Free lance lecturer UWM blasts 'extremist groups

by Ruth Wucherer the country about political extremism, Hall contended that there is a defin­ discussed "Extremism: The Sickness ite shift in people wanting moderate Political extremists are bad for the of the Sixties" with about 100 people in change as evidenced in the recent pre­ POST country because they do not represent the Fireside lounge Monday noon. sidential election. change but authoritarianism, said a full Hall defined extremism as any poli­ f One person asked if the "military VoL XIH,No 18 ^Tues.Nov. 19,1968 time free lance writer and researcher. tical movement that abolishes the demo­ poses a danger as the most author­ Gordon Hall, who lectures around cratic process to itarian machine." Hall replied that achieve its own the military is authoritarian. He ends. He does said he would rather live under the Rosnow resigns post not consider Mar­ balance of terror which he defined tin Luther King or as weapons and armaments than un­ Eugene McCarthy der Hitler and Stalin. extremists because Hall disapproved of the actions of the as Young Dem head they both worked "Milwaukee 14," saying that it is not within the demo­ "creative vandalism" as many think Mark Rosnow resigned Sunday as ship in history during Rosnow*s term. cratic system. "I chairman of the Young Democrats in a He said the "Milwaukee 14" destroyed Other positions Rosnow has held in­ do not reject ex­ property and in so doing broke the law. move that may result in a rearranging clude co-chairman of a students for Mc­ tremism but I feel of all of the organization's offices. Carthy group here and a co-ordinator of the Nazis, Com­ Hall was asked if he agreed with Rosnow resigned at an executive board both an informal students for Kennedy munists and Ku HALL California Governor Ronald Reagan's meeting, giving school work, his job as group and the Robert F. Kennedy mem­ Klux Klaners should know the implica­ action of dismissing Black Panther El- an accounting clerk for the University orial fund here. tions of their "movements," Hall said. dridge Cleaver from lecturing on the and duties as vice-chairman of the Mil­ Elections Wednesday night will also "An increase of extremism in the Un­ Berkeley campus. Hall said he agreed waukee Metro Area Young Dems as his be held for treasurer of the club to re­ ited States depends on what the 'people because "Cleaver is under indictment reasons for leaving. place Neil Kane, who resigned earlier in the middle' do," Hall said. "It for murder as Reagan has often sta­ Vice-Chairman Paul Jelenchick, the this month. depends on if there will be more crea­ ted." Cleaver is said to have killed constitutional chairman, will call for a Recording secretary Sue Searing has tive insight for young people where they a policeman. HaU added, "Why not vote of confidence from the club Wed­ announced mat she will run for the vice- can participate more in the political sys­ have Sirhan Sirhan give a lecture on chairman's post if Jelenchick is elected tem or if Nixon will address himself to the Middle East?" He said double nesday. standards would then be applied. "A Rosnow became chairman of Y-Dems chairman. If she is elected vice-chair­ the problems of the cities," Hall ex­ man, a new recording secretary will plained. He added that extremism is policeman's life would mean more than last spring after Marge Kroeger, pre­ the life of Robert Kennedy." sent vice-president of the University also have to be elected. rising. student government, resigned the post. The club reached its largest member- Wash machines found in river Apparently large numbers of Milwau­ kee's citizens consider the Milwaukee river to be sort of a convenient junk­ yard, discarding in it packing cases, washing machines, doghouses, bed- springs, large cans, oil drums from the Homecoming raft race, and lumber. About a dozen members of the Aldo Leopold conservation club and James Marksbury, an aide to Congressman Henry Reuss of Milwaukee, discovered this on a canoe tour of the river Sunday afternoon. Marksbury is in Milwaukee to assess water and air pollution in the congress­ man's district. The group set out from Hubbard park in Shorewood for a close look at the ri­ ver's pollution problems, from the view­ point of a cold and wet canoeist. A light rain fell much of the time, but the intrepid conservationists zealously poin­ ted out examples of the litter which lined the water's edge. MU solicits Biafra funds Biafran Week will be hosted by Mar­ inette university Nov. 17 through 23. Members of the Aldo Leopold Con­ inspect the renowned health-giving wa­ town, led to a discovery which rivals Victor Nwagbaraocha, president of the that of Columbus. Look Ma, pollu­ Milwaukee chapter of the Biafran stu­ servation club, along with James Marks­ ters which make up the great tribu­ tion . . . more pollution . . . still dent association, said that the week's bury (secretary of Congressman Henry tary. The trip, which covered the ri­ activities would be used "to raise money Reuss) and a few crazy press people, ver between Hubbard park and down­ more pollution... for the suffering people of Biafra." paddled down the Milwaukee river to Nwagbaraocha, a former student here, said that the International Red Cross and Catholic Relief services have noted in­ creasing shortages of carbohydrate and Housing ideas to help protein food substances in Biafra. The organizations warned that ii the short­ by John T. Hiatt He answered questions on university At Saturday's final business meeting, ages were not checked, by December "An exchange of housing ideas that policy and suggested ways the frater­ the delegates proposed to meet next over 25,000 people would die every day. will help unite the Greeks in Wiscon­ nities could work for realistic rela­ year at Stevens Point. The Biafran group, Marquette's stu­ sin" was the aim of the Wisconsin tions with the university and commun­ The election of new officers resulted dent senate, international club, and other State Greek Housing association con­ ity at large. in the selection of Dan Woehrer (UWM) university organizations are cooperating vention held in Milwaukee last week­ Alvin R. Bergren, national housing as new chairman in the event. end, according to T.J. Schmitz, as­ director for Tau Kappa Epsilon frater­ The week's activities began with an sociation advisor. nity, led a group discussion on financing Sick students can 11:00 mass in Lower Gesu Church "for The two-day convention, hosted by a fraternity house. He mentioned several the intentions of the sponsoring organi­ the Interfraternity council here, attract­ ways a fraternity could cover rent or get free services zations and a remembrance of the dead ed 38 delegates from 10 campuses around mortgage payments, including a tax on and starving people of Biafra," said the state. There were 8 UWM frater­ house residents and summer dues allo­ The health center is providing var­ Nwagbaraocha. nities registered. cations. ious services for student winter ail­ ments. A booth to collect donations will be The delegates attended seminars on Bergren also suggested that frater­ Free treatment and smallpox shots J** open in Brooks Memorial Union from various topics concerning Greek hous­ nities arrange for an outside firm to are administered. Penicillin shots are 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. daily this week. ing. Subjects discussed were house handle the bookkeeping chores of the administered free if the health center The week will be highlighted by a ball­ maintenance, financing, rules, manage­ fraternity "as soon as possible." "Ev­ doctor recommends them and allergy room dance Saturday at 8:00 p.m. in ment, and social function. en though it would be expensive, you'll shots are administered free if the stu­ McCormick hall, 16th and Wisconsin Fred W. Strache, assistant dean of save money in the long run because un­ dent's own doctor recommends them. av. Admission to the dance wiU be student affairs here, led one seminar dergraduates often are incapable of hand­ Flu shots are given for one dollar. $1.00 on rules governing house operation. ling the books," he explained. Post comment Muelver's mulUngs The men who stand behind their books

Not one man alone by J. L. Muelver I was just standing there, minding my own business, which at the time consisted of leafing through a Harold Robbins paper­ back to find the dirty parts. I usually do this when Pm in the University Bookstore, because if s quantitatively easier than Fr. James Groppi's resignation as adviser liquidating. He phased himself out as he saw finding the well-written parts in a Harold Robbins novel. to the NAACP youth council proves the man's the youth council grow until it could be auto­ But like I said, I was just standing there when this voice sincerity in what he was doing and his under­ nomous and could take the reins in its own came from behind the bookshelf. "Hey Mac," said the voice, standing of the black movement. "are you gonna buy that book?" hands. "Not if I can help it," said I. "But this guy's books are usually How often was it heard that Groppi had a If this man is "nuts" now can he do such a in considerable need of help, so one never knows." martyr complex, was "in it for the publicity," logical thing? If he is indeed a publicity "Don't get smart with me, Mac!" or was just plain nuts? These narrow-minded monger, why should he deliberately take him­ "Sir, I have never in my life gotten smart. I should think people are now saying "the black people don't self out of the limelight? you would have realized that fact the moment you saw me with like him anymore." These people can only be Groppi's action clearly shows the pure mo­ this book in my hand." clucked at for their ignorance on what is tivation of his dedication and commitment to This seemed to appease the bookshelf, for its tone of voice really happening in the black community and this cause. changed slightly. "If you ain't gonna buy it, are you planning on heisting it?" what black power is all about. We could probably go on at great length Groppi started as adviser to the youth coun­ This struck me as being rather a personal question, especially about what he feel Father Groppi has done since I personally don't know what "heisting" means. "Sir, *^.-. cil when the black movement needed white for Milwaukee. But that would be an insult to I am affronted! Furthermore, I refuse to continue our conver­ liasons with the white power structure to get the black community. The message of his sation, since my mother told me never to talk to strangers, things rolling. Groppi has said that he has leaving is that what has been done, was not done and a talking bookshelf is stranger than anything Pve ever seen always seen his role as one which was self- by one man alone. in my whole young and tender life." "I'm not a bookshelf, you dummy, Pm a man behind it See?" And with that, a shower of Carpetbaggers, Adventurers, and various other of Robbins' contributions to the great American literary wasteland, descended from the shelves, to be replaced by a cherubic little visage decorated with a burned-out cigar USL should give up butt "So you're the man behind these miserable novels I" I exclaimed in delight. "Pve always wanted to meet you, and you were there all the time and I never knew." I don't often run my sentences The student legislature (USL) is holding the Brooklyn police and fire commission. Nor together like that, but you must remember that I was quite excited. elections again. If we wanted to be insin­ can USL be expected to represent students who 'Yeah. Pm the guy. But I haven't been here all the time. cere, we'd tell you to get enthusiastic, to don't belong to any particular group because Only just the last week or so. Pm a plainclothesman on the look­ run for one of the 30 vacant seats, or to the unaffiliated student doesn't have enough out for suspicious characters like you who might be shoplifters." get your friends to run. friends or an organized slate to draw voter "Sir, I have never lifted a shop in my entire life. If s all I Speaking honestly, there is no group on support. can do to lift my spirits once in a while. Besides, Pll have you know Pm a plain clothes man, myself. This beret is even plain, campus more deserving of public scorn and USL elections take place in an issue va­ it's plain to see, you see." apathy than USL. The student legislature met cuum. There are no issues in a USL cam­ "You're one of us, eh? Could be-1 haven't met all of our men. each of the last three weeks and did not do any­ paign, nor can there be because USL doesn't I know there's a guy behind Faulkner that Pve never met Under­ thing during the three meetings of enough in­ have the power to do anything controversial stand he's quite a drinker, too. If you like to lift a glass of the terest or importance to print At the last anyway. A USL member, we cannot call him spirits now and then, he might be your man." meeting, for example, the most hotly debated a representative, acts only for himself or for "Faulkner, eh? Thanks, I might stop by there, right after topic was whether or not to give the cheer­ the group that elected him. A member from looking through a bit of Thomas Wolfe." leaders $60 for materials for new uniforms. L&S supposedly acts for a constituency of "Forget the Wolfe - I would, if I was you. The man behind So? Wolfe is a non-stop talker. I mean, you let him get started, and thousands of students, yet we doubt whether he'll tell you his life story, every bloody minute of it He re­ The student legislature is a waste of time any L&S representative has ever tried discus­ members every breakfast he ever et, and it takes him longer to for the twenty legislators still holding seats. sing USL business with anyone in his "consti­ describe one of them than it did to eat it" It is a waste of time because USL has no power tuency" outside his circle of friends, many of "How about Hemingway? Pve heard some pretty good things whatsoever. whom probably don't know he is on the legislature about him." USL has two main functions. It acts on budget and would shun him if they did. "Yeah, he's pretty good. Caught four shoplifters last week. Thing is, he's always so damned serious and gloomy. Doesn't requests for student organizations, and it can We now feel USL is beyond hope. For USL make "voice of the student" recommendations say much, but when he does, he tells it straight and like it is. to be given more power, someone would have to I don't think he likes the job. though. I think he'd rather be out on any topic it wants. determine what new powers it should be given, duckhunting or shooting the bull." The budget requests are usually like the tfind one who has that power now, and then get "I think he would say, 'fighting the bulls,' rather than shooting swinging cheerleader one. The recommenda­ whoever had that power to relinquish it to them. But goodness, you've got men everywhere, haven't you? tions see one of two possible fates. The USL, in order of decreasing probability. I can see that there's plenty of room behind one of these full- first fate is for SLIC or the faculty to ignore The last two steps are, indeed, impossible. size bookshelves for a grown man, but what about those short the recommendation. The second channel is bookcases on the end balcony, the one with all the books that are Nobody at this University knows who has what banned by Boston, Baltimore, and the team of Leonard and Rose- for SLIC or the faculty to act on the recom­ powers. The committee of 32, now as dead as mendation by either sending it to a committee leip? H ow could you get a man crammed into mere?" last year's alewives, was supposed to figure It wasn't easy. We had to ask for volunteers, but we finally where it will never be heard of again, or by that out. It didn't. In the absence of any clear got one. The man behind Henry Miller actually likes it there. sending it to the administration. The admin­ cut division of authority, all effective power has He's always talking about the girls in miniskirts bending down istration either ignores it or promises to follow gone to Chancellor Klotsche. Before he yields to get at the dirty books. I don't believe a word of it, though. it sometime before the turn of the century. one erg of it, Father Groppi will be elected I think he just wants to shock people." There was a time when the Post thought USL county sheriff. "I've heard other people say that, so there might be some had enough potential to be worth saving. Our truth to it" For USL to become a representative body "You betcha there is. Well, I gotta be getting back to work. reasoning back then was that USL could serve appears just as hopeless. While most of the as the "voice of the students" interpreting and Just remember, the men behind the books ain't no fools." USL members seem to be able, interested stu­ "Thanks, I'll remember that." relating student opinion to the administration. dents, the problem of finding out the feelings As I walked out of the bookstore, stopping on the way to pay Legislators still blather such sentiments now of constituents who leave campus for homes for a couple of books that I really didn't want, I was thinking and again. miles away immediately after their last class, that the man behind the book is often more interesting man the We have since decided that USL only repre­ is insurmountable. book itself. A miniskirted teeny-bopper passed me on her into the bookstore. I thought, for a moment, that I should warn her sents organized student opinion. USL repre­ The Post recommends that USL give up and sents the vast number of unaffiliated, unorgan­ not to look at the sexy books, but then I realized that she prob­ turn the few functions it does have over to a ably would have misunderstood my intentions ized students here no better than the Young small committee of volunteers, or SLIC. Republicans, SDS, the Marquette Tribune, or THE UWM POST Official student publication of the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, 3058 N. Stowell av. Milwaukee, Wis. 53211. Editorial phone, 228-467a Business phone, 228-4049. Published twice weekly during the school year except holiday and exam periods. Second class postage paid at Milwaukee, Wis. Subscriptions, $500 per year. Professor demeritus This newspaper, as a member of America's tradition of free press, has no censoi on campus. The opinions herein. contained are those of the editors and writers and are not to be interpreted as those of the University. John Severson Editor - In - Chief

The Post is sick of students having to put clude the names of the profs but will keep Business Staff up with all sorts of stupidity and pettiness the students anonymous. from their professors. An instructor, as Kelly Clark Business Manager We ask any student with a prof who does Kathy Zernicke Associate Business Manager things stand now, can require students to do anything silly or obnoxious to let us know. We just about anything, including memorizing poe­ only ask that we be given the specific details Pi Sigma Epsilon Advertising Representatives try and coloring maps, and all the students of the teacher's actions including what class can do is smile and take^it and at what time. Editorial Staff The Post has decided to give students some Any student who wants to report a "bad Edward Goodman Associate Editor - Hews recourse. We are starting a column called scene" should call the Post, 228-4578. We "Bad Scenes" which will expose stupid and will give academic idiocy the treatment it Michael 0. Zahn Chief Copy Editor ridiculous teaching and assignments to the deserves. Mary Olszewski News Editor University community. The columns will in­ Angela Reale Copy Editor Paula Orth Arts Editor Gerard Grzyb Photo Editor Ralph Deptolla Sports Editor UWM POST Tuesday, November 19, 1968 Religious groups adapt to relate

by Mark Katzfey Gamma Delta (Lutheran—Missouri The Lutheran Collegians (Lutheran- dent association (National Lutheran A change of emphasis has been com­ Synod) has been changing from a "hold­ Wisconsin Synod) also has not imple­ Council), according to Catherine Bauer, ing about in campus religious groups ing operation" to protect its members mented much change and places much past secretary of the association. here because students are "disenchan­ from the "evils of the outside world" of its stress on religious participation, Another religious organization that ted, as a whole, with institutional es­ into an organization that "wants to according to Micheal Schrank, presi­ has gotten involved in various social tablishments," said Father Heidt of confront relevant problems" in the world dent projects is the United Ministry in High­ the Episcopal campus rectory. today, said Gamma Delta's vicar, Rick He said that the church's first prio­ er Education (formerly the Wesley Foun­ To meet this challenge, me Epis­ Bradely. rity is to "be witness to Christ and dation), said Gerry Cross, the pastor. copal campus rectory has de-empha­ Bradeley said that Gamma Delta is spread the Gospel." He said that many Cross said the organization is made up sized its particular religion and opened religiously oriented to some extent,' religions are stressing social functions of five denominations whose members but is also a "discussion forum to meet too highly, and so losing the real mean­ are aiding various existing organiza­ pressing problems in coUege" and a ing of religion. tions fighting for social action like social group to foster fellowship. Schrank said the Lutheran Collegians Project Black, which Cross said is The Newman association (Catholic) conduct services and a Bible school, trying to "stop black student drop­ has not shifted so greatly, but Father and invite speakers to lead discussion out" Schmitz said that the association pro­ of pertinent issues requiring the at­ tention of Lutherans. The non-denominational ProBuCoTls vides more than services to Catholics (Professional Business Collegiates) is alone. Another organization that has de- trying to present "to students that He said the Newman association has emphasized its particular religious as­ there is a definite answer to life" also sponsored social activities and has pects and stressed general discussion by which can be found in the Bible, said an "encounter coffee house" for stu­ interested people is the Lutheran Stu­ the advisor, John Fisco, Jr. dents. CROSS SCHMITZ up to everyone for v pree and open dis­ cussion on anything," said Father Heidt, UW faults overplayed who is religious leader and adviser to center instead of throwing them out of President Fred Harvey Harrington He said he had not received one let­ the organization. school unjust "Similar referral and complained Monday that the university of ter this year commenting on recent Father Heidt stressed that the group's probation is the common practice of Wisconsin was "misunderstood." Nobel Prize winner Prof. Har Gobind center, his home, is offered as a place judges and not one of the 50 adults Speaking at Milwaukee's Holiday Inn Khorana but had received mail com­ to "come and meet people and expand plaining about campus demonstrations. arrested in a Madison drug crackdown yourself." • Central, he said that the people of the has been sentenced to prison," he said. Other organizations are also de-em­ state could only understand the univer­ There have not been any real demon­ Harrington said that the university phasizing their particular religious af­ sity if "they readlhe material" In the strations this fall on the Madison cam­ was concerned with the drug problem filiations. papers more carefully. pus. but added that it "was not as bad as Harrington said that the public thought the scare headlines" made it out to be. the university was soft on disruptive stu­ dents. The facts, according to Harring­ WUWM-FM programs... ton, were that about 20 students invol­ Conant to give Programs of special interest this week ved in last year's Dow recruitment riot Afternoon of a Faun. were either expelled, or had dropped on WUWM-FM, the University's student Wednesday, November 20,1968—"Re­ medieval lecture operated radio station, are listed below. out of the university. Harrington said cital Hall" 6:30-8:00 p.m. Chavez: those who dropped would face student The Art History department is spon­ The station broadcasts about 80 hours a Chaconne; Haydn: Military Symphony week, from 2:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday discipline charges if they come back. soring a lecture to be given by Dr. #100; Sibelius: Night ride and sunrise. The university had "bad play on re­ Kenneth J. Conant, professor emeritus through Friday, and from noon to 2 a.m. "Multiversity Today" 8:30-9:00 p.m. at Harvard university. Dr. Connant, an on Saturday and Sunday. cent publicity given to charges of wide­ Alumni and citizens pay for, and react spread illicit drug traffic on the Madi­ internationally known scholar of med­ The station's FM frequency is 89.7 to, the Multiversity. son campus, but the city of Milwaukee ieval architecture, has received degrees megahertz. Thursday, November 21, 1968— "Re­ and not the university is the center of from universities in this country and Tuesday, November 19, 1968—"The illegal drug traffic in the state, he abroad. Negro American" 8:15-8:30 p.m. The cital Hall" 6:30-8:00 p.m. Dvorak: Quartet in F Major. said. The illustrated lecture is entitled "The Abolitionist crusade (politicalAbolition­ Monastery and the Great Church of Cluny ism) "Latin American Perspectives" 5:45- Harrington called the criticism the 6:00 p.m. "The Dynamic of Mexican university received for referring mari­ before the Destruction" and wiU be given "Recital Hall" 6:30-8:00 p.m. Ravel: Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 8:15 in Bolton 52. Scheherazade; Debussy: Prelude to the Nationalism" by Frederick C. Turner. juana and drug users to the student health College of Letters and Science BULLETINS

COUNCIL ON ACADEMIC ADVISING Schedule, Semester I, 1968-69 Mitchell 211

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY MONDAY a.m. E. Shipman M. Burns V. Barnouw M. Meyer R. Feske p.m. D. Nance H. Sweetland R. Stoveken E. Borgh L. Lawrence

The University Lectures Committee has agreed to sponsor a public lecture by Gilbert F. White M Professor of Geography, University of Chicago M A on A D D I AFRICAN WATER DEVELOPMENT I S S o 3:35 p.m., Thursday, November 21 O N in Room 5206 Social Science Building N Under the auspices of the following: Department of Geography Committee on Water Resources Water Resources Center School of Natural Resources African Studies Program Department of Urban and Regional planning

NOTE: Professor White will also lead AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM sponsored by the Geography Club ON PROBLEMS IN RESOURCE MANAGE­ MENT on Friday afternoon, November 22, 3:45 p.m., in Room 180 Science Hall. All interested students and faculty members of other departments are invited to participate.

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UWM POST Tuesday, November 19,1968 Prof translates dark age monk ^^i iodical which includes studies on classi­ (Editor's Note: This article is Man is included in the second divi­ Swanson received a B.A. in English sion since Scotus contended that we're in 1948, a BJ3. in education in 1949 cal languages, book reviews in the field" first in a series on interesting of classics, as well as announcements faculty research.) all creators to the extent that we under­ and a M.A. in Latin and French in stand our world. 1951, all from the University of Minne­ of classical organizations, associations by Nancy McDonnell For his views Scotus was considered sota. In 1954 he was awarded a Ph.D. and meetings. Dr. Swanson has held quite controversial in his times. For from the University of Illinois in class­ this position for one month. Those who wonder if God is dead may He is a member of a number of find a solution if they read the works his views on the nonexistence of God, ical linguistics. he was labeled a heretic by the Church. classical organizations. of John Scotus Erigena, said Roy Swan- He is able to translate at least two This is Dr. Swanson's second year "Scotus was rebuked because he was son, chairman of the classics depart- dozen languages. here. He is also a professor of com­ unorthodox and did not conform to teach­ menr. Presently Dr. Swanson is editor of parative literature, in addition to being ing the literal, fundamentalist view of The works of Scotus, a 9th century The Classical Journal, a national per­ chairman of the classics department philosopher, are presently being trans­ the doctrines in the Bible," Swanson lated from Latin to English by Swanson. said. AU of Scotus' works are contained in The theologian and philosopher also the 122nd volume of "PatrologiaLatina," refused to accept the traditional view of a collection of medieval writings by the Church toward the Eucharist. He Pollution petition Church men. To date Scotus has never did not believe that the wine actually been completely translated into English, became Christ's blood. Christians con­ sume the body and blood of Christ with "Got some friends? Take a petition "Against Milwaukee River pollution? "Scotus is probably the greatest phi­ along with you," Aldo Leopold Conser­ losopher of the middle ages," Swanson their minds, Scotus explained, and not Read, then sign our petition. with their teeth. vation club members were urged at a remarked, "and the first great scholas­ meeting of the club Thursday night James Marksbury, an aide to Con­ tic—which is a union of philosopher and here. gressman Henry theologian. Actually he was three cen­ Reuss, spoke to the turies ahead of time because scholasti­ group on what they %. cism first began to flourish in the 12th should do to get le­ and 13th centuries." Low 1968 vandalism rate gislation against The first scholastic was especiaUy pollution passed. interested in the existence or nonexis­ During the last year vandalism here caught and their parents paid. Sev­ eral children were caught after they Marksbury advised tence of God, and His relationship to the has resulted in only $362 damages, the club to "pull according to PhiUip LaPorte, head of broke a window in Mitchell hall and world and man. paid the damages of $42. other people in" Scotus explained that God never lived campus protection. and make their pro­ and never died because he is above life LaPorte said that damages included There have also been reports of at­ gram more than and death, therefore above existence. 8 broken windows in the greenhouse tempts to force vending machines open. "just a Milwaukee costing $20 for replacement; a window The total amount of the damage has not project." The club in the physics-engineering building da­ been reported by the vending machine should pressure the MARKSBURY maged by a pellet gun, costing $50, companies which have their own insur­ Junior Chambers of Commerce, other and several large windows broken on ance to pay for the expenses. University groups and the news media the lower level of the library, costing Vandalism on the campus is paid for to get the people interested in getting $250. by the state if the offenders are not legislation enacted. PERSONALS. In the above cases children were caught, LaPorte said.

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Vol. 6f No. 1 The Nation's Most Widely Circulated Student Publication October-November The Dong With A Luminous Nose

19th Century British Minor Poets, edited toward the imagists, toward Eliot, toward kins, Yeats, and Kipling are excluded as creeps,— with an introduction by W. H. Auden. free verse experimentation. Therefore Au­ major; from those remaining, eighty are Anon it sparkles,* —flashes and New York: Delacorte Press, 1966. $6.00, den closes the volume on a note of ex­ represented. Auden, an old campaigner leaps; 383 pp. (Notes by George R. Creeger) pectancy: for the respectability of song, satire, and And ever as onward it-gleaming humorous verse, has included many of goes these here. The result is an educative, A light on the Bong-tree stems it Though the crushed jewels droop fun-to-read volume. by LINDA PETERS and fade throws. The Artist's labors will not cease, And those who watch at that mid­ And of the ruins shall be made It is impossible to read through this night hour These are the generalizations. Anything Some yet more lovely masterpiece. anthology without a chuckle or two. From Hall or Terrace or lofty that can be collected can be anthologized. Charles Stuart Calverly amused his con­ Tower, No anthology is perfect, for no anthology These lines of George William Russell, the temporaries with parodies of terrible po­ Cry, as the wild light passes is complete; and no anthology perfectly last of "Continuity," fall after many pages etry, as in these lines from "Morning": along— satisfies everyone, for only its maker finds of melancholic verse, grieving the passage "The Dong! — The Dong! in it all of his favorites: anthologies at­ of time, the passage of Beauty, the event The wandering Dong through the forest goes! test to the amplitude of the universe, both of death. So placed, they elegantly face 'Tis the hour when white-horsed by the unending variety of things to collect us into the wastelands of Eliot, Yeats, and The Dong! — The Dong! Day The Dong with a luminous and by the unending variety of ways to Auden, the attempts to escape. In this Chases Night her mares away, collect them. To begin upon these grounds, way, Auden carefully sets his bounds and nose!" then oversteps them. When the gates of Dawn (they then, leads nowhere. Rather, consider: say) how have the bounds of the anthology been Phoebus opes. Furthermore, there is good representa­ drawn: are they natural or gerryman­ Yet still remains the difficult labor to And I gather that the Queen dered? What does the sampling indicate tion from that now penumbral art form, cut major from minor, easy for Auden. May be uniformly seen narrative verse. Subjects range over the about the whole to which it refers? How With Odyssean arrogance he lays down Should the weather be serene expected universe of possibilities. The does the construction of the anthology re­ the five conditions of majority: On the slopes. only sizeable omission in the sampling oc­ flect the intelligence of its maker? curs in the categories of sentiment and 1. The major poet must write a lot. love-poem, which were much produced. I Thomas Beddoes, usually remembered for Verse collections seem a natural thing 2. His poems must show a wide cannot say, however, that I find the ex­ range in subject matter and his poignant lyrics and few fine lines of clusion damaging, for these forms are us­ for a poet to make, either for love or for blank verse, becomes fixed in the mind money. This one, made by W.H. Auden treatment. ually too well represented. 3. He must exhibit an unmistakable as the poet of "The Oviparous Tailor," a j^samples the verse of some eighty minor quasi-serious parody of sixteenth century British poets of the nineteenth century. originality of vision and style. 4. He must be a master of verse primitive ballads. If the reader, however, Auden has instead chosen to emphasize Immediately the bogy of defining limits gags on the preciousness of literary paro­ arises: where to begin and end the cen­ technique. the "century's strengths," showing it in 5. In the case of all poets, we dis­ dy, he will delight in the open-air wit of its maturity and liveliness. Usually, a poet tury, for human beings have an inconve­ W.S. Gilbert, to whom Auden restores the nient way of ignoring century bounds in tinguish between their juvenilia chooses to write about something that in­ and their mature work but, in mantle of poet, or of Thomas Hood or Ed­ terests him. Therefore when certain sub­ their births and deaths. Auden nods to the ward Lear. Older generations of critics critics who care about such things by con­ the case of the major poet, the jects persist in the verse of contemporar­ process of maturing continues scorned these men as not really serious ies, generalizations about the Weltan­ sidering this question of centuries first in poets. This anthology urges their rehabil­ his introduction to the volume. To be of until he dies so that, if con­ schauung of a period may be dared. It fronted by two poems of his of itation. Fortunately, current tastes seem must, however, be remembered that, when the nineteenth century, he determines, a less adverse to recognizing such a one as poet must have been born after 1770 and equal merit but written at dif­ working from just the productions of art­ ferent times, the reader can Lear's "Dong with a Luminous Nose" as ists, such generalizations are valid only have published his first poems before 1900. one of the immortal characters of fiction. The limits seem appropriate: the oldest immediately say which was for that group. This is especially true dur­ poets are thirty in 1800. But such divisions written first. In the case of a ing the nineteenth century when intellec­ always assert the independence of men minor poet, on the other hand, When awful darkness and silence tuals and artists were drawing together, from the schemes of historians. If Words­ however excellent the two reign away from the rest of society. worth had been born a year earlier, he poems may be, the reader can­ Over the great Gromboolian plain, could not be considered as either major not settle their chronology on Through the long, long wintry the basis of the poems them­ nights;— or minor poet of the nineteenth century. As we read through the chronology of Auden is not a man to take lightly his selves. When the angry breakers roar As they beat on the rocky shore;— verse in this volume, a pattern begins to powers. To assert the arbitrary, personal emerge. During the first third of the cen­ nature of his judgment, he notes that A.E. If a poet cannot fill at least three and a When storm clouds brood on half of these conditions, he may be con­ the towering heights tury the Keatsian conflict between actual Housman must, under his rules, be con­ social conditions and imaginative beauty sidered a nineteenth century minor poet, sidered minor. The checklist is sensible. Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore:— It avoids controversy, yet there is slight Then through the vast and gloomy dominated the consciousness of .poets. Fre­ -Jfrgven though some might class him among quently, the dilemma resulted in stinging the major poets of the twentieth. irritation in his devious disregard for the dark, questions of merit and influence. Over There moves what seems a fiery satire of the exploiting classes, of com­ this collection lurks the presence of that spark, placency and faked liberalism. Self-in­ Such limits of date are, in a long run, younger Auden who thumbed his nose at A lovely spark with silvery terest, the profit motive, and the church received the lashes of disgruntled poets. untenable, though convenient. Realizing the critics by placing the selections in his rays As the century advanced the same con­ this, Auden surmounts the temptation to Collected Poems in alphabetical rather Piercing the coal-black night,— flict still absorbed the attention, but it make "century" seem a natural category than chronological order. A meteor strange and bright:— was felt with less and less precision. No for poetry and emphasizes instead the con­ Hither and thither the vision longer did most poets attack specific so­ tinuity from nineteenth to twentieth cen­ strays, Justly or unjustly Blake, Wordsworth, cial conditions, for historical events tury. Readers of modern verse are con­ Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tenny­ A single and lurid light. tinually made aware of their direction son, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne, Hop­ Slowly it wanders,—pauses- Turn to Page S6

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Included in the collect­ Albion College Thomas Terp is how we change the social course; Bard College Bob Hall ton saying. ..) there have always been The use of force, you surely know, ion are personal statements from two doz­ people commenting on the fact, though Barat College Mary Sexton is how we keep the status quo," en objectors and resistors, ranging from Brandeis U David Pitt ^ perhaps never with the streak of hysteria such widely known personalities as David U. of California (Irvine) . .John F. Monsen ^^o that has been thought chic recently. Mitchell, Capt. Dale E. Noyd, Muhammad U. of California (Riverside) . .Joe Plummer is an accurate statement of where most Ali and the Fort Hood Three to the less Cal. Tech David Lewin war comes from. It is all very well to highly publicized names and cases of Gene Carleton College Cy Schelly Now Marshall McLuhan, the Norman say that wars come from the image- Fast, Malcolm Dundas and Robert Luftig.. Carnegie-Mellon U. Dave Kamons Mailer of literary exegesis, has been plug­ Chicago St. College Milt Lillie dissonances between the world that is The contributions were drawn from per­ ging a set of metaphors for big changes. and the world struggling to be, but a lot U. of Colorado (Denver) ....Leslie Minor The literate, linear, Newtonian mind and sonal memoirs, letters to friends, tape re­ Concordia College Herb Geisler of the messages programmed into society cordings, letters to draft boards, "official Elmhurst College John Bizer society, he says, structure themselves in as it is are hate, malice and greed, as visual space, which is to say space that is CO." statements (Form 150) and a set of Goucher College Karen Sandler surely as the message in the structure directed questions supplied to focus on U. of Illinois (Urbana) Elise Cassel ordered, can be cut and shaped by walls of DNA is heredity. And there would be and is arbitratily controllable, like what specific concerns. Not included are select­ U. of Illinois (Chicago) ..Fred Armentrout messages of hate and war even if there III. Institute of Tech Steve Savage we see. When our minds are wired into a ions from objectors who engaged in com­ were no profound changes going on in bat in Vietnam, deserters who have left Kalamazoo College Liz lindeman lot of things happening in different places society, no "new image" being sought. Loyola U Stephanie Jaguchi in different . ways at different speeds the country, and dropouts, whom Mrs. U. of Maryland Mary Hurlbut In Vietnam it may be correct to say that Lynd considers "not deliberately taking through different modes, he says, we op­ the Vietnamese decided to kick out the U. of Michigan Dan Okrent erate in acoustic space, which is like what any principled position." Also not included Michigan St. U Dave Gilbert. French, the Japanese, The British, the are those who were "badly hurt by what we hear: funny shaped, uncontrollable di­ French again and the Americans because Miles College Deloris McQueen they did, have retreated and do not want U. of Minnesota Paul Gruchow rectly, of varying resonance. The big they had a new image of themselves as thing going on right now, McLuhan says, to talk about it." U. of Mo. (Kansas City) Tony Murphy able to run their own country. But what Montana St. U Diane Travis is that the world is tuning out of visual this sort of talk ignores is that the The personal statements and accounts Mundelein College ....Kathleen Cummins space and tuning into acoustic or auditory colonial administration which bled "Indo­ stand on their own and represent a spec­ College of New Rochelle . .Madelaine Blais space. McLuhan also invented hot, which china^,' for eighty years was as much trum ranging from traditional religious St. U. of N.Y. (Stony Brook) Wayne Blodgett is impressive but superficial like a brand­ a war of the French against the Viet­ ing iron, and cool, which is sensual and pacifism to organized political resistance. North Park College . . .Ted Loda namese as the actual fighting that got Oakland U Norman Harper enveloping like the mountain lakes in a started once the Viet Minn started op­ Reflecting her own perspective, increas­ U. of Pennsylvania Stephen Marmon Salem commercial, as well as a whole erating in 1935. ing female participation in direct action Princeton U A. Michael Thomas lot of other cute words that are well es­ in many areas and the mutuality of suffer­ Rice U Dennis Bahler tablished on the American cocktail party ing for those not really "left behind," Mrs. U. of Rochester .Elizabeth Hay circuit. Lynd has included noteworthy 'selections Shimer College Andy Zaha1^j^_ There are wars, and there are wars Southwestern U. (Tennessee) ...Bill Casey ^ where people fight back. The first have from three wives of imprisoned objectors —one who shared with her husband a his­ Southwestern U. (Texas) . . Charles Neuffer been permanent in human history, and Temple Buell College . . . .Susan Poyneer Through The Vanishing Point is a book have generally escaped the eye of people tory of protest, another who looks back Towsen State College . .Michael Vogelman of poetry, pictures and marginal comment in comfortable universities; the second with a sense of regret and a third who re­ U. of Utah Ed Ditterline intended to defend this aural-visual meta­ are neatly explained by McLuhan's sents having her own identity submerged Valparaiso U Bruce Bitting phor before the tiresome English lit types analysis. Where McLuhan fails, probably as "Mrs. Conscientious Objector." Vanderbilt U Mark McCrackin who have always seemed to hate by not being McLuhanesque enough, John Mary Washington College McLuhan's guts. It might be a good idea Cage in A Year From Monday really gets We Won't Go can be appreciated on its (U. of Va.) Susan Wagner to give the book to anyone who pedants on the case. A leading composer famous emotional level alone, as revealing the in­ Washington College Thackray Dodds around about the influence of Romantics ner personalities, struggles, experiences Washington U Renee Winter for putting shrieks and squeals on tape in­ Wayne State U Harry Clarke or Pre^Raphaelites; McLuhan probably to the concert hall, Cage seems to have and hindsights of those who object and re­ sees his role in social change as under­ Webster College Mary Petersen dedicated the rest of his life to spreading sist. But Mrs. Lynd has compiled it with Wilson College Linda Davis mining their hallowed truths and self-con­ simple political, ecological and social com­ more in mind. It is intended as a guide­ U. of Wise. (Madison) ...Donna Blackwell fidence. But it's unlikely that one more mon sense. 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All rights reserved. of such things as atom bombs, telephones, If there is a single recognizable doctrine Some acknowledge that they would not Hollywood movies fuelling third world rev­ in the writing, it is that most of the gov­ make the same decisions again, having olutions, vitamin pills, weird steel alloys ernment that matters to people is going embarked on their earlier courses with in­ The Chicago Literary Review is distributed by the that can only be made with trace ele­ on unnoticed, internationally and anar- sufficient planning and romantic visions of Chicago Maroon the Albion Pleiatf, the Bard Observer, ments from all over the globe, transocean­ the Barat Heurist, the Brandeis Justice, the Califor­ chically, and as we realize how this pro­ revolutionary action, only to find that "life nia Institute of Technology California Tech, the ic jets introducing the Atlantic River, cess is ^working we can start ignoring Carleton Carlefonian, the Carnegie-Meilon Tartan, and all that stuff. These people, most of in prison is lonely, painful and trying." the University of Colorado (Denver) Fourth Estate, the Humphreys and Nixons who pretend Most, however, have absolutely no regrets, the Concordia Spectator, the Elmhurst Ehn Bark, whom were growing up while these things the Goucher Goucher Weekly, the University of Illi­ to be in the government business. But finding their decision to object or resist as nois (Urbana) Daily I Mini, the NT Technology News, were being invented, may very well have this is not central to the book, nor is the Kalamazoo Index, the University of Michigan the intellectual models to enable them to the most important event and anchor in Michigan Daily, the University of Missouri (Kansas anything else. 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Seeger, an anno­ its best, A Year From Monday is a pre­ tated guide to SS Form 150, documents re­ Reprint rights have been granted to the Universif^*^ information exchange, is one way of find­ cise political text. And for anyone else of California (Irvine) New University, the University lating to international war crimes and a of California (Riverside) Highlander, the Chicago ing a new image. While this may not it is both in forum and content a bit State College Tempo, the University of Illinois (Chi­ make much sense to a kid who got an guide to organizations which might be of cago) Commuter mini, the Loyola News, the Uni­ of "new image" that doesn't need a war help. versity of Maryland Diamondback, the Michigan arm shot off at Khe Sanh, it does make fought over itself. State News, the Minnesota Daily, the Montana State University Exponent, the State University of New some sense, and it lets McLuhan pick up is a graduate student in The York (Stony Brook) Statesman, the Daily Utah David Lloyd-Jones is Coordinator of The Chronicle, the Wayne State South End, the Univer­ some points with SDS by putting war on Intercultural School. Divinity Stehool of the University of Ohio. sity of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) UWM Post. THE CHICAGO LITERARY REVIEW October-November 1968 • • • • • • ^aaasamaaa^aaWmmimma^mamiammimmimmimmmimmm •••••••- - - . .-. ... ----- Page S3

The Man in the Glass Booth A play by Robert Shaw by HAROLD ACKERMAN The Play In The Glass Booth Directed by Harold Pinter

The title of the play, The Man in the Glass Booth, refers to the bullet-proof en­ closure designed to insure the safety of Nazi war criminals on trial in Israeli courtrooms—a minor irony in itself. The man is Arthur Goldman, alias Adolt Z >riff, alias Arthur Goldman. Goldman is a German Jew, whose dead wife (he tells us so many times that we are almost tempted to believe him) was an American. He is a real-estate magnate fantastically wealthy. The first scene re­ veals a view from his office window of New York which is one of the finest sets to be seen in a good while; and we are led to believe that Goldman owns nearly all the buildings we can see. As apparent as his wealth is his Jewish- ness. He is totally Jewified. Everything he says and does—his whole life style—is so Jewish that, once again, we are almost jgf tempted to believe it. He is a wonderfully drawn character. He has completely as­ similated Germanness, Jewishness, royal­ ty (from wealth), and Manhattan. He could be the first Jewish Pope, or at least the crowned king of Israel-in-exile in New York.

Goldman is monarchic. He is unilateral. He is in turn, and all at once, an irascible Napoleon, a benevolent despot, a wise Solomon, and always brooding under­ neath, just sometimes surfacing, the stormy Fuehrer. In truth, Donald Plea- sance, as Goldman, has created a remark­ able character. It is all there and in per­ fect balance. But this is only where we meet the character. It does not end here. rocities we remember so well. In the most vived, a favorite, perhaps a cousin of the shipping lists, is a willing accomplice tr> stirring moment of the play, however, af­ murderer. He is a man in a glass booth— his own eradication. Through the first act we witness the in­ ter a long homage to Hitler, he says to the a soul bared for all to see. What is his ab­ creasing paranoia of a king in an empty Israelis, "If he had chosen you. . .you too solution? A confession of deeds he never Robert Shaw's script is sophisticated, castle, his voice echoing hollowly in the would have followed." For me, this was. performed. Having a German speak as no tightly written, and' often' very funny, but marble hallways. Goldman, with terror, the only real moment of dramatic truth never irresistible. Harold Pinter's direc­ with ironic acceptance, with contemptuous the play held. It is a fascinating notion. German has ever spoken in a witness box. tion is smart, notwithstanding a self- disregard, feels his life has not long to An apology for his own survival. What is indulgent opening and some unmistakable run. As much as we seem to know about Twist number two follows immediately. his legacy? Palaces (he always calls his "Pinter-pauses." Goldman, there is clearly some secret we A woman in the court who knew Dorff ex­ buildings palaces and his wife, a queen). are not yet in on. When young Charlie poses Goldman as an imposter. She had The settings are excellent. The actors Cohn, Goldman's assistant, peers into his seen Dorff die. Goldman is really Gold­ He leaves them to Charlie Cohn, his $400 are fine. The direction is strong. I just jjj^safe (his scul?) and finds only a table, man, a survivor, a favorite of Dorff's at a week Jew. Charlie Cohn, his "yes man." don't buy the play as a relevant dramatic a stool, and some chocolate bars, we the concentration camp. Dorff used to talk He is not even a "yes man," for Goldman experience. A man Who never existed must feel there is something more to to him and bring him bars of chocolate. has taken away his manhood. He is only a acting 'within the framework of a situ­ learn about the man. It is only at the end There was a family resemblance. So Gold­ "yes." Lawrence Pressman must be a ation which did somehow doesn't add up. of the act, when Rosie Rosen (whom man is once again Goldman. The name in­ very good actor. His "yes" was gracefully We get one momentary insight into the Goldman has expected) takes him pris­ trigues me. He is a gold man (his money). despicable. situation but this is an inefficient use oner in his office, that we learn Goldman He is gilt plated (his juke box alternates of the two hours we spend in getting is really Adolf Dcrff, a Nazi S.S. colonel. sacred music and Dean Martin). And he is Deprived of the guilt he tried to assume, to know the man. He will be taken to Israel to stand trial guilt ridden (to complete the elaborate, Goldman does to Charlie on a small scale for war crimes. and perhaps self-indulgent pun). what Dorff did en masse. He robbed him of his pride, his manhood, and his identity Mr. Ackerman is a graduate student ma­ In act two, which is basically the trial, as a human being. And Charlie, like the joring in speech and theatre at Hunter Goldman-Dorff admits openly to all the at­ What is his guilt? He is a Jew who sur­ Jews in Germany who made out their own College.

immunity to age and death. Status seek­ for the first time . . . the experience . . . Tom-Tom and the Bhang Gang ers ("The Mid-Atlantic Man," "The Hair the barrier between the 7 and not-I dis­ Boys," "Bob and Spike," and "The Life appearing . . . that feeling! . . . And, you The Pump House Gang, Tom Wolfe. insurrection, alienation) but most people New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. & Hard Times of a Teenage London couldn't put it into words ..." Charis­ are tired of it. Volts of euphoria are Society Girl") are frustrated, pathetic matic Kesey, surrounded by admiring fol­ $5.95. galvanizing our culture into a happiness The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom personae who either win by losing or win lowers, armed with Owsley's acid, begins explosion. If we want to be serious, a shallow victory. (The ego extensions of an experiment in extension of group ego. Wolfe. New York: Farrar, Straus & let us discuss the real apocalyptic future Giroux. $5.95. the celebrities are caricatures: Hugh Hef­ The Chief makes certain everyone knows and things truly scary: ego extension, the ner, insulated from the world on his Vk he is the non-leader (e.g., placing tape ~mT by LILLY GRENZ politics of pleasure, the self-realization Tom Wolfe keeps a devoted, amused, foot circular, rotating bed leading a over his mouth) so that here is no doubt of racket, the pharmacology of Overjoy. . ." "damned full life" manipulating the sur­ the name of the game: Christ and his dis­ fanatical eye on American culture. Ul- Having thus been inaugurated into the trahip, supereducated — as Kurt Vonne- rounding gadgetry prepared to replay ciples. Their mission is to dilate conscious­ pleasure era, I read his books eager to "God knows what" on the $40,000 video­ ness, to expand the edge . . . FURTHER, gut puts it, Tom Wolfe "has a Ph.D. in partake of the widespread phenomenon of American Studies from Yale and knows tape console aimed at his bed; Carol as the Day-Glo sign on their bus an­ joy I had somehow failed to observe in our Doda whose breasts on the installment nounces. But apparently one can't live long everything" — he is a high-brow gossip times. After 725 pages I wonder: has Wolfe columnist whose beat is the "stratu- plan have dehumanized her — she is in Edge City. Either one gets out like San­ been putting us on? His proclamation them: Natalie Wood in the Wildenstein dy who went back to broadcasting in New sphere" of esoteric subcultures. "Typing must have been sheer cynicism; Wolfe along like a maniac," he records his Gallery adulating over the Old Masters, York; one goes over the edge like the cannot have misjudged his own writing so as embarrassingly nouveau riche as her Beauty Witch who went mad or like Neil anecdotes in the eccentric, flamboyant, profoundly! explosive idiom that has recently earned camera-snapping admirers are gauche. Cassady who, some say, died of too much him the dubious title "Dr. Pop." Wolfe's The characters in The Pump House Even in Wolfe's intellectually provoca­ speed along a railroad track in Mexico; perceptions are not profound; but his wit Gang, as well as Ken Kesey and the tive essay on Marshall McLuhan where or one quietly retreats like Kesey him­ disguises his banality. Merry Pranksters, are ostensibly exam­ he entertains the possibility of McLuhan's self to contemplate The Experience. In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored ples of "happy winners," in the life games importance by recalling parallels between Tht Wolfe wrote about a life-style that Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), where everybody wins. But Wolfe assumes McLuhan and Freud, Wolfe cannot resist is already dead and about a man who is he had just discovered Pop Society and that winning is tantamount to experienc­ ad hominem jabs at McLuhan as "mono­ probably less than admirable, does not, reported the symbols and types of the ing pler&ire. What his enthusiastic affir­ maniac and master." however, detract from the appeal of this new life style of America in the manic mation of pleasure denies is that people There are the minipleasures of the book. One does not read Wolfe for content style that inaugurated the pop-aesthetic often imprison themselves in the rewards straight world and there is The Exper­ or authenticity. Dwight Macdonald, who in the literary world. His recent two of their games. As Babbs, one of the ience. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test does not like Wolfe's writing, calls Wolfe's publications, The Pump House Gang (15 Pranksters, says, "Everybody, everybody is W'olfe's metaphor for an attempt to style "para-journalism...a bastard form, essays on culture) and The Electric Kool- everywhere, has his own movie going, reach that ultimate frontier. ("What do having it both ways, exploiting the factual ^fc^Aid Acid Test (about Ken Kesey and the his own scenario, and everybody is act­ you do with yourself," Wolfe asks in "The authority of journalism and the atmos­ Merry Pranksters), are still concerned ing his movie out like mad, only most Author's Story," "when you have the time, pheric license of fiction. Entertainment with "new culture makers." but now he people don't know that is what they're money and freedom to extend your ego in rather than information is the aim of its is more empathetic and more intrigued trapped by, their little script." Wolfe almost any direction?") The Pranksters producers, and the hope of its consumers." with the implications of the new life style. provides us with excellent examples. For went out on a scary frontier "beyond ca­ True. Although, life is not always a plea­ The new era, Wolfe declares, is enjoy­ surfers ("The Pump House Gang") The tastrophe, and it was strange out there, .in sure, reading Tom Wolfe, fortunately, is. ing. Yes, some serious people are still Life ends at 25 and abstractions like Edge City." Acid: superawareness, super- Miss Grenz is a graduate student at San playing the Calamity Game (war, poverty, mysteriose lend them a sense of fale sensuality. You can "truly see into people Francisco State College. THE CHICAGO LITERARY REVIEW October-November 1968 PageS4

tween an "agitprop" team and a village; liarly and awfully American — in its The Sly and Sinister Americans and South Vietnamese tend to virtues and vices, its disjointed topicality, rely on mass leafleting, movies, or other its neglect of larger, non-technical ques­ mechanically simple forms of communi­ tions over and above "Who's winning and Faces of War cation with minimal effort and minimal why?" But these very limitations may effect at the personal level. Such com­ make him the ideal entering wedge of parisons could go on for pages; in more dissent into the great American mind— which, like him, is inclined to question My Silent War by Kim Philby, Grove or less disjointed form, they are the stuff cupboards which they would prefer of Browne's book. the war only because we are losing, and Press, $5.95. to remain decently forgotten. . .The not because we intervened in the first mere existence of the huge FBI fil­ As a reporter, Browne is not one to raise place. If books like his disturb enough by ROBERT SALASIN ing system has deterred many more fundamental questions, historical people, they may create the groundwork from attacking Hoover's totalitari­ questions, moral questions. Given his for more fundamental and searching My Silent War by Russian Colonel Kim an empire. wealth of concrete knowledge, this is un­ critiques. Philby, former head of the Russian Divi­ fortunate; but within the limits of the And yet Browne deviates from this good- sion of The British Secret Information Philby has a peculiarly cold sense of hu­ technical question, "Why aren't we win­ American pattern in one very striking way Service and chief liason man between the mor. After helping in a plan to drop Al­ ning?" he makes his point fairly well. — his last page reveals a startingly forth­ British SIS and the American FBI and banian emigre partisans behind the Iron In particular, he is not one to be taken m right conclusion: "I no longer feel that CIA, is one of those books, which, like Curtain to return Albania to the West, or kept silent by the official public-rela­ America is capable of mastering this kind their authors, are so damnably interesting (contemplate the dropping of partisan tions nonsense so common in American of war, at least in our country's present precisely because their carefully planned emigres into Iowa to return it to the East dealings with the war. state of mind ... the word 'isolationism' surfaces present nothing at all of note to and you will fully appreciate the humor of And on occasion, Browne comes up with has a peculiarly attractive ring." One the reader. Superficially it is a bland little the situation), he writes, "The moral really striking instances of eyeball-report­ need hardly stress the novelty of such a book by a bland little man who just hap­ would seem to be it is better to cut one's ing: the practice of Viet Cong men and "defeatist" admission by an American; pened to be one of the most effective spies losses than to give hostages to fate." Let women "of going into battle with a piece whether that novelty will become policy in the world's third oldest profession. us pause for this contagious mirth to sub­ of cable or wire knotted around one leg," is yet to be seen. But one might, in any side, and continue. to make it "easier for one's comrades to case, wish that this country's future exec­ Who is Kim Philby? Let us reconstruct utors of policy were as dependably de- 2^ The book is a masterpiece of hiding haul off the corpse, if one is killed"; the him on the premise that he is, well, some narrative of the Viet Cong agitprop team cent in limited ways as Mr. Browne. sort of good guy. Take the infant Che one's personality; almost an autobiogra­ Mr. Henderson is a student at Carleton Guevara (out of the manger, as it were), phy without a subject. Philby seems to College. — make him son of someone who lost him­ have done no worse with his associates. self somewhere in the dream world of T. Malcolm Muggeridge could only conclude: "With a father who adopted Mohammed­ E. Lawrence and who lives in his deserts The Silent Weapons: The Realities of as a practising Moslem ("Which is just not anism, why shouldn't the son be a Com­ munist?" Another fellow agent, Graham Chemical Warfare, Robin Clarke, Dav­ done, you know"); raise him in the green id McKay Co., $4.95. and pleasant fields of Eton and Cam­ Greene (dig that now) couldn't seem to bridge; give him a political indoctrination think of any reasons for Philby's extra­ in the Cambridge 1930 equivalent of SDS; curricular activity at all. Greene thought by RON HAMMERLE send him to Spain as a correspondent of he was a pretty nice guy, all things con­ Shortly before Hubert Humphrey got his The Times (covering Franco's side of the sidered. first whiff of rising tear gas this summer, war); let him join British SIS at the begin­ two back page stories appeared in major nings of World War II; and let him scram­ It is easy enough for the reviewer to de­ newspapers relating incidents surrounding ble up through the intelligence services to velop a profound dislike of this, for lack of the long controversial subject of chemical •the top of the bureaucratic heap. Make a better word, traitor. One has to remind and biological warfare. One reported the him a member of the Russian Intelligence oneself that even if his body temperature success of pressures by a group of Wash­ Force since 1933. is something under 10 degrees Centigrade, ington scientists and teachers in having he, like Guevara to press the point, was the government remove an estimated risking his life for, ahem, the Cause, stockpile of 100 billion lethal doses of nerve Who is Kim Philby? He is no James ahem, of protecting the International's gas from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Bond. Former fellow spy Malcolm Mugge- home and birthplace, the, ahem, Glorious near population centers in the Denver area. ridge suggests only that he may have Soviet Union. The actions speak for them- The other cited U.S. and U.S.S.R. opposi­ drunk a little too much and lived a little tion to a British move in Geneva to ban Turn to Page S8 too well for his SIS salary. His dossier production and use of bacteriological weap­ lists no Eastern Vices, no eccentricities. ons. (Since 1925, the U.S. has refused to Unlike Guy Burgess (another Russian pen­ The New Face of War, Malcolm W. winning over a hamlet; the former politi­ ratify the Geneva Protocol banning inter­ etration into SIS), Philby was no homosex­ Brown, Bobbs-Merrill, 1968 (rev. ed.) cal Buddhist prisoners who as a result of national use of asphyxiating, poisonous or^ $6.50 l k ual. He lacked both the opportunity and government torture under Diem are now other gases and bacteriological methods ot^! * - highly disturbed mental patients: "Major warfare.) the inclination to flirt with voluptuous Miss by HAROLD HENDERSON Pennyworth; but he was happily married General Nguyen Khanh, one of the mili­ Books about Vietnam and the war these tary permiers who followed the Diem re­ The minor publicity surrounding the two not just once, but twice, and was apparent­ days seem to fall into three categories: stories is but the peak of a major scientif­ ly neither outstandingly good nor bad in gime, visited these patients more than one the academic or semi-academic works of year later. They screamed and went ber­ ic, political and ethical debate that has bed. He did not carry miniature acetylene large-scale analysis, such as Kahin and been going on for years, particularly in torches about in the heel of his shoe, nor Lewis' The United States in Vietnam; the serk. Khanh was told by embarrassed hos­ pital attendants that the patients always the scientific community. With student mutter into his pen cryptic commentary on straightforward eyeball reporting magnifi­ anti-war leaders uncovering widespread Channel D. Philby quite rightly character­ cently mastered by Jonathan Schell (The reacted that way at the sight of a military uniform." chemical and biological (CB) war research izes himself as presenting absolutely no­ Village of Ben Sue); and a third type of in the universities and increased alarm thing out of the ordinary: a good man, one which Malcolm Browne's The New Face But even a fairly good "reporter's book" over U.S. CB warfare policies in Vietnam, of us, of the right school and old, if unusu­ of War is a good example: the "reporter's is terribly cumbersome: it's very hard to it was inevitable that some books should al, family. Precisely for this reason was he book", combining (in more or less con­ be selective, hard to keep all the details, follow to bring the public up to date on so unbelievably successful. fused fashion) major theses, large-scale analyses, anecdotes from disintegrating in­ the story. political and social analysis, and brutally to a passive series of passing grotesquerie His work seems almost as unexciting. pertinent first-hand anecdotes. The total — unrelated atrocities, the more obscene One of several recent efforts in the field The actual process of spying for the Rus­ effect is often unfortunate — a rather di­ for having neither past nor future, like the is The Silent Weapons, by British Science sians must have been relatively simple luted Schell interspersed with a less than severed head that graces the book's cov­ Journal editor Robin Clarke. once he was ensconced within SIS offices, scholarly Kahin — especially when put er. Mercifully, the book is indexed; but Yet ethical and moral issues form his and, at the end of the War, he was as forth in staccato paragraphs and nonde­ even so, I find it difficult to recommend most prominent theme. Of particular inter­ much a bureaucrat in the Russian Intelli­ script AP prose (the author spent five in good conscience to busy students — est for the immediate reader is the cur­ gence as in the British. Most of the book years in Vietnam, roughly 1962-67, as an who, if they can be convinced to read rent battle in the scientific market place. is built around a complex series of inter­ Associated Press correspondent). General­ anything at all outside of class, are more The Deputy Director of an agency engaged necine battles between departments within ities for Browne don't often grow naturally likely to enjoy and benefit from either of out of particulars—they turn up, odd and in CB warfare research is quoted discuss­ SIS itself and between the mutually mis­ the other two genres mentioned above. ing an earlier dilemma in recruiting scT^|^ . trustful SIS, CIA (characterized by its first hard to manage, in the midst of a chapter or at the book's end. His chapter organi­ entific talent for his program of public head as "a bunch of amateur bums.") and But for their parents? On the other health in reverse. the FBI. Rather like Machiavelli's History zation seems largely arbitrary, and coher­ hand, the book has a certain merit for of Florence, the parties and the alliances ent discussion of one point is likely to be the non-academic mass of over-30 Biologists who used to find it diffi­ are endless. Memos fly like grapeshot, pa­ interrupted by another point or an anec­ "straight people", those who retain at cult to get a $5000 grant are now be­ perclips zing through the air, department dote, and taken up later. least a latent inclination to "stand up for ing showered with funds as a result heads and appropriations topple and fall America." It is both concrete (Schell) of the $1 billion National Institutes into the dustbin of history. The emphasis But his basic thesis is fairly straight­ and far-ranging (Kahin), which qualities of Health programs and NASA's is not unusual; when he wanted a list of forward, and does succeed in penetrating make it easy to read, if hard to grasp space biology program. We are com­ all British operatives in the Soviet Union the disorganization: for various reasons, as a whole. Browne's restraint in phras­ peting for the same people who are (or anywhere else for that matter), he "our side" is basically incompetent in this ing points that would infuriate many oth­ working, for example, on cancer re­ took out the file and looked. No blasting war. This same point keeps recurring—in er writers (Viet Cong superiority, US- search. one's way through all those funny looking discussions of both sides' destructive ARVN atrocities the air war) may guns; the guns are all American, Philby "gadgetry", the air war, terrorism, am­ insinuate him into living rooms and minds After several decades of relatively little is a bureaucrat, and he has a pass. bushes, propaganda, conviction and fight­ not otherwise reachable: "To hear only development, a CB weapons revolution If for no other reason, the book justifies ing spirit, "national character", social that moaning sound (of complex electrical took place in the late '50s. With details of itself for its professional commentary on stratification, etc. In virtually every as­ gear in a jet cockpit), like the sighing of this and Vietnam experiments, scientific the FBI and its holy of holies, J. Edgar pect the Americans and South Vietnamese wind around the corner of a house, when organizations began to escalate their polit­ Hoover. turn out to be maladapted to the situation bomb blasts are erupting and huts dis­ ical and ethical concerns. Many such ef­ in such a way as to make it all but impos­ integrating just below, or when napalm forts Clarke relates, while making it clear If there was ever a bubble repu­ sible for them to win. Viet Cong weapons splashes so close below as to scorch the however, that the scientific community is tation, it is his . . . (The F.B.I.'s and traps are ingeniously contrived from plane's paint, is a phenomenon pilots call "split down the middle" on the issues, record of accomplishment) is materials at hand, and stolen weapons are 'cockpit isolation.' Outside there is the with "one half vigorously defending chem­ more conspicuous for failure than maintained with the care born of scarcity: din and horror of jet-age war; inside there ical and biological weapons and the othe!^ success. . .Hoover is a great poli­ while American gadgets, designed in the is the calm and quiet of a computer room. half attacking them with more fervor than ? tician. His blanket methods and States, are adapted to Vietnamese condi­ The pilots are glad to be spared the sounds has perhaps ever been applied by scien­ ruthless authoritarianism are the tions only with considerable embarrass­ they create. I have sometimes wondered tists to any political or military problem." wrong weapons for the subtle ment and difficulty if at all, and a lost or whether it might not be better for some world of intelligence. But they have damaged weapon can be replaced without Air Force officers to be better acquainted much fuss. Viet Cong propaganda is car­ with the ugly cacophony of warfare." Mr. Hammerle is a graduate student at the their uses. There are few people in Divinity School of the University of Chica­ the world without skeletons in their ried on in close and constant contact be­ In many ways, Browne's book is pecu­ go. THE CHICAGO LITERARY REVIEW October- November 1968 Page S5

f&ggguin Modern Poets 11, $.95. But however gride he does vahlo, he never by WENDY RICKERT quite happens upon his lov in a concrete sense and explains to the confused human visitor: Strange* Simpering Penguin Books give one few clues as to what to expect from its eleventh selection I would de­ Voices of Culture of three modern poets. A statement on scribe how although she was not the outside of the paperback assures us here or that the volume contains "representative" there she these lines: tomarily well-bodied rhythm, though the work of each poet. But no preface intro­ was — 0 — e- duces us to their lives or literary histories. Now somebody melts. . .but think­ stories sometimes gain in speed, suspense, nough, in* the and multiplicity of meaning. This form Penguin Modern Poets presents the poetry layered manifold. ing of death got them this way of D. M. Black, Peter Redgrove, and D. That's what you're saying, in these gives plenty of freedom to the reader (it must be said that Katz is usually gracious) M. Thomas, and quite fairly, as it stands. We can watch Black as he learns from environs, These parts of the mind, any mind, without descending into an equivalent of Black conjures up hosts of dwarves. the dwarfs, experiences, and emerges the frequent inanities of John Cage. Redgrove dwells on ghosts. And Thomas triumphantly in the end with equipment: these fancies, permits space travelers, aliens, and an­ five juggling balls. And we know that Thinking of horrors created them D. M. Black has just shown us what a horrors. Even the shape of the book is unusual droids to dominate his poems' land- and and the dust jacket features the same face spacescapes. vital talent juggling can be to the human Love frightens them, so let's fright­ imagination today. en them. on both front andb ack (minus, incidental­ D. M. Black begins his selection with It frightens me. You are a shapely ly, a photograph of the author). The price, poems concerning various "judges," iden­ however, is too high for such a stew, even Let us now face the imagination of D. M. white. tified for us by their colors. These and Oh, I droop with admiration. No, though the author is a competent prose the dwarves which recur throughout his Thomas, as we must sooner or later in poet who curls his language into sentences this review. Thomas bombards the no, I spring! poems indicate Black's way of molding And finally: or smashes it into units that should please reader with confusing expressions such as those who care about language and dis­ his pres'-./ce in an environment through quite"the Vardian Commonwealth," "Lem- Two is a round reality. Dead is a the power of his imagination. How this nonsense. please the academic watchdogs who police nos omikron colony," and "Mnesmosyne our morphology and syntax. So wait for works for him is demonstrated in these Tapes." The sounds of these space terms But a real one. And one of us is \jm: from "Leith Docks": dead. the paperback, pay 95 cents, and take a and the strange situations produced by life look. on other planets seem to be the sole bases The strength of Peter Redgrove and the Here I for many of Thomas' poems. power of D. M. Black are well worth this walked carefully, some feet from At his best Thomas strives to set Penguin Modern Poets 11. Their poetry is the edge, looking vital, honest, and, with the aid of dwarfs Electric Mud up into the lofty cranes. And and ghosts, very definitely real. froze at the familiar voice of the Cadet Concept 314S (Chess Recording Corporation), $4.95. blue Miss Rickert is a second year student in judge saluting me. We the college of the University of Chicago set for a and is majoring in English. byANDYPOLON jaunty fling, cum-parum-parumparapum, Have you ever had that awful sinking and other feeling when one of your idols has sold judges joined, the The Exagggerations of Peter Prince, The Novel by Steve Katz, Holt, Rinehart, & out? Well, Muddy Waters, one of the all- red the green the time blues greats, has finally done it violet the Winston, $6.95. folks. He's recorded an album so incred­ orange, and we ibly commercial that it should have been danced formally there in the by JEHOSHA PROSTHESIS titled "Electric Shit". This album, com­ varying dark. Solemn How can a novelist tell us much about plete with a giant centerfold of Muddy lines and grave evolutions. his art when: a) his "message" or point is posing as Guru and an eight page photo Dawn di­ at best diffuse and b), the machine of his booklet of Muddy at his hairdresser's has luted the subtle dark, faded novel is a gimmicky "Let's let the reader him saddled with a combination soul and my glowing judges. Set me walking in on the construction, man"? Author psychedelic band, and together they grind palely under the tall cranes. Katz tries to expose the stages of story out eight awful tunes, mostly "up-to-date" elaboration very explicitly and to coax versions of some of Muddy's classic blues from the 1950's. Black's generation of vibrant parts of self the audience into reading from an author­ in these judges is reminiscent of Wallace ial viewpoint. Perhaps he thinks this will The band has a competent soul rhythm Stevens' use of creative energy as dis- be exciting or that it will bring the reader section, a piano and organ, all of pj|p%i in the final lines of Black's "A into closer proximity with the springs of which are used on every track. But with Rabbit as King of the Ghosts": creation, or "the dying ember" of the writ­ them is a psychedelic lead guitar which er's mind. Katz is erratically amusing and plays almost non-stop from the start of You sit with your head like a carv­ off the human reaction within the scenes side one to the end of side two. Sort of ing in space tragically evocative, but his self-conscious he creates such as in these lines from method is not unique and it does not, to like the Iron Butterfly Sound replacing And the little green cat is a bug in "Elegy for an Android": Muddy's beautiful bottleneck guitar play- the grass. my thinking, eliminate irritating artifice. Bion and Theocritus ing(which is absent on this album). seeing your straight limbs, Black's forging of self is however not as Although the novel resembles a patch­ The arrangements of the tunescon sist classic grace of feature and gold work quilt more than an art work which principally of snatches stolen from soul relaxed and quick to take direction as is dazzling curls would have Stevens'. At times it takes on the nature of shows unity or at least consistent vibrancy, and rock hits. For example, the opening unhitched their pipes but Katz nevertheless writes very well much of "Hootchie Kootchie Man" on this al­ a difficult quest, as in his fourteen page chancing to see the "Without Equipment." In fact, he shows of the time. His bald humor is gusty when bum is copied from Hendrix's "Foxey La­ tiny emblem 'made in he covers a page of his novel with the com­ dy" intro. Another track, "Harper's Free himself to be quite jostled about in these U.S.A.' in the whorl of yOur lines of Part I: ing and going of a destroyer at high sea in Press," is sort of a cross between Sonny navel would have consecutive photographs, stamped with and Cher's "The Beat Goes On" (sample For those of my compilation it shuddered and walked sometimes seems that nature "NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE lyric: "The Hippies sing a flower song/ on. Yet I loved you, READING ROOM"; or when he maintains will take a quite casual flippancy while draft card burning is going on") and Vanessa, passing the love of the noise of a fan in the room where the the Vandellas' "Nowhere to Run." Occa­ and then women. protagonist is reading a story by covering sionally, horns are used, as the soprano terribly clip it out: will set me the left margin or the text itself with z's. sax in "She's All Right." The horn vamp astride a woolly collie for example, Peter Redgrove's ghosts must be taken very differently from Black's dwarves or And he finely narrates mysteries that can't here is Oriental styled—you know, that ac­ among the giggling nursery and he be resolved and, less finely, periods of id rock sound. A flute is added on this bounds and I am astride a Thomas' space creatures, because they are characteristic of the evanescence of life boredom and waiting. tune, but at the end of the cut the flute and toy plane rushing to an bass suddenly stop and go into the Temp­ impossible take-off over a vast which the poet realizes and strains against in his work. Redgrove does this most suc­ tations' "My Girl" vamp. This is the way jp^rop — falling for His novel consists of many dips and half the arrangements are thought out. - miles over a well- cessfully in "The Widower." The widower starts into the life and travels of the pro­ watered landscape. flounders time and again in insubstantial- tagonist Peter Prince, who is commented ity, as in these Unes: Trie guitar player is unbelievably taste­ on by himself, the author, and two minor less throughout. He wah-wahs through One proceeds with Black into a bewilder­ All lies, and here the lies come characters, Philip Farrel and Linda Law­ "Hootchie Kootchie Man," and on "Same ing world of mechanical plants and the again, rence. Peter Prince plods, mostly mentally, Thing," the album's only blues track, he dwarves who must tend them. This sur­ The dead, and the inventions of the through successive unsatisfying love af­ goes on endlessly. The only tune that realistic combination of factory and fairy­ dead,. . . fairs, pointed social situations, and periods makes it is Muddy's attempt at "Let's tale atmospheres is amazingly effective — The spreading, the too-great ma­ of self-examination. Narrative order and Spend the Night Together." The band it insinuates both threat and curse. jority, continuity mean nothing to the author, lays down*a heavy vamp reminiscent of Whose heads hang from memories though they did to his self-consciously com­ the beat from "Sunshine of Your Love," But when in Part II Black is transported menting and digressing precursors. This and, with Muddy's fine singing, this soul to a medieval setting all good things seem and nausea, Who stroll about vomiting, shaking wouldn't matter if Katz had a mature version of the Rolling Stones' tune almost possible once again. Here the dwarves are writer's will or ideological command. Un­ works. But since Muddy's voice, the "dwarfs" and we can respect them as they and gaping with it, Who goggle in terror of their condi­ fortunately, Katz is too often cute, im­ organ, and the guitar are all heavily are gathered in a bed of nasturtium for a echoed on this track (as on all the tion, who retire at dawn patient, and unwilling to go beyond a poetry reading. It is difficult to follow hackneyed do-nothing nihilism that only others), the overall sound really is elec­ Black's version of the dwarfian tongue, but To almost inaudible thin quarrels tric mud. up and down the graveyard rises from its lethargy well into the text, clearly the dwarf's poem " 'My Lov and and soon sags again as Katz's triumphant strata Charles Stepney is the man to blame I' " is also of a quest: statement that he has finished his book Who lurk with invisible thin whines for the arrangements since the other takes control: his last sentence is, "I am like gnats in daytime musicians are not listed. If you want to the author of Peter Prince." 0 eggoes But who billow through the deep hear some great blues, buy Chess' Best o-oes oze lanes at dusk of Muddy Waters or Muddy Waters at oze in vat sprilliand dinscape. You Like a mist of bleached portraits, The one thing noteworthy about Katz's Newport. But skip this new album. The *&' were who do not exist, gyrations is his talented penchant for nar­ only type of acid this psychedelic blunder there, brezzence not to be zeen Who walk like a shivering laundry rating two or three stories in separate col­ will remind you of is the kind that against vivid of shifted humanity umns on the same page. (The largest sec­ causes indigestion. rock-walls, zhadow not And who stink. . . . tion of such writing in this novel was visible vlung glowing But Redgrove pulls the widower to the published in Chicago Review, Vol. 18, No.'s Mr. Polon is a fourth year student in zhools — tong — ganyong — 0 surface through a Creeley-like testing out 5 and 6.) In these passages Katz's prose Electropaleontology at the University of Gride mush I vahlo! of the parts of the mind as evidenced by tends to contract or expand from its cus­ Chicago.

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Page S6 GROVES OF APATHIA Hinor The Addison Tradition, John Morressy, avoided the chance to take a stand on the son student body: three thousand well- Doubleday, $4.95. question of an unfair expulsion; explaining dressed, satisfied reflections of the trus­ that even so obvious an injustice was not tees, deans and professors who control Poets by DEB BURNHAM a "central issue." (One thinks immediately their lives. Peering angrily from the ho­ of college faculties who have hesitated to mogeneous mass of Addison products is a From Page SI take a stand on the draft because such a tiny handful of malcontents and (compara­ The small college is dying, they say. political issue was not of immediate con­ tive) activists. Grennan sides with them seemed to negate the hope of a radical Financial problems make up the reasons cern.) on the censorship issue but soon discov­ change that would align society with the most often recited by the experts, but to ers that even their concern and involve­ poets' ideals. Despairing, the poets es­ judge from John Morressy's account, the Into this atmosphere of insulation comes ment are limited to issues that affect caped into imaginative worlds. Rossetti small school has already buried its soul Matthew Grennan, English instructor, de­ them directly. As he senses this essential finds only self and woodspurge in a pro­ and can do nothing but keep the body ac­ termined to stick to his research and pub­ pettiness, his own protective selfishness foundly personal sorrow. William Morris, ceptable. There is some subtle horror in lishing rather than become entangled in begins to fall away. The emergence of the despite his socialism, mourns the loss of a the novel's picture of a second-rate, stifl- student activities and faculty politics. He real, whole Matt Grennan is complete golden age of virtue and craftsmanship. ingly conservative school—rather like a is dragged reluctantly into the latter and when he discovers that his colleagues, for Death and the passing of time over­ corpse with a pleasant smile, heavy make­ finds himself unable to avoid sympathetic all their talk of academic freedom, are whelmed the poet's consciousness and up, and vacant eyes involvement with student problems. too naive and too selfish to avoid being seemed to remove all reason for living, all trapped by the very powers that they pre­ value from life. Stylistically the novel is full of some­ tend to disdain. Both the strengths and the weaknesses times appealing, sometimes irritating clev­ of Morressy's account of a student protest erness, as if the author himself once wrote Morressy does a good job of setting Auden chose from the vastness of nine­ lie in his habit of overstatement. Had he for a college humor rag and never quite forth the subtle and indispensible lessons teenth century verse much that is in­ been able to fabricate a more credible lost the touch. His cleverness is most ef­ of his experiences in academic politics. teresting, both for its content and for its plot, his message would be much more fective when he is dispensing the wisdom Like Grennan he is dedicated first of all metrical schemes. The "Romantics" won convincing. It is hard to believe that any of his own experience: to the finest and most human education from the eighteenth century a new po^'c Dean of Students, outside of fundamental­ possible: "Why the hell can't teachers freedom, and their heirs were not c^j^ ist church schools, would get away with Grennan had learned slowly and re­ teach the important things?" Related to less to experiment lavishly within the new ordering a bearded student to shave, then luctantly and at the price of excruci­ this is a realistic but passionate plea that range of verse forms now accepted for expelling the student editor who wrote a ating disillusionment, that liter­ serious verse. The nineteenth century teachers open their eyes and apprehend • • < mild satire on the incident. The general ature did not make bad things good the realities and responsibilities of aca­ poets, too, display great prosodic virtuosi­ reader will probably take the. entire book . . .It simply provided a wealth of demic life with their minds and their guts. ty. This may well be attributed to their as overstatement. This is unfortunate, be­ background material for articula­ classical educations, which demanded of cause Morressy's exaggeration is far less ting his impotent outrage at life. them much time spent in translation or in heavy-handed when he draws a picture of Grennan, after a good many struggles composing verses in Latin or Greek. The the sort of campus where the administra­ There is an odd but not disturbing gap be­ of his own, finally emerges as a man of result of these two factors, new verse free­ tion dispenses the rights of speech and tween the full and sympathetic portrayal real integrity. He is a good teacher, but dom and a training in translation, is a thought, and student government leaders of Matt Grennan and the cardboard par­ what singles him but is the personal pow­ poetry of fine metrical quality: rarely support this sort of action by issuing a odies of the students, teachers, and ad­ er derived from his union of moral and does it stumble, limp, or turn into prose, "mandate for prudence." ministrators. Part of the gap is filled when ethical awareness—usually expressed as does much of contemporary verse. But Grennan's increasing sympathy for his col­ tongue-in-cheek—and his sense of politi­ diction is mostly clumsy. Until the works league's problems (if not for their tactics) cal realities. He stays at Addison because at the end of the century, I am rarely Addison College, the scene of this display allows him to at least sympathize with he feels he must yet realize that there struck by the clearness of meaning, the of administrative paranoia, is committed their willingness to settle for the good- will come a time when he will have to sharpness of imagery. Precision fades with to preserving its insulation by "avoiding enough. Thus he senses their plight—they leave to keep his integrity. If one grad­ carelessness into generalizations or thea­ anything that really counts." The students, are so emmeshed in their own attitudes uates—or rather emerges—from the col­ trics, words seem to be chosen only, on a full of "a kind of bovine tranquility" do that they have fallen into "a kind of moral lective womb of the Addison Colleges of criterion of rhyme of rhythm. not really want much of anything, least of somnambulism in which one knows all the America with anything resembling the proper terms but somehow cannot stir." values and priorities that Grennan repre­ all an education. The faculty's most clear­ The metrical schemes show skill, but thel ly articulated desires are designed to make Grennan is honest enough to express his sents, it is in spite of and not because of them more secure in their narrow and ner­ indignation at their failure to act but will the powers that shape the education of­ language does not resound in the imagina-l vous professionalism. Both students and avoid betraying himself by doing what he fered. The Grennans make the scene less tion with an accuracy of image. Thomas faculty are committed to the mystique of must as a teacher and as a man. bleak, and we need more like him. One Hood, for example, made a "Nocturnal| "going through the proper channels." The hates to see them get screwed, but by Sketch," but when we read- disturbing thing about this mystique is The book itself is only mildly important. living the sort of life that makes adminis­ Anon Night comes with her wings, not so much the rather lazy dedication to Those on the inside will appreciate the trators want to screw them, they may brings things '-^aa. propriety, or even the incredible fear that truth in essence, if not in detail, in Mor­ help save American education. Such as, with his poetic tongue-, it masks, but the appalling ignorance of ressy's portraits of a philistine and pro­ Young sung; just whom this propriety serves. It expres­ vincial Board of Trustees, a pompous and The gas up-blazes with its bright ses a smooth politeness born not of genu­ unimaginative administration, and an op­ Miss Burnham is a third year student in white light, ine courtesy and respect, but of bureau­ portunistic faculty. Most accurate and English and history at the College of And paralytic watchmen prowl, cratic convenience. The Addison faculty depressing of all is the sketch of the Addi­ Wooster. howl, growl, About the streets and take up Pali- Mall Sal, Who, hasting to her nightly jobs, robs fobs, THE SOFT-BOILED DICK —it's not Night, but the final three wordsl in a line that occupy the consciousness.!

The Instant Enemy, Ross Macdonald. cination with the effects of the past and an role of both observer and participator; Poets like Palmer and Hood sometimes Alfred A. Knopf, $3.95. involvement with the middle class that be­ he is at once a critic and an actor. He is a came important in Los Angeles after the cop who takes cases because (usually) he showed more interest in prosodic expert-j Second World War. likes one of the people.—It need not be his mentation and virtuosity than in imagina­ by TERENCE C. WOLFE tive precision. Lewis Carroll for one, felt Macdonald's second novel The Blue City client; in the Instant Enemy it is the In 1944 Raymond Chandler wrote an es­ boy he is hunting, but it is this emotional that this interest, and the elitism engen-l say that has become the classic statement (1949) was a paean to Chandler and quite dered by it, was endangering Poetry: in unlike the first. It involves a fairly obnox­ involvement with people that is Archer's on the "hard-boiled detective" story. Called motivation, his answer to Hammett's Op's "Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur" he took some| "The Simple Art of Murder," it described ious hero coming into a tepid city and solid jabs at his poetic colleagues: somehow trying to evolve a workable po­ blind professionalism and Marlowe's sheer the process by which Dashiell Hammett manipulati veness. "Took murder out of the Venetian vase and sition for himself within its boundaries. If "For first you write a sentence, dropped it into the alley." This insistence the novel is not a complete success it is be­ And then you chop it small; ^^^ on realism linked with an ability and de­ cause it seems a bit overdone and because The action of The Instant Enemy is pre­ Then mix the bits, and sortS&n sire to describe the society in which these Macdonald's hero in this case is not really cipitated by Archer's search for Sandy out writers lived (Chandler again: "a world in the man for the job. Nevertheless, he is Sebastian, a 17-year old runaway girl. Just as they chance to fall. which gangsters can rule a nation and al­ the beginning of the Macdonald hero, a Archer does not really understand kids The order of the phrases makes most rule a city") is a large part of the man who comes closer to fulfilling Chand­ (as I believe is also true with Macdonald) No difference at all. but he recognizes his prejudice and, see­ reason that Hammett and Chandler rose ler's vision of a modern knight in tarnished * * * so far above the genre in which they armour than did Phillip Marlowe himself. ing things this way, we are presented with another of the unresolved conflicts "Next when you are describing wrote. Finally, of course, the reason that The most recent work in the Macdonald A shape, or sound, or tint; they are two of the major American writ­ that are the center of this work. Nearly canon, The Instant Enemy, is surely all the characters here are searching for Don't state the matter plainly, ers of fiction lies in their extraordinary among the most successful fusions of the But put it in a hint: ability. Hammett wrote the best dialogue some sort of order, for a means that will two strains and stands alongside The Zebra permit them to live at ease with each And learn to look at all things in American fiction and Chandler some, of Striped Hearse and The Chill as a book so With a sort of mental squint." the best prose. other and with the world. Good and bad completely realized that it must be consid­ are not easily defined here; the worst Together they inspired a tradition that ered a masterpiece. single action is performed by the man "For instance, if I wished sir, Of mutton-pies to tell, has resulted in quite a few uninspired imi­ The hero of The Invisible Enemy is Lew who seems most good and is done for tations, a few talented second-rate apparently the best of motives. Archer Should I say 'dreams of fleecy Archer named after the partner of Ham- flocks works, and one writer who has been able mett's Sam Spade killed at the start of is a hero because above all others he has to transform their genre into something recognized his position and conflict and Pent in a wheaten cell'?" The Maltese Falson, a private detective "Why yes," the old man said, relevant to his own time. His name is who operates alone in Los Angeles and thus has the greatest ability to survive. Ross Macdonald. We do not believe that Archer believes "that phrase who once had been a cop. Archer is much Would answer very well." like many of the characters in the book: that his search shall be fulfilled. But as Macdonald's first work The Three Roads he does believe that his search has an is an extremely successful attempt at a he is alone; he is part of the post-war A reaction did set in Diction, imagery,} middle class (albeit at the bottom) and end and is thus not existential, so does and symbol did become importan^P En­ "psychological thriller." It is the story of he believe, in a very unsentimental man­ 1 Bret Taylor, a returned naval officer who while he is able to see the precariousness gland. And with this reaction we* fS^Ied| of his clients' lives we cannot believe his ner, that perhaps one of these kids he into the twentieth century with an em­ is suffering from a severe mental lapse keeps encountering, whose lives and souls and the attempts of his woman to save is any less so; he is desperately in search phasis on the perfect word, the compelling of a moral order and a place in a society he attempts to help remain intact, may image, and a confusion of iamb and tro­ him if not his memory. The book is the be able to complete what he has started. basis for half of what became a dual pre­ he mistrusts and which mistrusts him. chee. occupation for the rest of Macdonald's This duality is one of Macdonald's Mr. Wolfe is a third year student at Miss Keister is a fourth-year student ii work. In The Three Roads we find a fas­ strongest assets. Archer is cast in the Berkeley. English at Bryn Mawr College. THE CHICAGO LITERARY REVIEW October-November 1968 » • • • *, •••••• ————

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of world markets with inflationary poli­ its military officers recommend." (The cies as Mr. Rickenbacker contends, and italics are Mr. Rickenbacker's.) Poor Mao9 it is not in any sort of "disequilibrium." What seems most incredible in Death of the Dollar is Mr. Rickenbacker's almost The real problem which Mr. Ricken­ fanatical fascination with gold. He spends It's Always Now backer does his best to ignore has been an entire irrelevant chapter on its beauty, a result of essentially two factors. The lustre, history, and physical properties. first is a severe capital shortage in West­ Did you know, for example, that "The Death of the Dollar, William F. Ricken- and more quotes, one of which runs for ern Europe after the war coupled with the gold content of the average meteorite is backer, Arlington House, $4.95, six pages. He does deserve credit, how­ continued underdevelopment of European about 700 times higher than the gold ever, for his perspicuous review of the capital markets relative to those of the content of the earth's surface"? institutional framework of the Federal United States. The second is U. S. foreign by LAWRENCE MARSH Reserve System, the International Mon­ policy from the Marshall Plan to Vietnam Finally Mr. Rickenbacker settles down etary Fund, - and the Foreign Exchange that year after year has drained the Uni­ to his own area of expertise-investment Death of the Dollar could have been Market. ted States of billions and billions of a good book if Mr. Rickenbacker had not survival. Besides being a senior editor been burdened with two limitations. First of National Review, Mr. Rickenbacker is of all, he is not an economist. Secondly, The basic fallacy in Mr. Rickenbacker's a Wall Street research analyst, and an Mr. Rickenbacker is a doctrinaire con­ reasoning comes to light in his chapter on independent investment advisor. Thiu> servative determined to find a bureau­ the International Monetary Fund. He can­ when he suggests investing in Quaker Oats cratic bugaboo behind every economic not understand, he declares, why after and African gold mines, I'm sure he must problem confronting the nation. In this twenty years of deficits, no one even sug­ know what he is talking about. case, he has cornered the wrong party, gests that the United States might have After his elaborate instructions on the U. S. monetary authorities, and al­ a "fundamental disequilibrium" in its bal­ hoarding, from rare books and violins to lowed the real villain, U. S. foreign policy, ance of trade. It is here .that Mr. Ricken­ convertible securities and gold stocks, Mr. to escape. backer fails to distinguish between balance Rickenbacker has the nerve to say, "Sav­ of payments and balance of trade. ing silver coins or buying a foreign gold ^ Mr. Rickenbacker contends that our mining stock does not amount to 'betting "chronic balance of payments deficit is a The balance of payments includes all against the Government' or engaging in result of runaway spending, monetary mis­ items which give rise to current monetary similar unpatriotic gestures." All I can management, and a policy of "inflation- claims between the United States and the dollars. say is that that is exactly what it does for-inflation's sake" by the U. S. gov­ rest of the world. The balance of trade amount to.-Nevertheless, Mr. Rickenback­ ernment. Worse yet, he views the so-called is limited to commodity movements and Regardless of what might be said for er assures us that he and his elite will debauching of the currency and the re­ is essentially commodity exports minus the U. S. foreign policy from a military, be perfectly willing to take over and re­ strictions on private gold holdings as the commodity imports. political, or sociological point of view, build the country after its inevitable spearhead for totalitarianism. Although from an economic point of view it has downfall. I sympathize with his concern for individ­ Thus, although the United States has been disastrous. But Mr. Rickenbacker ual liberty, such feelings cannot take the experienced twenty years of deficits in brushes aside any such thoughts with the comment, ". . .a country should be able Mr. Marsh is a graduate student in Ec­ place of rigorous economic analysis. its balance of payments, it has had at the onomics at Michigan State University. same time an almost continuous surplus to afford the kind of military structure Lacking concrete analysis, Mr. Ricken­ in its balance of trade. In other words, backer relies on quotes. Quotes, quotes, the United States is not pricing itself out Painless the worship of the book, The Quotations of Chairman Mao, is not as strange as it Gold first appears to most Westerners. There is historical precedent in the worship of the Cliches writings of Confucius. Mao simply utilized Vision and Image James Johnson Quaker Oats Si a deeply entrenched cultural pattern to Sweeney, Simon and Schuster, $4.95. his own ends in a contemporary situation. Revolutionary immortality, Robert Jay Thus, as he now approaches the end of his It is the over-zealous worship of that by JEREMY DUPERTUIS BANGS Lifton, Randon House, $4.95, simultan­ life, his entire present and past existence book, oddly enough, which has produced eous Vintage, $1.95. acquires meaning to him only in terms of one of the major failures of the Cultural Vision and Image is the seventeenth vol­ this Revolution, and his single foremost ume in the series Credo Perspectives -^ by MILTON C. BUTLER Revolution, according to Dr. Lifton. The fear lies in the possibility of its demise. totality of its worship led to the official edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen. The goals Everyone who has been puzzled, repulsed As prime mover and survivor of the Rev­ line that the road to moral and technology of the series are set forth in her long in­ frightened, excited, or generally fascinated olution for which many of his associates col success was the diligent study of the troduction. The series assumes that man by the weird socio-political turmoil with­ died, his guilt compounds his desperate thought of Mao, a doctrine defined in the has reached a "turning point in conscious­ in Red China known as the Cultural Revo­ insecurity. He fears something more than book as "psychism," the attempt to ness" making the twentieth century an lution should read this book. Of the biological death: desymbolization, the de­ achieve control over one's external en­ unprecedented period radically different myriad of explanations of this unique phe­ struction of the specific set of symbols vironment through internal, "psychologi­ from preceding eras, because with almost nomenon proposed by various Western which alone give meaning to his life and cal manipulations." With the national goal unlimited choices for good and evil, man China-watchers, the most frequent have those of the thousands who died during the of industrial advancement and the simul­ must develop wisdom to direct his massive been vague statements that there was course of the Revolution. taneous emphasis on the study of Mao as intervention in the evolutionary process. The series is an attempt to change pre­ some sort of power struggle in progress He has definite grounds for his fear. As a means to such advancement, a certain and that the general chaos was a mani­ enthusiasm was achieved, but one which vailing inherited conceptions of the nature he reported to Snow in the interview, of knowledge, work, creative achieve­ festation of it, or similarly vague conten­ "those in China now under the age of could not replace technological training. tions that Mao Tse-tung was seriously ill What resulted was a spree of frenzied and ments, of man as inquirer and creator, twenty have never fought a war and never and of the culture which results from or dead. Though both positions may have seen an imperialist or known Capitalism erratic production of a variety of com­ merit, after reading Dr. Lifton's book both modities, mostly crude "pig" iron, with these activities. The series presents the in power." He fears that due to the lack thought of many contributors, among seem pitifully inadequate by themselves. of real experience of these forces against no standards of quality and no regularity In Revolutionary Immortality he adopts a of production. Many factories closed, and whom are Erich Fromm, William 0. Doug­ which his Revolution was instigated, suc­ las, Popes Paul VI and John XXIII, Fred "psycho-historical" viewpoint, that is, one ceeding generations might soften in their economic chaos resulted. through which he relates China's tumultu­ Hoyle, Paul Tillich, and Martin Buber, in revolutionary fervor, permit its principles R. J. Lifton's two previous books are the hope of "drawing from every category ous history to certain human psychologi­ to be compromised, permit it to slowly very closely related to the present one: of work a conviction that nonmaterial val­ cal needs evidenced by Mao and many dwindle and die. Thought Reform and the Psychology of ues can be discovered in positive, affirma­ other Chinese throughout this upheaval, Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in tive, visible things." and the result of his approach is the most The Cultural Revolution which he cre­ ated to prevent this embodies part of Trot­ China, and Death in Life, a much longer igjelligent and reasonable appraisal of the book than Revolutionary Immortality in "^[uation that I've read. sky's concept of "permanent revolution." James Johnson Sweeney, author; critic; Mao was attempting to involve the young which many of the concepts in the new book are introduced. He is "widely ac­ organizer of exhibitions (Picasso, Miro, With physical death inevitable, all peo­ actively in the fight against the traditional knowledged as an authority on contem­ Calder, the U.S. Pavilion at the 1952 Ven­ ple feel the need for a sense of the histori­ capitalist and imperialist foes by defining porary psychological patterns in East ice Biennale); Director of the Museum of cal continuity of their lives, a link any and all Western influences as "revi­ Asia," according to the book jacket, and I Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and member between their own existence and those sionist" and calling upon the Red Guard have no reason to doubt it. For the strict­ of the board of editors of Credo Perspec­ events which have occurred before them to exert their power to destroy such in­ ly amateur China-watcher, such as myself, tives, fails to come near reaching the and will occur after their deaths, or as fluences in the name of "purity," or Mao­ the book may prove difficult occasionally goals of the series. Instead of attempting Lifton terms it, a sense of "symbolic im­ ism. This explains the fervor and enthusi­ from unexplained references to certain to examine profoundly what aims separate mortality." Mao Tse-tung will soon be asm exhibited by the Red Guard: they, periods in China's history, and more than present art from past art, Sweeney set­ seventy-five years old. In an interview too, were given symbolic immortality once its clarity is impaired by laborious tles for far less. Vision and Image is just with Edgar Snow, an American, in Janu­ through the Cultural Revolution, the op­ psychological coinages. But otherwise the another layman's guide to modern art. It ary of 1965, he reportedly said that he was portunity (hardly a strong enough word) book is quite intriguing. It gave me a real is better than some (in having no repro­ "getting ready to see God very soon." to relate their lives to the past and future. feeling of what was happening behind the ductions, it has no bad reproductions); Aside from the religious implications of The abundance of verbal death-defiance rather awesome and fear-invoking official worse than others (there is no real dis­ the statement, this death-anticipation is, to be found in the slogans and quotations newsreels and releases. The author's com­ cussion of any particular artist's particu­ in Lifton's estimation, the primary source they flaunted reflects these feelings of im­ ments on the social and political ramifi­ lar works); and as its own contribution of the Cultural Revolution. Later in the mortality and omnipotence: "What is the cations of China's newly acquired nuclear has a rare civility (the pontificating is interview Mao began to reminisce about greatest force? The greatest force is that capabilities are particularly interesting, never strident). his earlier revolutionary activities, dwell­ of the union of the popular masses. What and he has made some somewhat comfort­ ing upon the deaths of his two brothers, should we fear?.. . We should not fear the If one accepts the idea that radical ing, albeit exceedingly cautious, predic­ his first wife, and, during the Korean War, dead. We should not fear the bureaucrats. change is transforming all areas of human tions concerning the type of policy shift his son. What emerged was a psychologi­ We should not fear the militarists. We creativity, as is asserted in the introduc­ forseeable in the aftermath of the cal pattern common among the survivors should not fear the capitalists." tion, then one must consider inadequate turbulence. *ipthe Hiroshima atomic bomb whom Lif­ Sweeney's statement that the difference ton interviewed for his earlier book, Dr. Lifton points out that the Chinese between past art and present art is that Death in Life: the guilt feelings associated culture has traditionally placed a high the past artist tried to record the with having survived events which caused value upon words and writings. Through­ "external world" in contrast to the pre­ out China's history the skills of reading the deaths of many others. Mr. Butler is a first-year student in sent artist who creates a world "out of and writing have been privileges attain­ his inner self." Charles Baudelaire, after able by a relatively small number of peo­ philosophy in the college of the University Mao's life has been completely devoted of Chicago. to the Chinese Communist Revolution. ple in the upper classes. In this context, Turn to Page S8 THE CHICAGO LITERARY REVIEW October^November 1968 • •••••

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Really. Sweeney To Catch The Poet From Page S7 T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, De- as a unity, an approach of which Eliot lacorte Press, 400 pages, $6.50. might certainly have approved. The Father? all, said essentially the same thing in appraisal is presented with precision and praising Delacroix over Ingres hi his com­ By BARBARA BLAIR grace, perhaps because it is the recasting ments on the Salon of 1846. The usual of Ransom's view of Eliot, a change of way to counter this argument is to say "The Man and His Work" is a phrase earlier positions about his work, a reeval- that Baudelaire was "ahead of his time." used too often in writings about public fig­ uation of the poet, thought out with more In point of fact Baudelaire was a part of ures—so often, in fact, that its very sound rigor than Ransom's earlier views. his time because he existed then and not seems to announce a pompous panegyric. The workings of an now. His conception of outer and inner This book, however, fulfills the meanings, artist-writer-critic circle in a center of cul­ worlds, shared with the people he op­ not the connotations ,of the phrase by the diversity and depth of the collection of ture are revealed explicitly in several es­ MULIER BENE SUNT GEMINI* posed, is one of the prevailing inherited PATER SANCT1SSIMUS DIXIT says. The concision which article length conceptions which the introduction says critical and personal essays. It was put together by Allen Tate, at the request of demands and the compelling sense of loss Credo Perspectives is attempting to at the poet's death add to the merit of change for our time. Sweeney approaches the editor of The Sewanee Review. Twen­ ty-six critics, writers, and editors were re­ many of the pieces included in the book. the real difference that separates present quested to write about Eliot. Those who Reading the collection inspires one to read art from past art when he says that "re­ had known him personally gave accounts all of Eliot; reading Eliot prompts curios­ lationships have becpme more important of their meetings, their impressions of him, ity about him and the desire to have than the things which they relate." and his effects on them. Those who had known him. The curiosity is partly satis­ "Things" is, however, an ambiguous word. studied him gave critical appraisals of his fied by this excellent commemorative edi­ By failing to discuss present art's em­ work, or offered illuminating studies of tion; the desire, partly quieted, may phasis on relations between actualized some aspect of his writing. emerge at greater depth. The short piece by Ezra Pound is by far the most mov2^ "It's nro.' and the wife's doing fine!" the Holy Father said. values Sweeney veers away from the subject leaving the impression that, for The personal studies range from anecdo­ and compelling: him, "things" are simply objects one tal snippets by LA. Richards and H.S. Da- FOR T. S. E. Structures of Christian Priesthood, Jean- might put in a still life or elements of vies to moving reminiscences by Robert material to be combined in a composition. Giroux and Frank Morley. His was the true Dantescan voice- Paul Audet, The Macmillan Company not honoured enough, and deserving $4.95. • Sir Herbert Read, late British critic, more than I ever gave him. What Vision and Image does provide is head of the Institute of Contemporary Art I had hoped to see him in Venice by GEORGE RISDEN a painless introduction to the major cliches and art expert by virtue of his years of this year for the Dante commemora­ of current art criticism in the United work at London's Victoria and Albert Mu­ tion at the Giorgio Cini Foundation The concern of this work is with the States. seum, writes at length also. As a contem­ —instead: Westminster Abbey. But, structure of the Church's pastoral serv­ porary of Eliot his narrative account of later, on his own hearth, a flame ice, primarily, the service of the work and 1. The artist in the United States, Swee­ their early friendship is very good. His oc­ tended, a presence felt. of the Eucharist. This is one of the many ney asserts, has a peculiar advantage over casional excursions into quasi-psychoanal­ Recollections? let some thesis-wri­ works today which speaks about the prob­ the artist in Europe. While present art in ytical criticism of Eliot's work and of their ter have the satisfaction of "discov­ lem of the celibate clergy, and the author Europe is abandoning the conventions of ideological differences in later life have ering" whether it was in 1920 or '21 turns to the early Church, using some very past art in Europe, present art in the no validity and, were they not presented in that I went from Excideuil to meet vague references, to point up the fact that United States is abandoning the conven­ such an unfriendly way, would be forgiv­ a rucksacked Eliot. Days of walking from the beginnings of the Church, styles tions of all art in Europe, past and present. able excesses in an essay containing many —conversation? literary? le papier of life were estimated in terms of pastoral interesting remarks. Fayard was then the burning topic. service rather than in terms of any value 2. The communication in art and in par­ The critical essays include a number of Who is there now for me to share a they might possess in themselves. Demo­ ticular paintings can be explained with the different biases, of which a few might be joke with? graphic growth and the growing process of word "metaphor." Sweeney discusses as unfavorable ,and as many theories ab Am I to write "about" the poet urbanization force us to decide what life modern poetry at some length to support Eliot as there are essays about his work. Thomas Stearns Eliot? or my friend style can best serve the pastoral needs of this particular bromide. It all sounds rath­ Three notable essays are John Crowe Ran­ "the Possum?" Let him rest in the Church: celibacy or marriage. er nice, until one comes to the point of som's "Gerontion," "T.S. Eliot: Thinker peace. I can only repeat, but with applying the term "metaphor" to a par­ and Artist" by Cleanth Brooks, and "T.S. the urgency of 50 years ago: READ Until the last decades of the third cen­ ticular picture. This Sweeney avoids; and Eliot's Images of Awareness," by Leonard HIM. tury, marriage seems to have been the he provides no suggestion of how it is to Unger. Ransom's essay is well worth the E.P. dominant life style of those engaged in be done with any meaning (except to add price of the book. It deals with Gerontion pastoral service. The prevalence of mar­ a phrase like "as in art" every time Ezra only, examining the poem gradually by riage, however, began to wane through the Pound or T. S. Eliot is quoted about word and by line, discussing meaning, Miss Blair is a senior majoring in English centuries until the first and second Later- poetry.) Art critics have been glossing rhythm, word choice, sound and referent dialects at Sarum University. an Councils (1123 and 1139) declared the over this issue for a long time. Sir Her­ marriage of any cleric in major orders bert Read mixed poetry and painting as to be null and void. It seems that the peo­ far back as 1925 when he said that a cer­ ple of those times came to think of any­ tain painting had "rhythmic cesurae." Money Talks ...and Talks thing sex-related as impure and thus dia­ 3. "Play is the base of every truly cre­ metrically opposed to the notion of the ative art expression." Too bad for Mi- sacramenta, of which thep riest was the Memoirs of a Banknote by J. Paco er hard the reader tries, he cannot bring chaelangelo. D'Arcos Translated from the Portuguese himself into sympathetic relation with a dispensor. This is the appearance of the by Robert Lyle, Henry Regnery Com­ pervading distinction between sacred and banknote, of whatever value. And that lack 4. "The true artist employs the pictorial pany. carries itself to almost shameful non-in­ secular which still plagues us today. language of his day to convey his mes­ volvement with the characters of the novel. sage." Here Sweeney's failure to discuss by WARREN E. WILDE The character sketches themselves, if told Audet then goes on to explain that to particular artists and works issues in tau­ tology. For it is the pictorial language An object cannot be human and passive from another point of view or even objec­ carry out adequately the command of Je­ tively by an omniscient observer, could be sus to go forth and teach all nations, the used by the "true artist" of any period at the same time. But that is exactly how interesting and compelling. We enter the disciples had to be free. To preach their which determines the pictorial language J. Paco D'Arcos tries to make his female message efficiently, they had to be free, belonging to that period. banknote, all five hundred escudos worth lives of souls whose entire existence de­ of her, function. She is, by her own admis­ pends upon this particular banknote. We mobile, and detached from anything that It is the artist who comes first. In not would hold them down to one place. One sion, "wholly passive," and yet her involve­ witness a prostitute fighting to discussing particular artists and works ment from within the pockets of those who support her son; a mortician who loses left home at that time because the service Sweeney has denied the reader insight in­ possess her is always more than passive. his son and therefore comes to know of of the word demanded it. The life of con­ to the process of art criticism. He has She judges; she sympathizes. She loves and death as more than just a business; a sad„ tinence was not, hwwever, forced upon the also kept his discussion in the category she hates. That is the tension of Memoirs of old • Jewess being brutally transported^^ disciples. "He who is able to receive this, of the abstract universal, which, as the a Banknote, and unfortunately it is a ten­ the gas chambers of the Nazi concentra^ let him receive it." (Mt. 19:11-12) St."Paul introduction acknowledges, is a far lower sion that removes the reader far from the tion camps; an aging English teacher, speaks about this in I Corinthians: "I wish category than the personal. plights of human condition that the novel starving to death, trying to maintain some that all were as I myself am. But each tries to portray. semblance of dignity; a sensitive young poet who commits suicide because the one has his own special gift from God, one of Mr. Bangs exhibits in the United States First, of course, there is the grievous er­ one kind and one of another." and Great Britain. ror of sympathetic contact. Only the most woman he has loved has thrown him aside fanciful reader could find pleasure in as of no value. The people would seem real, identifying with a living banknote, with their stories compelling, if it were not for Later in history, the need and presence the unbelievable voice of the banknote giv­ of the itinerant preacher disappeared. The Philby fears and desires, tucked away in pocket after pocket, observing the affairs of men. ing expression to their personal tragedies. ministers of the word began to work from From Page S4 homes in a situation that would insure Moreover, as appealing as this idea is, some stability. What I believe Audet is try­ selves. If he chose the Soviet Union, it was D'Arcos fails to make his banknote meta­ In this novel, point of view makes all the ing to push is that in the early centuries because he did not wish to end as a morphose; this is no -nutcracker come to difference, and it miserably fails. I would of the Church, the life style of the clergy "querulous outcast." He was aware of Sta­ life, no handsome prince turned ugly frog, rather read of red shoes that come alive was based on the form-foUows-function lin and he made his choice. "Advances no cockroach with a human mind and and carry a lonely ballerina to her death, principle, that is, the type of ministry be­ which, 30 years ago, I hoped to see in my spirit. Any of these devices, as old as Cin­ of toy soldiers that march before wide- ing performed and the manner in which lifetime, may have to wait a generation derella, would work better than the nar­ eyed children, of a great, ugly beast that this was done dictated the life style of the or two. But as I look over Moscow from rative of a banknote that always remains when kissed by a beautiful princess turns ministers. Perhaps today, when the bulk my study window, I see the solid founda­ a banknote and yet somehow talks to us to a handsome prince, or of a gilded statue of ministry is not performed by itinerants, tions of the future I glimpsed in Cam­ from the dark pockets that it inhabits. of a prince whose lead heart breaks for and when those who would travel about bridge." love of a small, kind-hearted swallow. Be­ fore Mr. D'Arcos attempts such an under preaching could easily do it without leav­ In his own words, and they may be the Point of view is the next most obvious ing all their possessions behind, a new life fault of this novel. This particular bank­ taking again, I would suggest that he most revealing words in the book, he some fairy tales. style could easily be employed by the cler­ stayed the course. note, always folded inside someone's wal­ gy, the choice of marriage or celibacy be­ let next to his beating heart or fat buttocks ing their own, as it is with other men. could not possibly see all the life it does. Warren E. Wilde is Chairman of the De­ Mr. Salasin is a fourth year student of So­ Yet from that thin, almost dimensionless partment of English at Los Altos High ciology at the University of Oregon and form comes a very wide perspective. Sad­ School, Los Altos, California, and is work­ Mr. Risden is a senior majoring in philoso­ was recently reconstructed by the Czecho- ly enough, however, the perspective re­ ing toward his Master's Degree at San phy at Loyola University. slovakian Communist Party. mains unconvincing, even distant. Howev­ Francisco State College.

THE CHICAGO LITERARY REVIEW October-November 1968 nHMHBJ^HHI^HHii^^HHHlHHHHB^^HBBBBBBBBB Page 5 Arts & entertainment 'Dulcy9 loses: time marches on by Paula Orth "Dulcy" has not stood the test of time. character of Dulcy is like a constantly is the one exception. Tucker is the only The story is quite insipid—all about dripping faucet and Miss Slezak drips one who brings any life or laughter to "Dulcy," at the Milwaukee Reper­ a young, well-wishing wife who constant­ right along with it. the stage. There is more comedy in one tory theater, is a busy little, annoy­ ly damages her husband's business af­ Also, she injects bits of Sabina (her of his sneers than in the others dialogue. ing comedy by Marc Connelly and George fairs. last role) into Dulcy, not having made Director Tunc Yalman also deserves S. Kaufman. Dulcy is quite annoying as written, but the transition from one play to the other. blame for this mess. Characters are First presented on Broadway in 1921, Erika Slezak makes her unbearable. The As a sophomore acting student she would constantly moving in and out, off stage be fine, but Miss Slezak uses the same and on stage, back and forth, which seems laugh and the same gestures she has used like a disgusting approach to stage move­ in many other roles. ment. There is just too much rushing Acting and direction Her standard procedure seems to be to about to settle down and enjoy the com­ squint her eyes, wring her hands, slap on edy—if it were enjoyable. a smile, open her mouth and away she It is amazing in a play with so much goes.... movement and so much talking that no­ give 'Roses' realism The other characters, with one excep­ thing ever happens. by Paula Orth tion, are just as flat and annoying as Dul­ inner tensions and emotions, so that the cy. R. Daniel Mooney (Willie, Dulcy's audience begins to realize, finally, why In the program notes, Yalman says Fine acting and deft direction make brother) constantly looks like he's just these people (and many like them) live sucked a lemon, no matter what expres­ that this is one play "...which several "The Subject Was Roses" a tense yet and feel as they do. new generations have never seen, nor warm and truthful film. sion he wants to wear. The rest of the ("The Subject Was Roses" is showing cast walk through their roles. heard of." He could have done us a fa­ Patricia Neal, Frank Albertson and at the Esquire theater downtown). Martin Sheen give almost too realistic Michael Tucker as the butler, Henry, vor by letting us continue to ignore it. portrayals of a family's problem with the "generation gap" in 1946. 9 The performances are "too" realistic in that the viewer is always being pull­ Child s play delightful ed into the film, experiencing the same feelings and tensions as the characters. by Alice Gormley One especially fine scene shows Tim- much to hold the young audience's atten­ audience contact which can be enjoyable my (Sheen) telling his father (Albertson) tion—which is no easy thing to do. for both actors and audience, especially that he no longer considers himself a The significant factor in "Flibberty­ in a case involving children. Every year the theater department gibbet" lies in the effect such an ex­ Catholic. In one short argument, writer puts on a touring children's show. This Nevertheless, most of the children Frank D. Gilroy shows why children perience has on a child toward theater. year the presentation is "Flibbertygib­ Some of the special effects probably were engrossed in the production, and are upset when parents won't let them bet," a Scottish fantasy about a happy, it seemed to be a very pleasant ex­ become individuals, but just extensions gave them a glimmer of what theater magic working fairy and everybody living can do, but there was none of the direct perience for them. of themselves. happily ever after. The outstanding performance of the The acting was very adequate for its three is given by Frank Albertson as a context. Although energy and concentra­ man ashamed to show his emotions. tion seemed low, the tone was sincere Negative movement fest Albertson, who originated the role on and lacked the facetious quality so often Broadway, fills the man with all the hopes (and unfortunately) found in children's and dreams of parents eager for their theater. both humorous, boring children's happiness, but afraid to let What did seem a little peculiar was them go. that half the cast had Scottish accents by Daniel L. Ball "The Old House Passing" was vocally The film moves not only due to the and half didn't, and many accents pe­ opposed by some members of the au­ acting, but also through the excellent tered out long before the last act. It's The still functioning Negative Move­ dience. Reaction was so vehement that the direction by Ulu Grosbard and the per­ probably luck, though, that they did, ment held another of its film fests in Movement had to stop the showing and fect camera work. Where the play was since it's not easy for children (or anyone the Fine Arts lecture hall Friday night. run it afterwards for those who wanted boring in many parts, Grosbard's direc­ else for that matter) to make sense The results were mixed attempts at new to see it It was a sketchy story about tion adds more action and movement, out of a heavy and generally inaccurate "art forms" which were sometimes people in an old house set in a dark leaving little room for dull moments. Scotch burr. boring. atmosphere which tried to minim alize And the camera work constantly fo­ Costumes were lovely, the sets inter­ The most humorous and entertaining the detail and viewing effects. The movie cuses on the actors' faces, concentrat­ esting, and lighting effects quite nice. part was the "occurence" performed by was silent save for the musical score ing on the physical manifestations of their Costumes and lighting, in particular, did the US group. Tom Grabowski was par­ which consisted of various moody orch­ ticularly good in his innocence part, estral pieces. Excessive length of the though Henry Steinfort was a bit vege­ movie and lack of plot upset the au­ tative. Some of the audience seemed a dience. Schenck debut Nov. 20 bit unsettled at this tough others seemed Student musicians here and a young The most entertaining film of the master to Taik Ki Kim, scholarship mu­ well bread (sic). evening was "Movie" by Bruce Connor^ conductor, Andrew C. Schenck, 27, new sic student who often is heard in recitals Bruce Bailie's experiments re re­ member of the music faculty, will pre­ we It consisted of various cliche film cups. and who plays violin in the widely recog­ markably well executed. Use of nega­ His other film, "Breakaway," concer­ sent their first concert of the season nized student Piano Trio. Another Ko­ tive exposure against multiple images at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20th in the ned itself with a girl dancing in various rean scholarship student, Bo Youp afforded some excellent viewing. attitudes of undress and thusly appealed Fine Arts theater. Hwang, plays second principal violin. The full program, the first of a ser­ An attempt at minimal art in the film to any voyeurs in the audience. ies of three free public concerts, will offer "Euryanthe Overture," Carl Maria von Weber; "Adagio for Strings," Sam­ uel Barber; "Simple Symphony," Benja­ min Britten, and "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor," Ludwig van Beethoven, Schenck will conduct the orchestra in series concerts Feb. 26 and March 26. The date for a fourth full length concert will be chosen to coincide with the annual Contemporary Music Festi­ val here in early spring. In addition Schecnk is preparing for concerts to feature student soloists Dec. 15 and May 18. The orchestra preparing for the ex­ tensive season has 68 members. Schenck has given the responsibility of concert- Magidoff will speak on Soviet literature Robert Magidoff, professor of Rus­ sian literature at New York university, will speak in the Fireside lounge at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 25. His talk on "Something Odd Happened to Soviet Literature on its Way to Free Expres­ sion" will be sponsored by the Slavic languages department. Magidoff is known for his television This year's Holiday Folk fair was gram, which was presented every night and exhibits from the participating eth­ series, "Sunrise Semesters in Soviet dedicated to the American Indian, and at the Fair, Nov. 15 through 17. Also nic groups. The Folk fair was spon­ Literature," seen on 100 CBS stations the dance program was entitled "Swift featured at the Fair were a sidewalk sored by the International Institute of in the 1964-65 and 1967-68 academic Feather Takes a Bride." A group of cafe with foods from many different Milwaukee. years. dancers formed a half circle in the pro­ countries, and a world mart, with gifts UWM POST Tuesday, November 19, 1968 Page 6 ... UWM-MTC: on the rebound ^* by Richard Mial Another student pointed out the fact tween the two schools is that UWM grew transfer irom school to school, grade that MTC is primarily a technical out of a teachers' college while MTC points do not, he stated. The students' Every semester students transfer and trade school. "Where else could grew out of a high schooL averages are used to determine whe­ from UWM to Milwaukee Technical Col­ you find courses in psychology and weld­ According to Redovich, many students ther or not they should be admitted to lege and vice versa. Why? ing offered in the same school?" he attend MTC for two years and then trans­ a particular school, he pointed out. According to Dennis Redovich of the asked. fer to a four-year school. The courses Credits in English, speech, foreign MTC placement office, 20% of the trans­ "The atmosphere at MTC is de­ offered at MTC make it possible for a language, history, math, natural and fer students there are from UWM. The pressing," one student commented. student to meet his basic requirements social sciences, and some technical admissions office here reported 276 "You've got college dropouts, high school there before transferring to another engineering courses are transferrable transfer students from MTC this sem­ dropouts and serious students all crow­ school to specialize in one field, he ad­ to UWM. Students can get a complete ester. ded into the same school," he added. ded. list of the specific subjects acceptable One of the main reasons for this ex­ Susan Belski, co-editor of the stu­ Redovich said that a big misunder­ from the admissions office here. change of students is grades. Students dent newspaper at MTC, said that a standing many students have is about dropped from UWM because of poor possible reason for the difference be­ grade point averages. While credits grades have a second chance at MTC. MTC has served as a kind of "half­ way house" between high school and four-year colleges for years. On a re­ Love, respect students cent poll taken at MTC, students gave this as their main reason for attending. Answers like, "because of my low by Edith Goodman "way of life." "Teaching demands to­ One of the student teachers Krueger high school grades only a few schools tal involvement" and "total commit­ supervises once asked a girl why she were open to me," were typicaL Teachers should "love, respect, and ment," he said. was late to class. The girl replied that Random interviews of MTC students pay attention to what their students feel Krueger said, "We must base teach­ she "had been raped by her mother's brought a variety of responses. as well as what they know," said Paul ing not on what we want to teach, but lover" that morning. One student there said, "MTC is a H. Krueger, assistant professor of edu­ what they (the students) need." Teachers The incident, said Krueger, took place 'junior college' in every respect. It's cation, at a meeting of the Students of should "develop a curriculum which at Wells junior high schooL smaller, offers fewer academic cour­ Education in the Union Thursday. would be meaningful to the students." ses and is easier than most universi­ Krueger said teaching should not be He added that he did not see how ties," regarded as an occupation but as a "Silas Marner" was relevant to the lives Anti-violence grant of many underprivileged children who have enough trouble reading comic books. The office of continuing education here CAMPUS Krueger said teachers "must be hu­ and the university extension will coordi­ PARAPHERNALIA man beings." Students get the impres­ nate a program to combat problems of 1623 W. WELLS sion that teachers are not human beings violence. because teachers often feel that they The Johnson foundation, Racine, pre­ must maintain an image and not "get sented a $2,000 grant to the University <** b* involved" with the students. for that purpose recently. $ 0h '•• : tf &* « You can stay on top of your classwork ...

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Letter winners in the four spring In addition, the recipients of the W- sports—track, baseball, golf and tennis, pin, the club's service award, were an­ were announced at the Spring Sports nounced. They included : Ron Bruce, Banquet held last Sunday in the Union's Dick Flesch, Terry Fredenberg, John Milwaukee Room. Jacklin, Phil Jones, Mike Kottke, John The awards were presented by Her­ Matthews, Jim Skarie, Bob Zacharski. man Kluge, athletic director, and each Other recipients were: Rich Ebbens, individual coach. The event was spon­ Fred Russell, Dale Schoeller, Jerry sored by the Letterman's club. Brown, Greg Lenarduzzi, George Carns, The 1967-68 baseball letter winners Leo Martinez, Mick Petty, Ron Kurtz, included: Dick Cosentino, Robert Helmi- Jim Dardis, Lee Kottke, and Dick Klus- niak, Jerry Jenders, Alex Kaminski (co- mann. captain), John Klement, Del Kreuser, Tim O'Driscoll, Mike Potter, Lou Raf- faale (co-captain|, Mike Sanders, Jim Ruggers tie, Skarie. Also on the list were: Cal Wetzel (co-captain), Mike Ytrre, Mark Ziebeil, season over and managers Dave Haberkorn and Carl The Milwaukee rugby club played its Zitek. best game of the season Sunday in ty­ Track letter winners for 1967-68 in­ ing the powerful University of Wiscon­ cluded: Steve Ahl, Steve Bingen, Mark sin team 3-3 at Engelmann field. Buelow, George Carns, John Christen- The Badgers scored'first when wing­ sen, Frank Czerwinski, Russell Dahms, er Les Castleberry picked up the ball Jim Dardis, Dave Gename, Gerald after a loose scrum and scampered Gansch (captain), Robert Hanlon, Lee 25 yards to score in the 45th minute Kottke, Wulf Koehlert, Ron Kurtz. of play. The conversion was missed. Other winners were: Tim Laughlin, In the 55th minute of play Milwaukee Leo Martinez,BillMeyer, Mike Moriarty, scrum half Dick Axford went to the blind John O'Neill, Mick Petty, Jerry Slava- side and passed to inside center Tom ta, Thomas Widule, Ed Wozniak, Allan Mosgaller who went in for the score. Wynveen, Don Anderson, Steve Becker, Milwaukee also missed its conversion Jim Taglieti, and Dexter Riesch. attempt. The tennis letter winners for 1967-68 Although UW was clearly better in included: Jerry Bartz, Peter Bartelt, loose play and in line outs, the Mil­ KenMatzger, Jack Bleier, John Ullrich, waukee club won almost every scrum. and Rick Soto. The Wisconsin team ended with Letter winners in golf for 1967-68 a 9-1-2 record whileMilwaukee finished were: Andrew Anderson, Russell Gor­ with a 3-1-2 mark in its first season. man, Chuck Marohl, Richard MastaL, In the spring the Milwaukee club will Robert Smith, and Mark Olsen. play 12 games against Big Ten schools and will also face Notre Dame and the P.S.K. touch champ Chicago Lions. Milwaukee will partici­ pate in the St. Louis Rugby Festival during Easter vacation and in the Mid- Phi Sigma Kappa £>ok first place in America tournament in Chicago on May the playoffs for the intramural touch 3-4. football championship, according to Kurt Anyone interested in playing for the Grimm, director of intramural sports. Milwaukee team next spring is urged Phi Sigma Kappa defeated Phi Sigma to contact David Blick at 272-5166. Delta for the title and the Vet's club downed Delta Sigma Kappa for third place. Frosh, varsity meet Grimm also announced a correction in the bowling schedule for Monday, Cecil Morries Nov. 18. Teams 8 and 9 will use lanes The Panthers' annual freshman-var­ 15-16; teams 6 and 7 on lanes 17-18; sity basketball game is scheduled for teams 4 and 5 on lanes 19-20; teams Thursday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. in Baker 2 and 3 on lanes 21-22; and teams 11 fieldhouse. Thirty records set and 1 on lanes 23-24. Originally, teams Admission will be $1 with proceeds during past season 6 and 4 had been scheduled to play. going to the athletic scholarship fund.

The Panthers set a total of 30 re­ by O'Hagan was that he became only cords this past season, despite a 2-7 the fourth player in UWM history to record. kick a field goal. His field goal., a 26 The most active player in the record yarder, came against the University of department was senior quarterback Jim Illinois—Chicago circle. It was also the Skarie , who rewrote 11 marks in longest FG ever kicked by a Panther. passing and punting. HistoricaUy, field goal kicking has not In the season opener against Illinois been one of the Panthers' strong points. State, Skarie passed 44 times, a new Senior running back Wayne Wolski record here. He punted for a 42.3 yard took the individual rushing crown with average in the game against Eastern 267 yards, including a 78 yard effort in Illinois, including a 72 yarder that set the season finale against Bradley. Fresh­ ^~v_... another record. man defensive back Errol Barnett re­ Skarie also compiled the highest ca­ turned 19 punts for 137 yards to lead reer pass completion percentage—.513; in that category. Another individual lead­ he threw the most touchdown passes— er was Bob Baker, sophomore running 19; and gained the most career total back who returned 11 kickoffs for 207 offensive yardage—2,351, the most any yards. gridder has compiled in this school's history. Terry Fredenberg, senior split end, led the team in receiving for the fourth I I straight year. Fredenberg set a new re­ cord by gaining 786 yards on pass re­ Harriers second ceptions. The old record, incidentally, was set by Fredenberg in 1966. The cross country team finished in He held the career record for yards second place in the Amateur Athletic gained on pass receptions going into the union's 10,000 meter championship at 1968 campaign. Fredenberg caught 206 Estabrook park Saturday. passes for 2,789 yards and 24 touch­ The Kegonsa Track club of Madison downs in his career. Overall, he scored won the team title with a total of 19 26 TD's for 158 points. points. The Panthers had 36 points and Fredenberg set a record by leading Lakeland college of Sheboygan finished the Panthers in scoring for the past third with 65 points. season with eight touchdowns good for The individual honors went to Tom 48 points. Hoffman, an unattached runner from ifjpp-" Mike O'Hagan led the Panthers in pass Whitewater whose time was 31 minutes interceptions for the second straight 10.2 seconds. Bruce Fraser led the Ke­ season, upping his career record to 19. gonsa runners with a second place fin­ The junior defensive back intercepted ish. Mike Lawless, unattached runner 11 passes last year for the single sea­ from Racine, took third. son record. UWM's Dean Kusik and George Carns One of the more dubious records tied finished ninth and tenth respectively. Phil Vanderhyden UWM POST Tuesday, November 19, 1968 Snow expects food Whafs happening will not meet needs Tuesday, November 19 Thursday, November 21 FULTON, MO.—CPS—In a pessimis­ countries, and then—if no progress has FILM: "Bay of Pigs" (NBC). Bolton MOVIE: Studio 16. Fireside lounge, 12:30 tic lecture to Westminster College stu­ been made toward curbing birth rates or 52, 11:05 sum.; Bolton 150, 8:30 p.m. p.m. Free. dents last week, British scientist and "The major catastrophe will happen Free. SPEAKER: "Art Treasures of Austrian phHosopher C. P. Snow said he is no before the end of the century. We shall, FOLK SINGER: Don Crawford. Union National Library." Josef Stummvoll. longer sure what chance the world has in the rich countries, be surrounded by Milwaukee room, 2-5 p.m. 50?. Fireside lounge, 3:30 p.m. of surviving the inevitable collision of a sea of famine . .. The political con­ MOVIE: Union Outing-Ski club. Fireside BUFFET-LECTURE: "New-Arts." expanding population and dwindling food sequences are hard to imagine . . . lounge, 7:30 p.m. Free. Douglas Davis, "National Observer" art supply. Many in rich countries are so selfish LECTURE: "The Monastery & the Great critic. Milwaukee Art center, 6 p.m. that they would, and maybe will, be wil­ Church of Cluny Before the Destruc­ $3.50. Although he lauded students for their ling to get richer and use the techno­ tion." Mr. Kenneth J. Connant. Bolton RECEPTION: Art Students league show. idealism, he said their protests were too logical superiority their riches gives 52, 8:15 p.m. Fireside lounge, 7:30 p.m. often inspired by "trivial" causes — them to fight off the hungry millions out­ CONCERT: "Festival of Baroque Mu­ CINESERIES: "Cheyenne Autumn." Bol­ trivial compared with the overwhelming side." sic." Scholarship benefit. Fine Arts re­ ton 150, 7:30 & 10 p.m. General, 75?; problem of human survival. Protests This fate, according to Snow, is inev­ cital hall, 8:15 p.m. General, $2.50; student, 40?. Also Friday. and disruption, he said, only contribute itable unless long before then both rich student, $1. FOLK SINGER: Don Crawford. Union to the state of "uneasiness and fear" and poor countries have cooperatively Milwaukee room, 8 p.m. ^0?. that will make impossible the kind of worked to revolutionize food production Wednesday, November 20 PLAY: "The Revenger's Tragadie," by cooperation that saving half the world and cut back population increases. LUNCH-MOVIE: Snack lunch and movie. Cyril Tourneur. Fine Arts theater, 8:30 from starvation will require ten years p.m. General, $1.; student, 75?. Also, from ndw. University Lutheran student center, 2223 Geologist rocked E. Kenwood blvd. 11:30 & 12:30 p.m. Nov. 22-24. The author of "The Two Cultures," LECTURE: "Lake Superior Iron Ores." Friday, November 22, one of the first books to contend that ST. LOUIS, MO.—CPS—The earth­ Prof. Ralph W. Marsden, U. of Minn.i at Duluth. Sabin hall 108, 3:30 p.m. CONCERT: Fine Arts quartet, woodwind wealth was the major dividing line be­ quake that rocked the midwest a week quintet. Fine Arts theater, 12:30. Free. tween the world's people, said the best and a half ago interrupted a meeting of SPEAKER: "Censorship and the Mass ID required. scholars and researchers are convinced environmental scientists at Washington Media" Prof. David Host, Marquette GASTHAUS: Union east alcove, 2-6 p.m. that the collision of population and food university here. As the room shook, univ. Newman center, 2528 E. Linwood Piano player 3:30 -6 p.m. 21 LD re­ shortage will come around 1980. There an unidentified geologist stood up to av. 8 p.m. quired. will be local famines in underdeveloped offer his expert opinion: "I suggest CONCERT: University Symphony orch­ LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION: JohnDa- we'd better leave the building." estra. Fine Arts theater, 8:15 p.m. Free. vis. Planetarium, 7 & 8 p.m. Free. RIVERVIEW ® BARBER SHOP lite finest In haircuts with prices that please PANASONIC ADULTS $2.00 CHILDREN $1.50 (under 12) presents 2216 NORTH FARWELL (Oriental Building) See you at the Riverview

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