John Prine:, Chicago's Folk Hero Tom Balcerek 20 .•

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FEATURES 2 On Painting the Town Red Anthony Walton ,'" t", . 4 A Chicago Loop Architectural Tour Thomas Stritch 6 A Culinary Cruise Liz Donovan 8 Everyone's Kind of Town Eileen Durkin 14 Bilandic Byrned, Machine Dead Paul Peralta 16 North Side ..• South Side Jim Trausch 18 John Prine:, Chicago's Folk Hero Tom Balcerek 20 .•. And All That Jazz Joe Carey

REGULARS 11 Gallery Mark Bonner Mike Cantwell Theresa Rebeck Photographs: Phil Whitmer Pat' Casey 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8; Scholastic • Archives, 4, 9,' 20; Mike Guay, 14; Bruce 22 Perspective ,Paul Lauer Harlan, 15; Phil Johnson, 18, 19; Collegiate Jazz Festival, 21. Artwork: " Mike Cantwell, 17, 20. Cover: Pat Casey

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Two theatres there are several places to gain in the Uptown and' the AUditorium: formation. Chicago Magazine con host medium-sized concerts. A more tains ratings on all the restau intimate setting is· provi~ed by the rants in Chicago and offers hints Park West, a nightclub on the north for new things to do. The Chicago side. Among those appea~ing there newspapers contain ads for .all of in recent weeks have been Herbie the mentioned activities and run Hancock, Weather Report, Santana, weekend sections on entertainment. Judy Collins,. and Boston. Chicago For specific information, here are also has much to offer in classical some phone numbers to call: For music and dance... The New York the update on. rock concerts, call City Ball.et, featuring Mikhail Bar JAM's rock hotline, 312~666-6667. yshnikov, . will be performing in To find out what's happening in April. The Chicago Symphony Or jazz, call 312-666-1881. Dial 212- chestra, directed by Sir '. George F-I-N-E-A-R-T for information on Solti, performs weekly at Or general entertainment. 312-372-5178 chestra Hall in Chicago. is the number of CAPA, Chicago Alliance for the Performing Arts, The Shubert, the Arie Crown, the Drury Lanes, and the Mill Run are for theater information. 312-454- just' a few of the many theatres in 6777' is the number for TICKE~ Chicago. Broadway plays and orig TRON, for" information on availa inal first runs are among those bility of tickets and ordering. available for your viewing pleasure. Chicago. It's ninety minutes Recent examples have been "A Cho away and holds in store another world of new and different things rus Line," "Beatlemania," a~d "The Wiz." Now playing are "Dracula," to do. It's the perfect cure for ~ and "Bosoms and Neglect." Thelocal case of the South Bend blues. Give hit is "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" it a try, and I think you'll agree. by David Mamet, recently invited to For entertainment, it's your kind the Sophomore Literary Festival. of town. 0 , Chicago also offers a special treat in the field .of .theater-:-the Second Some Easterners might tell you City troupe, improvisational comics that "Chicago" and "entertainment" par excellence. Second City is na Red are mutually exclusive terms. Not tionally acclaimed and has its own so. The Second City is a potpourri syndicated television program. Its of interesting happenings for either alumni number, among others, the once-a-year venturer or for the several "Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time connoisseur of entertainment and Players, including John BeliIshi, by Anthony Walton excitement. The possibilities range Dan Akroyd, and Gilda Radner. from the sporting to the cultural For the museum-goer, Chicago and, you can find almost anything again is a leader in the field and between these two extremes. There has something for even the most dis is so much to choose from that it criminating tastes. The Art Insti is hard to find a place to begin de tute and the Museum of Contem scribing it all. porary Art have wide collections of For the sportsman, there are sev both classic and modern art. The .eral major-league teams from which Impressionist Collection at the Art to choose. The Bears, Bulls, Black Institute is especially fine. The Ori Hawks, Cubs, White Sox, and Sting ental Institute, the Field Museum, all offer exciting and competitive the Adler Planetarium, and the Mu professional sports~ Chicago also seum of Science and Industry are hosts several individual sporting favorites of the historically and sci events during the year such as ten entifically minded museum-goer. nis and golf tournaments. For the For the animal lover, there are such gambler, Chicago has several race world-renowned- and popular sights 'tracks, where both thoroughbred as the Brookfield Zoo, the Lincoln and harness races are held. Infor- Park' Zoo, and the Shedd Aquarium.

2 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 6, 1979 3 mation about· all these events can I'm sure I'm overlooking a myriad be found in the Chicago newspapers. of other entertainment possibilities. For music lovers, Chicago plays There are just too many things to host to concerts by artists in all dif mention. them all. For further in ferentfields of music. Large rock formation on any of the above sug concerts are held at Comiskey Park gestions, or many other possibilities, v.nd Soldier Field. Two theatres there are several places to gain in the Uptown and' the AUditorium: formation. Chicago Magazine con host medium-sized concerts. A more tains ratings on all the restau intimate setting is· provi~ed by the rants in Chicago and offers hints Park West, a nightclub on the north for new things to do. The Chicago side. Among those appea~ing there newspapers contain ads for .all of in recent weeks have been Herbie the mentioned activities and run Hancock, Weather Report, Santana, weekend sections on entertainment. Judy Collins,. and Boston. Chicago For specific information, here are also has much to offer in classical some phone numbers to call: For music and dance... The New York the update on. rock concerts, call City Ball.et, featuring Mikhail Bar JAM's rock hotline, 312~666-6667. yshnikov, . will be performing in To find out what's happening in April. The Chicago Symphony Or jazz, call 312-666-1881. Dial 212- chestra, directed by Sir '. George F-I-N-E-A-R-T for information on Solti, performs weekly at Or general entertainment. 312-372-5178 chestra Hall in Chicago. is the number of CAPA, Chicago Alliance for the Performing Arts, The Shubert, the Arie Crown, the Drury Lanes, and the Mill Run are for theater information. 312-454- just' a few of the many theatres in 6777' is the number for TICKE~ Chicago. Broadway plays and orig TRON, for" information on availa inal first runs are among those bility of tickets and ordering. available for your viewing pleasure. Chicago. It's ninety minutes Recent examples have been "A Cho away and holds in store another world of new and different things rus Line," "Beatlemania," a~d "The Wiz." Now playing are "Dracula," to do. It's the perfect cure for ~ and "Bosoms and Neglect." Thelocal case of the South Bend blues. Give hit is "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" it a try, and I think you'll agree. by David Mamet, recently invited to For entertainment, it's your kind the Sophomore Literary Festival. of town. 0 , Chicago also offers a special treat in the field .of .theater-:-the Second Some Easterners might tell you City troupe, improvisational comics that "Chicago" and "entertainment" par excellence. Second City is na Red are mutually exclusive terms. Not tionally acclaimed and has its own so. The Second City is a potpourri syndicated television program. Its of interesting happenings for either alumni number, among others, the once-a-year venturer or for the several "Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time connoisseur of entertainment and Players, including John BeliIshi, by Anthony Walton excitement. The possibilities range Dan Akroyd, and Gilda Radner. from the sporting to the cultural For the museum-goer, Chicago and, you can find almost anything again is a leader in the field and between these two extremes. There has something for even the most dis is so much to choose from that it criminating tastes. The Art Insti is hard to find a place to begin de tute and the Museum of Contem scribing it all. porary Art have wide collections of For the sportsman, there are sev both classic and modern art. The .eral major-league teams from which Impressionist Collection at the Art to choose. The Bears, Bulls, Black Institute is especially fine. The Ori Hawks, Cubs, White Sox, and Sting ental Institute, the Field Museum, all offer exciting and competitive the Adler Planetarium, and the Mu professional sports~ Chicago also seum of Science and Industry are hosts several individual sporting favorites of the historically and sci events during the year such as ten entifically minded museum-goer. nis and golf tournaments. For the For the animal lover, there are such gambler, Chicago has several race world-renowned- and popular sights 'tracks, where both thoroughbred as the Brookfield Zoo, the Lincoln and harness races are held. Infor- Park' Zoo, and the Shedd Aquarium.

2 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 6, 1979 3 that it's so far out of the way you till you come to the Rookery, at 209. That takes you back east almost Owings and Merrill, several of whose might not otherwise get a glimpse Designed·· by Burnham & Root in to Michigan Avenue, but now go west Loop' buildings are on the tour, was so in of it. 1886, and a precursor of the modern again, only one block to State Street, fiuenced by Mies that they are often Turn back now and cross Michigan skyscraper, this building was re then north a couple of blocks to referred to as three blind Mies. And Ave. Hang a right and walk a modeled in 1905 by Frank Lloyd Madison Street. There you will see, etectural the three splendid new Loop build few doors to the building at 18 Wright. You can see his hand in the in the Carson, Pirie & Scott store" .ings by C. F. Murphy are straight South Michigan, whose facade is the beautiful lobby, with its tinted glass how a great architect, Louis Sulli- out of Mies. work of Louis Sullivan (1898). Note and wrought-iron staircases and ele van, improves the work of an engi~ So the Chicago tradition goes on, the delicacy and charm of its orna vator cage. Turn west now to the neer like Jenney. Note the beau some of it in Mies' wake, some of it mentation - compare it with the river and the fine new buildings that tiful broad windows, the famous exploring different approaches to inept decoration of the Chicago Ath line Wacker Dr., most especially "Chicago" windows, with side pan the finest art the United 'States letic Club next door. SOM's Sears Tower. els for air. Note especially the beau has produced-modern building. Turn. around and head south till Now turn back east, still on Jack tiful decoration . over the entrance If you want to see what's best in you hit one of Sullivan's master son, till you come to Dearborn and once again compare it with the modern architecture, you've only got pieces, the Auditorium Hotel and Street. There before you, still only vulgar stuff on the O'Connor & to go the short 90' miles to Chicago. Theater. The hotel is now Roosevelt about half 'completed, is the vast Goldberg store next, door at Madi ,The Loop (doWntown) part of the College, but the ,theater has been Dirksen Federal Center," basically son Street, to see. the' difference. following'tour can be' easily done in tastefully refurbished by Harry the work of Mies van der Rohe. From Carson's go north on State two to three hours, and even if the Weese. It's worth the price of ad-' C. F. Murphy worked with'van der Street ,another block to Monroe North Side part is added, it will only mission to go there just to see Sulli Rohe on this complex, but I prefer Street, and there turn left to the take a long afternoon. ,This tour is van's glorious ornamentation, around his Continental Center, a few blocks Inland 'Steel Building one block obviously incompiete 'and, obvi the stage especially. There is noth east on Wabash and Jackson. west. Many think this the master- ously, represents my personal taste. ing like this in the world so fine - A convenient place'to begin is the the somewhat similar work of Victor Art Institute of Chicago" which is Horta, mostly in Paris and Brussels, the only buildingon the east side of is simply not as imaginative. Perhaps Michigan Avenue, in Grant Park at the Plateresque decoration of south the foot 'of Adams Street.. ' ' ern Spain and northern Mexico Pause there for a .moment and comes closest, but this, executed in look at the splendid panorama be plaster and terra-cotta, seems heavy fore you, one of the world's finest at by comparison. Across the street If Charleston, South Carolina,' is and had learned to build as nearly this distance. New, York's Fifth from the Auditorium is the' Pick the United States' most interesting fireproof as possible. So its archi Avenue in the fifties 'is, more ele Congress Hotel, designed by Clinton city architecturally for the period tects seized on every new technology gant at shopwindow distance, but J. Warren, which a few of us persist before the Civil, War, and San that came along- first iron, then' for the long view it's Chicago:"" and in thinking one of the finest hotel Francisco for the period just after steel framing, elevators, plate glass, Rio de Janeiro. To your left is the buildings in the world, inside and it, Chicago seems to me to beat New revolving doors, fiush toilets, and all fine old Railway Exchange Building, out. York for the modern period. From the rest. Unchallenged by any such a big square faced with delicately Head ,west on Congress Street the air or the deck of a ship New catastrophe, other cities went at' a designed terra-cotta blocks on the to State Street, only two blocks, to York is more dazzling, but up close slower pace. corner of Michigan and Jackson, de .the Sears Roebuck Qowntown store, Chicago is more original and varied. But the triumphs were not merely signed by Daniel Burnham. To your possibly designed by William Le For one thing, it all started here, technological. Most of these archi right, a block north, are two build- Baron Jenney in 1889. Think of that or very nearly so. Modern architec tects were real artists in handling ings on either side of Monroe, both date as you look at this utilitarian ture is a Chicago invention. Most of scale, proportions and . textures. designed by, Holabird and Roche, the structure, no work of art, but per its founders lived and built there: Above all, they knew how to deco 23 East Monroe Building and the haps the very first modern building the straightforward engineer, Wil rate their new steel cages. Had Sulli University Club. Purists sneer' at with plenty of windows for light and liam Le Baron Jenney; ambitious, van and Wright done nothing but them because of the derived decora air set into a free-standing steel-and elegant Daniel Burnham; cultivated, their, decorative designs they would tion, but' they_seem tome to have iron frame. This is a' genuinely im facile John Root; inventive, brilliant still be known as fine artists: some style. portant landmark. John Holabird; and the great pair of As the early generation, petered Now, turn right and sweep the Keep on State Street another Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd out, Chicago architecture got a new horizon toward the east. You'll see block to Jackson, and turn left on it Wright. Wright trained in Sullivan's impetus when Mies van der Rohe at considerable distance }our new a block or so to 53 West Jackson, office and got, his vision largely moved there in 1939 as a refugee skyscrapers: the Prudential> Build the famous Monadnock Building, de there. Which of them deserves the from Hitler's Germany. His Chicago ing,the Standard Oil Building, signed by Burnham &' Root in 1889 title of the greatest artist this coun legacy is enormous-fourteen apart farthest away Lake Point, Towers, and added to by Holabird '& Roche in try has produced is a nice question. ment towers all over the city, most with its rounded four ends, like a 1893. This turns its back on Jenney's Surely it is one of those two. of the. campus of the minois Insti gigantic and elegant Sorin Hall, and brilliant originality; it is a masonry That's the early generation. They, tute of Technology, and numerous the apartment building at the foot building with immensely thickwalls, and many others too numerous to houses. On this tour we'll see his of Randolph Street, much nearer to like' the Auditorium. Sullivan did not mention here, during the period from huge new Dirksen Federal Center you. Of, these, the only one of any master: the steel structure form for 1875 to 1925 dug Chicago out of the and glimpse his splendid IBM distinction is Lake Point Towers, another two years. Lake Michigan sand and swamp and Building. But Mies' infiuence is even designed by Mies' disciples Schip:" Keep going down Jackson Street swept away the debris of the great greater than his buildings. The Chi~ pereet and Heinrich in 1968, and the fire of 1871. Chicago had to rebuild cago architecture firm of Skidmore, main reason for this eyesweep is till you hit LaSalle, then turn right APRIL 5 4 " SCHOLASTIC 6, 1979 '

.:-....- that it's so far out of the way you till you come to the Rookery, at 209. That takes you back east almost Owings and Merrill, several of whose might not otherwise get a glimpse Designed·· by Burnham & Root in to Michigan Avenue, but now go west Loop' buildings are on the tour, was so in of it. 1886, and a precursor of the modern again, only one block to State Street, fiuenced by Mies that they are often Turn back now and cross Michigan skyscraper, this building was re then north a couple of blocks to referred to as three blind Mies. And Ave. Hang a right and walk a modeled in 1905 by Frank Lloyd Madison Street. There you will see, etectural the three splendid new Loop build few doors to the building at 18 Wright. You can see his hand in the in the Carson, Pirie & Scott store" .ings by C. F. Murphy are straight South Michigan, whose facade is the beautiful lobby, with its tinted glass how a great architect, Louis Sulli- out of Mies. work of Louis Sullivan (1898). Note and wrought-iron staircases and ele van, improves the work of an engi~ So the Chicago tradition goes on, the delicacy and charm of its orna vator cage. Turn west now to the neer like Jenney. Note the beau some of it in Mies' wake, some of it mentation - compare it with the river and the fine new buildings that tiful broad windows, the famous exploring different approaches to inept decoration of the Chicago Ath line Wacker Dr., most especially "Chicago" windows, with side pan the finest art the United 'States letic Club next door. SOM's Sears Tower. els for air. Note especially the beau has produced-modern building. Turn. around and head south till Now turn back east, still on Jack tiful decoration . over the entrance If you want to see what's best in you hit one of Sullivan's master son, till you come to Dearborn and once again compare it with the modern architecture, you've only got pieces, the Auditorium Hotel and Street. There before you, still only vulgar stuff on the O'Connor & to go the short 90' miles to Chicago. Theater. The hotel is now Roosevelt about half 'completed, is the vast Goldberg store next, door at Madi ,The Loop (doWntown) part of the College, but the ,theater has been Dirksen Federal Center," basically son Street, to see. the' difference. following'tour can be' easily done in tastefully refurbished by Harry the work of Mies van der Rohe. From Carson's go north on State two to three hours, and even if the Weese. It's worth the price of ad-' C. F. Murphy worked with'van der Street ,another block to Monroe North Side part is added, it will only mission to go there just to see Sulli Rohe on this complex, but I prefer Street, and there turn left to the take a long afternoon. ,This tour is van's glorious ornamentation, around his Continental Center, a few blocks Inland 'Steel Building one block obviously incompiete 'and, obvi the stage especially. There is noth east on Wabash and Jackson. west. Many think this the master- ously, represents my personal taste. ing like this in the world so fine - A convenient place'to begin is the the somewhat similar work of Victor Art Institute of Chicago" which is Horta, mostly in Paris and Brussels, the only buildingon the east side of is simply not as imaginative. Perhaps Michigan Avenue, in Grant Park at the Plateresque decoration of south the foot 'of Adams Street.. ' ' ern Spain and northern Mexico Pause there for a .moment and comes closest, but this, executed in look at the splendid panorama be plaster and terra-cotta, seems heavy fore you, one of the world's finest at by comparison. Across the street If Charleston, South Carolina,' is and had learned to build as nearly this distance. New, York's Fifth from the Auditorium is the' Pick the United States' most interesting fireproof as possible. So its archi Avenue in the fifties 'is, more ele Congress Hotel, designed by Clinton city architecturally for the period tects seized on every new technology gant at shopwindow distance, but J. Warren, which a few of us persist before the Civil, War, and San that came along- first iron, then' for the long view it's Chicago:"" and in thinking one of the finest hotel Francisco for the period just after steel framing, elevators, plate glass, Rio de Janeiro. To your left is the buildings in the world, inside and it, Chicago seems to me to beat New revolving doors, fiush toilets, and all fine old Railway Exchange Building, out. York for the modern period. From the rest. Unchallenged by any such a big square faced with delicately Head ,west on Congress Street the air or the deck of a ship New catastrophe, other cities went at' a designed terra-cotta blocks on the to State Street, only two blocks, to York is more dazzling, but up close slower pace. corner of Michigan and Jackson, de .the Sears Roebuck Qowntown store, Chicago is more original and varied. But the triumphs were not merely signed by Daniel Burnham. To your possibly designed by William Le For one thing, it all started here, technological. Most of these archi right, a block north, are two build- Baron Jenney in 1889. Think of that or very nearly so. Modern architec tects were real artists in handling ings on either side of Monroe, both date as you look at this utilitarian ture is a Chicago invention. Most of scale, proportions and . textures. designed by, Holabird and Roche, the structure, no work of art, but per its founders lived and built there: Above all, they knew how to deco 23 East Monroe Building and the haps the very first modern building the straightforward engineer, Wil rate their new steel cages. Had Sulli University Club. Purists sneer' at with plenty of windows for light and liam Le Baron Jenney; ambitious, van and Wright done nothing but them because of the derived decora air set into a free-standing steel-and elegant Daniel Burnham; cultivated, their, decorative designs they would tion, but' they_seem tome to have iron frame. This is a' genuinely im facile John Root; inventive, brilliant still be known as fine artists: some style. portant landmark. John Holabird; and the great pair of As the early generation, petered Now, turn right and sweep the Keep on State Street another Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd out, Chicago architecture got a new horizon toward the east. You'll see block to Jackson, and turn left on it Wright. Wright trained in Sullivan's impetus when Mies van der Rohe at considerable distance }our new a block or so to 53 West Jackson, office and got, his vision largely moved there in 1939 as a refugee skyscrapers: the Prudential> Build the famous Monadnock Building, de there. Which of them deserves the from Hitler's Germany. His Chicago ing,the Standard Oil Building, signed by Burnham &' Root in 1889 title of the greatest artist this coun legacy is enormous-fourteen apart farthest away Lake Point, Towers, and added to by Holabird '& Roche in try has produced is a nice question. ment towers all over the city, most with its rounded four ends, like a 1893. This turns its back on Jenney's Surely it is one of those two. of the. campus of the minois Insti gigantic and elegant Sorin Hall, and brilliant originality; it is a masonry That's the early generation. They, tute of Technology, and numerous the apartment building at the foot building with immensely thickwalls, and many others too numerous to houses. On this tour we'll see his of Randolph Street, much nearer to like' the Auditorium. Sullivan did not mention here, during the period from huge new Dirksen Federal Center you. Of, these, the only one of any master: the steel structure form for 1875 to 1925 dug Chicago out of the and glimpse his splendid IBM distinction is Lake Point Towers, another two years. Lake Michigan sand and swamp and Building. But Mies' infiuence is even designed by Mies' disciples Schip:" Keep going down Jackson Street swept away the debris of the great greater than his buildings. The Chi~ pereet and Heinrich in 1968, and the fire of 1871. Chicago had to rebuild cago architecture firm of Skidmore, main reason for this eyesweep is till you hit LaSalle, then turn right APRIL 5 4 " SCHOLASTIC 6, 1979 '

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ten over his fascination with Gothic When asked to name his fa ornamentation by the time he de vorite restaurant in Chicago, one signed for the same ownership the Notre Dame student replied, "The Daily News Building in New York. Berghoff. Great restaurants begin The prize he won in competition for there and radiate outward." The the Tribune Tower should have Berghoff is located at 17 W. Adams gone, many think, to the Playboy St~, just down the street from the Building much further north on Art Institute. A finer German res Michigan Street, the work of Hola taurant would be hard to find this bird & Root. side of Munich. Don't be intimi But on the way there you pass dated by the long lines of people the charming old Water Tower, Chi waiting outside at lunchtime. The cago's oldest landmark building Berghoff has earned a reputation (1867), and the controversial John ":' for fast service, and, you'll find, Hancock Bldg., another Skidmore, the' food is well worth the wait. Owings & Merrill design. I am, one -;' ~ For a reasonable price, the Berg of those who think it very beauti hoff offers many selections of ful. For a buck you can whisk to hearty German fare such as wiener the top., schnitzel, bratwurst and sauer Well, that ends our walking tour. kraut, stuffed cabbage, and apple You are now in Chicago's fashion streudel. Annexed to the main din piece, along with Lever House in able near north side, and you 'can ing room is a stand-up cafeteria New York, of Skidmore, .owings keep on going to your satisfaction, called . "The Men's Buffet." The ,and Merrill. Look in the lobby at perhaps as far as, the now-fading Buffet serves men (and women), a Richard Lippold's beautiful wire hippie hangout, Old Town, 'about a fine variety of German sausages, construction, the most perfect dec mile north to North Avenue and sandwiches, and side dishes. A com oration for a big building lobby I then west to Wells Street. plement to any meal is the Berg know-superior, I think, to thesim But, if your achitectural sensibili hoff's family brewed beer. Good ilar one he did for the new Metro ties are still a-quiver, and there's a alone, too. politan Opera House in New York. tomorrow or another day, you Standing in front of the Inland According to Chicago Magazine, might try some further excursions. Chicago is "the natural and spiri Building, look down left on Dear Two fine college campuses are quite born Street to the fine new First tual home of the deep-dish pizza." close to the Loop: Mies' illinois In Pizzerias abound, and each one National Bank Building, the work stitute of Technology, 3300 South Culinarg claims to make the best in. town. of Perkins and Will, but walk north State, and Gordon Bunschaft's (for (right) on Dearborn to Skidmore, One of the most popular places is SOM again) Chicago Circle campus, 'Gino's at 160 E. Superior St., fa Owings & Merrill's fine Brunswick 1800 South Halsted. The University Building. Stand in front of this for miliar turf to many students ven of Chicago is well worth a visit, for turing into the Windy City. Deep a good look at the new Civic Cen the new Regenstein Library (SOM near Rush St. It's always a good try someplace else. The decor is , ter, obviously inspired by Mies dish is a happy wedding of tomato idea to make reservations when din- sleek and sophisticated, yet I was yet again), Eero Saarinen's' Law sauce, cheese, and options piled though the work of others, and see Quadrangle, and Bertram Goodhue's ing out in Chicago, and it's espe- distracted by the fact that the if you like the Picasso sculpture. high on a' thick crust and, served cially true for' this popular restau- waiters emerged with food from be older (1929) chapel. Cruise in: a skillet. Veteran deep-dish fans Many think it may have been good You don't have to drive around rant. The decor is tastefully, done, hind a door marked "MEN," effec enough as a smaller piece, but that pace themselves when at Gino's. Eat very chic. A typical dinner costs tively cancelling the posh image. ,I to see the 30-odd buildings, mostly conservatively, for the pizza is, de it is grotesquely blown up here. ,houses, th~t Frank Lloyd Wright around $6.50 and includes soup or presume the kitchen door is right That ends the Loop tour. But let's ceivingly filling. Also nice are salad and two of the all but typical behind this one, but really! built in the near-west suburb of Oak Pizzeria. Uno, 29 E. Ohio, and Piz ,go on. Go back to State Street, Park during the early 1900's,' for crepes. A nice combination is the If you prefer something a bit about two blocks to your right from zeria. Duo, 619 N. Wabash Ave., a corn chowder, chicken and mush- more genuine than the Hyatt, try they are mostly close together. His two-link chain of restaurants where the Civic Center, and turn left, i.e., home and studio are at, 428 Forest room crepe, broccoli crepe with Diana's Opa.a, a locale at 212 S. north, till you come to Wacker the deep-dish pizza 'is said to have cheddar cheese sauce. It's a shame Halsted' in Greektown. Why the Avenue and a list of his other Oak originated. ,On Friday and Satur Drive and the Chicago River. Look , Park buildings may be had from riot to try dessert. If you're not curious name? After a few min across it at ,Bertram Goldberg's day nights it's often difficult to get counting pennies or calories, have utes in this lively place you'll know. the Chicago Public Library. Bear in into, these places without waiting imaginative and ,beautiful Marina mind that most of these are not the a chocolate mint crepe, a specialite One of Diana's specialties ,is a for' as long as an hour. If bribing Towers, ,and at Mies' fine mM mature Wright you know. That is by Liz Donovan 'd~ la maison. Memorable. Then cheese appetizer which the waiter the hostess doesn't work, try Gior~ Building just across the street. But best seen 'in Robie House, 5757 take a long walk down Rush St.! . 'fiambees at the table and an- wait till you get to Michigan Avenue dano's at 6253 S. California Ave~, a For a high-brow experience have 'nounces with an, enthusiastic South Woodlawn, near the Univer restaurant off the beaten ,'tourist to cross the river, where you can sity of Chicago. .0 lunch at the Hyatt Regency on "OPAA"! The theatrics are great, see the Wrigley Building (designed path which is highly recommended Wacker Dr; Here the upwardly and the, food is a real treat at a by the same firm that did our old by those 'who know Chicago well. mobile meet ~t noon to see, be 'good price. Try a Greek salad with This is an updated version of, an "Six pounds of double-crusted de Commerce Building: Graham, An article Prof. StrUch wrote for Scho seen and lunch on what must be the cheese and spinach pie. And dersOIi, Probst' & White) on your light," is the' description of Gior Chic~go's' most expensive ham- after a few bottles of Resina, din lastic six years ago. Scholastic dano's' pizza offered by, one fan. left, which looks like' a giant wed thanks Prof. StrUch for all his help burgers. The shrimp salad is good, ers 'let down their hair and almost ding cake, and on your right the on this reprint. Consistentlyrated as one of Chi~ as are the crepes, but the prices anything, can happen. Have I heard Tribune Tower, designed by Ray cago's finest '. restaurants is The are a bit extreme. If someone is stories-Opaa! Also a real hoot is 'mond Hood in 1924. Hood had got- Magic Pan Creperie~ 60 E. Walton , treating you, you'll enjoy it. If not, the Parthenon, just down the street

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6 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 6, 19.79 7 at 314 S. Halsted. Both' are dec at the Water Tower, skip McDon orated in early kitsch, both are ald's and head into D. B. Kaplan's great fun. Delicatessen. Allot plenty of time Unmatched for their imagination for lunch, because the menu takes and food are the restaurants of the a good thirty minutes to read. Win Lettuce Entertain You chain. Each. ner of the 1977 Great Menu Award place offers something a little differ from the National Restaurant Asso ent, and each is a sure bet for a ciation, the menu is a hilarious de super lunch or dinner. The Great , scription of their 152 sandwiches, Gritsby's Flying Food Show, 21 E. salads, quiches, drinks, and sweets. Chestnut near Rush St., has a A brief sampling includes #34, "The cheese bar included in the price of Chicago Clubs"; #68, "De Bird and an entree~ If you've never tried . D.B.'s"; #85, "Yes Sir, Cheese My chocolate chip cheese spread, or Baby." The chocolate chip cheese if you think. you wouldn't want to, cake has' earned its way into my 'duck into the Flying Food Show. hall of fame. Every,one's Lawrence of Oregano, 662 W. Di These are just a few of the many, versy Pkwy., is a nice little Italian . many, great restaurants in Chicago. place complete with checkered ta If I neglected to mention your "fa 'Kind blecloths, terrific food, and a good vorite place, don't get mad. Bring salad bar. The veal is top drawer. me along next time you go, and I'll Also, ask about their daily spe rewrite this article. Someday I'll of cials. Jonathan Livingston Seafood, be a silver-haired lady with a bag 5419 N. Sheridan Rd., has seafood of money, and then I'll check out so good you'd swear you weren't. Chicago's more expensive' eateries. To-wn' landlocked' in the Midwest. R. J. My wish list includes Beruhana's at Grunt's, despite the indelicate 166 E. Superior, a Japanese restau name, is home to one of Chicago's rant where the waiter chops, cooks, favorites - the "Gruntburger," a and serves the food right at the one-half-pound monstrosity. It's a table, all with great fanfare. Also, challenge. Grunt's is located' at the Cape Cod at the Drake Hotel, 2056 N. Lincoln Park West. . The the French. restaurant on the 95th tif she reached "Our bus is equipped Zorba the Greek, which was later cago. Hull House workers encour 'Pump Room, 1300' N. State, and floor of the Hancock Building, with a lavatory ... ," that is. This made into a movie starring Anthony aged (and often pushed, so I have Fritz ,That's It, in Evanston, are Maxim's on Michigan Ave.'s Gold was news to my bus driver 'father, Quinn, frequented this store.Win heard) these new citizens. into pro- . also part of the Lettuce bunch; Coast, and . . . . D If you get hungry while shopping who was instructed to keep his, eyes dows' in Greektown boast such grams to preserve their own her-_ and the Chevy wagon on the road goodies as gyros, baklava, sagana'ki itage and' to learn the American' by Eileen Durkin a's we took a quick spin around the (brandy-flamed Greek cheese), and culture. Across the street from Hull downtown area to point out. the within Diana's Opaa at 212 S.Hal House is the 'Fire Academy, built. many architectural landmarks to sted, kisses to all the ladies. on the spot where' the disastrous The Sec0l1d day of October break, Ron.. , I still cannot pronounce Ron's Chicago Fire o'f 1871 allegedly my. mother shouted up the stairs to Two blocks. south is Adams, and last name, except for the "-elli" at began~ Further down the street is me, ','Ron wants to ,see some Chi as we traveled west on that street the end, but I knew that he appre the Mother Cabrini Hospital. Mother cago ' neighborhoods. , Would you to Halsted' (800 W), we got our ciated the next leg of our trip best. Cabrini the first saint who lived in like to come along?'; .' .. first sampling of Chicago's plurality. This portion took us south on was born in Italy,' and ,Ron was spending, ,the weekend Hal~ Americ~, We passed Berghoff's Restaurant, sted' to the Roosevelt Road area, helped the immigrants in. their with us before heading down. to which is still operated in the Euro University of TIlinois' Circle Cam; harsh struggle to survive. Continu Notre Dame. fora conference on pus,' and Hull House, all within' Chi- ing our tour, we came to Our Lady neighborhoods ..' He is familiar with pean manner (with each waiter cago's "Little Italy." .' of Pompeii' Church. The church's many Cities, but' he ,had 'never running his. own business) and Chi cago's.· oldest church, St. Patrick's. The University uprooted tight most recent claim to fame' involves toured Chicago's streets.' Chicago is a ly knit neighborhood o( Italians, a ruse to throw off the press. It the home' of many different 'ethnic At Halsted we hit Greektown. along with some Polish and Irish; was the parish of the wife ofth.e groups,~nd. the old neighborhoods Greek shops and restaurants line the street· for a block or so. The too. Many ethnics in' the Vernon late Mayor Daley's son, and _their are often changing. This, flow hap~ Congress Expressway, a bit south, Park community, however, have not wedding' 'was scheduled there, but pens'so fast at. times-that I decided I had better' join, in the exploration uprooted a Greek neighborhood, and left, and signs abound of the' Ital actually took place at· the Mayor's the result of this tragedy was the ians who immigrated. here· and church in Bridgeport. The Irish beyond the street signs before.it got stayed. My father drove us up and contingent in. our tour bus appreci to be too 'late. ,I screamed back, attempt .to recreate cafe life in '''Give me five niimiies!", ., Greece. Our script mentioned "in . down many little side streets to see ated that story.' . expensive -food, modest wines, and the Hull House, Mother CabriniHos Twenty-four. million dollars has . Twerity~fivemiriutes 'later found been granted to Vernon Park to us at point zero, the corner of State a friendly atmosphere.". We could pital, Our Lady of Pompeii Church, and Madison,' ready' to begin our ex see for ourselves the flavor of Soc and Victor Arrigo Park. . compensate for'the destruction done pedition.. 'Armed' with the script rates' world in such, stores' as the The first of these sights, Jane by the University and, again, by "Historical and, Architecturat·, Tour Mediterranean Pastry Shop and Addams' famous Hull House, opened an expressway. Victor Arrigo Park of Chieago,"mymother insisted ori Diana's Grocery and Restaurant. My in 1889 in .the heart of the first set on Lexington Avenue (730. S) is an reading the' entire introduction; Un- mother explained that the author of tlementof the immigrants in,Chi- example of the ongoing: renewal. 8 SCHOLASTIC ' APRIL 6, 1979 9 at 314 S. Halsted. Both' are dec at the Water Tower, skip McDon orated in early kitsch, both are ald's and head into D. B. Kaplan's great fun. Delicatessen. Allot plenty of time Unmatched for their imagination for lunch, because the menu takes and food are the restaurants of the a good thirty minutes to read. Win Lettuce Entertain You chain. Each. ner of the 1977 Great Menu Award place offers something a little differ from the National Restaurant Asso ent, and each is a sure bet for a ciation, the menu is a hilarious de super lunch or dinner. The Great , scription of their 152 sandwiches, Gritsby's Flying Food Show, 21 E. salads, quiches, drinks, and sweets. Chestnut near Rush St., has a A brief sampling includes #34, "The cheese bar included in the price of Chicago Clubs"; #68, "De Bird and an entree~ If you've never tried . D.B.'s"; #85, "Yes Sir, Cheese My chocolate chip cheese spread, or Baby." The chocolate chip cheese if you think. you wouldn't want to, cake has' earned its way into my 'duck into the Flying Food Show. hall of fame. Every,one's Lawrence of Oregano, 662 W. Di These are just a few of the many, versy Pkwy., is a nice little Italian . many, great restaurants in Chicago. place complete with checkered ta If I neglected to mention your "fa 'Kind blecloths, terrific food, and a good vorite place, don't get mad. Bring salad bar. The veal is top drawer. me along next time you go, and I'll Also, ask about their daily spe rewrite this article. Someday I'll of cials. Jonathan Livingston Seafood, be a silver-haired lady with a bag 5419 N. Sheridan Rd., has seafood of money, and then I'll check out so good you'd swear you weren't. Chicago's more expensive' eateries. To-wn' landlocked' in the Midwest. R. J. My wish list includes Beruhana's at Grunt's, despite the indelicate 166 E. Superior, a Japanese restau name, is home to one of Chicago's rant where the waiter chops, cooks, favorites - the "Gruntburger," a and serves the food right at the one-half-pound monstrosity. It's a table, all with great fanfare. Also, challenge. Grunt's is located' at the Cape Cod at the Drake Hotel, 2056 N. Lincoln Park West. . The the French. restaurant on the 95th tif she reached "Our bus is equipped Zorba the Greek, which was later cago. Hull House workers encour 'Pump Room, 1300' N. State, and floor of the Hancock Building, with a lavatory ... ," that is. This made into a movie starring Anthony aged (and often pushed, so I have Fritz ,That's It, in Evanston, are Maxim's on Michigan Ave.'s Gold was news to my bus driver 'father, Quinn, frequented this store.Win heard) these new citizens. into pro- . also part of the Lettuce bunch; Coast, and . . . . D If you get hungry while shopping who was instructed to keep his, eyes dows' in Greektown boast such grams to preserve their own her-_ and the Chevy wagon on the road goodies as gyros, baklava, sagana'ki itage and' to learn the American' by Eileen Durkin a's we took a quick spin around the (brandy-flamed Greek cheese), and culture. Across the street from Hull downtown area to point out. the within Diana's Opaa at 212 S.Hal House is the 'Fire Academy, built. many architectural landmarks to sted, kisses to all the ladies. on the spot where' the disastrous The Sec0l1d day of October break, Ron.. , I still cannot pronounce Ron's Chicago Fire o'f 1871 allegedly my. mother shouted up the stairs to Two blocks. south is Adams, and last name, except for the "-elli" at began~ Further down the street is me, ','Ron wants to ,see some Chi as we traveled west on that street the end, but I knew that he appre the Mother Cabrini Hospital. Mother cago ' neighborhoods. , Would you to Halsted' (800 W), we got our ciated the next leg of our trip best. Cabrini the first saint who lived in like to come along?'; .' .. first sampling of Chicago's plurality. This portion took us south on was born in Italy,' and ,Ron was spending, ,the weekend Hal~ Americ~, We passed Berghoff's Restaurant, sted' to the Roosevelt Road area, helped the immigrants in. their with us before heading down. to which is still operated in the Euro University of TIlinois' Circle Cam; harsh struggle to survive. Continu Notre Dame. fora conference on pus,' and Hull House, all within' Chi- ing our tour, we came to Our Lady neighborhoods ..' He is familiar with pean manner (with each waiter cago's "Little Italy." .' of Pompeii' Church. The church's many Cities, but' he ,had 'never running his. own business) and Chi cago's.· oldest church, St. Patrick's. The University uprooted tight most recent claim to fame' involves toured Chicago's streets.' Chicago is a ly knit neighborhood o( Italians, a ruse to throw off the press. It the home' of many different 'ethnic At Halsted we hit Greektown. along with some Polish and Irish; was the parish of the wife ofth.e groups,~nd. the old neighborhoods Greek shops and restaurants line the street· for a block or so. The too. Many ethnics in' the Vernon late Mayor Daley's son, and _their are often changing. This, flow hap~ Congress Expressway, a bit south, Park community, however, have not wedding' 'was scheduled there, but pens'so fast at. times-that I decided I had better' join, in the exploration uprooted a Greek neighborhood, and left, and signs abound of the' Ital actually took place at· the Mayor's the result of this tragedy was the ians who immigrated. here· and church in Bridgeport. The Irish beyond the street signs before.it got stayed. My father drove us up and contingent in. our tour bus appreci to be too 'late. ,I screamed back, attempt .to recreate cafe life in '''Give me five niimiies!", ., Greece. Our script mentioned "in . down many little side streets to see ated that story.' . expensive -food, modest wines, and the Hull House, Mother CabriniHos Twenty-four. million dollars has . Twerity~fivemiriutes 'later found been granted to Vernon Park to us at point zero, the corner of State a friendly atmosphere.". We could pital, Our Lady of Pompeii Church, and Madison,' ready' to begin our ex see for ourselves the flavor of Soc and Victor Arrigo Park. . compensate for'the destruction done pedition.. 'Armed' with the script rates' world in such, stores' as the The first of these sights, Jane by the University and, again, by "Historical and, Architecturat·, Tour Mediterranean Pastry Shop and Addams' famous Hull House, opened an expressway. Victor Arrigo Park of Chieago,"mymother insisted ori Diana's Grocery and Restaurant. My in 1889 in .the heart of the first set on Lexington Avenue (730. S) is an reading the' entire introduction; Un- mother explained that the author of tlementof the immigrants in,Chi- example of the ongoing: renewal. 8 SCHOLASTIC ' APRIL 6, 1979 9 :------.--~---.-.------.------~--~----.~ --~------.- ---~----~------

complete with a statue of Christo Next, we headed north, to the The script suggests that tourists try pher Columbus. Lincoln Park area. We deviated to spot as many nationalities as In this area, we also went by from the script a little and showed possible from the storefronts and Notre Dame Church, the only · Ron some of the homes in that area, windows. While we did not play French .church in Chicago, which in one of which we believe. my the game, we could clearly see the has confessions in French, by re great-grandfather lived. We have evidence of such an "assault of cul quest. The French have long since addresses from the Chicago His tures." left the surrounding neighborhood, torical Society dating back to the A very large Latino population but a French-Canadian order of 1880's. There is an incredible has moved onto Milwaukee Avenue, priests remains. We also drove by amount of building going on be and the Poles have just kept moving the old Irish parish of Holy Fam tween North Avenue and Armitage, north along the street. We had to ily, which borders on St. Ignatius a little west of the lake, and sev drive almost to the suburbs to see High School. The Irish, too, have left eral of the addresses now house. successive Polish stores. The Polish this area of the "Church of the modern townhouses. The old is jux Daily Zgoda, a Polish daily news Prairies," but urban renewal is im taposed with the new, however, 'and paper, has left its longtime post at proving the neighborhood for its we were able to see the homes whIch the corner of As~and and Milwau new members. are, by now, below street level be kee and moved north. The churches The day was advancing quickly, cause they have been paving the remain, however, and the .ethnics and Carter had not yet revealed the streets over for so many years. The from the suburbs still return on Peking Pact, so we skipped the · family was Irish, but the neighbor Sundays to their neighborhood seCtion of the script labelled "China hood was German, and my great churches to hear Mass said in their town." I know, however, that it is grandmother taught school in that. na tive tongues. a . fascinating place, with bilingual language. We visited St. Michael's Ron was expecting pictures of the street signs and many small shops, Church where they undoubtedly Pope to be in store windows, but he restaurants, and Chinese organiza heard Mass in German. The beer was disappointed. We did see a dis tions. We merely glanced down gardens and breweries which used play, however, in the window of the Maxwell Street, which, while it is to line North Avenue are long since Polish museum, .which was the final slowly losing its popularity, still re · torn down, though. stop called for.in the script. It was tains its flavor. It is the last of the Our next stop was Wicker Park, not open on Sunday, but it is a very Gallery City's open-air markets. Many of a former suburb which is very rich interesting little museum. I had these markets used to line the Chi in architecture and heritage. This been there several years before and cago River in the downtown area, area is bordered by Milwaukee, Da had seen such diverse exhibits as but they were closed by such big men, and North Avenues. Many dif the hotel room in which Paderewski wigs as Marshall Field who wished ferent immigrant groups have set~ died and a spear' of St. Maurice's to prevent workers from having a tled here, the latest being blacks dating from 1000 A.D. From the place to meet and rally during the and Puerto Ricans. The largest re-' museum we could see St. Stanislaus early days of the unions. maining group is the Poles. As a Church. The pride of the immigrant Instead, we traveled south on the matter of fact, there are more Poles Poles is manifested in their encoun Dan Ryan Expressway, got off at in this area than in any other urban . ter with the city of Chicago, when 35th Street, and drove a short while concentration except Warsaw. the Kennedy Expressway was built. to the community of Bridgeport. Amidst some urban decay, there re The Poles did not want their neigh borhoods .to be destroyed' by . the Descendants of many different eth mains one street of beautiful homes ..i nic groups live here, but it is pri which began as residences for Ger expressway.. The result of this marily an Irish enclave and home of man burghers, were converted to clash rerouted the expressway the last four mayors-Kelley, Ken Polish boardinghouses, and are now around St; Stanislaus Church and nelly, Daley, and Bilandic. With being fixed up by wealthy young the parish school. their gift of blarney, the Irish here . couples. One of these famous Pierce On the' orders cif the driver and have been very successful in poli Street houses is called the "Pade out of deference to Pope John Paul tics. (They· were also the only ma rewski Cottage" because this famous II, our bus pulled over on'Milwau jor immigrant group who could Pole gave a piano concert from the kee Avenue, and we dined on Polish Mark Bonner food .in a' small restaurant. . Ron speak English.) My mother read, porch in the 1930's. assured my mother' that she had "It has been said that every home Pope John Paul IT was inau been a most informative· guide, and r in Bridgeport houses at least one gurated that October day, and Ron j person on the county or city. pay we all concluded that the neighbor was very interested to see what, if roll." hoods in" Chicago ·lent . themselves any, festivities the Poles were hav-' quite well to an introductory tour People who move into Bridgeport ing. Consequently, we drove up on a Sunday during break. • Polish stay, even mayors. We drove past Milwaukee Avenue from Division dumplings taste pretty good~ too, I the Daley. and the Bilandic homes, Street (1200 N.). This street has discovered. Perhaps I will try. those two modest little bungalows. We always been known for its Central Greek goodies next. 0 then drove past Daley's church, European flavor, particularly influ Our Lady of Nativity (where the enced by the Poles. We passed Freshman Eileen Durkin, in addi wedding took place), which is one Zlata's Belgrade, a Serbian restau~ tion to being Scholastic's neighbor of 12 .churches within about one rant named by the Chicago .. Tribune hood expert, has appeared: in both square mile. as' one of the .·10 . best in Chicago. ((AllOver" and "Spring Awakening."

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I .\ regime. I think we can expect the word 'coalition' to come to the fore far more than it did with Mayor Bilandic." BILANDIC BYRNED, Chicago, as a predominantly Catholic city, was attracted to Notre Dame, the predominant Catholic MACHINE DEAD university of the Midwest, primarily for ecclesiastical reasons. Religion notwithstanding, however, athletics also drew Chicagoans to Notre Dame. "Saturday afternoon football games were a tremendous magnet for a city as close as Chicago," states Egan. "The. Four Horsemen . by Paul Peralta and Rockne started an athletic legacy. A tie naturally developed, This title may have appeared in aldermen. Msgr. Egan points to the personally. "I knew him and knew and graduates who lived in Chicago some newspaper a few weeks ago to late mayor Richard Daley as one him well, but I was not a personal in time assumed positions of power." describe the stunning upset of Chi who "effectively managed the Demo friend; I don't know if anyone was An example of this is the ties Jane cago mayor Michael Bilandic by Ms. cratic organization." really a close friend. He was a pri Byrne has with the ND-SMC com Jane Byrne. Her unexpected victory Outlining the history of the Chi vate individual and only had a few munity. Her daughter, Kathy, is a in the Democratic ma~oral primary cago machine, Msgr. Egan says, "We intimates. We had, I think I can re senior at St. Mary's. Her late hus was thought to have spelled the end must remember that Mayor Daley spectfully say, a good working rela band was a graduate of Notre Dame, of the legendary Chicago political did not build the Democratic organ- tionship between the two of us ... and as Egan .cited, her uncles, Msgr. machine. Many political observers, . ization. It came through a long ser We had a cordial relationship al-' Burke and Fr. Joseph Burke "would however, view the primary result as . ies of years from around 1930 dur though we did disagree on matters always find, their way to South Bend not the death knell for the machine ing the administration of Mayor of policy." on the Saturdays of home football but as a harbinger for its rejuvena Anthony Cermak. Successive ad- Contrary to popular belief, the games. Jane grew up with this re tion. , ministrations which carried on the machine is not dead, as Msgr. Egan lationship (to ND) and so her asso Monsignor John J. Egan Interestingly, the Notre Dame-St. coalition were the Kelly-Nash ma states: "Jane Byrne is in the direct ciation is natural.", In addition to Mary's community has been affected chine, Martin Canelli, and then line of the building of that organiza Byrne's ties, Mayor Michael Bilandic did it for nothing. In other words, working coalition. To start in that by what has happened in "The Sec Daley, who came in the early 50's." tion (the machine). I think we can attended Notre Dame for a semester a Chicagoan is a good politician be organization, Cronin states, requires ond City." Members of the faculty Msgr. Egan knew Mayor Daley expect a continuation of the Daley in 1947. cause he's not shocked when lie sees starting' "pretty much from the bot and student body, both past and In contrast with Msgr. Egan's near the resuit of original sin. Now, a tom," as opposed to starting from present, reflect the ties between the firsthand observations on the Chi Republican is always shocked with the outside. "You might say, 'What city and the two schools, and sev cagopolitical system, Prof. Edward original sin and its aftermath." about Jane Byrne?' Well, she's a eral of them have expressed reflec Cronin' of the General Program To Prof. Cronin, Mayor Bilandic's homegrown product; she's one of tions on what has transpired. Department views the system from downfall came not as a result of the Daley's appointments. She was an Monsignor John J. Egan, Special afar: "My uncle was a precinct Sain affair, or as a result of the insider who was pushed outside but Assistant to the President and Di captain, and that's about as close stifling blizzard, but as a result of wanted to be inside where, she al rector of the Center for Pastoral and as I came to politics." "losing his cool." In a speech in ways thought she belonged." Social Ministry, has been familiar Echoing Msgr. Egan's definition which he likened himSelf to Jesus As for those who claim the ma with the Chicago political' mecha of the "machine," Cronin stresses its Christ being persecuted, Bilandic ap chine is dead, Cronin states, "The nism. From 1956-1970, Msgr. Egan professional quality. "With Chicago, parently lost any aura of profession machine has not been wrecked. This worked with various organizations, pOlitics is not an amateur's pas alism. Cronin states, "It' was truly election proves it's merely being re such as the Inter-Religious Council time; that's for the pros. You can shameful." tooled.I believe Chicago voters saw of Urban Affairs, Model Cities, the tell the pros by the way the machine Political machines have not been that Bilandic doesn't know how to Urban Renewal Program, etc., which works; with them, it works as well viewed popularly, something .Cronin drive (the machine); Byrne has had brought him into constant contact the day after the election as the day finds strange. "For a society like her driving license for quite' some with city officials. Msgr. Egan de before." America to knock the, machine is a time now." fines the "machine" as "a coalition The popular notion of political little odd. If the machines.does good In illustrating some of the ties be of people of differing opinions, inter payoffs and under~the-table dealings things, it's a good machine. If it ,tween Chicago politics 'and Notre ests, and cultures brought· together within the machine has an interest doesn't, it's a bad one. For the most Dame, Prof. Cronin says, "1 taught to work with one another for mutual ing place in Prof. Cronin's view of part, the Chicago machine has been Mr. Byrne while, he was at Notre .survival a'nd for the survival of the Chicago politics. Referring to the a good one, and not only for its own Dame; he was in the General Pro Democratic organization." This or Sain-Bilandic ,alleged . payoff for mechanics.... When a man (Daley) gram. I also taught two of the ganization, Egan states, is built on a snow removal; he says, "Now I sup wins by 75%, that's winning big, 'Nash boys of the Kelly-Nash ma- system .of patronage. The success pose most Chicagoans are not sur and you win that big by being that chine. With those two, whenever I . of the organization depended on how prised when they find. out a poli good." wanted to know what was really .. well the mayor held together his, tician gets paid something for doing Part of "being that 'good" in going on in Chicago, I'd just go to coalition which included ward' com- . something for the city. In fact, as volves efficiency in government, them. And then I had Dan Shannon mitteemen, precinct captains, and Professor Edward. Cronin a Chicagoan, I'd be surprised if he again reverting to the idea of a in a class. He was a linebacker for 14 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 6, 1979 15

m regime. I think we can expect the word 'coalition' to come to the fore far more than it did with Mayor Bilandic." BILANDIC BYRNED, Chicago, as a predominantly Catholic city, was attracted to Notre Dame, the predominant Catholic MACHINE DEAD university of the Midwest, primarily for ecclesiastical reasons. Religion notwithstanding, however, athletics also drew Chicagoans to Notre Dame. "Saturday afternoon football games were a tremendous magnet for a city as close as Chicago," states Egan. "The. Four Horsemen . by Paul Peralta and Rockne started an athletic legacy. A tie naturally developed, This title may have appeared in aldermen. Msgr. Egan points to the personally. "I knew him and knew and graduates who lived in Chicago some newspaper a few weeks ago to late mayor Richard Daley as one him well, but I was not a personal in time assumed positions of power." describe the stunning upset of Chi who "effectively managed the Demo friend; I don't know if anyone was An example of this is the ties Jane cago mayor Michael Bilandic by Ms. cratic organization." really a close friend. He was a pri Byrne has with the ND-SMC com Jane Byrne. Her unexpected victory Outlining the history of the Chi vate individual and only had a few munity. Her daughter, Kathy, is a in the Democratic ma~oral primary cago machine, Msgr. Egan says, "We intimates. We had, I think I can re senior at St. Mary's. Her late hus was thought to have spelled the end must remember that Mayor Daley spectfully say, a good working rela band was a graduate of Notre Dame, of the legendary Chicago political did not build the Democratic organ- tionship between the two of us ... and as Egan .cited, her uncles, Msgr. machine. Many political observers, . ization. It came through a long ser We had a cordial relationship al-' Burke and Fr. Joseph Burke "would however, view the primary result as . ies of years from around 1930 dur though we did disagree on matters always find, their way to South Bend not the death knell for the machine ing the administration of Mayor of policy." on the Saturdays of home football but as a harbinger for its rejuvena Anthony Cermak. Successive ad- Contrary to popular belief, the games. Jane grew up with this re tion. , ministrations which carried on the machine is not dead, as Msgr. Egan lationship (to ND) and so her asso Monsignor John J. Egan Interestingly, the Notre Dame-St. coalition were the Kelly-Nash ma states: "Jane Byrne is in the direct ciation is natural.", In addition to Mary's community has been affected chine, Martin Canelli, and then line of the building of that organiza Byrne's ties, Mayor Michael Bilandic did it for nothing. In other words, working coalition. To start in that by what has happened in "The Sec Daley, who came in the early 50's." tion (the machine). I think we can attended Notre Dame for a semester a Chicagoan is a good politician be organization, Cronin states, requires ond City." Members of the faculty Msgr. Egan knew Mayor Daley expect a continuation of the Daley in 1947. cause he's not shocked when lie sees starting' "pretty much from the bot and student body, both past and In contrast with Msgr. Egan's near the resuit of original sin. Now, a tom," as opposed to starting from present, reflect the ties between the firsthand observations on the Chi Republican is always shocked with the outside. "You might say, 'What city and the two schools, and sev cagopolitical system, Prof. Edward original sin and its aftermath." about Jane Byrne?' Well, she's a eral of them have expressed reflec Cronin' of the General Program To Prof. Cronin, Mayor Bilandic's homegrown product; she's one of tions on what has transpired. Department views the system from downfall came not as a result of the Daley's appointments. She was an Monsignor John J. Egan, Special afar: "My uncle was a precinct Sain affair, or as a result of the insider who was pushed outside but Assistant to the President and Di captain, and that's about as close stifling blizzard, but as a result of wanted to be inside where, she al rector of the Center for Pastoral and as I came to politics." "losing his cool." In a speech in ways thought she belonged." Social Ministry, has been familiar Echoing Msgr. Egan's definition which he likened himSelf to Jesus As for those who claim the ma with the Chicago political' mecha of the "machine," Cronin stresses its Christ being persecuted, Bilandic ap chine is dead, Cronin states, "The nism. From 1956-1970, Msgr. Egan professional quality. "With Chicago, parently lost any aura of profession machine has not been wrecked. This worked with various organizations, pOlitics is not an amateur's pas alism. Cronin states, "It' was truly election proves it's merely being re such as the Inter-Religious Council time; that's for the pros. You can shameful." tooled.I believe Chicago voters saw of Urban Affairs, Model Cities, the tell the pros by the way the machine Political machines have not been that Bilandic doesn't know how to Urban Renewal Program, etc., which works; with them, it works as well viewed popularly, something .Cronin drive (the machine); Byrne has had brought him into constant contact the day after the election as the day finds strange. "For a society like her driving license for quite' some with city officials. Msgr. Egan de before." America to knock the, machine is a time now." fines the "machine" as "a coalition The popular notion of political little odd. If the machines.does good In illustrating some of the ties be of people of differing opinions, inter payoffs and under~the-table dealings things, it's a good machine. If it ,tween Chicago politics 'and Notre ests, and cultures brought· together within the machine has an interest doesn't, it's a bad one. For the most Dame, Prof. Cronin says, "1 taught to work with one another for mutual ing place in Prof. Cronin's view of part, the Chicago machine has been Mr. Byrne while, he was at Notre .survival a'nd for the survival of the Chicago politics. Referring to the a good one, and not only for its own Dame; he was in the General Pro Democratic organization." This or Sain-Bilandic ,alleged . payoff for mechanics.... When a man (Daley) gram. I also taught two of the ganization, Egan states, is built on a snow removal; he says, "Now I sup wins by 75%, that's winning big, 'Nash boys of the Kelly-Nash ma- system .of patronage. The success pose most Chicagoans are not sur and you win that big by being that chine. With those two, whenever I . of the organization depended on how prised when they find. out a poli good." wanted to know what was really .. well the mayor held together his, tician gets paid something for doing Part of "being that 'good" in going on in Chicago, I'd just go to coalition which included ward' com- . something for the city. In fact, as volves efficiency in government, them. And then I had Dan Shannon mitteemen, precinct captains, and Professor Edward. Cronin a Chicagoan, I'd be surprised if he again reverting to the idea of a in a class. He was a linebacker for 14 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 6, 1979 15

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the team, a'nd his family was' in natural. . "Mom's whole campaign all volved in the inner circle. I also had along had been pointing out the in Joe Bertrand, a great basketball equities in the Bilandic administra player for ND. He was a city tion." treasurer and is presently running As the nominee's daughter, for alderman." Kathy enjoys occasionally being Prof. Thomas Schlereth of the both confidante and unofficial ad American Studies Department iden visor: "There have been a few times NORTH tifies the machine in not only a posi when she has asked me 'What do you tive light but a negative light as think about ... ?' but usually when well. her mind's made up, it's firmly made SIDE .... . "It is politics conducted with nep up." otism, family preference, patron Commenting on her mother's age for supporters, etc.," says probable tenure as mayor, Kathy SOUTH Schlereth. "Often in the course of speculates that "she'll be very Il!l!ch elections, it's a mechanism that has ,like Mayor Daley in terms of ad SIDE gotten out the vote by several 'ministration. 'In that respect, she means. In the course of operation, will carryon the machine tradition." it's not out of the ordinary for the To be' mayor of Chicago involves machine to reward with political ,a certain degree of national prom patronage: jobs." inence. If elected mayor, does she Culturally speaking, the machine expect her mother to eventually en is unique in its person-to-person ter national politics? , ,,'-'~" familial operation. "What the ma "I hope not," says Kathy. "Run by Jim Trausch .' .,-' :L/;'l ,/' ~ 'I J chine reflects," says Schlereth, "is ning for Chicago office is bad enough. .. j .i·~'.~,/ . . ~::'t,:'-·l~' ;/r l:;~ almost a feudal orientation towards I don't think she's going to seek na (February 20-8 a.m.) The phone is politics; city hall was the paternal There is no shiny, slick, green astro~ Cub fans look at the season as suppress these thoughts. But a new tional elective office. She'll work for ringing in my room for what seems figure to help immigrants get turf stretching from wall to wall like they do a Peanuts comic strip-the danger appears. the cities at the national level and like the twentieth time already. The started. To them,· this was expected indoor-outdoor carpeting. Instead, a one· where Lucy· holds the football About this time, the White Sox be that's about as far as I think she'll caller, without so much· as a hello, and understood.. Such acceptance beautiful, lush, green field of real for Charlie Brown. Everyone knows gin to make noises. Up until. then it go." begins~"What do' you think of the nurtured the machine's growth. grass. The ivy on the walls gives it that Lucy will pick the ball up at the was easy to ignore, but they begin to Greg Oberland, a, senior govern- , trade the Cubs made with the "Mayor Daley exemplified the a scholarly quality. No electronic last moment and Chuck will fall flat steal the limelight from the Cubs. ment major, is also a native Chi Phillies?" I mumble something inco ideal leader in such a system. He scoreboard flashing large-scale pic on his back. Yet, just once, you hope Sooner or later, it never fails, some cagoan and an interested observer of herent in return and glance at a Chi was of the philosophy that you tures distracts Cub fans. The score Lucy will leave the· football there unknowing person suggests the won-. Chicago politics. The primary result, cago Tribune Sports headline pro should take care of your own. He board is manually operated and and let Charlie Brown kick it. Lucy derful possibility of a Cubs-White he concurs, did not spell the end of claiming the· trade on' my bedroom saw this as perfectly natural,' and gives only the information essential can not keep it up forever, sooner or Sox World Series. Let's get one the Democratic organization. floor. Being the ,number-one Cub good." to the enjoyable viewing of a,game. later the law of averages will right thing straight right now: such, an "She (Jane .Byrne) was part of fan on campushas such drawbacks. The contemporary Chicago scene, Curt Gowdy often refers, to Fen things and Charlie Brown will kick event would be the worst thing, be the machine all along,'; he says. But the trade has made one im unlike decades past, is not character~ way Park as' a "cozy and exclusive that ball. It is the same way with sides more snow, that could happen "You, must. remember that Daley portant contribution to my day: The ized by new arrivals·' and "looking nightclub." If that is accurate, then Cub fans. Everyone knows that the to the city. Cub fans hate the White gave (Byrne)· her first break. !n poli long winter of Black Hawk hockey, out for our own." As a result, such Wrigley Field is your living room Cubs cannot win the division, every Sox and Sox fans hate the Cubs. tics. Bears football, and Bulls on CBS is a system's function comes into ques homey and casual. The best seats in one except Cub fans. They are the Neither would have it any other "What's really interesting about over. On this steely-grey Indiana I tion. "There are challenges, rivals, the house are in the left fleld bleach same ones who believe that someday way. the primary is that I don't think she morning there is a glimmer of light; who wish to reforni the machine. ers. You have to get to the ball park Lucy will be nice to Charlie Brown. .Furthermore, the lowest, day in a won so much on a pro-Jane Byrne Next Year is here for the Cubs. I Many 'of these people do it' for per by ten a.m: to gain those coveted One of these years they just have to Cub fan's life would be the day the I vote but rather on an anti~Bilandic Just what would make a CUb fan sonal gain but I think the significant seats, but the bother is well worth it. win it. In fact, the more the Cubs White Sox beat the Cubs in a Series. i vote." Oberland continues, "The eagerly await the start of a new I challenge to the system is the neigh Once there, most fans discard un lose, the more adamant Cub fans be The reverse is true for Sox fans. Cub election came at a very bad time for season is unfathomable to outsiders borhOOd groups who seem.to lie Vy necessary· clothing, spread on some come in their belief that this will fans would rather see their team Bilandic; it was right after the of the Windy City. How could any I ing for the Big Brother role. This suntan lotion, kick back, soak up finally be the year. finish in last place than watch them blizzard and inefficiencies in admin one in their right mind like a team tends to press the machine and I be~ some 'rays,and, of course, watch the The annoying thing about it is lose to the Sox in a Series. It is the istration were starting to show. If that has not won· anything .since lieve the machine will have.to assert game. , . . that the season always starts out so same for ChiSox backers. I the primary had been in the sum 1945? Every year they start out itself in response. Cub games are always exciting be well: On opening day you can be But lees give the White Sox and mer, Bilandic might have won. strong and every year it's the same cause the smallness of the ball park sure of three things; thousands of their fans credit. They weather a lot , "One. such reform, politician is "Chicagoans have high expecta old, story '- "June, Swoon," and means that many> runs are scored. grade-schoolers will mysteriously in their love for the Sox, too. They Jane Byrne: She's interesting be tions of their government because it "Good-bye in July." But, CUb fans No' deficit is too hirge for'.theCubs call in sick, they will recover in time coexist with what they view as a cause she' seems to straddle the worked so well .under. Daley. Bilan are tough and loyal; they don't let to overcome and, ullfortunately,· the to pack Wrigley tQ the tune of hostile press. Most sportswriters fence," he says. -"We can be sure dic's administration was showing little things like errors and ten-game reverse is more often true. No Cub 40,000, and the CUbs will win. They . are unabashedly pro-Cubbie. Soxers that she will try to continue Daley's signs of ineptitude and so the peo losing streaks in September dampen lead is really safe. But that brings will win in ApriL and they will win root for the only team ever to throw legacy.· She's fiery." '. . ple looked for a change. Jane Byrne . their enthusiasm. Their ties to the back . the subject', of wiiming, and in May but, with each win a dark, aW6rld Series. Even more embar No one is more familiar with Jane will definitely bring change." , North Side Boy Wonders go beyond this· is 'not a topic CUb fans intelli ominous cloud. appears. It is the rassing is the fact that they did not Byrne . , than her own, daughter, . Whether Chicagoans definitely de the usual fan-team relationship. gently 'discuss. 'Yes: CUb fans really same boogeyman that haunts them even get paid for the deal. Theyhave Kathy Byrne; A senior at St. Mary's cide to bring about such a change Chicagoans love the Cubs. believe that this year they can win every year. They're too far out in not seen Series action in two dec ., majoring in government,:: Kathy will soon be seen. The mayoral elec~ Their love for the team even starts the Eastern Division. 'No, they are front, they will never be able to sus ades. Yet, their fans remain as in worked on her mother's. campaign tions were held April 3. ~achine with the ball park. God himself built not candidates for Nurse Ratchet's tain the pace,they're gonna choke. tensely loyal and devoted as their ~nd vie~s .the election results as dead? We'll see. 0 .' Wrigley Field, ·the hl>me of the Cubs. floor. Fighting hard, the true Cub fan can Cub counterparts. 16 SCHOLASTIC APRIL: 6, 1979 17 ------~~------i

This is not an easy task. Whereas as he stood staring at who knows . Referring to his overnight success, have ever gotten the chance to pop Wrigley Field is likened to your liv what and blinking away occasion Prine stated, "There were people out of car radios with any consis ing room, Comiskey Park is like the ally at something that seemed to be saying 'You're great, man-you're tency.. With the qualified exception attic above the garage -:- cramped, trying to get at him. Only this time a fucking genius!' If I'm such a of Hello in There, John Prine has stuffy, dusty, and unbearably hot. there was no bee in sight. Prine genius, how come it took' me five never had' a hit. And after listen It is in this sauna of a park that the' followed Dear Abby with . a years to get out of high school?" ing to his most recent album South Side Hitmen chase the di weighty song called Sam Stone, But the praise heaped on John Prine Bruised Orange it appears that visional crown. In spite of the en a poignant yet cynical piece about a was warranted. His coarse voice is he WOUld. like to have one. This closed nature of the park, it does Vietnam veteran hooked on heroin. not very pretty, but his lyrics and album, released in 1978, is his most have a certain character about it - He was sharp here too as his rusty the conviction with which he sings commercial attempt to date, but being one of the oldest parks in the can voice etched out the haunting them are sure to find a place in the that's not saying very much American League. I lyrics, "There's a hole in Daddy's ear of the thoughtful listener. If considering his previous material. Sox fans do not give a hoot about I arm where all' the money goes/ he takes you in with his lyrics, With a voice that you could 'strike the structure of the park, just what Jesus Christ died for nothing I sup you're hooked. Besides that, Prine a match on, 1;lnd a twangy hillbilly kind of outrageous behavior they pose." By this time, John Prine had has the knack for writing tunes tinge to his songs, which stay pretty will unleash once inside. They are himself a new fan. that are catchy. much in the realm of folk and blue the crazy fans of the American The next time I saw John Prine On the one hand, critics have grass, Prine hasn't sold enough al League. They dance in the aisles, on TV was a couple of years later accused him of trying to copy bums to be considered a "major sing songs (they put "Sha-Na-Na on Saturday Night Live. He looked the style of Bob Dylan (there artist." But with major artists such Na," "Hey, Hey, Goodbye" back into like a scared rabbit as he barely are some similarities) and on as the Bee Gees these days, the dis Casey Kasem's Top 40), and wor eked out a song about a station the other, Prine himself says that tinction is dubious at best. ' ship beerguzzling announcer Harry john p,....', Iotf'VlCn pt'O'Itdcod by f.Ul Avt'llUt Pl'Oduc:tlOnS~. wagon full of . nuns or something if there were anyone he wished Bruised 'Orange, which was "oduc.toQn C()(M"d""~tor; Y." Mnw.-

Caray. They take particular delight Bet:r. PIII,I. ~ .~rlfl,n by Tom H""ton falling to "the bottom of the bot to emulate it would be Roger Miller. produced for Electra/ Asylumrec in unnerving the crybaby Kansas tomless pit." , He came back on later "I like tunes that pop right out at ords by Steve Goodman, is a clean City Royals who come apart at the in the show, "a little less strung you from the car radio and you album with a "poppy" texture with You may see me tonight with an seams at the first contact with Sox out, t() sing what had become one can't help but tap your feet," says in which Prine's snappy lyrics are fans. illegal smile/. It don't cost very of my favorites, Hello in There, Prine. "Those are the kinds of songs showcased for optimal listening much but it lasts a loitg while/ The average Sox fan is a: factory a song about old people~ I was glad that I would like to write." pleasure.. Admittedly, the album is worker with a big beer belly who John Prine: Won't you please tell the, man I to see hiniagain but it was obvious Well, there have been catchy, a commercial attempt, but it is a pays his two dollars to come out to didn't kill anyone/ I'm just tryin' that he had changed: he was clean "poppy" tunes in John Prine's past good commercial attempt not sac the park to watch his team and Chicago's Folk to have me some fun-John Prine shaven and a little less sure of him like Flashback Blues and Your rificing any of Prine's integrity for drink, but not necessarily in that self. I guess national exposure Flag Decal Won't Get You Into the sake of airplay: The album can order. 'The Sox players reflect their Hero One lazy Saturday afternoon I can 'do thatto a person. Heaven Anymore but none of them be seen as a washed and scrubbed cranked the television. dial past fans. They are the misfits and cast~ Bandstand, baseball, cartoons, Wild John Prine is Chicago's own, but offs from around the league molded he's a country boy at heart. He grew together by 'their eccentric owner Kingdom and Sesame Street, only to stop at the sound of-fiddles and up ·in a working-class suburb called Bill Veeck. There are no loudmouth, a cheering crowd. On the stage was Maywood where his nickname was lazy, overpriced free agents on the a man who looked like he needed "Hillbilly." Apparently Prine had team, and the fans appreciate this. directions and a shave. He was awk kept close ties with his· heritage: Their uniforms fit this image. They wardly sipping at a Budweiser and the coal mining _town of Paradise in look like they should be worn by the trying to introduce .hisnext song western Kentucky where his pater Acme Plumbing and Storm Door while a zipping bee laid claim to nal grandfather was a carpenter Company softball team. the immediate area. around' his and his mother's father ran a ferry~ The play on the field often r~ 'by TomB~lcerek head. He swatted at. the bee twice boat on the Green River. In May sembles a softball game - lots of before he lost his composure com wood, Prine struggled through high home runs and very little defense. pletely, put down his guitar and school and then held a variety of This makes for good entertainment ran. That's when I saw his pointy jobs before going to work at the and White Sox fans will trek to the toed cowboy boots. post office as a mailman. He was 'park in droves again and again to I decided to stick around for this drafted into the' Vietnam war and enjoy the good times. one. got married to his high school In fact, ,both the Cubs and the The man on ,the ,stage ,was John sweetheart while in the army. White Sox attendance records figure Prine. The occasion,:was the 1974 Shortly after he, returned from the to be in' jeopardy this year. Last Philadelphia' Folk FestIval and' up war, Prine found his post office job year, with both teams out of the to this point' in ,time I' had never was a grind, so he started writing pennant races by -September, they even heard of the guy. John Prine songs in 1970 and performing them drew over 1 ¥2 million apiece. If returned from the. bee, attack gig at the' Fifth, Peg, a Chicago night either team could stay in the race gling and went into anappropri club. He started playing on a regu the entire season, a gate of 2 million ately inspired rendering of "Dear lar basis at, the Earl of Old To\\in, is n,ot inconceivable. Regardless of Abby," a comic song in which Abby another Chicago club where he was whether the Cubs or the Sox make answers.all questions with the mes eventually discovered_by . Kris a legitimate run for the top, thefans sage: "You have no complaint. You Kristofferson, who whisked. him off will continue to support their team. are what you are and you ain't to New York shortly thereafter~ Rain or' shine, win or lose,. Cub and what you ain't." By now my atten The transition from civil servant Sox backers love their boys. 0 tion was solidly focused on Prine to public persona was unsettling. 18 SCHOLASTIC APRIL 6, 1979 19 John Prine. And considering his in solubility as an artist, it is, per haps, John Prine at his best. It is in teresting, too, because it seems to reflect a change in Prine's way of looking at things. He &eems to be telling the listener he has learned something. In a statement concern ing the, title cut of Bruised' Or ange (subtitled Chain of Sor row) Prine says, "The chain of sorrow is getting pissed off about getting pissed off and' you just end up double pissed off, like a chain reaction." He expresses this idea by Joe Carey more eloquently in the lyrics of Take a scat-singing emcee who is of an acoustic mystique, and, _of the song: irked by liver, a clarinetist who-en course, talents worthy only of the After dual hitches in the war, H mention of his name, and spill beer of talent, for he achieved .that long joys dueting with Canadian accor world's greatest mandolinist. & J reunited somewhere in the Mid on their shirts in reverie. They re ago, but, 'more importantly, im age 'A heart stained, in angerI grows dionists, two funked-up dudes on For Jethro Burns, prankster ex west and began recording for King member the swinging music, spon of recognition. In the same way, weak and grow bitter/ You be reeds and keyboards, and a drum traordinaire and nimble-fingered records. After a few musical years, taneity, and drive of his perform the 'Collegiate Jazz Festival, too, come ,your own prisoner/as mer mimed after a city, place them wizard 'of fretted wood, a special they moved to R.C.A. The first hit ances. They recall his wit and spark has come of age.' So, whether you you watch yourself/ sit there/ gently alongside a bassist/horse musical category must, and does Homer, and 'Jethro produced for and his droll, occasionally bordering be Chicagoan, toWnie, a religious on wrapped up in a trap/ of your man and an ever-present critic, and exist. Few people' in any mode of their new payrollers was a satire on-bawdy stories. Most of all, sabbatical, Gregorian monk, or a very ownl chain of sorrow you ""ill have undoubtedly begun to artistic expression are ever, criti ona Frank' Loesser tune, which though, they recall the man, and his just plain jazz-hungry music, buff, cally, or publicly, acclaimed ,as un they titled Baby, It's Cold Out style, his touch of class. ' join Jethro and his combo on Satur Without this infinite' regress of disputed master of their, particular side. 'Released'; with "apologies;" Whatever the case, whatever the day night, April 7, in Stepan Center melancholy that has both plagued endeavor. Fortunately, one of the this number seemed to take a tar:' occasion, Jethro Burns must be re as he etches the final musical lines of and graced, his, previous , albums, few exceptions to this, subjeCtivity paulin off the duo's hoard of humor. garded as a virtuoso performer, and the twenty-first Collegiate JazzFes Prine now seems to be ready to of taste, technique or talent is the For the next twenty years, until a pickin' legend whose motto exists 'tival into the past. It may be the register perceptions of another question: "Who is the greatest man Henry Haynes', death; they un in the words placed after this semi most enjoyable jazz encounter 'you kind:. less psychological, more ex dolinist?" By anybodY's abacus, any leashed a typhooIiof parodies on colon; "pure swing." JetlITo has have until CJF #22 rolls around. 0 periential. The old guard John Prine type of music from, Classical to every imaginable hit with, of course, come of age, certainly not an age fans will surely miss wallowing in Bluegrass (withamuscled emphasis thin-grinned apologies every time. the mire of such classics as The on Swing) the' answer is, "!aturelle Their versions of Hound Dog" and, Late John Garfield Blues ,and Far ment, Monsieur Burns.' , Battle of Cucamonga were tre From Me, but Prine contends that Although' Jethro exists peacefully mendous sellers, the latter reaping a the change was necessary. "I'm these days in local an'd suburban Grnmmy for best humorous record getting to be 31 and I ain't out to Chicagoland pubs such as Char ing of 1959. kick the world's ass no more," he lotte's Web 'and' Somebody Else's So, Grammy intact, Homer and explains" "I just want to get up in ' , Troubles, he first foundearthly foot Jethro proceeded to cut two albums the morning and have a good time." ing in Conasonga,' Tenriess'ee. Born of light, swinging instrumentals en Prine has even developed a prayer in this' Southern mecca in 1920, he titled Playing It Straight, and for his new life-style: endured a' Knoxville. adolescence It Aiit't Necessarily So. Both which, to' music's gairi, introduced sold out in their initial releases Father forgive us for what we him to the mandolin. and, ·for some unfathomable rea must dol ,You forgive 'us, we'll , By the age of 12, already a pro son, have never been reissued. After forgive you/ We'll forgive each digious plucker,' Jethro landed' a this output, however, there is a gap other till be botli turn blue/ Then stUdio job at WNOX in: Knoxville in Jethro's recorded material, lead we'll whistle and 'go fishing in along with brother Aytchie (on bass) ingthe jazz enthusiast to howl the heaven. o and two other" young :, guitarists, question "where is that dude?" Has Henry Haynesimd' CharlieHaga~ Jethro's "mandolinic' voice been explore the deep-rooted logic of the man. Utilizing creativity' in the 'stifled?' Has he cut any discs, Collegiate Jazz Festival, the annual extreme, fine : wit 'and lavish spon scrawled' his musical finesse into ; _'''';' ...... ~:.'.y <'", ~"~ ... ..,~ ~,,:.' '.r:~ 'du Lac Bacchanalian-musical rite of taneity, they named themselves the -1 • plastic anYwhere? Has'his stringed , "sprmg. String Dusters andbecarrie station mallet become, warped, infirm or ,~~~~~ Something, though, as' the toe: regUlars:" remaining'; at . WNOX for wholly closeted? Hardly. tapping jazz connoissieur will sure the next seven years.' In ,1937, Jeth Since':the breakup of H & --J, ly note, is, missing from this ro and Henry . split : from the four~ Jethro

by Paul Lauer

I other - but it is rape in that the nomically so as well. ability to control his life. Compare obvious, though I fear it is not. sexual objects. The thesis of this es woman no longer feels she has con Rape in war is one way of show this to the employer raping his em Most advertisements and maga~ say is simply that rape is a mani The purpose of this essay is to trol over her body; the fifth is not, ing that the people you have con ployee where there is no economic zines such as Playboy are notorious festation of this consciousness. The speculate about what rape is, its im of course, actually rape, but per quered, or are trying to conquer, are impotence. for making this equation, and I here outrage of my friend's date and the plications, and how it may serve to haps most readily yields to an analy: in your power. War is, of course, all What I would like to conclude point to only the most obvious ex violent assault on the street are re instigate change. sis of the attitudes that rape man about domination, but it is fought from this is that rape accompanies amples. The' difference between last lated in, that they are" express ex To that end, let me give five ex- ifests. by men with women only rarely the subjection of ' women to men, the month's .foldout and an Edward amples of the way men view women. amples: ,. " There is a fundamental similarity participating. Why, then, do men so subjection that shows itself more Weston nude is obvious. Yet, are If you have 'not already, I can only Rape' most commonly might be among all these actions, though, consistently rape women in war? Is conventionally in man's .economic, fashionable clothes a celebration of ask that you examine how deeply thought of as a violent' assault oc when examined in connection with rape really just one' :way of subject social, and political power over a beautiful body or the slick pack this attitude pervades our culture; curring on the street. Rape is also our economic relations. Let me men ing a people? Is it incidental to an women., We may learn much about aging of a sexual object? from the last issue of Playboy mag one of the atrocities that accompa tion, then, what we all know: that end or an end in itself? Is it some rape by not viewing it as an isolated The distinction between enjoying azine to, for example, the sonnet nies war, often . occurring on we are in many ways not members thing which happens when men, phenomenon committed by' psycho the beauty of a woman and seeing sequences of the English Renrus-. massive scales. It, is also rape of an egalitarian society. There is a jaded from' slaughtering other men, paths, but by examining our own re and appreciating that beauty only in sance and certainly beyond, man has' when an employer forces an em hierarchy of power, if you will, that turn their attention to women? But lations with women. These five ex relation to one's own misdirected portrayed 'w~men as .objects of his ployee to have sex with' him determines the control we have over still the question remains, why rape? amples cover a frighteningly com desires may be hard to make. When sexual gratification. with the often implicit ,threat of the worldly' affairs of our lives. Victory in war is usually accom- . plete spectrum _of life. They show we view another as the means to the firing' (the employee who uses her There is a frightening equivalency panied by some forIl). of economic how desperately wrong something satisfaction of our desire we are III body to "get ahead" to some extent between our economic and political subordination or exploitation; it can is in the way men, as a whole, view treating that person as an object, not is anticipating her employer). Rape or social positions in society. This be' an overt power-play making a women. The fear is that there is in as a person, not with. respect. And What remains unclear is whether can occur between' a married man's collective psyche a view of when we judge people by their this is a special problem or part of couple, and I mean here to include women that gives itself to rape. beauty or clothing styles, we are a larger problem. What is the dif not only when violence is used but being equally vicious, equally shal ference between our treatment of also simply when a woman does not 11Th is hierarchy. which. places one II low. This is the main point. Erot women and, say, blacks? What is the feel she has the right to refuse her icism and erotic love are, I think, extent to which we treat all others husband sex. Finally, let me include group over another. underlies' The second part of this essay at healthy aspects of culture, but sex as means to our ends? (I feel that the macabre incident that happened tempts to reveal how we consciously ual desire, when out of place, loses our mistreatment of women is more the phenomenon of rape. II . to a friend (and prompted these re or unconsciously view women. I its meaning. As the point is subtle, substantial but I would have trouble flections): after going out for sev really have only one other observa I may only be able to give one ob pointing out why that is, so let us eral weeks to restaurants, the theater tion to make; it will not answer vious example to make the distinc stay with the similarities.) and other shows with a man, at his hierarchy, which places one'-person whole country only means to your why, but it does move the inquiry to tion more clear: a pretty girl walks Even if our society was fully in expense, there came a time when he or group over another, underlies the end. But this is only an overt ex a different level. ,by and a crowd of men, with' the tegrated there would still be a hier felt he had a right to have sex with phenomenon of rape. The employer, ample of what all too often never Let me begin in the following dull and stupid curiosity of buffalo, archy of power. And even if all in her and became outraged upon being husband and my friend's date all comes to' violence because the condi way: if I as a man say that I take swing th'eir heads around to stare. dividuals were able to move freely, denied; clearly he felt there was a have economic power; the employer tion of the subordinated is not such enjoyment or delight in the beauty David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in according to their talents, to a cer tacit· agreement which had been most obviously. As I .understand that they can resist being exploited of another man's body, I believe that Chicago is a caricature, I hope, ot tain level, we still would have a diffi broken. I am told situations like the Rideout case, there is .still no (I.e., blacks in America)." And with I would be at least suspected of be just this type of behavior and is in cult time justifying the treatment of this, though perhaps not as overt, legal precedent of a man 'having the war comes all too often extensive ing a homosexual. A moment's re deed perverse. those on the low side as means to are not uncommon. been convicted of raping his wife. and brutal' raping of women.' flection will determine the truth of There is a reciprocity to this be an end. At alI'levels of an organiza These actions are dissimilar in a I understand that economic relations The rape in the street is ,similar this observation. The reas~n for this, havior when women see themselves tion, from the assembly line to the number of ways: Only the first two will be bound by law but when such to rape in war, at least so far as both let me postulate, is that we, as men" as objects. In what other way can president, individuals are replace are commonly thought of as criminal an effect of that subordination as depend on physical strength,. and in equate a woman's beauty with the we understand the fashion, perfume able, they fulfill certain roles. These and sometimes only the first is rape is also legally sanctioned, we that they are more conscious demon desirability of having sex with her. and cosmetic industries with their . roles are all means to a larger' end, thought to be done by criminals;. must make changes. And my friend strations· of, power. They differ, So unconscious and strong is this overemphasis and wro'ng emphasis even those at the top are Constrained the first and second are not always placed herself in a compromising though, in that the rapist in the equation that my comments on a placed' on physical beauty? in what they can do by the en~s of directed at the young and beautiful position by unquestioningly accept streets needs to assert power and, man's beautf' are confused with a This consciousness is a rape of profit and market position. It be as I imagine the third usually is; the ing a custom that· has, at best, a in some cases I think, this need sexual desire'on my part. That there women, not less because figurative, comes a necessity to treat others in fourth, paradoxically, might occur questionable origin. Women, in order, might be grounded in economic im is no necessary connection between bu't worse because so pervasive. : It the hierarchy, as their role demands, between two people who love each to be independent, must be eco- potence, in i frustration at' an in- beauty and 'sexual desire should be is rape in that we treat women as either as a means to your end or

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by Paul Lauer

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charge lies in' that our very image change in our economic' reiations; . . -~ . . .- of ourselves as, human beings, how it is· important to see that socialist It is my hope that. these lines' will we see each other, is at stake. ,We theory. is, an attempt to do just that. provide a dialogue among members RESPONSIBILITIES: begin to' see each other not as fellow If we· see others as ends in them of our. community. The topic is cer I I men and women but as means to our selves 'we cannot in our economic re tainly of enough importance .that, Without your help, we can't afford to win. end. .,', ." lationships treat them as means. We whatever the worth of this essay, it I Make check payable to U.S. Olympic Committee, I • Research Assistance - half time ., The very structure- of ~apitalism must be consistent.. Women (and is not .unreasonable to ask for a re I P.O. Box 1980-P, Cathedral Station, Boston, MA 02118 I (20 hrs/week) and' its complete indifference to val., men) must realize that to· simply de sponse. Scholastic, it seems, would I Name I ues other than, profit lead me to mand entry into all areas, of society bean ideal place to print responses.: Address • Academic Performance think that it is a paradigffi of ethical and to, be paid .equally for equal Needless to say,this does not repre I I egoism' (the view that we act simply work is limited; it is to demand sent a, fully developed, theory but I City I (3.0 GPA or better) out of self-interest arid are incapable equality for a class and n'ot for its rather some thoughts I have recently State Zip of altruism) with that one horri individuals. ' had that I wish tom.ake coherent I I A $ Please send me the symbol of support checked below. I fying qualification; the self-interest .,' Fora, revolution to be,iin, there and share. 0 I contribution 0 Stickpin ($10) 0 Tote Bag ($25) 0 Desk Spinner that we' act out of is defined by the must. be widespread awareness of I is enclosed. 0 Pendant ($25) 0 Visor Cap ($25) ($50) _ I Inquire .about this excellent oppor requirements of the role we have' a basic' wrong. Rape is a symbol of Your contribution is tax·deductible, ...J tunity by writing or calling takenon-::-the self-iiiterestis n6tin~ a' terrible wrong. What rears· its Paul Lauer is .a junior, from South L ------trinsic to us as human beings. In ugly head in war, in dark streets and Bend. He is, doublfJ majoring in other words, we'-are alienated from .lonely apartmentS hides its hideous ,English and PhilosOphy. This,.ishis Dr. Gerry Albers our work in that we take it on not, bulk in our relationships with wom~ fi1'st contribUtion to Scholastic. University of Dayton 300 College Park Avenue Dayton, Ohio 45469 '(513) 229-2241

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Research Assistantships are with obedience if they are higher out of intrinsic interest but need for en, with other men, with 'other available at both the Master's than you. . And if' this is not bad money: we are alienated from our races, with other religions and with and Doctoral levels in the fol enough, all too often the only rela fellow workers to the extent that we other countries. ' By focusing on tionship we have with our roles is are forced to treat them as means or rape and trying to understand its lowing areas: that we are paid to fulfill them; the blindly to' obey them, and we ar~ origins, its extensiveness and its im roles are not intrinsically satisfying. alienated from those for whom we plications, ,we might create an This leads to a schizophrenia when produce to the extent that we do not awareness that would demand mean Structures we try to live our lives as human respond responsibly to their needs ingful change. Women's liberation beings •and also' try to' fulfill the to the extent that we manipulate more than any other single move Mechanics roles we have taken on to support them. ment has. the potential'to become a ourselves. The result can only be I would like to conclude not that transcendent force; the' more in Materials that either our' hopes and values as ethical egoism is the universal con tensively we see, that, the more ex- human beings conflict with, being an dition of man in spite of theprodi tensive the change. . , assembly-line worker or vice-presi gious evidence (for we all agree, I I fear,though, that some women Energy dent, or' the qualities exercised and' hope; that' we can act not out of may, be responding in kind. The reinforced in the role invade our self-interest), but rather that capital image of man in Plctygirl or Cosmo Computer Systems lives, making us uncreative or un ism actually requires this behavior politan is. the mirror image of wom caring. toward individuals and the world. en in PTityboy., Women here take Others The absolute absurdity of this And this behavior is very similar to on .the frightening face of their op comes home when we realize that our. treatment of women as sexual pressors; by' equating ,women's often what _is, sold, ~ for which the objects, as means to our ends. liberation with. sexual, promiscuity corporate hierarchy supposedly. but and by viewing' men as sexual ob BENEFITS: not actually 'exists, does not fuUm IV jects, they cultivate this conscious a real need butone. that has been ness that I as a man find so narrow • Free tuition literally, created by our prodigious 'Women's liberation must demand and defeating. It is to enter into a advertising agencies. a change in, consciousness so that tired and deadly, strugg~e from e Stipend , It is a process of self-deception; a men regard women, truly as· equals. which there are no winners.' circle that is complete and utterly This change in perception" if you devastating'" The. seriousness of the will, must be accompanied by a * * <* • Challenging research charge lies in' that our very image change in our economic' reiations; . . -~ . . .- of ourselves as, human beings, how it is· important to see that socialist It is my hope that. these lines' will we see each other, is at stake. ,We theory. is, an attempt to do just that. provide a dialogue among members RESPONSIBILITIES: begin to' see each other not as fellow If we· see others as ends in them of our. community. The topic is cer I I men and women but as means to our selves 'we cannot in our economic re tainly of enough importance .that, Without your help, we can't afford to win. end. .,', ." lationships treat them as means. We whatever the worth of this essay, it I Make check payable to U.S. Olympic Committee, I • Research Assistance - half time ., The very structure- of ~apitalism must be consistent.. Women (and is not .unreasonable to ask for a re I P.O. Box 1980-P, Cathedral Station, Boston, MA 02118 I (20 hrs/week) and' its complete indifference to val., men) must realize that to· simply de sponse. Scholastic, it seems, would I Name I ues other than, profit lead me to mand entry into all areas, of society bean ideal place to print responses.: Address • Academic Performance think that it is a paradigffi of ethical and to, be paid .equally for equal Needless to say,this does not repre I I egoism' (the view that we act simply work is limited; it is to demand sent a, fully developed, theory but I City I (3.0 GPA or better) out of self-interest arid are incapable equality for a class and n'ot for its rather some thoughts I have recently State Zip of altruism) with that one horri individuals. ' had that I wish tom.ake coherent I I A $ Please send me the symbol of support checked below. I fying qualification; the self-interest .,' Fora, revolution to be,iin, there and share. 0 I contribution 0 Stickpin ($10) 0 Tote Bag ($25) 0 Desk Spinner that we' act out of is defined by the must. be widespread awareness of I is enclosed. 0 Pendant ($25) 0 Visor Cap ($25) ($50) _ I Inquire .about this excellent oppor requirements of the role we have' a basic' wrong. Rape is a symbol of Your contribution is tax·deductible, ...J tunity by writing or calling takenon-::-the self-iiiterestis n6tin~ a' terrible wrong. What rears· its Paul Lauer is .a junior, from South L ------trinsic to us as human beings. In ugly head in war, in dark streets and Bend. He is, doublfJ majoring in other words, we'-are alienated from .lonely apartmentS hides its hideous ,English and PhilosOphy. This,.ishis Dr. Gerry Albers our work in that we take it on not, bulk in our relationships with wom~ fi1'st contribUtion to Scholastic. 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