THE PEOPLE~ YES -By Richard Straw
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THE A combined campus newspaper Vol. 5 Issue 2 Marion, Ohio February 6,1976 THE PEOPLE~ YES -by Richard Straw While working on his monumental with the American muse, despite the biography of Abraham Lincoln, a pro clamoring of the dogmatic writers of his ject which engaged most of his energy day. He gained an ·essential knowledge from 1919 through 1936 and which also of the way men feel and talk by listening won for him a Pulitizer prize, the first carefully to everything he heard them such for a piece of biographical writing, mention. Golden says that, "Everyone Carl Sandburg was composing an epic who speaks is one of Sandburg's people sized poem on the American populace ... There are politically good and bad which had nurtured and could again people in Sandburg; there are selfish produce men of Lincoln's stature. Harry and unselfish people; visionary and nar Golden, in his affectionate· biography row-minded people; haves and have nots. Talented Painter of Sandburg, describes The People, Yes He sees them not through a political Ehrenberg Does Displays Own Work as "a series of psalms which sing the or social screen but through a poetic American experience: hardship, humor, and humorous screen." Sandburg Tonight -by Mary C. Thompson fortitude, and - speech . It is a Sandburg's hope for "the people" book not only about the American was first stated by Lincoln: "If we Mr. Ehrenbe rg began his earnest in The new display of colorful paintings people but about the way American could first know where we are, and te rest in th eatre and drama at Princeton in the lobby here at O.S. U.M. may have people talk and the things they say and whither we are tending, we could better University where he was active in the caught yo ur eye. These paintings are their reasons for saying them. It is jud~ what to do, and how to do it." Princeton Triangle Club and Theatre some of the works of Valda Fitzpatrick. affirmative, optimistic; in some places Sandburg deeply desired to see the Intime. As a graduate student he attend They will be on disp lay for the month tender, in other tough." Golden goes American people realize a self-reliant ed the University of Minnesota for a of Febr uary. on to say that "Sandburg's commitment nature that would include t he capacity year in English and spent three years at to 'the people' was not a political Valda is a teacher of the non-credit for mystery and reflection: the University of Chicago where he art course offered here, in t he evenings. commit ment but a spiritual commit The people is a tragic and comic two concentrated on Comparative Education The class is under t he C.E.S. program ment." face: hero and hoodlum: phantom and became a doctoral candidate. and is directed by Mr. Ralph Felger. Written in the free-style verse that and gorilla twisting to moan with a He has served as director of the drama Current ly the class is studying acrylics had been adopted by Walt Whitman gargoyle laugh: "They buy me and department of a private academy where and soon will be moving into oils for from the biblical prophets and Hindu sell me ... it's a game .. some he staged the Yeats' translation of two weeks. If you ever peek into Mrs. script ures, the 107 consecutively arrang ti me I' ll break loose ..." Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX, Moliere's . Fitzpat rick' s class you will find a plea ed poems which make up The People, LE MEDICIN MALGRE LUI and Ber sant at mosphere set off by the instruo Yes portra y an apolitical histo ry of the Once having marched nard Shaw's, THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE. tor's exuberant personality. Her accent American civilization. "The book," Over t he margins of animal neces is Lit huanian and she always has a Golden asserts," is a poetic definition sity, In addition to his academic activit ies, cheerfu l tone. of elemental forces: love, death, life, Over the grim line of sheer sub Mr. Ehrenberg has been Director of a sistence Having come to America 15 years but especially - work. The personnae mid-western FM radio station innovating Then -rnan , came ago, Valda finds herself very much at talk constantly about work and forward a series of live, outdoor jazz concerts To the deeper rituals of his bones, home here. She is living in Mt. Gilead practical considerations of what makes and a special series entitled, "The Art with her husband and nine year old son. a good or bad worker." To the lights lighter than any bones, of the Spoken Word." From 1960 To the time for thinking things over, through 1971 his major theatrical act She has been painting for ten years and When political or sociological topics To the dance, the song, the story, ivit ies included founding t he Internation studied under Glenn Rothman, O.S.U.M. are developed, they are done so with Or the hours given over to dreaming, al Players in Chicago where he directed Art Professor, for three year s. Cur "tongue in cheek." For-example: Once having so marched. and starred in productions of, THE rent ly, her husband is working on a A Scotsman keeps the Sabbath and IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, studio and small gallery that will be anything else he can lay his hands Carl Sandburg read The People, Yes Anouilh's, ANTIGONE, Bernard Shaw's, located in Mt.Gilead within the year. on, say the English. to many people, including once in 1942 DON JUAN IN HELL, Ibsen' s, GHOSTS A fighting Frenchman runs away at Detroit where he was offered a Valda is continuously producing and Giraudo us's, TIGER AT THE from even a she-goat, say the chance to run for public office from wor ks and has two more shows lined GATES. D\Jring this period he also Germans. Michigan's 4th district by an adulant up. Her next one will be in Chicago and appeared regularly in the University of A Russian, say the Poles, can be group of U.A.W. leaders. then to Toronto, this fall. The outdoors Chicago Theatre production s starring in cheated only by a gypsy, a gypsy appeals to her for sketching and she The poem's mass popularity is attest the prize-winning, full-length play, EXIT by a Jew, a Jew by a Greek, and a gathers many ideas out of her mind. ed to by its having been made into a AND EXILE by Richard Vertel written Greek by the devil. Photograp hs also inspire her. radio serial by Morman Corwin, who expressly for him. "If I owned Texas and hell I would also featured it in his production of While pursuing her Bachelor of Fine rent Texas and move to hell," During his career in t he theatre Mr. Arts Degree, Valda is attending art The World of Carl Sandburg, starring said a famous general. Miss Bette Davis. It toured in this Ehrenberg has been deep ly involved in classes in Columbus and also some "That's right," wrote a Texas editor." special training programs fo r the severly others here at the Marion campus. In form through 78 cities "including Little Every man for his own country." Rock," said Sandburg. disadvantaged. As director of these Columbus, she is studying sculpture with programs, he developed many of the Prof. Black, Paintin g with Prof. Hall, The propagandas of hate and war "The long tumultous poem The concepts now used and he presently and Advanced Art History with Prof. always monkey with the buzzsaw People, Yes," as Sandburg described it, serves in the capacity of Consultant for Sappelsa. of race and nationality, breed and was his favorite poem. Published in the U.S. Labor Depart ment. 1936, he included in it everything he She has a special Interest in Art kin, seldon saying, "When in doubt Concerning, THEPEOPLE, YES by History and feels that all areas of art thought possible which could express a hold your tongue." truthful understanding of America, ex Carl Sandburg, he has devoted the past must be appreciated. five years to carefully ed iting for per In the frenzied, worried years of the cept one thing. Golden relates that, "in formance this work in order to cap If you are interested in purchasing Great Depression, Sanburg's voice re an offhand way, Sandburg told me once, any of these paintings that are on ture the power, lucidity and humor of mained even and clear. He was neither 'I missed getting in The People, Yes one show in the lobby, they are all for sale. its author. tempted to become an exile abroad as little item, a question and answer I There are 63 in all. other Americans were nor did he accept thought I ought to include." an offer of $30,000 a year from William "Let me hear the question," I said. Randolph Hearst to write a regular "What was it the last man on earth column. He opposed political extremists said?" by writing honest political columns in "Tell me." other newspapers, such as the Chicago "Where is everybody?" paper where he voiced disagreement with America Firsters and Fascist dictator ....................~ ships abroad at the start of World War 2. There will be no classes on February He earlier broke away from the Social 16, due to the observance of Presidents' ists after World War 1 began and sup Day.