Wright Attacks Hypocrisy
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ews Vol. LVII WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS;t WELLESLEY, MASS., APR. 9, 1964 No. 21 Variety Is Theme of "64 and the Arts"; Wright Attacks Hypocrisy Seniors Show Talents in Many Forms by Nancy Holler ' 66 equal rights, but no one is willing Variety is the most striking as- Barbara Betts have used oils. "Whether you like it or not to act on those beliefs. She asked pect of the poetry and art exhibits For variety, works in glass, wood, Mississippi is a part of you and the members of the audience how constituting "'64 and the Arts." ceramics and beads are also on you are a part of it" said Marion they would react when they were Summing up her selections for display. Sherry Fink is exhibiting Wright, NAACP defense lawyer, in suburban mothers and equal rights the "lesson in frankness" she gave involved letting a Negro family the program, Chairman Nana h~r collection of blown glass and here Monday night. live next door or having Negro Lampton said, "It's really amazing Kitty James her wood cuts. The "The issue in the South today children in school with theirs, per to see how exciting and different sculpture of Dudley Templeton is of free elections. There aren't haps even intermarrying. they can be. There's everything and ceramic and bead work of any." She asserted that Southern Miss Wright discussed the prob from very gifted poetry to blown Cia Bogate are also included. senators are elected by a handful lem of intermarriage stating that glass and woodcut projects." The poetry readings and art ex- of the electorate in their states. the very fact people call it inter Double Poetry Reading hibit are two aspects of the w64 But these men are a nationwide marriage shows that "people have Preceding the two presentations and the Arts" program which also problem due to the seniority sys not yet accepted me as a human of the play "The Smiling Unicorn" includes a music recital at 8·00 tem which affords them great in being." She asked what right peo on Friday and Saturday will be · fluence in the senate. ple have to influence the choice poetry reading of the class's works. p.m. Saturday and a double pre- Unfair Elections of a mate. Mary Ann Radner, who has been sentation of the class play. The To illustrate her charges of u~ In answer to the common reason invited to read her poems at Mount play, to be given at 8:00 p.m. Fri fair elections, Miss Wright de given for opposing mixed mar Holyoke, will deliver the same day and 2:00 p.m. Saturday, was scribed instances in the state of. riages, the fate of the children, poems she plans to read there. One written by Joy Thomas, directed Mississippi in which violent bar-· she charged that we and our child poem which typifies her sensitive by Virginia Kelley and stars Lee rassment was used by police to ren will be the ones who harm the approach is entitled "Outline" and Hawkins who plays the idealistic keep Negro voters from registering. children of mixed marriages. begins: young girl. Other methods to prevent registra NAACP lawyer, Marion Wright, "You're trying to stop the bugaboo Today forewarned the spring. - - - - --- ----- tion include poll taxes, constitu calls for action. because of what you're going to I am the year tion tests and the publication of the to find their attempts to register do after it." I am the cross-gate, pausing News is happy to announce Negro's name in the local news frustrated by a powerful govern- White Help Needed Now of the year the addition of three associate paper for three days. ment. The speaker placed great impor- Miss Wright explained that when tance upon our future role as I am a walking bridge, bent reporters to the staff. The new Guilt of the North his name is published for an at· Miss Wright charged that Missis mothers. "You hold all the power over snow reporters are: Ann Kirkley '67, A window hollowed for the tempted registration to vote, a sippi is not an isolated case but in your hands. You'll be bringing wind. Karen Kozak '66, and Carolyn Negro will almost certainly lose his that it indicates the attitude of up children. What are you going Magid '67. job. And yet she stated that many the whole nation. "Wallace and to teach your kids?" Linda McJennett will read the Negros will face these risks only In answer to those who plead for poems of six poets of '64. Her Barnett couldn't get away with what they do if it weren't that you more time to solve the race prob selections include works by Vir lem she answered "Time is one of ginia Bowden, Kathryn Dean, Kar let them. You aren't that much Mod~ ern Art Exhibit and Discussions different from Wallace. The dif the biggest myths. Time doesn't en Hodges, Kathryn James, Nana do things by itself." She called Lampton and Penny Pendall. ference is just in degree." Keynote Picasso, Braque And Others She saw the main difficulty as attention to the last one hundred New Forms in Jewett an inability of the average Ameri years and asked how much more The art collection, currently on Twentieth century European and works in several major museums, can White to be honest with him time we needed to become decent. exhibit in the corridor of Jewett, American art will continue on exi including the Boston Museum of self about his attitudes toward race Miss Wright said that the help represents numerous forms, styles bition in Jewett until May 3 in Fine Arts. relations. Wallace's assertion that of Northern whites is needed in and materials. Notable among the connection with a series of four The final lecture will be given the rest of the country agrees with the civil rights fight in Mississippi collection are the water colors of lectures on modern art. on April 27 by Bartlett H. Hayes him was, she felt, very close to the to get publicity. It is not news Cia Bogate, which she painted The collection of paintings, Jr., Director of the Addison Gal truth. Miss Wright, who attends when a Negro is jailed or beaten. while studying in Vienna with Os sculpture, drawings, watercolors lery of American Art. His topic in Yale Law school, stated "You'll "But it is fantastically unusual for car Koshka. They are compositions and prints are being loaned by "Artist Through The Looking find the same attitudes at Yale a nice Wellesley girl to go down. Wellesley alumnae, Boston resi Glass" will cover aspects of reality and Wellseley.'' You take American interest with employing the relation of shapes you." rather than lines. Nancy Need dents, the Boston Museum of Fine in contemporary art. Won't Act on Beliefs ham's paintings are also done in Arts and by such collectors as Gov Tickets to the seminar are sold According to the speaker, every water colors while Liz Archer and ernor Nelson A. Rockefeller and out. one is for decency, democracy and TENNYSON SPEAKER Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce. Among the artists represell.lted are Radcliffe Independent Study Program Mr. Christopher Ricks will Tenure Controvers Picasso, Braque, Rouault, Matisse, speak on Tennyson at 4:40, Dati and Modigliani. April 13, in 105 Pendleton. Mr. Appoint Two o ~f Wellesley's Faculty Ricks is a Book Review Editor Explodes at Tufts Modern Art Series of Essays in Critici.sm) a Bri The exhibition and lecture ser Two Wellesley faculty members the past year. During her associa tish magazine, and has written What are the qualifications of ies were arranged by the Boston have been appointed members of tion with the Radcliffe Institute, reviews for many other maga a good faculty member? This ques Junior Wellesley College Club to the Radcliffe Institute for Indepen Mrs. Goldman will work on a book zines. tions was raised recently at Tufts benefit the Faculty Salary Advance dent Study. Miss Sylvia Berkman, examining the role of the intellec Mr. Ricks wrote Milton)s University when an Advisory ment Fund. The series entited "A Lecturer in English, has been nam tuals in the Chinese Communist G'rand Style which was pub· Committee on Faculty Personnel Seminae in Art: Cezanne to the ed a Full Time Scholar, and Mrs. Party, showing particularly how li bed in 1963 and was widely reaffirmed the administration's de Present" opened last Monday with Merle Goldman, Instructor in His the Party has attempted to con reviewed. His principal aim was cision to dismiss Dr. Woodrow Wil a speech by Frederick C. Walkey, tory, an Associate Scholar. trol the intellectuals in China and to answer in detail the objec son Sayre, grandson of President Director o~ the DeCordova Mu Miss Berkman, a writer and what the response has been. Mrs. tion~ to Milton's language made Wilson. He was charged with not seum, on "The Evolution of Cub teacher of English literature, re Goldman is married to Marshall by T. S. Eliot and others. making enough scholarly contribu ism." ceived her A.B. degree from Pem Goldman who teaches economics Mr. Ricks has come from tions and publications in his field. The second in the series of lec broke College and her M.A. and at Wellesley College and is an England to the Houghton library The Committee's decision was made tures will be delivered by Joseph Ph.D. degrees from Radcliffe Col Associate at the Harvard Russian at Harvary to study its Tenny by a 4 to 1 vote.