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and Despair! "NOT BY POLITICS ALONE" Where the heads ef all nations meet "The revolution is primarily the awakening of the human personality in the masses, in those which were supposed to possess no personality/^ . . * TROTSKY

The desire for a new poliiical, • •flf,YCiO^,miP!m PiMYPERVERT V economic and social order of so­ " ; WEIRMPINMfflAlMiEFA&SOTeOPPAM ciety rtafurally gives off its im­ i.-1 HiPPiEPUNWKAV£M«EAKi?BU«VNUP pulses to the field of science, lit­ • :\ Thf nt SKf WXXVli 60NMA PO FER ' erature and art but with these im­ tinjeWlagePoutique pulses there must be a warning. These fields can suffer greatly as a result of upsurges in rcvolulJon Outerwear ary politics. This passion for the totally new can become destruc­ tive in the cultural and scientific fields if it manifests itself in the * 214 Moggill Road, Taringa form of total rejection of that which is considered bourgeois or * Chr. Hawken Drive & reactionary or not reflecting the Central Avenue, St. Lucia. true spirit of the new ideology. The problem is one of the iconoclastic desires stimulated in people who are under the sway of new ideas. In Russia after the fAfS^?! Phone: 713645 revolution, theorising Bolsheviks mounts the limitations of his social rationalized this mood into a circumstances. This is the reason pseudo-Marxist rejection of the old why works of art created hundreds "class culture" which was to be and thousands of years ago still "AUCE'S RESTAURAKTl. ARLO GUIHRIE swept away. The new "Proletkult" fascinate modern man and con­ A/Hr»: 75384 proclaimed the advent of prole­ tinue to strike a chord in him and PATQUm'iAMESBROOERKK iNdiii«»apnESEE(2R-lEIHAyS tarian science and art. The doc­ will do so into the future. Those .-^.VENABLE HERNDON-ARTHUR PENN trinaires of this group of writers who wish to see a new and better and artists argued with some society should review critically, HILURD ELKINS-JOEMANDUKE ftncMlirv««„ARTHURPEN N plausibility that just as there had using the new criteria which they COLOR by Deluxe Im. •-HI ttct'i taart MaucNt* been feudal and bourgeois epochs have created, all inherited values. Suitable Only OmeaW HOIMN PKTUK KOM OarttdXHtitiM in the history of civilization, so the Before the values of the past can for -Adulta AWMUaUOWUWITtOIUmOTMCWIOl proletariart dictatorship ought lo be subjected to criticism they must inaugurate a culture of Its own, be thoroughly assimilated, and be­ 0tllr at permeated by Marxist class con­ fore revising any field from a new 2.00 p.!n, «n4 angle, it must be first "mastered" t.00 p.m. NOW sciousness, militant international- AIM Wtds., Brisbane's Specialty CIniml Ism, materialism, atheism and so from Inside. 11.00 a.m. and forth. Some maintained that Marx­ Concerning science, it is a most Satt., 5.00 p.m. SHOWING ism by itself already constituted vital interest of this field that the that new culture. scientist should have a broad up- These doctrines give a warning to-date philosophical outlook. The of the dangers to a revolutionary predicament of the modern scien­ movement of treating the "cul­ tist is his lack of integrated vision tural heritage" of the past with of the world and even of science nihilistic contempt. The derrron- itself. Of necessity science works stration of the destructiveness of empirically; and specialization and these tendencies was given by the fragmentation of knowledge ac­ Russian peasants who, during their companies its progress. Yet the seizures of land in the revolution greater the specialization and often burnt the artworks and lib­ fragmentation, the more urgent is raries of the landlords along with the need for a unifying conception their mansions, inevitably leading of the world — otherwise the to a handicap in the cultural field thinker's mind becomes constricted within his speciality and even SIGHT AHD SOUND which Russian society had to make up. The task of a new society js within it, his progress is Impeded. to take possession of this heritage Lack of philosophical insight and and to protect it. Nevertheless jt distrust of generalizing thought should not all be accepted indis- have been responsible for much criminantly but should be analy­ avoidable scientific confusion and sed in the light of new ideas and groping tn the dark. What should HAS ARRIVED Its historically formed contradic­ be strived for is an integrated tions recognized. vision of nature and human so­ ciety, a vision which, far from The achieve.Tients of civtltzation being an arbituary concoction or a To Teach You To Touch-Type have so far served a double pur­ figment of the metaphysical mind, pose: they have assisted man in accords intimately with the varied gaining knowledge and control of empirical experience of science. nature and in developing his own After Twelve Houriy ijBSsons capacities; but they have also Culture and art are Important served to perpetuate the division fields of human activity and there­ of society and the domination of fore it should not be reasoned from man by man. In more recent times historical analogy that the crea­ ,','.'.'•' civilization has also achieved the tions of the present society are iso­ THE SIGHT AND SOUND method was developed in Eii^^id and is now used capacity to destroy itself, making lated from those of a post-revolu­ the control of its achievements in tionary order that would strive for in 20 countries around the world. a human manner of paramount im­ the creation of a universal human portance. As a result of this "two- culture. The bourgeoisie had the THIS IS THE AUTHENTIC WORLDWIDE AUDI^HlSUAL APPROACH TO purpose" development a new so­ capacity to create its own culture TOUCH TYPE KEYBOARD TRAINING. ciety must discern the elements because it was financially and so­ of its heritage which are of uni­ cially powerful even before its as­ versal 'Significance and validity sumption of control of the Fxjliti- from those which are bound up cal machine. But the condition of with obsolete and obsolescent hitherto powerless classes after a social systems. The perfect ex­ period of rapid social change would ample of this is a machine of pro­ be one of cultural difficulty and 25% STUDENT DISCOUNT duction. This apparatus increases so it would be a hard battle to productive power but has under originate new and significant capitalism, served as an instru­ phases in human thought. In the ment of exploitation. Even so, field of culture any new trend con­ socialists cannot exclaim that the tributes something to the tech­ machine must not be used, he niques of artistic creation and also Come to the FREE COLOUR FILM showf^g|by Thursday at MS p.m. in the SIGHT AND must simply state that it is to be expresses definite social demands, run collectively and, consequently consequently the culture of a post- SOUND CENTRE. for the common good. This same revolutionary society would take .•'... ••' argument applies for the fields some time to establish predictable Allkeyboardt of science, art and culture also. patterns as a result of the up­ Basic, Speed and Accuracy Courses surge of demands coming from the As a rule, the main body of Refrather Courses for: strictly scientific thought of the alteration of the social fabric. Computers, Typewriters, Telex, 'past Is relatively little distorted, The fields of science,' art and although it has developed In un­ literature can be Infinitely en­ Teleprinter, Teletypesetting. Varitype. just and.inhuman societies. It is in riched and their productivity can Accounting Machines, Lumitype. ideological creation, especially in be. greatly increased as a result of notions on society Itself, that man's a struggle for a new "material" domination by man is mirrorred basis for human relationships, pro­ most directly. But even here ele­ vided that the Ideas that bring the ments which reflect inequality and struggle into being are not used SIGHT ANif SOUND EDUCAHON (QLD) oppression and serve to perpetuate to discount the merit of the crea­ It, are intricately combined with tions of past and present. If. this other elements, through which course Is taken then the "new 8^ Floor, Jorobe Building, man takes cognizance of himself, society" will have the capacity to Cnr. Queen and Edward Streets, PHONE 21 6743 sharpens his mind, enlarges his In­ enrich the minds of alt human telligence, gains Insight Into his beings within it, to a degree un­ Brisbane. emotions, learns to control himself, known at the present. and therefore to some exicnf sur- Col. Pearce semper floreat, tuesday June 23rd., 1970 Page 2 a BEFORE

A Chronology of Events --Students. C.R.A.. Discipline, the Defence Department and the AdministratiorC ^~^—' ^ 1. During the period June 11th to June 25th the university is providing facilities for Conzinc Rio Tinto (notorious for its Bouganviile activities), the Defence Department and the Department of Navy so that they can recruit employees. 2. On June 14th, 45 students sat-in in the Professorial Board Rooms to protest againt the use of an "educational institutions" space and equipment for agencies so theoiet- ically antithetical to a concept of a university and to show clearly their opposition to the activities of the above groups in their national and intemational actions. 3. On June 15,16 and 17 six or seven people received notices that they were to be disciplined for a variety of offences. Five, on grounds relating to tne illegal entiy into the Professorial room and 2 (very active people) on the above charges as well as "that on the same day you committed a breach of discipline in that ^ fi^ you were guilty of conduct within the precincts of the university wnich was un- proper and detrimental to the interests of the university in that yoa incited other persons there present to disobey a reasonable direction of the Registrar." 4. On 18th June, 140 people deliberately broke a number of university by-laws. * J0 Their names are being submitted to the Reristrar in order tiat proceedings can be begun against them. This is an attempt to snow the hyptocrisy of the university in that it is assumed that no action will be taken against them. 5. At this stage, none of the people committed to trial have appeared before the judge and juty Professor Pareons. Some will be presenting tnemselves in order to argue the ihatlonality of the administration's proceedings, some will not be appearing on the basis of the illegitimacy of the present power holders, i. e. they were not elected, to define what is reprehensible conduct in this university. These two approaches are obviously not mutually exclusive,

Jirti Prentice.

TURN ON THE EASY WAY RIDE YAMAHA The Private Man and his private eyes have the Defence Department war on Vietnam from as low as $65 deposit revealed themselves as either extremely and lunatics, as you have implied in another hyprocitical or faced with such a contra - sense^bn/e no^mg to do with a university. FROM dictoty political predicament that diey are We are getting a little angered. forced into taking disciplinary action against YAMAHA EASYRIDERS seven sacrificial long haired lambs. Hypo­ Under the then guise of scholarship in this 341 Wickham Street. Valley*S11197 critical in the sense that if they ate university there flowers, on the dung heap, seriously concerned to debate, (as they so a certain frastratioa A frustration born of often claim they are), what are they doing disgust and a disgust bom of exasperation witit prosecuting students under such nebulous, a failure of any of the people of this yet potenually explosive definitions of university to at least justify their power and misconduct as "unproperand detrimental right to decide whether we want the Defence to the good name of the university". Surely Department on campus, whether we want something a little more precise would be C. R, A. and its fraternal competitors of the apt. The benevolent administrators, business world to use our facilities. concerned with the free flow of ideas, have a little explaining to do about the It now occurs to me, after sitting in the "good name of the university", A few palatial Professorial Board Rooms, that we questions spring to mind like does their are and were playing a rather serious game conception of improper conduct imply a with rather loaded dice. ItJ alright to talk, judicious concern for the popular con­ albeit rather heatedly, with our fond sensus of the outside community cleverly administrators with tneir canine grins but indocfrinated with the Courier Mail view of two days after you find a registered letter the World? and if so^what of the automony saying you have entered an unusual room of the university? Ot if the good name ot against the. wishes of the registrar (perhaps the University refers to consensus of the that is where he gotMs name from) and tnat community why not let us vote on what you have incited other students to disobey a discipline we want? Is It that the political reasonable order (a euphemism for an ulti- economy of this institution demands that we matlum to get the hell out of my rooms.) define misconductjn the same terms as Bjelke-Petersen, Foots (ma naging director Obviously debate with those in power goes as far as, and no further than, ineffective of Mt. Isa Mines and recent arrival on the rantings in the forum and an occasional Senate) and the other leaders of this great foray in the class rooms. Action based on sun-stroked countty? If they have in­ a philosophy of the university and society fluence and they seem to, we should be - is against the rules. So they have it bote, talking about wnether we have a university ways - they can debate when they like - - forget the automoay. Perhaps we could ana they don'y usually like, and when have a few pronouncements from the upper anyone takes it all too seriously they have echelons on these problems - after all just the thing to make sure it doesn't get we're all diggers together despite the few out of hand". Rats of Toowong. Well none of it will last long my esteemed While we are having this long awaited debate, friends. The intellectual and moral It might be pertinent to raise a few other challenge to your irrational authority, and questions like what's the Defence Depart- the interests it serves, is being contested. liient doing on Campus? Its not quite clear When it gets hot you will have to come and to many ol us what killing people in Viet- tell us what you really think - all of you. Nam has got to do with a university - but Platitudes, appeal to constituted authority, we're beginning to develop a few suspicions. arse-licking hlgirchies and discipline We would like to know whether the Vice- statutes won't m. You will be forced to Chancellor takes seriously all that mammoth use clear reason to justify what you're wel^t of platitudes and psuedti-pbilosophy doing - I wonder if it is the latter that you he has so often uttered about ±e rational refer to, when you tell us you dislike talking maa If he does, lunatics have become the In a hostile environment. atbiten of rationality because it is lunacy, with a dash of vested interest, that makes Ji m Pien tice semper floreat, tuesday june 23rd., 1970 Page 3 AFTER

STATUTE AND ANTI-STATUTE - A Waltz have the numbers to enforce their own Tor two groups. ' "operaUODal" definitions. 6. In context. It is a weapon being used INTRODUCTION by one group within this so-called intell­ Vou onty nave to look at the proposed new ectual community to hamper the critique statute 13 on student discipline for a few and stop the challenge of another group. minutes to be able to say at least seven It is the use of force to abridge dficussion, things about it. under cover of a pretentious "In loco parentis" concern for the good name of the 1. It is so teactionaty that it will be fought lace etc. by a broad mass of students.. ?. It Is a further attempt to reinforce the 2. It Is the most stupid application of the existing split between staff (to whom it does "law 'n order" principle we have yet seen not apply and who may of course enforce it) on campus, and students; it rests on some unstated premise 3. It Is, in many sections, a pure and of a qualititave difference between them. simple reaction to a series of events of Perhaps the university Is kindly being 1969, i.e. not a law of great generality recognised as really more of a school or but real Southern fried huntin'law, about mllitaty academy. as subtle as a rusty shotgun. 4. It raises by its crudity and repressiveness, the whole issue of legitimacy. Being niled by a powerful elite is nad enough; but the rules of fools are the vety seeds of rebellion. 5. It makes you see vety clearly that the execution of law is the last stage of a process that begins with definitions of words, and that here the definers of the important words are neither vety good at the job, or vety concerned to argue for the cogency of their underlying rationale within the intellectual community. They think they

" To think 1 was once a 91b. weakling!

BETTER NED THAN DED! NED KELLY (OF COURSE) to the good order or government of the ^ven is a mystical numbei; This is the age Universi^". and "conduct otherwise of Aquarius, so let's }eave it at seven reprehensible in a member of a university." immediate reactions and tu m to Ned Kelly (b) Which is a bit of cheek coming from for further insight. the sort of mental cowards and bootlicking Ned is, as the worldly wise say, dead. But, apes that has never got up in front of the as is perhaps less known in a time when most students and been questioned and defended bushrangers are upper middle class or worse themselves but used legal words to shoot down and operate within the law, the spirit of Ned honest men that only want their rights lives. This was the part of him that discer­ and what is their due after all. ned, from under thIcH layers of time-bound (c) What is this place, a university or a nineteenth centuty life-style and a certain jail? amount of regrettably ineffective tin, the (d) And who are these "senior officers" true spirit of, all law enforcement in the but j u mped-up little crawlers that wants to resent epoch. This is typified (as Lenin boss others around and be noticed by wom­ Eas it) In "special bodies of armed men" bats with bigger heads than their ownf such as the police. It was in fact the police that Ned described In his own accurate 2(i) If they tries to pull this "fine not and memorable way as "big ugly fat-necked exceeding $100" or suspension" or wombat headed big bellieamagpie legged "expulsion" do what I and my mates did narrow hipped splay-footed sons of Irisn to the bullying animals of bmtal coppers Bailiffs or english Landlords" and "more at Glenrowan. Have a showdown and find like the species' of a baboon or Guerilla out what their fancy words is made of, true (hadn't read his Mao or Che of course gold or yellow dirt like do^ do and the sun and couldn't spell God bless him) than gets at. a man "to say nothing - for only a poet (ii) Any moron that will talk to his mates would - of "big fat-necked Unicorns". or enemies in public is a king to a shaking Ned's spirit suddenly appears on campus little office lizard that will knife a'man '. quite frequently these last few montm, behind closed doors with sharp little words to ^e way things are goin^ When we show how clever a liberal he is upholding showed him tne new proposed statute he "freedom" which is as often as not peace and - smelled out the "wombat beaded" quiet so that bootlicking can be got,on with. element of police mentality In it (iii) If they gets one of you Vith meir rules, right way, particularly in tne sheer thenyou'd be a pack dingoes to let/nlm go number of ways a blone can get dobbed w^thout a blue mat sends the whole place in, as be put it. up sky-high. It was vain jo suggpst to Ned (or his spirit) that this was all being done for 3(1) There won't be any "Msdplinaty our own good, In the name of true Board" with Its (dsually polite as aunties academic freedom. In fact it was after but often as nasty, as snakes) four staff and two Union heavie's, which ate usually a small and ratherpimpledUnion toadies anyway. Councillor had reminded 'Ned ^at we (ii) There will be a whole people's weren't in the bush now that he replied - discussion all the time about what these forcefully and perhaps a trifle ctyptlc- wombat-heads think they are doing ttylng ally - "Academic Freedom up Mother to run the lives of everyone. Macrce's chlmneyl I know a fat-necked (ill) There will be often a big trial of the Unicorn when I read one . whole parcel of lop-eared kangaroo brained ' As the Union'Councillor slunk out eyeing tinpot little ups tarts that tty to run evety­ Ned's gun hand, that same hand was seen thing without talking to you about who and • -to reach for a,p«n and write the following: what they are and how tney come to have .PROPOSED ANTI-STATUTE NO. 13 - the whip liand. • MISCONDUCT BY WOMBAT HESDED (Iv) Which they haven't really If you've BIG BELLIED AUMINm'RATORS: got a brain In your bead and an ounce of guts in your bellies. 1(a) A nice sort of a dingo a man would have to be to come it over any of his 4(i) There won't be any Discipline Appeals mates with vague bullshit like "prejudicial Committee either . CONTINUED PAGE 10

Page 4 semper floreat, tuesday June 23rd., 1970 COURSE CRITIQUES eng. literature a reply

OUT OF THE DEPTHS; play" or "I think that the text means". Sometimes place for the Renaissance virtuoso or amateur in constitutes studving- I expound at length from one panicular point of the fieldo f sensitive adolescent human dynamite— Going on from this, I want to relate two of Mr COMMENTS FROM view. Sometimes I devote time to what seems to who have awareness to an extreme pitch of sen­ Rowland's statements which occur rather far apart ONE OF THE DOOMED me necessary information to allow a poem to be sitivity of the effect of their teaching or direction in his article: "Because first year students in ahnost understood. Sometimes I express and explain my on each and every student. The history of ideas is every case lack the intellectual know-how to pursue personal preferences. Sometimes 1 merely sug­ not so fraught with dangers. My opituon is simply the issue further, nothing more is said until gest "things to think about". Just what I do is that not even the exceptional high school smdent students have nearly completed three years of determined by a number of considerations—what has experienced enough of life, cither in reality or literary study" and "Students not wanting to study a group of students has asked me to do, what I feel vicariously, for him to make anything out of a study literature in a certain way should be entitled to is necessary to do, what I simply feel like doing, of the history of ideas. Is tiie study of the history study in the way they wish." Precisely because the what 1 feel competent to do. In short, I am de­ of ideas in some way superior to the study of the majority of first, second, and even third year liberately eclectic in my lecturing methods. history of anything else? I wonder. Perhaps, students lack all kinds of linowledge and know-how Whether this makes for effective lecturing and however, I am making too much of this. Perhaps, they should be made to explore as many avenues whether students like this method are other Graham, all you want is for students to be aware of study (or criticism) of literature as possible, to questions, questions which I brood over, but not that there are odier social customs, other religions, the end that they can explain and articulate their relevant just at this point of discussion. than their own, that man's conceptions of his place reasons for preferring one approach over all others. Secondly, the other matter of "why study literature in the universe have been, and are, subjca to One cannot affirm convincingly the superiority of at all?", a question which is, in my experience, less change, that some people's minds work differentiy Freud over Jung or vice versa, unless one has frequently asked than "why study anything but from others. If that is all you mean, then of course studied both. By insisting on as many critical but contemporary literature?" iWy answer to I agree with you. approaches as possible, undergraduate courses do either or both is basically twofold: that as one Just as I agree wholeheartedly that too many their best by both students and "the subject". human I am interested in what other humans have students "do" English at the University because After this, when the student has read a lot, has thought and felt and expressed about anything at tiiey arc "familiar with some aspects of it" from studied a lot, then he has fitted himself to begin to any time; and that I find it immensely interesting their secondary school studies. Anotiier inadequacy do (he sort of thing he want» specially to do. A and often aesthetically satisfying to see how htmian of our educational system, both secondary and university undergraduate course in any subject of experience is presented in artistic form. Of course tertiary, is the lack of guidance and the encourage­ any faculty is very largely preparative in function, I find some literary works more interesting, more ment to seek it. It is indeed a depressing experience preparative for what the graduate will do when he moving, more relevant (to?), more aestherically to ask an allotment of 60 or so first year students leaves the' cloisters for society or, aheroatively, pleasing, more disturbing (usually a good thing), when he begins post-graduate study and an When Eileen Haley's article on English Literature why they arc studying English. Too many are than others, but the general interest and prepara­ speechless as a result of never having thought academic career. My position is that the wider courses appeared I wrote a reply, but did not pre­ tion to be interested in everything remains. And I one's experience, the better fitted one is to do pare or offer it for publication for it was written in about the question. Others create an all-too- think that 1 am better off (not better, better off) familiar sinking feeling in the questioner when anything, and that the "right or courtesy" to do anger—anger not because I felt some perfect as a result of indulging in this wide-ranging things in one's own way should also be extended to vision of myself or "the Department" was being they begin "Well, I'm on a Teacher's Scholarship, interest than is a person who is interested in only a and ... " the writer as well as the student or staff member. attacked either justifiably or otherwise, but because limited range of literary works, better off in some­ In Mr Rowlands' appraisals of the kinds of criticisir Students in these two groups will talk, ineptiy, Miss Haley could say some of the things she did thing of the same way as a person who follows and he chooses to discuss there are a number of pointi about onomatopoeia even if not asked, just as they about the study of English Literature and still enjoys both Soccer and Australian Rules and not I could take up. For example: if King Lear will talk about rh^me schemes and metre. More accept a RESEARCH scholarship from A.N.U. just one. (Perhaps I may even be better, as well relates directiy to life in ways that A Winter's seriously, though, students who object to being Perhaps I had something to do with the award of as better off, in that my reading and study may Tale does not, it is also true that A Winter's asked to write about techniques are often (not this scholarship, since at Miss Haley's request I have increased my human sjmpathies and under­ Tale relates to life in ways that King Lear does always, but often) wrong-headed. If a poet uses wrote a reference in support of her application. In standing, but this would be too big an assumption not—the contrast is so general as to be insignificant onomatopoeia to make a statement or expression fact I wrote four references for Miss Haley, each to make.) I think it follows from what I have been when barely stated; Leavis must be among the of feeling more forceful, then it seems to me that of which stressed her ability to express an original saying that I am also interested in what other clearest staters of premises of evaluation since this technique is worth examining to see just how point of view as one of those qualities which 1 people (and most students are people) think about Dr Johnson; sodo-historic criticism does involve it does or does not contribute to the effea or considered made her a particularly suitable person literary works and, even more, in why they think value judgments as in a comparative evaluation of perhaps even meaning of the whole poem. Techni­ to undertake postgraduate work in English litera­ as they do. For example, if someone wants to say the efforts of several journalists (via sub-editors) cal devices can be important. Mr Rowlands, for ture. Anyway, there was no point in attempting that "the illustrious author of The shoemakers' in reporting the same incident; Macquaric's example, must be aware of tiic rhetorical effective­ to refute what I considered over-emotionalism with holiday" was a sentimental twit, I am interested English Department has not been replaced by a ness of alliteration or he would not have given his what 1 knew was over-emotionalism, so my reply in why he has this opinion. (I would be even more "school of interdisdplinaty studies of problem- article the ritie it has, just as I have deliberately to Miss Haley's article never passed the cathartic fascinated to find out why someone thought centred courses". But these are small points. What used irony and Biblical allusion in my tide, I am first draft stage. Dckker was "illustrious"!) It further follows that concerns me is that, apart from "one aspect of prepared to say that technical considerations are I am interested in trying to find out why, say, aesthetic criticism" which can be converted from Mr Rowlands' article is a different matter. It always relevant to the appreciation of a literary 17th-century -readers liked 17th-centur>' poetry. trivial technical detail by socio-historic critidsm, is far more reasonable, and invites comment work, certainly in each of the critical "methodo­ Mr Rowlands seems to sec the "methodologies" rather than provokes reply (which does not logies" dealt witii by Mr Rowlands. That hoary So much for my general answers to the questions as mutually exclusive, or at least as separately alter the fact that I have on occasion found Mr unfavourite the heroic couplet can certainly be Mr Rowlands feels go too often unanswered. I applicable. As I have said before, this is Not Right. Rowlands and his notions most provoking). It relevant in explication, for this form can govern hope that what I have said is understandable and Socio-historic criticism would be impoverished if occurs to me that there is something analogous die juxtaposition of ideas and so reveal a poet's has not been "articulate [d) by lack of compre­ no element of aesthetic criticism were allowed to between the proliferation of academic trivia and attitude to his subject of the moment and be an hension and bewilderment" (which 1 trust was a "intrude", and despite the moralisings of Miss the proliferation of educo-socio-poUtico-critico- element in affecting the reader's interpretation of typographical error, and not what Mr Rowlands Haley about not sitting in judgment upon otiier apologias indulged in in Semper and broadsheets tiie meaning of the poem. There is also a socio­ wanted to say). Now for some particular comments men, Man is an evaluating animal, constantiy, of varying distributions, but in the spirit in which historic element in tiie use of the heroic couplet on other statements made by Mr Rowlands. whether the context be literary, social, legal, or Mr Rowlands is prepared to put forward some of by Augustan poets. This docs not commit me to his considered ideas on the role of English studies, Havjng taught for a couple of years in a metro­ .sexual. politan State High School, I caff agree with him saying that every assignment set a student should 1 am prepared to put forward some of mine. I specifically demand detailed treatment of technical would hope that neither Mr Rowlands nor avid that Queensland Secondary education has many Having given a personal (I am not a spokesman faults.' Many of these faults have their source in devices, and I deny that this sort of criticism is for the Department or any other staff member) followers of the series will regard my comments as the only thing the student "DOES in the depart­ over-belligerent or over-defensive. "the system", many in inadequate teachers, whose reaction to some of Mr Rowlands' statements and inadequacy is not always entirely their own fault. ment", which is what Mr Rowlands seems to be opinions, I have returned to where another "this • Lik6 other inadequate teachers of English I did saying in his third paragraph—the only kind of I believe" section is appropriate: nobody is going In his article "Literary criticism: the doomed criticism mentioned before this is discussion of discipline" (SF, 21.4.70), Graham Rowlands my best. Most English teachers where I taught did to stop writers producing all sorts and conditions techniques. of works; nobody is going to stop some people makes this statement: include discussions and essays on, if not "study" of, mass media, for example. And, to set the record I am yet to be convinced that I am wrong in regarding literary works as something individual "However, it is safe to say that in most cases and special in the way of art forms, and wanting tutors and lecturers are very reluctant to explain a littie straighter, in 1964 there was already a tiiinking that tiiere is a distinction between enjoy­ beginiung of study of the processes of government ing reading and studying literature (though it is to to study as well as enjoy them; and of course their own methodology or combination of literary study is likely to become "just a pan of a approaches. The question as to why one should in the Grade 8 syllabus. Sociology, psychology, be hoped that die student of literature also likes comparative religion, and history of ideas are it) just as there is a distinction between liking massive area of study", but it will be a part. Out study literature at all is apparently structured of a sense of my personal tastes, abilities, and out of discussion by the fact that there are different matters. In tiie case of tiie first tfiree,th e flowers and studying botany or between liking animals and studying veterinary science. A book limitations, I have chosen to study English litera­ literature departments and that the student principle "a little learning is a dangerous thing" read affects the reader; a book studied is examined ture and a limited span of the history of ideas; my asking the question is in these departments." operates—and I do mean dangerous. It is sad to to find, among other things, why and how it involvement with cinema and mass media is an I am not very reluctant at all to explain these things see the result of bad teaching of any kind, but die achieves that affecting. If a person does not want involvement, but of a different sort, and I see no or to give my answer to die "why study literature?" thought of an immature adolescent worrying him­ to think about why and how a literary work affects moral or social imperative on me cither to study questions. On the other hand, not very many people self sick over half-understood psychological theories is terrifying. I have known more than one him and otiicrs, does not want to study literature or to lecture on them. Cecilie Sloane ask mc to do either. such student: in one case I had to help restrain a but just enjoy it, then he is our of place in an English These, briefly, arc my answers, which will be en­ young girl till die ambulance arrived—she had Department, AND HE WOULD ALSO DE OUT larged upon somewhat as I take up some of the read some case histories, thought she was abnormal, OF PLACE IN A DEPARTMENT OF "SOCIAL issues raised by Mr Rowlands. was frightened, and had tried to poison herself. AND HUMAN COMMUNICATION", for he Firstly, the public manifestation of my "methodo­ This is an extreme example, of course, but I am does not want to study, he is a hedonist. This is logy and combination of approaches", my lec­ opposed to study of sociology (by which I pre­ not a moral judgment on such a person, but simply tures. In any scries of lectures I try to adopt a sume is meant more than just chatting about other an expression of my suspicion of the extent of variety of approaches, and 1 think I indicate these social customs), psychology, and comparative self-knowledge of students who say they want to fairly obviously by such attention-directing com­ religion for the majority of High School students, study only what they like—with too few exceptions ments as "if this poem is seen in the light of the and if I weren't, I would say that such study must they do not want to study at all, but just to read political situation when it was written" or "techni­ be directed by experts—there is no longer any what they like, so deluding themselves that this cally speaking" or "compared with this other semper floreat, tuesday june 23td., 1970 Page S TUPPENCE FOR YOUR INDULGENT SMILE COBBER I'm bored. Arc you bored? Alihough I keep telling dcsertboots, banality is written in the glass of beer myself this il. in Ihc final analysis doesn't seem to at (lie Regatta like vanishing ustronaught footprints convince anyone. Let us sleep now. on Surfers beach. Let us sleep now. There's some comfort in lalking through apoca­ lyptic rhetoric aboul a revolution that might end it Oh that tempered justice all. There's some comfort in absorbing Eti.sy Rider Would wring out a sin from and Zehra.

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potent: Let us sleep now, will you sleep? Two weeks ago 1 saw a comet in the morning sky. Lei us sleep now. Il was the singularly most beauti­ ful thing, it tempted me lo drive off the road, il There are unrivalled became a challenge to a life and death symphony, professional career even the cannabis was important, I will never he the same, it had all the misery of a vision, choirs opportunities as Medical Officers bubbled through my brain, I was happy for neariy the whole day. Thiit followed when the sun rose. in the modern Let us sleep now, Pierre Bezhukov saw a comet in 1811, and the next year Napoleon invaded Russia. It seemed as if 4&Navy^Army nothing would ever be quite so perfect again, No no, nol to recapture it all, but to do something different next time that might return the glow. Indifferent messenger, angel from whom? What's your secret: and ^Air Force "Let us sleep now"? with all the benefits of Cominlssloned Rank, I wasn't disappointed by the silence. It seemed the generous pay and allowances, and study costs paid. only possible answer. 1 Was enough. Strange meeting friend. If you are over 18, and have Let us sleep now. Put your head down and wake, up. If you are accejjted to complete your degree studies in the Undergraduate successfully completed the first three Let us sleep now. Nothing's important anymore. scheme, you will have your University or more years of your medical course, Let us sleep now. I don't wanl to be anything else. tuition and examination fees paid, you are eligible for acceptance I don'l want pity. Let us, let us yes sleep now. all necessary text books provided, under the UndBrgraduate Sehem*. Laugh, Let us sleep now, Cry let us sleep now. Now. meals and accommodation provided— Applicants must be Australian Citizens or receive an allowance to cover them. or British Subjects ordinarily resident You will receive free medipal and in Australia/ dental attention and hospitalisation. Full details and conditions for With no apologies to Wilfred Owen or A generous salary will be paid while acceptance are available to you now. Benjamin Britten you are studying, plus a clothing Visit the Services Career Officers at: maintenance allowance and, if applicable, a marriage allowance. RecruUine House, paul davies 1B-20York Street, Syilney, N.5.W.,2000. Upon graduation j;ou are guaranteed a Reliance House, professional appointment with status, appropriate salary and retirement 301 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Vic,3000. benefits. Reeruitine House, 125-127 Pirie Street, Adelaide, $JL,SQOO. The life of a Medical Officer in the Recruiting House, Nivy, Army or Air Force, is a rewarding 130 Mary Street. one, with opportunities for travel, Brisbane, Q'ld., 4000. diversity of experience, advanced specialised training and promotion. Combined Services Recniiting Centre, There is plenty of sport and recreation, Ut Floor, Commonwealth Bank Building, Officers' Mess life, social activity and 55 William Street, v^nderful friendships to be made. Perth,WA,fiOOO. LEST WE FORGET ofD^inc*. CMUA.FPJ* IlliMd by the Oirictor G«Mr*t ol RKruWni, l>tpailm*nt Remember My Lai—DARE NOT FORGET That bloody day when children with Death met. Lest wc forget women and children in Lancashire's mines Lest we forgci ihc capitaltsis' crimes, '^.y Usi we forgci children stuck dead in chimneys black -^'l Lest wc forKCt the inquisition or the rack. Lest we forgci ihc terror of the czarist regime. Lest wc forget Machiavcllie's schemes. Ixst we forgci people who died for hope of light Lcsi we forgci reformers with liberiy in sight. Remember ihat people live in misery now Remember ihai we are blind are cows Being lead with the heard By some jmptriaUsuc lurd. J.O.L. WAR There are many wars in the worid today Wc hear of them night and day, People fight in fear of invasion. They fight to commands of stupid world leaders. •VVi Men fight while their children starve Fighting in fear and in hate. They bomb and kill and leave the wives 4^ with nothing at all.

They left them there to starve and die, They torture and attack whole villages. They kill without mercy, Sometimes for religious reasons, Where they start fire and fight. What is becoming of the worid?

vi Maybe one day there will be nothing left and the world will come to an end. Clare Throsseli

There is a pine plantation at Pindemar (aged 9 years)

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moc!< assault without fault a way to kill drop bombs with skill /'..^ilf*^' some idle talk sabre jet roar hovering hawk a sound of war Then God's bird of prey flew silently away 'W '

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6. There will be no powers of Discipline 12(1) How can there be reports to someone 19 to 24, is a lot of codswallop that you can Appeals Committees, Disciplinary Boards that does not exist, like a Registrar? make up for yourself if you are in the mood, RED NED and Vice-Chancellois whidQ are a lot (ii) I ask you, a Registrar? except to suggest that there will not be any of sons of dingoes that will run away if section 21 because I suppose we would all (bOMTINUED FROM PAGE 4j everyone says "boo/" at once. 13. There will never be no action taken have to chunder too much if we thou^t by any of these wombats except the afore- too much about wombats proceeding 'accord- 7(i) What there especially won't be, said action of pissing off and shutting up. Ing to equity and good conscience: seeing whai ever, at all, anywhere around here, a scarcity there is of either commodity among is old garbage of the type of Vlce- 14. The only right of appeal will be one wombats and particularly in view of the dis- Chancellors or smaller wombats talking for the wombats that want to try being graceful mess they have made over eveiything about things as windy as "a substantial people-headed to see how they go at It, eveiy time they have opened their mouth befor risk of a serious disruption of the activ­ which they will be allowed to try. but some- which I sometimes doubt it is their mouth ities of the university". of them have already got snouts to the looking at what comes out. It is more likely (ii) Mainly because what wombats point that they are more like pigs if the their, out i better stop because I am just a regard as "disraption" "risk" and truth be known, so there is not much hope, country boy and don't want trouble. "university" are about as much like such things as wombats themselves 15(i) "Five days" notice, "counsel" Ned tosseti all that in our lap and after we are like honest deep-thinking men that "secret" and "open" hearings and all this want to talk and act seriously atxiut issues looked at it we said "That's all veiy well is just delusions of grandeur and ravings Ned, but what do you think we ougat to do, of the day, and especially about whether of a fool which is vfnat anyone is that there j^a univenity yet or has ever JjsfiJi a mate?" thinks there is a chance of all these sub­ And Ned replied: university that has activities apart from a section a's, b's, c's, d'setc. etc. being lot of horse stealing, bootlicking, toadying, "Fair crack of the whip, mate. That's your anything but wombats training to learn bank not mine. Crack it yourself". whinging about salaries, keeping out of^ alphabets like people. (u) Which IS of course (and especially) a trouble By not saying anything about (ii) There won't.of course, jj^no hearings, big laugh seeing they are none other than nothing etc. etc except the people will hear the wombats Sons Of Ned. "nine members of the Senate" which are a telling them things and, of course, not ever sleepy lot of older than usual wombats that 8(i) There won't be any getting rid of go, except when they feel like it. snoie most of the lime until someone says people who refuse to attend when summoned, (iii) They'd be fools not to give the wombats something that sounds like it could have which is the only reasonable thing if you a good kick and say "wop it up you silly bloody come from outside Queensland or is some have arguments against wombats being in wombat, why don't you nick off?" other kind of good idea. control of you. (iii) There will be a lot of cobbers always (ii) Especially since this bit.comes out of 16,17. Procedure is a laugh except for wombats on the alert to go into meetings of these their being outfoxed last year. that want to proceed in the general direction of old wombats and demand that thev speak to the South Pole or off to wombat land where openly to the people (which will oe very 9,10,11. (i) If you think there will be powers they belong. boring for us but democratic for them and of wombats as small as Deans, Heads, eel lid of them quicker when people see Teaching Staff and Registrars when big wom­ 18. The only fines will be: their worn bat-headed nature t£at they have bats are so small anyway (and they don't (i) "Fine weather today eh mate?" got from snoring their lives away surroun­ even have power), tnen the people are (ii) "How'd you go at the gee-gees cobber?" ded by money, fools, influence and so going to have a lot to tell you about wom- "Fine, I made a few quid on the last forth). Dats,mate. race" etc. (ii) Which will be boring for the people, (iii) "Fine looking sheila", 5. There will be no "action exclusive to the but necessaiy for you if you want to be (iv) "Fine-toothed comb" Senate" except pissing off for good, as well wombat-free and snake-proof. (V) An so forth. as shutting up before doing so.

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ANTONIONI'S "ZABRISKIE POINT" expected to feel with Daria Halprin in the fihn's final stages) and such feelings are Things are changing in this city, Vince - a not forthcoming. man that can't see that hasn't got eyes. Zabriskie Point nevertheless, is one of the After a year or so puzzling whether or not to most straiehttoward demonstrations of pre-cut a scene where the girl (Daria Halprin) Antonioni s methods and sensibility at writes a four-letter word in the sand for the work: Narrative-dramatic interaction boy (Mark Frechette) flying a plane overiiead between characters is played down, ever to read, MGM released the print of Zabriskie in the sequences where its potential is Point minus the aerial shot, but enough oi it strongest e. g, the scenes of student revol­ remains in the sand for the audience to ution; Mark^ capture; emotional and realize what it is; the word is also uttered a mental states are defined through a collection number of times on the soundtrack. In spite of evidence from the characters' behaviour, NATHAN BRITTLES of such dialogue and about a reel of (very and accumulating it with the utmost clarity; unerotic) nuclity, Zabriskie Point escapea Nathan Brittles' environmental detail (like the over-painted RATINGS the censor's blows with ali but about a billboards) interacts with the profagonlsts, minute or so of its mnning time intact. and expands ot constricts their consciousness "*'* Masterpiece *"* See by all means accordingly. -See * See if desperate Zabriskie Point opens at the Metro on July 2; one viewing of the film yields a number Final judgement on Zabriskie Point is, how­ •"* AUCE'S RESTAURANT (Town) of impressions that demand clarification and ever, reserved for another viewing. A friend Directed by Arthur Penn. To be definition througji a second viewing. Anton­ assures me that the second time around, reviewed in a general article on ioni's visual responset o the American envir­ Zabriskie Point reveals Antonioni's deadpan Authur Penn. onment is beautiful and weird; Los Angeles humour and ambiguity as being fully at work is defined in terms of steel and glass; Death throughout the film. Parts of the film even ••• ZABRISKIE POINT (Metro, July 2) Valley unfolds as barren and limitless and on one viewing ate as visually rich and Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni devoid of life. Antonioni almost brings poetic as anything Antonioni has done, (e, g. Reviewed. off his spectacular, desperate love-In, the camera's lingering on an image of a incongruously framing flesh-as-objects pathetic old cowDoy downing a. beer as it •* MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Paris) against this unchanging, .ill-enveloping quietly withdraws from the scene). Tme to Director, John Schlesinger, desettscape, but itfaik, like so much of form, Antonioni moves into direct abstract­ Reviewed. the film, as a fully thou^t-out cinematic ion for the finale, but in this case its concept. The awkwardness of the leading emotional force obliterates any qualms players is intentional exploitation on * THREE INTO TWO WON'T GO (Odeon) about its crudity - it has been described Director, Peter Hall Antonioni's part; but their very weakness as "the screen's most spectacular science- fails to provide Zabriskie Point with a fiction imagery to date" and that about ***• HOWARD HAWKS'COMEDY DOUBLE centre of focus s~ucB as David Bemmings sums it up. gives to Blow-Up or Monica Vitti to the I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE and previous lour tilms. Vety often, Antonioni MONKEY BUSINESS (U.Q. FILM GROUP. relied simply on empathy (such as we are NOEL BJORNDAHL June 26)

Page 11 semper floreat, tuesday june 23rd., 1970 gloriam). Surely, the television programmers highly-esteemed Val Lewton honor films slots: The Actress, Pat and Mike, Adam's NATHAN BRITTLES are capable of providing a more tnou^tful ofthe forties - The Cat People, the Rib. TETRiairying Kind; wmcn nave ali i^ ON THE FILM SCENE balance between cinema past and present. poetic I Walkeq with a zombie, The been repeatedtreqiientiy , always at noon. Only a couple of years ago, you could watch Seventh victim. TheTibpard'Man. a Humphrey Bogart festival eveiy Friday night (4) They couwimroduce, on a regular (a field day for the filmnik widi numerous basis, something equivalent to Bill examples of the work of great formalists like Collins' "Golden Years of Hollywood." Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks). Through series, on Sydney's Channel Nine, which, The organisers of Brisbane Fihn Festival such festivals could be traced aieas of research even given die vagaries of Bill's idios are to be commended fox obtaining the valuable to tbe fihn scholar - like the deli­ yncratic whims oftaste. has its uses for Cuban Film "Memories of Under­ neation of a iistinctive Warner Bros. st^Ie the film scholar. development", written and directed by through the thirties and forties, tbe reasons I would personally become delirious with 'Tomas Aiea. Reports from Sydney that mis should be so, and its effect on tbe excitement if to assume a responsible suggest its being a really major creativity if individual directors (Raoul attitude to programming and re screen contribution to con temporaiy Walsh's most productive decade, for example, George Cukos's brilliant series nigbt developments in the cinema, coincided with Wamer Bros, creative and commercial peak. How much did tbe formal achievements of a Welch determine a Warneis "swle" in the forties? Conversely, how much of Walsh's formal virtues may be anributed IFUTURE FILM SCREENINGS to the technicians who worked at Warner's at its zenith - creative cameramen, for instance July 5: Woman of the Dunes {Kurasawa) like Sid Hlckox or James Wong Howe? Such The Virgin Spring {Ingmar Bergman) questions can only be answered by comparing AVALON THEATRE Walsh's works wim those of other contract July1t-12: Eisenstein Festival directors like Michael Cirtizl But die only Raoul Wabhes around these oays are wasting July 19: Yellow Submarine their fragrance on die desert air of noon - Support to be selected They Died Widi Their Boots On. The Enforeer wtiite neat. July 26: The Night they Raided Mlnslcip To my knowledge, Howard Hawk's greatest Shot in the Darl( (B/aAe Edwartis) A PLEA AGAINST EXCUSES: statement of his stoical attitudes, Only Angels The commercial television channels seem Have Wings (1939 widi Cary Grant, Jean to be out-bidding each other for bundles August 2: The Legend of Lylah Clare {Robert A!dricH[ Arthur) has never been shown on Brisbane It's My Life {Jean-Luc Godani, of mediocre films for popular nigbtty Television; it must be upwards of seven years viewing spots, whilst uieir really interseting since Onon Welles" The Magnificent Ainberso product is either not shown at aU or sbunted has been seen. The Ust ot torgotten and Augusts: The Producers into impossible midday movie tlmespots. neglected works is pitiful: Von Stemberg''s Last Year at Marienbad {Alain Reshais) (i. e. wnen most dedicated fibnies are out whole Paramount period with Dietrich (Mor­ earning their daily bread). The only criterion occo. DishonouKd. Scarlet Empress, The for programme organisation of this Kind seems Devil is a woman); Kmsr Lubitscns Angei; UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE to be tEat if a film is made after 1965, it's Preston sturges' Sullivan's Travel^ ad bound to be better and more popular than one infinitum. ABEL SMITH THEATRE 1.10 p.m. made before 1935. Television oas been tbe richest (often, the only) source of gaining There are numerous ways in which television stations could benefit die film TUESDAY, JUNE 30th: WILLIAM DOBELL;'SYDNEY NOLAN; some kind of histori^uperspective on the RUSSELL DRYSDALE movies. If film is ever to become a mote scholar by reachingint o its archives. widely accepted critical discipline, it must (1) They could run a regular dieatre for Essays on tht work of Ausiralian painters, films built have a readily available body of knowledge TUESDAY, JULY 7th: BLUE LIKE AN ORANGE on which film scholan can draw. "nig^t owls" starting at times when diey Tbe Brisbane art-houses have already denied normally close down Scenes of puppet plays in various countries. ^) They could reintroduce festivals of the dedicated filmie tbe right to punue the SMALL WORLD more signiflcient directions in which nan- lihns built around a popular star; atlve and non-narrative forms are developing (Generally the greatest stats worked with An international collecthn of children's drawings. a high proportion of good and great directors (except for isolated instances like Hour of the TUESDAY, JULY 14th: BEYOND CONCEPTION Wolf and Personal); and now the television - how about a Gary Cooper Theatre? or a statTons are denying him access to the most James Cagney Theatre?) or, alternatively, A comment on the population problem and on familj/ important examples of traditional nanative (3) They could institute festivals of films planning. Duilt around a genre - gangster films of the enre forms. Five decades of the Hollywood dlirties and femes, tor example; or a TUESDAY, JULY 218f: A QUARTER OF A MILLION TEENAGERS §ream-factoiy have spawned some of the revival of a series of that most neglected DANCE LITTLE CHILDREN cinema's greatest and most intuitive artists and maligned (by both censor and public) (John Ford, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, of genres - the horror film. Facts and advice atiottl venereal disease. Samuel Fuller and so on ad infinitum ad Channel O, I know, has most of the

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"Supergroup" ... Surely you must know the term by now—as In Superman: faster than a speeding Beatle, more powerful than Buddy Miles Express, able to leap tall groupies at a single l>ound. Look! flickering up there in the pop firma­ ment—it's a Byrd, it's the Airplane, it's... Supergroup! However, invoke the . magic word "Shuck" (S for short-timer; H for hard cash; U for ulterior motive; C for cynicism; K for Kowtow), and most super-groups disintegrate into self con­ scious collections of ageing kids. "Super" from the Latin, meaning over and above. In quality, quantity, etc.; As found in superb, superlative, superior. But also appears in superficial, and superfluous. The VKord "supergroup" ftself suggests a band of people both bigger than life, and better than any other rock and roll-of-the-mill ensembles. The implication might have some validity, applied to the Rolling Stones, tfia Door*, or Jefferson Airplane—long-time together groups vvho have been the Leninist vanguard of the rock music revolution. However, the term is usually applied to any conglomeration of floating, big-name musicians who temporarily get together for fun and profit (usually with the emphasis on the latter). Not that all rock musi­ cians aren't interested in success; but supergroupers, whatever their mutual interests and aesthetic jus­ tifications, are all too often hand-picked and chosen, a record company executive's dream-come-true—a lusus natura.e doomed to quick extinction after a brief but fiery existence replete with inner-group tensions, hurry-up record sessions, lucrative whirlv/ind tours, etc., etc, Some are outright failures from the start (e.g. "Eliktra Records", "RNnoceros,,). Others, like the near-leg­ endary "Cream", start off with a burst of musical enthusiasm, and a solid grip on personal reality, but live on to see their bit of truth become a lie. How could any group which was actually dependent on the instrumental ten­ sions and volatile emotions of a tri-partite musical split personality ever hope to survive? 8y the end of their last American tour, Clapton was on the verge of nervous breakdown, Baker little better, and Bruce stating that he would never join another Cream, even if invited. Then, two-thirds of Cream floated again In tha new supergroup "Blind Fatth".ln less than a year this quartet had managed to cut a million-dollar album, survive a frantic and financially fabulous tour, threaten to disband, and then finally and guiltily decompose. The only other significant supergroup to emerge in 1969 was Crosby, Stilio and Nash. IVIixan ex-Byrd, on ex-Buffalo Springfield and an ex-Hollie, shake well, and what do you get? Country-cherubian music, as pretty and ball-less as that sung by the Italian castrati. In any case, regardless of their short-term financial success, supergroups are not likely to become all the rage. Most rock musicians don't want to be urider that much pressure—or, for that matter, to bo forced into such heavylnterhalcompetition. (One way of avoiding this, of course, is to do as the Plastic Ono Band, and arrive at a group consensus to remain totally mediocre). However, one variation ofthe supergroup theme—the casual yet momentous super-session—may yet "revolutionize" the record industry. More and more rock musicians are looking for the kind'ol mobility, the freedom to drift and gig, that jazzmen have long enjoyed. Rather than tie themselves down in the tense and somewhat cloying atmosphere of a struggling group, they prefer to go where the action in—playing the well-paid back-up sessions for other "name" performers, or even getting together in the studio themselves for a little impromptu (but, of course, recorded) jamming. The idea is hardly new, even in pop-rock-blues. Some years ago, bluesmen Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Wil­ liams, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee all got drunk together and cut a disc for World Pacific; more recently, about Ihe time Cream were at tho top. Chess records did the same with some of their blues "heavies"—such as Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Bo Oiddley. But the whole thing from session to session captured the rock mentality via the activities of Al Kooper and Mike Bloom field. Both had made their initial impact as back-up men on Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited", than bolstered iliuir reputations as members of groups—-Kooper with the Blues Project, then Blood, Sweat and Tears, Bloom field playing with the Butterfield Blues Band, then the Electric Flag. Then, together with Stove Stilio, they cut the milestone. Super Session album, a dramatic innovative two day jam. Unfortunately the sub­ sequent critical and popular success of that album prompted them to new heights of self-indulgence—a two- record encore, "the Live Adventures of Al Kooper and Mike Bloom field", most of which qualified as the first rock and-blues attempt at niuzak. .:No one doubts the continuing instrumental excellence of Bloom field and Kooper. But both have fallen victim toTMoibtk''audience's easy acceptance of just about anything by big-name musicians. The poverty of their re­ spective solo albums attests to the trap of super-sessions, so a pop Sartre might put it, the awful responsibility "of freedom. Actually, the only super-sassion disc of particular note to appear of late is "Fathers and Sons", the "earthy' set which, in effect, resurrected Muddy Waters from the morass of over-arrangement and self-imitation into which he had sunk during the previous decade—"Muddy with Brass", "Electric Mud", "Muddy sings Brbonzy", one almost expected a "Muddy sings Mantovani" to show up. However, backed by an allstar lineup consisting of Bloomfield, Butterfield, Otis Spann, Duck Dunn and Buddy Miles, and with the band moulded into a potent and controlled unit. Muddy Waters delivered the most soulful, back-to-the-blues vocalising he's done since the late 1950's. But a super session as brilliant as that producing "Fathers and Sons" is as rare as a "live" Beatles concert. Meanwhile, the name of the game is mobility coupled with hype, and there's no super-respite in sight, for rock enthusiasts. One phenomenon did occur late in 1969, however, which managed to epitomize the "super" movement, mock it mercilessly, and also (unexpectedly) capitalize upon it, all at the same time. That was the super-session to end all super-sessions by the ultra-hype supergroup known as the "Masked Marauders". A complete fab­ rication from the start, ,tha .hoax grew from a satirical album review written by one of the editors of "Rolling Stone". That nevvipape'r—tongue-in-cheek, and as it turned out, foot-in-moutli—described an Imaginary two- record set cut iri Hudson Bay, Cariada, by Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and others... Immediate Chaos'ih the record industry and the offices of Rolling Stone. Prantic phone calls from fans, record distrtbtM'rg^Ffcord'companies, even the business managers of some of the ostensible performers. Confused stories appeared in all the trade papers. Several Berkely, California, musicians then cut a tape of three of the supposed Masked Marauders' tunes: "Cow Pie", "Duke of Earl", and "I can't get no nookio". When one radio station played the tapes, the audience response was immense. Joke or not, suddenly the Masked Marauders were a smash hit. A 45 single followed, thon an album distributed by Warner Bros. VVhen the mystery group got around to unmasking themselves, the news was ignored, even disbelieved. Literal truth was extraneous to the pop enthusiasts' thinking; simply by mentioning the hallowed names and putting them into a magical super-situation, the non-existent Masked Marauders joined the pop pantheon. Instant myth. One wonders whether to laugh or cry at the callow gullibility of record industry and rock audience. The Mas­ ked Marauders, however, are laughing all th way to Ihe bank and any tears shed for rock'n'roll should, olmost by "•' fiujtioD.beof the crocodile variety. From super-group to super-coup, the best—and the shuck—goes on. t .m?' semper ftoreat, tuesday june 23rd., 1970 , Page 13 to share that wonderful experience with you; Their unscheduled jeu d'esprit or grimy- Be popular, team to pUo tke gidtar ponicular film.I t opens with a mooologne. In It wot "The Sound of Muii<'—and m the fonky-t>assy jam bit at the end of Skia 1 af­ infdaysyoitcanbestnimmin' quiet, tincete tones an obviously wdl ipdken entuing lattden mdaoge he certamly doet ter "Down Noma Again" is simply caning Be sociable—team kistin' teckniqne and "very nice" young man tdlt of hit being thare with you hit expoience of thit film on in the style set by the Stones on "TlMir. Look out there's a monster coming. mobbed by fims while out walking in the which, along with "Funny Giri", "Keep, it Satanic Ma}asties Raquut" and copied At thit point we gel a wild bout of native Wett End, be teekt tanctuaty in a nearby ci­ Clean" of Indooroopilly .(Tekgraph 27.4.70) already by a depressingly large number of drams—add your own ipootaneout yell Yes nema, "normally" he tays, "I never go m"; dted at heinjg tbe very opposite of degrading. other groups. However, it did keep mo lis­ Ihey leaye room for audience participation if pow let him continue hi* ttory: "Th« day I tening in the hope that they might have ihau your thing. taw something that really inoved me I'd like RICHARD OVERELL thought up a further somsMng, for the Tbe jazz niunber is k>ng and repetitive in centre groove. I expected to hear perhaps, the best traditions of the genre, with appre­ "We're bloody mighty supermen" or ciative dapping at the end of each lob (ind. (giggle) "Everytiody get,. (forwards drum). or backwards, speeded up or slowed What a great asset it mutt be fiir a group dovm)—wfiat a stirl—all I got was an anti- such at tht; Bonzot to have a tinger with an dimatical dean dick-off-decency frustra­ Elvis voice in his repetnre. "Death-Cab for ted (I was going to gasp offetKledly). Cutie" it an amalgamation of all the bed old Fred Edwards sells But they saw the wtwle idea as such a Elvit tunet Uke "Teddy Bear" and "Re­ good one that on the end of Skle 2 the lis­ turn to Sender". VPith iit 12 bar bluet pi­ tener's mesmerised lack of sttentMn, while ano introduction and honkin' tatj with iu «L»» and "P" plates. sub-conciousfy awaiting for that final, lib- "uh-huhj", chanting Jordanoire chorus and j erating dick, is painfully disturi)ed by a built up ending it should do for Elvis and his He's a foundaidoii voice yelling "It's the fuzz, ttiey've just ar­ fans what "TTie American Way of Death" rived". shiiuliJ have done for ihe funeral industry' member of QUDSA This is typical of the bii- u pn.bably won't and for the same rea- LP—unobjectionable and wkiely deriva­ S4id nail... and a plastic •:. on ukelele—Hi Eriq the famous session ojp. by the persistence, common among that could be more widely copied- for the convenience of listeners, "the instnimental gorilla on guitarj Gamer 'led Armttrong FREE PICK UP British blues singers, of a Ray on (teat) vocals (a trenchant comment on Charles—Stevie Winwoodvoice: "Only worit itself is, in ihe main, competently un­ distinguished. In fact while "competent" is Garner Ted't role at Sunday night radio You Can See" is a case in point-^Patar preacher extraordinaire; the incredible Frampton (Disc and Music Echo's Face of one key word that must be used In speak­ ing •of "Humble Pis" another is "me- shrinking man on euphonium; yrah diggin' '68") would seem to have lapsed k)to this General dc Gaulle on acoordian (there fbl- voice since leawng 'The Herd" and it dracre"—this is tha level at which they settle as a group, whatever their individual lowt a beatiti&l French iravdogue music clashes markedly virith the atmoaphere set ri£^, -Roy Rogers on Trigger Come in ST. LUCIA FISH SUPPLY up by the backing on this track in particular talents may still be—a disappointing al­ bum. • Cotmt Baale and his orchestra on trian^ Famous for Steakburgers but on most of the othera as well. (dmg) Thank you; and, repretenting ihe Their country music n in the style of Richard Overell flower people, Quaiimodo on bcUt; and final­ AllStsfooas "Mother Nature's Sort" in that there is ly J. Arthur Rank on Goa^'. CfgarsttBs much use of acoustic guitar; but tha lyrics ••Hions pulp thrillers "I'm don't measure up to this at all: RIVER DEEP- Cold Drinks St. Luda Villas < Ui^ lusic tlidet along in'a Take me back where I com* from basjy "*). . > le-ox)!, cahn but lexy. "You Ph. 701908 AUItseeA—fedtMg blue MOUNTAIN HIGH Friends that I made it my yomtk hoarmer. 'first lime name of handsome Now Pm older I love tMem more Never before and never since has theria becbdor, Johnny CooL I poured mytelf a ttill Moon skin CM brigkt above been artythirtg quite Kka this soul record to Manhattcn—Vm m "L" man, ttrictly liipor, Never seems to ckamge end all soul records. Now re-released love and lau^ Heoe, the drinki were koded through Festival, Rivar and to were tbe babes... in the re^n of 48- Ever smSmjgface Deap Mountain Nigh is still as mag­ 28-38 one beUovs legipo... Play it oool However, this particular song Take Me nificent as it was when it hit LP charts all, Johnny the said; Phy it bool? IJin>ed. Nor- GEO. W. EEDY. Ph.C, M.P.S. Back"—written by Peter Frampton—is over the workl—except in the homelattd of saved to some extent by the lines. Dispensing Chemist - Sydney University the performers- arxl their producer, the al­ Everyone vanutd ku soal most legendary Phil Spector. Thia must be. AUketavetkenwasatmile 27 High Street, Toowong one of the best-produced LPs ever, and "The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake" features Tony Hall's term "Wagnerian wallof Tdephone: 701628 some enjoyable Sonny Boy Williamson- sound" is the only way to describe Spec- toned harmonica but this is a fair sample of tor's production of Jack Niysche's arrange­ itslyiics ments. The title song sounds Kka a hun­ MataidlteatbomtmderbadtignM dred orchestras backed up by the heaviest But IHHU looldnfoT tke ckaaee to make rhytiun sectwn in capthrity, and Tina's a break powerful voice seems to swell right out of I cut my teeth OH a branding iroM the distant mountain peaks of Soutliem Vm tke devS't own son, Pm Skai^Jake. California. We've heard orchestrated pop Acoustic guitar, usually by Peter Framp­ from the Moody Blues, orchestrated rock ton, is not the flavour given to ad the from Deep Purple—now (if you haven't a^ tracks. "The Light of Lavs'* for example ready heard it) have a fong listen to the features Stavia Maniott on irrelevant si­ most soul-stoned orchestra around, with tar and Jenry—7—on tat>l8S. But ifs the Ike and Tina out front. Greall sincere tweeitess that makes thia track hard to take. In fact the only track that is at Inddentally. those who remember Phil all worthwhile on side 1 is "CoW UKJy". It Spector as the "goddam pusher" in Easy shows off Humble Pie's quietiv comoetent Rider will be interested to see who did the versatility—Jerry (of the tablas) gives the cover photography for th» LP—would you trad( a pleasant rolling feel with a Wurlit- believo Dennis Hopper? zer Organ and Peter Frampton does the Chris Stafford drum well. The voice (Greg---the bass gui­ tarist) is low and suf fictentty sad to suit tlte song—In fact the only lime this matching GORILLA is achieved on the LP is here—but the vrards are more diche-ridden tlian most: By the BONZO DOG And tken, yon know, t try to fly A bird aitk broken wing 000 DAH BAND moSy I puck a rod but in pyjamas all I cany AndPm mnming before I eon walk are the tears fiom the Normandy beach. I t need, I need someone to take my kand The ttanis of satire hst timya Ixcn de­ studied thote enormous boobt and said, And lead me tkrougk tke wall bated in whatevo' Bcld it has been used. Send- , "Baby, you're to bx ahead iu beautifiil". and thev have the annoying hobt>ling gait up* of pop tongs can hardly qualify as terious And there's that brisk zip up and down the of most wistful pop lyrics. an but its always enjoyaUe to observe.skill dingy bar room piano to poli^ it ofit As well as "Every Mother's Son" and and accuracy. 'Tbe BensM lake aim st any The tend up of The Beach Boyt—"Piggy "Only You Can See", side 2 carries "Heart­ tnub or pretension in'mtmc and usually hit Bank Love" b' not really needed For a better beat", an okj BiKMy Holy sons- Surely, banpoa. tend up of them go to their own LPs "Suifin' everyone is sick of Buddy Holly nostalgia 'They minor people like the B«sdi Boys U.SA." it a good enough ezam{rfe. With tiy now and when his songs are kMked at and ElWs Presley and cover not only pop trada like NoUe Surfer ("Nobloom't )ok- cokJIy they are meaningless mindtess tiipe. but all mutic firom Mickey Moose tunes to in'—Surfer—he'i movin'—Number one This one for example drops like a corpse jazz (delicious hot, disgusting cdd). man") and commentt such as on unttor the blow of "Rlddl»-dee-pat I know This LP also contains a heslthy portion of "StokedT—"That'll teadi Wm to mett with that new love thriHa me" though It features coihcdy tkteches put to miuic (t feature my board", who needs the Bonzot. some nice vocal harmony and it does heavily accented on'one of iheir other LPs Perhapt on "I'm Bored" we do tee these sound like the group is having fun anyway. "The Doughnut so Gtwiny's Greenhouse'^. satirists at ihemsdvet. It couM have been worse—"Peggy Sue's "1 Left My Heart in San-Fniodxn" ii remi- Quite suddenly it occurred to me Got Married" is over-ripe for revival. nitcem of Tunoihy Brooke-Jayter'i TV snd —Pm bared It's refreshing to hear Stevie Marriott's night dub singer on 1948 Show. Thii track with exposes ofL.SJ>. voice again—on "Sihrer Tongue"—a song opens with ibe audience chattering. All it witk Prank Sinatra's new L.P. he wrote himself—3 on the LP are his, but hutfaed by an importunate ssM "We'd like to Between each verse the group ting "I'm tNs one, "town" much n»orB than "coon- do a little number now that's been very lucky bored" as a round. In one of the later vcnet try", stands out above the nK>ra hackneyed for ut" and then hit "Tbsnk you very much, we bean style and content of the other two, "Shaky you're too kind, thank you" in respcuue to / hate each Julie Andrew's film ever Jake" and "Every Mother's Son". And it is enthutiatiic audience dappiog breaking in made • this song which best points the diffeivnca Ml hit old standard. . I'm just a nasty narrow minded jade between "The Small Faces" and "Humble Vivian Stanisball, cover design snd tkeve and thit bringt me more or lest on to "The Pie", tt is quieter than the usual Small notes, it also good on Jamaicani—"Look Sound of Mtuic"—certainly one of the fiu>- Faces number, stiR, it does suffer badly QUI, There's a Monster Commit breaking in niett on the LP if you happen to be of the from lack of force in the backing. on the brink ptxtrayal of bslMife. tame pertuation as our beiocs regarding thit Page 14 semper floreat, tuesday june 23rd.,. 1970 BANGOR And still from near and far to s«ek America UNIVERSITY They came by thousands, to court the wild; .FLYING CIRCUS But she patiently smiled, and then bore ARTS FESTIVAL BANGOR FLYING CRCUS STEPPENWOLF: them a child 1971 To be their spirit and guiding light are timply Vanilla Pudge re-incoinated and the whole (J. Kay/J.. Edmonton) The A.N.U. hu been chosen at tbe next vepue for thing it a Amvindng argument tgaintt the advisability of MONSTER tnniuni Auitrdun Umvemues Aru FetuvsT to be held m Easy Rider not only spawned two new photogenic Jife after death. I kept expecting the linger to burtt in with May 1971. The tuccess ofthe '69 Fettival in Mdboume * "Where it my mind?" or "Set me free... why don't you folk heroes, it also gave a rather mediocre U.S. demonitraiet the uoquettionaUe nenl to continue on event baby". If only thit group bod on equivalent to either of rock group called Steppenwolf an excuse to adopt of thit ttze and variety. Only reoendy have Auttralian Uni- tbcte number! thdr existence would be'understandable. At a suitably revolutionary posture, encouraged by vertitiet begun to reautc their retponiiUlitiet in creating a it turned out the performance it profoundly uninteresting healthy cultural atmotphere. disillusioned and disaffected youth everywhere. .The N.U.A.S. Festival repretcnti a unique opportunity throu^oui. All the tracks go for the compulsory 6 minutes Most of the music on this album (except for the where people fixjm all computet can partidpate m a total and they do Norwegian Wood for at least a quarter of on instrumental Fag) is heavy, infecious, unoriginal interactioo of all the mediumt ofthe cultural spectrum. It it hour (and I'd almost managed to forget the V.F.'t "Ticket too easy in the isolaiion of a tingle campus » remam obliv­ and uninspired rock-blues, but the group which 10 Ride". Lennon aod McCartney get tome eaty royalties ious to what it happening dtevfnere, or to reach a ttaee of here—ihc only relation it hat to their old standard it a gave us SooUe-SooUe and other favourites also tmug paternalism towardt one't own efforts. A truly all single line of vocal and s few vaguely recognisable in- gave us Born to be Wild and (God Damn) Australian (geographically) Artt FesUval provides a much The Pusher, and a lof of the sentiments in needed totaTpIatform for all concerned to partidpate to a Mfumenta) passages. (Thit observation it of course irrcle- higher degree of involvement, and to expand didr range of vuiu to the worth ofthe track and I muit admit to having Monster arc not mere angry negativism—there's interaction and experimenution. The heavy Aru Fesuvolt included it purely on its space value). some method in their' madness, as well as some iuch at Adelaide and Perth are too artificial for mott stu­ The drumming (Mlchad Tegxa) is oonsittenily good. valid well directed protest. The trioiogy that begins dent* and it is therefore up to the next fettival to mainuin Tbe guitarist—Alan Dccarlo—prefers to be known u Ad­ a more realistic approach to the purposes and values of aru side one, Monster/Suicide/America, likens U.S. festivals: dison AI (this group is American). At die tlighieit oppor­ society to a monster "on the loose—it's put our tunity he burstt into Eric Clapton Obdtoncet on tbe gui­ One of the main problemt of the last Fetuval was the heads in a noose", and asks: lack of adequate intercourse between univenities prior to tar. The other member it David Wolinski otherwise known Ihe Fettival. If the recent Ourimbah Pop Festival con draw OS Hawk. Hawk's on keyboard. He putt tome fine jazz pi­ America, where are you now? 11,000 people from all over Autuolia and even N/Z, then, ano into' the solo in "A Change m Our Lives" but it is Don't you care about your sons I fed ture that the tuppotedly enlightened members of all through hu effortt that another track "Someday I'll Find" and daughters? Ausualia's universiUes vnll at least ory to vrork together and is crippled with a case of wilburkentwell organ—very pain­ uwiscend the myth that anything happening outside thdr Don't you know we need you now, ful thit. It it on that same track that we hear tome good Slate borders is not worth gomg to, coimtry guitar Srom Additoo Al. However, taken overall it We can't fight alone against the monster. At this suge wc have time 00 our side, what we need is it the hackneyed sounds they get from their guitar and, to Two aspects of the monster then come in for their ideas and criudsms of past Festivals. If you have cither of a letter extent, their organ, thai leu thit group down; for these conuct your Cultural AflBurs Officer (David Step­ share of abuse. In Draft Resister. John Kay sings: henson) on campus and keep him busy. they aim higher than ordinary pop—into s jazz enrich^ ... AU those who refuse to follow. M.A. O'FERRALL vein: along a path trodden tucoessfjliy only by the Spirit on Fetdval Iloson oCBcer, Canberra. their fint LP and seldom tince—certainly never by Blood, Traitors to humanity? Sweat and Tears or by VanUla Fodgfe. Here's to all the droft resisters There are some ttrange vocal efTectt aitempted:for ex­ Who will fight for sanity ...STUDENTS! ample, on one track, "Violent Man" Al doet wow-pedal As they march them off to prison HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR with his mouth. One of the group it aUe to command a In this land of liberty, COMMONWEALTH SCHOLAR­ '' dear high voice which it really very reficdiing if you can and in Power Play, he gives fair warning to avoid hearing the words. SHIP ? WRITE TO DANY JCashington to: They play well and ting well but it't all been heard before HUMPHREYS, EDUCATION VICE played I7 a more exdting group. Remember, if you plan to stay: PRESIDENT N.U.A.U.S., # Those that give can take away— 344-350 Victoria st., north RICHARD OVf REU Don't bite the hand that feeds you. melbourne. To my mind, this protest, perhaps naive to some ears, has a ring of truth and honesty when placed beside the usual empty platitudes and Marxist absolutes with which student protest has been ridden for so long. Steppenwolf, rather than mouth the destructive rhetoric of revolution, point the way to a peaceful reform of the monster from within, realizing the basic good which survives from the promise of its birth. As musically interesting as vintage Dylan, but /. much more significant as social protest. Chris Stafford

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S.K. RaV- ELECTOTALOFTICER. iiMTW.RSITY OP r7^l^^:MSIAND UNION J semper floreat, tueiday June 23rd., 1970 Page 15 Recently, on the Univcrsily of III leitsi etitttti terms with \\hiiie\rr else Qiiccnsiund campus, u plebiscite wns it invhules, could hardly qualify as a held dcniing. :imong other things, with humanist. That much, I think, may Ihc subject oflcgalixcd itbortion. h wiis be assumed. I lost (albeit narrowly) which is sad. So ihcrc is the guts of it. To be a i especially as the rationale of Ihc "anli's" humanist is. al base, to be nothing more is so basically inhuman. The implica­ nor less than aggressively human; it is. i tions spread much wider ihan the in the end. ludicrous lo have an "ism" abortion issue and the whole subject lo cover it -as though somclhing had ; deserves an airing, so ... lo be persuaded to be what il never Humanism— Two Ihings need to be stressed: one doubted il was anyway, (No wonder so is ihat the icndcntiousncss of what few humanists ever bother to join the follows has lo be related directly lo "big aitch" b'"'!?^'''^) When people S- somclhinp Ihal I believe mosl people, cease to vest more of "reality" in ideas if uncoerced, would choose --namely, as such, than ideas can properly hold or Games the prcscrvulion and enhancement the doctrines of humanism-which are (especially that) of life in lis present as improper, cxccpl in fun. as was complex form- il assumes an inherent Descartes' questioning of his own "love of life" in mosl people. Its scope existence—will cease lo have a refer­ excludes, therefore, various facets of ence. Humanism is all a game a that '"abnormal" psychological behaviour of tactical artifice lo be used Tor defending a virtual "anti-life" nature exhibited by reality, or the un-doublcd. against those certain minorities. The olhcr thing thai imaginative and intellectual excesses needs stressing is Ihal "isms" can be which alone make the artifice necessary. dangerous. Pursued loo zealously they /I is the "whole" man voicing his wish People Play tend lo exude an exaggcnilcd aum of to survive—articulating a basic wish immutability and absoluteness—danger­ for mosl of us—the complete man who \ ous al any time, but especially so in the feels as well as thinks and hence is case of humanism. There is something motivated as much by emotion as by aboul humanism—aboul my particular reason. view of it anyway —that Irans lo ihc Humanism defines a "man to uni­ paradoxical. The ardour of/an authen­ verse" relationship; but because man tic humanist will always be tempered by is a social being his welfare is bound up an acute awareness Ihul the true end of inextricably with Ihal of his males, his creed, ti.s u creed, is iis own annihila­ and here the correlative element of tion—that ideally, it is obsolescent. lis humanilarianism gets into the act— only raison d'etre is the presence oflhosc the "man to man" relationship. Hu­ other exasperating "isms" doing their manilarianism is a vital function of level best to subvert man's natural rote humanism—with all the implications of in the world; defeat them, and people spatio-temporal and ideological trans­ can concentrate on the enhancement bit. cendence and olhcr evidence of fell The function ofa worthwhile humanism concern involved in that notion. One is more lo negate than to assert. It is would expect, in practice, that the most "ami" rather than "pro" ... Ihc slating cITectivc, most genuinely spontaneous of which opinions is calculated to raise concern for others would stem naturally a few eyebrows in haunts where "big from a truly humanist perspective on ailch" Humanists gather. life, backed as il is by the mind-jolting awareness of—for all one Avioir.v—just speaks volumes. It demonstrates ad- If. as some would assert, this makes me could fuse at last with a humanitarian one life and one world. Such a pers­ Imirably why it is necessary, pro tern, some kind of horrible monster, how is reality in the present, to substantiate an I would clarify my stand this way: if pective cries out the essential equality [for other bods to play games and call it that frustrated concern aboul my essentially noble dream. ihere are certain basic axioms which of value, and identity, of each single jlhcmselves humanists. The perverted participation (by proxy—it would not And that's about it—the exposition anyone with humanist prelcnsions self with all "not-seir' under those [perspectives (iheir sincerity makes no be any other way by Jesus!) in the of a brjnd of hunt'dnhm which some would accept, they would I imagine be circumstances. The destiny ofthe world difference) of such people are revealed.' Vietnam honor threatens constantly "big aitch" people will consider to be these: that whatever is real is supreme, is inseparable from the destiny of each lin extremis, in their opposition even to to reduce me to a state of neurotic herctica! and "way out", but one which and thai reality in fact rests in exist­ "tife-prineiplc" should end climactically •contraception. And it can be argued that impotcncy ? The answer, it seems to mc. asserts only that people are real, and ence- manifested primarily in tbe in­ melhinks a descent to concretencss Itheir attitude stems, in the ultimate, is implicit i.i all I have written so far. that their cries when they suffer arc dividual person as a thinking and fell­ would be a fine thing. Ifrom a fallacious—i.e. an abstract or It stems from an approach to life real too and meant to be heeded, not ing being. Which is to go a bit wider There is the sort of thing often mani­ Qvcr-imaginative, view of "reality". based on the concept and the reality of sublimated and "sympathized" into a than the dcfmition of himself that old fested under nominally progressive That their obssessive veneration of the the "whole" man, whose link with tight-lipped comment about fate or the Descartes came up with: "sum res regimes, where frequent oppression of { "life-principle" should end climatically existence is a feeling as well as a think­ like. Whimsically, humanism asserts cogilans"- I am a thinking being. (he living is thought the acceptable |a( (he Vietnamese coastline can be ing one. It lies in (he participation, life, knowing that ultimately life asserts Descartes, in his preoccupation with price of a Utopian-type scene for some explained only in their own sordid essentially, of heart and mind—not just itself and needs no "ism". It is utili­ the rational method, had first lo itwiime lucky future generation; the abstract Iterms. The "vested interest" of a of mind ruled over by some sterile tarian, a defence—nol so much against the question aboul his "whole" being; "mass-self is waflcd away from the /ietnamese Catholic community Ihrcat- moral precept about the supposed those who "opt out", to link spirits it was a "got up" question, as faclitious individual selves (reality) in order that lened by an alien ideology for one thing; sanctity of life—of the "tife-principk" with a Meher Baba or what have you— |and presumably, overtones of the "Fall" —abstracted from the suffering and they have reached that position indi­ and sin (the foetus is "innocent") the joy. from the complex interplay of vidually and must al least be respected; vould serve to tic up nicely the loose emotion and thought that makes the defence is rather those powerful ends. The so-very-sacred life-principle human beings what they actually arc- institutions whose stance, because it is comes somehow corrupted by the abstracted and manifested to solemnly- so ambiguous and distorting in practice !time it inhabits the bodies and shines revered perfection in that barely recog­ is more dangerously insidious in its out of the eyes of Vietnamese children nizable, remarkably unappealing blob effects. It has nothing cisentially lo do vho could, one feels, so much more of non-conscious matter, the foetus. It with privately interpreted belief: some basily be loved than bombed. is not a matter o( ttdvocatiiig abortion- religionists are humanist //; tiny way On the one-hand, the culprit is an just of removing the hysteria from the ihal mailers thus proving that atheism "idea" which has no contact with the whole stupid question. is not a nece.v.vtry prercquisile. In immediacy and the warmth and reality politics, secular-socialism does not The basic fault is that insiduous'per- always ensure humanism, and that has ^r a giri who is pregnant and, for vcrsion of reality which any dogmatic Reasons that arc pressingly urgent to been well proved too. What counts, in ideological stance is prey to—that the end, is the relative emphasis given Iter, would rather not be. In Vietnam, fanatical misuse of the imagination and doctrinal and similar influences breath­ to the thinking, and rational, and. the intellect whose true function is abstract, as against the sensual, emo­ ing casuistically upon the sacred ideu surely lo enhance—at most to mould- af life blur its brightness and inviola­ tional, and concrete aspects of the rather than transmute, the reality of human condition. It is a matter of bility, and the flesh and blood organism immediate existence. Il is (he institu­ ecomes expendable as a result. It is, balance; obsessive "rationalism" can . tionalized parallel of the little giri who be as big a menace as over-played as all hell. Because he never spon- in its nature, a deformity of outlook the reality may be sjicrificefl to the falls in love with love, to the eventual "institutionalism" (or whatever one timcoiisly doubted his cxislcncc—any all too common to both political and abstraction—un equable transaction in disillusionment of herself alone. calls il) and for the same reason—they more (dan you or I doubl ours—as a religious ideologies, and (he direct Ihc eyes ofthe high priests. No humanist j The humanist approach involves a both grace the same side ofa dichotomy thinking iiml feeling being. To a human ]intilhesis of the approach to life I would full for that bum ideological philosophy which is for all practical whereby ordinary sensibilities are placed -or by extension lo a humanist- voutd call'humanist—a case of com- equation. And then there is the mis-' purposes basic, and radical as nothing at a discount. The approach has to be a Descartes' question is irrelevant-a bassion losing out to a coldly calcula- guided reasoning which causes a else is. Whether there is an "other­ "whole man" one, in which spon­ playful use of ihc reasoning faculty, Icd ethie, and a tragic display of per- religious group—nominally humane— | worldly" point of reference to which il taneous sensitivity claims an equal harmless enough, but stihubic only for ^pectival eccentricity. lo ban birth control in areas of poverty I is possible to have access is an open place with calculated idealism. If is the idle moments of whimsy. Unless you and deprivation and the threat of worse question. One thing for sure—worid only sound base for a working morality are prcconcerncd to spurn actual life, to come unless fewer are born. But | foetus is a events suggest that a move towards the and probably the, only, hope for the only questions that tire questions really what I am trying to get across can best j humanist elhic becomes more and more world. require an answer, ll is a nialicr firstly. be brought oul by reference to the issue I foetus is a foetus. imperative for human survival, which I of the use of a-ason to sec the bounds 1 mentioned in the beginning—abor­ I have never met a human one. If I is what most people claim to care about. Criticism pf. this thesis is very wel­ beyond which reason-except in u tion; and especially by linking it with lid, it would be extremely unlikely that In the end it comes right down to a come. To be relevant though it miist, it I scientific probe of its own "delusive" our Vietnam troop commitment. That would fall in love with it. The con- studied and sane attitude towards the seems to me, challenge the underlying potential-serves no useful purpose; the chief villain in this particular rrontation would be signally unrc- life experience; and in my view, to an convictions upon which the whole j and then of accepting that limilation tragedy happens lo be a certain Chureh Ivarding. It is no use anyone pretending ultimatum—be humanist, or perish I No approach is based: that the perpetuation wholeheartedly as a fact of life which and its cohorts is not my fault; some of •here is any residual emotional appeal idealistic religious or political blue­ of life on this planet is a desirable end literally asserts itself. Descartes was thai Church's own adherents probably [ libout u foetus as such, ofthe kind which print on its own can ever be sufficient. in itself; that action towards that end serious in his questioning; but one regret it as much as anyone else. plicits spontaneous sympathetic res- Actually the move seems to have must be based on values which are in senses that he was already predisposed The fact that groups like the Demo­ jnsc in other circumstances, because begun. Individual religionists interpret line with spontaneous human response I to think of reality as un idealised God in cratic Club on this campus, and the I bo one will swallow that bull. In fact their God more and more in seemingly to phenomena; and that this response, Ihc background. He was hardly hu­ Catholic Church more widely, find.il ihc response is likely to be just the human terms. Developments in Czecho­ in fact, involves emotional sensibility manist material. within ihcm to oppose the individual ppposilc. Frankly, I would not care slovakia (until a somewhat Icss-lhan-, at least equally with intellectual analysis Anyone who takes a dilfercnl view of female's private right to terminate her ercatly if u million foetuses were to be humanist Russia stepped in) showed at and interpretation. ; reality than the one I have outlined, or pa-gnancy while at the same time| pcstroycd at sun-up tomorrow, pro­ least the possibility of socialism, "with [ whose dilTercnl view is not compre­ blilhcly supporting >u public and im- dded il WUS a case of individual choice a human face"—a sodalism whose hensive enoui>h to include this view on imiKrsonal involvement in Vietnam,! -and that is just a fact which I accept. somewhat distanced' human ERIC CROSSWELL

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