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Merrie England Prospereth William Gibbons o-F AID To Tell The Bard's Birthday Honored; 'J Alumnae Donate Book Fund Story Of Foreign A id Bill, 1964 In recognition of 1fae 400th anni- · be used for the purohase of books An examination of t•he executive- Iuse to illustrate how the executive Later last year Forum decided to versary of Shakespeare's birtih, Wei- on Milton or for Rare Book Room IEgislative relationship in the federal and legislative branches conflict and rrtain ehe title of the Memorial Lec­ lesley's Shakespeare Society has giv- books. Mrs. Havens, former alum­ government will be the subject of a cooperate until a bill acceptable to ture. Each year one lecture, dealing en the College $10,000 with whim to nae chairman of 9iiakespeare So­ talk by William C. Gibbons, Monday both branC'hes is achieved. not wil';1 Kennedy himsell but with eslablish the 9lakespeare Society Li- ciety, explained that, "Milton is at 7:30 in the Pope Room. one aspect of ttie presidency or the brary Fund. pretty well covered by other Mr. Gibbons, acting director of .ine Mr. Gibbons may use the 1963 for­ federal government, will be given The fund will permit ttie purchase groups." Sl>e also expressed the Congressional Liason Staff of the eign aid bill in comparison to tl'lis this title. of important works related to Renais- alumnae sentiment tlhat, "Rare Agency for International Develop­ y£-ars. In so doing he will explore t'he sance England. '11'11.i.s will include books are put away but the fu nd ment, will use the foreign aid bill reasons why this year's bill was books on art, music. science, politi- books will be out for everybody's en­ passed this wmmcr as the basis !or passed with relative case while last LIBRARY HOURS - cal science, economics, philosophy, joyment." his examination. In his talk entitled year only after a long congressional THANKSGIVING RECESS and history as well as literature. 'The Finances for the fund are being "Executive-Legislative RelatiomJ.1ip: f1g"ht did a muClh changed version of W ednes day, Nove mber 25 goal of t'he gift is to acquire volumes provided by the treasury of Shakes­ Kennedy's bill get passed. Case Study, Forei-gn Aid Bill, 1964" 8 :15.5:00 whicth will be generally available for peare Alumnae. The principal $10,- he will examine ~he passage of tnlis Thursda y, November 26 use by faculty and students. 000 grant is \'he product of \Jhe so- !'i!'t'Ond M!'morial Lct·turc bill as seen from his agency which Closed Academic Dlscr:l mination ciety treasury's im·estm<.'nt over Sponsored by Forum, this lecture F riday, November 27 Two of the alumnae stipulations for years. The yearly Interest on the acts as a liason between Congress and the President. will be the Second John F. Kennedy 9 :00-5 :00 the use of the fund are that it not sum will be used for purchases. Memorial Lecture. Last year Ted Sat urday, November 28 Aids Passage of Bill Sorenson, Kennedy's ohief speech 9:00-12:00 - 1 :00.5: 00 writer spoke at Wellesley shortly Sunday, Nove mbe r 29 Boston Community Development The AID is the agency responsible after t•he assassination of the presi­ Re gula r houri for formulating and administering dent. Because his talk was an eulogy 2:15-5: 30 - 7 :15.10: 00 the country's foreign aid program. to the late President Kennedy, the For s t udy o nly. No circulat lon o r To Educat;e the Underprivileged The program which is propJses is lecture was entitled the John F. refere nce se rvice. g;ven to the president \1.1.10 in turn Kennedy .Memorial Lecture. In spite of various urban renewal the city. Another group attended a passes it to Congress as his foreign programs, tlhe slum areas of Boston remedial reading camp in Maine. aid recommendation. WBS 'on the scene' still present serious problems, not There some Cibildren gained as mudh In his capacity as head of the lia­ the least of which is the education of as two years in their reading ability ~on staff. ~1r. Gihbons' main duty is und<.'rprivileged children. during the 8-wl ek period. to aid passage of this prt!s1dcnt1al Students Relay Electilill News Harold Haizlip, superintendent of Independence Camp bill. His staff supplies the senators \'he education program for ABCD, An experiment in self-government, and representatives with information WBS election coverage took Wel­ Wellesley girls were given passes Action Boston Community Develop­ tihe weekend Ranger project, is being concerning the bill and works as a lesley girls to Washington, D.C., and into news rooms of both party head­ ment, last Friday described to Wel­ tried l'his fall on a group of boys contact between Nie two houses. It Boston to watch development on !Vle quarters. lesley students projects which his \\.•ho are on parole. For twelve week­ also attempts to discourage congres­ national and local levels. Situation In Washington program has developed to cope with ends they will be sent to a camp in sional ammcndmcnts whlch would WBS coverage was done in con­ Anchor desk for UBS national cov­ the problem. New Hampshire where they will be alter the original scope of t•hc bill. nection with the University Broad­ erage was Harvard's WHRB. Eight­ Years Behind allowed to live by their own rules and casting System (UBS). which in­ een students representing UBS were Financed primarily by a Ford organization. Experience in creating To Draw From Experienc!'s cludes Harvard, M.l.T.. Boston Uni­ stationed in Washington, 14 at Re­ Foundation grant, the program start­ It is from his rxperiences with thr versity, Boston College, Brandeis, publican headquarters but only four ed wil!h research into the school laws for themselves should help tfhe bill this summer that Mr. Gibllons and Wellesley. As UBS was accre­ at Dc>mocratic headquarters, due to records of children in three parts of boys ~ better understand and re­ spect the laws of society. '''ill draw the mat<.'rial which he will dited as an official news agency, its small size. The four Wellesley Boston, CTuarlestown, Roxbury and news reporters in Washington - Ann the South End. It was found that by Medina, '65, president of v:·n last ~hird grade these children were six year, Nancy Adel, '67; Peggy How­ months below the city-wide average Dough-Minded Merchants See ard, '66; and Jean Crichton, '65 - ability level and by sixth grade they \\.ere at Republican headquarters. were a year and a half to two years Ann Medina interviewed people on belilind. the floor to get their reactions as A pilot project was instituted last No Holes in Donut Business returns came in. spring to equip pre-school children The true spirit of the entrepreneur "We have brouglht the doughnut system has not proved infallible. WPllesley Girl Gets Only Statement wi~h t·he basic skills which most chil­ may have been lost in that complex, revolution to Wellesley College," However, we are continually striving When Lee Edwards, ohairm:m of dren learn at home. '11hree and four­ automated Outside World, but here stated on'\ of the ~est entrepre­ (or perfect returns." fig­ publicity of t'he Republican National year-olds who oould not talk simply at W.C. there can still be found tlhe neurs. They did, however, admit that ures on the returns, perfect or im­ Committee, made the only statement because their parents had never legendary qualities of imagination, they had borrowed the idea of dough­ perfect. are a jealously kept secret. officially available after near-n­ talked to , were given practice courage, and foresight previously at­ nut sales from a McAfee senior who Miss Menapace did, 'however, admit clusive results were in, Ann was re­ in verbal, motor and social skills. tributable to t:he Robber Barons, but began her business last year. that "we aren't doing t"1.is fur sponsible for making UBS the only Tested !\lade Gains ::ow found in such masters of in­ When asked about the largest prob­ purely altruistic motives." network to get tihis statement on According to the speaker, these test dustry as Marty Menapace, '65, and lems now confronting tile industry, The market research specialists, t:.pe. Jean Crichton was floor spot­ children as compared wil'il a control Barbie Butterworth, '65. Miss Menapace replied, "The honor Miss Menapace and Miss Butter­ ter, while Nancy Adel and Peggy group made significant gains in verb­ worth, have discove1ed that "the Howard compiled teletype returns as al ability and IQ level. girls love the fruit-filled ones they became available. For children already in school, the the best. The c'hocolate•honey-Oipped State Returns Surveyed In Boston pupil adjustment program attempts ones are also very popular among the M.l.T.'s station WTBS was in to deal wibh t'he !home problems stu­ more sacc'harine members of the c'harge of UBS local ooverage, which dents bring to school. Teachers are community." included returns on the gubernatorial being trained to recognize and han­ Sugar-Ooated Executive and Congressional races, on-tile-spot dle emotional trouble. This may in­ The entrepreneurs expressed great reports through direct lines from volve going into the student's home satisfaction with tlheir supplier to Volpe and Belotti headquarters, com­ and mobilizing the forces of the com­ the market i.e. Mr. Donut. "We mentaries by announcers at eadl munity to nelp the family. Mr. Haiz­ have found him very cooperative and UBS member station, and analysis lip explained that often families are very hale and hearty on the other of the political situation by a panel unaware of or unable to obtain avail­ end of tbe phone. We are planning o! experts in Boston. Reading tele­ able aid. to invite Mr. and Mrs. Donut to the type on t!he local scene were Welles­ A tutorial program after sohool, dorm for Tuesday night dinner ley girls Kathy De Blasis, '68, Jean witlh teachers as well as college stu­ sometime." McQuarrie, '67, and Ducky Blair, '67. dents serving as tutors, will soon go O>nsidering the fact that Miss WBS broadcasting continued until into effect. Menapace and Miss Butterwortil 3 a.m. under the direction of Pam Summer Projects supply the Quad consumers with. ap­ Gimbel, president of Uhe station. Last summer projects were car­ proximately forty dozen doughnuts F irst Time for WBS ried out to determine wtiether the every Monday and Thursday nig'ht, Nancy Adel, !head of publicity for gains made by Children in summer members of tile college community WBS, commented, "This was tile programs would significantly affect may well inquire as to what the most advenl\lrous project WBS bas their academic interest and a

• Gay Tempo Spikes Comedy; More Than Remembrance: Rededication We Liked "As You Like It" By Bonnie Grad '67 By presenting classics, the Shakes- adequate performances. They cer­ peare Society frees tlhe audience of tainly did ,but to tlhis reviewer, in­ the task of evaluating script al<>ng tellectual idea and observation, "sec­ with production. This tenet could ond-handed" from real life witlh no mean -disaster for foe Shakespeare amplification, do not carry across t!he Society since its productions are ex- footlights. The real warmth and elusively female Wlhen everyone !humor communicated by both fuese knows that Gielgud does Shakes- characters were therefore to be peare with bobh sexes and Shakes- found in the asides to tlhe audience. "Tndav u fnr mv cdusc a c1a nf da1Js." peare himself used all males! But The Jack of the element of "t!heatri­ 11 Disaster made no entrance on Jane cality," which ration names "arti­ Robert Frost, For John F. Kennedy Ills lnaui;uration Torbog's brightly accoutred stage on ficiality," is the price which produc­ November 13 and 14 when Shakes· tions must needs pay in an unpro­ peare Society presented As you fessional undel'gl'aduate intellectual Like It. community. It seemed tlbat Katherine Ball, di- 'Dhis criticism did not apply to the rector, carefully abstracted several custuming, properties, dance and basic male gestures for the Welles- music by Margaret Sloane; Sarah ley actresses playing male roles to Parr; Selma Landen; Lee Dennison, rely upon. This is a t'heatrical con- Llnda Hainfield, Mary Jo Sanna and vention which is necessary and ap- Louisa Cook respective}y. Things predated. A notable example of the like the bravely flickering candle Scul11t11red llcacl /J11 Robert B erns, Ilunti11'1to11 Hartford use of such "basic male gestures" (provided !or Adam) which seemed Collcctiou, 1' /1 c Gallery OJ Modem Art, Neto York. was Orlando's nobly restrained open- to be a visual edho of tlhat man's ing speeoh to his servant, Adam. personality, and a refreshingly vul­ Murial Mirak portrayed Orlando, gar springtime ballad in which the completely forgetting ror two and uncourteous courtiers gaily chugged one half hours the feminine addic- rr.ake-believe ale and vociverously tion of a pointed toe and transmittecl munched apples, made the comedy the character fillrough an ard1etype boVh comic and enjoyable. Louisa of a male rational framework. Berit Cook deserves a note for her clear Roberg (Adam) also hit upon some voice and considerable guitar teoh­ convincing characteristics of the old, nique. Some of the persons who both EDITORIALS ~ service-w.orn servant and served us profited and addecl t.o tlhe capital of the role in a not unpleasant falsetto, fue former cirtues were Audrey, a welcome variation from the Pamela Powers and Celia, Sara Sook­ A Shady Situation lengthy and tihougih intelligently read, er who at all times made not only a often droning speeches, of Oliver, fine duo wi.th Rosalin

To tlhe F.ditor: of writing, I'm sure he would enjoy ,A I was delighted to see Professor lecturing - if he roul'Ci have an in­ Prom Premise Irina Lynch's letter in tlhe News in telligent, informed audience. His lec­ answer to mine of the previous week tures are themselves works of art. In the past few years attendance at questions whetl'~er it will accomplish its concerning . Her Once in speaking of tJhe mannerisms the Wellesley proms has been discourag­ letter has certainly carried the issue of Tolstoy, he happened to remove original purpose by stimulating ;attend­ ihis glasses, fiddle with tihem, gesture ingly light. Only 114 couples - slightly a n important step furlJher. If I am ance at the proms. not persuaded by Professor Lyndh's with tihem, and finally return them with a semi-flourish to their precari­ more than a quarter of the class - at­ The addition of the concert to the arguments, !'hat is certainly unin­ tended last year's Junior Prom. The per­ portant compared to my appreciation ous post at tlhe tip of his nose. That festivities of the prom still leaves the gesture -in parallel, as it were, to centage going to the Freshman-Sopho­ of h~r kindness in taking tlhe time basic problem untouched. We suggest to add to our general assessment of his spoken words - became to his more Prom was not much greater. Given the situation. audince a tlhematic equivalent to that the prom itself might be improved Anna Karenin's red pocketbook or this situation. this year's Prom Commit­ I · was not suggesting that Mr. and we offer the following suggestions. Leopold Bloom's shopping list. Nabokov be invited here to suffer tee has considered various alternatives I also take issue with Professor Now couples attending the prom are througth a symposium of lectures by and has come up with aproposal in­ Lynch's statement tlhat Mr. Nabo­ expected to either stand all night or to Mary McCarthy and . In tended to encourage attendance at the kov's fame came "too late to delight ~ettle temporarily and uncomfortably on fact I don't understand why Profes­ basking in its rays and journeying dances. sor Lynch thougtht I was advocating from audience to audience answer­ benches. Rental tables would give anyt

b~ Karen Rosenthal '67 Literati: 1964

More books than ever were published this year, yet 1964 is ac­ commemorate President Kennedy, many by and about the struggle knowledge by most of the book world as a poor year for literature for civil rights and Negro equality, and still more concerned with the hi English. Some critics have called it a terrible year, and the alarm­ Presidential candidates and their political philosophies. A small flurry ists have termed it the "worst year ever," bewailing the spring pub­ of books about Shakespeare marked his four-hundredth anniversary, lishers' list as sparse and the summer publications JlS unreadable. In and several memorable biographies were written. Theodore Roethke's many ways the year has been a strange and uneasy one: American final volume, The Far Field, and 's For The Union Dead writers began it under the shadow of President Kennedy's death, and were among the best books of poetry to com e out of 1964, and: if election furor stirred both Britain and the United States during the Hemingway's nostalgic Movable Feast sounded as an echo from the summer. Still in the mass of what has been written, there is much past, it was an evocative and beutifully poetic sound. that is good, if little that is great. In publishing a literary supplement N ews has tried to look clearly and honestly at some of the books that have recently been published For many writers, 1964 has been a year of consolidation, of plan­ and to appraise and evaluate some of the ideas they present. Neces­ ning for the next big work while collecting stories and essays for sarily our efforts are neither comprehensive or conclusive, but we are publication. Conspicuous by their silence were many American novel­ convinced that a book is as real an experience as an event. To be ists of proven excellence, James Baldwin, John Updike, , checked by the limitations of our time or critical wisdom is to allow John Knowles, and, of course, J. D. Salinger among them. Bernard ourselves "timid self-consciousness." Malamud's collection of short stories, Idiot's First, Brigid Brophy's In compiling this supplement we have exercised our critical energy two novellas: The Snow Ball and The Finishing Touch, and John Chee­ and our imagination. Although we have approached a variety of books ver's collection The Brigadier and the GoH Widow have given us from a variety of backgrounds, we have concluded our reading and something to read in the interim; Louis Auchineloss's excellent novel study with admiration for the authors. They have compelled us to Beet.or of Justin was published this summer but is still not widely believe that they are important. Therefore our supplement affirms read. The appearance in October of Saul Bellow's long-awaited novel more than the excitement of the "literary world; it re-affirms the has been hailed by many critics as the beginning of a revival importance of literature. We have considered with care this year's of good prose. Julian Moynahan, writing for has literary accomplishments and we invite you to consider our thoughts. said that the publication of Herzog "after the past terrible year .. . Our efforts are addressed to the belief expressed by critic Elizabeth suggests that things are looking up for America and for civilization." Hardwicke: Much of the literary action in 1964 was in non-fiction. An enor­ "Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making mous number of books of social interest were published, many to a point, making a difference - with words." Page Four WELLEqLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLF.SLEY. MASS. - LITERARY SUPPLEMENT - NOV. 19, 1964. Novelists Laugh in the Face of the World Herzog Flows With Hilarity Modern Comic Novels Accent by C'f"thid Van Hazingd ' 6~ Robust View of Humanity Saul Bellow's sixth novel, Henox, Madeline turns him out of his Clouse currently number one on most Best and gives his phorograph to the by Jean Kramer '66 Seller Lists, is probably tihe best Hyde Park police. Madeline is hau­ novel of ttie year. It is also hailed ghty and powerful, a Radclif!e gra­ Regardless of its quality, comic through at least one ghastly pseudo­ as the Best of Bellow who is himsell duate - !'lhe studies slavonic lan­ literature affords a unique oppor­ artistic, middles-aping..upper class, usually regarded as the most intel­ igi;ages and converts to catholicism. tunity to discover the values that are nec>-jet set cocktail party in his life, lectual, the most rewarding, and ~e 'I1he Herrog marriage is a grand assumed to be common to an author and the invitation to relive this har­ most distinguished American nov­ tattle on every level. Madeline is and to flill reader. rowing experience through the eyes elist of today. portrayed as completely cold-blood­ It is, of course, reassuring simply of an equally nauseated novelist who Such a reputation sets a tone of ed and arrogantly self-confident - oo discover that men have not for­ is not condescend to offer any preliminary grandeur for an attempt Moses as emotional and possessed by gotten how tn lau~h in the age of answers Is hardly enough to. get the tc read or review Henox· Ought we inner spirits. The scenes of their overkill and the beatles. Although reader beyond page 50. so lightly to consider an experience battles are spectacularly demonic the politicians have had little to say Would Characters Mate Good Goeats billed as rewarding? But HenoR and hilariously funny. on this score, recent evidence leads Deciding whether or not one would stands up well for its advance pub­ \Vlhen Madeline has divorced him, us to predict bhat everything from invite any of the ctiaracters in a licity; it is a reader's 110vel - amus­ Moses finds comfort in still lllQre back-slapping farce to gloomy irony given novel to his next dinner party ing, spectacular, intriguing, and dangerous laps. For a time he loves will indeed still be with us in tfle may not be the most sophisticated or wise. Sono, a beautiful Japanese woman, Great Society. significant question in the canons of Daily (lomedy but during most of tthe novel he al­ The justification for this confidence literary criticism, but it does get Herzox's hero is Moses E. Herzog, ternately fights and welcomes in­ consists of four novels ail published down to the heart of the matter. Man of the Sixties, wno describes volvement with a beautiful florist, within the last year or two: Flesh Set in London, Flesh describes the 1himsell as " an eager, hasty, self­ Ramona. Ramona is tough and ultra­ by Brigid Brophy; One Fat Enxlish'. transformation of a slender, artis­ intense, and comical person." So he tically inclined young man who is experienced. She "understands" man, by Kingsley Amis; Stick Y 011r is, and w~ must accept his word for Moses and stuffs lhim wibh Shrimp Neck Out, by Mordecai Richler, and desperating trying to escape from it, for Bellow gives us but one point Arnaud. both his middle-class Jewish back­ of view on the situation and that is A Mother's Kisses, by Bruce Jay 1111 ]rff T..nwr ut/1111 Friedman. The first two are by Bri­ ground and his assorted sexual inhi­ Herzog's. Through him are we in­ SAUL BELLOW ~lad Correapondence tish authors, the third by a Cana­ bitions. Thanks to his wife Nancy, volved in the "daily comedy" of his newspapers, to people in public life, who is an amateur Freudian, Mar­ life. The structure of Herzox is not a dian, w1hile ~e last is by an Am­ to friends and relativs, and at last eri<'an. All tlhese writers are repre­ cus manages to put on about fifty Twice-ildhoOO in Mon­ u•hat ''ou mean h,. thr exprer­ thors have more in common than in the country, and tbe prototype of treal, his boot-legger father and over­ sirm 'the fall into the quotidi­ their ages and dates of publication. the long-suffering Jew. worked mother, his previous mar­ an'? When did this fall ncc11r? In spite of vast differences in their Da111erous Womea riages, his love affairs and his seri­ Where U'ere u·c standing 1uhen approaches, liley share a common Much of Herzog's misery results ous study. ;, happened?" uninhibitedly robust attitude to from his misrela tk>ns with women. But it is t!hrough letters from and some are serious outcries human experience. Insane and irresistable, they lure Mo.res to tlhe world that Bellow bril­ against tihe inept operation of f'hr The concept o! comic decorum , Moses from his work, delight him liantly exposes his own opinions and world. None of them, unfortunately, seems to be dying with the bald and tlhcn deceive 'him. After betray­ Moses's chief insanity. He writes reach fue mails. eagle and other symbolic relics of a ing him with his best friend, bis wife letters "endlessly, fanatically, to tibe Aatobqnphy of a Jew 1>revious era. 1\venty years from Henof( ihas been called the most now one will probably have to ram­ autobiographical of Bellow's books­ page througih many a 2100logy book all of which have been concerned to t<, discover what, indeed, a sacred some degree with the alienation of a cow was. Bellow-like individual. In an inter­ Freedom From Platlhlde!I view with JWbert Gutwillig for tlhe This total freedom is best evidenc­ September 20 New York Times ed in the autJhors' common attitude Book Review, Bellow joked about toward love. Very likely there is t11is, saying that "~en a writer runs wmetning intrinsically humorous out of other people to write about about man's sexual mores. Reading these novels one must feel some bv Srymour Lfndrn there's no reason why he can't use BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN h!mseU." pang of pity for those countless ro­ But HerzoK is autobiographical in mancers who have so diligently pounds in the oourse of the book and still another sense - in that it is &·ught to place love on a pedestal, turns into quite a competent seducer. called the "most Jewish" of his safe from the onslaughts of the most Marcus never takes on any real sub­ novels and Saul Bellow is probably brittle iconoclasts, for judging by stance, however. Some variation of the Im>St eloquent of l!he widely-dis­ these novels their efforts have been ~e book's opening sentence, "Mar­ cussed " American Jewish novelists" singularly unrewarded. cus knew that people must wonder who are sa?d to have IJ'he late o! All four of these books likewise what Nancy saw in him," is appro­ in their hands. reveal a social orientation common priate to the novel as a whole. Botlh tthe style and content of Herzog to mudh twentiellh century literature. More Overweight Don Juans depend ~avily on Bellow's Jewish­ Historically tile most typical mode of One Fat Enxiishman begins where immigrant background and his know­ expression for social concern in Flesh left off, with the adventures of ledge of . In a review for the comedy has been satire. However, an obese Don Juan. Roger Michel­ N ew Republic, tells us while at least three of these novels dene is an English publisher visiting ~at Bellow's style has a debt to lean toward the satirical in varying in America. During his stay be re­ Yiddish not so mudh for its borrowed degrees not one of them could really news flis liaison with Helene Bang, words as for its "underlying intona­ fit a classical definition of satire. a Danish modern version of Helen tion a nd rhythm." Satire Plight of Troy whose husband Ernist is a OUR CLASSICS FOR WOMEN Elementary Yiddish 101 Because the values of contempor­ visiting professor at Budweiser Uni­ all of them exclusively Mr. Howe goes so far as to say ary society defy attempts at cate­ versity, a top-drawer i>eer league that "in two or three decades stu­ gorization and instead insist upon (Budweiser's arch enemy is Rhein­ Brooks Brothers dents of American Liter<1.ture may remaining relative and amorphus, gold) school with surprising afflni­ •ha ve to study Yiddish 1.or reasons tr-w writers have been able to find ties to Princeton. OUR OWN MAKE SHI RTS of long staple no worse tihan those for which stu­ the kind of well defined social sys­ One can only !hope that the Swin­ cotton oxford, u:ith button-down collar. dents of study tem that ls Nie necessary founda­ burne manuscript tbat Roger brings tion for a complete satirical state­ b&ck to his firm in London is more White, $8 .50; yarn-dyed blue, pink, yellow, Anglo-Saxon." Whatever its r oots, Saul Bellow's ment. entertaining then the one Amis pre­ green or stone, $9 prose is tough, vibrant. and colorful. One answer is simply to present senteil to Victor, Gollancy Ltd. Sometimes epigrammatic ("the society in all its most patent ab­ Noble Atuk SCOTTISH SW EAT E RS, hand-framed on our story of my life - how I rose from surdity, wtlfoh is what both Brigid Stick YoNr Neck Out, however, Is models. Cashmere cardigans, $38.50; (Continued on page Six) Brophy and Kingsley Amis set out a deliglhUully zany parody of abso­ to do. The IJl()St conspicuous problem lutely everything from Walter Win­ Shetland wool long sleeve pullovers, $1 6.50; about this approach is that the writ­ chell to J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. Rich­ cardigans, $19.50 FEATURING A MOST ing it produces tends to be terribly Ier's t'tlaracters are superb, and his boring. Almost everyone has lived Continued on page eleven FINE TOPCOATS of camel's hair and wool. COMPLETE NEWSTAND Single-breasted, $9 5; double-breasted, $100 SIZES: Shirts, I 0 to 18; S"' C3ters, 34 to 42; waLESLEY NEWS Topcoats, 6 to 18. Mail orders fi lled.

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Art as a Fever Longing Still • • •

by /dM St~nn '65 best book on !ilakespeare's life that the quadri-centennial year produced, Is tl1'e richest language a key to it is not the only one. Two genuine ' the mind, or is it its thickest veil? If biographies and one study of tile men are poor players reciting elo­ sonnets have culled the facts on Iquent lines, do we ever know the which tile novel is based. selves beihind tile speechs? It the A. L. Rowse's biography is a wl­ speeches are sonnets, do we ever nerable work. The author prefaces know their author? his book with t.he statement that be Impeccable in soholarship, audaci­ had intended to apologize for writing ous m imagination, Anthony Burgess another book on Shakespeare, but as can make us think we are approach­ be wrote it, he found his approach ing the mind of William Shakes­ "produced results which might seem peare. He succeeds in his illusion far incredible, il it were not for the con­ betler titian any biographer in this sideration that this Is the first time centennial year, as he weaves ttie that an historian of the Elizabethan , fabric: the mimics the master in pat­ period has tackled them." In parti­ tern, fecundity of images, and mo­ cular, he claims to have solved by bv Darid Gahr mentum of intellectual energy and ihis historical method the problem of entwines with all his own conjectures ANTHONY BURGESS the Friend of· tllie sonnets. While he is - but the result is merely a very mind of a strangely speaking youtb. on fairly safe ground, since be pleasing screen. Cheever and the Short Story And the constantly Shiiting momen· "proves" it is the Earl of South­ 'Nothing Uke The Sun' tum of the game of language never empron, tne most popular choice of The novel is Nothing Like the ends, but sometimes is lapses. critics, 'he does not convincingly in­ Both Thrive in Recent Years Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love­ Impressionistic Pattern dicate how his amazingly new his­ life. The love life is the story of torical method differs from tnat of by Robin Rcisi~ 1T.1e vibrant descriptions become the sonnets, coherently applied to dramatic - impressionistic scenes ottier writers. In recent years no literary form I evoked in a series of four tales under the "facts" of fJ:1akesperc's early and sketches woven into the shifting There are ottier problems in bis has enjoyed so unprecendentcdJy the title "Metamorphoses". In one. hle, as we know them. The autbor is patterns. Sometimes WS himself book. Principally, it is a bi~ great a flouriftlling as the short story. Larry Actaeon, like his classical skillfull in drawing all the precise speaks, or even writf's. For awhlle graphy than a history of the poems and fe of this form's apostles have namesake. is devottred by hic:: hungry data into harmony wibh the intima­ there is a S'Ort of diary, but he is and plays, and a discussion of the met with gt-eater success than John wolf-dogs. AnoN1er chllrl\cter in t'.1is tions of the sonnets. HP is rreative talking about other.r - he says that period. It is crammed full of unin­ Cheever. series finds thllt. alas! alak!: "Her in developing out of very little tll>e they see him as "Will, the creaking teresting data like the occupation 1 This aut&1or of t'he W apshot novels only daughter 'had been turned into charncter and relationship which bi­ player." Or we learn of tier betrayal. and education of Shakespeare's son­ stands between propihets of doom or a swimming pool." ograpl:1ers t1Xlay wn cigarette comes more and more involved in Burgess has been successful, we Cheever nero who "had a vague should lmow just why, and from recipient and subject of the sonnets and modest idea of himself as a cravings in Mr. Brandish, we must his profession and begins to grow ill will be surprised by a small dis­ identify more closely, if less will­ and old. The plot line grows more what brain the tragedies will be legendary figure" decides he'd like written. Of course, we do mt. cussion of the Sonnets of Shake- to go home - and make tJhe 8 mile ingly, with "An Educated American hazy under the morass of sketched While NothinK Like the Sun is the Cominued on page ten journey by water througb the "quasi­ Woman," the brilliant leader of the conversations and indications of per­ subterranean stream" of the string Feminine M1•stique era whose drive sonal and national unrest. WS (as he of his neighbors' swimming pools. and lack of compassion and love is called) is growing old; and when Naming the stream after his wife, destroy her family. tihe story is finiShed one is sur- prised to remember tlhat Richard How to enjoy he sets forth IX> explore the cocktail Versatility partied-banks, rejoicing, "Oh h>w the Second has just recently been bonny and lush were the banks of This domestic tragedy and the produced. 'I1he sonnets have just the Lucinda River! Prosperous men cigarette comedy show to extremes been finisbed and the tragedies are two Londons on one visit and women ga~ered by the sap­ of Oieever's versatility of style and yet to come. "It was she, though, j:ttire-eolored waters while caterer's subject within, always, ti:1e narrow the goddess, unseen as yet, but stir­ men ni bite coats passed them cold limits of suburbia. With delicate wit, ring and kicking like a foetus, tllat gin." cc•mpassion, and clarity Cheever dictated the titles . . . " Lively London offers you new sounds, But strange obstacles intrude: an creates an aura of touching warmth Kaleidoscope new sights and new ideas. Traditional empty swimming pool, a jeering around his often weak middle-aged, From the start tile story is built public highway, a neighbor who middle class victims. on flashes and memories and pic­ London still abounds with treasures. sympatlhises ith "misfortunes," Ned­ tures and soonds. enmeshed in the dy cannot recall, and rudeness from Although, traditionally, only poetry mind of title "word-boy" WS: "Goat. has had a narrower following than Willow. Widow. Tarquin, superb sun­ servants and a ibrmer mistress. N LIVELY London, bright new things are happeninr;. When Neddy completes his epic tlhe S.1ort story, today excellent Short black southern king, all awry, journey, tie arrives home, witbout stories appear in dozens of maga twisted snakewise, has goatlike gone I Writers and painters are turning out important new la urels, to a locked, empty hou::e zines, and Oheever is certainly one to it. So traKos, a tragedy. 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Springs 7-1255 I I 1------....l Page Sb: WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS. - LITERARY SUPPLEMENT - NOV. 19, 1964 Language of Poetry Breaches Soviet Describes His Poetry Last Poetry of Roethke Flows by Ellen Jjonef>arth '66 With RhythmofEternal Journey I was first attracted by the haunt­ By Jane Steidemann '65 ing face on the cover of the new paperback edition of Yevgeny Yev­ The po<;thumous collection of 1 changes, Turning toward the sea." tushenko's, A Precocious Autobio­ Theodore Rceth~e·s last poems is Reminiscent of Whitman xraph, (Dutton Paperbacks, $1.25) . appropriately titled The Far Fie!d The sequence recalls Whitman's The face was textured like a Seurat .), tor the "far later poems. Roethke surrenders painting; yet, it had great intensity field" in the poems is the goal and strict meter to the rhythm of the in au its features. especially in Its dc>tination of an end-0!-life journey. mind. Like Whitman's, his meta- eyes. Then, I remembered tnat I But mf'rely to label l!he destina- phors are elemental and he moves tiad heard about the young Russian lion is too easy. As a dhild the easily between tnese elements and poet who ilad rebelled against Soviet po"t did it himself, when he explored their meanings. Compare: authority and recalled that a critic '.he dump bf'yond t'l>r nearest field I sway outside myself had titled this book a "presumptu­ and "learned of th'? etPrn111." H" Into the darkening currents, ous" autobiography. \\atrhcd the rotting of a d'i'ad rat, of Into the small spillage of A reading of tnis book, Yevtm;h­ a tom-cat. o[ rabbits and birds driftw'OOd, enko's major work in prose, does not ~il!cti by thr mower of title watch- The waters swirling past the man. upon thP 'hC'ap of df>cny. 'I'hPrc tiny headlands. however, suggest that the author is EVGENY EVTUSHENKU presumptuous. The youn~ Russian "l le:1rncd not to fear infinity, tlhe with \.\'1hitman's: writes about his personal ideals and This disillusionment had a drama­ far Cif'ld, the windy cliffs of forever." I too but signify at tile utmost a goals as a poet with such passionate tic effect on Ycvtushenko. His l.onging for EtrrnitJ a little washed-up drift, sincerity that one cannot help but searching for an end resolved itsf'lf The fi<'lawakenro to gat!her, Influence of F..arly Yean1 hP considered the perversion of ll'ln!;ing a desire [or the "windy Gather, and merge myself as Yevtumenko had a delinquent cc,mmunism. cliffs of forever," for the absolute, part of the sands and drift. youth, much in t'he style of the The death of both the real am the or is it a wi-;h for t·hc past. for an The other poems in the book are poetes maudits in France, but his mythical Stalin, and the suhsequent eternity rife wirh things alive? As oi all varieties, as Roethke's poems contact with corruption and hypo­ shame of all the Russian people who a bvy, •:1l' said, ''I'll return again haxe alway been: love pomes. pure crisy did not make him cynical. had succumbf>Jp, showing me ican S<'qucn<'e" is a modern one. endures him, "the two of us, alone, by Jane career Nlroug'bout his school years. that civic poetry can be the most "I dream of journc>ys repeatf'dly both seedy, Me breathing booze at His first mentor was an editor of moving il the poet gives his whole Q[ dri\'ing alone, wit·:.cut luggage, her, She leaning out of iher pot Alt-hough general statements about Soviet Sport who publistied Yev­ heart." out a long peninsula . . . toward the window." many modern writers may be risky, they are not usually hard to formu­ tushenko's sports poems, while urg­ At this pomt, Yevtushenko b~ns The carefully limnC'd grey world A number of poems repeat im- late. But the continual development ing him to write about something im­ <• justification o! ~1i s poetry. He never loses its reality. Like the agery of the first "Nortftl American portant. Not heeding his mentor, is some\1-hat st>lf-righte::ms and child when he "watched and Sequence," so that e feel the book in tone, method, and perilaps pur­ Yevtushenko found after the publi­ moralistic. disp,1raging criticism of watched till my eyes blurred from as a whole is a study of the poet'f PoSC, in the poetry of the most praised American poet writing today cation of his first volume that "my his writing as the pre.iudicrs of rl~g­ t+:1e bird-shapes" he watching nature loneliness and his longing for a sat­ checks easy generalizing. To try to v.rriting was too pretty. What was all niatists. TI1is final !'ecti~n loses llhe still, but his reCQrdings do not blur. isfying aloneness. For this poet tile my searching for form worth if "1e <'motion and enthusiasm of the rest Just as important, he is dharting his journey to death is a search through be inclusive about even the new book means became an end in itself?" of the book. spiritual journey: "The lost seU nature. For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), is to approach being irrelevant. The title poem, one of the easier because it is grounded in history and stone artifact, centers on a stone relief in Boston that depicts a Civil War colonel and his Negro 1·egiment. "Tileir monument slicks like a fish bone/ in tlhe city's throat." The poem is ironic ("There a re no statues for tne last war here"); mod· crn ("When I crouch to my televi· sion set.I the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons"), a nd biting, ("A savage servility/ slides by on grease.") It is a com­ ment on men, and on America to­ day, based on an acceptance that ~ "race problem" is as significant for all America as for Negroes alone. Wihile the new poems are stiorter and less formal, they are as always dense with imagery whim is, as aJ. ways, fresh. Mr. Lowell's images strike us immediately as perfect. Saul Bellow's 'He (Continued from page Four) humble origins to complete disas­ ter. ") the style of Herzog is charact­ eristically unexpected and never lulling. Instead it jars the reader and tosses him from idea to idea - a rioh and wonderful experience. Major Talent Saul Bellow has written five other novels and currently has a play off. Broadway, The Last Anafysis. His first novel DanxlinR Man was a re­ cord of fue psychological struggles of an unemployed young man waiting to go into ttie army. It is written in tihe fonn of a diary and was herald· ed as tile beginning of a brilliant lit· erary career. , Bellow's next novel, !published in 1947, bas been described ;as demanding to be inter­ Arc you head over heels buc !>taying on your coes? In a spin preted in moral terms and dealing with the difficulties of making a sure buc never d izzy? ~o? Swing into Adlers and U .R.C.W.S. moral judgment. Mr. Bellow spoke (0.K. we'll spell ic ouc for you: you are clean-whice-sock.) A about this problem last year at Wel­ TOURAINE with-it philosophy thac colors everything you do. And Adler lesley in connection wibh the problem of the modem religious novel. goes co every length and color co make you clean-white-sock. FILENE'S Nao-J Boot Award Her AOCER Clare-Up over-che-knee sock, S3.00. Hi!> AoaR SC OLKEN'S The Ad11en1ure1 of Auxie March Bellow's next novel, received th~ ~brink controlled wool sock ·in 20 colors, S 1.00, available ac in 1953. It is an enormous sprawling novel, a mo­ dern-day comic picuaresque pageant WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS. -LITERARY SUPPLEMENT-NOV.19, 1964 Barriers of Time and Place Frost Corresponds Poet in Partial-Residence Pursues the Muse With Wit, Wisdom by Jane Steidemann '65 ing around on a destroyer," he be­ Mr. X. J . Kennedy, who first gan to read long Russian novels and by Lisd Reed '66 came to Wellesley last year to read to write poems to pass the time. It has become the fate of the re­ (&nd sing) his poems, is teaching Ninth OD the List nowned that their private lives be­ Wellesley's poetry writing seminar Before going to college he was not ccme public property. As poet lau­ tlllis semester. He is the autshor of a particularly interested in poetry, al­ rrate of the United States, so to book entitled though he had studied Engl!~ a nd speak. Robert Frvst certainly could Nude De1cendinl( A (The Lamont Poetry Se­ had written a few poems. "In high not have roped exemption. Staircase. ror lectron of 1961), which is a rare school I liked science fiction, girls, Ultimate revelation was inevitable, combination o! delicate and heatry old movies, jazz . • . Poetry would although perhaps he did not antici­ poems. !have rated a poor ninth." It was the pate that Louis Untenneyer, one of His unusual first initial is poetry of Hart Crane that aroused 'his closest friends, would be his Cwmdl not an abbreviation) Mr. Kennedy his interest. Judas. Complying with Frost's re­ explained as effort to distinguish Mr. Kennedy believes in some quest, Untenneyer waited until after an himself from the well-known Ken­ tihings which he feels are considered Frost's death to release the book nedy family (formerly, his first old-fashioned. One Is rhyme and an­ that would undermine the sentimen­ name was Joe). Having signed his other is songs. He feels that :rhymes tal schoolboy myt:h of Robert Frost, name tbis way to a number of poems are anywhere near exihausted, and the kindly rustic. which were published in the Neu· d1at muc'h can be done with off­ It would be a valid criticism to rhymes and eye rhymes. Among mention that letters to just one cor­ 1·orker. •he felt obligC'd to continue. Fiendish Assignments songs, he especially likes folk bal­ resP<>ndent do not necessarily pre­ lads. Last year as a reading poet he sent the whole man. that a person The poetry course he teaches is a b11 lane Stritlrmnnn read aloud "The Ballad of the Man­ condu<-ts himseU differently with "combination of letting students run \\ild and giving tlhem some fiendish X. J. KE~l\EDY made Moon" and sang "In a Promi­ different people. Certainly ~t's assignments." A fiendish assign­ do already, more time to do so. A nent Bar in Secaucus One Day" (to correspondence wit!h a man who be· ment, Mr. Kennedy suggested, might teacher, said Mr. Kennedy, can show the tune of "Sweet Betsy from came one of his closest associates. be transpose Shakespearean them techniques that perhaps they Pike.") As a symbiosis of poetry and 1!lowever, must be illuminating in to blank verse into heroic couplets. could not find on their own. "And music, a song has a potential wtiich some respects. Untenneyer is in a Already interesting forms like tlhe there's always the chance o( writing was fulfilled once at tihe court of position to elucidate his friend's let­ villanelle and sestina have been used something really good." Queen Elizabeth I but has long since ters. which he does very well by Mr. Kennedy began writing poetry been displaced by tin pan alley. expl::matory notes rathPr thcin by and more will be required. Besides imitating good poets, after enlisting in t•he Navy for a Learn From Whom You Can induding his own rf'plies. the term of five years. He had complet­ As influences on his writing, Mr. Radiantly. R-Obert Fro"t class will study some bad poetry, ed everything for a doctorate in Kennedy mentioned the ballads, On a strictly superficial, 1500- "so everyone will feel superior." English at the University of Michi­ Emily Dickinson, and a few Frencll word-per-mlnutes level, tihese letters Text for this enterprise will be gan - except his thesis. "My pros­ poets. "You learn from whomever lent in Imagery, a r!' thoroughly pntf'rtaining lii?"ht The St11f fed 011•/. pectuses were hopelessly confused," YoU can. Some poets YoU love the reading in uncomplicated, often col­ A poetry course can give students he remarked. Finding himseU "float- Co11tin11ed on page eleve11 the Union Dead'' loquial prose. The Frost legt-nd is a chance to write or, for those who 'dermann '65 enlarged upon by frivolous. unotren­ sive cynicism: having mentioned r example: that he had been referrf'd to as "a My whole eye was sunset red, radiator of the poetic spirit," Frost the old cut cornea tlll'obbed, signs the letter "Radiantly, Robert saw t!hlngs darkly, Frost." There are extravagant word A Final Reminder s through an unwashed gold- plays - "Sinceriously, Robbered fi!=.\1 globe. Frossed" - and painfully persistent TO ith consummate skill he employs puns, flightly speculations and ludi­ ch a wealth of vocabulary that he j crous comparisons. Liberal Arts Majors sses beyond the stylish appropri- Frost displays an almost Emer­ eness of image we find in some sonian propensity for producing ern writers. Unusual and "or- 1 quotable quotes, maxims on any- nary" language mingle effectivelly tihing from God and country to vil­ his poetry witilout a repelling jolt. !age scandal. "The beauty of enmity Back and forth, back and forth is in insecurity." "It (a poem) be- goes the tock, tock, tock gins as a lump in ttie throat, a You must apply by Nov. 27th of the orange, bland, sense of wrong, a homesickness, a ambassadorial lovesickness." "Form is with 1he !ace of l'1e moon rich, material with the poor." etc., on t!he grandfather clock. ad infinitum. The difficulty, even to be eligible to take NSA's "Some of the poems may be close with Untermeyer's notes, lies in de- J symbolism," said Mr. Lowell in termining what is sincere and \Wlat n interview with G. S. Fraser of is mocking. Professional Qualification Test e New York Times. While Mr. Beneath The Frosting ..owell's well-known subjects like But this layer of playfulness is loston and objects in Boston are frosting on the cake. From beneath The PQT itself won't be given until Saturday, December 12th, but, 1recisely recreated, and yet seen it emerges a more credible human in order to take the test and qualify for a career position with the I new, they them selves are not sym- being. Wildly jealous at tihe first of National Security Agency, you must stop by the College Placement :ols. They are essentials in poems his career, Frost viewed other poets Office, pick up your PQT brochure, and mail in the enclosed applica­ ~hich in their entirety "may be as rivals, critics as enemies, and tion card NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH. You ose to symbolism." If we tried to Untermeyer as his protector against are not under any obligation to NSA if you take this test, but all ply that statue of Colonel Shaw in !!hem. Almost all his contemporary Liberal Arts majors (Mathematicians excepted) must pass the PQT 'For the Union Dead" is a symbol, fellow poets are the object of his before they can be considered. vc would find ourselves reciting ttte scathing observations at one time or 1ilol epoem in order to explain ex- another. (Of Edgar Lee Masters, Remember- whatever your specialty- finance & accounting, 1ctly what we meant. " ... my original suspicion, not that personnel, business administration, data systems programming, Masters is just dead but that he was political science, history, languages or linguistic research ... you can • never very much alive.") Also, art make immediate use of your college-acquired capabilities with the g' ... for its own sake was not for Frost. National Security Agency, headquarters for secure communications He says, "I think t!hat a book ought d of tbe Chicago-born boy-hero, research and development ... unusual design refinements for com­ to sell. Nothing is quite honest that puter and edp systems ... and cryptologic techniques. ugie. , publi!iled in is not commercial." He knew that 156, is shorter, more tightly rom­ Remember, too, these special NSA ad~antages: sed, less com ic than ironic and Continued on page eleven tterly convincing as a portrait of 1. Widely-diversified research programs not available anywhere else. chausted despair. 2. Advancement geared to either technical or administrative capa­ In Hende·non the Rain KinK, bilities. ellow's next-to-last, he adopted a The Larry Stark Press has pub· tanner more like that of AuKie 3. Unique training in new disciplines and methods. farch than Gf" 'Seize The Day. llshed another book. It is a 4. Encouragement and financial assistance in your advance degree rerZOK has been described as a work. collection of poems by Radcliffe llPPY blend of Bellow's two oot­ 5. Association with staff members and consultants of recognized Klks: the comic and the melancholy sophomore Judi Namias, called stature. -<:ombining ttie power and hilarity r AuKie March with the seriousness ON MY KNEES. It Is only 15c, at 6. Ideal location midway between Washington and Baltimore ... and near the Chesapeake Bay resort region. l Seize The Day. Irving Howe calls ese two moods the "Russian and the Paperback Booksmith. Starting salaries of S6,050 (for B.A. degrees) plus regular increases, American," or the "melancholy excellent promotion possibilities ... and all the benefits of Federal employment. d t'he bouncy." It is clear tllat And while you're there, you erZOK is a step ahead in the de­ ~lopment of Saul Bello.v's genius, silould buy your own copy of step received with delight and gra- Apply now and be sure. You must be a e by bis readers. Peter Guralnick's short story col· U.S. citizen, subject to a character and loyalty check. Engineers, scientists, and mathematicians should also consult their College Societlee are considering •d• lectlon, ALMOST GROWN. Placement Officer for information on NSA and interview dates. rnlttlng new junior members at the beginning of the aeeond You can get them both at the 1eme1ter. If you are lntereated in joining, pleaae send a note to Paperback Booksmith, 68 Central National Security Agency that effect to Susie Robblna. Fort George G.-Meade,' Maryland McAfee, before Thanksgiving re. Street. in Wellesley. ceaa. The decision will be baaed An Equal Opportunity Employer on your response. nsa WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELL~LEY, MASS. - LITERARY SUPPLEMENT- NOV. 19, 1964 Quiet Revolution in U.S. Law Ole Miss Professor Examines Gideon's Trumpet: Poor Man Win The Closed Society of South Does the O:>nstitution allow a man by Rosy Metrt#ler, '66 In r:ie years since Betts 11S. Brady by Marjom Siegel '66 campus about a year ago. to be tried for a crime witt!out the fae application of the "special cir­ But tthe book is not merely a pole­ favor, ttiat his question would result cumstances" test had been incon­ mic, nor is it solely passionate. Dr. aid of a lawyer because he canoot in a revolution of the Supreme Court sistent in many cases and diUered Silver first presented his general afford one? Few of even the most and o.f American legal fuought. greatly in its interpretation by state thesis of a closed society as the re­ well-informed citizens realize that as History Behind Gldeon'11 Case courts and tJhe U. S. Supreme Court. tiring president of the Southern His­ late as 1962, tthe Constitution was Just 20 years before, in a si.x-to­ Uuncertainty about this rule ~ad re­ torical Association and, in the words being interpreted in just tlhis way. three decision that had surprised sulted in a flow of appeals to the of tJhe New Yorker he displays Behind this question was a long his­ many and had been disputed ever Suprl"me Court, bhe court of last "the historian's care in placing tory of controversies among judges. since, the Supreme Court had re­ ri'sort whose agenda ihad become blame precisely \Wiere tie thinks it statesmen, and political philosophers jected the contention in bhe Betts n.ore and more crowded every year. belonged." on issues going to llhe very nature of vs. Brady case that the due process The well-known Washington, D. C. Despite his shame in our constitutional system and to the clause of !be Fourteenth Amend­ lawyer chosen by lftie Court to repre­ Mississippi segregationists, Dr. Sil­ role played in it by the Supreme ment provided a flat guarantee of sent Gideon was Abe Fortas, one of ver admits to liking the state and Court. Gideon's Trumpet (Random counsel in state criminal trials. The the country's outstanding appellate wanting to remain there, unlike the House, 1964, 262pp.) tells this story. Court had decided instead tiiat this advocates, w~10 defended foe Texas 5dd professors Who found it neces­ Clarence Earl Gideon. a poor white guarantee held only in special cir­ Democratic boss "Duke of Duval", sary to leave. 'Ilhis feeling for the inmate of the Florida State Priron cumstances, when denial of counsel and more recently Bobby Baker and state allows him to describe the situ­ bv Karin Ro1c'1tlwl with a substantial record of rela­ should constitute "a denial of funda­ Walter Jenkins. Fortas looked to the DR. JAMES SILVER ation wibh a penetrating frankness tively minor oUenses, asked just this mental fairness, sl'x>cking to the uni­ inconsistency of the Betts rule and denied to an outsider. question in his appeal in f ONna versal sense of justice." As later came out with a point relevant to <'he Segregation in Mississippi is more Riot Is Incentive pauperis to the Supreme C.ourt in cases refined llhe rulf' of Betts 11s. i ~sue of :;tates' rights, skillfully pre­ tr.-ian defiance. In the eyes of Dr. January 1962. Gideon had been con­ Brady. "special circumstances" sented his oral argument January James Silver, Ole Miss history pro­ Dr. Silver's immediate incentive for writing this book was the night­ victed of the crime of breaking and were seen as illiteracy, ignorance, 11, 1963. "I believe that Betts 11s. f£:ssor, it is ingrained "insurrection entering "with the intent to commit )"()Uth, or mental illness, the com­ brady does not incorporate a proper ... spiritual succession from mod­ long riot at Ole Miss Sept. 30, 1962, during the admission of James Mere­ a misdemeanor, to wit, petty lar­ plexity of the charge against tbe regard !01· federalism. It requires a ern America." ceny." Supreme Court should hear accused or the conduct of prosecutor case-by-case supervision by this Missiuippi: The Closed Society dith. Seeing, among other things, that "18 and 19 year-old students had his case, he said, because the Four­ or judge at the trial. G:mrt of state <'riminal proceedings, i!. Dr. Silver's most recent and com­ suddenly been turned into wild ani­ teenth Amendment to the Constitu­ Tohe question ultimately raised by and that cannot be Wholesome ... prehensive attempt to painfully por­ mals," the professor became "ob­ tion Cttie due process clause) re­ Gideon's request to tlile Court was Intervention s'l>ould be in the least tray this way of life: its growth, its quires that all citizens tried for a the repeal of its earlier derision. The abrasive, the least corrosive way stagnancy, its necessary breakdown. sessed" to tell the story not only of felony crime have aid of counsel, re­ real issue at stake was the question p.)SSible." that evening but of Mississippi as a This "passionate polemic," as term­ whole. gardless of their poverty. Gideon of states' rights: should the Supreme Supreme C&.irt's Decision ed by flie New York Times Book ihad asked the court in Florida to c.ourt make a decision which would When the Court handed down its To Dr. Silver "that violent re­ Review, !ills the reader with the sponse was inevitable," due to tile provide him with a lawyer, and he necessarily involve all tlPe states, or opinion the following Mardil, the nine same shocked disbelief and confu­ closed society or "establiShment of had been refused. Little did he know should it leave this decision b:> the justices were unanimously agreed in sion whioh captured students during orl'hodoxy" which emel'ged during that the tide of history was in his individual states? Dr. Silver's lecture on the Wellesley Continued nn pal(C elet•en the reconstruction period and has been intensified ever since. In Mis­ sissippi "the traditional view of re­ construction has been thoroug'h)y ex­ ploited," exaggerated and distorted, leaving the state blameless and the federal government undeniably wick­ ed.

'.. Negro Only IUlle NATIONAL Not only did tJhe Negro problem COMMUNICATIONS become a central concern-it be­ DEFENSE came ttle only concern, so that in 1964 Dr. Silver can truthfully say that in Mississippi politics "there is LIGHTING ELECTRONICS no issue beyond supremacy of the white man." Everytlhing is subordinated to the issue's four basic tenets: that the Negro ls biologically inferior, that segregation has the sanction of the Bible and Christianity, that the apti­ RESEARCH)"' tude of the Negro is for menial labor only and tnat racial separation is an l absolute requirement for social sta­ :fy.: bility. GENERAL Oosed Society Wons The closed snciety is one in which the leading Citizens Council can list CHEMISTRY AND ~ as subversive the Red Cross, FBI, METALLURGY Elks, Jewish War Veterans, Meth> ..... dist church and National Lutheran SYSTEM Council - and get away with it ... where recommended texts for third and fourth grade read, "God wanted the white people to live alone. And he wanted the colored people to ATOMICS live alone; Negro people like bo live by themselves; God has made us different and God knows best." Voices ol Acquiescence Perpetuating this society are SOLID-STATE " voices of acquiesence," which else­ PHYSICS RADIO where one might expect to be voices ANO TV of dissent. Churdhmen and teachers have been intimidated and those woo Despite everything, Dr. Silver is convinced, "it seems inescapable llhat Mississippians will one day Shed their fantasy of past and present and will assume ttheir obligations as Americans," although this can come about only tJhrough intervention by the federal government. REMEMBER! Charter bus to Harvard and DIAL GT&E FOR PROGRESS Park Squares. At GT&E, we've made diversification pay lows through the entire GT&E structure America's foremost companies in terms Friday and Saturday Night off in all-around growth. That's because and accounts for our continued progress Leaves Sounders and Munger of dollar sales, revenues, and diversity 6:45 p.m., 6:55 p.m. Arrives we've concentrated on related fields of in the field of total communications by of products. operation. For instance, yesterday's met­ Harvard and Park Squares sight and sound ... radio and TV, voice As a young and aggressive company 7 :35 and 7:50 p.m. allurgical advance is today's improved and data transmission, automation and with no limit to its growth, GT &E is an Leaves Park Sq. from Avis, semiconductor and tomorrow's superior control. organization you may wish to think of in 11 :45 and Harvard at Mid­ communications system. Through research, manufacturing and the light of your own future. night. Arrives at Wellesley at This technological chain of events fol- operations, GT &E has become one of 12:30 a.m. PICTURE FRAMING • Artistically Hanel/eel • Reasonably Priced Complete Artists' Supplies WELLESLEY ART SHOP 24 Grove St. CE 5-5527 f

WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS. - LITERARY SUPPLEMENT - NOV. 19, 1964 Page Nine Wagar Antlwlogyon H.G. Wells ''Frontier of the Unheard-of''

Makes History Vibrantly Vital by Ellen Jaffe '66 His many allusions to Obrist should by Jane McHale '66 Until recently, I associated Dag make us reconsider the identity and Hammarskjol with the Congo, IJhe tihe immanence of Jesus. Prophet, journalist and social cri- "Now it is as though rome merciful United Nations and worldly suc­ This book might be defined as lihe tic - these are the tri-focal positions power has been putting togeliher this cess; he was that typical twentieth­ o! H. G. Wells treated in W. Warren most abnormal Englishman for ttie quiet agony of an ego shedding self century leader, the Diplomat. Now, after self to finally realize itself Y..agar's anbhology, H. G. Wells: of Britain's utmost need." After oour oowever, I shall never hear his name purified in God. The reader with Journalism and Prophecy. speaking to Booker T. Was~ingtr;n , wi ~(10ut thinking of his remarkable empat:hy and understanding can feel Mr. Wagar of Nie Wellesley His- he writes, "\Wlatever Amenca has spiritual diary, Markin~J, recently some of his loneliness and longing. tory Department treats Wells as an to ~mw in heroic living today, I published posthumously by Afred A. Mr. Hammarskjold is looking, deep­ exciting social observer immersed doubt if sihe can show anything finer Knbpt, Inc. er and deeper, into a spiritual mir­ in current history with an insight than tlhe quality of the resolve, l!he Mr. ·Hammarskjold's art lay more ror in wbich he sees his own unwor- into the future and a comprelhensive steadfast effort hundreds of black in creating a fail'h and a new life for tibiness and the temptations before grasp of the past. He maintains in and colored men are making today himself than in writing about them; 'him. "So, once again, you chose for his Introduction that "there is no to live blamelessly, 1bonorably, and tlhe man is ultimately the greater yourself - and opened the door to sharp dividing line between Journal- patiently, getting for themselves masterpiece, to w.hidh his book only chaos." But he does this "not to ist Wells and Prophet Wells nor for what scraps of refinement, learning bears witness. But how fortunate we brhe moment I let it out of cations sounded with energetic liter- ordered anthology presents the "Vis- sculptured and direct, is part of the by Ktlr1/1, Ottowa my siglht." He yearns, in the per­ ary flourish. ions" of Wells, his dreams of an book's power. The diary seems to DAG HAMMARSKJOLD manent relationShip with God for mstery tor Pleas11re organic world society and Ibis pes- have been part of Mr. Hammarsk­ which ihe feels "chosen" and in the 'Ilhe New Republic (October 31) in s;mism that this state would ever be jold's pilgrimmage; he called it "a In our age, in any age, faith is transient ones with men, to give reviewing Mr. Wagar's book termed reached. Printed for the first time sort of white book concerning my hard, and God appears only to the .himself with love. Behind all is an it "as fresh and meaty as a new laid is an excerpt from "Mind at IJhe End negotiations with myself - and with individual, not to te tating war and armamPnts, labor teachers !have converged on Bread­ tion and compiled an anthology, images reveal as well as describe must he acNeved ~hrough discipline unrest, trs to "try are: his extraordinary prophetic percep­ loaf Writers' Conference. Jackson's reading of a story written Because it never found a mate, tion. His views of the Nazis, Fascists, to use the language hetter than you 'Ilhe auditors and contributors have know how" and meaning should by her 15-year-old daugihter to Mr. Men called LEague of Nations and t1he New Deal .Elkins sweeping and penetrating come from as far away as California follow. illustrate his pessimism in the ability analysis of tlhe novel as an art form. The unicorn abnormal. to hear professional writers of fic­ Poets On Poetry oi numanity to come to its senses to tion, poetry, and non.fiction discuss New View of Noo·fiction Choked by it1 clown's mask alleviate current situations. Fearing Mr. Pack presented close readings the art and the craft of writing and of poems by Robert Frost and Theo­ Brock Brower, who has held edi­ And quite dry, my mind the catastrophic goal mankind was comment on particular manuscripts. torial positions on Esquire and Sat- heading towards, Wells expounded dore Roethke. Mr. Nemerov com­ ls crumbling. Robert Frost was one of lile founders 1'rday Evenin1: Post and is now edi­ Fabian Socialism and ideal utopian mented t"11at poets do not "break up of the conference and his indomit­ tor of the Tramatlantic Reveiw, and I tried comparing Markin!(! t.o ideas to improve society. He met their lines to weep," but be added able spirit still pervades tthe air. Dan Wakefield, author of Revolt in Camus's Calil{ula (see last week's every political situation willh his tbat in daily life poets are not the Writers Gatller people who urge killing tlX>Se ~o the South and other books and arti­ News). Like Caligula, Dag Ham­ vibrant anallzation and often poig­ cles on contemporary society, spoke marskjold looked into the abyss, but nant cynicism. John Cjardi, Poetry Editor of the say "sibboleth" rather than "shib­ on aspects of "non-fiction" writing. 1he found a way not to fall in. Like As on the spot observer and re­ Saturday Review, has been Chair­ boleth." porter, Wells interviewed the prim­ man of the conference for the past Speaking on tile novel and mort Continued on page eleven Continued on page ten ary figures of his time. Such varied several years. 11ltls post was origin­ story were William Sloane, Editor of individuals at T. R., Lenin, Stalin, ally held by Theock>re Morrison, Pro­ the Rutgers University Press; Stan­ Ohurchill, F. D. R., Hitler, DeGaule, fessor of English at Harvard, who ley Elkin, author of the recent novel Pavlov, , Joseph Con­ gave a guest lecture at Breadloat Boswell (and a cousin of Mrs. Pat­ The Wellesley National Bank rad and were this summer. ricia Spacks, Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley); Shirley Jack­ the objects of Wells' questions and This year there were three poets Four Convenient Offices· evaluation. His analyses of each in addition to Mr. Ciardi: Howard son, autthor of "The Lottery," The show his perception of the man as Nemerov, who teaches at Benning­ Wellesley Square Wellesley Hills well as his role in history. ton and whose latest book is The Weston Rood Lower Falls Ot Teddy Roosevelt, he astutely Other Room of the Dream: Robert COPIES remarks, "Today, at least, the Pack, of Middlebury and author of where bankin& is made convenient 'Teddy' legend is untrue". 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Markings ... This book is the product of a dou- expressions. Auden's note on the Paperback Booksmith Entrepreneur hie-translation. W. H. Auden, \\oflo problems of translating is interest­ Continued from page nine knows no Swedi9h, was asked to ing. He knew Hammerskjold slig'htly Caligula, he is following a road to its translate, and Leif Sjoberg, a Swede and writes "I loved the man from Styles Self Art and Book "Idea Man" end - but his end is one of pos­ with a good working knowledge of the minute I saw him." by Jane McHa~ '66 sibility and peace, despite the almost English, provided him witn a literal This is a book to be read and re­ Thl' Paperback Book Smithy is a duction. Even if they didn't sympa­ physical despair of some of the lines. translation, often suggesting several r€ad many times, and to share with tweed-jacketed 32-year-0ld man nam- t'hize with the print prices, window Caligula says No, Dag Hammarsk­ ed. Marshall Smibh. As founder of tire Shoppers ambling into the Brook­ jold says Yes. alternatives for the more ambiguous someone we think we love. seven stores "dedicated to the fine line store to see the Graphics Inter­ art of browsing", he directs the book national prints, are encouraged to business from his cubby-bole office find books to meet their budgets. at the Brookline store at Coolidge Idea Man Chrner. In addition to initiating the print Mr. Smitih opened his first store sales to attrack tihe curious, Mr. Chuck says on Arlington Street across from the Smith started a new promotion gim­ public gardens three and a half mick, "The Paperback of tihe years ago. He bad been working for Month" three months ago. He and he paid 300 bucks a brokerage firm in New York after managers meet to agree on graduation from Dartmouth and t'he book whieh they publicize for the less for Columbia School of Business when month, often including mimeograph­ iht• decided that he wanted to do ed reviews and criticism with the somefilling on his own. "I wanted display. The current paperback of his Coronet to be an entrepreneur in something tihe month is Harry Roth's Call it related to the academic world but Sleep, about which Mr. Smith was than you did my strongest point was business," personally excited. "It's a very in- You really he said. teresting book," he said, "since it New Era of Paperbacks vias originally written in 1933 and is for that turtle know Entrepreneurial energy was direct- now being refound." The first two eel toward the paperback business selections were Beyond the Me/tin~ of yours because that was ttie developing field Pot and T. H. White's The Once and how to at the time. Mr. Smith recounted Ftttttre KinR. that the first paperback stores open- Decentralized Direction \ hurt a guy ed in New York about five years ago. Mr. Smith characterizes his stores After talking to the owners and t!heo- as "all a little dillerent since eadh rizing that "Boston was two to live store manager does as muoh as he years bc':1ind New York," he started can." While he picks the store loca­ his dhain in his home town area, im- tion and orders from publisher's proving on ~he New York model. He lists, the managers devise their clP­ admits, however, fuat paperhacks ver window displays of books and are "a very difficult business field; theatre notices and cater to the CU'\· fot example, the first New York tomers. Together they have decided ch:i.in went bankrupt." to offer "maximum service in Wel- Explaining his presC'nt position, lesley" and to "aim l>igh in litera­ M1·. Smith said, "I try to dream up ture", avoiding ttie dirty book com­ ideas or fill in where I'm needed." petition on Washington Street. Main­ He order;; all new titles for the stores taining a policy to "aim high," Mr. an Current bestsellers at hls store in­ ir. New York or taking them on con- elude Call ti Sleep,; Baldwin's new signment from local artists", he ex- play, Blue1 for Mr. Charlie and plained. The chief problem in the The Next Step, recently issued by print galh>ry, he felt, was that many Radcliffe. Mr. Smith tlheorized that browsers didn't understand !tie dif- the RadcliUe Book will be most ference between an expensive origi- popular at Wellesley as well as at the nal print and the 50c variety repro- C'lmbridge store. "Chuck's a swinger." says she. "His Coronet is quick and clean. with a lean Hollywood 1-lelps Best Sellers and hungry look. It's equipped wi1h a 426 cubic inch mill that will mock your Escape Path of Oblivion turtle at the strip or on the street. He's by Barbara Elden '66 got four-on-the-floor. buckets. belts. A few best sellers are notable becoming a movie subject. Taken books, ones which will one day take from tbe book by Irving Stone, carpets. console. spinners. and a padded their place in litera.rY history. Most, The ARony and the Ec1tacy will however, are simply good, exciting star Charlton Heston as Mio'helangelo dash. And he said that everything but entertainment, books which are to and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. the four-speed stick and the 426 be read once and then to be put Some modern classics are also be- away. ing revived for ttie screen. Kal'her- was standard." Then she broke his back So in tihe past suoh best sellers ine Anne Proter's "strong, unsparing by asking. "Didn't you pay extra for have tiad relatively soort lives. contemplation of the human race," Eventually they start sliding down A Ship of Fool! is scheduled to be some of that jazz?" the "Best Sellers" list into oblivion. released soon. Kim Novak plays a But today producers intercept Nie leading role in the film version of Don't let the truth hurt you. process in attempting to increase Of Human BondaKe by Somerset the fame and prolong the life of Maugham. Better see the all-new. hot new Dodge these books by making them into One of the most popular children's Coronet before you buy a !cuckoo). i;pectacular movies. "Adapted !rom books written in this century is find· the best-seller by ..... is becoming ing its way to the theater. P . L. a Icuckoo-cuckoo). or even a an increasingly common credit on Travers' enohanting story of Mary Icuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo). the movie screen. Poppim, the wonderful nanny who Befure it could be furgotten, War- can fly bas been filmed by Walt ner Brothers seized Herman Work's Disney and stars Julie Andrews as rusty novel, YounKblood Hawke M~~ conflict between England's for the cinema. James Franciscu~ Henry II and his Chancellor and then plays the title role of the young Archbishop, 'Thomas Becket, is the writer from !tie ~ills of Kentucky subject of Jean Anouilh's powerful whose powerful words and indestruc- tible personality carry him to the drama Becket whioh has now been filmed. Riobard Burton plays tile top of a highly competitive world. title role and Peter O'Toole plays his Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is soon to be released in film f.orm. _kin_·_g_. ------­ Directed by Tony Richardson of Sh k 1'om JoneJ fame, this satire ridi- a espeare ... cules American's concepts of love (Continued from page Five) ~nd death and stars Rod Steiger as 1peare by John Dover Wilson. Its Mr. Joyboy who runs a funeral par­ subtitle, "For the Use of Historians lor for animals. and others" may be an allusion to Super·Stars historian A. L. Rowse, because Mr. Frank Sinatra will star in Von Wilson "proves" that not the Earl 1 Ryan1 Expre11 as an American filer oC Soutthampton, but William Her­ '-'iho in World War Il poses as a bert the Earl ol Pembroke, was lihe German to help 1000 Britisil and Friend. Basing his argument on an American P .O.W.'s get through unconventional dating of tthe son­ enemy lines. The movie is taken nets - beginning in 1597 or 1598, from David Westheimer's thriller. rather than tJbe more usual 1594 or Nikos Kazantzkis' timeless novel, 1595 - Mr. Wilson elucidates tradi­ Zorba, the &eek, soon can be seen tional objectives to Southampton. as well as read. Anthony Quinn stars Then ttie reader. bereft of his pre­ as Zorba, the hero who makes "most suppositions by Mr. Wilsons' point­ modern fiction heroes seem like by-point dismissal is psychologically '65 Coronet DODGE D1v1s10N d~ CHRYSLER Dad,.,e::I' ~ MOTORS CORPORATION dyspeptic ghosts." eager to accept William Herbert, the Michelangelo's IX>rmented life is only alternative, as the Friend. WELLESLEY COLLEGF NEWS, WEl.I.ESLEY, MASS. - LITERARY SUPPLEMENT - NOV. 19, 1964 Page Eleven

~EB MUSIC CONCERT Ober's performance was beautifully Rights Leader Sees Impasse, On Sunday, November 22, at 4:00 "As You Like It" ..• understated. Her steady pace and p.m. in Jewett Auditorium, the (Continued from page Two) excellent Phrasing of certain of the Chamber Music Society will pre­ Chesley Duncan, as the Duke of most famous lines {"Al lttie world's Calls for More Creativity sent a e<>ncert of music of ttle Burgundy, earned her hisses by her a stage'' etc. made them seem quite by SUJan P"1ige '68 classic perhxt. Beethoven's Trio in polished malevolence, symbolized by fresh. Because of Jaques' vaguely E-flat Major, Op. 70, no. 2 will be a black velvet suit and Frederick, Hamletian tunic, his speedies de­ A flow of ideas was set in motion use Mr. Lewis's apparently unin­ performed by Kabherine Kolb '66, her brother, played by Cathy Simon. scribing love were all the more last Thursday night when Reginald tentional pun, failing to consider tile piano, Jane Snyder '65, violin, and 'held his own interests less nobly than ludicrous. Lewis, leader in the equal ri~ts overall effect of a gradually auto­ Na ncy Gra1ham '65, cello. A trio tie would have imagined. Miss Donnell was indeed a "fair movement, spoke on "New Trends in mated society and tihe fundamental for flute, cello and piaru by Joseph But two perfomances cannot, in Rosalind." Because of her pea<:hes the North" as part of the Wellesley soci~conomic as well as racial Haydn will be played by Anne Con­ fairness to their individuality, be and cream stage appearance, musi· Civil Ri~ts Group symposium. Mr. problem. ley '67, flute. Susan Harmvn '67, considered along with Nie goodness cal but never dully melodious voice, Lewis's main theme was that the Plight of Negro celo andl Lyn Tolkotf '66, piano. and levity of m-ie production as a intelligent but sensitive reading of current movement has reached an In enumerating Negro problems, F<>r this work an antique piano \\f.1ole. These belonged to Nancy !her speeches, gj]e accomplished the impasse as it begins to tou<.i1 subtle, Mr. Lewis listed the alienatit>n of the manufactured by Clementi and Aber. as Jaques, and Jane Donnell feat of seeming a pretty woman basic problems and that there is no middle-class Negro from the rest of Sons in London (circa 1835) and re­ as Rosalind. The humor of Miss among men when really she was a solution unless in more creative, his group, tfhe fact that no Negro stored in 1955 will be used to pro­ pretty woman among attractive critical tthought on the part of the admits that he is in f.1he lower or vide tonal authenticity. The pro­ Robert F•rost •.• women. individual. poor class, and the inability of the gram will be completed by a per­ To begin the lecture•he questioned masses to articulate their needs and formance of selections from Hay­ (Continued ff'om page Seven) Wellesley won the Swim the audience to determine their ex­ wisbes. dn's rarely heard canonic setting ·bis reputation rested on his image Competition with Sargent Col. pectations of society in the near fu­ of the Ten Commandments, sung as the bard of the New England lege last week. The final score The speaker contended that not countryside, and that was precisely ture, so that he might gain a feeling muc'h real progress has been made by !!be Madrigal Group under ttle was Wellesley 56 and Sargent 31. direction of Katlhryn Reichard '65. tbe field he cultivated. of relative vantage points. It soon )'et in civil rights. What concessions I This pragmatism is a New England became clear tilat while the audi­ that have been achieved were in- ence tended to be hopeful, Mr. Lewis B d} £ virtue. Independence is another, and Wellesley College Club voted on trinsically flamboyant, and judicial rea oa . . . Frost was fiercely so. He speaks of believed that " the trends don't lend proceedings can be interminable. Continued ff'om page nine October 19 to allow occupants l!hemselves to optimism." "contempt for everything and every­ of guest bedrooms at the club to The issue is clouded because, al- Bobb men emphasized the need for body but a few real friends." And entertain one or more Wellesley Optimistic Myth though a Negro may be served at a integrity in journalism, and argued In explaining the problem of why politically as well as interpersonally: students at lunch or dinner In a resta ura nt, he still lacks the econo- in behalf of a more personal kind of "I loathe togetherness. Tlhe best private dining room. This is a this impasse or inertia exists in the mic opportunities to afford it. As Mr. writing. things and the best people rise out revision of the regulation which civil rights movement, he made fre­ Lewis emi;;hasized, "You can't use Mr. Brower also said that tbe quent reference to the "pie in the of their separateness. I'm against a made It necessary to reserve the an aspirin to cure a cancer"; picket- divorce between fact and imag!na­ !homogenized society because I want entire private dining room and sky myth." In other words, people ing is becoming less effective; and ttt>n, seeing with the eye and with like to think t'hat anyone who tries tlhe cream to rise." will apply to parents of students experts in their fields cannot solve tihe mind, is not so absolute as some For lnsigbt into Robert Frost, for who are over-night guests at the tl lead a conventionally respectable the problem because of the pres- may think. life will automatically Share in the an interesting picture of the literary College Club. sures of society on them. 1 Eunice Blake, a dilldren's book American wealth. They fail to real­ world during :his lifetime, or for pure Commitment to Change editor, and William Raney, F.dltor­ ize tihe limits imposed on tbe struc­ entertainment, anyone who has time Mr. Lewis's only optimistic notes in-Ohief of Bobbs, Merrill, Inc., were for extracurricular reading should ture of oociety by its attitudinal pat­ also members of tihe staff. Mr. terns through which people rational­ were that tthere has been some pro­ consider Frost's Letters to Louis gress. altlhough not as much as we Raney died suddenly in September Unterrneyer. At any rate, put it on ize against tlile Negro's basic rights and a scholarship fund is being es­ tv fair education, housing, and jobs. think, and that people are capable your post-college reading list. of effecting change if tJhey become t& blisht'd in his memory. Dudley Futhermore, people do not take a Fitts, noted classicist and translator, broad view of the movement as it aware that they can. This change gave a highly-acclaimed evening INTERNSHIP PROGRAM • TRAILWAYS • relates to society as a whole. 'Nley will come through aroused th.inking talk. INTERNATIONAL see the issue as black and white, to worked oot by the individual. All the 175 students, wtto ranged in SCHOOLS SERVICES Charter and regular bus tickets age from to almost could at· 18 80, will be sold at the Index Board tend these talks. Only 75, however, Graduating seniors are eligible Reader Writes More ••. were contributors, who submit a for the Internship Program con­ on Monday, November 23rd To t'he F.ditor: into consideration these larger goals manuscript to be criticized by one of ducted through the International from 8:30.12:00 and 1:00-3:00 'l1he Lel(enda staff wishes to ex­ of realistic representation. We, as tfhe stall in a per.o;on;i 1 con•"'"f'"f'f' Schools Service. Intern teachers ress its appreciation for the enthusi­ seniors on tJhe staff, are excited with During the second Wf'C'k. some> of are placed In overseas schools Tickets will also be sold In astic response of many to its pro­ our plan. We tihink it will create a ~hc<;c manuscripts were read and dis­ served by the International posed changes for tile 1965 book. We book for a larger audience; it will cussed m meetings of the Whole Schools Services. Room 354, TCW by Trallways ihave also been interested to hear invite seniors to think of their en­ group. On December 1st, the· Place· Agent Katrin Fletter - 235-8466 tlhe opinions of doubt and wiSh at tire class, not just a dorm segment In addition to the more formal ment Office "'Ill have a complete t!his time to explain more fully tflie - to look through a wfhole book, not sessrons, almost every waking hour listing of the Intern-teacher reasoning behind our plan, should just the few pages devoted to their (about 18 out of the 24) could be openings available for 1965-66. others have wondered without ques­ dorm; it will represent an entire spent talking to the other conferees, Those who wish to be consider­ tioning about it. community, not a collection of little to the eight Fellows and Scholars ed should secure appllcation The doubt have been expressed ex­ communities. (younger writers whose published forms at the Placement Office. clusively by seniors and have cen­ We hope everyone will help us in work showed merit), and to the staff Appllcants will be Interviewed tered on ~he placement of senior por­ realizing our aim. If you wish to members. Not everything was seri­ during the Christmas Holidays SPECIALIZING IN traits according to majors) not dor­ have yourself and your dorm friends ous, but the atmosphere was always and early in January both In mitories. '11hese students feel that in your dorm section - get out your intense, the people colorful, strong­ New York and Washington. Passport Photos camera and take some good infqrmal since their closet friends are in tileir minded, and exciting. The mountain Plus Photos For dormitories, and since t!hey wish to shots. We will pay twenty-five cents scenery, too, was spectacular. Applications, Licenses, etc. for each negative we use. Send tihem be pictured with their closest friends, The Breadloaf Campus is part of GET DISCOUNT CARD CUSTOM PHOTO FRAMES to Patty Stamp, our p~t<>graphy edi­ the change is undesirable. We as Middlebury College, but the college on Patent Medicines - Vitamins • seniors can appreciate this feeling. tor. We will list the names of tlhe has nothing to do with the planning Cosmetic• - Toiletries - Etc. at IUIERT'S Our goal, however, is to represent girls in tlhe pictures i1 you write them of the Writers' Conference. There is CARROLL'S (Sal-Mac, Inc.) the college year - not the senior out tor us. a membership fee, but many of PHOTO SUPPLIES Thank you again for all the inter­ 572 Washinqton Street year - as realistically as possible. the conference members who were opposite Village Church 83 Central St., Wellealey est which has been expressed. We We see the year as (1) higlhligilted college students earned their room Call CE 5-2489 for Free Delivery CEdar 5-0420 by certain all-college activities, would be glad to answer any indi­ and board by waiting on table. Store Hrs. Mon.-Sat. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. (2) marking the final year of a sen· vidual questions which might occur. Breadloaf does not attempt to re­ ior class - a year devoted to tile Sincerely, veal the "secrets" of good writing; completion of a degree in a certain Linda Sawyer, '65 indeed, as told a field, and (3) filled with a com­ young writer, "If I knew the secret, munity life in dormitories composed Gideon ... I'd tell you." For those who consider SPECIAL STUDENT DISCOUNT of girls from a ll four classes. From writing primarily a vocation, not a SAVE 503 this we derived the three sections of Contin1'l!d from page eight psycbol'Ogical dlerapy, a road to FOR ALL PERFORMANC~ our book, the first being a plx>to­ over-ruling the Betts vs. Bf'ady de­ fame and fortune, or a call by the graphic essay of the year's higti.. cision. Not long afterward Congress Muse, Breadloaf provides a chance SHUBERT THEATRE NOW THRU NOV. 28 ligih.ts. pa~-:ed tlhe Criminal Justice Act of to reflect on great writers, to share Eves. at 8:30 - Mats. Wed. & Sat. at 2:30 The second section - picturing 1963 which provided a compensated ideas and opinions, to learn certain faculty and seniors by departments system for representation of the basic techniques, and to gain new Trw "'-can Nobonll The.>lrt and ~-IE - is an outgrowtih of tlile fact ~at needy in federal courts. incentive. The National Repertory Theatre · seniors are seniors because they are The reaction of the states was also FARLEY GRANGER SIGNE HASSO about to complete a degree in their swift and constructive: nearly every Comic Novel ... own field. This organization enables state soon provided for public de­ us to capture more readily the spirit fenders for the poor and had begun (ContintJed from page Fou1.J of faculty-student relations Whim are to apply tlhe Gideon rule retroactive­ style is devastating as he traces the closest as one does more specialized ly, to all who had been convicted of development of a young Eskimo poet and advanced work in one's field. An felonies without counsel. In Florida from a noble savage to a tllorougihly index will list seniors alphabetically, alone, by January 1, 1964, 976 pri­ capitalistic enterpriser. giving bobh their majors a nd dormi­ soners tiad been released outright, Besides Atuk, fue poet, there is tories. another 500 were back in the courts, Canada's darling Bette Dolan, the By placing bhe senior portr&its by and petitions from hundreds more first to swim Lake Ontario in twenty departments, the dormitory groups were awaiting consideration. Gideon 'hours, who has never given herself - section three - are tJhen oi>ened himself was re-tried witil a local to a man because she belongs to all to all four classes, again more real­ lawyer at his side and found not Canada (until she meets Atuk); and istic. Now you will be able to see guilty of the crime which had Rory Peel, whose favorite family all your dorm friends, not just those touclled off his appeal. In short, a sport is playing "after the bomb" or of your own class. You will see pic­ revolution in American law had been " let's pretend Daddy's radioactvie t ures of informal gatherings, skits, quietly accomplished. Gideon's and you have to shoot him." parties, faculty nights, and what­ T f'umpet tells the story not merely A Mothers Kiues traces tbe at. have-you. In t!he past, underclass­ of -0ne man, but of the w!Jole char­ J ewish boy from the lower East side n 1en turning to tlheir dorm sections acter of American law as it is em­ to escape the domination of his saw senior formal portraits whlle bodied in the Supreme Court. mother, Meg. Meg is unquestionably now they will see their friends in ac­ a formidable character but one tivities which !happened this year. wonders why it takes J oseph 280 Thus the dorm community, not the X. J. Kennedy ... pages to realize tha t her manner can senior dorm community, will be rep­ (Continued ff'om page Seven) bE obnoxious and overbearing. STUDENT DISCOUNT COUPONS AVAILABLE resented. most (as I do Yeats) you couldn't - Each episode seems to be a varia­ AT OFFICE OF DEAN OF RESIDENCE We feel that t!hese plans are not and wouldn't - begin to imitate." tion on t:he preceding one. The at the expense of the seniors, but are Mr. Kennedy's charming and wild novel's bawdiness does rrot compen­ to tlhe advantage of the entire com­ book is in the English Poetry Col· sate for a lack of subtlety in charac­ mwtlty. We hope seniors will take lectlon ot the Rare Book Room. terizations. Page Twelve WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., NOV. 19, 1964 Lit.erary Issue Farmer Sees Greater Liberty by Jean Arrington '68 CAMPUS Monday, November 30. member of the Boston Symph>ny The M.I. T. Civil Rights O>mmittee of the Whites. The unemployment Sunday, November 22 - There LECTURES Orchestra, will be the guest soloist brought James Farmer, founder of rate is 21h% greater and is increas­ will be a Student Concert at 4 p.m. Thursday, November 19 - "Litera­ at a New England Conservatory CORE in 1942 and presently its nat- ing at approximately t>hat rate. in Jewett Auditorium. ture is the Memory of Mankind", a SymphJny Orchestra concert, con­ ional director, IX> speak at Kresge Riots in Harlem, Rochester, and Monday, November 23 - A lecture lecture by James T. Farrel. at 8 ducted by Frederick Prausnitz. 8: 30 Auditorium Wednesday, November numerous otner places occurred be­ on "Executive Legislative Relation­ p.m. in the Library Auditorium, p.m. Jordan Hall. ll. An ex-Meth<>dist minister and ex- cause 70% of the Negro youtlh be­ Ship: Case Study Foreign Aid Bill Boston O>llege. Friday, November 20 - The first cellent speaker, James Farmer is tween the ages o! 16 to 21 years are 1964" by William Gibbons, Congres­ Sunday, November 22 - A lecture per:Ormance of l.1he Boston Symphony one of the foremost leaders in the unemployed. To escape the hot, dirty, sional Liairon of Aid for Internat­ entitled "New Trends in the Civil String Quartet at 8:30 p.m. in Jor­ civ!l rights movement. rat - and - c<>ekroaOh - infested tene- ional Development. 7:30 p.m. in tile Rights Struggle" by James Farmer, don Hall, 30 Gainstoro Street, B.>s­ Llberty Reformation ITents, and to escape feelings of Pope Room. National Director of CORF:, at 8 p.m. ton. Mr. Farmer views the present civil alienation, they struck out in a wild, Wednesday, No\'embn 25 in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsboro Street. Also at 8:30 p.m., a Smothers Bro­ rights movement as a continuation, senseless manner. Thanksgiving recess begins after MUSIC thers recital in SymPhony Hall. a second stage, of the American Re- Applauds Johnson classes and continues until 1 a.m., Cellist Richard Kapuscinski, a THEATRE volution. In t!he eighteenfu century Mr. Farmer smiled when he said Camus' CALIGULA will continue the concept of individual liberty was tlhere was no need to say that he was at the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse established in America, but it had I h&ppy wiNl the outcome of the elec­ until November 22. too limited a scope. Since that time tion. 1964 saw a new interest in Professor V oegelin Considers RIVALS, a portrayal of the "wit, it has been enlarged and expanded Negro registration and voting re­ • } d R• h h N Richard Brinsley Sheridan's TIIE several times. place former apathy due to a tra­ r1stot e an 1g t y I ature grace. and pure oomedy of the 1stti The civil rig'hts movement In tfle dition of non-voting. Up to now the A century" continues at bhe Charles sixties is at tihe same stage as Labor revolution has a revolt of t'he power­ by Susan Johnson '65 PlayV!ouse. in the thirties, the Civil Rights Bill less, consisting of bluffs and mass "philosopher seen as servant of I The National Repertory Theatre, being comparable to tibe Wagner Act. demonstrations; now political inter­ Eric Voegelin, Professor of Politi­ God." agrees with Aristotle's belief tbe Shubert Theatre, is presenting Negroes now legally have tfle ri~t ests give the Negro an important cal Science at the University of t!hat only the spoudalos (mature Molnar's "LILIOM" on November to be served in a public place, to swing vote. Munich, told his enthusiastic audi­ men) in the society were able to dis- 21 and 25, Goldsmith's "SHE qualify for a job without discrimina- Gullty Bystanders ence at Wellesley last Wednesday STOOPS TO CONQUER" on Novem­ tron on grounds of race, creed, color, Mr. Farmer realizes that equality that natural law is not a philosophi­ cuss tfhese political matters. Follow- ber 20 and 23, and Ibsen's "HEDDA or national origin; rights implicit is requisite in securing the freedom cal problem in the strict sense but Ing In this line of argument, Voege- GABLER" on November 19 and 24. in the constitution are now explicit fol' which Negroes are striving. A r rather "a collection of topics" (topoD lin finally stated that political sci- Student discount tickets are avail­ in tllie Civil Rights Bill. medial educational plan has bee i.e., the experiences which lie be­ ence has become the science of able at the dorms for these per­ Rat·Traps Cause Riots proposed to President Johnson to be hind this form of law. formances. mature men. Mr. Farmer feels that one of tibe included in t!he War on Poverty 'I'he lecture entitled Aristotle and MOVIES best side eUects of Ntls revolution Things such as remedial readin~ the Rif(ht by Nature, derived mainly "PARTY GIRLS" and "CANDI­ L-; tile motivation it has planted in necessary to bring youngsters eve from material in Book 5 of Aristotle's RECRUITERS DATE" are showing at the Capri. many little people who hitherto felt to the point at whiah they can is the first talk in a series on The Exeter is featuring Margaret Ethics, Mr. Loy L . Lon~ of tbfl United negkctC'd, like little cogs in a to fill the gaps in automation. natural law to be sponsored on Church Board for World Min­ RnthPrford in "MURDER AHOY." monumental machine. This mov~ Americans today cannot be n campus this year by the Depart­ istries wlll be at the Placement "MY FAIR LADY" is still at the ment ha.c; given importance and pur- tral. Mr. Farmer stressed that th ments of Political Science, Biblical Oftlce on Monday, November 23 Saxon Theatre. pose to their lives. lack of involvement helps perpetuat History, and Philosophy. from 9-12. He will be glad to Wellesley Hills is Showing "OF Granted, the standard of living of evil, tlhereby making the innoce Vontradlctory Attitudes talk with senlori:1 who are lnter­ HUMAN RONDAGE" and "HONEY­ the Negro is rising, but it is not bystander guilty. He summed up MOON HOTEL" until November 21. In his discussion of tJhe Right, he ei