~lUS WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

Volume 8, Number 12 March II, 1960

NEW EDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY JEAN ANOUILH FACULTY MANUAL IS TO BE PUBLISHED

(The Department of Speech will A NEW .edition of the Faculty Manual, the Faculty Executive Committee. The present "The Lark," by Jean Anouilh, the official statement of the standards publication will include sections on Friday and Saturday, March 11 and and policies pertaining to the employ­ "Administration and Organization," 12, in Bryan Hall Auditorium, at 8:15. ment of faculty members at Washing­ "Faculty Personnel Policies," and on Tickets are priced at $.75 and are on ton State, will be published and dis­ other matters of interest to members sale at the Bookstore and the Corner tributed this spring. The 1960 edition of the faculty. Drug.) wiU contain revisions of many sec­ The point of view of the Manual is tions of the previous edition of the perhaps best expressed in the "Intro­ TWENTY-THREE years ago, in 1937, Manual, and the policies set forth are duction" to the publication, where the the- young French playwright Jean those determined upon after discus­ following statement appears: "It is the Anouilh was the subject of an inter­ sion with all interested groups, either policy of the Board of Regents to pro­ view appearing in a leading French directly or by representation through vide terms and conditions of employ­ literary periodical. "When I was ten," ment as liberal, depei1dable, and ex­ Anouilh is reported to have said in the DANCE AND BRIDGE plicit as state laws and sound man'age­ interview, "I was , already writing ment will allow. The purpose of such plays, and they were in verse. But I explicit understandings is to insure only managed short plays-one-acters, THE FACULTY Wives' Club will hold conditions under which qualified fac­ or plays where three acts would play a semi-formal dinner dance and bridge ulty members may wish to come here for much less than an hour. I was party on Saturday evening, March 19, and to remain here. sixteen before I wrote a play that was at P.M., in the CUB ballroom. 7 :30 "The Board of Regents and the as long as a real play. I found that Mrs. Bradley's four-piece orchestra President are agreed that, in matters play and read it recently-it was not will play for dancing between nine of concern to faculty and administra­ bad. The title was 'The Woman on o'clock and midnight, and bridge with tion alike, such as appointment, pro­ the Mantelpiece'-it is the story of a prizes will be available for those who man who has too much respect for a motion, salary, and termination of wish to play. The dinner will be a service, the policies outlined in this woinan and stands her on the mantel­ served meal. piece, if you see what I mean." Manual will be followed in faithful Members may secure tickets at the adherence to the principles stated. It In the years following 1937, Jean Chamber of Commerce office in the must· be recognized that there is no Anouilh has become an internationally Washington Hotel from Mrs. Milton intention of permitting liberal employ­ known playwright. His plays-Eury­ Mosher between 8 :00 A.M. and 4, :00 ment or tenure provisions to become dice, Antigone, Colombe, Waltz of the P.M., Monday through Friday. Table a refuge for the incompetent faculty Toreadors, Thieves' Carnival, and The reservations should then be made with member. Such provisions insure the Lark-have been important contribu­ Mrs. W. Frank_ Scott by March 11. rights of those who will contribute to tions to the world of modern-day the development of the institution; drama. They must not become a safeguard for Anouilh's own life has not been CHAMBER MUSIC those who can make no such contribu­ particularly dramatic. (There is a tion." story that the only difficulty he ex­ perienced quring the German occupa­ THE PULLMAN Chamber Music Series, tion of Paris was when he was dis­ now in its fifth year, has arranged covered u~ing a telescope to see what for a return engagement by the Ama­ VESPERS fresh veg'etables had arrived at the deus Quartet, the group that inaugur­ market. f His father was a tailor and ated the series in November, 1955. THE SuNDA Y afternoon vespers, March his mother a violinist in a casino or­ The program will be given in Todd 13, will feature the seventy-voice WSU chestra. · In his search for a career, Hall Auditorium on Thursday evening, Choir known as the Crimson Choral­ Anouilh 1\attempted the study of law March 17, at 8:15 P.M. Admission is iers. Included on the program will be but after a·y~ar and a half threw it up. by season ticket or single admission a group of selections sung by a twenty­ For a time, i:i~ worked in an adver­ ticket available at the music office or four-voice ensemble selected from the tising firm in P1it-i!:l"- where he wrote at the door on the night of the per­ larger group for touring purposes. copy setting forth the-'"~rtues of par­ formance. Included on the program Sunday afternoon's program will he ticular brands of automofil}fs and un- are quartets by Haydn, W altcin, and given in Bryan Hall Auditorium at ( Continued on page 3)"-. Brahms. 4:00 P.M. A TIRADE

"DOWN WITH PHILOSOPHER-KINGS" OFFERED AS ANTI-FACULTY SLOGAN

BECAUSE I lack confidence in most down a manhole," and are united in answers, this has been the intellectual ( people's common sense, I am seldom support of a "doctrine endorsing social fashion since the thirties. Styles amazed at anyone's strange behavior. illiteracy for the bulk of mankind." change, however, and this one is about I usually anticipate the worst, and if, In doing this, they have set themselves to. . .not in the sterile direction of contrary to my expectations, some­ against the rest of American society. philosopher-kingship, but in a more thing less than catastrophe occurs, I Moreover, "what can they offer the optimistic democratic direction alto­ am pleasantly surprised. Hungry Societies of Asia and Africa, gether." (Although it may be hard to Occasionally, however, I am shocked pregnant with revolution and gestating believe, this is word for word what ( out of my customary lassitude. This with freedom in the midst of a popula­ Mr. Stern has written.) tion explosion?" And one might well happened last week when I. stumbled ask: "What indeed?" Now what is one to make of all this across an article entitled "Down with hodge-podge? First, it must, I think, Philosopher - Kings," by Milton R. But professors are guilty of more be admitted that Mr. Stern doesn't Stern, Assistant to the Dean, Division than mere attempts to restrict educa­ know a great deal about professors of General Education, New York Uni­ tional opportunity · in order to create and that some ( ? ) of his statements versity. This was as angry a rash of a new educational elite. Mr. Stern are just pure bunk. It is probably words as I have fought through in suggests that their crimes may be even true, and certainly understandable, some days, and if Mr. Stern's rage more heinous. He writes that "some that most professors ( although not all) sometimes gets the better of his logic, intellectuals are corrupted and become prefer bright students to dull ones. there is no question but that he has corrupters by the very fact that they But I have heard no professor ever the ax out for someone. And, after purvey trash in mass communications defend the proposition that "the pur­ reading his article three times, I · sus­ for money and publicity-celebrity." suit of excellence," as Mr. Stern calls pect I know who his prospective vic­ They have become "somewhat seedy, it, should become the first step in the tims are. intellectual Quizlings on television," creation of an elite based upon birth Mr. Stern is unhappy with the aca­ and, perhaps to the surprise of some and class. There has been a great deal demic profession. In fact, he is down­ uninformed persons, Mr. Stern warns of talk about raising the standards of right peeved at college and university that "power and its modern by-pro­ university education. But this has professors, and when he completes his ducts, publicity and celebrity, are seldom carried the inference that edu­ bill of particulars against them, one temptations that beset those who would cational opportunity should be restrict­ wonders how the rascals have escaped live the life of the mind." ed to a few. In fact, most proposed hanging. If Mr. Stern is to be be­ Also, educators have not provided schemes for raising educational stand­ ( lieved, these academicians are ugly enough answers, they have not been ards are quite timid and are hardly \ fellows indeed, and it is well we have positive enough, but have devoted their designed to prevent large numbers of been warned against their designs. time to the asking of silly questions. qualified students from gaining a col­ lege degree ( and in some cases even The charges against the professors On this point, Mr. Stern writes two a college education) . Most professors are so many that I hope I may be paragraphs, and I must admit that I are more lenient than they should be. excused if I dwell only on the most find these extremely rough going. But (I cannot hazard a guess as to what important of our author's accusations. then I may not be tuned in to Mr. Mr. Stern's grade in his college course Mr. Stern has discovered in the uni­ Stern's channel here. in English composition might have versities what he calls "an outbreak "But let us take heart," he writes. been, but, if his "Down with Philoso­ of the age-old virus of academic snob­ "New formulations, fumbling in the pher-Kings" is any indication of his bishness." This manifests itself in womb of the fifties, will come alive in skill in organizing and expressing his "invidious attitudes toward adventur­ the decade of the sixties. (I think Mr. thoughts, he should be grateful indeed ous programs" and shows up in state­ Stern a bit overfond of these repro­ to some kind professor, who obviously ments such as "the pursuit of excell­ ductive figures of speech, but then it recognized some of Mr. Stern's other ence," which Mr. Stern is convinced is his article and he may write it as virtues.) is merely the first step in a campaign he pleases.) It bids fair to be a more that will lead to the creation of an exciting period than the recent past, There are several other points in "intellectual elite whose claims to fav­ when questions rather than answers Mr. Stern's essay that can only be ored educational status go beyond in­ were in style, when diagnosticians of described kindly as exercises in non­ telligence to notions of birth and society were in demand. Some of these sense. Few college professors ( or in­ class." This is the "new elitesman­ have been quite acute in their obser­ tellectuals, for Mr. Stern, perhaps un­ ship," which, if we follow Mr. Stern, vations .... intentionally and certainly erroneously, seems to regard the two words as we must deal with "as we see the "Yet for all the sensitivity and sen­ spreading malady advance along the synonymous) "purvey trash in mass sibility of such statements, something grassy ways of our own campuses." communications for money and pub­ is lacking. There is too much diag­ licity-celebrity." This is not because nosis, too little attempt at answers. According to Mr. Stern, these "pur­ they have refused to do so. They just Not that answers can be guaranteed, suers of excellence" agree that "quality haven't been asked. I have seen few but they represent experiment and bets and quantity, education of the many, "seedy, intellectual Quizlings" on my on life, hope, not despair. The human are incompatible, and that the univer­ television screen lately, and, whatever element enters. It is people who can sity is corrupted when its arcane their other sins, college professors must give intellect an ingrown, incestuous learning is made available to more be found innocent of any charge of and decadent character~or something rather than fewer students, young or dominating the television industry. old." University professors are deter­ else. But nothing much has happened mined to drop "popular education lately: questions and diagnosis, not (Continued on page 3) FROM PAGE 2 FROM PAGE 1

PHILOSOPHER-KINGS JEAN ANOUILH AND HIS PLAYS A complaint must also be entered against Mr. Stern's statement that derwear, and it was only in the middle most important thing about Anouilh intellectuals are power-hungry and and late nineteen-thirties that he is _his deep and abiding pessimism, that they "sound like the Duke of achieved critical and financial success which results from his passionate con­ Windsor trying to recover his throne." as a writer for the stage. cern for the individual, his awareness ( One may with some justice suspect of humanity's helplessness, and his be­ that Mr. Stern's knowledge of English One of Anouilh's first dramatic ef­ forts was a farcical one-act play, the lief that suffering is the common mark constitutional history as it relates to on all men. the power exercised by the monarch story of a young man who had the may not be all it should.) It has been power to say only one word per day. my observation that the "urge to The plot turned on the determination power" is not too strongly developed of the unfortunate young man to save "I have no biography, and I am in most intellectuals. More often than a stock of these single words for weeks very glad of it. I was born in not, they are men who pass _u}J___Oppor­ and at last to use them all in a state­ Bordeaux on the 23rd of June, tunities to occupy positions of power ment of admiration for a girl he loved. 1910. I came to Paris when I was and often allow others to exercise the This early work almost serves as a young and attended the Colbert control to which they might lay valid symbol of Anouilh's attitude toward Primary School and later Chaptal claim. Here Mr. Stern is shouting what he regards as the pathetic be­ College. A year and a half at the down the wrong alley, and may even havior of mankind, and the young Law Faculty in Paris, then two be in the wrong town. man's inability to speak is closely re­ years in an advertising firm, where lated to the situation of the leading I learned to be ingenious and exact, When all this is said, the question character in Waltz of the Toreadors, lessons that for me took the place still remains: "Why did Mr. Stern written in 1951, who says: "My heart of studies in literature. After my feel compelled to make these attacks?" is not made of stone. But I am econo­ play L'Hermine was produced I de­ And there was a reason. Somewhere, mizing on tears. I am growing old." cided to live only by writing for the Mr. Stern has discovered opposition to In Anouilh's view, natutal circum­ theatre and a little for films. It what he calls adult education among stances may make it difficult for a was folly, but I did right to make members of the academic community, young man to speak, but it is experi­ that decision. I have managed and he has obviously been hurt by the ence that keeps an old man from weep­ 1:ever to touch journalism, and in thought that a program dear to his ing excessively at his follies and those films all I have on my conscience heart should be opposed by anyone. of his fellow human beings. are one or two cheap farces and a Someone has suggested that universi­ few u~signed and now forgotten Corruption is Anouilh's constant ties "restrict programs for adults to romantic melodramas. The rest is theme. Whether it is money or society 'university level,' meaning courses my life, and for as long as it sanctioned by having been for many or lust that acts as the corrupting in­ pleases Heaven for it to be my fluence, the result is the same: what years part of 'regular' programs." Mr. private business, I shall keep the Stern suspects that professors may not passes for love or honor or strength in details to myself." be too enthusiastic about carrying this world is doomed. And Anouilh I ean Anouilh learning "to the people,'' and he warns has many great theatrical virtues. He that "before they go much farther, let is an awesome stylist, and he has an them face up to the realities of our amazing gift for dialogue, an unerring It is to the subject of our· doom and time, let them learn to communicate emotional restraint, and a wonderful our in~bility to escape the futility of to an important constituency of Ameri­ sense of comedy. But for many, the our existence that Jean Anouilh re­ can adults, many people, not just a turns in all his important plays. In few." If his warning is not heeded, Eurydice, the mysterious M. Henri ex­ the results may be disastrous, for Mr. plains that there is nothing unusual in Stern has come up with an amazing education may be. But I doubt if the_ failure_ of young lovers to keep historical find: "the fall of Rome, the much will be accomplished by Mr. their pass10n pure and escape the failure of Roman society, may largely Stern's angry ( and quite bluntly) in­ squalor common to all who live: be attributable to an inadequacy of comprehensible tirade. This is because, "Grotesque, wasn't it? Lamentable? adult education" (so much for Mr. for all his talk about professors, Mr. Well, that is life. Yes, that buffoonery, Gibbon and others, who have ignored Stern has failed to observe one of their that futile melodrama, is life. Yes, that this obvious reason for the "Decline most persistent characteristics. I have and Fall"). noticed that professors can at times be ~e,~viness,. that ~lay-acting, is really persuaded or bribed or tricked into it. And, m what is probably Anouilh's I do not know what the present accepting a point of view. But as a best-~nown play, Antigone, when his status or the future prospects of adult group they show a remarkable resist­ herome makes the pathetic admission ance to kicks. The professorial pos­ th~t she no longer knows why she is terior is often the most sensitive of all dymg, her position is plainly pointed anatomical parts, and response to out by the reply of her insensitive N~ms Bulle:,z:111 stimulation in this area is usually guard: "Nobody ever knows why he is ,\ quick and unexpected. Mr. Stern dying." In an early play, Anouilh has Issued on alternate Fridays during the his leading feminine character sum up academic year. All copy should be submitted would do well to remember this when by 9:00 A.M. the Monday before publication next he places himself at his desk to by saying: "There will always be a is desired to Room 5, College Hall. Deadline write another article on philosopher­ stray dog somewhere in the world to for the next issue is :March 21. kings, dinosaurs, or whatever may stop me from being happy" ; and in a HENRY GROSSHAt-1S, EDITOR come into his mind. (Continued on page 4) THE REVIEWER

COMMENTS ON PUBLICATIONS BY WASHINGTON STATE FACULTY ( A Steady Gaze In his book, Professor Marcuse has market, the laundry, and the deep Hypnosis - Fact and Fiction, F. L. ruthlessly chopped about him in the freeze," thus freeing large numbers Marcuse. Baltimore, 1959. effort to substitute knowledge for ig­ of women from the drudgery of cook­ In the minds of many, hypnosis is norance on the subject of hypnosis. ing, washing, and canning. Confront­ a form of black magic, practiced by The result is that the topic becomes ed by this sudden appearance of lei­ charlatans, who use their weird talents more understandable · (if less spine­ sure, women were free to take up to gain money, power, or emotional tingling) to the nonspecialist, and "bridge, golf, cocktail parties, or soap control over unfortunate individuals. many readers of Professor Marcuse's operas." And, I should imagine, some ( Whatever their aims, these practition­ book will find it necessary to change of these carefree spirits did just this. ers are up to no good, and we have their ideas about what hypnosis is, how Many more, however, went out the all heard, at one time or another, of it is accomplished, and what its unique front door and down the street in these experts in hypnosis, who have value may be. search of employment, and, by 1955, gained wealth, influence, and, most Without regret, Professor Marcuse "40 per cent of the country's mothers horrible of all, feminine affection by destroys certain misconceptions about with school - age but no preschool unnatural means. hypnosis. He refutes the coll).monly children were in the labor force." This heard argument that continual subjec­ change in the position of the mother tion to hypnosis may make one weak­ was certain to have an effect on Amer­ FROM PAGE 3 minded or emotionally unstable. Nor ican domestic life, and it is to an will he have anything to do with the examination of certain aspects of this JEAN ANOUILH idea that if a person is hypnotized and change that Professor Nye has ad­ the hypnotist leaves without dehypno­ dressed himself. later play, this sentiment is capped by tizing the individual, the poor victim It might have been expected that the remark: "Thank God one only is left playing the piano or standing the new independence acquired by em­ lives once. That is amply sufficient." on one leg through eternity. Professor ployed women and the almost certain Marcuse admits that "we have all met The disappointment of young ro­ strains put upon the family by this people who look as if this had hap­ mantics is matched by the memories change in the mother's position would pened to them," but he is certain that of lost opportunities in the old, and result in some form of family conflict. the cause must be ascribed to some­ Anouilh has what is perhaps his great­ This is what Professor Nye discovered thing other than hypnosis. Also, he est dramatic creation, the General in in his study. "Present data support knows of no data to support the con­ Waltz of the Toreadors, speak of the the idea that employment of mothers tention that a hypnotized person is in horror and the waste of the human typically increases conflict in marital danger of remaining dependent or un­ life. "I've grown old almost without relationships," he writes. "It likewise der the influence of the hypnotist, nor noticing it. My stomach has got fatter seems clear that satisfaction and happi­ is there any evidence that after hyp­ and my hair got thinner, and more ness in marriage are not significantly nosis one must feel tired or mentally and more gold braid kept creeping different by employment categories. upset. round my sleeve as the years went by. This probably means that the more And beneath the fancy dress-a young But Professor Marcuse is not only prevalent conflict in families where the man's heart still waiting to give his interested in setting aright certain mis­ mother is employed is counterbalanced all." conceptions about hypnosis. He is also by increased life satisfactions for the It is again this theme of waste and concerned with the valid practical and mother." the failure of ideals that Anouilh put theoretical uses of hypnosis. And here, Thus, it appears that families in into his last important play, The Lark. although he writes that "hypnosis is which mothers are working may have Here, after Joan of Arc has been neither a cure-all in therapy nor the more conflict but also more satisfac­ burned at the stake, we are asked to wherewithal of research," it does "have tions. The gains and losses accom­ remember her at what is called "her its legitimate uses in both these areas." panying the employment of mothers happiest day," the coronation of The most important parts of Professor probably make family life different Charles at the cathedral. Warwick the Marcuse's book are devoted to his ex­ from what it was before the mother English commander protests at this: amination of these aspects of hypnosis, accepted a job. But it seems unlikely "This could not have been her happiest and here he builds a case that justi­ that the new conflicts created by the day. To watch Holy Oil being poured fies his conclusion that "hypnosis has new situation will result in the destruc­ on that mean, sly little head!" And a foot in the door of legitimate science tion of the family unit. "Logically," Charles himself replies: "Oh, I didn't and is here to stay." Professor Nye writes, "employment of turn out so bad. I drove you out of * * -:; mothers might be expected to precipi­ the country. And I got myself some tate some divorces." And he admits money before I died. I was as good Mothers at Work that the strains caused by the employ­ as most." To this, Warwick answers: "Employment Status of Mothers and ment of the mother may result in "So you were. But certainly the girl Marital Conflict, Permanence, and thoughts of divorce; "but present data would never have ridden into battle, Happiness," F. Ivan Nye. Social give some reasons to think that such never have been willing to die, be­ Problems, Vol. VI, No. 3, 1959. thoughts are infrequently transmitted cause you were as good as most." Thus One of the byproducts of "the afflu- into action." This is, I think, good great human enterprises end, all ef­ ent society" in the United States has news. Quarreling and various forms forts carried out on behalf of those been a change in the activities of of marital conflict are unpleasant. who are as good as most, or as bad as women. As Professor Nye points out Most of us, however, can count our­ most, but all scarred by the failure and in his study, traditional housework has selves fortunate if nothing worse is futility of life. been largely taken over "by the super- apt to develop.