Vol. XLIV, No. 10 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, November 29, 1962 SovietWorld-wide Role Star-Studded Performance Topic Of Aid'~ Lecture To Raise Funds For Center , by Ke~/J.tch~ty "Why is there a wall ar6und Berlin?" was the frank : 'C;:;:' , ,.-" eli burn 8 e I a fo n t e question that climaxed the first visit of a Soviet Govern- i'" , ment official to the Georgetown Campus. On Monday night, But Two Of Stars November 19, the International Relations Club presented as their guest speaker Nikifor M. Levchenko, Second Secre­ To Be Seen Tonite tary of the Soviet Embassy, who discussed the Russian role Tonight from 9 :30 to 11 :30 in world affairs. Following his some of the world's greatest Club Seeks Volunteers speech, the Secretary offered performers will appear via enlightening and entertaining closed-circuit television in Mc­ From GU Student Body answers to the troubled quer­ Donough Gymnasium to en­ For Tag Day Collection ies of world-minded Royas. tertain an audience of Wash- Levchenko solved the final ihgton students and citizens ex­ pected to number about 4000. This Saturday Georgetown question by frankly admitting, in students will once again be his wall to wall manner, that he, The performance, entitled "An asked to donate their services a representative of the Soviet American Pageant of the Arts", Union, was unfortunately not an features such stars as Marian An­ to raise funds for the annual authority on East German affairs. derson, Harry Belafonte, Pablo Cerebral Palsy Tag Day. However, he did venture the "ex­ Casals, Van Cliburn, Danny Kaye Tag Day, which will be planation" that the purpose of the and many others. The proceeds Wall was to protect the Russian from this program, which will be sponsored on Campus by the Wash­ broadcast to similar sites through­ satellite. It was seen that the in­ INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE .•. of the Natural Cultural Center. ington Club, will be held Saturday out the country, will be donated to from 1 to 3 :30 p.m. fluence of the revenge seeking West Berliners was endangering their the Natural Cultural Center. The Last year Hoya volunteers col­ center is to be erected in Foggy lected a total of $550, almost $200 Eastern inmates: "All kinds of dirty business was going on over Bottom, a short distance down the more than the combined total of Collegium. Musicum. Holds Potomac from Georgetown. other Washington colleges. there." Popular entertainer Don Leace, Those who wish to serve as Assuring Answers volunteers for Tag Day should who appears regularly at the When doubt was thrown on the contact Washington Club president Piano Recital byFennim.ore Shadows, will give a live perform­ freedom of the post-war elections Ed Koepenick, either in the Club ance prior to the close-circuit Lounge or at EM 5-2750. There in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, This Sunday, December 2, the Collegium Musicum of presentation. He will be joined by will be a party at the Mayflower Levchenko was anxious to clarify Georgetown University will present a piano recital in Gaston Georgetown's own Restless Knights. the facts: "I can assure you that Hotel for all fund raisers at 4:00 RaIl by Arthur C. Fennimore of Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The Students to Benefit p.m. it was really a free plebiscite by which the people, of their own de­ recital, which is open to all free of charge, will begin at 3 p.m. The co-chairmen of the a~air Lounge Committee' sire, were accepted into the free It will also be broadcast live over Georgetown's radio station, here at Georgetown, College senior family of states." The Washington Club, whose WGTB. Randy Maloney and Foreign Serv­ moderator is Father Neil J. Gar­ Eyebrows were raised at this ice senior Mark Phillips, point out gan, S.J., is planning several other point. But it was not until the Mr. Fennimore was invited that University students will bene­ events. A lounge committee, under Secretary justified party line clas­ to play here at Georgetown on fit both from the performance and the direction of Jack Sheahan, has sification of the western democra­ from the Cultural Center itself. been busy redecorating the non­ cies as "imperialistic" that the the strength of his showing They said that the Center's prox­ residents' recreation area, which is usually reserved Hoya demeanor in the Van Cliburn Interna­ imity to the Campus will place located in the basement of New broke down into a hearty appreci­ tional Piano Contest held last great music, drama, and light en­ North. New equipment, including a ation of the incongruity of the Rus­ tertainment near at hand and at television set, ping-pong tables, and sian's stand. Although today the month in Fort Worth, Texas. the easy disposal of all Hoyas. magazines, has been acquired, and West has lost the great part of Although the rules of the contest Maloney and Phillips report that more will be added in the future. its colonial empire, the Soviet called for only six finalists. the tickets, priced from $1 to $5, are judges felt that his playing was The club is also planning a Union is the largest empire in the on sale at the Cafeteria and have world. But, with a straight-faced of such caliber along with that of been distributed for sale at the vari· Christmas dance, a parent-faculty the other winners that he was also reception, and the sponsorship of sincerity that would do credit to a ous girls' schools in the area. Late kindergarten instructor, Levchenko allowed to compete in the finals. permissions will be given at George­ one of the events of the Spring He finished seventh and in addition Wee ken d. President Koepenick explained: "The Soviet Union pro­ town and the girls' colleges to those vides for regular four-year elec­ received the Nieman-Marcus award attending the show. summarizes the aims of the Wash­ of $500 for the best performance ington Club as follows: "Emphasis tions. Those people who wish may Dr. James S. Ruby, Executive chose to become separate and in­ in the entire contest of Lee Hoiby's this year will be on the service Capriccio which had been especially Secretary of the Alumni Associa­ project and integrating the day dependent states." tion, has contacted many of the And so it went: Why have there commissioned for the contest. All student into the life of the Cam­ contestants were required to learn local alumni and expects a large pus." (Continued on Page 6) this piece although they received turnout from this group. their copies only one month before The administrations of the local the competition began. The SatU?·­ colleges reacted enthusiastically to day Review said that his musical MR. ARTHUR C. FENNIMORE a letter sent by the Pageant com­ future is as bright as that of any of mittee asking that late permissions the contestants. aegis he won further, more impor­ be granted to students attending He first came to national promi­ tant contests leading to an appear· the telecast here. This will allow nence when he competed in the ance with the Philadelphia Orches· students to attend the entire per­ Merriwether Post National Compe­ tra last March when he played one formance without any anxiety con­ tition for young instrumentalists of the most difficult concertos in cerning checks. held here in 1956. At that time he the repertoire, the Prokofiev Sec· The set·up in the gym will be finished second out of a field of ond Piano Concerto. Last June he similar to the seating arrangement over three hundred although he won one of five scholarships at the employed at the Brothers Four con· was only sixteen. International Casals Festival in cert, except that seats will be placed Mr. Fennimore's career began at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The two along the balcony. The performance the age of six, and at nine he won preceding summers he had spent will be beamed onto a twenty-by­ his first contest. Since then he has studying at the Marlboro Festival twenty screen which can be clearly won area competitions sponsored in Marlboro Vermont. There he seen from any part of the gym. by the General Electric Company played the Beethoven ThiTd Piano Georgetown is one· of six uni­ and the Central New York Associ­ Conce?·to with the Marlboro Or­ versities in the Washington area ation of Music Teachers; he won chestra under Alexander Schneider playing host to the production. Co­ scholarships to the Chautauqua who also conducts the Casals Fes­ chairman Maloney expressed the School of Music and the Lake tival Orchestra. hope that the Hilltop's attendance Placid (New York) summer Sym­ This past week he returned to will be tops in Washington, which phony program. Fort Worth, the scene of the Cli­ would probably make it the highest Six years ago he began study burn Competition, to play for the in the country. "The proceeds will with the renowned Rudolph Serkin Harmony Club of Fort Worth. be recorded," he stated, "as coming at the Curtis Institute of Music in Among other works he will play from the students themselves, not LEVCHENKO'S ANSWERS . . . bring "hearty appreciation." Philadelphia. Under Mr. Serkin's is Ravel's Gaspard de la N11it. from the -University." Page Two rRE ROYA Thursday, November 29, 1962 Editorial Capitalistic Laughter The Magic lantern The speech of Mr. Nikifor Levchenko on Monday, No­ vember 19, was strangely punctuated by titters of laughter Thursday, December 6, will be by Joseph Dunigan the occasion for the last Dean's' which once or twice exploded into gales. We wonder just Lecture of the present year. The what was the significance of the laughter. Was it an ex­ s pea k e r will be Rev. Hunter pression of disapproval from an impolite and uncultured Guthrie, S.J .. formerly President of Georgetown and presently a audience or was it simply the exhibition of shock and dis­ professor at St. Joseph's College belief upon hearing a high ranking official of the Soviet in Philadelphia. Father Guthrie's Government lisping absuridities? Or might it have been an topic will be "Three Contemporary Movements of Thought." honest reaction from an audience who did not have to guard This column, devoted as it is to their expression, in marked contrast to the speaker who the Arts and Crafts and other lit­ found himself time after time without the proper informa­ tle pleasures of life, takes joy in tion or unable to speak for governments of the Ukraine, congratulating College junior, Carl Caruso upon the inclusion of his Beylorussia, East Germany, and Communist China, because poem "Strange Autumnal Burn­ there was after all "no relation between those governments ing-Tree" in the "Annual Anthol­ and his own." ogy of College Poetry." It seems to us that the audience at the lecture was not Congratulations are also in or­ der to Dr. Frank Keegan, the As­ really impolite. Certainly the lecturer did not seem angered sociate Dean of the College of by such reaction. He angered only at clear statement of fact Arts and Sciences, and incidentally from a Hungarian refugee, concerning free elections in to Mrs.. Keegan upon the birth of his native country. The laughter seemed rather to confound their ninth child, their fifth son. By our reckoning, the Keegans now J." " • him, perhaps because it is not an integral part of his have a baseball team, a basketball ON STAGE ... Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, the Brainwashed emotional makeup, or the personality of the country he team, and, if the parents pitch in, and the Brainwashers in "Manchurian Candidate." represents. a football team. Quite an accom­ plishment. The Manchurian Candidate, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence The Ambassador from New Harvey, is now disturbing audiences at the R.K.O. Keith's. It is a And Capitalistic Enterprise Guinea will speak here on Monday psychopolitical thriller that doesn't relieve nervous tension for a The National Cultural Center is at the same time a in the Multilingual Room in the moment. At the very opening of the film director John Frankenheimer ,~ monument to American interest in the performing arts, and Walsh BUilding. Sponsored by the begins to stretch the nerves as if they were just so many rubber AAAS, the topic will be "The bands until in the final scene he lets go. The impact is tremendous applied American capitalism. Sharing in importance with Problem of African-Unity and an and the spectator feels that his insides and his limbs are flying every which way as the accumulated tension is released_ .}'( the fact that the performing arts will now have a central Economic Approach of the Young /; location in the United States, is the fact that this mammoth African Continent_" The plot focuses its attention on Raymond Shaw (Laurence .~ project which will ultimately benefit the entire nation is A new contest has been an­ Harvey). In the opening scene, set on a lonely, desolate Korean battle- ~ nounced and excitement of it should field, an entire patrol led by Sergeant Shaw is betrayed into the hands 1 being carried on without governmental assistance except in be spreading through the Campus of the Chinese troops by their turncoat Korean guide. The men are I the most nominal fashion, and more importantly without with the speed of a bush fire on the knocked out and flown in helicopters to what? . . . a lecture on governmental subsidy. South Pole. It's for the Amy Love­ gardening for useless middle-aged women? Not quite. This is what man National Award, given to the the men think they are at and we are seeing the situation through ~'~ Whatever the arguments for and against government College Senior who has collected their eyes. Actually the entire patrol has been brain-washed so that subsidy of culture, everyone will agree that, when such a an outstanding personal library. they won't remember the incidents of their treatment with the excep­ program as this comes totally from the people without the All of those who for four years tion of Raymond whose mind has been drycleaned and rewoven in the help of the authorities, it is to that extent, more valuable. have not been returning books to (Continued on Page 6) the Library should take this oppor­ And Georgetown's participation in An American tunity to reap extra benefit from Pageant of the Arts illustrates our proper interest in making the criminal tendencies of their the city in which the University is placed a center of art as early careers. well as politics, and at the same time serves an example of HEREABOUTS The HOYA ofers its sincere & initiative within the University. When the University was condolences to the family and by Singer Thomas approached, the administration turned the entire project friends of John F. Hagerty, who This is a very busy week as far as entertainment is concerned over to the Collegiate Club and Alpha Phi Omega who have passed away in the crash of a at Georgetown. The televised show for the National Cultural Center United Airlines plane on No­ is tonight at the gym, and the first basketball game, admittedly a coordinated the entire effort. However, the students involved vember 23. A part-time junior in different form of the arts, is Saturday night. Since Georgetown is would never have been successful without the cooperation the School of Foreign Service, truly prepared for all events, the game can also be seen in the gym. of the alumni, the public relations office, and the adminis­ he was 20. Theater tration and faculty. The University can be proud that their Just in case anybody missed, or will miss, the senior marriage course, two Washington theaters have humbly offered up their time contribution, whatever its size, will represent the willingness to present instruction. The Palace has a lecture by those two typi­ of every segment of the University to bring the Cultural Cultural Center Benefit cally American young newly·weds, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, Center to Washington. entitled If a Man Answers. It is in "glorious color" and is financed In Nation-wide Telecast by Ross Hunter who specializes in this type of movies. Look what he did for Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. At McDonough Tonight The Capitol theater has spared no expense for its presentation. ~; Realizing the importance of the subject, they have called upon the ~ by Anthony Thomas foremost man in this field, Tennessee Williams. Period of Adjustment, ~ The star-studded extrava­ again not being satisfied with the second best, has rounded up an all) Editor-in-Chief ...... •...... •.•...... •...... •THOMAS E. SCHEYE ganza which will be shown at star cast. Jane Fonda, fresh from Walk on the Wild Side and Chapman •.~. Managing Editor ...... •...... •...... •...... •...... •..JOHN B. OVERBECK Report, brings all her past experience to her role, while Jim Hutton Business Manager •...... •...... • : ....RICHARD BARONE McDonough Gymnasium to­ and Tony Franciosa just bring their past. ~ News Editor ...... •...... •...... ••.•..... _ ....•...... PETER STARR night will be seen simultane­ I have decided to do a short thesis myself upon the mysteries .'" Sports Editor ...... •...... •.ST AN SAMORAJCZYK found in the minds of motion picture distributors. At the MacArthur, Feature Editor ...... •...... •.•...... JOHN J. GLAVIN ously by thousands of viewers " Copy Editor ...... WILLIAM C. SULLIVAN for instance, a movie is being shown with the title Rebel With a Make-ttp Editor ...... •...... •...... •...... JAMES MELBERT in over eighty American cities. Cause. This film's real name is The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rewrite Editor ...... •...... •...... BILL HODGMAN The benefit performance for the Runner. It is based upon a book by the same name and was filmed by Photography Editor ...... •...... •...... •...... HANK ZAMENSKI National Cultural Center will be Tony Richardson with strict adherence to the book. So why change .} Advertising Manager ....•...... •...... THOMAS DUNGAN projected by closed-circuit tele­ the name'! Surely they can't think that anyone, except maybe a few I) Circulation Manager ...... •...... MICHAEL LERNER vision to auditoriums, theaters, and freshmen nurses, remembers .r ames Dean. This is the era of the art 1) Headline Editor ...•..•...... •...... _... BILL BlEGEN film. It is a time of serious movies on serious themes. The rejection ~ Exectttive Secretary ...... _...... •...... EDW ARD RAFFETTO cultural centers throughout the of this trend for silly commercialism is absolutely incomprehensible, rf Moderator ...... •...... _...... _...... FR. JOHN JACKLIN, S.J. country. Members of the nation­ and will only result in a thwarting of their purpose. J News Staff wide audience are paying from $1 , Assistaltts to the News Editor: Ken Atchity, Tom Sim01let to $100 to see the show. The pro­ Music Frank Aiello, Robert Barone, Dan Brocki, Ed Coletti, Dick Conroy, Ken duction is to begin at 9 :30 p.m. The Shoreham's Blue Room will have the Four Saints starting Cote, Dan Duff, Bob Echele, Lee Ewing, Ed Fallon, Joe Fallon, Pete Finley, Tuesday, December 4, through Saturday, December 15. The Four Joe Frederick, Ray Furlong, Frank Gunnip, Robert Haggerty, Peter Holmes, President's Appearance Saints are one of those vocal-instrumental comedy groups, not unlike John Kelly, Pat Kellogg, Paul Kennerson, Herb Kenny, Don Manning, Dan The telecast will feature the the Vagabonds who used to yock it up on the old Arthur Godfrey Moriarty, Bob Nocera, Dan O'Leary, Mike Rees, Bill Scharf, Bill Singer, Mike "greatest collection of performers show. They've been working as a group since high school, including .,~ Sullivan, Gerry \'V"erckle. ever brought together for one four-year stands in college and in the Air Force. Their act promises Sports Staff show." The show, which will be to be rather typical night club fare, but that says nothing about its Assistaltt to the Sports Editor: Johlt Feldman" quality. Carmel Quinn continues at the Blue Room until Saturday. Pat Bright, Art Collins, Paul Danneberg, Herb Gatalder, Steve Joyce, televised from various cities across Gregg Kepley, Ed Leary, John Lee, Mark Pisano, Rory Quirk, Tom Sullivan, the country, will open with a tape We were going to give you the word about a new folksinging Tony Thomas, Mark Winter. of the arrival of President and place called Coffee 'n' Confusion, at 10th and K Streets, N.W., until J Featttre Staff: Mrs. Kennedy at the National we walked in and found 95¢ espresso and two guys on the stage who Assista/1t to the Feature Editor: AllthollY Thomas Armory for the dinner which will were singing and playing like MatteI toys. So we won't say anything Jeffrey Boly, Bill Clark, David Crosby, Joseph Dunigan, Bob Flaherty, have started before show time. They about the place. ./. Nandor Fournier, Peter Handal, John Hayes, Michael Libonati, Bob Nye, will enter to the music of the If there are still any tickets left, it would be a worthwhile effort George Patrick, T. A. Quinn, Bil1 Singer, Lambert Spronck, Carl Utsinger, United States Army Band. Ap­ to attend this evening's benefit telecast for the National Cultural John Whipple. pearing live from Washington will Center at the gym. Not only will the "ice cube tray" keep Washington Copy Staff: be Richard Tucker, Dorothy Kir­ in the running in the current proliferation of instant Acropolises, it Jeff Boly, Joseph Dunigan, Robert A. Frederick. sten, and Danny Kaye. They will will doubtless also provide fodder for many more articles on acoustic!: Rewrite Staff: perform with the National Sym­ Et Get David Crosby, Dan Duff, Bob Echele, Frank Gunnip. phony Orchestra under the direc­ Girls, Girls, Girls-and Elvis Presley-at the Metropolitan . . . '" VoL XLIV, No_ 10 Thursday, November 29. 1962 tion of Howard Mitchell. Tucker Under Milkwood at the Arena Stage . . . Divorce-Italian Style at and Kirsten will sing and Kaye the Apex ... Requiem for a Heavyweight at the Town ... The Published by the students of Georgetown College every Thursday during will do a satire. the col1ege year except for vacation and examination periods. Longest Day at the Ontario . . . Julius Caesar-without Liz and Subscription rate, $6.50 per year. (Continued on Page 5) Dickie-at Catholic University for two weeks starting tomorrow. Vol. XLIV, No. 10 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday, November 29, 1962 Georgetown participates in "An American Pageant of the Arts"

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for Information, Contact: Alfred Cavicchia, 340 New South, fE 8-453 r, President of the league and Captain of the Varsity Team. --:-:-- " Thursday, November 29, 1962 THE HOYA Page Five 'Prophet Euripides' Rings· To Be Presenled ClassicsTalkTheme AI Annaal Class Dance Given By Dr. Knox Lecturing before members Under Milkwood, presently at Arena Stage, takes the form of a of Eta Sigma Phi on Th urs­ rhapsody or tone poem on the theme of daily life. The musical termin­ day evening, November 15, . ology is used advisedly because it is the lyrical or musical rather than the comic which is stressed in Arena's production of the Welsh Professor Bernard M. W. classic. Knox, Director of the Center There is some music in the original play: songs an organ, for Hellenic Studies, presented humming, and lines written to be spoken against one ~nother in a his view of Euripides as the prophet kind of verbal counterpoint. But to this Arena has added more off-stage of the Athenian destruction pre­ music, and an operatic conception of structure and form. While the cipitated by the Peloponnesian play is in only one act, it is divisible into a number of scenes. In this Wars. production the end of these scenes is signalled by a build in the Beneath . the homogeneity, rea­ tempo and volume of the speeches which seem to be spoken in a kind son, and VIrtue of a Greece por­ of unison which can only be compared to an ensemble in opera. trayed by Aeschylus and Sophocles The result of this conception is a surprising production which Euripides saw man as a creatur~ evokes an ambivalent reaction on the part of the audience. Initially impelled by irrational forces. Ac­ ~ there is understandable disappointment at the loss of the raucous cording to Doctor Knox, this tragic humor which usually distinguishes any production of the play; the vision is artistically mirrored in drama seems to be taking itself too seriously, something Dylan Thomas the shocking themes of such plays would never have wished. But after the close of the dream sequence as the Alcestis, Medea, and Hip­ which opens the play, the mood settles and the subtleties and the polytus, which show men driven by flavor of this interpretation begins to come clear. The language is eros to the barbarity of blind pas­ TRADITION MAKERS ___ from left to right, Bob Flaherty, Butch allowed to appear in all its vocal beauty, though some may protest sion, adultery, incest, and deceit. Rodgers, Charles Severs. that the meaning is sometimes sacrificed for the sound· the relation­ The context of the Euripidean ships between the various groups of people are clarifi~d more than character is a universe dominated The Class of 1964 will sponsor what its officers hope usually because of the slow and easy to follow pace; finally each actor, by gods who are just like men, although playing several sometimes disconnected parts, manifests driven by passion unchecked by will start a tradition at Georgetown College, the junior class himself and, miracle of miracles, by the end of the play we are able reason or moderation. In working ring dance, on Friday, November 30, in New South non­ to remember which parts go with which actors. out their lives in such a universe, resident Cafeteria. Music will be provided by Fred Perry As in every Arena production, there can be no complaint about the characters are logic-chopping the quality of the actors and actresses taking the parts. They are rhetoricians, struggling to make and his band; refreshments, including special punch, will be good down to the last man. This production must tap every resource decisions, but willing to make a available. The semi-formal dance is open to all at $4 a couple. of the company, using a cast of 32, but the smallest part was handled case for anything. The Very Reverend Edward based their claim on the fact that with professional competence and virtuosity. Stand-out performances This grand insight of Euripides, B. Bunn, S.J., President of the "of for seeing as he saw," was soon the rings had been promised on fortified by the chaos of the war University, will preside at the delivery, and because the officers years recorded by Thucydides, who presentation of rings to those had, they said, neglected to in­ tells of the loss of Greek reverence, form them of the plans that had members of the class who been made for their rings. of the total sacrifice to the im­ Difficulties were solved by per­ mediate war needs, and of the ordered them last spring and mitting these juniors who wanted decay of Greek character exempli. who have not previously picked them to pick up their rings on Fri­ fied by Alcibiades. them up. day, November 16. All others will Doctor Knox stated that Eurip­ Second Time do so at the dance. ides, ostracized by the Greeks of The ring dance was started last his day, is the prototype of the Chip Severs, Chairman of the year by the social committee of the social committee for the Class of poet as an outcast. The jeremiad, Class of 1963 in an attempt to especially in an age of prosperity, '64, responded to a querry: "This unify the class at a serious social year's ring dance is being held in is seldom popular. Only with fol­ function. lowing generations did Euripides order to create a tradition at gain popularity, and then he fully In announcing the same idea to Georgetown which is found in so eclipsed the renown of Aeschylus the Class of 1964, the class officers many other schools. It will be a and Sophocles. Later his influence ran into some difficulty since sev­ function which will instill a feeling spread to the writings of the eral members of the cla-ss wanted of identincation between one's ring their rings before th,,: dance. They and the school." (Continued on Page 6) Cultural Center Yale's Dean Runyon To Speak (ContinUed from Page 2) From New England through the Before Those Interested in Law Midwest to the Pacific coast, spe­ I~- cialists from all the entertainment fields will perform. Robert Frost Charles Runyon, Assistant Dean of the Yale University BRILLIANT AS THE DAY IS LONG _ . _ Alan Oppenheimer and J. will read some of his poetry, Marian School of Law, will hold individual conferences today with Robert Dietz in Arena Stage's Welsh stagepoem, "Under Milkwood." Anderson will sing her favorite students of the College interested in the law profession. Be­ songs, Hal Holbrook will do his fore undertaking his duties at Yale, Dean Runyon served were given by Alan Oppenheimer as one of the voices and J. Robert Mark Twain, Bob Newhart will Dietz as Captain Cat and Karen Cross as Polly Garter. Mr. Oppen­ un-button his mind for one of his as a lawyer in the Office of Legal Adviser in the State De­ heimer was able to impart the rhythm and vocal music of the monologues, Tammy Grimes will partment. narrative by wise adherence to the meter without an attempt to sing and dance to the music from for the summer. The Program is imitate the dialect. This interpretation was followed too by Ray musical comedy hits, and Pablo The series of conferences in­ designed to acquaint stUdents with Reinhard in the role of the other voice, but unlike Mr. Reinhard, Mr. Casals, Alexander Schneider, Wil­ itiated this year by Dr. Frank A. some of the problems of medical Oppenheimer was also speaking lines of dialogue, or lines of narration liam Primrose and Jasha Heifitz Evans, Director of the Office of research and to encourage them to as well as lyric stanzas. Further he was an integral part of the play, will perform chamber works for Special Programs, has recently consider careers in investigation reacting to the occurrences and moving with grace around the often strings. brought to the Campus represen­ and teaching. tatives from the Law Schools of crowded stage. Drama Selection Application forms for these fel­ Columbia, the University of Penn­ lowships may be obtained by writ­ Presenting Under Milkwood as a play is a daring move, because In addition to these stars, Fredric sylvania, and Boston College. there does not seem to be enough dramatic material to sustain an March, Florence Eldridge, Colleen ing to The Honors Program Di­ audience for the length of time required. Arena's production does as Dewhurst, Bradford Dillman, and Professor Mahon Malachy, from rector, New York University School well as can be done, first by being daring in interpretation, and cavalier Jason Robards, Jr., will perform Fordham Law School, will meet of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New in mode of presentation. At one point, for example, after about fifteen selections from the plays of Eugene with the seniors tomorrow, to be York 16, New York. Final appli­ minutes, an interlude is provided to allow late comers to be seated, by O'Neill. A cross section of Amer· followed in mid-December by Emer­ cations must be submitted no later having the characters stop the dialogue and yet stay on stage moving ican music will be played by Van son G. Spies, of the University of than February 15, 1963. about and chatting with one another, very much in character. The Cliburn, Benny Goodman, and Virginia; on January 8, by Harold In the Senior Fellowship Pro­ combination of this chicanery on stage and the sight of people entering Harry Belafonte. The show will G. Reuschlein of Villanova; and on gram, Georgetown has ten nomi­ with the houselights up is a novel one, and leaves the audience sur­ close with a sing-a-Iong led by January 11, by Frank T. O'Brien nees from the College, two from prised enough to sustain them until the mood can be re-established. Belafonte of his popular Matilda. of Cornell University_ the Foreign Service School, and The mood of the production is a hard one to attempt, being subtle and Tickets for the show range in Doctor Evans has also announced three from the Institute of Lan­ too constant ever to be really climactic. Ultimately though, the result price from one to five dollars and that o,pportunities are available for guages and Linguistics for the is a production so full of good things and living personality that it are available at various places both premedical students of the College Woodrow Wi Iso n Fellowships; earns in retrospect the ultimate epithet, brilliant. T.E.S. on and off the Campus. to participate in medical research three from the College, two from projects at the New York Univer­ the Foreign Service School, for the sity School of Medicine during the Danforth Fellowships_ coming summer. On December 12, interviews will In "The Premedical Student Re­ be held for the four nominees for tJO glGH OUT ~ search Fellowship Program," six Rhodes Fellowships, Lam bert student fellowships are available, Spronck, John Nugent, Paul Ken­ SuT. .. IM,4fltt, each carrying a stipend of $500 nerson, and James Mietus, all of plus a room in the hall of residence the College. FUN- FELLOWSHIP ~ 51 BRANDS OF IMPORTED S. DOMESTIC BEER b 11'.. Basketball 6'f,'tOUR FA\.ORITE ~IL c:fi li.~~..cu~!!m~tS~~~~\ Tonw1Tow, anticipating Satu1·day's opening game of the season, The HOY A 'Will p1·esent a special issue lit~ICI<.S~[L..A"Fl devoted to the Unive1·sity's f01·emost sport. Copies can DE.2-1885 Open Weekdays 5:00 P.M. to 2 A.M. Sat. & Sun. 3 P.M. to 12 Midnight be obtained ·in the usual locations. Page Six THE HOYA Thursday, November 29, 1962 Soviet Union is against interna­ Magic lantern (Continued from Page 4) IRe (Continued from Page 1) Search For Identity tional control are deeply in er­ process. He has been turned into a machine, a machine that will murder been so many refugees from Com­ ror."); Why does the Soviet Union Is Topic of Lecture when properly triggered. And to prove his point, the Russian doctor munist countries? ("Those who jam the Voice of America? ("We who has done the laundering work orders him to kill two members of prefer to escape, escape."); Why received many letters from the Rus­ By G.U. Professor the patr61. So Raymond docilely strangles the first and shoots the don't the Ukraine and Beylorussia sian people asking that the broad­ other through the head. conduct diplomatic relations when casts be discontinued.") Dr. Louis K. Dupre of The horror of the new Raymond having been sufficiently estab­ they are supposedly free members Levchenko was born in the Georgetown's philosophy and lished, the scene is shifted to Washington's National Airport, where of the U.N.? ("They are free to Ukraine, worked four years in a theology departments will in­ Sergeant Shaw is being welcomed as a winner of the Congressional carryon relations if they want.") ; Moscow industrial plant, studied Medal of Honor. Why does the Soviet Union refuse at Moscow University, and was itiate this year's activities for international inspection of nuclear appointed to the Soviet Embassy the Philosophy Club Lecture After he has been placed in a very responsible position on a tests? ("Those who assert that the in 1959. New York paper, Raymond is again contacted by the Reds. To test Series with a non-philosoph­ out the mechanism they have him kill his boss on the paper; and ical talk entitled "Man In Search of course Raymond functions perfectly. He is now ready for the big Of His Identity." The lecture will job the Commies have made him for-killing off the favored presi­ take place in Copley Lounge at dential candidate so that a Communist puppet can be swept into 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4. power. Doctor Dupre was born in Bel­ As Raymond sits in a light box high above the floor of Madison gium, and was educated at the Square Garden, the convention site, waiting for the presidential University of Nijmegen. He re­ nominee to reach the sentence in his acceptance speech which acts as a ceived his PhD from the University triggering device, the tension builds in the audience. They are viewing of Louvain in Belgium, and has the whole scene through the sight on Raymond's rifle which is trained served on the faculty at George­ right on the candidate's head. Then, just as he begins to utter the town since 1958. His published detonating words . . . works include The Starting Point of Marx's Philosophy and The The­ Three hours and three drinks later when the spectator is calm ology of Kierke.gaard. This latter enough to begin thinking rationally he will realize what a great film work was written in Dutch, and The Manchurian Candidate is. Laurence Harvey as Raymond is superb. will be published in English short­ He fills the role by summoning all his professional skill to catch ly after Christmas as K ierkegaard, every nuance of expression in the horrible but pathetic character's The Theologian. Doctor Dupre has face. Sinatra as Raymond's commanding officer leaves something to also done articles for Commonweal be desired. But he is so small and insignificant that he could hardly and Crosscurrents, as well as for get in Harvey's way. Angela Lansbury as Raymond's insidious mother several other European periodicals, does a remarkable job of playing an arch-bitch. Janet Leigh also ran. and is presently working on a new In addition to fine performances and brilliant plotting the film book about Marx. also takes sharp satirical pot-shots at the ridiculous behavior of the In his lecture, Doctor Dupre will Birchites and their forerunner, the late Senator Joe McCarthy. In fact discuss the relationship between Candidate hits everybody dead center. philosophy and man's concrete ex­ istence, and the changing way by ~",,: : ~ ". which man looks into himself. According to club president Paul marriott Key Bridge Kennerson, the organization is presently engaged in lining up "::.;::::. speakers for further lectures. Ten­ tative plans include a talk by na­ BARBER SHOP tionally known free-lance philos­ opher Hannah Arendt. Her book, Human Condition, deals with the Welcomes Discriminating development and evolution of great political ideas. Father Johann of Hoyas Shrub Oak Seminary also figures prominently in the club's tentative Open plans. LIEUTENANT .JOHN MONTEFUSCO, HISTORY MA.JOR, CLASS OF '61 It is possible that the Philosophy 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Club will sponsor a philosophy symposium of area schools some· Monday thru Saturday time during the second semester. The discussion will center about a "If I had it to do over again, non-controversial philosophical is­ sue.. Kennerson emphasizes, how­ ever, that this as well as plans for would I take Army R.D.T.C.? speakers are still in the formative "Specializing in FOREIGN CARS" stage, and that no arrangements are as yet definite. STAR AlOTOR My wife and I are in Panama at the moment. She likes Prominent in club activities are CORPORAT ON officers Nick Nastasi and George it. You know, Officers' Club, dances-that sort of thing. Patrick, and moderator Dr. Thomas I like it, too. But whether I stay in the Army or not, the McTighe. question is: Would I take Army R.O.T.C. if I had it to Eta Sigma Phi do over again? Yes, I certainly would. In spades, I (Continued from Page 5) didn't realize how lucky I was. At the time I figured: Church Fathers, who saw in the Okay, so I'll get my degree-get an Army commission, Euripidean vision the desperation too, and pick up some extra money along the way! I of the human spirit in the de­ generate Roman civilization. wasn't the leadership type, I thought. I was wrong. Boy, Euripides, then, was "modern". was I wrong! Looking back on it, I wouldn't trade the He was the first to exploit the complex psychology of changing, leadership training I got for anything! Take my word passionate, suffering man. Likewise for it, leaders are made-not born! Whether I stay in modern in the Euripidean scheme, the Army or not, nobody can take away what I've in which man is transformed from hero to victim. Finally, Euripides learned. And let's face it, where can anybody my age shows, through his life and works, step out of college and walk into a standard of living this the alienation which is the fate of 3000 10th STREET, NORTH many modern artists who see the ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA good? Look, if you have already invested two years in "here and now for what it is" and college ROTC, take it from me: Stick it out! It'll be consequently, are accepted by the future although rejected by the one of the smartest things you ever did. I say so." present.

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