. Her answer to violence is violence. way to common cause, and recent fight­ To her college audience, Miss Devlin add­ the world into two categories of people: Toward the end of the evening, one of ing in Ulster against the British army has ed: "The ruling class buys your minds "Those who work, and those who ex­ the hecklers in the audience finally got taken place in Protestant as weil as in in the hope that you wi:l forget you have ploit the workers." As one might deduce the chanee to pose his earth-shattering Catholic quarters. Miss Devlin now hopes hands, just as they buy the workers' from this statement, Miss Devlin calls question: "Are you a communist?" that a united working class movement hands in the hope that they will forget for a world-wide revolution of workers, can struggle to end both capitalism and they have minds." to place the means of production, and First, Miss Devlin politely attempted to British rule in Northern lreland. thus, the means of rem uneratian from expiain to the man that he didn't undar­ The working class revolution Bernadette the means of production in the hands of stand the meaning of the word. When he The poverty in which most of the lrish Devlin advocates must be an international the workers. wouldn't stop talking, she finally said: working class lives has been a unifying one. She has no illusions about lreland "Yes, sir, I am a communist in the same force. In both Protestant and Cathol ic surviving as an "island of socialism" .• a It should be emphasized that she makes sense that Jesus Christ was a communist. ghettoes in Beifast 90% of the homes are world sadalist community must be cre­ no distinction between a "working" class And if Jesus Christ were alive today, he'd without plumbing. The unemployment ated in order for socialism to succeed anda "middle" class. Affluence does be electrocuted for being an anarchist." rate hovers near 30% of the work force. anywhere. As a member of the lrish not detine classes. As she expiained it, Meanwhile, in lreland, 5% of the popula­ working class, Miss Devlin is prepared to Jesus Christ wasn't insane either. And work for the final victory of "the inter­ the "middle" class, though it aspires to someone will probably shoot Bernadette tion owns 85% of the wealth. To control rise above to the exploiting class, is stiil the rebelliousness of the workers, the national majority of working people." Devlin before she ever ~~.h~ the age Ulster government instituted its own This victory, she says, may or may not a part of the mass comprising those who oJ 33. work. Special Powers Act, which permits the occur in her lifetime, but "no one can So it goes. imprisonment without trial of political stop us, and no one will." With regard to the ruling class, Miss dissenters. The number of prisoners in --- R ich T edeseo Northern lreland has since risen by 400%. -··Bruce Warshavsky 4

photo by carolyn carlson Steve Gerald will present Eugene lonesco's In the middle of this hara..ent Chou­ VICTIMS OF DUTY in the theater on Aline Mayer on jews harp, John Juhi on bert is confused. "I don't know: 1 don't horn, and Claudia Chacter on banjo. March 20 (8:30), along with several other remember. Maybe I was his best man. student directed plays. From discussions May be he was my best man. I don't Michael Zeussman uses incredible facial with the east, this play seems to be about know." His reaction to the game was and body expressions to play the part of people victimized in various ways by their "l'm just sort of digging. I don't hav~ the Bishop, who preens himself with a responsibil it ies to society. a_ny of the answers. It was too easy at hairbrush in front of a mirror. The Bishop f1rst, but after a while I began to start The east i neiudes Mark Cohen as Chou­ feeling it." is a pitiful prima donna, mocked by the bert, Roberta Powell as Madeleine, Tim two women who are attending upon him, lrma and the Woman. He banishes them Kennedy as the Detective, David Ebersole In the play itself, Choubert goes through for a time, carrying on a monologue with . as Nicolas D'eu, Kyle McGrath as the several confused scenes, some of them re­ his ow n majesty: "Oo I make my self Lady, and Mailot as himself (with at). membering his childhood, as the detective clear, mirror, gilded image, ornate as a seem in a conspiracy against a~d ~adel~ine box of Mexican cigars? And I wish to be h1m m trymg to make him find Mallot. bishop in solitude, for appearance alone .. They stuff him full of food "to plug the And in order to destroy all function, 1 gaps in his memory" --but hestiil doesn't want to cause a scandal and teel you up, remember, and the harassment continues. you slut, you bitch, you trollop ... " Then the ladies come into try to see that he's ' Nicolas D'eu (David Ebersole) isa great properly dressed and he ignores them as writer, andmistaken for, by the way, the he continues his monologue with the Czar of Russia. He contributes to making mirror. the ~lay more absurd than it already is by talkmg to the audience and ignoring the· The second scene opens. The judge courtroom scene is easily related to other harassment of Choubert. erawis towards the foot of the scornful modern courtroom farces. thief, who wants her foot licked. This At the entrance of Nicolas during this to page 14 scene, Steve yelled, "What do you mean 'hello?' Do you know what it is to be a ' great person? When you come in you are Nicolas D'eu, the Czar of Ru~ia --and the crnic'S critic the Czar of Russia doesn't say 'hello!'" ~orth~ith, Nicolas assumed a more digni­ fled ~rr, as he gave his monologue on the­ I will ask myself a question which the a~er •mprovement (sitting down, crossing hrs foot on his knee). Observer reviewers never consider: who am I writing this for? I am not writing T~ere isa great deal of work going into it for the drama-dance department, whose serious members already undar­ this ~lay, and it's heading toward an im­ stand that-- while often nasty and pain­ po~slble sort of humour, enjoyable in the senousness of its absurdity. tui -- the Observer reviews account for photo by carolyn carlson nothing. I am writing this for whoever Joe Aponte began his rehearsal of Jean wishes to confront the theatrical experi­ Genet's THE BALCONY (which he will ence and wants to find a vocabulary for Steve is using some interesting games to dealing with it. try to establish certain relationships be­ present in the same program as VICTIMS OF DUTY) outside Albee with folks sit­ tween the characters in his play. At one Another question: does Bard need re­ rehearsal, he set Roberta up as a mother ting around playing jews harps, banjo, and frisbee, like a bunch of traveling min­ views? No, not in the usual sense. A ignoring her five-year-old son. She was Broadway or West End review tells the reading a newspaper while Mark Wilnted streis as they waited for a few more peo­ ple to come. special interest .group which a given paper her to.play with him. He was rippi:1g up speaks to whether or not it wants to see toilet paper all over the floor, and asi

Part of the particular joy of watching a His whole bodyisa microcosm of the d is­ film by Orson Welles is the feeling ofen­ order which the film projects. He mana­ thusiasm you get just sitting in the theatre. ges to earn our compassian despite his The entire affair had anunreal quality were) struck with a work for viola and The opening of his film Touch of Evil, actions. His habit of extracting "confess­ about it. They got lost on the way here, Moog-prepared tape by North Carolina made in 1957, is one of the most exciting ions" and securing convictions, isa varia­ to begin with, and ended up startinga composer Robert Hannay, with Debbie tracking camera movements in the history tian on Welles' own ambivarent attitude to· half-hour late. Finally, at 5:00P.M. on Burda the soloist. Peter Alexander, of of the cinema. It isa movement so out­ wards authority, and the corruption attach­ Thursday, February 23, 1971, the sched­ the Hudson Valley Philarmonic, played rageous and compelling, that it seems to ed to it. For the police chief seeks noble Stravinsky's ''Three Pieces for Clarinet", sweep us out of our seats. The grip which uled Afternoon and Evening of Compos­ ends, he simply has lost perspective on his ers and Faculty from Senningtan College and Michael Finekel repeated the David­ this first sequence holds us in is not less­ own means. This is precisely the predica­ Performing Music by Twentieth Century ovsky. ened until the final frame of the movie. ment of the hero. Composers got under way with Bartok's Sanata for Two Pianos and Percussion, whose performers included the only girl Sarah Tenney's "Song and Dance" had timpanist I have ever seen (go nuts, you a strange song, sung by voice teacher male chauvinist pigs out th ere) . The Bar­ Frank Baker, but a very happy and very tok is a wild piece that uses every con­ funny dance, complete with bells and ceivable effect, and the players played all sorts of wierd percussion. Caroline it Iike th ey enjoyed it, wh ich th ey prob­ Simonds got the biggest ovation of the night with her "Dreams of Avey ably did. The audience enjoyed it, too -­ Baby", which might be termed a duet a near-capacity audience in Bard Hall in for flute and flautist. She often hummed and the middle of the dinner hour. played flute at the same time and same­ times sang all by herself. Miss Simonds This was followed by student eellist stayed on as Miss Burda Michael Finekel playing Mario Davidov­ joined her for two very cheerful pieces for sky's Synchronism No. 3 for cello and flute and magnetic tape. Finekel acted Iike there viola by Mexican composer Manuel was nothing hard about the sadistically Enriquez. The wierdest piece of the difficult cello part, which blends surpris­ night was Finckel's "The Red Cow is ingly weil with Davidovsky's imaginative­ Dead", in which a speaker, in this case ly prepared tape. The afternoon concert Mr. Baker, recites E.B. White's ridiculous corcluded with another student, Carolyn poem while low strings imitate the dying Bond, conducting her own "Herb Garden" cow's groans, bellows, and moos. This for two cellos, clarinet, and vibes, in four deserved--and got--a big hand from the short movements whose virtues went audience. farther than brevity. Then came the finale--an improvisation lf the afternoon was fascinating, the (This seems to be a word foreign to Bard evening concert was unbelievable. It music.) in the dark by the performers N·:>minally, Touch of Evil is melodrama Welles has always been fascinated by the started off with te;::chcr and M.C. Jack and anyone in the audience who showed coneerning drug peddlers and murder. It mystery of last innocence, that impercep­ Glick deserihing l:kril~ington's music an interest, with people whispering, shout­ features the Hollywood hero par excel­ tible moment at which virtue is tinged program, in which ;.;v•·ry major has to ing, clapping, stomping their teet, and lance, Charitan Hestan and the embattled and purity is tost forever. When the po­ compose and learn a new instrument, using anything at hand, including the heraine par excellance, Janet Leigh. But lice chief meets up with Madam (a cameo and the history of electronic music. Then Moog, to make noise, or music, or what­ what Welles does in this film is to com­ by Marlene Dietrich) of the bordello he student Joel Katz, wearing a black beret, ever it was. It was great fun which ended pletely destroy the image of Law and Or­ once frequented, she comments impass­ shirt and slacks and a white smock gave, only when Mr. Baker turned the lights der. We are plunged into a nightmare ively, ''You're a mess honey, you been with a thick pseudo-German accent, a back on. Then the dazed assemblage vision of darkness and corruption. eatin' too much candy." For in this film, demonstration of Bennington's Moog filed slowly from Bard Hall-- while some justice and order are also lost ideals, Synthesizer that has to go down as one of of the students put together an impromp­ The key to the film's effect is its use of lo­ they've been left behind, replaced by a the all-time comedy classics. Going into tu piano-and-percussion version of the cation, a town located right on the Mexi­ dark, irrational reality. contortions, mouthing the Moog sounds, "Dragnet" theme and Miss Simonds hand­ can-American border. The Americans ride and striking poses reminiscent of Lon ed out Mi e key Mouse baloons. roughshod over the Mexicans, and from Chaney in "Phantom of the Opera," he the beginning of the film there isa funda­ had even his own colleagues rolling on the Larry Gross mental disorder. Soon the chief of pol ice, floor. A saner note (or notes) was (or Sol Louis Siegel played by Welles himself, is revealedas corrupt and unscrupulous. In order to "get" his man he decides to get his rival law offieer played by Heston. NOTESON AN This isa universe in which all appearances are delusive. The police chief bargains with the dope peddlers to help himself. 'ARTISTS' PARADISE' The leader of the gang, played by Ak im 11-THE LIFE AND DIFFICULTTIMES (Shostakovich's father was also named Takimoroff, is more a comic figure, keep­ OF DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri, hence the nickname), showed ing on his toupee, than a viilai n. Mean­ SOVIET COMPOSER musieal talent early and, after some early while, the upright, forthright Good guy, piano lessons with his mother Sonya, Charitan Hestan practically runs amok, "What reward for lofty deeds and sweet went to the Glyasser music school, where trying to proteet himself, and his wife. songs? For talent what comfort among he wrote his first short piano pieces, and the Communist Party newspaper, pub­ villains and fools?" finally to the Leningrad Conservatory. lished "A Mess lnstead of Music," a sav­ Before the end of the film, we realize that In 1922, "Mitya's" father died, forcing age condemnation of "Lady Macbeth" it is only a very short distance from the . --Wilhelm Kuchelbecker Sonya to go to work and placing the as "confusion instead of music." Accord­ heroics of the Heston character, to the family undera great financial burden ing to Pravda, "the music is built on the villiany of the Welles character. The release in recent months of three ma­ (there ~ere two sisters in the family as basis of rejecting opera - the same basis jor recordings of the music of Dmitri weil). Sonya, however, had great faith on which "Leftist" art rejects in the In this film, more successfully than in his Shostakovich brings back into perspective in her son's musieal ability and was de­ theatre simplicity, realism, clarity of own adaptation of Kafka, Welles is able to his importance and stature in the Soviet termined that he should pursue his career. image and the unaffected spoken word ... " create a reality which goes from naturalism Union's artistic community. Shostako­ So, instead of goin g to work (although In "Lady Macbeth," Shostakovich had into hallucination. The impulse towards vich's lifetime spans the entire history of he did play piano at a movie theatre at written an uneven but often powertui chaos seems irresistable in this film, since Communist rule in Russia, and a tew night later), Mitya stayed in the Conserva­ score, and an advanced one, far ahead of even those forees of law appear to con - years before that, up to the present d ay. tory, where he developed into a brilliant anything in Russian opera before it, but spire with the chaos. In particular Welles He has been a "people's hero" many pianist. Then, in 1925, the nineteen­ Pravda heard singing replaced by shrieks, does an amazing arnount with inanimate times, and has been savagely attacked by year-old handed Conservatory director a "confused stream of sounds." The arti­ meehanieal things. The car driven by the the Kremlin establishment more than Alexander Glazonov his First Symphony de condemned "bourgeois aesthetics" police chief, incredible in size and hulk; once. He has known both miserable as a graduation exercise. Performed by which were the cause of "formatist con­ the oil-wells pumping away as the police poverty and unusual security. The quality the Leningrad Philharmonic in early 1926, fusion." The artide appeared a week chief unwittingly confesses; the mysteri­ of his music has its contrasts as welt; he it was an immediate "hit" and is a stand­ after a Pravda glorification of Ivan ous bordello; the time bomb of the open­ has written some of our century's worst ard in the repertoire of every great or­ Dzerjinsky's opera "Quiet Flows the ing sequence. trash and some of its greatest master­ chestra today. Don," based on Sholokhov's novel. pieces. Simple, melodious, and easily accessible, What we find in Touch of Evil isa reality Young Dmitri Shostakovich soon became · this work became a prototype of all that so complex and multi-facetad, that our Shostakovich was born in 1906 in Lenin­ an important figure on the international was good in Soviet art while "Lady Mac­ shallow, facile nations of good and evil are grad (then St. Petersburg), one year after music scene. The newly estabi ish ed So- beth" became a prototype for all that subverted and then put through the wring­ the rebell ion of 1905 and el eve n years vi et commissioned symphones from him, was evil. er. Though Charitan Hestan andJanet before the successtui Bolshevik Revolu­ and his orchestrai works and his early Lei gh retain most of our sympathy, it is in tion of 1917. His father worked at var­ operas, "The Nose" and "lady Macbeth In February, the Moscow Composers' the spectacle of Welles him~lf, grotesque­ iaus jobs, somehow or other making a of the Mzensk District", were performed union, thoroughly cowed by Stalin and ly, that the film comes completely alive. deeent living for his family; his mother widely in Europe and America. Then, his underlings, held a "conference", was a talented pianist. Young "Mitya" suddenly, in January 1936, "Pravda," to page 15 6 HEAR THE SOUND OF MY FEET WALKING •.. DROWN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE TALKING ••. close toa universal rejection "Fred ..... where of political single image, the 8omb, an unthinkable vided. is God?" and social religious extremes: Hugh is given to acidic ramblings "I gave up menace, ominous in its hidden, brooding that wind the good and evil archtypes. They up in assorted frightening ab­ ''Who wants to know ?" have presence. surdities, while the ability to become identical. Good Fred mumbles to him­ self, reminds himself he's needs evil, evil needs good. But if you're "Odds a Scorpio, but begins "Hear the Sound of My Feet Bodkins" is an extension of will run off saying "I can't good all the time, you waste your life O'Neill's cope .... " when Walking .... Orown the Sound of My Voice personality, like a scouting psychically menaced. fi!tlting evil. I can't deal with something party Talking .... " a new comic book by Oan of sad-faced clowns. "Humor is if all my energy goes into hating it. Ev­ the O'Neill, creator of "Odds Bodkins." only thing that rips off violence and Running through the stark landscape eryone is so willing to go out and throw hostillty. And fantasy. is And in these two short questions is con· lt's too hard to the endiess road along which Hugh and a rock. l'm much more interested in my get a grip on reality, but I can walk tai~ the core of the "Odds Bodkins" personal my Fred e neounter the 1OO% America Dog self. l'm trying to find an alter­ characters up toa bottomless cliff, look strip; but more of that presently. native." (read Spiro T.), Carl r,1arks, the Commie over and see it's not as bad as I thought. Turtle, the Bat-winged Hamburger The Snatch­ Oan O'Neill was born April 21 -- "six n maybe I can bei ieve it." Just as er, devoted to the one thing that This, emphatically, is what "Hear the often, justifies hours off Hitler's chart"- in the abyss proves to be too much; his existen~e, the creature 1942, and, Sound ... " and "Odds Bodkins" in general, in the glass like the unfortunate Jim Morrison, the premise of humor is twisted into a jug, and so on. O'Neill cuts was is all about. O'Neill is search ing for to the quick, the son of a Navy career officer. ans­ deselate climax. politics, do!)e, c;ex and revolution Always wers many of us feel presseel to find. The are into sketching and cartooning, Dan at­ stripped of glamour, both the 100% .... somewhat negative tone of the strip is "Odds Bodkins", tended 17 schools in 16 years, one itself, is played across Dog, and Ccr! ~··~arks are flattened. of merely a personal reflection of what Same­ which left an influence upon him that is a bleak plain ringed by distant volcanic times the moral is so ambivalent, he happening in Amerika, and the world. one is stiil trying to deal with -- a Catholic peaks, above which, a leering sun, and doesn't know where O'Neill stands. Only a positive action can turn the tide Like seminary in Los Altos , California, of sympathetic, helpless moon peer down. the moon says," ... Some of run all the negativism going down. Says The us think it's a by the Maryknoll missionary fathers. sun, says O'Neill, "is hungry for hu­ sign of mental health if you O'Neill: "The reason no one in the str ip manity. don't under­ " .... they get you in puberty, make you As soon as we destroy ourselves, stand this comic strip." Equivocal, has assumed a positive role yet is because we're going and feel guilty, then you join up and fight it to release a lot of energy and devastating, watchwords of the that's what they have to learn. It's it can be game. all your life. They sold me that immort­ what picked up by the sun. To get it I have to learn ... you have to be responsi­ really evil, ality stuff real hard. Now, l'm trying to I put a Disney face on it. The ble." The str ip often evokes a sense of sun is indifferent to me as a find mortal ity." human being. O'Neill's future is uncertain. He'd Iike impending doom, and recently O'Neill il­ But I can learn from it. I should to be get­ move toward an underground comic book lustrated an article about the rash of ting warmth from it, and not let Through a lucky break O'Neill got a job it get format, but hates to give up the straight Apocalyptic prophecying in "Rolling warmth from me." O'Neill's personal with the San Francisco Chronicle. His audience. Himself, he'd like to take Stone" magazine. war with the malevolent sun is to original strip featured stick people who in con­ the Canadian woods, "I hi!tlly rasent discussed politics trast to his feelings about the moon who and philosophy after O'Neill is preoccupied with violence, its civilization," but he admits he'd Iike to the Feiffer formula. "belongs to earth, to men and women. The influence is manifestations and effects: "l'm a vio­ have a lot of money. In any event he's stiil there. O'Neill It is much concerned with humanity, be­ describes it as "mind­ lent American," he says. One of his sure to keep writing until he reaches the less media apparatus;" most cause the moon is dead." just what the truly heavy characters is a violent, anony­ destination to which he is "traveling." straight press wanted .... he was syndicated mous nihilist, who re-echoes these words: The two protagonists through forty papers. Over the years, are a vaguely-shapll:l, lncidentally, "Hear the "I belong toa violent nation in a violent bespectacled humanoid Sound of My however, O'Neill's strip started getting species. named Hugh, and Feet Walking ... Drown the Sound So I excercise my violence ..... a bird of indeterminate species of My strange, and later "retired," in the words purge it on metaphysical named Voice Talking ... ," can be ordereet from villains. I use Fred, both really projaetions of O'Neill of the Chronicle. noise and action to release hestile energy Glide Urban Center Publications, a himself. As he describes them: Hu!t! Methodist-affiliated that is my birthright as a human bei ng." "is where I used good Samaritan Some people said the strip was to be. He's got a lot to group, for $3.95 too politi­ But the nilihist's way isa defeat, and he learn. Fred is the greatest postpaid, at 330 Ellis cal, although O'Neill says "Politics ends American St., S.F., California, 94102. is pig­ up on the road of despair, automat· cynic. He has all the answers, shit." He takes a somewhat nebulous ically "the but he's road of hope." The terrible asking the wrong questions. Cynicism pofiticaf and religious stand that comes violence O'Neill is --· Eric Arnould fears is summed up in a a bad premise." Dichotomy, a self di- ODDS

"80\L Pl ~-EL. Of ~"f-llt. ~ A \.OUO,L.I'itD\X.~ ltla'tO \l.. T- "~u'c:- ~u 's D-JC~ s~ .. ~~ flfH.\.1( IIJMn~ "TaDa\~ \'t- 8Ut' IT ·~ ~M•• ~ \() t-\t«~ M BODKINS· I I 7 IlUSSID "Bard has changed. lt's so different now .... " "Remember the good oi' days energetic few who ran everything and when .... ?" Seniors, returning graduates, who passed the power on down the line returning ex-Bard people of all sorts, to their chasen successars when they grad­ juniors who were freshmen at the tail-end uated. lf you were not one of them, you of the Old Bard --· everyone shares the didn't participate in anything, you cam­ vague sense of something missing. Bard plained about everything, and you were is not what it used to be. And the quest­ just as glad to be relieveet of the responsi­ ion that inevitably accompanies this C __ - bility -- you just went down the road. It awareness is "Why??" was either all or nothing -- you participated in any uprisings that came along, gloried in the feeling of brotherhood and com­ munity As with everything that makes up the -- and when they subsided, you just Bard "atmosphere" -· whatever that is -­ went back down the road. the reasons for the change are hard to Possibly New Bard is pinpoint. But here are a few attempts to what Old Bard strug­ gled to become answer the question, gathered from cof­ -- or maybe the rest of the Just world fee shop and down-the-road conversations, the mention of a name conjured up a up to date. It is something very hard for simply caught up with Old Bard, whole era ... now it is greeted and suddenly Old Bard wherever those who remember and miss with, "Who's those who knew Old Bard to understand. had to change it­ that?" How can you self or be left behind. the Old Bard congregate and reminisce ... explain? That ques­ It is good, they agree -- but it is also sad, Probably thereis tion never no way of reminisce because the New Bard offers was askeet in Old Bard. Where somehow ... knowing why, or how, or even are all the characters now? exactly when Bard changed, because nothing that can compete with "the good the oi' days." lnstitutions function at the New Bard, too. major changes are not tangible, and the Maybe, one senior suggests, because there tangible changes are all part of that nebu­ One Bard graduate who made a point of is so little to struggle against, so little left lous, magical Bard "atmosphere". And trying to get to know some of the new to improve. There are organizations now the atmosphere is different. Is it bad or good? Oepends on what Bard you belong First there are the superficial changes -­ students her senior year thinks the ab­ that Old ~ard would never have thought to. the new Dining Commons, the new sence of characters might be due part ly about, much less dedicateet itself to ... you left dorms, the disappearance of the D.U.'s -­ to Bard's physical growth, and partly to everything up to the politicians, the by Derry Dyer physically, Bard is losing some of its bu­ the new kind of student at Bard. "In high colic mystery, the exhilirating sense of a school," she says, "they went through community "out here in the middle of what we didn't go through until we came the woods." This is due to Bard's general here-- Bard really had nothing new to expansion, a fact which horrified Old offer them, no real discoveries." Sex, Bard when the first gigantic freshman drugs, political activism, all those elements class descendeet on the campus, and it of Bard that made Bard unique long be­ was very depressing to realize that after fore they became universal ·· long before silent "youth culture" became spring half a semester there were stiil people an accepted wandering around whom you didn't know, term -- the new students brought these things with them. "Remember how every or at least know of. The War goes into its second Nixon Yet, the campus is quiet. lnterest seems semester hair got longer?" You watched Year -- after the five Johnson Years and to have turned from activist involvement the gradual transformation of your class­ the three Kennedy Years --and who to mysticism and ecology. Culture is a mates from prep-schoolers into dirty wants to count out the Eisenhower Years safer battleground than the streets; you hippies-- you realizeet one day, with a and the Truman Years? let's see, now, can do your own thing and let bell-bottoms certain arnount of surprise, that you your­ There were, for the there was Acheson and then Dulles and herald your revolution. Where are the self were a dirty hippie, and you couldn't first time, :treshman cliques-- a real dis­ in a bit Rusk and now Rogers. It goes on. militants of spring a year ago? Where is believe that a time existeet when you tinction existed between classes. And There will be two more years of Nixon - the great red fist of student sauciness and weren't "Bardian" in every sense of the why not? There were just too many Kissinger, and then four mare of-- Nixon rebellion? Where are the joyful obscenities word. freshmen. In the good oi' days, beinga But the freshmen were already again? or Muskie? and the wild rhetoric and the dancing in freshman at Bard meant checking out Bardians in high school. the streets? The question is askeet not and being checked out by the older stu­ We sit on the quiet campus and lick our without a trace of nostalgia. dents during the first two weeks -- then The New Bard is, strangely, a better wounds. We, too, have years to count, suddenly, you were part of them, and by place, a better school than the Old Bard just how many one doesn't know. Ours I don't know the answer. Perhaps some June you were typing your elosest friend's was -- it has none of the struggles that are anchored by years at school, family, students will try some enlightenment, if senior project and wondering how you characterized the good oi' days --but the jobs, vacations and sabbaticals. For some the question makes sense to them. I will would survive after he left...Now the surviving Old Bardians agree that the the War comes closer -- we count from tr.v a couple explanations: seniars are off campus. The great exodus struggles gave Bard much of its flavor. our draft status, protests, shocks of con­ First, the quiet is deceptive. It isn't al­ away from Bard was responsible for much science (Kent State, Mylai .... ) . Secondarv ways easy subjectively to distinguish deaf­ of Old Bard's decline and fall. Why put shock waves of unemployment, pollution, There were social regulations and proctors ness from silence. The political act re­ up with dorms and dining commons -- racial conflict, policc repression spin off and intervisitation vialations - {please -­ sponds to historieal summons and not to and all the new people you don't know -­ from the War in Asia into our livcs. It is don't ask what thEy were) . Now there a theatrical curtain. Memory is when you can live the good life in Tivoli just beginning to occur to Americansthat short in­ are co-ed dorms. Men in Robbins. deed if it does not recall other silences or Red Hook with your friends. So Old this disaster is not temporary, not aeciden­ Women in Albee. Nothing to complain suddenly awake with cries of rage. The Bard scatters, and New Bard ta kes over .... tal --and not under control. It is slowly about at Community Meetings in the spring is yet young. seniars become nameless faces hurrying becoming neeessarv to live with disaster Spring. No adventure, really .... there was to their cars after class, the Bard Mystique, and to live with ourselves something so hilarious, so bad, about in anticipation Second, a sobered consciousness the oral tradition that was handed down of worse yet to come. may be running up a fire escape at three very different from one class to the next, is broken. in the from disillusionment and morning ... New Bard doesn't knm·rthe Why escape. The war did not stop when we The new students have to find out about 1·s th e e ampus qUJe· t"r Certam · 1y, not Bard on their own, and so Bard changes. martyred desperation of the all-nigilt because all is weil with the world. The marched in Washington or lobbied for cram sessions before Backgrounds exams, War proceeds from the Japanese and Cooper-Church. The cops beat and shot the whole freshman class huddling on the French to the American aggression, escala- and jailed. The F .B.I. organizes a new floor of Tewksbury lobby listening to tion from colonial violence and ruthless repression. Nixon smiles again and goes "lt's just boring now," sighs one senior. some kindly, well-i_nformed history ~ajor imperialism toward technological hoia- into laas and bombs and bombs and read the test questions from last year s bombs. It Why? Thoughtful silence. Then another caust and the · 1 · A · will not go away when we cry exam .... New Bard missed Common Cour!e · · ' - . veno~ous VIO ence •n. s1a senior suggests a reason: "There aren't t d th h · and stamp our feet and march and march 1 T ' overflows mto Arnenea where there 1s no any characters here anymore." True .... oo, an e ov~rw e mmg m~gm Icenee sanctuary. Certainly not because we have and march. It may be that the campus is of Mr. Bluecher s lectures, wh1ch everyone conf•"de beginning to dig in for a long, long in the good oi' days, every class had its . . . · nee 1n· th e poet ry o f G ene M e ear- pull . characters, and they belonged to all of JUnlors, sen10rs, faculty, also attended, thy or the opportunism of Bobby Kennedy The issue rises beyond Vietnam. The Bard. They were notoriaus because they a~d you w~re awed, and proud, and you or the Lincolnesque profile of Edmund lesson go~s beyond a discredited LBJ. were freaky, or fun ny, or obnoxious, but dldn t reailze what an e:fect he, and the Muskie. Nor does the ersatz smil~ of Since it won't be a short action, soon cour~e. had on you untll you looked won, the consciousness they all had that uniqueness that made . . . back o·ck1 N.1xon or th e uncou th grow1 o f of politics them stand out. You loved them or you on 1t ... and you were fu_nous when It was Spiro Agnew inspire confidence. It is not chooses a new time framt). Vaiees are hated them; you never u nderstood them, droppeet from the curnculum. Maybe a co te teet ·et Iess shrill because they have mare to say. that was the first farewell to the Old or tried to; they might be in your class Bard. n n qul · Just possibly the energies not yet heard (by those or the class ahead of you or behind you, Is ita calm of fear? Have the murders at whose hearing aids are turneet offi it didn't matter. They simply ~e_ , and Kent State or the killing at Wisconsin are building a new generation of weapons. if you went to Bard College, you knew Now Bard has relevant courses: ecology, sobered and frightened us? Are we afraid who they were, and you knew that they black studies, women's studies, film .. . of clubs and jails? I doubt it. Certainly, This might be a good were a major part of what Bard was all now students are teaching courses at though repression is real, it was no less time for teachers and students to talkto each other and about. When they graduated or left, Bard; Moderations and Senior Projects real when students rallied against police re­ flect on the relevance of what we have another little bit of the Old Bard disap­ are being evaluated. Those who, despite dogs and the KKK for Civil Rights. seen. l'd like to see the Observer become peared, but you kept them alive by add­ their own feelings about Moderations and a forum to examine where ing them to the oral tradition. I n Old Projects, couldn't envision a Bard without Is it bribery? Relaxation of the draft will we are and to make this a less silent spring. Bard, even if you didn't actually know a these "Bard experiences," find these as­ take pressure from middle-class college legendary figure, you knew so much about peets of the New Bard hard to accept. boys; but they could escape, and did es­ him that it didn't make any difference. The New Bard is trying to be meaningful, cape in the past. Unemployment, if any­ thing, reduces the "pay-off" of conformity. Robert Koblitz 8

I should be writing this in Algeria. show. Doing Joe Pyne archetypes was my accusing finger. "I take that as a personal specialty, characters like th,e little old man threat!" His eyes narrowed. "Only one I should be in the middle of a grainy Lib­ ("I no like-a dese people who criticize-a da man on this earth has ever threatened eratian News Service photo. "Honays, po-lease, I ike da Walka Report") and the me and got away with it -- and he was a in exile in Algeria, writing· his Notes on young grit ("Ah don't lahk these boys who priest!" the 1969 Spring Games Revolution at look lahk girls. They DISGUST me"). Woodsan High School." And you'd see Henceforth the Anarchist dream was to this bearded young man, intense, grim, walk into Ladson's office wearing clerical wearing steel-rimmed spectacles and Our lore grew so esoteric and elaborate collars and threaten him to death. green fatigues, feverishly writing away at that no outsider could undarstand our his desk, flanked by Arab guards with ma­ conversations. This made us more omin­ The censorsh ip debate centered on an ch ine pistols to proteet him from the CIA. ous. essay exposing Popeye the Sailor as a Communist. The essay raised the quest­ I could have been the Jack Kerouac of the ion of the possible motives beh ind Popeye Woodstock Generation. Reminiscing to Virginia public high schools lacked some­ and Brutus fighting over Olive Oyl. The David Frost about the good old days what as hotbeds of radical turmoil. We faculty sponsors felt this would corrupt with Joan and Cesar at Delano. Posters Anarchists mixed passionate hatred of the minds of freshmen from sheltered of me speaking to thousands of students school with utter terror at the thought of homes. at Sproul Hall, Berkeley: "Create one, a threat to our future college careers. two, three, many Woodsons!" Disrupting Bland McCarthy liberalism served us for the Woodsan Conspiracy Trial by throw­ politics. We were all clean-cut, straight, Mr. Ladson said, "lf they don't know Anarchist guerrillas attack classro< ing a pie in Judge Hoffman's face. National Honor Society members and about it, why teil them ?"

The Anarchist Club carried on the struggle. Whips as an alleged clue to his sexual We consumed thousands of doughnuts. practices. We devised blueprints for insidious ma­ chines that would have staggered Diet "Brothers, the time for the Revolution Smith. Ladson took issues of our under­ at hand! The student proletariat must ground newspaper with him to School rise up against the oppressors! The ruli1 Board meetings and personally handed elasses tremble as they await the Spring them out amid general applause. Games! Everyone expects us to do som thing-- then let's do SOMETHING!" One May morning we were holding court in our usual fashion. An outsider, darting furtive glances around him, walked over At this point in the narrative, through and whispered. "Psst! Hey you! Radi­ the courtesy of the Attorney General's cals!"

Flattered to be so addressed, we looked up from our doughnuts.

"What are you radicals going to do to de­ stroy the Spring Games?'' The Spring Gam.es were one of those annual student government orgies when class teams vied in chariot races and threw eggs at each other.

Whips White urges the Anarchist Club on to action (LNS) "What? Destroy the Spring Games?"

"Come on! Everyone knows you've got However, destiny has tried to deny me Merit Scholars. I n the eyes of most of something planned to disrupt Friday." my proper place in the vanguard of the our comrades, we were Communists. Revolution. I am not writing this in Algeria. I stare at a drowsy college cam­ We put out an underground newspaper. We were astonished. Further queries pus from behind double hedgerows of The principal sponsored it. He sent cop­ during the day established that Woodsan science fiction paperbacks. Stiil unfeared ies to the School Board to show them High School did indeed helieve that the by the CIA. StHI virgin. Classic. how innocuous student newspapers could Anarchist Club would man the barricades be. Classic. The Spring Games incident in my senior on the day of Spring Games. lnvestigation year remains my sole revolutionary action traced this rumor to student government.

We called ourselves the Anarchist Club. Our principal was Mr. Ladson, an old fart Thus the Anarchist Club found a revolu­ Cabinet of Student Government with a face and voice like Gerald Ford tionary situation thrust upon it. Not We were the cream of Woodson's senior who wore brown and white shoes. Once since Saint Petersburg in 1917 had there class. All of us were intense grim young when the Anarchist editors of the school been an atmosphere I ike the one at office, I insert a captured document: men. All of us wore glasses. All of us literary magazine had a censorship debate Woodsan High School. read science fiction paperbacks and with the faculty sponsors, we went to stayed virgins, except for Phil the Jewish him and offered to resign and start our Whips White stood up on a chair to speak. intellectual. His Anarchist name was Che own magazine. "What!" He pointed an He had given himself the Anarchist name SECRET ANAACH1ST CLUB PLAN Felipe. He said he went through his FOR THE DAY OF SPRING GAME~ sdence fiction phase back in junior high. He was the only Anarchist who had a ,f,~~ · girl friend. He was also the only Anarchist ...;111.;: , who never took part in our subversive Phase One: During the preceding we activities. notes will be made up of individual h ters cut from magazines so no identif "I have better things to do," Che Felipe tions can be made by handwriting. E said. And he showed usa box of Trojan note will carry a warning to Woodsor rubbers. about the impending apocalypse on I day and will be signed "A". Said noi Every morning we gathered at the same will be posted daily in several locatio table in the cafeteria, munehing Breakfast for maximum exposure. This campa Club doughnuts and discussing dark is calculated to build up expectation Anarchist topics. Each of us had an An­ a fever pitch of suggestibility that wi archist name. I was Honays, which is paralyze any counter-revolutionary e Jones pronounced by Spanish rules, the ments among the masses. legacy of my third year Spanish teacher. Phase Two: During the lunch period I was Minister of ldeology. Our founder, Friday, the Masked Anarchist will sh Donny the Red, was acknowledged leader an arrow into the English teachers' le at first, but he lost that when he made a Said arrow will be fired at the wall ar bid for deification. We built up a complex will have a radical manifesto wrappe( mythology based on Lenny Bruce midget around it. This will both terrorize ar jokes, Diet Smith technology from Dick The march on the English teachers' lounge (AP) divert the ruling classes. T racy, and archetypes from the Joe Pyne 9

by britt jones

Friday came. The su n rose over Fairfax Every high school has one vice-principal olution in our education system. We, uh, County, bathing Woodsan High School who serves as Resident Ogre. Such was want to help people think about the in a blood-red glow. Billak. A shaven gorilia with the person­ innovations in pracess around them." I ality of Joe Friday from "Dragnet." He could not expiain about the fifth period The Anarchist Club assembled in the stood with arms big as thighs folded in raid. It would bring shit upon the head parking lot and loaded up with firearms. front of him and chilled me to the mar­ of the teacher who had agreed to be exe­ row. cuted. "Where's our flag?" I said. Whips White handed me a cane pole sheathed in red "Come to my office." He plowed through cloth. the students and I trailed in the vacuum "Do you know that there have been -- behind him. A group of Anarchists saw misunderstandings --about this flag? "This isa red flag," I said. 'We're Anar­ me in the elutehes of the Beast and their That some people chists. Anarchists are supposed to have have thought you jaws dropped a black flag." in dismay. were carrying-- a Communist flag?" In his ottice Billak waved me toa chair. "lt's not a Communist flag." "Fuck you," Whips said. "I couldn't get Two more vice-principals walked in, Lina black material. Red stands for rev­ and Cunningham. Lina was a paunchy "There have been misunderstandings. That's close enough." grit with bulldog jowls. Cunningham You don't want misunderstandings, do looked like an evil ventriloquist's dummy. you?" hree of revolution. (AP) We crept to our lockers and deposited our weapons. The red flag would not fit into a locker. I volunteered to carry it until the time to strike. Phase Three: During fifth period an army of Anarchist guerillas, wearing black The Anarchist Club swaggered through berets, carrying machine-guns, and waving the halls with their tightly furled banner. the Black Flag, will attack and capture a We also had arm bands, narrow strips of classroom. The Masked Anarchist will red cloth. Most of the students ignored signal the strike by firing an arrow into us. A few whack-offs made some taste­ the wall, said arrow bearing an announce­ less jokes. Some teachers who were our ment that the overthrow of the System friends grinned and saluted. One teacher is at hand. The guerillas will then storm was very indignant. Hestood in the door the classroom and praclaim the People's of his classroom and waved his fists. Democratic Republic of Woodson. A barricade will be erected in the doorway. "Brownshirts!" he said. "Brownshirts! The Republic will be defended against Brownshirts!"

In first period, my journalism class, I confronted Steve Gaunt, a member of student government. I placed the cane stick on top of the bulletin board frame.

"Jones! What is this red flag shit?"

My eyes gleamed Iike burning churches. "Ze Revolution!" The masses of Woodsan High School seethe with expectation. (UPI) "What!" He sprang back. "lf there's a revolution, it'll be over my dead body." The three of them surrounded my chair "Weil, 1--" and stared down at me. I cringed, waiting "Fuck you." for the blinding light and the rubber "Don't you think you should leave the truncheons. Please, senors, I am only a flag here until after school?" "Put it on the floor. Don't put that poor peon. thing at the same height as the flag of my "Weil, 1--" Someone spirited the flag out country." "What does this flag mean?" Joe Friday of my limp grasp and away into the asked. shadowy recesses of Billak's office. The "Gaunt, you are too classic." vice-principals beamed and nodded like "Weil, uh, revolution." ~o many Chariie Chans. Three more periods passed by without incident. At the end of fourth period 1 "What revolution ?" "Ah have heard about this Anarchist 969 Spring Games. ( LNS) picked up my books, retrieved the flag Club," Lina said. He held up a handtui from the corner of the room, and walked "Just, uh, change, you know, in this case of Phase One notes. "And ah have seen out the door into the arms of Billak. it symbolizes the, uh, contemporary rev- those flyers around the school though ah all fascist assaults. Revisionists, including haven't paid any attention to them. Now, the teacher present, will be duly tried ah'm not saying that anything's going to and shot. The teacher selected as target happen during the Spring Games," his has given his permission beforehand for jowls tensed, "but if something does hap­ the Anarchist Club to carry out the Rev­ pen it'll definitely be to yoah disadvant­ olution in the last five minutes of fifth age." period. Holy shit, I thought. With the mood these paranoids were in, I'd get suspended Thirsting for bourgeois blood, the Anar­ if it rained. ehist Club made its preparations for its finest hour. Whips White volunteered to With heavy heart I trudged to lunch. My be the Masked Anarchist. He obtained a comrades bemoaned the loss of our ban­ bow and arrows with warheads of rubber ner, but resolved to press on. We rose as suction cups, and night and day practiced one man to hurl Phase Two at the Eng­ shooting at walls. Other Anarchists lish Teachers' lounge. stockpiled guns, rifles and machine pistols from the arsenals of Mattel and Remco. As we filed out, a cry arose in the cafe­ Ph ase One was carried out successfully. teria. "They're going to do something!" Every morning, portly vice-principals We looked behind us to discover with paled at the sight of new portents of re­ horror that hundreds of students were fol­ volt on the bulletin boards. lowing us, eager to witness whatever foul plot we undertook. Charitan Hestan And as the d ay s ticked by, the enslaved leading the Hebrews. masses seethed and rattled their chains, waiting for the day when they would lncredibly enough, it seemed a revolution rise from their desks and have their ven­ ~~~ breaking out! The few English geance. Vice-principals Lina, Cunningham and Billak study Anarchist Club teachers in the lounge opened the door to warning notes (AP) find the hall choked with a writhing mob. please turn page 10 from preceding page Somehow the Masked Anarchist made his way to the lounge and his bowstring sang. The manifesto fell off the arrow. The arrow itself bounced off the wall to the floor. The teachers, preoccupied with the unaccountable horde visiting them, never had a chanee to be properly terrorized by the Anarchist Club. The Anarchists abandoned the field of action to their spectators, sowing confusion and chaos.

"What's happening?"

"I (;dn't see anything."

"Why are all you students here?''

"Someone shot an arrow."

"An arrow? Big shit!" This left us with Phase Three, our elass­ raam takeover. On schedule we marched to the target, black herets tilted at cocky angles, machine guns held poised to spew death. Again the Masked Anarchist sent an arrow whirring, with the same results. Inside the People's Democratic Republic of Woodson (Reuters) "I thought you practiced," I said.

"Forget it, Honays. Lead the hijacking." "Say anything to them .. Stall for tune. Marshall Billak of Dodge City, reaay to feeble theatrics. What ·a fiasco. So path­ Make promises to them." confront this new Kremlin-spawned men­ etic. So classic. ace to Woodson High School. "Okay, but while l'm dictator of the pro- 1 remounted my chair and announced the Home on vacation, my little brother, a letariat, address me as Beast." conditions of our Twenty-Five Year Plan "Who took the flag from my office?" Woodsan student now, showed me a mim­ We leaped into the classroom. I got up on and the workers' paradise their grandchil­ eographed newspaper. achair and brandished a pistol. "Senor! dren would live in. Stiil the bell did not "I did. Sixth period was over." You are the prisoner of the Anarch ist ring. The teacher was exhumed, re-tried, "What's this?" Clubi We praclaim this classroom to be and shot once mare. The Fascist Pig made "School isn't over until after Spring the People's Democratic Republic of two comebacks. By the time the bell Games. What about my rights? You vio- "An underground newspaper some friends Woodson.'' rang, the people were on the verge of a lated the privacy of my office." of mine put out at Woodson. lt's all counter-revolution to bring back fourth built around one big article." year Spanish. I waited for the legalists around The teacher sat down. The class looked up me to in mild interest. No doubt a revolution strike back with the Supreme Court. They had reprinted an article of mine Nothing would be mare diverting than fourth year I sat in the literary magazine office, frus­ happened. from the old Anarchist paper. The last Spanish. trated. A delegation of Anarchists and and only deeent article I wrote, in which sympathizers burst in, led by a kid wear- Billak took the .flag. "I want to see you I compared Woodsan to a boot camp. ing sandals. The kid wearing sandals had in my office Monday," he told me. Two Anarchists stacked chairs in the door- just been apprehended by Billak for vio- "I said it would be okay," my little broth­ way as a barricad~. After a_hasty tr!al, the lating the dress code. But the kid backed Thus the Spring Games Revolution came er said. teacher was conv1cted of cnmes agamst him down with a salvo of recent Supreme to an ignomonious end. When I entered the people ~nd rut~lessly gunned down. Court decisions. Furthermore, the Anar- Billak's office on Monday, I found him "Sure. They can have anything of mine A~ A~arch1st wearmg a football helmet and chists told me, I too had the backing of looking out the window. I knew I was that th ey want." sw1n~mg _a club made an appearance as a. this august body. Billak had d one me dirt. Fasc1st P1g. He crashed through the barn- safe. Whenever a vice-principal looks out cade only to be brought down by the the window, it means he's us ing the ben­ "When they told Ladsan they were re­ un­ Thus fortified, I rushed to Billak's office erring aim of Beast. E:VOient paternal approach. He told me printing an article by you, he ~ot all up~et. as soon as the bell rang to reclaim our he knew how bored the Anarchists were, He said, 'lf you're going to pnnt the wnt­ perfidiously pinched flag. Finding no one and how this knowledge ate at his heart, ings of Britt Janes, you should know At this point all the provisions of Phase there, I seized it and left. Three were exhausted. The bell remained but he had his responsibilities, and we what kind of a person he is. When he was silent; the school schedule was screwed up didn't want misunderstandings and so here two years ago, before you ca me to Our group went outs1de in back of the Woodson, somehow. Boredom threatened the revo­ forth. I flicked away a tear, shook hands he tried to take over the whole school. Several hundred yards away, lution. The masses grew restless. and left to join the Anarchists eating school in a student revolution ar.d run a cheers rang out in the bleachers as Spring doughnuts in the cafeteria. Viet Cong flag up the flagpole. "' Games began. I inserted the cane stick "Hey, Beastl" The other Anarchists called into a ring at the base of the flagpole. me outside. ''We have the classroom. "Shit," I said. For "Ladson Said !b!.t?" What'll the first time that day, the red flag we do ?" waved. Two years later I looked back on the I went back to Woodson. Not as a stu­ Spring Games Revolution with disgust. "I don't know. Where the hell is the bell?' Then we looked across the field and saw dent. Now, after only two years, I was a What a bummer. What straights we were. legend. Classic. Billak. Like in aJapanese movie when What chickenshits. The Anarchist Club. "You're dictator of the proletariat. Make the artillery crews look across the field and A bunch of fuck-ups who plodded on in a a speech." see Godzilla. I put on my mean motherfucker denim bleak year sustained by a few crumbs of )acket with the red on the eallars and high spirits and humor which went sour "I didn't come prepared to make a speech.''' He walked toward us casually but warily, walked once mare through Woodson's in our one action, one futile disrlay of halls. All around me students whispered, "That's him," "Is it really him?" "Wow, it's him," "He's come back," "What's he going to do?"

"lt's him all right," my little brother pointed with pride. "lt's my radical brother. From his radical college."

Students gathered in crowds to gape at this figure who had stepped out of the mists of myth to once again strike terror into every fascist heart. Girls reached out to touch me. I ntense gr im young men wearing glasses craned forward to hear me say something radical.

"Brothers and sisters," I said. "I envy you your part in the struggle. You live in the belly of the beast." I put a doughnut in my pocket, straightened my beret, should­ ered my machine gun, and vanished into the Bolivian countryside.

The Spring Games Revolution marehes on.

by Britt Janes Anarchist Club barricade at classroom door (UPI) PSYCH DEPT. 11 SEEKS DINING

Last month a friend and I spent a WF.!P-k,~ml-f ·.< backpacking in the Catskills. We were dogs can kill many deer because they are coming up the Old Overlook Road on more mobile on crusty snow. Snowmobile COM MO NS snowshoes toward the Devil's Kitchen noise may add to this problem by spooking Leanto (this forest and preserve footpath runs scattering the deer. The Long Range Planning Committee south to north the length of the two made a tentative recommendation last mountains you can see directly 5) A lot of harrassment across the and hunting has week that Preston Hall, the present Dining river). It was very quiet, been done on and we were not­ snowmobiles; fox, coyete, Commons, be given over to the Psycholo­ ing the trails of deer, polar the animals that crossed bear, and many other animals gy department for that Dapartment's our trail: ex­ fox, whitetooted mouse, rac­ are the victims. I have not observed this clusive use. coon, porcupine, snowshoe hare. This re­ at Bard and I hope it is not occurring, freshment in the wild peace of the forest but I mention it because on the large scale is a beautiful and neeessarv part of my it is one of the most serious problems life. You can imagine our feelings when with snowmobiles. This is often illegal, Preston Hall, originally constructed with two snowmobiles came at us down the to poison the air to get to work but when but like most poaching virtually impossi­ funds given to the college by Aspinwall's trail. Two days later at the trailhead reg­ it comes down to luxury recreation it ble to enforce. Many of the so-called var- nurse, has been expanded over the years ister we saw where pisses me off. ' another winter hiker mint species are not protected at all. In so that it now ineiudes two additional had written a plea to the Conservation De­ New York State, however, it is side rooms that are used as dining areas 3) Noise. illegal to partment to keep snowmobiles off the Medical research has shown carry a loaded gun on any motor pius extensive kitchen facilities that occu­ that vehicle. trail, " .... we pick up their garbage ....they frequent or continued exposure to PY the entire basement of Aspinwall and high noise stink, roar, and scatter animals ..... " levels can initiate or aggravate I am deeply disturbed that mechanized the more recent addition to the back of p~e-existing loss of hearing, circulatory recreation such as snowmobiles, trailbikes. Aspinwall. Many Bard people have complained to me ~1sease, mental illness, and nervous tensioo all-terrain vehicles, motorboats and small about snowmobiles on the campus and 1n human beings. No one knows what it planes can mean thrills to some people does Cruger Island Road. I really share those to other animals. For description of and a lot of pain ';o others, as weil as un­ the physiological feelings and I wish you would speak to mechanisms involved told environmental damage. I wish more Members of the LRPC emphasized that see footnote. the President so he would know I am not Even though one can be: people would get turned on to the plea­ their decision was based on the fact that come the only one concerned. In January I superficially accustomed to loud sures of snowshoes and binoculars. Writ­ the Psychology Department submitted noises, often walked by a sign that says "Pedestri­ the subtle damage stiil occurs. ir.g this kind of article isa big drag; I the better thought out plan of the two an Area- No Motor Vehicles" with a would much rather be out watching ani­ that were received. They further empha­ snowmobile track right behind it. I teel mals. sized that they had taken as a sign of lack of interest hurt and angry when I am out on the snow 4) Less obvious potential effects: (these the fact that other de· partments, excepting just walking, or watching an animal, l'lnd have been observed by ecologists Footnote: Physics, did not but not submit plans. a snowmobile roars by. lf that is not thoroughly studied yet.) Snowmobiles enough, therearea number of important used on lakes may speed the opacification 2- New Yorker, Apr. 13, 1968, "The arguments against snowmobiles (I try to of the ice-snow cover in early winter thus Ambient Air" remind myself to direet my anger at snow­ hastening aquatic oxygen depletion ;.,hen Chemical and Engineering News, June 8, The mobiles and not at snowmobile users, but plants cease photosynthesis from lack of 1970, "Jeopardizing our life-support sys­ stage of planning for the ultimate it' s hard to talk over the roar): light. This would increase the danger of tem" disposal of Preston Hall has passed, at "winterkill" of fish. Natural History, Aug. 1970, ''The Super­ this point, the idea phase. Plans now 1) There is the danger of a pedestrian be- Civilized Weather and Sky Show" submitted must be weil thought out, ing struck by a snowmobile. I don't wor­ give some idea of the exact use of floor ry about space that is contemplated that one too much, though I re" Snowmobile use on fields interferes with 3 - Medical Tribune, Jan. 4, 1968 and indude member that cost being hit by a car was a pret­ winter food-getting activity of meadow Medical Tribune, Jan. 26, 1970 and time factors in their considera­ ty unpleasant experience. moles which cannot burrow through the tions. compacted snow of the tracks. This 5- Defenders of Wildlife News, Oct. 1969 2) Snowmobiles do stink, which suggests mouse feeds on succulent parts of grasses pp 455-464 that exhaust emissions are way out of pro- and inner bark of woody plants; they tend Defenders of Wildlife News, Jan. 1970, portion to the size of the engine. Pollu- to stay under the snow pp in winter and fig- 47-48 Presently, while the departments have tion by the combustion products of fossil ure importantly in the diet of many pre- fuels is now weil known to a global submitted no formai plans, students from be at- dators. All of these materials may be examined o several mospheric problem with far-reaching con- departments are reputedly hard the exhibit table in the Natural History at work devising such plans. The large sequences in weather modification not to Dogs may utilise snowmobile tracks to Lab. open space of the main dining hall has mention health of people, other a~imals, gain easier aecess to the sheltered wood- been mentioned as a new lecture hall and plants. lt's bad enough that we have lands where deer spend the winter. House- ----~~----~----~~------~~~~~~~~~~------'d~sin~edWfuringp~ns~MMeoow--Erik Kiviat additional rehearsal space and as art ;tu-

early man stiil smarter and older beingdrawnup. Modern civilization's self-rationalization This bone, now the oldest member of the Virtually all of the· inscriptions studied that only by settling down into perman· human family ever found, indicates man seem to bv representations of the lunar . The Long Range Planning Committee has ent cities and farms with division of labor was developing before the Ice Age, in the calendar. Th ey seem to denote such emphasized that the allocation of Preston can man develop a refined consciousness Pliocene Hall period which began 13 million events as the day on which the first cres· to the Psychology Department is and abstract thought has been seriousl.y years ago. To comprehend this time- cent of the new moon appeared, the merely their recommendation and does challenged in the last month. Bones, time expanse is impossible. To try to, imagine of first quarter, full moon, last quarter not represent their final decision. At this antlers, af"!d stones beiongi ng to nomadic that the human family has been on earth and the final crescent. On some artitaets point they are anxious to receive plans Ice-Age meR as old as 34,000 years have for one calendar year. Thus, the woman it appears that our ancestors inscribed from students, but the Psychology De­ been discovered all over Europe and a Asia described above was born on January 1st. long series of vertical lines representing partment has given them the best thought carved with detail ed lunar records extend- The Ice Age began on Apr il 7th; Austra- successive days. Then for the out plan so far. Plans can be submitted to ing sometimes for a year. next month lopithecus was born on September 1st; or the next succession of months, the either the President's Office or members Homo Sapiens first emerged on December carvers went back over the cycle, of the Long Range Planning Committee. Alexander Marshack of Harvard cutting University, 29th at 10 a.m.; the calendar bones de­ a check mark next to each line. who deciphered these ancient calendars, scribed above were first carved December speculates that the hand-sized chronicles 29th at 6 p.m.; the last American glacier were used as hunting aids, to anticipate melted December 31st at 6:30a.m.; re- ~hases of the_n:'oon for which ~pecial · corded history begins December 31st at ntes and sacnf1ces were prescnbed, or to 4 p.m.; Christ was born on the last day at tollow temale menses. As thousands of 8:55 in the evening; and the Declaration years passed by, th ey not only became of Independence was written on lv 13 mor~ complex! but were accompanied by minutes before the end of the year. avanetv of ammal or temale figures -­ suggesting symbolism whose meaning is The calendar markings on artifacts, obscure some and may never be known. of which have been stored in museums for over a hundred years, had been regard­ ln another staggering archaeological find, ed either as decorations or ~s grooves to announced last week, the age of early improve the grip on a slippery handle. man has been pushed back to 5.5 million Most of the objects are small enough to years. In ~enya, Africa, a !r~gment of a be held in the palm of one hand while 1awbone w1th one molar st1ll tn place was being carved or punched by the other unearthed, belongin~ toa temale closely hand. They have been föund in deposits related to A_ustralop1thecus. Australop1th- representing virtually all culural levets The 30,000year old schematic symbols low under modern indicators of lunar ecu~ was a f1ve-foot c~e~ture that walk~d from 34,000 years ago to 10,000. The above showing time progressian of the cycle: new moon (black), flanked by upn~ht about _1.75 m1lhon years ago w1th sites range from the Ukraine to Spain and moon highlight the nature of the mark­ crescent moons and full moon (white), a th1ck heavy jawbone and that eventually from Poland to ltaly ings on the bone. They are arranged flanked by quarter moons. evolved into Homo Sapiens or modern · be- man about 40,000 years ago. ' ee:~ D d m 0 ee.~, • 0 ' • ~-~a ~tlli!?~QP5'~

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 2·-- A study POLICE PINUPS BARRED of last June's graduating class at Harvard Bangkok, Thailand (UPI)--Police Com­ has fnund that ~··rients are increasingly missioner Monohai Phankongchuen has uneartain about what to do after college banned "pornographic and Qbscene pic­ and that many are accepting, even wel­ tures," in cluding ealendars with nudes, coming, manual jobs that make few in­ from police booths, to make them look tellectual demands on them. mare official. According toa report by the school's Office of Graduate and Career Plans, 18 per cent of the Class of 1970 reporteel no UTSUNOMIYA, Japan (AP)--­ definite plans for the future. By contrast, Yukaiaki Uneo, a 25-year-old night from 1964 to 1967, only 4 to 6 per cent watchman, telephoned the police to re­ of the students were in a similar vocation­ port that robbers had struck him and allimbo. had taken the equivalent of $2B anda The report said that many students attrib­ car fromagarage he was guarding. Later, uted their indecision to Harvard's atmos­ he said it was a hoax he had perpetrated phere, which emphasizes intellectual dev­ "because it's lonesome to be a night elopment mare than personal and voca­ watchman" and he wanted company. tional development. It also cited the role of the draft.

COAT HANGER OPENS CELL THE LAW GETS A HELPER Colorado Springs (AP)--The police Troy, Ohio (UPI)--Richard Rice, await­ charged Eric Westling with resisting them ing trial himself, used a beni coat hanger after he held up a sign warning motorists to open a stuck eeli door at the Mfaml of a police radar unit on down the road, County jail in less than two minutes. Mr. Rice vaJunteered for the job after main- but Municipal Court Judge Donald Caflll)­ Photo: Another Mother for Peace llell .:quitted him when he said he had tenance men had failed to open the door lll8l"88y been making people obey the law. with tools. four weeks in laos ... 13 The Laos invasion is entering its fourth Perhaps the single most important reason The effects are devastating. The Commit­ In his Feb. 25 "State of the World" ad­ week. Since Feb. 8, when the operation why the Saigon forees have not been tee of Concerned Asian Scholars, for dress, President Nixon emphasized for was launched, South Vietnames troops completely routed --the 14,000 South example, reports that "The result of this the first time, the protracted nature of have been unable to penetrate more than Vietnamese face an estimated 30,000 policy of population remaval and 'scorch­ "Vietnamization." According to Nixon, 17 miles into that country, despite the revolutionary troops -- has been the role ed earth' is that in the Plain of Jars, while "Vietnamization" "fulfills our ob­ most massive air support of any engage­ play ed by American air power. which formerly supporteet 200,000 peo­ jective of reducing American involvement" ment of the war. ple, now has a population and reproduc­ is "cannot, except over a long period, end With the cessation of the bombing of tion of zero, and its ecosystem has been the war altogether." Combat operations this week centered North Vietnam in the spring of 1968, destroyed beyond reclamation." around H iil 31, a strategic fire base six many individuals felt that further de­ milesinside the Laotian border, midway escalation, a possible prelude toward Those few who remain in these "free-fire" Nixon insisted that if "Vietnamization between the American stronghold at American disengagement in Asia, would zones have been forced to dig trenches or leads to perpetuating the war it is not by Khesanh, and the North Vietnamese­ follow. These hopes were shattered when underground shelters where they must our design, but because the other side re­ Pathet Lao base at Tchepone. Hill 31 is U.S. negotiators at the Paris "peace spend the dayl ight hours to avo id the fuses to settle for anything less than a receiving treatment similar to that given talks" made it clear that ~hey would op­ bombing. Farming activities must be car­ guaranteed take-over." a South Vietnamese Ranger battalion last pose any settlement which would allow ried out only at night, when air attacks week, in which 300 of the 400 man force the Vietnamese any meaningful rights to are not a threat. were either killed or wounded when the self-determination. It is clear what the President means. lf Pathet Lao captured their position. Yet, if anything, this strategy is backfiring the "other side" (Nixonese for the nation- At the same time, this air armada was in Laas just as it has in Vietnam. It has al liberatian forees of Vietnam, Cambod- A south Vietnamese marine battalion, con· turned against the Pathet Lao in support had the effect of spreading the revolution ia and Laos) "refuses to settle for any- sisting of an estimated 600 men, crossed of Prince Souvanna Phouma, who has throughout the region. As a Christian thing less than a guaranteed take-over" into Laos Tuesday, joining the 14,000 allowed American forees to bomb the Science Monitor correspondent recently (i.e., refuses to settle for anything less than troops already in the field. The battalion Ho Chi Minh Trail for seven years, and wrote, "One refugee said that as the bomb· real self-determination) Americans must is part of an advance guard of 16,000 has permitted U.S. forees to use Laotian ing increased, the Pathet Lao forees in his be willing to continue to support military Saigon troops, who may be deployed territarv to further its imperialist aggres­ district started getting more volunteers, operations which are genocidal in nature. within the next few days. sion in lndochina. whose attitude was "better to die Iike a soldier than stay at home waiting for the South Vietnamese forces, supported by Before 1968, most U.S. targets had been bombs to kill you". " The American people, however, have American air power and artillery, are limited to sections of the Trail in Laas, another alternative -- building a massive scheduled to begin a westward drive along and Samneua Province, the headquarters Laas, therefore, offers one a preview of anti-war movement, independent of the Route 9 within the next few days. Al­ of the Pathet Lao. Since that time, how­ what "Vietnamization" is designed to parties of war, demanding the immediate though they will be traveling toward ever, Washington has declared most of accomplish -- a technologized war in and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. Tchepone, military spokesmen feel that northeastern Laas a "free-fire" zane, and which puppet troops, supported by mas­ forees from lndochina. the advance will be limited to gaining has subjected its population to attacks of sive U.S. firepower, attempt to defeat only an additional five or six miles of ter­ 30 852 and 2-300 fighter-bombers a day indigenous liberatian movements without -- Kurt Hill ritory. (27 ,000 missions a month). This policy direet American combat involvement. has resulted in the most intensive, vicious Washington claims that the invasion has bombardment suffered by any people in already succeeded in severing "vital por­ military history. tions" of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and ex­ pects the new advance to bring even better "results." The bombardment has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees (perhaps as Last week, military officials admitted that many as 1.5 million in a nation where the traffic along the Trail had increased from total population isa mere 3 million). normal flow of 1,000 to 2,000 supply American military experts, basing them­ trucks per day. New sta-~ements ela im selves on the Vietnam precedent, have that truck traffic had been cut "about 50 apparently decided that the only way to per cent" this past week. lf the new re­ defeat a revolutionary force which de­ port is indeed accurate, then the only rives its strength and support from the thing the invasion has "accomplished" has population, is to physically remove this been to reduce traffic to its pre-invasion population by bombing, thus denying the figure. A rather dubious "accomplish­ revolutionaries manpower, recruits, food ment", to say the Ieast . and intelligence. ABORTION INF

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The acting is not over­ actor acts wants and intentions, a direc­ played and doesn't get bogged down. live õut the life the script has given him, not to titillate the effete eyes and ears of tor stages motifs and a designer molds space. The theater has more to do with ·~ou've got to be a model thief," exhorts EVl L EVl L is an extremely bitter satire. a self-appointed aristocracy. (I have no the judge, "if l'm to be a model judge. use for Spiro Agnew, but "effete" was honesty than it does with illusion, pover­ Most of the dialogue is between Rosie ty or cruelty. Perhaps people have called lf you are a fake thief, then l'd be a fake (Sondra Briggs) and Li ta (Jan n Coles), around long before he mauled it; there is judge." The judge is extremely decrepit no sense in letting a word be stolen by it the latter three because that's what ..t senile, played in facial expressions two Black students in an eastern college, fools.) they think of honesty. The point is that which alternate between leeturing the "workbench all ey cum lau de." Th ey dis­ a reviewer must deal with the fact of thief and crawling before her. cuss a paper Lita's writing while eaves­ The set is the environment for the play, theatrical events; he is a journalist, not a dropping on Joy (Beth Shaw) a White not merely for the plot. A goodsetis romantic idler and he must aecept theatEr The executioner acts a little Iike a lunatic student in the next room, who has stolen where only a given play can happen and as a fait d'aecompli, not as an ugly noise puppet, harassing the defendant (who is one of their customers. where -- ideally -- it must happen. It which has interrupted his dreams of the above the whole thing) and gleefully does not exist to help the audience think muse. begging, "Shall I let her have it?" "Not Reacting to a letter from her father, Rosie that what is happening isn't "really" hap­ yet," says the judge. comments, ''Weil, maybe daddy's wrong, pening. A good set does not proteet the Rather than admit they are not talking maybe I don't got me a brain but I gots audienee, it endangers it. about plays, Observer reviewers have hid­ The judge is reduced to snivelling before me a body, and I don e used it. Cause den behind their heavy-handed jabs at the defendant. "You're quite right to them what gits is them what gots out It seems elementarv for me to say all well-intentioned people. They are arche­ make me crawl after my judgeship, but without and comes back with. Po Daddy ." this, but the faet is that Observer reviews types of intellectuals in a self-made void, if you were to refuse me for good, you have collectively misapplied all of these prickly cynics who refuse to discuss the hussy, it would be criminal. ... " Rosie and Lita show their obvious bitter­ basics of theater, and have committed real ity of events because it is easier to ness toward Joy when she finally enters the nearly fascist narrow-mindedness puncture the dream which does not exist. The thief responds, "Call me Madame, the room, after a quickie. As Rosie puts which I described. And until a person ac­ I think reviews would serve the commun­ and ask politely." it, "Wham-bam, thank you ma'am." cepts theater as freed expressian instead ity it they came to grips with what is hap­ of chocalate-iced convention he is a fas­ pening; now they are divorcing the theat­ These two scenes from the play indicate Joy is nervous for the whole scene. She cist and he has no business writing a re­ er from the community. that the rest is likely to be quite funny tries to talk of Appalachia, which fills her view. I have never accepted the idea of as weil, li!ltter in contrast to the serious­ background, trying to fit in with Rosie an theateras a "willing suspension of disbe­ Bruce Chilton ness of VICTIMS OF DUTY. Lita. They ignore her. lief" --that is only one condition by which an audienee can talk itself into They move into a dream sequence -- a seeing what it is seeing. Theater is human ritual of revenge. As they intonea chant Jann Coles is producing two plays, events intended to be felt by a human to Allah, they prepare their knives to audience. The reviewer must first de­ PRAYE~MEETING (Ben Caldwell) and sacrifice Joy, with the help of the broth­ scribe the event without bias. He needn't EV IL EVl L (Oliver Pitcher) for the same ers and sisters (Henry Jones and Clemen­ ~ do a lot of reading, though that might oorn program. tine Anthony). help; he needn't rehash the plot (which The performance of PRA YER ME ETI NG is only one occasion for the play). He This is an extremely effective play, and must consider the events until they teil ROUTE 9. is in good shape. The Burglar (Henry as of now, the most complete. REDHOOK ~(/) Jones) comes into the room, and starts him what the production is finally about. trying to rob the place, when the Minister He may then evaluate the performances ~- (Steven Foster) who lives there, comes of the director, actor and designer in home. He intones a prayer about how light of the central fact or statement. upset he is about the ills of his people. ""'--,-,ision! The burglar is disgusted by this Unde Tom crap, and answers the minister, for­ getting himself. The minister, who the doesn't see him, mistakes him for God, and they have a discussion, where the Magic burglar tells him, "YOU STOP PREACH­ ING AND TEACHING MY PEOPLE Trunk THAT SH IT! You better stop or 1'11 re­ veal myself and put somethin' on your cheeks!"

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The subject for depict simple and strong emotions in mu­ strategy of 1936 paid its heaviest rewards, the libretto is Sholokhov's "And Ouiet sic. By the time the meeting ended, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 9 (Horvat) for the "Leningrad Symphony ," Shosta­ Flows the Don" whose setting by Dzer­ Shostakovich had been effectively cut off Symphony No. 5 (Previn) kovich's Seventh, ranks among the great jinsky was so heavily praised by the Krem­ from the Soviet artistic community. l in in 1936. Symphony No. 7 (Bernstein) pieces of war propaganda ever created. Symphony No. 13 (Kondrashin) Obviously descriptive of war, tragedy, Aecent recordings.of the Why did this happen? That the powertui music of and final victory over Fascism, the work personages of Moscow did not understand Shostakovich: Piano Ouintet (Borodin Ouartet) is often banal and trite, but people hear­ Shostakovich's often radical music of this Complete String Quartets, Nos. 1-11 ing it at the time didn't care. It made period is a nice generalization, and at A Melodiya I Angel disc conducted by (Borodin Quartet) Shostakovich a hero in America, whose least partially true, but it is not the whole Rudolf Barshai features the 14th Sym­ people had seen the photos of him during answer. Farmare important is the fact phony, really a cycle of songs with or­ Katerina lsmailova (formerly "Lady air raids and had heard the stories of the that the Soviet government has always be­ chestra dealing with the variaus aspects Macbeth of the Mzensk District") is also symphony's compositian and of the lived that music should be prepared for of death. This music is dark, often terri­ available, on a three-record Melodiya I flight of a microfilm the listeners' ears, and not the other way copy of the manu­ fying, but often very beautiful as weil. Angel album. script from Russia to New York, via I consider it Shostakovich's masterpiece. around. Soviet music, after all, is sup­ Teheran, Cairo, and South America, so posed to be a music for the masses, Sol Louis Siegel and that Arturo Toscanini could give the Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia if the masses can't understand it, at American premier on the NBC network. Orchestra are featured in the best record­ least at first hearing, then it can't be When the war ended, the music went into ing yet of the Tenth Symphony, al so Soviet music- or, so thinks the Kreml in. limbo, but it had served its purpose. dark but with a "happy ending." Orman­ Karl Schoelpple dy is just a bit fast and laud, but his inter­ Politics also playeda part in the 1936 After the war, life returned to normal - pretation is weil thought out and beauti­ attack. Stalin probably guessed that he for a while. In 1948, the condemnations fully played, and his full-speed-ahead-and expert would someday have to detend himself started again, the same old charges from -damn-the-torpedoes finale is worth the against Hitler, and he wanted Russia to 1936, this time leveled at practically ev­ price of the record by itself. be ready for war (the 1939 Ausso-German ery Soviet composer who could read mu­ shoe pact was a delaying tactic for both sides). sic. The doctrine of "Socialist Realism" Finally, Shostakovich himself plays his Thus a sense of Russian unity would be was espoused, and this time Shostakovich two Piano Coneertas on a Seraphim rec­ nece~sary, and this would have to be em­ respanded by releasing virtually nothing ord made in the late '50's, but issued in phasized in all the media, including art. until after Stalin's death in 1953, when America for the first time. One would "Lady Macbeth of the Mzensk District", he finally got his tenth Symphony and expect that the rerformances are good, a bleakly pessimistic work, did not meet Violin Concerto, two of his masterworks, especially since Shostakovich wrote the Stalin's requirements, and Shostakovich published...... had to be told who was boss. Under Khruschev, Shostakovich had RIKERTS 'ED HOOK The door was left open, however, for greater artistic freedom, yet he produced Shostakovich, to return to Moscow's little of real importance. Years of Stalin­ good graces. He was, after all, the most ist repression had take n their to li, and UGSlORE talented of young Soviet composers, the unusual tendency for Soviet criticism and his talent, channeled into what Mos­ to either glorify or damn a musician prescription specialists ." cow considered the right paths, could be complete cosmetic r- had injured his sense of self-criticism. His line a great asset. All Shostakovich had to do AUTO BODY oo next really major project was his fanny farmer candy was make his music conform. Somehow, "Babi RF;PAIR SHOP &1 Yar" symphony, on poems by Yevgeny 01 he succeeded without compromising him· Yevtushenko, written in 1962, and this self. His Fifth Symphony, subtitled 24 Hour Towing uneven but often beautiful music has been Service "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criti­ kept under wraps for the most part by the cism "was an immediate sensation and OUTE9 RHINEBE free~live: Soviet government because there are I ines is stiil his most popular work thirty-three in it that suggest that the Saviets 'lears atter its tirst performance. His have been of Piano Ouintet of 1940 won him a Stalin guilty anti-semitism at some time Prize of 100,000 rubfes. or another. Since then, the creative spark seems to ha\e been rekindled in Shostakovich, who has

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