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ASBESTOS PAG mmmmmý 'THE EXCLUSION MACHINE' USB Professor Blacklisted From Entering U.S. by Joe DiStefano information which would have for aliens to request removal of warranted the alien's exclusion their names from the "lookout list." The McCarthy Era is dead and regardless of what the judge may Congress recently proposed buried and the Cold War is all but have thought or said." another statute concerning "lookout thawed as far as most Americans Diogenes P. Kekatos, Assistant list" (see New York Times, 6/14/91). can tell. However, vestiges of the U.S. Attorney in charge of the case, Under the proposal the State repressive McCarthy Era linger and said that Yatani's constitutional Department would be required to have had an adverse effect upon the claim is, "...utterly devoid of merit purge the list with the exception of lives of aliens living in the United and borders on the frivolous." those whose presence on the list States. In contrast, Helton believes the proved compelling for national One such individual is USB case is groundbreaking. "The security reasons. Social Psychology Professor lawsuit seeks to remedy a dan- "Congress is growing Choichiro Yatani. As of press time gerous legacy of the Cold War increasingly frustrated with the Yatani awaits a response from the Era...over three hundred thousand Executive's seeming unwillingness State Department and the result of people are subject to exclusion and to dis-establish these obsolescent the Federal Court case that began abuse as long as their names remain look mechanisms," stated Helton. last January. At issue is Yatani's on the list," he said. Yatani told The Press, removal from the "lookout list" of The lists were established under "Regardless of the new law or the the State Department and Immi- the auspices of the 1952 McCarren- old law it was unjust to list me gration and Naturalization Service Walter Act which allows aliens to under the blacklist in the first (INS). These lists are essentially be denied entrance to the U.S. on place." According to Yatani the blacklists used to deny visas to the basis of communist party proposed purging, which entails aliens and bar their entry into the membership. examining each individual's record, United States on ideological and Yatani has repeatedly denied that might take as long as three years to political grounds. he was a member of the communist complete; three years that he is not According to Yatani's attorney, party in the 1960s or at any other prepared to wait. Arthur C. Helton of the New York time. Helton says that "the govern- Helton states that "if his name based Lawyer's Committee for ment has never revealed the basis," [Yatani] is removed that will end Human Rights, "...the list contains for Yatani's blacklisting. his controversy with the U.S. names of people who are a threat to Since Yatani discovered he was government." national security or opposed to listed in 1988, progress has been Yatani hopes to travel to Japan in foreign policy." Helton added, made in eliminating the "lookout Choichiro Yatani at his home in East Setauket July for the publication of his book "There are several thousand who list." in 1988 Congress passed the which details his experience and Helton stated, "When the lookout because of, "past, current, or are listed for no action of their Foreign Relations Authorization examines U.S. foreign system continued and names expected beliefs, statements, or policy in own." Act. According to Helton, section of the Iron continued to be listed," Congress associations, if such beliefs, light of the lifting Yatani himself referred to "the 901 of the statute implied the Curtain. passed a 1990 Immigration Act. statesments, or lookout list" as an "exclusion repealing of the McCarren - Walter associations would Section 601 of the law removes be lawful in the machine," as there exists potential Act. United States." barring aliens entry into the U.S. Section 601 also for further abuse with the list. A provides means 1990 report by the Lawyer's I Isl4LL rl I I ,, · · Committee revealed that the names listed tripled during the Reagan years. Symposium Honors Mathematician Since 1977 Yatani has lived in The Undergraduate Years be right. I looked at it and it needed The Fields Medal the United States with his wife and to be refined, but I could not find two children. However, he A.W. Tucker, former Chairman anything wrong. I gave it to a In 1962, Milnor received the remained unaware of his of the Department of Mathematics colleague, a specialist in the field Fields Medal. It is the most blacklisting until 1986, the year he at Princeton from 1953 to 1963 and and he agreed with me that it was a prestigious award was sponsored by University in mathematics, now 85 years old, remembers John solution. I then asked Milnor to and is given every four years to President John Mar-burger to travel Milnor as an undergraduate student. write a paper about it. Instead he three or four mathematicians at to Amsterdam for an international Tucker was freshman advisor to came at the end of the term with a most. The Fields medal is the peace conference. Milnor (by a random but lucky complete theory of knotted curves, equivalent of the Nobel Price for Upon his return to the United assignment). of which the resolution of Borsuk's mathematics. There is an States Yatani was apprehended by "At the beginning of the fall term, conjecture was only a part. apocryphal story often heard in custom officials because his name a new student by the name of 'At the end of his freshman year, mathematics departments that could was on the blacklist. Yatani was Milnor asked me about the classes he took a national math exam called not be verified. It seems that Alfred incarcerated for 44 days and faced he should take. From what he told the Putnam exam, and he ranked Nobel did deportation which was later waived Professor John Milnor not want to create a prize me, I recommended him to register among the top five. Harvard offered for mathematics because his wife because of the lawsuit. During his for an advanced calculus class. him a scholarship for graduate was having an affair with a imprisonment he received support by Jean Rousseau During the term, the man who was studies. Milnor came to see me and mathematician at the time. from the USB Administration as teaching the class came to see me, asked what he should do. I asked Usually a good mathematician well as New York legislators. A symposium in honor of John and told me that there was a young him: 'Are you happy here?' He said will contribute to one field of Although he was released Yatani Milnor's sixtieth birthday about man who was wasting his time. It yes and he stayed at Princeton for mathematics, but Milnor did remained on the list. Yatani topological methods in modern was Milnor. I told Milnor that he four years. Remember, it was the significant work that is still believes that the blacklisting may mathematics ended last Friday. should take the final exam in that Korean war and there was a draft influential in four different fields of stem from a 1968 arrest during a Milnor's name may not ring a bell course and that he should not going on. mathematics: geometry, analysis, Vietnam protest which took place for most of us, but for mathema- bother to attend the rest of the 'In their senior year, our algebra and a fourth field he while he was student body ticians, his work represents a classes. Instead he should read undergraduate students have to go practically invented: differential President of Japan's Doshisha seminal contribution to the about real variables. through a thirty minute oral exam. topology. That field consists of University. He submitted three advancement of mathematics in our 'In the Spring term, I was It is usually a formality. We asked studying the topological Freedom of Information Act century. properties teaching differential geometry. I him if he would rather take the of spaces in many (FOIA) requests in order to find out Milnor is a Professor in the dimensions, i.e., covered the material of curvature of three-hour oral exam that doctoral properties that are preserved like in why he was on the list. Certain Department of Mathematics at curve in space and at some point, I candidates must pass. He accepted. the case of a rubber balloon that documents were held and the FOIA Stony Brook and is a member of had five or ten minutes left, and I The exam consisted of four topics: can be stretched but which actions were referred to U.S. the Institute contain for Mathematical did not want to start the topic of real and complex variables, algebra Magistrate David F. Jordan. Sciences. His wife, more organized structures. It is also Dusa Mcduff, surfaces. I decided to talk about a and two topics of his choice that Jordan called the government's was already a faculty member described as the study of shapes conjecture of the Polish were differential geometry and non-cooperation disturbing. He before he moved with concepts from calculus. As a in, and will be the mathematician Borsuk, that topology. Emil Artin, a member of stated that a document, which he next Chair of the Department of student pointed out, if for each field mathematicians have been trying to the committee, told me that it was different individuals had made read, did not "provide a reasonable Mathematics. Her presence has solve. As a bad joke, I said it was the best examination he has ever these contributions, they all would basis" for Yatani's treatment. contributed to his decision to an assignment. Three days later, witnessed in the United States or be famous. He also wrote books State Department Official relocate here three years ago. He Milnor came to my office with a Germany." that are among the most read Cornelius D. Scully took issue with was then doing research at the by solution and asked me what was mathematicians when it comes to Jordan's 1987 decision. He stated, Institute for Advanced Studies, wrong with it, because it could not "There is in that file classified located near Princeton. coantinuedonpag 4 The Stony Brook Press page 2 The Reality of Asbestos by Lara Jacobson that workers that had been asbestos was declared proh- excessively exposed to the ibited. Disease caused by It's in the plaster, it covers the substance in the 1930s (on ships, in asbestos takes 20-40 years pipes and the boilers, it's in the mines, and in construction) were to detect Throughout the ceilings and the floors of many of developing related illnesses. 1970s and 1980s re- USB's corridors that nearly 20,000 Actually, asbestos was mentioned strictions were gradually community members stroll down as early as 430 B.C. as being used extended. Currently, there each day. Teams are at work here for oil lamp wicks. The Greek (the are five major agencies that nearly every day removing the word itself is derived from the regulate asbestos: The hazardous substance, and an Greek word meaning Occupational Safety and exploration into the nooks and incombustible) geographer Strabo Health Administration crannies of the campus would wrote of disease in slave's lungs (OSHA), The Food and produce hundreds of warning signs whose task was weaving asbestos Drug Administration and closed-off areas. into clothing. (FDA), The Consumer Myths about the reality of Asbestos was rediscovered in the Product Safety Com- asbestos can easily cause knee-jerk 1940s when asbestos was mission (CPSC), The Mine reactions and an unwarranted sense established as health-threatening. It Safety and Health of panic. There is reason for was used extensively in buildings, Administration (MSHA) concern, however, and the subject cars, clothing, food, drugs and and the EPA. should be treated seriously. cosmetics. Untold thousands of Part of what makes Asbestos is a generic name lives were saved by the fire-proof asbestos so frightening is referring to a group of naturally qualities of asbestos. During World that it does take so long to occuring hydrated mineral silicates War II it was an essential discover diseases after that are characterized by fibers or component of shipboard fire exposure. It is not yet bundles of fine single crystal fibrils. protection. known what the effect of In plain English, asbestos is It wasn't until 1973 and again in the massive use of asbestos crystalline microscopic fibers that 1978 that the Environmental in construction, etc. in the are fragments of certain types of Protection Agency prohibited the past 40 years has had, as rock. There are different mineral use of asbestos because only in the past 20 years varieties of asbestos, the most overexposed individuals were have the results of the commercially used has been developing cancer. World War II era been chrysotile. Exposure may be caused by air produced. Between 1900 and 1980, nearly currents, wind and water erosion The results of strict 30 million tons of asbestos were from naturally-occuring deposits as regulations have a number utilized in the U.S., nearly all of well as through the mining, of implications. First, that which was imported from Canada. manufacture and use of asbestos- removal of asbestos is often Stony Brook was built from the late containing products. People are more dangerous than 1960s into the early 1970s (and is exposed constantly to it - the water leaving it in place. continually being expanded), a time system contains natural asbestos Secondly, that asbestos is when the use of asbestos in mineral deposits. Illness is not extremely expensive to construction for its exceptional usually caused by this everyday sample, identify and ...... A - : .. . . &I-. _ GR•HIt -UKIn insulating properties was occurence, but through repeated remove, and since t e Damaged asbestos on campus widespread. The asbestos on exposure. Numerous studies of OSHA and the EPA have campus is derived of mostly occupational exposure proves that just begun to differentiate chrysotile, and some from amosite, asbestos can cause asbestosis; a between friable and non- several certified workers but for complaining that there was asbestos and is both friable and non-friable, fibrotic lung disease, lung cancer, friable asbestos and all asbestos some reason they did not want to do in his room. This is an example of more the latter than the former. and mesothelomia, a rare cancer of must be removed there are often asbestos abatement," said Leo the panic previously mentioned, as Friable means that the asbestos can the lining of the lungs or colon. unecessary, costly extrications. Dubobes, Assistant Director of one can in no way sense asbestos. crumble very easily, and, since the However, it has also been shown Thirdly, people tend to panic due to Environmental Health and Safety. As a result the project was closed fibers tend to break into that smoking cigarettes poses a minimal education about asbestos However, as of last Monday, Health down and air samples were taken of microscopic dust, this is the health- much more dangerous risk of and may overreact or even attempt and safety received two new bodies his room. No asbestos was found, threatening kind as these fibers can developing lung cancer than to remove asbestos themselves due for asbestos removal, which will aid but as a result the project was shut remain suspended in the air for long prolonged exposure to asbestos. In to a sense of urgency. in the abatement process. down for days at a cost of periods of rne and can easily fact, smoking will aggravate an The roofs of Roth Quad and The roofs of Roth Quad are 20-25 thousands of dollars. Roosevelt Quad have been or years old and have been repaired. Blodgett said that "at any road are currently being re-worked They have a six-inch seam around stop you will be exposed to more this Summer, which includes the rims. The glue that attaches the asbestos than you will at school." the participation of Breathe- seam to the roof contains one He suggests that the restrictions Easy, a certified asbestos percent asbestos. The asbestos is were "going a little overboard." removal company. Comp- embossed in the glue and is "not Roth Quad was finished this month. anies like these are called dangerous whatsoever," states Dave Breathe-Easy is now at Roosevelt onto campus when larger Blodgett, a Dorm Authority project Quad removing asbestos from the renovations take place. The engineer. "We have to cover the roofs and the buildings. smaller tasks, such as entire top floor with plastic while The removal of asbestos requires removing a pipe fitting or we chip off the glue. We used to protective gear, air pumps, masks, repairing wet wall plaster are have to cover the entire building, on and electron microscope sampling done by campus Environ- the outside." It is because of the at $350 a sample, as well as mental Health and Safety non-differentiation between friable continued on the next page workers, who often have to and non-friable fibers that remove the substance before these measures are the repair can take place. The necessary. "The dif- asbestos is currently being ference is just now les- dnnAz d i aa zuz inr.nr pIain penetrate body tissues when asbestos-related illness or the I•ciiuve• unu er; a prorI•I. pianI sening the restrictions," inhaled. The same reason asbestos combined effect may cause illness. devised by Health and Safety which he says. has been utilized as an insulator is It is not known how much exposure up until this point has been re- In the first or second one reason why it is so dangerous will cause illness - this factor seems prioritized continually due to a week of June Gershwin to human life; because of it's to vary depending on individual shortage of funds and workers, and College was set to go durability it can remain in the body body chemistries, smoking, etc. because it would cost literally through this process, for years. Non-friable asbestos can Even when illness is discovered it millions to remove it. The however, due to a mishap become friable with age and can be difficult to conclusively link substance has therefore been the building was not yet prolonged exposure to heat it to asbestos. removed mostly as renovations take empty. A student living The use of asbestos has declined It took a long time after the place, and less under re-vamped in the building considerably because in the 1960s it obvious link between disease and priority plans. telephoned the NY State began to be conclusively proven asbestos was made apparent that "Physical Plant used to have Department of Labor June 28,1991 page 3 - I mmmmýlia Tenure Lawsuit To i I I '' I · Begin - University officials may be held liable by Robyn Gilheany The Dube controversy was a major case that has bestirred this campus over the past State University of New York and its several years. Dube was director of the officials may be financially liable in the Dube Africana Studies Department and taught lawsuit The Supreme Court refused to hear courses in African politics and history - arguments by SUNY officials claiming something he was particularly suited for. "qualified immunity" for actions taken in Dube's uncle was a founding member of the performance of their jobs as state officials. African National Congress. Dube himself is a This decision sets the stage for the lawsuit member of the ANC and spent four years in brought by former Stony Brook professor the infamous Robbins Island prison. Ernest (Fred) Dube, charging the university In teaching a course called, "The Politics of with violating his first amendment rights of Race" in 1983 he allegedly compared free speech and violating his academic political Zionism to racism. A visiting Israeli freedom. Dube is seeking $600,000 in professor registered a complaint. A political damages. pressure campaign was mounted to deny SUNY officials are personally liable in the Dube tenue that included a slanderous remark Dube suit. Dube charged the University and by Cuomo who equated Dube with the nazis' SUNY with violating his constitutional rights "final solution." The University Senate voted of freedom of speech and due process. The that Dube was within the bounds of academic Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of freedom. SUNY officials in theirto recieve exemption Marburger overrode two academic from liability. Their argument is that they committees, denying him tenure citing his EXPERT MECHANICAL WORK have "qualified immunity" because as state limited published research. The case was officials they feel that they were just doing appealed to SUNY Central and Chancellor Expert Foreign & Domestic Repairs & Service their jobs. Wharton denied him tenure after two Tune-Ups, Oil Changes, Wheel Alignment, Dube filed a suit in 1987 after being denied additional comittees recommended tenure. Brakes, Struts tenure by President Marburger and then Dube teaches now at Evergreen College in Chancellor Wharton after being approved for Olympia, Washington. NOWOPEN 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE tenure by four academic committes. I , _ Setauket Auto Center so long..." 36 Rt. 25A, E. Setauket (next to Red Top Dairy) Some of the highest level samples taken 689-8300 Reality were from the Penthouse Mechanical Room in the Humanities Building and the Old continuedfrom page 3 Physics Penthouse Mechanical Room. These who innovate in a field. Following removal and clean-up. These restrictions are buildings are currently priority one for Health them, we meet the honest mathematicians checked and double-checked by several and Safety as well as certain rooms in G and who try to follow the leaders and the superstars. teams. The costliness of such a process is H Quad. Invited to describe Milnor, every apparent. Environmental Health and Safety Unfortunately, it is not known for certain person attending the symposium has certified asbestos workers that apparently that the asbestos on campus poses no danger about topology Recognition would talk very highly uphold the regulations. Most of the asbestos to the community. We know that most of him. Among some of Milnor gifts are his originality and the fact on campus is in the basements and asbestos-related disease is caused by that he is modest, even shy when mechanical rooms, however, it also insulates prolonged exposure to large amounts of the it comes to talking about himself. pipes and air ducts, is in wall plaster, and is in substance and that sleeping and going to He also has amazing many vinyl floor tiles. In 1987 an school here may not constitute prolonged computational skills, and he is very generous with investigation of where the asbestos was exposure, however, the health-hazard element his ideas - a quality that his colleague at The the staff of located was taken by an independent is still questionable. The best one can do is Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony company, Hall-Kimbrell, and consists of a 4 not disturb damaged asbestos and keep an eye Brook enjoy. The Stony volume list of where the asbestos is located. on those who are supposed to. In 1988 SUNY conducted its own Symposium investigation at Stony Brook and uncovered Brook Press "The symposium asbestos not found in the previous in the honor of Milnor is investigation. "It shouldn't exist anywhere an important event" declared Scott Sutherland of congratulates where people are living," states Leo Dubobes. Milnor the Institute, because "people usually attend "There are places where asbestos- conferences related only to continuedfrom page their own containing materials are damaged," he says. 2 field, but the fact that a huge Editor Lara number of people There are many damaged areas, most of in all areas of mathematics were present encourage which are accompanied by warning signs if tc advanced topics, such as Morse Theory, us to see what was Jacobson on not closed off. If one comes across ripped CharacteristicClass, and Topology from happening elsewhere." Many students from Harvard and Princeton sheathing around a pipe in one of the Differential Viewpoint. were also present. The Department basements, for example, one should not John Milnor is considered one of the of Mathematics at Stony receiving The Brook is among disturb it. According to Dubobes, "...people greatest living mathematicians. Many the best in the world in differential geometry. just need to realize that the simple presence graduate students in the Department of The presence of Milnor will heighten the Press Club of of asbestos doesn't automatically constitute Mathematics see him as a superstar. In fact, departmental status to the extent that it will an immediate health hazard. A good example the star system in mathematics is a reality that also become a world center in dynamics, might be the vinyl floor tiles that contains many students have to cope with. The another of Milnor's irterests. Long Island's asbestos. We aren't immediately fearful while reputation of a mathematician is based on walking across the tiles, but we wouldn't achievements, but for those who are starting College want to take a sledgehammer and start and have to prove their value, it can be breaking them up..." frustrating. One student described the scale of Journalist When asked if he'd ever experienced fame for active mathematicians in the of people panicking about the asbestos on following way. At the top there are the campus, he responded yes, that "there was a superstars that can invent a theory. Beside The Year group of workers and ground employees who Milnor, some graduate students named people were very concerned, so they ended up going like Weil, Novikov, Atiyah, Serre, and Award to Occupational Medicine. However, the Gromov (he has taught at Stony Brook). latency period for asbestos related illnesses is Below the superstars, we can find the leaders The Stony Brook Press page 4 Supercomputing at Stony Brook USB Designated As Army Research Center in Mathematics by Jean Rousseau denies such distinction, and would National Priorities In Science computing power of iPSC/860 is Parallel Research rather share the credit with his similar to the parallel computer The diffusion of pollutants in colleagues. Glimm is the Chairman The funding for the CRAY Y-MP/8 (see Table 1), but The incentive to do parallel groundwater, the evolution of a of the Department of Applied supercomputer and for the center is costs less. research is to improve the response kidney disease and the energy Mathematics and Statistics, and an effort by NSF and the U.S. Computer scientists talk of the time to solve a problem, and also relaxation of an excited molecule in Director of the Institute for Army Research office to enhance iPSC/860 as being a massively increase the total amount of work a liquid do not seem to have much Mathematical Modeling. The the strength of the U.S. research parallel computer, while the CRAY done in a given time. It is also the in common. In fact, they do. They Institute is an umbrella for many infrastructure. High-performance is simply parallel. The distinction only cost-effective way to address represent scientific problems with members from different computing, software, computer arises from the memory system, large scale problems such as grand many unknowns that cannot be departments that are involved in simulation and modelling are and the transfer of information challenge (turbulence, fluid solved with accuracy unless an computer simulations. among 22 defense and civilian between nodes. The iPSC/860 uses dynamics). extremely fast computer tackles the Professor Alan Tucker, associate technologies deemed critical to the distributed memory. Each processor Brookhaven National Laboratory calculations. chairperson of the department of U.S. The assessment of important has access to its own memory. It is and the department of Computer It will now be possible to perform Applied Mathematics and Statistics, technologies was determined by a harder to account for in the Science are important participants these calculations on campus since describes Professor Glimm as a National Critical Technologies programming but it is easier for in the research that will be carried the department of Applied visionary. Professor Tucker Panel, appointed by the White handling data transfer. In the case on the Stony Brook iPSC/860. For Mathematics and Statistics, the declares that "Glimm did world- House Office of Science & of the CRAY, we have a shared example, the department of department of Computer Science, famous work in pure mathematics. Technology Policy. Their report memory system between all Computer Science is interested in and Brookhaven National While he was at Rockefeller was published in April. processors. The multiple exchanges 3-D real-time visualization, the Laboratory just purchased a University, he switched to Funding by the army cannot be of information between nodes are development of massive parallel supercomputer manufactured by the mathematical physics and made used to finance secret research. executed in iPSC/860 through a programming tool and parallel Intel Corporation. It is known as important contributions. Later on at Following protest against the network instead of a bus. In a bus combinatorial search. The study of Intel hypercube, and is among one New York University, he Vietnam war, the Board of Trustees one instruction at a time can travel, pollutant's diffusion in groundwater the fastest computers available. The concentrated on applied mathe- of SUNY enacted in the mid 1960s while a network will be able to is a problem that interests super-computer will be particularly Glimm and his installed at the Institute for ------I~----research group. Glimm has Math-ematical Modeling, on developed an original front the 1st level of the Math __I >_ _ approach called Tower. The dedication tracking that consists of ceremony for the new following the interface computer is planned for July I% , between the water and the ON -3 - "11_.'I' &-I 1 _1 -__ -... t1llnt nt ca a ffrnnt It Lna, ana will taKe place at p IIULUIILb b aL. L the Institute. represents a discontinuity or The guest of honor was a quick change of state. shipped to Stony Brook June Some faculty members 25th and should be from other departments are onerational very soon. The also interested in gaining price tag for the iPSC/860 is access to the new computer $1 million and the funding One case study by Glimm, Deng et al. An interface separating two media (such as water and oil) obtained from four processors of the facility. Professor Webster in calculations performs on one processor. The prelinninary Chemistry was provided by Intel, the iPS /860 at NASA-Ames in California. Each rectangle represents the result of wants to do timing shows a 60% of parallel efficiency, i.e., the processors are busy 60% of the time. From this result, we can project that the Stony computer experiments. He National Science Brook iPSC/860's power is equal to 100 SUN SPAC-1 workstations. Foundation, the U.S. Army desires to study the Research Office, the U.S. matics and computations. Wherever that investigators within SUNY are handle a large number relaxation process of an excited Department of Energy, and the there is a frontier, he will be there." prohibited from doing any simultaneously. molecule, a quantum process, in a State University of New York. Hired three years ago as classified research or work that Another major difference consists dense environment such as a liquid, The Department of Applied Chairman, Glimm was offered cannot be published. in the diversity of instructions that where the motion of the molecules Mathematics and Statistics will also many advantages, like the can be handled at the same time. obey classical mechanics. receive an infusion of $400,000 per possibility of hiring the members of iPSC/860 On a CRAY, each processor will be The increase in speed of single year for the next five years as the his research group located at New given the same instruction. This processors is reaching a limit. Fast lead institution of a new center for York University. Most of them Intel is not a name generally approach is called SIMD (single processors will get cheaper. The excellence in mathematics research. moved to Stony Brook. He has associated with supercomputer instruction, multiple data stream) future will consist in putting many The money will be provided by the now a group of 5 or 6 faculty. giants like Thinking Machine, or and is similar to a platoon walking processors together. The challenge U.S. Army Research Office and members and 4 post-doctoral CRAY, but rather with personal in steps. All soldiers or processors will then reside in the development will be shared with Cornell fellows. Glimm is a member of the computer makers. Its 80286, 80386, do the same thing. For the Intel, of software that will take advantage University, Los Alamos National National Academy of Sciences, and and 80486 processors, are installed each processor has its own set of of this capacity. At the 21st century Laboratory, and York College (part also serves on many federal agency in IBM personal computers, instructions for their own data; it is looms on the horizon, parallel of the City University of New York boards. Compaq computers and a horde of referred as MIMD (multiple architecture will become more system). Out of the $400,000, PC clones. CPUs or processors are instruction). We can visualize this common. Each department at Stony $50,000 will be used to finance the Center For Mathematics the brain of any computers. CPU approach as a baseball team Brook may have its own purchase of the supercomputer. performs all additions and working towards the same goal, but supercomputer. That will allow the members of the A mission of the new center will comparisons and determines where each player or processor has a Center to have access to this be to attract traditionally under- data is to be read from, stored or specific duty to fulfill. resource. The Stony Brook center is epresented students to mathematics. sent. A PC or a workstation contain one of three national mathematical It was a requirement of the Army one processor, while the Stony institutes funded by the Army; the for the funding of the center. Stony Brook iPSC/860 is equipped with other two are a center established Brook will be affiliated with York 32 (it is already planned to upgrade Machines Moderate Grand Challenge are mostly it to 64). The processors are the three years ago at Cornell and a College, whose students Problems Problems new mathematics center at from minority groups. York will Intel 40 Mhz i860 and may Carnegie-Mellon University. receive money from the center to eventually end up in desktop TFlop Machine 2 seconds 10 hours increase the use of computers. computers. CM-2 64K 30 minutes 1 year Professor James Glimm There will also be an effort at Stony The newly acquired iPSC/860 is a Brook to interest these students. parallel computer. As opposed to a CRAY Y-MP/8 4 hours 10 years "James Glimm really struck a "Everyone will profit from this serial computer like a PC that can Alliant FX/80 5 days 250 years involvement" affirms Glimm perform one operation after an deal here" declares Frank Webster, SUN 4/60 1 month 1.5K years Assistant Professor in the "because we will have to improve another, a parallel computer can Chemistry Department, and a our teaching techniques and the execute many operations VAX 11/780 9 months 14K( years potential user of the Stony Brook way we present mathematics." simultaneously by having many IBM PC/8087 9 years 170K years the successful Professors Tucker and Ferguson of processors working at the same iPSC/860. In fact, Apple venture in acquiring the super- the Department. of Applied time. A processor in the iPSC/860 Mac 23 years 450K years computer, and the designation of Mathematics will be responsible for is connected to four others to form Stony Brook as a center for this program. a node. In computer architecture, excellence is a tribute to Professor such a node is described as each Table 1: Typical times for solving moderate problems such as the calculation of James Glimm's fame and hypercube, i.e., a cube where air flow around a car and the problem of turbulence flow for various reputation in the field of applied corner is connected to four other computersThe iPSC/860 performance is similiar to the CRAY Y-MP/8 (Y. Deng, J. Glimm & D.H. Sharp, SUNYSB-AMS-90-13). mathematics. Modestly, Glimm corners instead of three. The June 28, 1991 page 5 mmmmý Colonization And Revolution A Brief History of thf Three Village Area against nature. The village remained in power until 1783. provided all the necessities for The first census of the U.S. was taken in communal living; A house for 1790. Brookhaven's census listed a total meetings and worship, a school, a population of 2,600 of which 10% were common grazing land, and places classifed as "other free persons" meaning for the poor. bonded servants and other non-whites - During this period most of the probably Indians and some freed slaves. Native Americans, who had not Among the biggest slave owners on Long developed an immunity to the Island was William Floyd, a signer of the diseases that the English had Declaration of independance. He had 14 grown accustomed to, died off slaves. from plague that was a result of Slavery was practically abolished by 1799 being given smallpox-infested Under the Act of Manumission that provided blankets in trading with colonists. a formula for the gradual freeing of slave In 1672 a law was passed families by 1827. permitting slavery. It wasn't, In the mid 1800s the population of the however, a wide-spread Three Village area grew with the increase of phenomena. In the 1700's ship building. In the 1900s tourists were Setauket, as well as other attracted to the area from large cities. Poor communities in that area were means of transportation and lack of enough growing in size. The main water saved the Three Village Area from the occupations of the people were Industrial Revolution, in effect keeping the farming, fishing, and whaling area rural. (which they learned from the n. rnompson nouse Indians). SOME PLACES TO SEE IN by Daniel Glasner to them in trust from the people to the During the Revolutionary War, THE THREE VILLAGE AREA common good of them all, in whom the the British beat General Washington in the Stony Brook is part of a sector unofficially power yet remains fundamentally." The battle of Brooklyn, gauranteeing control over Frank Melville Memorial Park known as The Three Village Area which settling English shared these ideals and Long Island. includes the incorporated villages of Old highly valued the liberry and right of freeborn The British increased their troops on the Field and Poquott and the unincorporated The park is located at the orginal site of the first communities of Setauket, East Setauket, Setuaket settlement. Most of the historical South Setauket and Stony Brook. The Three sites are located around it; including the Setauket Village area is located in the Grist Mill. Northwesternmost corner of Brookhaven, the The Setauket largest town in Suffolk county covering 326 Neighborhood House square miles and containing 7 population areas. This building was constructed in the early The first humans to occupy Long Island 1700s and was moved to the Setauket Mill came here during the Ice Age - 10,000 years Pond area in 1820 with the of its owner Dr. ago. Theoretically they followed the Wooly John Elderkin. Mammoth from Asia across the Bering Strait, Upon his death, his son, John and his wife, an iced-over bridge of land, then across what Renelcha Hallock, turned the house into an is now the Northeastern U.S. Eventually inn. some tribes made it to the Island where they During the 1860s the hotel also served as a settled as the ice thawed. In the 1600s there stage stop and post office. In 1918 the Old were 13 groups of native Americans. Field industrialist Everley Childs purchased Although they had no means of flight or the house and together with an endowment, accurate tools for surveying they clearly presented it to the community. It is knew that the island was shaped like a fish, administered by the Setauket Neighborhood with its mouth to the west and split tail to the Association and has since served as a meeting east. They called it Paumanok, literally "fish house and polling center for the citizens. shape." The Indians who lived in the Three Village Patriots Rock area were called Setalcotts which means "The Two historical events happened on the land on the mouth of the creek." In 1655 a boulder: Setauket's first minister, the Puritan group of 6 men purchased the land now The Stony Brook Green Reverend Nathaniel Brewster is said to have known as Setauket, The price they paid was men. Cromwell has enacted great reform in preached his first sermon atop the 25 foot recorded as "10 coats, 12 hatchets, 50 muxes England including religious tolerance to non- Island and resistance was dangerous, but square 10 foot high boulder due to a lack of a (or mucksucks, small awls used to perforate English Church sects. Suffolk County and Brookhaven Town were large enough building for such a purpose. sea shells in making wampum), 100 needles, Cromwell's death in 1658 left English the most anti-British. The famous Setauket The second event happened during the 6 Kettles, 10 Fadom of of Wampom, 7 chests society deeply divided and it was with some spy ring caused pain to the British but they - dsC.rx-rrrIAC of powder, 1 pare of child stockings, 10 sense of relief that the nation welcomed to I. pounds of Lead,1 dozen Knives." the throne a King Charles II and the restoration C The colonizing of Setauket was a result of of the monarchy. at European wars between England, Holland, Colonization was stepped up during Charles Cd Spain and France. These nations had been II. The Dutch claimed Long Island although competing over the domination of the new England continued to settle here. Although world. two of the first settlers wanted to be the In 1628 a rebellion was underway against Island leaders, King Charles annexed the King Charles I by the Presbyterian Scots and Island to New York which was under the Puritans. King Charles had tried to impose leadership of his brother the Duke of York. In the Church of England on them and their 1666 The name of the town changed from resistance developed into violence. In 1639 Setauket to Brookhaven. The form of self- the king opened hostilities at which time government that the settlers had, changed to Oliver Cromwell rose to lead the rebels. In the Duke's Anglican Law. The Puritan 1649 Charles I was beheaded by a small band settlers had resented the domination of the of fanatics. Episcopacy was defeated and Angelican Duke. A resentment that never Puritanism triumphed for a while. The ideas disappeared and burst into full conflict in the of the rebels were represented by the poet Revolutionary War. In 1668, there were 35 John Milton who wrote "'Thepower of Kings homes were in Setauket, that number only and magistrates is nothing else but what is grew to 55 by 1701. Their lives at that time only derivative, transformed and committed were consumed in survival and in struggling The Stony Brook Press page 6 Irn otony lrooK rosi unice I _ r - - I REVIEW _ · BOOK I I_ BARAKA: Beatnik, Black, Bourgeoisie Basher

After the assassination of AMIRI BARAKA Malcolm X, he moved to Harlem his name to the The LeRoi Jones/Amiri BarakaReader and changed Bantuized Muslim appellation Edited by William J. Harris Imamu ("spiritual leader," later 498 pp. New York dropped) Ameer (later Amiri, Thunder's Mouth Press. $14.95 "prince") Baraka ("blessed"). This period of back nationalism is by Fletcher Johnson characterized by a hatred of whites. He writes in a poem: "I got the A reader must expect a broad variety of styles and extermination blues, jewboys." He later denounced the work as anti- methoolologies from a writer who has changed his Semitic. name more often than some change their underwear In 1974 he observed the, in a week. Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, limitations of nationalism calling it fiction writer - has gone through a series of stages from and "a sickness or criminality, in fact, a as a beatnik, to fighting whitey as a black fighting the squares form of fascism." The mainstream to his present incarnation as a Marxist whose nationalist literary establishment has criticized influenced such contemporary artists as film themes have the Marxist work as "intellectually maker Spike Lee. determined" as opposed to the controversial author does more than push a pencil as The emotive pieces from Baraka's black by his arrest for illegal possession of a weapon demonstrated nationalist period. and resisting arrest during the Newark riots in 1967. His The Reader contains much "My change is based on seeing the whole nationalist thing turn rough and tumble disputevwith his wife the year Baraka began into its teaching at Stony Brook landed him a year of weekends of previously unpublished work opposite. People were talking about liberation, then actually being in including an essay containing charge of the exploitation. The majority of black people still don't have community service. before Baraka's radical reflections on Jes change ... it became clear that skin color was not determinant of political Born Leroy Jones, he changed his name to LeRoi Jackson and the 1988 Democratic cne,, flunking out of Howard University. After being discharged ConventionConvention in Atlanta. Baraka sayssaycontent. the military, Jones went to Greenwich "undesirably" from that Jesse replaced many of the leaders of his campaign the-ranks of avante-garde writers of Village where he joined structure with people that represented the opposite of what including Allen Ginsberg. Throughout his the post-war era Jesse was saying earlier. He cites campaign manager Gerald the techniques of the bohemians such career Jones employed Austin as personally fouling up a rally that was put together at Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note eccentric typography and always utilized as free verse and Stony Brook. I rememberwaiting with thousands of other revolutionary themes. students at Staller Plaza only to receive word of Jesse's Lately, I've become accustomed to the way his winning an Obie for his play Fame came to Jones with cancellation. Baraka claims that Austin lied about Jesse being The ground opens up and envelopes me a young, assimilated black man The Dutchman. In the play ill as he had spoken at several stops on Long Island before the Each time I go out to walk the dog. in opposition to a fights for his ethnic identity and masculinity cancellation at the Brook and a few stops afterwards. Or the broad edged silly music the wind white state. Blues white woman representing the taunting The book provides a unique opportunity to study a moving Makes when I run for a bus... history of black music in People is Jones's highly acclaimed body of literature writen from an evolving viewpoint which York Times has called a classic. For America which the New always retains a common thread of struggle. Things have come to that. Jones, music is associated with political action. I - And now, each night I count the stars, And each night I get the same number. And when they will not come to be counted, Soul Train I count the holes they leave. Nobody sings anymore. LULA: I know you like the palm of my hand. T.T. Jackson sings And then last night, I tiptoed up CLAY: The one you eat the apples with? I fucked your To my daughter's room and heard her Talking to someone, and when I opened doors late Saturday evening with. That's my door. Up at the mother LULA: Yeh. And the one I open The door, there was no one there ... flights. Above a lot of Italians and lying Americans. And scrape carrots on top of a house top of the stairs. Five Only she on her knees, peeking into with. Also . .. [looks at him] the same hand I unbutton my dress with, or let my skirt fall when I got through down. Same hand. Lover. she thought she was Mickey Mouse. Her own clasped hands. CLAY: Are you angry about anything? Did I say something wrong? I fucked your LULA: Everything you say is wrong. [Mock smile] That's what makes you so attractive. Ha. mother ! In that funnybook jacket with all the buttons. [More animate, taking hold of his jacket] under a tree What've you got that jacket and tie on in all this heat for? And why're you wearing a jacket when it was over and tie like that? Did your people ever bur witches or start revolutions over the price of tea? she couldn't even pee Boy, those narrow-shoulder clothes come from a tradition you ought to feel oppressed by. A three-button suit. What right do you have to be wearing a three-button suit and striped tie? I fucked your mother Your grandfather was a slave, he didn't go to Harvard. and she hollered 0000 she thought I was CLAY: My grandfather was a night watchman. fu man chu mother LULA: And you went to a colored college where everbody thought they were Averell I fucked your grin Harriman. and she started to then she found out even in. CLAY: All except me. it wasn't

LULA: And who did you think you were? Who do you think you are now?

CLAY: [Laughs as if to make light of the whole trend of the conversation] Well, in college I thought I was Baudelaire. But I've slowed down since.

LULA: I bet you never once thought you were a black nigger. Excerptedfrom The Dutchman

June 28,1991 page 7 rl I· I I I I , 111 1 EDITORIAL Cultural Interdependence The- -Stony Brook Press Executive Editor The State Board of a traveller who came to an that slaves resisted on many Lara Jacobson Educators, teachers, and in already inhabited land. The occasions - sometimes Managing Editor scholars recently drew up a ramifications of his journey open revolts; sometimes in Joe Distefano blueprint that urged cur- and the consequences for the less obvious subversion. Associate Editor riculum changes for high native inhabitants will be These student discusssions John Sealy school courses in history and discussed by students. and the reliance on revamped Business Manager social studies. The new Social history will be maps and historical artifacts Michelle Fleck approach emphasizes cultural highlighted. The role of will develop more critical diversity, racial sensitivity, women in production in the thinking abilities of the Photo Editor Greg Forte and critical thinking. Puritan American family and students and at the same time Thomas Sobol, the State their of Production Manager role in the Abolitionsist raise the consciousness Rick Teng Education Commmisioner, movement and how it was young people in a way that Minister Sans Portfolio set up the panel to create a related to the ideology of the will help fight the social Fletcher Johnson curriculum that recognizes Victorian nineteenth century disease of racism. non-white peoples' cont- American family will be Multicultural education STAFF Walter Chavez, Lily Eng, Josh Gazes, ributions to American emphasized. This path of should not be confused with Robert Githeany, Daniel Glasner, Fred Mayer, MJXII, Wayne Myer, Eric Penzer, society. Old textbooks are study will eventually lead to the oftentimes restricting Jean Rousseau, Dave Suarez, Scott criticized for being in- the suffrage movement and standards of the "politically Warmuth

sensitive to non-whites by the progressive era. correct" of the left. The term The Stony Brook Press is published bi-weekly during the academic year and intermittently during excluding their histories, The inhumanity of slavery "politically correct" in itself the Summer session by The Stony Brook Press Inc., a student run and student funded not-for-profit such as the role of African is brought out by using the denotes objective truth and a corporation. Advertising policy does not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Americans in the American term "enslaved person": the demand for correctness, (516) 632-6451 Revolution and Civil War. point being that the slaves while multicultural education Suite 020, Central Hall SUNY at Stony Brook Columbus will no longer were real people who were demands only more space for Stony Brook, NY 11794-2790 be falsely proclaimed the brutally exploited. Hopefully expression. discoverer of America, but as the new textbooks will show I · I _I · , _ LETTERS -~,_.~...~~~~~. L Sex In The '90s the Sea, the one for us. I have a family that needs my S.. USS Tarawa, help and love. I already have another has one again operation scheduled for that- it's called This is in response to Suzanne brought me Operation Big Daddy. Bojdak's letter in the May 10th issue of and my fel- The Press. I would like to thank her for low Marines Semper Fi, addressing the problems caused by to a region in pornography. Though I believe in free Sikman turmoil. speech and the right of people to publish We had Editor's Note: The above are lettersfrom whatever they want, it is only with an S recently Ryan Sealy to his brother John. Ryan is a informed, intelligent and educated exited the U.S. Marine that was stationed in the society that there will be no need for Straits of Persian Gulf during "Operation Desert such material. However, I am also Hormuz on Storm." writing in response to her statement that our way to she "does not exist to get fucked by the Philli- men." It is the primary function of any pines en creature to propagate its species. I am route home. afraid you are wrong on this count, Ms. We entered Bojdak. Mr--%r%--%&Lo,fi A 16,m 11Q Q ryan aboar a in U.o.S. I arawa the Arabian Admirals and Generals the insight and Sea steaming along at 16 knots when I the heart to send us home. John, each heard the first Ron Owens rumors on the Mess day here is more boring than the Decks. It was one not worth U.S.B. Junior repeating. previous. There have been many fights. The following days' rumors caught my John, my life is at a standstill right now attention, the ones most likely to be true. and I don't like it. Everyone on the ship had heard the news but surely it had nothing to with us. EYE OF THE STORM Your brother, "Our mission in the Persian Gulf was lkyan complete. We are going home." Those thoughts were short lived, the following 7 May P.S. I should be home around June 15th. afternoon the Captain told us the true Dear John, scoop. We were tasked with providing aid to the people of Bangladesh. ... I'm still in the Persian Gulf on board It will take us 11 days to get there. 18 May the USS Tarawa waiting for something Once there we will set anchor in the Bay Dear John, extraordinary to happen. Whether it be in of Bengel. Operation Productive Effort Africa, Pakistan or Iran, if American was unfolding. Once again me and my The world has come to witness the lives are threatened we would be there in fellow Marines will do our very best to othe side of the Marine; the humane a day or two. help the weak. peace-loving half. The Mighty Eagle of Everyday we pray for God to give our I really hope this operation is a short OvR ey7e edor The Stony Brook Press page 8 T.ACOMMENTAI RY THE GATES OF HELL By Fred Mayer the impending insolvency of the Federal the 508 point collapse in the New York Stock and left one hundred people injured. Mounted Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C.). Exchange on October 19, 1987 was (then) police' [some things never change!] "I see nothing in the present situation that is The lighter side of the problem here is that West Germany's refusal to lower their 'confronted an unemployment rally in either menacing or warrantspessimism." the F.D.I.C. itself has predicted that 440 interest rates. Similarly, the 50+ point decline Detroit, sending thirty-one people to jail and commercial banks (which we all rely on) will which we saw on Monday, June 24, was fourteen more to the hospital. Four-hundred -Secretary of the Treasury fail in 1991 and 1992. Testimony before sparked in part by a refusal on the part of the idle workers gathered outside a union hall in Andrew W. Mellon Congress has revealed that F.D.I.C. losses Japanese to lower their interest rates. Newark, New Jersey, to hear orators January 1, 1930 could exceed $60 billion, and this is only an Currently, our interest rates are near the denounce Hoover as 'the lackey of Wall initial estimate. Most ominous is the state of bottom of the list among industrialized Street' and 'J.P. Morgan's office boy'; police Only twelve months into the Great affairs among the gigantic money center nations. The old saw which states that our ordered the crowd to disperse and arrested Depression of 1990, and signs of crisis are banks (e.g., Citibank, Chase Manhattan, interest rates are tied to domestic rates of those who refused. A mob of several everywhere. Here at Stony Brook University, Manufacturers Hanover, and Chemical, inflation is rapidly losing its cutting power. thousand unemployed men and woman a $500 tuition increase has been finalized, among others). These banks have Anyone who can move his or her assets out battled police in Los Angeles, trapping and massive cuts in graduate student lines are dangerously low levels of assets relative to of this country (e.g., by buying Japanese or hundreds of innocent spectators in the in the works. In our backyard, we see that deposits, and large amounts of mostly German bonds) should do so right away. melee...New York suffered its worst riot in Suffolk County has forced its employees to unrecoverable foreign debt. The status of one Money, however, is a tool of the devil. years. Thirty-five thousand protesters "temporarily" accept 20% cuts in pay. But of these large banks, Citibank, is so What are the human costs of the capitalist jammed into Union Square on a chilly March hey, that's not so bad after all, because they precarious that Henry Gonzalez, chairman of contradictions that are currently unfolding? morning to hear Communist speakers get Fridays off. Looking west, we see that the House Banking Committee, has proposed Women and children are suffering the most denounce the capitalists who had taken away New York City's budget deadline moves ever a prompt shutdown, in order to avoid what because of budget cuts are affecting their jobs...[later,] several thousand closer, with only 7 days left (as of this could be stunning losses. (See "The Next immunization programs, daycare, drug demonstrators headed down Broadway. There writing) for the idiots and criminals at City Bank Robbery," by William Greider in the treatment centers, regulatory agencies, public they were met by hundreds of policeman who Hall to come to an agreement with the biggest op-ed pages of The New York Times, May hospitals, and housing programs for the fell on the parade with nightsticks and idiot-criminal of them all, David Dinkins. "A 28). homeless, to name just a few cases. The only blackjacks and bare fists, swinging Sense of Fiscal Doom" describes the mood of The second problem is latent, and much area of public spending that is not being cut is indiscriminately at anyone or anything within a city which so very recently crowed over its more dangerous than a mere collapse in the dedicated to the agents of governmental reach. 'From all parts of the scene of battle "biggest ever" ticker-tape parade, celebrating banking industry. As I have previously violence, namely, police. For example, came the screams of women and cries of the slaughter of 200,000 distant Arabs. Todd pointed out (see "Budget Mania," Stony Dinkins is adding thousands of cops to the men, with bloody heads and faces,' reported Purdum of the Times notes that "around City Brook Press, Oct. 16, 1990, and "U.S. to army already deployed in New York City the Times" (page 326). Hall, there is a growing sense that even if the Enter Economic Black Hole," Statesman, (without providing increased resources for These historical events will look like combatants make peace at Armageddon, it Nov. 9, 1989) our country doesn't control its courts and, more importantly, prisons). This child's play compared to what will be seen in would only be to return to the apocalypse future with respect to the global economy, is what makes it possible for the city to spend the '90's, because now many of the within a few months or by next spring at the because of the astronomical quantities of debt more than half a million dollars per day to dispossessed are armed with automatic latest" (New York Times, June 23). But let's (rapidly approaching the psychologically have Tomkins Square Park (already weapons. Already, many urban areas are not get carried away. After all, the $3.5 significant level of $1000 billion) which we surrounded by a 12 foot high fence) guarded virtual free-fire zones which police enter only billion budget gap which New York City have accrued during the last 15 years. around the clock by dozens of cops, in order as a last resort. Last week, when Dinkins was must fill this week is a drop in the bucket Foreign capitalists are the ones who support to "defend" it against the homeless. speaking about controlling guns [!] in a when compared to what's happening at the our illusory standard of living by buying our Our leaders know that as the unemployment Brooklyn housing project, a gunfight broke national level. I.O.U.'s, thereby closing the federal and state rate moves ever higher, the chances that the out a few hundred feet away. News of the Two presently unfolding disasters will budget deficits which our corrupt leaders dispossessed will rise up and attempt to event was greeted with active disinterest by dictate the course of events over the next generate year after year. The only incentive smash the forces of oppression move higher most news institutions such as the New York year. First and foremost is the Savings and which foreign lenders have in this regard are as well. History supports this fear. In 1929 Times. Welcome to the '90's! Loan (S&L) debacle, which we were again the current interest rates which they collect the U.S. unemployment rate was around 3 Chances are that a period of relative reminded of when Congress last week from U.S. taxpayers. Foreign lenders are not percent. By 1933 the rate had risen to over 25 stability may be maintained by capitalists received a visit from William Siedman, altruists, they lend money to us for one and percent. As the unemployment rate rose until the end of the election scheduled for chairman of the Resolution Trust only one reason: to make a profit. The during those years, increasing levels of next year, but it is not clear that this will be Corporation, or RTC. He calmly told the unavoidable implication of this observation is violence were experienced. In March of 1930 possible. Picture what it will be like when the country that an additional $80 billion of that declining interest rates will result in things began to get quite hot, as was Democratic National Convention is held in federal cash is presently required in order to decreased incentives for foreigners to buy our documented by William Klingaman in his New York City! At least it won't be boring. If maintain the RTC's bailout operation. Those debt. Furthermore, global institutions will book, 1929: The Year of the Great Crash the forces of liberation can gather together in who have predicted that the ultimate cost of have a decreased incentive to hold dollars. (1989, New York: Harper & Row, highly a coherent way, it may be possible to totally the S&L bailout will total more than $500 Therefore, waiting in the wings is a recommended). trash the convention, and thereby break some billion are rapidly gaining credibility. This substantial decline in the value of the dollar of the chains which bind the exploited masses news didn't upset the Eastern Establishment against foreign currencies, which will have "Already the jobless were turning to violence. to their suffering. The Gates of Hell are upon (represented by, for example, the Times) devastating consequences for all U.S. In Washington, police employed tear gas and us, but perhaps abit of Hell will help to push because Siedman has already approached markets. blackjacks to disperse a demonstration of the system closer to the Revolution which is Congress - hat in hand - so many times by Watch the markets, and you can see this unemployed workers in front of the White so badly required. Until then, those who think now, that it's boring. More interesting is the dynamic at work. Historically, we see that House. Cleveland police charged a jeering will be preparing for the intensification of our one of the primary triggers which resulted in crowd of nearly ten thousand demonstrators economic storm newest aspect of the banking crisis, namely, I VIEWPOINT A Time To Listen by Joan Coffey them posing the hard mind challenges serious Why is not the hardware displayed their only winning in a war that could not be lost writers do, asking these questions: Purple Hearts, their Silver stars, their count to you? The greats of American Literature-Stephen Distinguished Medal of Honor? Though The New York Times finds strong Crane, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Emily Of the People: Is it just the parade you love, small in size, these medals are the only justification for these parades in "the need, Dickinson, Robert Frost, and others call war or do you deep-down want to be a warlike hardware that counts when we honor heroes. finally, to make up for the surly silence and bestial and ask why great nations require their nation? Do you value your nation in every Why are the machines of war here? They scorn Vietnam veterans found on their sons and daughters to mature quickly dimension, or more in military might? What simply encourage the decision for war by return." Tim O'Brien is a Vietnam veteran. "cringing and sobbing and begging and are you teaching your children? insuring ever swifter and more sanitized removing some of the He does not ask for praise for his service. If I hoping not to die," require them to be destruction, by confrontation do not read the man wrong, I believe he maimed in body, spirit and mind, to kill and Of the President and other declared and warriors from the face-to-face with foe and conscience. They signify would be frustrated that his work had not yet be killed in any cause but the most serious undeclared political aspirants: Are these had the power to end parades that serve threat to our essential liberties. They have parades early Inaugurals? If so, shouldn't nothing of value here. political and emotional purposes while they told the truth about war. Do we imagine they they be paid for from campaign funds rather of the People: Are you sincere? distract us from reality. He might be outraged admired war because they glorified those who than from the people's tax dollars? Again, you not thank our heroes better by that his words were used in association with experienced it? Would at VA hospitals - by changing an event that could extend the fervor for war. While it would be hard to find an American Of the President: Are you sincere? You volunteering dressings and clothing and bedsheets and Listening carefully to his poignant prose, I who does not appreciate and support those claim these parades are staged to honor our colostomy bags, by feeding and soothing hear a charge of blasphemy made against a who stand ready to defend our nations' ideals heroes? If they are, why have you not brought those who those who honored you and their nation by nation that holds Life to be a fundamental and harder yet to find a person anywhere who forth from the military hospitals on the earth" in going directly from the vibrancy of youth to a right of every American, but in continual and does not love a parade, it is not likely these went from "flopping around to the wards, there to state of perpetual helplessness - many of authors would stand cheering at any bloody combat directly them in a war that could not be won? Does continuedonpage18 of war. It is easier to envision languish for the remainders of their lives. glorification June 28, 1991 page 9 mom ONO Mns

IWNK _-1Lo III- BEach Aria Group Celebral:es 1ith Season by Fletcher Johnson young instrumentalists and vocalists in the country. The classes The concert concluded are taught by some of the greatest virtuosi in our time including with a rare peformance of Every June Stony Brook resounds with Baroque oboist Ronald Roseman and soprano D'Anna Fortunato, both of Stravinsky's transcription of Monsters refrains. Since 1980 the Bach Aria Group has whom have appeared with the New York Philharmonic. The a Bach organ composition conducted an Institute in Bach performance and a institute included a broad range of lectures. A demonstration of transformed by the twentieth the rational festival of concerts that run along with it. baroque improvisation was delivered by organist William Porter. century master into a The Bach Aria Group is the longest running chamber music Mr. Porter is a leader amongst keyboardist known for taking a shimmering work for chorus, organization in the United States. Aware of the gaps in the historical approach to musical peformance and for his role in wind and brass orchestra, and the sensuous public image of Bach's music, in 1946 William Schiede, a leading the current revival of improvisation among American and harp. Sitting in the front - aroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - musicologist and philanthropist created a nine-member organists. A panel of musicologists and Stony Brook philosophy row with my feet on the 1750) was considered old fashioned in his lifetime and ensemble of vocalists and instrumentalists to to perform cantata professors discussed the sensuous and the rational in eighteenth stage itself I could read the in the years following his death but In the 19th music, specifically the aria literature - a variety of chamber century aesthetics. Finally, Bach authority Teri Towe explored music on the stands. A century he was recognized as one of the greatest music that combines ensembles and vocalists - music that did how Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, and Stravinksky influenced one violinist later told me that composers of the western world. He wrote a large bodysacred not fit the repertory of symphony orchestras and opera another. the singers were afraid of choral music including more than 200 cantatas and the regal companies. The group has toured in the U.S., Europe, South The accompanying festival of ten concerts included six spitting on those in the Mass in B Minor. His secular works include The Well-Tempered America. ad ih Near Fs, aýnd has a devoted audience nation- Sconce1t by he Bach Aria Group and the Festival orchestra and extremely close front rows. Clavier and the BrandenburgConcertos. chnno'ru a concert She also said that this was Bach was able to bring together different styles, forms, and geared for young- the first time the singers national traditions and enrich them through a masterful er audiences; and performed the piece with a synthesis. He was influenced by contemporary Italian opera and two recitals by straight face. She said that in by Italian concerto composer Antonio Vivaldi. Many of his the Artists- rehearsals, the singers were cantatas, chorales, arias and concertos reflect the Italian use of Fellows of the fooling around, "... because refrains - in which wholesale repetition of entire sections of a Institute at the the piece is so dreary." piece permitted him to create musical forms with much larger Staller Center. Keyboardist Yehudi Wyner dimensions than he'd previously been able. The show went added surprise to the evening Although considered conservative he was an innovator as well. on the road to with his interpretations with Bach was one of the very first composer of concertos for perform at the a sense of humor. keyboard instrument and orchestra. He was also one of the first Kaufmann The June 22 concert began to use the harpsichordisfts right hand as a true melodic part in Concert Hall in with the Sinfonias from chamber music. New York City Cantata 18 and 106. and a full day of Normally Bach would begin I The Baroque Period concerts at the d U.4,1LULd W ILL| .Id4IU, dtV, many of them, and then asked the King to give him the subject there is a deep structure of harmony. The public will recognize a Chelsea Man- movement which would provide a plot, however, he believed The Baroque composer had to be a traditionalist. The Baroque of a fugue. Bach played it immediately. The King was pleased, Blues theme even if a musician improvises because he or she is sion in Nassau that instruments can express the sense of texts as well as voices. style grew out of Renaissance tone-painting and musical and probably to see how far such virtuosity could be carried, he building a pattern on an accepted structure. In Bach's music, the County. The Sinfonia from Cantata 18 is a tone painting of softly falling representation of poetic imagery and concepts. The music used expressed the wish to hear an improvised fugue with six voices. performer will improvise from a structured language and build The June 15 rain and snow- an allegory for God's word. rationalistic formulas and representational melodies rather than This is a feat that very few musicians can achieved. Bach choose an ornamentation that respects someof the conventions of this concert featured The Group of Aria was marked by Cantata 139 in which a the sensuous direct emotional expression used in Classical and the subject himself, and to the astonishment of everybody, language. guest organist long held note by the singer is pressed down by the weight of Romantic music. improvised a fugue with six William Porter the "heavy grip" which suddenly is transformed via a tempo The techniques employed were classical rhetoric (the art of parts. who demon- change and soaring oboes. Cantata 202 was an example of tone moving an audience) which is closely related to pictorial After strated his com- painting. The image of sweeping clouds is suspended by the ( symbolism in which the composer may use a rising scale to Keyboard artist Yehudi Wyner leaving Post- mand of the fleeting strings. match words that speak of rising from the dead or composing a dam, Bach wide which is served annually through concerts. massive organ in the recital hall in performing Several Canonic The concert concluded with the "Trauerode," one of Bach's descending chromatic scale to accompany a mournful text. An composed , 19- g 4J L the Group's programming presents and contrasts the Variations on the Christmas Song, Von Himmel hoch da komm most moving secular works. A highlight of the piece is the use Sinterpretation of Descartes' theory of emotional states also was a Currently the subject V) i I AS F f? I I I ~ I ~ , I I t~r ~r varied aria repertory with complete cantatas and instrumental ich her. A Canon (rule or law) is a vocal or instrumental piece in of bells as a realistic representation of the bells which rang to basis of the style. He described how music could depict he had *s placing the arias in context with Bach's which several voices can be performed from a single one. In this announce deaths in the northern German towns and the emotional states and thereby stir the inner feelings and intellect chamber music. By received pieces the various elements play off piece, a chorale tune is introduced around which the other voices extremely powerful opening and closing choruses. of the listener-which is considered the aim of Baroque music. instrumental and choral from the each other delightfully. The aria music challenges soloist and revolve, in the fifth variation the chorale tune itself participates The Festival and Institute was a true success. If you missed the The generally rationalistic outlook of the time did not rely on King and 2 t.I ep Ir > - tones that has the effect of in the rotating patterns resulting in a kaleidescope of sound. action look for the 1985 documentary, "In Search of Bach," p 1 ~ I I. I ~ I I I ~ S"inspiration" in composition. The basis of compositional theory ensemble skill with a combination of wrote the fri') -t - [ FVG The Group of Arias included Cantata 95/4, an aria for tenor (don't confuse this with the Star Trek motion picture) and I . . I I Sis found in the historical background and its philosophical a glass of warm spiced wine. Musical , of Samuel Baron since and orchestra. A beautiful work of contrast in which a never "Music from the Bach Aria Festival," a digital recording of context. Bach composed at the peak of the Rationalist Age-an The Group has been under the direction Offering. It The Royal Theme 1980. Baron is one of the first performing artists to join the ending ticking clock, represented by the violin part, is embraced Bach's arias issued in 1988 on the Musical Heritage Society intellectual response to what philosophy professor Robert Crease consists of terms "a crisis of order." Thinkers after the Renaissance saw music department at Stony Brook. In 1980 Baron established the by a comfortable flowing melody sustained by the oboes. The label. one three-part fugue, one six-part fugue, ten canons, and a trio (the decline of the Holy Roman institute of Bach performance which combines performance tenor was stunning in his rendition of the text, in which a man, J.S. Bach order dissolve politically sonata. According to scholars, the six-part fugue is one of ecclisiastically (the many schisms of the Church), and study and lectures bringing together over 40 of the most talented his life completed, bids goodnight to the sinful world. Empire), Bach's most complex creations. Its theme is the Royal Theme intellectually (the decline of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism). composed by Frederick the Great and is reproduced here. In the golden age of reason when mathmatics was to be utilized Hofstadter, in his book Godel, Escher and Bach described the to project predictable consequences. Everything was brought Royal Theme. "That theme is a very complex one, rhythmically under this umbrella of reason to the extent that music, too was irregular and highly chromatic (that is, filled with tones that do considered a science. The Art of Baroque Improvisation not belong to the key it is in). To write a decent fugue or even Aristotle did not separate the senses from the intellect or by Jean Rousseau about his time as a student when late at night, other students, Porter then proceeded to show how improvisation can be part two voices based on it would not be easy for the average feeling from reason, he combined them into what we might call thinking they were alone, would dare to improvise on some of a fugue. Sitting at the organ, he played a simple theme with musician!" "'mind"today. The deductivism of the Pythagoreans resulted in Between two rehearsals, Samuel Baron, flutist, music director azz is often associated with the art of improvisation. But classical themes. The results could be beautiful, but the tacit rule one hand, then played a second part with the other hand, using reason becoming computational and defining feeling as only of the Bach Aria group, declared that "Improvisation exists as a in classical music it seems an anathema to even consider was that improvisation was not serious. Musicians tend to see the same theme on a lower key. He then modified the part for physiological. Prof. Victor Tejera says this abstraction wrought common language. In the Baroque period an understanding the idea of improvisation. William Porter, organist and the score as the final draft. Like an actor playing a part, the second hand by adding few notes. As the exercise evolved, "harmful spiritual consequences" and makes contemporary existed between composers, performers, and the listeners." harpsichordist, Professor of organ at :he New England faithfully repeating the original text, a musician will interpret Porter explained how to create new motifs and rhythms. Later, philosopher Santayana wish to "reunite the monsters" of the Muisical writings were more or less structured. The Conservatory in Boston, delighted his audience through earlier music to the note. But at the time of Bach, there was no he used the organ's pedals and his little finger on his right hand rational with the sensual. accompaniment was not that detailed, but there is structure to shattering the myth in a lecture preceding the June 15 concert earlier music, there was only contemporary music. to create two more parts. At the end he led us to a total A specialist in literature from the Renaissance says that it is that music and improvisation has to account for it. As in Blues, held during the Bach Aria Festival. When Porter later heard some musicians improvising on a Bach improvisation on a theme he selected. It was beautiful. wit or genius which mediates between that which is rational 1747, Bach was visiting The presentation took place in the Recital hall of the Staller fugue, he was amazed. How could they be so creative? Bach was an excellent improviser. In (contained,ideals for the benefit of society) and that which is was the city where Frederick the Great, King of Center. If you have ever been in that room, you may have Questioning the role of improvisation and looking at how music Potsdam. It sensual (personal, subversive, primordial). When he heard that Bach just arrived, he wondered about the decorative presence of a huge organ on was taught in previous centuries, Porter came to the conclusion Prussia, had his court. Bach's music was one of the first to be re-examined and it is Baroque music. In that summoned him. Frederick was himself a flutist and an admirer stage. Porter introduced us to this instrument. It is a copy of a that improvisation was a central part of still used today as the 17th and 18th century discipline of must of Bach. Bach did not even have the time to change from his Silbermann organ, a famous organ at the time of Johann context, improvisation followed precise rules. Performers musical rhetoric is being rediscovered and the renewed interest now rediscover what was the art of improvisation at the epoch of travelling clothes and was conducted to, the King. Frederick Sebastian Bach, which was made by Bozeman. Either standing in contemporary improvisation. requested that he play some compositions. Bach interpreted in front of the crowd or sitting at the organ, Porter reminisced - F.J. page 11 The Stony Brook Press page 10 June 28, 1991 MIMIIIIIIIIIMI - C I ~ · Look Out For Commuter Student Association

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True,W, Harsh And Funny Warld by Jean Rousseau Claude cannot stand that his father once hit his mother, that he cheated her and that he caresses week, the Tron Theatre Company his sister with insistence when she was younger. Last dreamed sister and mother challenge the from Scotland played The Real Warld? The by the Quebecois Michel Tremblay. It father and husband. They criticize him and refuse was the second Tremblay presented in to let him abuse them anymore. less than two months at Stony Brook. At one point, the sister starts a striptease, that's But it cannot be compared to the clownish her living. She tells him that when she was naiive, production of The Beautiful Sisters, staged by the she was happy. She realised there was something department of Theatre. The Tron Theatre was wrong. As she takes off her clothes, she yells at inspired; the audience was moved. Some her father. How can he come with his friends and spectators were even shocked and left before the joke at her, touch her when she undresses in a end. bar? Shouldn't a father respect his daughter more The Real Warld? was staged for the first time in than that? Montreal in 1987. The version offered at Stony The father in Claude's imagination was always Brook was in a single act, and shorter. The text away, non caring. He never kept his promises. He did not suffer. The actors spoke with a thick likes to laugh and cannot be serious one minute. Scottish accent. It was hard to understand at At the beginning, he arrives home, take off his moments, but it did not matter. The realism and clothes, and just wants to have a beer and watch the intensity of emotions were saying a lot. tv. He doesn't know why his son he's so upset, In this play, Tremblay becomes a composer. but he sees that his son knows him well. The Like in a fugue, he offers a contrapuntal vision of father offers to read the play, he looks at it, and a family. Two stories in one to describe the burns it. Claude has shown courage, but he asks suffering of Claude, a young man living with his too much. His family does not want to deal with parents. Claude is tired of all lies. In one story, it reality. is the daily reality of Claude trying to talk to his After the representation, people gathered in the family. It is funny and sad. The other story shows lobby of the Staller Center. Few personalities a family where sincerity explodes. It is were there, among them, the cultural attache at the dangerous. British embassy in Washington. I asked a member More than anything else, Claude wants to reach of the Tron Theatre if he was pleased by that his father. his attempts to talk to his father are presence. "Fucking Brits! But they pay for us to turned in derision. Claude writes a play about his be here." The Tron Theatre is not nationalistic in family and wishes that they will read it and the political sense, but culturally nationalistic. understands what he wants. The first theme is laid Scottish language is regaining popularity among out, the second starts. The characters in Claude's young people. By using Scottish, the Tron Theatre has reached a large public at home. A previous play become alive. Suddenly there are two production of Tremblay, The Guid Sisters (Les sisters and two fathers on stage, but mothers, two RBlles-Soaurs) was a success in Glasgow. It seems they don't see each other. It is a dream, a ballet The reply by the mother is fantastic. She talks about her that Tremblay's realism appeals to people in quest of identity. that Claude imagines. He is the only one to see all of them. silence and all the anger and suffering it expresses. Through It may be why he is so successful in Quebec and Scotland. What they are, and what he wishes they were. her silence she can think anything without hurting anybody. Tremblay's beautiful text and Tron Theatre frankness created At one point, his mother reads his play. She is shocked. She She accuses her son of not understanding her, of betraying a fascinating evening at Stony Brook. felt tricked. How did he dare to use her and make her say her. "I brought up a spy" she screams, and accuses him to find these things? The son replies that she does not talk, and as a a truth that suits him. fictional character in his play he wants her to say something. A Techno-Gypsy Circus f he Sixth Annual International Theatre Festival at The Flying Karamozov Brothers Stony Brook kicked off into high gear on Sunday, June 16th with the The Flying Karamazov Brothers "Theatre of the Air" extravaganza. No, they're not brothers, nor are they Nineteenth Century Dostoevsky characters. In fact, Ivan (Howard Jay Patterson), Dmitri (Paul David Magid), Smerdyakov (Sam Williams), and Fyodor (Timothy Furst) bore more resemblance to the Marx Brothers or a band of hippies than anything else. In fact, during the show the brothers dropped a few not so discreet drug references. At one point, they formed themselves into a circle and said, "Okay, let's space out!" Each member proceeded to do just that: staring into space and bobbing and weaving. Before the curtain in the nearly sold-out Staller Center Main Stage went up, I wondered how it was that four jugglers would sufficiently entertain the audience for two hours. This querie soon evaporated as the Brothers took the stage, introducing themselves and then translating their intro into halting textbook French. Flash cameras as well as firearms were declared prohibited. This ban on dangerous objects was limited only to firearms as the four would later amaze the audience by juggling both hazardous and cumbersome objects - among them - traditional Russian farming sickles. The troupe said that bona fide Russkys who saw them juggle sickles thought the Brothers to be maligning Mother Russia. The self-proclaimed jugglologists fused superior juggling skills with musical and comedic improvisation. In fact one of

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Godzilla, King of the has been the recently released Deadicated, an Monsters, makes a guest vocal appearance on a album of Grateful Dead songs done by the likes of track called , "Disaster Movie," which is sort of a Jane's Addiction, the Indigo Girls, Black Uhuru, tribute to Irwin Allen. The big, green, fire breathing and others. I'd review it for you but I couldn't bear guy also turns up on a single by Accidental to listen to that many Dead songs in a row. The Potatochip, "Madonna Vs. Godzilla," on the Vital most well conceived and executed covers comp Music label. The 'Chips are the brainchild of Letch that I have ever seen is the new A Tribute To Billy Patrol's Harris Pankin. Harris enlisted drumer Race Joel on Skyclad records. I detest Billy Joel and Age (Dogbowl, Hexus Plex, Jennifer Blowdryer) living on Long Island makes it damn near and got Vital Music Records guru Jim Fourniadis impossible to go anywhere that has a jukebox to play bass and recorded this tale of Madonna and without hearing "Piano Man" or any of his other Godzilla networking Hollywood style. Harris uses horrible hits. It seems that the folks at Skyclad what has been referred to as the "breakthrough share my sentiments. This record, Skyclad's 100th technique" of CD manipulation. Fourniadis also release, contains NO music, not a note. The record, produced Iron Prostate's album and in a phone call pressed on clear wax, is blank. Etched on the earlier this week he revealed that is is the same runout groove is "Get a sense of humor, OK?!?" digital sample of Toho studios big boy on both The record has very funny comic cover art of a bug releases. We Have A Dilemma Here, a cassette ony eyed skinhead holding some daisies. It lists for release from Long Island's Floating Earth has not $6.66 and is a limited edition of 666 copies. Bravo! one, but two tracks that use Godzilla's roar. Another release on Skyclad is the first album from "Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster" is an instrumental New York's Iron Prostate. Their Loud, Fast, and that sounds like the Ventures meet the Dickies in Aging Rapidly is one of the best records that I have outerspace on a helium rush. "Houzilla" is built on heard in a long time. This is punk rock in a style a snappy drum track sampled from a hip hop record similar to the Dead Boys and the Ramones. A onto which were added a funky bass groove and a couple of the songs deal with greying hair, balding number of samples from a Godzilla flick. The other heads and the impending old age of the band's tracks feature solid pop songwriting. "It's Over," members. In "Hell Toupee" singer Scot Weiss tells with Mike Maccarrone's breathy vocal and lyrical a story of selling his soul for a quality hairpiece. references to T-Rex is a strong cut. For more info One verse goes, "Eternal pain and suffering is what call (516) 424-7527 ... If you act quickly you still awaits for me in Hell/ But I'm getting laid a lot and may be able to secure a copy of the Vacant Lot's it suits me well/ When I'm bored I take off my first single "She's Gotta Leave" b/w "All Kinds Of hairpiece for kicks/ And the label says 'Inspected Girls." These guys play infectious, high energy II 1• . . . . . by number 666'" The track is driven by a chugging rocK_ - _4'n -roll_ with snarp-I _ vocal__ - -1 harmonies. The B side riff similar to Tom Petty's "Running Down A Billy Joel after hearing his Tribute album is a cover of the Real Kids classic. The single is Dream" but with more balls. "Rock "N Roll pressed on green wax and they only made 1,000 of Nursing Home," about laxatives, Geritol and black them. Write to Baylor Records, 48 Monitor St., leather wheel chairs, is a fitting successor to the Ramoones Prostate includes former members of False Prophets, Ed Brooklyn, N.Y. 11222 if you're interested. The Vacant Lot tune that inspired it. Other great tunes are a heavy metal Gein's Car and one Charles M. Young, a former Associate will have a new single featuring their show stopper rave up of "Danny Boy" and "Gilligan," which is about the Editor at Rolling Stone. According to Young's wry liner "Cyclone," about the world's greatest roller coaster, out on Skipper's little buddy plotting the deaths of the other notes guitarist George Tabb asked him to join Iron Prostate Chaos Records later this month. ;Zý- release Mouth Of Infinity Swans are augmented by comes drummer Anton Fier, known for his work close to with Golden Palominos, and Jim "Foetus" t h e Thirlwell who coproduced the album with majesty of Gira. their stunning -S.W. 1987 work, Children Land Falls Of God. Springhouse Imagine staring (Caroline) out at a Incision broad, Springhouse are stylistically rooted in cold British post-punk but they, thankfully, have Venus Beads horizon at none of the blatant, gloomy, nihilistic, self- (Roadrunner) dawn with absorption that runs rampant in the genre. all of your What's left? Plenty. Land Falls is full of When I first got this disc to review I was fears crafty songs with catchy melodies and the very excited. I thought this was a band that I naked and occasional quirky harmony to tweak the had seen one night last year in New York. exposed listener's ear. Guitarist Mitch Friedland plays They combined the best aspects of "Smoky like raw an electrified nylon-string guitar that has a Robinson/ Marvin Gaye Motown soul and nerves. timbre that complements his playing. He Chic/Lipps Inc. '70s disco with a great T h i s reaches into the upper registers with no effort. fashion sense. No such luck. It turns out that record is Drumer Jack Rabid, publisher of the fanzine that band is called Venus Beat. The Venus t h a t "The Big Takeover," contributes the majority Beads are nowhere near as talented or chilling. of the lyrics and there are a couple of gems. inspired. They bring the standard two guitar/ "Failure" "Eskimo" deals with the issue of bass/ drums rock band to a new low of is an especially haunting cut with subtle homelessness in an ingeneous way that is not banality. There is not a memorable tune n' White Light From The power. Listening to it is like slowly sinking in patronizing - much better than Anthrax's the lot. Singer Rob Jones sounds as if he Mouth Of Infinity a sea of molasses with no hope of a life "Who Cares Wins" but not on the same level would rather be sleeping. The guitar players preserver being tossed. The days when Swans of the Old Skull masterpiece, "Homeless." use a few odd textures and harmonies but it Swans inflicted their songs on the world with With its refreshing pop sensibilities Land sounds as if it were recorded underwater on a (Young God Records) smashing, crashing guitars are apparently Falls is worth a listen. boom box by a deaf person and the sum isn't gone forever. The music features lots of much. atmostpheric keyboards and acoustic guitars. Michael Gira and company paint a a bleak Some of it reminds me of early '70s v- picture with this one. This double length Tangerine Dream. On White Light From The -S.W. The Stony Brook Press page 14 dl , I -__ ,,STAGE filled with fruit, cheese and crackers were available, as well as a bar with several tuxedoed bartenders. There was live "new What age' music performed by a duo called Symmetry. I grabbed a few crackers and got myself a gin and tonic and proceeded to open my eyes to the strange three dimensional world of Have holograms. As you walked into the door of the museum the first thing you see is Internal Views, the exhibition of American Medical holography. We "My interest is to develop holography as a teaching tool. I believe that holograms will prove to be better than conventional two dimensional images, the added dimension Done makes it easier to understand complex structures and their greater impact will lead to better memory retention," said Dr. Les F"lio, whose Non-Invasive Holographic Magnetic Angiograph of the vasculature of a living child's brain was To notable because medical students and doctors have always relied on photographs, models, exploratory surgery, or cadavers in order to get information regarding the delicate structures of the brain. But with holograms the students get a Junior? stable, accurate representation similar to an X-Ray, that shows three dimensions. By Mitchell Welssberg One spectacular hologram, "Hologram of a Visible Woman", showed a life-size, three-dimensional view of an woman. As the viewer of the hologram changed his or 1ý m. ... --- il-,n thhtit vl• t adult uquus uona dvmn j her angle of vision they would see a different sub-structure of WIof the nature of ourselves, of the meaning of our lives, the anatomy. Dr. Ko, a neurologist at Long Island's Mount and the circumstances in part responsible for the Sinai hospital had several beautiful and quite sensitive I conditions in our immediate relationships is fine, if only it holograms of the human brain and a patient with a brain that are for some the essence of The Cast of is not at the expense of the values tumor. "Beyond medicine, holograms are my way of In the two-part play Baby With The BABY WITH THE BATHWATER what life is - the family. communicating to the general public the wonder that I feel at the appeal to the audience for by Christopher Durang; directed by John Bathwater there is the scenario, the still unresolved nature of the brain. Those who otherwise modern American home, The Lutterbie; set design by Richard Dunham; lighting recognition of the plight of the may not have had the opportunity to view the human brain is an immediate departure from the design by Richard Dunham/Steve Martin; costume Dingleberrys'. However there may pause for a moment to reflect on it's mastery," obvious mixed sorts, design by Christine Pascual; sound design by Eff norm, for the Dingleberrys are a pair of eloquently observes Dr. Ko, whose research has broke normal, so to Henriquez. Produced by Dramatists Play Service, immediately departing from one's conception of considerable ground in the field of medical holography. who in the first Inc. at Theatre One/Staller Center For The Arts. speak. Helen and John are the flustered parents As artistic as the Medical Holography was, it couldn't scene are in a struggle over the ideas of the mind, the social Nance Daniels surpass the work of the IV Holographers From the UK. Matt economy of life, the equation of love, work, marriage, and of Helen ...... Thomas Greer Andrews, Paul Newman, Caroline Palmer, and Duncan course, 'Baby.' John ...... Bayly Young, countrymen of Dennis Gabor, the British scientist The matters of the Dingleberrys are no less confused when Nanny Nanny/Kate/Miss Pringle...... Fiona Frers who invented the holographic process, attained an interplay of takes center stage, with a host of demands, including fair wages as Cynthia/Angie/Principle/Susan...... Lucinda Smith light and space that would have made Gabor proud. well as work restrictions and all the other requirements so Psychiatrist's voice...... Matthew Daisy...... MauriceBryan Most notable was Paul Newman's "Light Forms". These reminiscent of that one late night rerun with which we are all so were abstract sculptures of light. In conventional mediums the familiar. art form is confined to a space, such as a canvas, and remains 10 no one s surprise,; me nousenolu occ;omes rieien, -jon, Izuanny fixed in that space. With Newman's work, the art form lies the appeal to the senses, the and Daisy. As the first act continues there are the unnoticed charades, the lines not delivered, somewhere outside the glass panels which sculpt the light and calamity, so trite in actual comparison to the injustice if it were to be taken seriously. hurl it toward the viewer. The three-dimensional image despite a few casual, even restrained, Act Two commences with the thought in mind that this is cast as a comedy after all. glimmers and hangs in empty space, where it's rainbow colors park, are if nothing more, a genre guffaws. The afternoon in the park did not draw much attention, for after all afternoons in the shift and animate when the viewer changes the angle. of one bemused. Daisy as we learn not to be underestimated. However, suddenly, Daisy makes his entrance with the wonder Matt Andrews, who was the only artist at the reception, had he wallows through his college has been attempting to finish his first sentence on Gulliver's Travels for eight years, as some clever and meaningful works. His "Identical Portraits" education, prolonged for reasons not clearly articulated. showed two identical portraits side by side, but because they sessions, demeaning, though helpful, for it just so To add insult to injury, Daisy undergoes a brief number of therapy were identical "you never see the same two images at the some reason quite another story. The shrink was happens that this is a production, a play, for in real life such things are for same time." His self-portrait, "Nude," showed the subject hopes to someday appear in person if his backstage voiced over by Matthew Smith not present, no doubtably on leave, for he lying behind wooden slats, an obscure and receding image of working on the interval, the music, as a supposition. work ever coincides with his performance abilities I presume. Matt is still mottled blue tones, which gave the work a serene, almost consequences of a red dye No. 2, lead, and asbestos- Low and behold Daisy, mind cluttered with innuendo, has to bear the underwater effect. "Roses" was my favorite; it's composition is the elusive bathwater, the light, filled nurturing of parents objectively not suited for one another. To the dismay so predictable is a startling dichotomy of amber and blue, the shadows of the attempt at homeostasis, denied in the fractured camera, action, four color coordinated dip into the non-realistic, the crude roses proceed and recede in an interplay of dimension and innocence of a rose of another name. color. is it a representation of what is deemed All in all the question remains for those not fully versed in theater at the Brook; Caroline Palmer's work was also fascinating. "Lingam" was as theater be hidden from most being at times normal, or was it an off-night for someone? Can that perplexing thing known a definite success, with the most subtle, yet effective use of even dissociated from itself? three-dimensions at the show. "Diamonds and Stripes" and will be performed again July 6,10, 21 Stony Brook Theatre is beginning its twenty-seventh season. Baby With The Bathwater "Sakti Cluster" were less successful but had more of a June 26-29 and July and 22 at 8 p.m. The Dining Room, a play by A.R. Gurney and directed by Loyce Arthur will be presented holographic effect and the geometric patterns were 5, 11 & 13. A lT mesmerizing. I - · I ' I-Mn I Admission to the Museum is $2.50 for students and Senior Citizens, $3.50 for all others, and is open Monday thru Saturday 11-4 pm and 11-8 pm on Wednesdays. The Summer VIEWS' exhibitions will be shown until September 15th, so if you 'INTERNAL need a break from Summer classes and you're thinking of NYC Museum of Holography Hosts Summer Exhibitions spending a day in the city drop by 11 Mercer Street, in the middle of Soho and see some colorful three-dimensional art. laser technology that produces holograms is also responsible counter. by MJXII for the scanners at the checkout Over 60,000 people each year are treated to yet another holographic art. Housed in a long time ago, and in a galaxy far, far away, aspect of this technology, Along, cast-iron building in New York City's Soho art there was the holographic motion picture. As R2- landmark The Museum of Holography has the world's largest D2, a cute little extra-terrestrial android bleeped district, collection of holograms and holographic material. The and whirred and projected a holographic image of museum has been a proponent and a patron of this relatively a beautiful Princess Leia, audiences all over the world were new art form since 1976, and it's traveling exhibitions have exposed to one of the earliest examples of holography in the attracted almost a half-million people from three continents. motion picture Star Wars. On May 22nd the museum held a reception for the opening The technology for producing an actual motion picture of it's Summer Exhibitions, Pulsed Reductions, presented by hologram is still somewhere in another galaxy, and the Fringe Research Holographics, Internal Views, a collection of hologram in Star Wars was simply a clever special effect. But American Medical Holography, and IV Holographers From holographic technology has come a long way. Holograms are t the UK, as well as an exhibition by Polaroid on corporate and seen every day when the average American consumer pays advertising applications for holograms. for something with his or her credit card, where a small The museum held a gracious reception. Two large tables hologram is embossed as a security precaution. The same June 28, 1991 page 15 geIIIM ill~l - I· II I -~"s~S~ Sunday School education was nil since it was I rrlslli~ Revolution costly and dressing for shool was likewise continued from page 6 expensive. But even when a child could go to Look Sharp at Your Next Job Interview The second event happened during the school, the demand for work at home often Revolutionary War. The rock was used to prevented attendance. mount a 6 pound brass cannon for the short battle of Setauket. This was the only overt Thompson House battle in Setauket. The battle ended with the retreat of the rebels to their whaleboats on the This important complex of stuctures Sound. includes an herb garden, well, and well sweep, and the Thompson family cemetery The Emma S. Clark Library on the hill behind it. Adjacent to the Thompson House is the headquarters building A free public library which has over of L.I. Antiquities built in the early 1800s. 170,000 books. The building was built in The Thompson House is open mid-May 1892 by the Emma S. Clark Library through the third Sunday in October from 1- Association formed by Thomas G. 5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hedginkins a local philanthropist and uncle The Thompson House is a good example of of Emma Clark. the English medieval building tradition carried on by housewrights in New England The Village Green and L.I. well into 19th century.The Thompson House contains one of the finest A triangular plot of ground smaller than collecions of L.I. furniture. Other items of the original ground laid out by the settlers interest in the Thompson House includes a over 300 years ago. It is the site of 2 large collection of houshold and farm historical churches and is still a place of utensils. With few exceptions everything was gathering for the community. raised on the place, the food the family ate, the flax and wool for their clothes, many of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal their dyes and medications, and most of the Church (A.M.E.) wood with which they cooked and built their houses. For more information call 941-9444. The church was founded by a former slave. the A.M.E. church appealed to many blacks even though early Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and Dutch Reformed churches were racially integrated. By 1845 there were over 8,000 blackes on L.I. - about 940 of them were members of A.M.E. The Bethel church served as a religious and social hub of activity for the Three Village black citizens. The church was also the center for education. The children were taught in the Sunday School. Without what was taught at

0I r1cWroONLQrn- I . - L , -- · ' I '- J INI physically addictive (only psychologically - and one can be such as yourself are feeding them. by Tania Heather Cannibulati psycologically addicted to a portrait of Norman So boys and girls, lesson number one: don't listen those Schwartzkopf, for crying out loud). I shouldn't have to cite that would tell you how to think, eat, speak and whatever The danger in illegalizing marijuana is that you make England's Opium wars (on drugs) and Prohibition and else they might think of to impose upon your bodily space explain now making drugs criminalsout of the most intelligent, sensitive people..." illegal causes crime. I shouldn't (believe me, they will come up with a very long list o demands on how you should be existing). This is also known as mind-fuck, or more simply, rape. -Allen Ginsberg Number two: If someone tells you not to eat broccoli because you will become decadent or evil or you will never Call me when the hysteria has died down. wake up again, don't worry. That broccoli belongs to you if Call me when the terror is evaporated in a puff of smoke you might want to sample a little for your well-being. and crackpots stop using crack and pot in the samebreath. DARIN4 Anything in excess is harmful - even broccolli. But the Call me loud and clear, yodel if you have to - and I'll pull IDRUG question is not whether you should or should not - leave that up my shades and emerge from the haze and exhale a bong i EXPOSI up to the priests. That question doesn't even exist - but you hit of relief. do. If there is only one thing that you enter the world with it It is a lot easier to externalize the enemy rather than look is you. And if it were a long time ago the only thing you within oneself an figure out just what the fuck is bugging would've found when you got here is broccolli. Pretend like you. Whether it be an evil dictator on the other side of the it's the old days and no one is around to dictate the meaning earth or a diabolical pagan god or martians or the killer weed of and the rights and the wrongs and the ins and outs of the or whatever - it's all the same to me. Don't tell me how evil way things are and should be and how you should live has invaded my body, mind, and spirit and my bad karma accordingly (which was never, but this is make-believe, boys increases with every joint I smoke because I don't buy it. and girls). What would you do? You tell me what the fuck is really bugging you and if it's . I II Tw- wwI i wIN W - w Well, again, providing that no one was there to hit you me then say it but don't blame your anxieties on a frigging over the head and take it from you, you might eat some plant. broc...then again, if you're not hungry, you might make a And that's all it is, really. Just like broccoli -except it turns cool pipe and smoke a bowl. degenerates like me on and you can't stand it. Us potheads The point is that when push comes to shove, shove back.. are having to much fun, to much pleasure, to much hedonism Nowadays we don't have to fight to the death for what for your damned holy sensiblities to tolerate. belongs to us, we don't have to worry about someone You can't tolerate what I do with myself. You want to stealing our possessions through force, we have law for that, control and restrict what everybody who is having much we have police for that, there is no need for struggle in a more fun than you does. So you blame your truly evil, civlized society such as this...or is there? Think about it You meddling mind on me. And then you take away from me, have a right to every possesion except the only one you through brute force, what belongs to both of us. You do it really have - and that belongs to the lawmakers. And then call it law - legalized crime - and with the priests. sanctimoniuos mendaciousness that is so typical of real If you smoke but are afraid to speak up, you are not alone. criminals like you. The war on drugs is created to either keep you in the dark You doit with priestly religious fervor and call it good and about the realities of marijuana and other mind-altering just to rape and pillage - a crusade. You've joined the even have to explain why it's my right to smoke it if I want substances or to create a need for it so all the governmental righteous cause of the moment and since it prevents you to but because of criminals like you who would like to see cash that is invested in smuggling keeps circulating. Smoke from facing exactly what you are and where you came from everyone miserable and petty and suffering like you are as up, enjoy, keep it low for now and do what you can to you'll crucify me and anyone else who may offend your you seethe from within the prison walls of your own LEGALIZE IT! (or grow your own) priggish nostrils. peevishly calculating minds I am forced to educate those that I shouldn't have to argue what marijuana is and how it isn't actually buy the line of fascist crap that terrifying monsters I , I - - I -I I I I -- I __ · I , II I I Ill · L~ I, I I I I _ II I I L The Stony Brook Press page 16 I I - , '' :FO ( DD SOUP Walking e If you're long on hunger and A ea short on cash check out the soup kitchens that are in the local Kitchbens community. You walk in ± CVlellS famished and walk out well-fed, for full of good cheer, a few stories C an from new acquaintances and may be a doggy bag to boot. M There are several kitchens in M ean,the area that fill an obvious A Dine human need. Programs in Port H m Jefferson and Port Jefferson are cappucino (along with dozens of Jl operated by the Welcome Inn, an gourmet coffees, including affiliate of The Interfaith exotics such as Kahlua Kona A w ay Nutrition Network. The services style and Hawaiin Coconut). at St James in East Setauket and THE Fields has gourmet said Fm St Gerard in Port Jeff Station are dressings, chips, soda, pastries et F rom privately operated. cetera...even baskets - naked or The St James Roman Catholic LITTLE. MANDARINS adorned with gourmet goodies. H Om e Church is located on Route 25A If you're there for a meal, I Jo across from the Post Office. This recommend the grilled chicken is a five star kitchen folks. salad with pomeray mustard, a Volunteers pick you up at 4:30 pm every Sunday at the delicious hit selling at 30 pounds Student Union and Chapin Apartments. Father Twomey and per week. The Penn Dutch potato the lovely Kathleen Viola host the dinner which is preceded The Little Mandarins was opened up in 1969 and has been salad is my creamy and satisfying favorite. The vegetables by musical entertainment. Randy Berliant,"The man who on 744 Route 25A ever since. Chung-Na Cheng, the owner, is and the herbs used in all the dishes are fresh out of the earth, loves to sing," has belted out Al Jolson numbers, a gutarist from Shanghai and expresses distaste for mainland Chinese the Asparagus With Roasted Peppers and the Oriental and singer has covered the Greatful Dead, and last week there folk. They probably wouldn't care too much for him, either, or Broccolli Snowpea Salad With Sesame Oil attest to the fact. was a choir of Salvadorean refugees. When I was there dinner I should say, his food, as although it is the best in the area that Also fresh and abundant is "Eric's famous ratatoullie," in consisted of an excellent shepherd's pie, salad, and assorted isn't saying much. A NYC Chinatown buff myself, I found the which one can sense and enjoy every zucchini, yelow squash, desserts. And if you need it, a care package can be obtained to service at Little Mandarins questionable, the entrees less italian plum tomatoe, and eggplant bit in it - not to forget the take on the road. flavorful than one could hope for, and I had to pay for the tea. fresh garlic and other herbs. The ambience looks like it had been there since 1969, the The service is prompt and efficient...my highest suggestion decor: red, with atypical red-and-gold dragons adorning the before you leave is to try the absolutely holy Bread Pudding entryway. with Whisky Sauce - really unbelievable! I wouldn't steer you Besides all that, they don't deliver. However, if you are on wrong, try Strawberry Fields if you can - the proof of it's campus and feel like taking a little walk, Mandarins could excellence is apparant when you first walk in and the only serve as a variable break from the nieghboring delivery problem in the establishment is that you may have to wait on Chinese such as Lan Wo or King Wah, and considering the a pretty long line. 14 relative quality of these places it might be worth the added expense (Manderins indeed costs more). Chaya King Japanese is another one that is lacking in Mr. Cheng favorites are the Ginger Shrimp and the Orange service a little - don't be surprised if you go and the Chinese Chicken - I tried the chicken and it's edible. He says that his waitress doesn't understand the Japanese menu - however, it's prawns are the biggest shrimp anywherebut these are 10-15$ the only sushi for miles and it's within walking distance from meals here and that may be beyond the average collegiate campus. Right down the road from Little Mandarins at 700 INN budget. Try thecombination lunch specials. At 5 or 6$ you get Rt. 25A, it has decent sushi, teryaki and tempura - but be the egg roll or soup, entree (anywhere from good old chop prepared to spend a little. I suggest the tekka maki (tuna roll) suey to shrimp with lobster sauce), and the tea is free. Oh, and and the shrimp tempura, which is a little greasier than don't worry -you'll still be hungry an hour later. necessary but serves it's purpose. Remember, if your hungry Monday and Wednesday you can get some grub from 6-7 a Japanese restauraunt is not excactly the best place to go pm at the Greek Orthodox Church on Sheep Pasture Road in because sushi never fills you up - so if you must go while Port Jefferson Station. I found the crowd here to contain a lot hungry be prepared to spend a lot . of families with children and the food a bit more coarse. *? Chuck and Carolyn Bennet organized the Welcome Inn and work with the coordinators of the individual churches with which they are affiliated. On Tuesday food can be found at the First Baptist Church located on East Main Street in Port Jeff. Welcome Inn also serves dinner at the First Presbyterian church on Main Street. - w/k skey auce All meals are served promptly at 6 pm. it\ /4 If you can get to Terryville Road in Port Jeff Station, visit st Gerard Mafella R.C. church. An older crowd fills the place which has tables covered with bright blue tarpaulins. The variety of food is extraordinary. When I was there the menu consisted of fried tortelline, stuffed cabbage, and a slew of cakes and pastries. Although some of the peole are at the kitchens simply for food, many are there for the fellowship. Warm feelings fill the Strawberry Fields - When Eric Koslow and Scott cavernous rooms just at the odors of the food. Koppelman rejected the name of "The Food Dudes" from a If you need some food, bring your appetite, if you have the list of hundreds and chose the legendary Lennon's means donate some food or spend some time on the other side "Strawberry Fields" when they opened up a gourmet deli in of the serving table. 1990, they chose a winner. Located on 25A directly next door to 7/11 across from the railroad tracks, Strawberry Fields is a great little place to stop for a sandwich (it's also a novelty!). The owners are also the chefs and they are good. They have a very unique gourmet sandwich board - try "The University," fresh water mozzerella, sun-dried tomatoes and basil vinagrette; also "The Strawberry Fields" - turkey breast, brie, lettuce, sun-drieds and honey mustard - they give a 10% discount to students (they also hire a lot of students - currently they have a full staff of 12). At 4-5$ a sandwich it's more f~f3 than a bargain. Sound good? It gets better. Strawberry Fields does deliver - at a 15$ minimum. It's worth it once you taste the food and it's certainly better than Manderins. They have a full breakfast menu and are in bright 001 and early 6:30 every am. They have frozen yogurt and iced June 28,1991 page 17 -- I M Ill I a block of dry ice, a torch, a ukelele, a salt ...Listen shaker, and a meat cleaver. The jugglers also continued fovm page 9 Brothers performed, "The Gamble" - an ongoing family tradition. The audience is allowed to increasing military readiness and activity almost insures that war - with it's inevitable continuedfrom page 13 bring up a number of objects which can be no bread box and must weigh more death - will be a rite of passage and test them declared that, "Juggling is music." A bigger than a of than an ounce. Ivan Karamazov then chooses patriotism for our badly educated, and job- valid statement, as the Karamozov juggler three of these objects to attempt hungry young people -of whatever color. must coordinate use of rhythms and patterns juggling. If in three tries he can juggle them for ten I cannot imagine O'Brien standing and with timing. Their musical numbers ranged seconds he wins a standing ovation. cheering at such a spectacle. It is easy to see from jazz improvisation to playing the "Ode If not, he him standing with the great young writers to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony gets a pie in the face. Among the objects who draw on their Vietnam experiences, most to a funky earth-conscious tune, "The Whole presented which he did not choose was a pair notably the poet W.D.Erhart. Erhart made a World's Gotta Learn To Juggle." The latter of hedge clippers which were too dangerous. statement as compelling as O'Brien's ... was on the whole a good song, even though The three objects chosen were a slinky, bull about the unremitting evolution of our nation an unabashed plug for the troupe's new horns mounted on a plaque, and a pair of to a military state when he wrote in 'The instructional videotape. bottles tied together. It appeared that Ivan was making progress, but ultimately Invasion of Granada' - I didn't want a The Brothers were able to he could not sustain monumentJnot even one as sober as that/vast transform juggling into a synthesized string a count of ten so he received a pie black wall of broken lives./I didn't want a quartet and a jazz combo thanks to sensors in the face. postage stamp./l didn't want a road beside placed upon their color-coordinated jump At one point the brothers were the Delaware/River with a sign suits and helmets. As they juggled clubs the embroiled in a heated argument: whether proclaiming:/"Vietnam Veteran Memorial Brothers would strike their helmets and the juggling is an art or a science. As I watched Highway."/ /What I wanted was a simple sensors, thereby causing the synthesizer to the show I concluded that it included aspects recognition/of the limits of our power as a play via remote control. They also played of both. In any event their juggling was nation/to inflict our will on others./What I music directly, that is by actually juggling scientific in that it fused technology with art wanted was an understanding/that the world their instruments. One played a mean jazz through utilizing technical wizardry to is neither black-and-whitelnor ours/What I xylophone, juggling the mallets while transform juggling into music. Although wanted was an end to monuments. accompanied by snare drum and electronic some may have left the Staller Center ...Military drafts - for all their deficiencies - drums. If they were garbed in Russian pondering whether or not juggling is do place sensitive human beings on the peasant clothing instead of tuxedos with tails somewhat art or somewhat science, The battlefields, artists who later convert their they would have resembled techno-gypsies. Flying Karamozov Brothers proved their experiences into statements for humanity. Not only did the Brothers juggling to be pure fun. Without their dissent, arguments for use of Karamazov juggle with consummate skill, our most primitive instincts prevail over those they juggled a variety of less than traditional for the use of reason and diplomacy in the objects, among the more cumbersome: the affairs of state. "Objects of Terror," which were brought out It is time for the incumbent and intended one at a time at various intervals. 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-Uiis June 28, 1991 page 19 ýRT Post-WarPostAWar AbstractionsAbstract constant pervasive image of Gottlieb's era - footsteps. Paintings and Monotypes from Adolph Gottlieb Footsteps were signs of the past...that set the course for today." (AGEA, Polcari) Open Above, done in 1973, is a fun mixture of study and play on forms and colors. On a watery but smooth gray surface, three bars of yellow, orange and red on the bottom of the painting slowly turn up the heat of emotion up while tic- tac-toe figures above are crowded together like disassembled stick-figures.

The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb Organized by Sanford Hirsch, director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.

S. n the other, side of the gallery is the second part of the circulating show en- titled The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb. S The exhibit will travel , Ial to various colleges and Ochre and BiacK, 19•2 Oil on canvas, 78 X 132" universities through- out the country until onto the palettes (and buckets) of these artists. The wedlock of December, 1992. The painting techniques and colors served well the method of show consists of 36 by Rick Teng Abstract Expressionism in ways more vibrant than the styles colored prints (mono- of its European relatives. The spontaneity of style and a types in oil on paper) compositional manner full of exploding energy were known done between 1973 as "drip paintings." Abstract Expressionism is certainly and 1974 (the final Epic Art monumental, and epic art. Gottieb's works, however, are Curated by Stephen Polcari, minimal in effect. ytars Ui ottLLieo s life). This collection of New York director of the Smithsonian Insititution's The first painting of the Epic Art series of the two-part Archives of American Art. Untitled, 1973 works, shrunk to small show is called Aftermath, done in 1959. It is oil on canvas and scale, has the usual resembles an enormous watercolor composition. His study of forms and colors. Why were they shrunk? Gottlieb "Imaginary Landscape" series came into mind. The loosely had a misfortune in 1970 when he was paralyzed in one arm painted misty gray space and a single orange circle on the top from a stroke. His goal to paint even larger scale paintings center of the canvas effortlessly instilled an apocalyptic air. dimmed when he was unable to produce large works as he Gottlieb examined the human condition in the "aftermath" of was confined to a wheelchair. But this did not stop him from disaster. The smokiness of the gray space echoes the silence trying. Gottlieb had his assistants prepare the canvas, paints of an empty battlefield. Desolation shapes this impressionistic and positioning of the area to paint so he can move as little as forecast expressed with an insistence to see through the eyes possible. Gottlieb's mastery of color manipulations remains of a child. undiminished. The interplay of colors on forms and space The next Epic painting is Ochre and Black, finished in wheels around in great psychological motion as objects 1962. It is oil on canvas. But instead of depicting a landscape, become symbols (with characteristics of their own) and space it is rather a self-portrait as if it was drawn by a child for a becomes a cerebral landscape. On the other hand, each work psychology experiment. The vanilla color skin, the round looks like a self-portrait, a face, whether of a human, or a black eyes (both eyes have black pupils within them; the one cyclop. on the right is tan and slightly larger) and the dilated pubils But all this changed when art dealer Brooke Alexander reminded me of Bill the Cat. The mouth is composed of thick brought a press to Gottlieb's East Hampton studio in the brushstrokes, which finally completes a face of a kid who has Spring of 1973 so Gottlieb could make small scale works on just finished chocolate ice cream, or a person with a bloody selected quality papers. This was the beginning of the mouth. The large scale of the work creates an effect of Monotypes series. Gottlieb was satisfied that he was able to individual forms, transforming the blotted eyes and mouth do the work himself, and he continued to do so until his death into basic forms. in March of 1974. One, Two, Three, made in 1964, is oil on canvas. This piece In the Monotypes, like his Pictograph etching series of the is from his Bursts series, which he began in 1957. Four balls 1940's, "line merges with and transforms itself into and out of are ordered in space. The minimal effect moves this painting images. Transformation and a parallel concept - the nature of away from earlier works of entrapment and violence that were actuality versus interpretation..." (Monotypes of Adolph common in most Abstract Expressionists. Now a sense of Gottlieb, Sanford Hirsch) The personas of the circle, once peace gives way, a sense of construction and hope retailored again dominant in this series, seem to affect their beneath a healing sun. The ever-presence of enormous environment, or vice versa, and "...became an icon many Rorschach-like images catapult the viewer into a different One, Two, Three, 1964 viewers interpreted as the sun, while others saw it as a frame, as if he is standing amidst the room of a giant post-war Oil on canvas, 132 X 78" reference to the Buddhist concept of yin and yang; still others child filled with the child's ink drawings. saw a symbolic earth poised as a counterpoint to the blast of Labyrinth #3, done in 1954, is oil on canvas. It is a terrific nuclear Armageddon, or a manifestation of sexual tension and blend of yellow orange strings and black steel girders release." (MAG, Hirsch) It is zen-goo-goo, so to speak. The hildlike innocence, I thought to myself as I viewed intertwined, resembling somewhat a crazy highway system as "Imaginary Landscapes" came back into mind as the circle the works of Abstract Expresssionist Adolph seen from above. This work "expands the basic structure of and space become sun and sky. Gottlieb. It was exciting to see actual works from a Gottlieb's Pictographs - criss-crossing horizontal and vertical famous artist of the 20th Century at the University's compartments representing an archetypal pictorial form...into Art Gallery. dynamic moving space. Human experience...had constituted Adolph Gottlieb was one of New York's Abstract Gottlieb's contribution to the theme of imprisonnent and Expressionists. This group of American artists, formed during entrapment pervasive among the Abstract Expressionists.." June 12- August 15, 1991 the second world war, sought to express their vision of a (Adolph Gottlieb, Epic Art, Stephen Polcari). University Art Gallery world engulfed by wars and depression. Their brush Triptych, done in 1971, is acrylic on canvas, and is a three- Staller Center for the Arts techniques and their philosophy, like Europe's Cubists and panel work reminiscent of the earlier Bursts series. Gottlieb Dadaists, were used as vehicles for their journalistic reporting. manipulated colors and forms and produced a revealing Glimpses of the disasters of wars and depression were blueprint of his mind. The tan background pours out into its :·:·:c-;:·I'rI~·;·;I·I·III··.~·T·;~.·=1I·II·I··-i··-~+·-.'~=i. ~ ·· ·'. 1.'=.·.··...... -*...... ~...... --:::::::: · expressed through the use of the brushes and the colors they ...... surroundings with warmth and pleasantness as dark gray ...... carried. Fear, anger, protest, hope, etc. have made their way patches on the lower right side of the triptych "evokes another