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·RlUDLICAN ~P~BtEDER Editor Chuck Wood SCHOLASTIC Assistant to the Editor Anthony Walton Vol. 122, No.2, October, 1980 Managing Editor Notre Dame, IN Jim Sommers Art Director Michael Gazzerro Production Manager FEATURES Clay Malaker Layout Editor 4 A Tribute to Fr. Bill Toohey Tina Terlaak News Editor 5 The Decline in American Leadership Stephen Hudoba Andrew Zwerneman Prof. Vincent P. DeSantis Fiction Editor 7 Running Against His Record Mark Traverso 9 Vision for the 80's Prof. Edward J. Murphy Copy Editors Daniel Moore 11 Meeting the Challenge Mary Fran Rice Glenm'ary Missioners Donna Teevan 'Box Culture Editor 12 The Realistic Choice Sean Faircloth Room 2P 46404 Ken Scarbrough Mark Ferron Cincinnati, Ohio 45246 Sports Editor 13 The Necessary Tools Tom O'Toole Name ______14 A Rare Optimistic Look at the 1980's Dan Moore Address _____'--_ St. Mary's Editor Mary Pigott 17 Seventy-three Market Street- CitY ___ State_'__ Photography Editor Low-keyed Energy August Jennewein Zip Age Eileen O'Meara Business Manager 18 The Christian Menace Prof. Ralph Mcinerny Rosemary Abowd Distribution Manager 23 A Preview of the Snite Museum Paul McGinn Joseph Pheifer

Staff REGULARS Cathy Chopp, Denise Grether, Lois Ken nedy, Bill Kolb, Teresa Reichert, MikeZusi, 20 Gallery Brigid Mast Do you have a complaint, Mark Sullivan, John Davenport, Dan Kevsal, Mary link, Shelly Hendrickson, Michael Diaz lizann Welk, Jeny Kucenic, Shea Watkins, 26 Books/The Saga of an American Family Susan de Carvalho, Barbara Bridges, Anne The Three Faces of Eva Mark Hinchman comment or opinion? Barsanti, Ed Kelly 31 Sports/Reflections on the Game Tom O'Toole Tell the worldl 34 Poetry/Beginnings John Thornton, 1980 Sandeen Award Winner Muddy Waters Anthony Walton, 1980 Hazo Award Winner Evanescence Tim Gulstine, 1980 American Academy Winner Write a letter to 36 Music/One Step Closer to, What? Anthony Walton Illustrations: p. 6 Dennis Ryan; pp. 6, 11, Chuck Wood Scholastic. 12, Courtesy Observer; p. 16, Mike Gaz 38 Last Word zerro; p. 29, Marc Murphy

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..... Editor Chuck Wood SCHOLASTIC Assistant to the Editor Anthony Walton Vol. 122, No.2, October, 1980 Managing Editor Notre Dame, IN Jim Sommers Art Director Michael Gazzerro Production Manager FEATURES Clay Malaker Layout Editor 4 A Tribute to Fr. Bill Toohey Tina Terlaak News Editor 5 The Decline in American Leadership Stephen Hudoba Andrew Zwerneman Prof. Vincent P. DeSantis Fiction Editor 7 Running Against His Record Mark Traverso 9 Vision for the 80's Prof. Edward J. Murphy Copy Editors Daniel Moore 11 Meeting the Challenge Mary Fran Rice Glenm'ary Missioners Donna Teevan 'Box Culture Editor 12 The Realistic Choice Sean Faircloth Room 2P 46404 Ken Scarbrough Mark Ferron Cincinnati, Ohio 45246 Sports Editor 13 The Necessary Tools Tom O'Toole Name ______14 A Rare Optimistic Look at the 1980's Dan Moore Address _____'--_ St. Mary's Editor Mary Pigott 17 Seventy-three Market Street- CitY ___ State_'__ Photography Editor Low-keyed Energy August Jennewein Zip Age Eileen O'Meara Business Manager 18 The Christian Menace Prof. Ralph Mcinerny Rosemary Abowd Distribution Manager 23 A Preview of the Snite Museum Paul McGinn Joseph Pheifer

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The Decline of American Leadership

by Stephen Hudoba

Leadership. As the presidential candidates such as FDR, Eisenhower, overnight, as he was interviewed a campaign nears its supposedly cli and Adlai· Stevenson (who gained hundred times over, after his victory mactic end, though perhaps "mer the Democratic nomination in 1952 in the Iowa caucus. He had gained, ciful end" would be more appropri without ever entering a primary) in his own words, the "Big Mo" ate, we all have heard this word, has largely vanished. Many have momentum. "leadership," repeated by candidates suggested that perhaps we should The campaign seemed more an a thousand times over. Each of the return to the old system of candi alogous to a Notre Dame football presidential candidates has spent date selection. Yet, such a sugges game than to a political exchange millions of dollars attempting to con tion challenges the very essence of a of ideas. Even in the debates, vince the public that only he pos democratic society; namely, the which supposedly serve to dissem sesses the magic gauntlet of leader people have a right to choose their inate the candidate's views to ship. Yet, the public seems far from leaders. the· public, the media's postdebate convinced. Apathetic about the Still, the present primary system analysis concentrates largely upon choice of candidates, doubtful wheth does not seem to inhibit the partici which candidate "came off better" er it matters who is elected, and pation of possible candidates. It is and "what type of image has the pessimistic about the future, the no coincidence that the last two candidate projected." American people have begun to nonincumbents nominated by their Politics has become a plastic pack doubt the integrity and capabilities parties (Carter in '76 and Reagan in aged charade. Media and advertising of their leaders. 'SO) were both out of office. The wizards such as Gerald Rafshoon During this campaign, both Ron primary system necessitates that a (for Carter) and David Garth (for ald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have candidate be a full-time candidate. Anderson) represent the true centers spent most of their. time attempting Moreover, the present system re of power in the present campaigns. to characterize the other as being duces the viability of candidates all The media therefore must accept a totally incompetent and unable to too quickly, since emphasis is· placed great part of the responsibility for lead this nation. Both campaigns on proving electability by winning in the creation of a system of politics have adopted strategies of negatively the early primaries. . that stresses electability rather than stereotypirig the opponent. Neither A shorter primary season there competence. candidate has presented a total pack fore is necessary so that candidates Still, much of the decline in re age of goals and programs that rep who presently hold office can effec spect for and belief in our leaders is resents a positive vision of the future tively participate. Several large re traceable to recent political, foreign of the nation. Representative An gional primaries should be held in and domestic events. Watergate, Ab derson's presence only. increases the stead of the present state-by-state scam, Koreagate, the Billy Carter negative aspect of this campaign, system. This reform would also con and . Bert Lance affairs, and the since he is running against Carter tribute towards the equalization of abuses of the Nixon administration and Reagan, and not 'really for him the value and influence of votes in have shattered the public's faith and self. Such a campaign characterized different states. At present the value trust in· our American political In Loving Memory of by personal attacks and void of of a vote from an early primary or leaders. The abuses of the FBI and vision )and ideals cannot stir the caucus is much greater than a vote CIA both illustrated that the govern Fr. Bill Toohey pUblic'to enthusiasm. from one of the late primaries. Such ment, instead of protecting the rights The resulting public apathy and a condition should not be tolerated of the individual, seemed to be sys pessimism have prompted many to in a democratic system. tematically violating these rights. 6/2/30---10/13/80 reminisce about the past and to ques The media exerts an even more In foreign affairs, Vietnam, the tion the present. A major and most powerful influence on the leadership Pentagon Papers, and the secret "Because of our risen Lord, we dare to believe that disturbing question refers to the pri selection process. It consistently bombing of Cambodia have all con death and hatred and despair will not have the last word." maries. Has the democratization chooses to focus on a candidate's tributed to the perception that the -Fr. Toohey and expansion of the primary sys image and electability rather than to President, and by extension all poli October; 1980 tem given us better candidates? The illuminate the candidate's beliefs. ticians, cannot be trusted. The public "politics of bossism" that gave us George Bush became a media hero has been deceived and thus has lost 4 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 5 s

The Decline of American Leadership

by Stephen Hudoba

I ! its faith in its leaders because our leaders insist on preaching to the American people that America is still the great power. Yet, the changing interdependent world prevents our leaders from justifying their rhetoric with reality, and so the public per ceives itself as deceived. However, the public is not deceived, but rather our leaders are deluded. Carter The interdependence of the new international order makes it impos sible for the U.S. to regain its once lofty position. It is said that the decade of the 80's will be the decade of crises. The turmoil of the 70's will be the norm and not the exception. America, though, will continue to be Running Against His Record ' a great world power as a result of its resources and technology, but the new world order necessitates that our leaders change their thinking. by Prof. Vincent P. DeSantis Future Presidents must accept the AN ULTIMATE DIlE MMA. limitations on growth arid power that the emerging world order imposes. NO ULTIMATE SOLUTION. Leaders with a truly global outlook based on cooperation and not con frontation are needed. Such leaders President Jimmy Carter THE ULTIMATE HORROR. will be. able to initiate a revitalization of America that will carry us for Few Presidents in recent Amer votes in claiming to be an anti-Wash ployment, the high costs of living, A DEMleANDENT PICTURfS RflEI\5£ NO ONE UNDER 18 ward into the twenty-first century. ican history have had as many ups ington, anti-establishment figure and of housing, of borrowing money, and ADMITTED The apparent leadership crisis in and downs in presidential popularity not a lawyer nor a liar. Prob of his overstating the nature of the America is truly caused by the de polls and in assessment of perform ably his trump card was his claim Iranian and Afghanistan crises velopment of a new world order that ance in office as Jimmy Carter. From that he told the truth and that he when he described them as the most faith in the veracity of our political trates that the American people have our leaders cannot fully comprehend a 71 per cent approval of his per would never lie to the American serious confrontation for the United leaders. Moreover, the overthrow of lost their faith in this country's or accept. formance by the American public at people. Thus Carter cornered the States with the Soviet Union since friendly foreign governments, our ability to provide opportunity for all. A complete and unprecedented the outset of his presidency, Carter truth market in a year when the World War II. continuing dependence on OPEC oil, The middle class finds that dream overhaul of the traditional thinking fell to a 19 per cent overall rating voters wanted, above all, an honest After almost a full term as Presi and most recently the inept rescue being chipped away by inflation, in recent months, the lowest job per politician. He was the kind of can dent and in the midst of a campaign mission to Iran have all shaken the taxes, rising interest rates, and eco of America's political leaders must occur. Whether our older leaders can formance rating ever accorded any didate the post-Watergate times de for another term as President, Car confidence of the American people in nomic instability. The American ad American President since this rating manded. ter remains an enigma to the voters the power, morality, and destiny of age that one's children will "have it accomplish this is at best unclear. Perhaps, a new generation of leaders question was first asked of Amer But also during that campaign, at large and to those in his own this nation. 'better" is becoming increasingly icans in the 1950's. Carter is fin Carter promised many things, so party. Even though the Democrats In addition, the greatest contribu doubtful for the first time since the who have matured in the first decade of scarcity, energy interdependence, ishing a term in the presidency and many, in fact, that they were pub renominated him, they are not sure tion to the increasingly pessimistic ?reat Depression. To illustrate, rising and the recognition of the limits of is running for reelection with the lished in a UO-page book of 600 they know him any better now than attitude of the public about the mterest rates are quickly transform lowest approval rating for an in promises. With such a long list of they did in 1976 when they knew future has been the sensed slippage ing the once realistic goal of owning growth will not be so deluded with grandiose and unrealistic visions of cumbent President in modern times. campaign promises, Carter faced the very little about him. Many Demo of the "American Dream." This slip a home into an improbable fantasy. Polls only a few months ago gave problem of making good on them. crats, including even some who sup page has heightened the level of The poor and middle classes' lack of America's power. Those of us pres ently in college represent part of Carter a 77-22 per cent negative Carter's campaign promises stem port his candidacy, have little notion anxiety and frustration within the optimism about the economic future rating, even lower than the 75-25 per from and, in fact, have increased the of what kind of President Carter poorer communities of America. of the country has been translated this first American generation to mature during the first harbingers of cent for President Richard Nixon rising expectations Americans have might be in a second term, or in Such frustration recently expressed into doubt about the capabilities of in the dark days of Watergate. Worst had of a President since World War which direction he intends to lead itself through violent rioting in our leaders. the new international order. It is this generation that must initiate the new of all for the President, 85 per cent II. How Carter was received by the the country. Miami's Liberty Park district. Still, while institutions and events thought he did not know how to get public came to depend on how well Thus, to many Americans puzzled It would be easy to condemn these have contributed to the leadership political philosophy that will realis tically allow this country to confront things done. he fulfilled his many campaign prom by Carter and the erratic course of rioters as lawless hoodlums but an crisis, the most complex and lasting Carter himself recognized his lack ises. his presidency, and uncertain how unemployment rate of 35 per cent factor of the crisis relates to the the coming crises. The threats to the future economic, social, and political luster performance in the White Since many of these were not they will vote in the 1980 election, among. young blacks breeds discon changing world order. The old world House when he graded his own carried out, and the public's expecta Jimmy Carter is, according to one tent rather than respect for law and order is breaking up as a result of stability of this country and the world is imminent. presidential performance in report tions of Carter's presidency were not observer, CIa politician without a order. If our government's only cure the growing interdependence of na card style on a TV interview on the realized, Carter has become the most guiding philosophy, a pragmatist During another major crisis, the for inflation is a recession that elimi tions. However, our political leaders eve ofj:he Democratic National Con unpopular President in office since ~itgout firm: convictions, a me;han nates any chance for social mobility refuse to change their views. They assassination of President Kennedy, vention in August, 1980. Carter said Herbert Hoover, and has come to be lcal leader mcapable of frammg a for the poor, why then should we are, in a sense, the victims of two Lyndon Johnson said, "Yesterday is he deserved one A (on his energy widely regarded as incompetent, in grand design, a hard-working and in expect the poor to defend such a centuries of psychologically infused not ours to recover, qut tomorrow is program), one B (on leadership), decisive, ineffective, and uninspiring. telligent executive who has trouble system? Have we as a nation burned manifest destiny. This country has ours to win or lose." Let us build one B- (on foreign policy), and one Americans, accepting his invita explaining goals that are clear in our .commitment to economic and always been viewed by its leaders as therefore a new world order based on C (on domestic policy) - good tion to judge him on his record of his own mind." 0 social justice in the fires of inflation? unique within the world order. Yet, reality and not on the past. Then our enough to keep him in good stand fulfillment, found him badly want political leaders will truly be leading Ted Kennedy recently stated that the the days when the U.S. could arbi ing, but not enough to call him out ing. There is considerable dissatis this country. "dream shall never die." Yet, the trarily use its power have passed. 0 standing. faction with Carter, both within and very fact that Kennedy refers to Iran has proven this. Stephen Hudoba is a Junior f'rom During the presidential campaign outside the Democratic party, be Prof. DeSantis is a member of the ecoI:J,omic justice as a dream illus- In my opinion, the public has lost Nw;ark) N.J. of 1976, Carter found support, and cause of high inflation, high unem- History Department. 6 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 7 $ , I

Carter: Progress for America by Jenny Pitts .Reagan "All men are scoundrels some of gan's own running mate, Bush, the time." Certainly this truism is called "voodoo economics." Also pro applicable to all of this election's vided for in the platform is the abo presidential aspirants. With this in lition of the Department of Educa mind, I have attempted to arrive at tion, curtailment (if not abolition) Vision For The 180s a decision that is primarily based of OSHA, easing of environmental upon the platforms of the Demo· standards, and lifting of the mini cratic and Republican parties, and mum wage requirements for youths. the ideologies embodied in each. I Finally, the proposed lifting of the do not view John Anderson as a 55-mph speed limit is nothing short by Prof. Edward J. Murphy viable candidate. In that the posi of foolish assertion of the U.S.'s tions and policies expressed in the invulnerability to the OPEC nations. Democratic platform are those that The implementation of the meas mass waiting for a handout." The I believe the country should be di ures called for in the Republican civil service has been reorganized, I submit the following thesis: If a was once a measure of truth in the official stamp of approval to Roe v. rected toward, I will be voting to platform will, according to Gov. the airline and trucking industries judgment were made on the issues) claim, but it rings terribly hollow Wade (the unborn child as a "non reelect President Carter on Nov. 4. Reagan, make America "the shining deregulated, and the Humphrey most people on this campus would today. For the party that formerly person"), and decline is inevitable. !iI. Economic, racia:!, and socially re city on a hill" once again. Although, Hawkins full employment act has choose the nominee and platform of reflected the views of a broad spec For nothing more clearly demon actionary factions are barely able perhaps only campaign rhetoric, the been signed. the Republican Party. trum of the population has been strates the moral and intellectual to conceal their delight at the idea metaphor does convey Reagan's And, in upholding the democratic To help test the thesis, please captured by an elitist group whose bankruptcy of the elite who set pol of a Reagan victory, and to this end worldview as increasingly removed principles upon which this country answer the following: theory of governance is more and icy for the Democratic Party than have invested both their aspirations from the reality of our everyday ex was founded, Pres. Carter has re (1) Do you believe excessive govern more that of control and domination. this endorsement of a decision which and money in Reagan's campaign. perience. In a day .and age when established the nation's commitment mental control and regulation from the top. Governor Reagan paced the way for the "legal" killing The prospect of a Reagan victory Americans must acknowledge the to human rights. The Republicans are unnecessarily retarding spoke to this as follows: of more than 8,000,000 "little guys." threatens any progressive accom need for amicable interrelations and think it is "naive" and "dangerous" economic growth and develop That number exceeds the combined plishments of the past two genera interdependence of nations upon one to stand up for freedom and demo ment? The Democratic leadership is com total population of Indianapolis, tions. One has only to examine the another, Reagan is preaching a sim cracy. Just what, then, do they (2) Are you "pro-life" in the sense mitted to the planned economy, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pitts planks of the Republican platform plistic platform of American hege think we shcmld stand up for? that you favor constitutional ruled by an intellectual elite. I burgh, St. Louis, Kansas City, Peoria, to agree. mony. The economy is undoubtedly the protection for human life in the believe that the best vehicle for New Orleans, Nashville, Boston, and Coming out of a convention at Contrast with this the record, as single most pressing. issue on the womb? either Republican or Democrat South Bend! tended by a disproportionately small pirations, and representative plat voter's mind. Granted, although un (3) Do you believe national secu who believes in constitutional lim There are all sorts of problems number of women, minorities, and form of President Carter.'s Demo- employment is not significantly rity is jeopardized by the rela its in the power of government confronting our nation today - disadvantaged people, the views ex . cratic administration. With little higher than when Carter took of .tive unpreparedness of our can be found in the Republican severe unemployment, declining pro .... pressed in the platform can hardly help from a lethargic, if not reac fice, inflation is and interest rates, armed forces? Party, which is polarized around ductivity, urban disintegration, dou be said to be those held by the av tionary Congress, Carter has man down from their dizzying height of (4) If the draft is reinstated, do you a belief in individual freedom and ble-digit inflation and so on. Each is erage voter, even the average Re aged to push through some very sig this summer, are still extremely favor an exemption for women? man's right to control his own an extremely serious problem and publican voter. Rather, they are the nificant legislation. Among the ac high. But, President. Carter is not destiny. I hope I speak to Demo needs to be addressed in an intelli views held by Gov. Reagan, put complishments in the area of foreign personally to blame for the worsen It is my impression that most crats. I spent most of my life as gent and systematic. manner. But I forth without compromise. Explicit policy are the passage of SALT n, ing state of the economy. Circum .people around here would answer a Democrat, and I know that the ask you: is there a more urgent support of the 'Equal Rights Amend the Camp David accord, the Pan stantial and historical imperatives "yes" to these and similar questions leadership of that party has long agenda item than this abortion car ment has been dropped, although ama Canal treaties, and recognition beyond the control of any adminis raised in this campaign. Yet among ago abandoned the principles of nage which is literally wiping out previous Republican platforms have of the People's Republic of China. tration share a significant amount of those who would thus answer in the Jefferson and Jackson and Cleve one-third of what would have been endorsed equal rights for women. On the domestic front, Carter has the blame. Ours is an economy based affirmative are a significant number land. And I know how Democrats future graduating classes? The next Insistence upon treating "self-pro passed more environmental legisla and dependent upon the ravenous who are planning to vote for the today may be bothered by a feel time you go to class, look at the per claimed enemies as enemies," rejec tion than any other president since consumption of cheap oil, and a Democratic or the Independent can ing of disloyalty when they con son on each side of you. Had Roe v. tion of SALT II as "unilateral dis Teddy Roosevelt, including preserva_ standard of living based on conveni didate. sider change, because I discovered Wade been decided a generation ago, armament" (which it is not), and tion of 100 million acres in Alaska, ence. Why this glaring inconsistency? how deeply ingrained is the politi- . is there a likelihood that one of you insistence upon the ultimate superi implementation of the Clean Air and It is just that "shining city on From my discussions, I· conclude cal loyalty. I discovered it's al would not be in the class today? ority of the United States over the Water Act, and strip mine regula a hill" mentality asserting the invul that in large measure it derives most like religion when it came I salute Cardinal Humberto Mede Soviet Union (calling for billions of tion. Energy, one of the most press nerability of the U.S. that got Amer from the fact that emotional attach time to change. But have no feel iros of Boston for his courageous dollars in increased defense spend ing problems facing Americans, has icansinto this trouble. We, and ment to the past is being allowed to ing of disloyalty, because I'll tell and forthright position: "Those who ing) has the ultimate result of heat also been a key concern of the Car thereby the economy, are at the prevail over intellectual conviction. you now, the leadership of the make abortions possible by law ing up the cold war abroad and in ter administration. Importation of mercy of the capricious and vengeful Politically speaking, far too many Democratic party, if you're a such as legislators and those who flation at home, and apparently elim foreign oil is down 2() per cent from OPEC oil cartel. An economy of promote, defend and elect these same inates the option of negotiation. The have not solved "the re-entry prob Democrat, has long since deserted 1976, and conservation and alternate moderation is required. It is a com lem." you. lawmakers-cannot separate. them planned tax cut of 30 per cent. in fuel bills have been sent to Congress. plex problem, not one that can be selves totally from that guilt which three years coupled with a promise You may have grown up, as I did, Urban development funding, and solved with the Simplistic platitudes acco~panies this horrendous crime to balance the budget may sound in a family which regarded affiliation Over a century ago the Demo funding to the cities, the needy, and offered by the Republican candidate. with the Democratic Party as almost· cratic Party endorsed the Dred Scott and deadly sin. If you are for true inviting to the voter, but combined mass transit are all up. In contrast, Oase .(the slave as a "non-person") human freedom - and for life - with the increased military expendi a matter of religious obligation. We Gov. Reagan has called the bene Jenny Pitts is a Junior from Glen and went into a half century of de you will follow your conscience w~en ture,s, it amounts to what Gov. Rea- were told incessantly that the Demo ficiaries of such funding a "faceless Ellyn) Illinois. crats were for "the little guy." There' cline. This year the party gave its . you vote. You will vote to save 'our 8 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 9 1 - - ~ - . .' ~ '""" - . '.- -

children, born and unborn." not even try. Is it not time for a the general direction of the country To defend human rights while sup change? for many years to come. Seldom, if porting abortion is "a patent contra As part of a dynamic program for ever, has the electorate been afforded diction," Pope John ,paul IT said re revitalizing the economy, a President a better opportunity to choose be cently. He sharply criticized those Reagan would work for a reduction tween conflicting principles and phi who "talk crbout human rights but in personal income tax rates, phased losophies of government. Governor do not hesitate to trample on human in over three years, which would re Reagan insists that it is a mistake to beings when they are on the thresh duce rates from the range of 14 to characterize this as a choice between Reagan old of life, weak, and defenseless." 70 per cent to a range of 10 to 50 the "left" and the "right." He ex The Republican platform and per cent. This is meant to promote plains: "You and I are told increas nominee, in sharp contradiction of noninflationary economic growth by ingly that we have to choose between positions espoused by Democratic restoring incentive to save, invest, a left or right, but I would like to leaders and John Anderson, affirm and produce. suggest that there is no such thing as support of "a constitutional amend Moreover, his new "enterprise a left or right. There is only an up or ment to ;restore protection of the zone" program for reviving the econ down - up to mari!s age-old dream, Meeting right to life for unborn children" as omies of depressed inner city areas is the ultimate in individual freedom well as "Congressional efforts to re one of the most sensible and exciting consistent with law and order - or strict the use of taxpayers' dollars ideas ever put forward for genuine down to the ant heap of totalitarian for abortion." urban renewal. The net effect would ism." They also take other positions be to "green-line" such neighbor If you share this dream, do some The Challenge which should be of special interest hoods as prime candidates for invest thing about it. This is the time for to members of the Notre Dame com ment, as opposed to so-called "red action. Volunteer your services to munity. For example, unlike their lining" which stigmatizes these areas a Reagan for President committee by Mary Frances Rice Democratic counterparts, they urge and discourages investment. The and get to work. Inform yourself adoption of a system of educational Democrats's response, on the other thoroughly on the issues, spread the assistance based on tax credits, avail hand, is to simply urge that we pour word among your friends, and pray able whether the. student attends a more tax dollars into failed pro (yes, pray!) for the success of the public or nonpublic grade school, grams. It is indeed time for a change! enterprise. You may never have such high school or college. President Almost everyone agrees that this an opportunity again.D Carter promised such assistance in is a watershed year in American Prof. Edward Murphy is the John 1976, but as he did in so many areas, politics. Choices made by the voters N. Matthews professor of Law at the he reneged on the promise. He did this November could well determine ND Lalw School. Ronald Reagan

America is standing at the cross raising taxes. Under the present must be equipped with more and roads of destiny. Not since the year tax structure, taxes are being in better weapons. Rather than in 1776 has there been such an oppor creased faster than wages. This creasing the likelihood of war, this tunity for her people to alter the results in a no-win situation for busi will, in fact, reduce it by acting as a course of history. In the past four ness and consumers alike. Taxes deterrent to potential enemies. years, under President Jimmy Car must be cut-and they must be cut The choice in 1980 is a choice be ter, America's inflation rate has sky before the budget can be balanced. tween two futures; the one, a con rocketed from less than five percent Kemp-Roth, the tax-cut plan favored tinuation of the bankrupt brand of to roughly twelve percent. The by Reagan, will provide incentives liberal philosophies which have Soviet Union, meanwhile, is engaged to business and individuals, and plagued this nation and brought it in a massive military buildup which thereby increase productivity and to its present state of affairs; the I has relegated the United States to consumption. This will set the econ other, a dynamic return to the sound I an unacceptable position of strategic omy on the road to recovery. and proven policies which once 11 inferiority. Just as America must regain her earned for this country the love of 'I America needs a President who strength at home, she must also re its people and the respect of the will stabilize her staggering econ gain her former status in world af world. I omy and rebuild her weakened de fairs. For peace cannot be achieved Only Ronald Reagan can restore fenses. Neither Jimmy Carter nor through disarmament and appease America to that position of great John Anderson would do this. ment, but only through strength. ness. Ronald Reagan will. Strength is not achieved by prepar The choice is ours to make. D The first problem he will tackle ing to draft the nation's teenagers. Mary Frances Rice is a Junior is the beleaguered state of the econ Instead, the existing fighting force from Mishawaka, Indiana. omy. Double-digit inflation has re sulted from the printing of unbacked currency to cover budget deficits. Therefore, the logical way to end inflation is to' balance the budget, wiping,9ut deficit spending and end ing the need for a constant flow of "funny money" from the govern ment printing presses. This is what Ronald Reagan, backed by noted economists Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and Arthur Laffer, pro poses to do. Reagan realizes that a Democratic Congress, forced to balance the budget, will, left to itself, do so by 10 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 11

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My father, plagiarizing from some smooth water at the time. his basic view of the world and do illustrious figure whom I cannot The Necessary Tools The great threat of Reagan is not, mestic affairs is either a fool or a 'If recall, often said, you are I believe, his terrifying stands on the hypocrite. And we know Carter to 'by Mark r=erron not a communist at twenty, you issues-they are already fading now be an intelligent man. have no heart; if you are still one that he is shooting to star on the na The President's first three years The decade of

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Tbe Shift Rigbt: A Rare Optimistic Look formulated Reagan's economic poli been acting more as an umbrella about in their campaigns. cies which promise a lifting of under which these noncohesive Once elected, Carter continued to at the 1980 Presidential Election these ,burdens. Unions are not the groups can seek protection and the grant concessions to liberals in order cause of inflation, it turns out, rather advancement of their interests. that they not be offended. The most it is government. The idea is that However, as the Eastern Estab notable of these include the creation if the enormous tax is lifted, the lishment liberals become less influen of the Department of Education, the tial (or in the case of many, simply ill-fated appointment of Theodore by Dan Moore economy will be stimulated to such an extent that Americans will ac defect to conservatism or neo Sorrenson, and the appointment of The signs are unmistakable. tually earn their pay, and the in conservatism,), as uriion mem Andrew Young as U.S. Ambassador Throughout the past decade the cen crease in production will keep bers and minorities become more to the United Nations. ter of the American political spec government revenues about even. susceptible to tax-cut fever, and as Yet to dwell on these and other trum has been drifting to the right. This idea, which promises much, is the silod South begins to wonder concessions is to blur the real issues Along with that drift has come a enormously appealing to blue-collar about big government and the at that Carter has acted on. He has growing popular consensus that not workers. As Kemp noted at the con tack on the family, Jimmy Carter insisted that defense take a priority only has struck fear into the hearts vention, "It's immoral to tell work must counter these trends with an over social programs, he has been of liberal candidates everywhere, but ing men and women to hold their offensive of his own. Just as Reagan obstinate in his attempt to achieve a has produced two of the most con wage increases to 8 per cent while must remember the lessons of Gold balanced' budget, he has been an ad servative-sounding candidates the the government devalues their pay water, so too must Carter remember vocate of deregulation, and he has United States has seen in quite some checks by 12 per cent." the lessons of McGovern. come up with a tax cut almost as time. Clearly the 1980 election rep This is a far cry from the Barry As a result, Carter has to assemble radical as Reagan's. It was not sim resents the CUlmination of a broadly Goldwater conservatism of 1964, a coalition not unlike Reagan's-in ply for a touch of campaign rhetoric supported swing in the mood of the which scared zlue-collar workers to that Teddy Kennedy called the Presi nation. Johnson with its strident anti-union dent a "clone of Reagan," or that in In a real sense, though, the shift ism. In fact the tax cut which the May 1977 George McGovern de right has been a subtle one, and very RepUblicans now propose is not un It is thus a new conservatism on nounced Carter's record in front of difficult to pin down. Traditionally, this swing. Democrats and Republi groups), blue-collar workers disen like the successful tax cut John the Americans for Democratic Ac or at leact in the pre-1970's, con cans are appealing to this large chanted by Carter's economics, and Kennedy proposed in 1962 which whose crest Ronald Reagan will tion. Carter just does not fit in the servatives have been tied to strin segment of society to give them the religious and pro-family groups. was aimed at stimulating the econ ride in November. Its roots are glorious tradition of innovative lib gent ideals: a strong military, preser edge in November. John Anderson, Of these three blocs the blue omy through. increased production. eral presidents. vation of family values, individual ironically enough (he is the Re collar vote is the key. If Reagan Conservatives of that day opposed ingrained in the traditional values Neither Carter nor Reagan is a publican who has been in Washing rigidly fixed apostle of some ideol ism, protection of private property, can capture or at least do well in the tax cut on the grounds that it of American morality and indi and free enterprise. Yet these values ton for 20 years), inherits the same this area, many political analysts was irresponsible to cut such a large ogy. If one looks closely at their have become more abstract as society left that Gene McCarthy and George feel that he can win the election. amount of revenue from the budget. vidualism but its frame work is backgrounds, they both have gone has grown more complex; today McGovern appealed to in their un Undoubtedly this will be no easy through many political changes and Interestingly the roles have been hardly static ... "conservatism" represents an amal successful campaigns. Nevertheless, feat as uniOn leaders remain termi reversed and liberals today decry conversions in their careers. They , a great deal of his supporters like gam of views. nally Democrat. On the other hand, the large tax cut as inflationary and have been adaptable and so they what he has to say about fiscal These views come from the disen the blue-collar worker has finally fiscally unsound .. have survived. Today both candi restraint, while wary of Carter's and chanted on all sides of society. They found a friend in a Republican party It is thus a new conservatism on tune with the political mood of the dates are trying to find a successful Reagan's militaristic attitudes. By !~ come from those who have been who knows his plight and offers whose crest Ronald Reagan will ride . nation, yet responsive to the tradi approach to the presidency based November, though, Anderson, with .r: frightened away from liberal dogma, alternatives to the painful econom in November. Its roots are ingrained tional values of Democrats and their upon coalitions which emerged the bulk of his support coming from from those who cannot accept quo ics of Jimmy Carter. in the traditional values of Ameri progressive heritage. Carter is not largely through the shift right. The middle- and upper-class students, tas, or the onerous burden of taxes, Conservative columnist Robert can morality and individualism, but blind, he is a master politician and campaigns of both men thus do not or government intrusion on private will not be a serious candidate. Novak notes that the new conserva its framework is hardly static, rely his strategy , a conservative thrust comprise a historical accident; they businesses and corporations. These tism in the Republican party, ex ing on innovative, imaginative solu that plays for the smaller interest are reactions to the ideological di views come from defectors of the Former Governor Ronald Reagan emplified by Jack Kemp, offers an tions to age-old problems. In fact groups, is aimed at just that. His rection in which the United States left who, having seen their move has tried to harness this flood of almost revolutionary economic pack its vitality is almost reminiscent of main weapon is his record. is headed. Yet in a larger sense, that ments taken too far, cry that enough sentiment by forming a dynamic age for the working class. Tra the Democratic party in the early Many Reagan backers are trying direction is moving away from ideo is enough. One-time liberal profes coalition unseen by Republicans ditionally Republican economists, 60's which promised so much, and to pass Carter off as just an logical purity and toward a forceful sor Daniel Bell of Harvard is now since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. such as Nixon advisors Herbert spurred new ideas on civil rights, other unsuccessful liberal. This no pragmatism that will get the prob deeply concerned over society's loss While slowly convalescing from Nix Stein and George Shultz, have ad antipoverty programs, and equal tion ignores not only Carter's per lems solved. of religious values. Senator Gary on and Watergate, a whole new breed vocated that austerity measures be opportunity programs. formance but the fact that the Between 1953 and 1968, the aver Hart of Colorado, one of the Sen of Republicans has emerged. These adopted to cure inflation and "get President Carter faces this serious Democrats. have also been 'swinging age inflation rate was 2 per cent and ate's most notable liberals, is mov Republicans are no longer afraid business going." Without exception right. In 1976 Carter was nominated the average unemployment was 4.9 ing with the others toward fiscal challenge from the right with his of going into the streets and dis it has been labor and not business own briind of conseJ;'vatism. The as an anti-big-government outsider per cent. Between 1969 and 1972 responsibility, and even increases in playing the fallacies of big govern which has borne the burden of this who was a "born again" Christian. the average rate of unemployment some defense programs. 'Susan traditional coalition which has given ment. They are beginning to get austerity. As a result the working the Democrats success in the past conservative swing. To keep the lib was 4.9 per cent. Between 1969 and Brownmiller, one of the leaders of through to business and labor, to the class remained easy prey for Demo erals in his· camp, Carter added Mon 1972 the average inflation rate was the peace and civil rights move includes the unions, the "solid rich and poor, to the pro-family cratic promises of government help. South," the minorities, and the East dale to his ticket. Yet his campaign 5.3 per cent and unemployment was ments, advocates censorship of por groups and individualists. The tar Now, however, it is the Republi rhetoric of balanced budgets and 4.9. Between 1973 tand 1979 the av nography. ern Establishment liberals. The get of this coalition centers on tra cans who are making promises. New Democratic party has never been a trimming big government was hard erage inflation rate was 8.5 per cent Gradually, Americans have wit" ditional Republicans (big bUSiness, conservatives such as Kemp and ly the kind of thing McGoverns, and unemployment 6.8. Duri.ng the nessed their politicians responding to focal point for these groups, for they the suburban elite, and rural USC economist Arthur Laffer have are highly divergent. Rather it has . Humphreys, and Kennedys talked (cant. on page 16) i 14 . 15 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER I I [I 'I II , • I ___~ ___~ ___~~ ___ • ~ -----. " ~ ". . , " --

1960's with inflation so low it was To call this mood a conservative one ;.Cinema afford otherwise. easy to increase government outlays may be slightly misleading for it . This swing right, then, is not an for experimental social programs. enc.ompasse~ a wide band of society Ide?logical shift but a practical one. Today this is no longer the case. whIch has Just come to realize that It IS not a matter of liberal or con !he_ ~~e in productivity in these the practical problems we face re servative; it is a matter of success three. periods'-was 2.4' per cent 'per quire not worn-out dogma, but prac or failure. It brings. various con 73 !ear In the first period; 2.1 per cent tical solutions. cerned elements together to draw In the second; 0.5% in the third. In As America is hemmed in on all on our values of the past, and J 1969 it cost $3.21 for a barrel of sides, it is essential that she find a to react to a challenging situation Market Street crl!de oil, today's price is about $35. leader who will be able to success with innovative ideas for the future. WIth the increase in taxes over the fully handle her problems. It is use The United States has traditionally I past 17 years, real income has actu less, therefore, to make Ronald responded to problems with a great Low-keyed ally decreased for most Americans. Reagan's acting ability ot Jimmy deal of vigor and success. We have I Defense spending comprised half of Carter's brother an issue in the c?me a long wayan poverty, civil the GNP back in the 1950's and early Energy J election. It is also useless to depict rIghts, ~nd security issues. Today's 60's. Today, government outlays Reagan as a mad button pusher or economIC problems are just as cru make up about 21.4 per cent of the " i Carter as an incompetent peanut cial, because the world has become I GNP, and defense spending makes 1 I farmer. It is, of course naive to an unforgiving environment almost i up about a quarter of the budget. I , I think that this sort of thi~g will not overnight. With an awareness of i These are the real problems that occur. Yet since, as we often hear '1 we face as Americans in the 1980's these problems, though, we have al these days, we are at a "crossroad ready achieved much, and in 1980 and they affect every individual. "\ in history" or on a "rendezvous with we hold the potential for building The solutions lie in restraining our fa.te," it becomes increasingly a peaceful and prosperous America ! gov~rnment . to cap a vertiginous in more Important that we tune out and a better world. I flatIOn and In cutting taxes to stim the blindness of emotionalism and I ulate productivity and employment tun;. in our economic,' social, and Both candidates preach this and polItIcal senses and interests. Gone Da;n Moore i8 a Senior Govern both reflect the mood of the ~ation. are the days when America could 'ment major from Albany, N.Y. Tony Bill by August Jennewein I! f knew what the place was like physi From the outside, 73 Market Street ing room to other writers, directors, and producers. There is a definite cally. I also had this family obliga looks like a typical two-story brick tion to consider Notre Dame; so warehouse, located one block from communal atmosphere. I after I applied and was accepted it the Pacific Ocean, just off the Venice Tony Bill himself is a low-key man ! who does not deal in the typical tended to make up my mind." He ! boardwalk. However, it is far from continues to reflect back to his col being a typical warehouse. In fact, Hollywood scene. He has a tremen I dous reputation for supporting new lege days after a brief pause. The it houses Market Street Productions, daily routine "was the same thing a Tony Bill film productions outfit. talent, and is one of the only inde pendent producers who accept un all the time. We had room check and I Here in the beach community of lights-out. In the morning we had to ! Venice, California, Tony Bill has de solicited manuscripts through the I get up and sign in fully clothed. It I mail. I veloped his own film productions was kind of like miltary school. office. His offices are "as low-key as His own office is quite spacious, filled with plush furniture, woven "I had no idea I would get into the i the jewelry studio and art galleries theatre. It wasn't until my sopho I that also .line the block. Market rugs on the polished wood floors, I large green plants, a truly comfort more year that I actually partici Street has become an unassuming pated in a play, and then it was over stretch of" buildings which house a able rocker, a variety of mementos (such as his Oscar for best picture at St. Mary's. It was the Shakespeare mecca of art sorts. . play, Love's Labour Lost. I had pre Once inside, you are transported The Sting), and the typical 73 Market Street sunshine and ocean viously tried out for a play at Notre into another era. There is a feel of Dame, but I didn't get a part. I was the 1930's and 40's as you climb the breeze. He sits behind his desk, usually with Ii. phone in his hand. invited to work backstage, but I stairs and enter the second floor wasn't in love with the theatre. I offices. Polished wood floors lead you He's constantly occupied looking for, or listening to fresh new ideas. He's wanted to perform, so that's when down the L-shaped corridor of of I went over to St. Mary's, and after fices, lined with green ferns and a a fihnmaker in his own right. He started in the film industry as that I wasn't welcome back at the variety of local artwork. Large win . Notre Dame theatre." dows al~ow for an abundant supply an actor fresh out of the University oiNotre Dame in the summer of '62. Over the past decade Tony Bill has of sunshine and ocean breeze. An been a top-notch independent pro air of relaxation radiates throughout In 1958 he had no idea he'd go into film, and even less knowledge of ducer with major successes such as 73 Market Street. The Sting) Taxi Driver (which he Bill's offices are located just off where he would go to college. His was the story of many sons of Notre did not produce, but his production the outdoor patio, which until re company made) and last year's Go cently had an unobscured view of the Dame alumni when it came time to choose which college to attend. ing in Style. ocean. He rents out the remainder A producer theoretically has total of the second floor offices and the "Well, my father had gone there. use of the first floor's private screen- " And I had visited the campus, so I (cant. on page 22)

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something appropriate and praise vote for a man who would back or who identifies being a political con worthy, even though it led to the implement policies which are con servative and being a Christian is roundup within days of all Jews trary to fundamental Christian be exactly as wrong as he who iden who had become Christians. It is liefs. Martin Luther King. would tifies being a political liberal and arguable that Edith Stein would have been mad if he voted for a being a Christian. Like Soma Golden, not have perished at Auschwitz if segregationist and I doubt that he Monsignor Higgins seems unaware the churchmen had remained silent. would have accepted the notion that that the accusation he makes can be One can recognize that there is a his conception of equality was a pri directed against himself. right and duty for churchmen to ate opinion that could not be pub No doubt Christians who are lib speak out on political matters while licly implemented. eral politically have a problem when at the same time noticing that there Monsignor Higgins warns that the only candidate who opposes pub are times when it might be unwise Christians concerned about abortion lic funding of abortions is a political The Christian to exercise that right. Furthermore, are being taken over by right-wing conservative. It is difficult to see churchmen can exercise that right in ers. There are those who would how their judgment that another saying stupid things. reply that Monsignor Higgins was candidate is more congenial on most other issues can be traded off against Thus, I suggest that (a) the cur long ago taken overby the left Menace wing, and indeed there is a consistent his being wrong on this massively rent criers of alarm actually accept similarity between the views he has important one. Single-issue politics? the right of churchmen to speak out Perhaps. This recently coined scare on political matters; they just do taken over the years and the views phrase would aptly capture what not like what some churchmen are of political liberals. In a more ex by Prof. Ralph Mcinerny would have been right and Christian currently saying and wish to oppose treme case, many feel that liberation in Nazi Germany and in the case them by invoking a principle they theologians are adopting (and being of civil rights in the United States. themselves do not accept. Further, adopted by) Marxism, an outlook Once more, we see that it is not (b) churchmen may exercise the incompatible with Christianity. If single-issue politics that bothers sec right and cause consequences they Monsignor Higgins has a point, and he does, it should be generalized. ular humanists, but the single issue do not intend and cannot be held re that many believers now feel takes sponsible for; and (c) not just any While a Christian might be a con precedence over all the others. thing a churchman says about po servative or a liberal-though not 0 litical matters merits respect. a Marxist-he would be wrong to equate his political outlook with By and large, political issues do what Christianity demands of its Dr. Ralph McInerny is Director of not present alternatives such that adherents in the political order. One the Medieval Institute. one is manifestly at variance with religious belief. That is why, I sus At the joint press conference held laws against homicide and theft. by Ronald Reagan and John Ander rectify their plight, they would still pect, we are somewhat surprised Reagan, as we have come to expect be waiting. Politicians and the rest when clerics speak out on matters son in Baltimore, Soma Golden of gave a straightforward answer t~ the New York Times raised the issue of us were awakened and persuaded which are religiously neutral. This the question, an answer a Christian not by legal or constitutional ar of all these crazy Christians med is not to say, of course, that the .1I can live with. guments but by the open appeal to believer ought not see all things dling in politics. She was particular Since that soi-disant debate we ly incensed by the letter Cardinal our religious beliefs. How could a through the lens of faith. But faith have been inundated by article; and Christian in conscience give in to does not often necessitate one judg Medeiros of Boston had sent to programs warning us of the threat priests and people reminding them racial prejudice? It was not the ideal ment rather than the other, which posed by the fundamentalist born of secular humanism but the Judaeo is why believers are normally found I of the Church's judgment on abor ·~gain evangelicals who are presum tion. The scarcely concealed rage Christian ethic that brought about throughout the political spectrum. mg to appraise the political scene- the. change in law and the change in But there are issues where one alter ~it~ which Soma put the question issues and candidates-in the light attItude. I think it goes without say I mdicated the seriousness with which native is manifestly incompatible ?f their beliefs. Dan Rather did a ing that when Soma Golden warns secular humanists regard the Chris with religious belief, with Judaism, Job on them; there were similar about meddling clerics she does not with Christianity. Even here, as in tian menace. It was not only Ms. somewhat less hostile reports on the have Martin Luther King, Ralph the example of the Dutch bishops of Golden's name that put me in mind other networks. And now Mon Abernathy, or Jesse Jackson in mind. I of Brave New World. yore, prudence could dictate silence signor George Higgins has written ,:,hatever the compatibility of rather than protest. Cardinal Ma . John Anderson handled the ques A:n?, about the matter in America} much CIVIl rIghts with secular humanism deiros's letter, like that of the Dutch I tIOn by concentrating on the issue to Carl Rowan's relief; the latter I secular humanism scarcely provide~ bishops in 1942, did not have the ! of abortion, more or less avoiding quotes the former with unction when the motive we need .to effect a result he might have wished, but the reference to arrant clerics. His he warns pro-lifers that they must change in our life and outlook. that surely does not vitiate what i position is just the sort of nonsense ", b~ware .of being taken over by the I am suggesting that the incon he said. I I suppose Cardinal Madeiros was rIght wmg. Apparently clerics can sistency of the Rathers and Goldens The problem nowadays is that sec ·1 blowing the whistle on. Anderson is meddle in politics if they say the 1 personally against abortion, but he right thing. and Rowans indicates that they are ular humanists want to dictate the I :eally no~ agai~s~ the Church being issues which are beyond the range ,I does not wish to inflict his views on What surprised me was that ! anybody else. One wonders what mvolved m polItICS or believers as of episcopal appraisal. But this is neither of the candidates replied to ses~ing t~e. public scene in light of not for them to say. They may wish causes Anderson to be personally ~oma Golden's question by remind against abortion. Because it is theIr relIgIOUS beliefs. When the to think of public funding of abor I mg her of the role that the clergy bishops of Holland (along with the tions and the dissemination of con ~rong? Because it is the taking of 'l played in the Civil Rights Movement. ; ~ mnocent human life? If so, he ought leaders of various Protestant denom traceptives as morally neutral, but It has long been recognized that if inations) protested the deportation they are wrong. All things being H to have the same reservations about I ~ blacks had waited for politicians to of Jews in 1942, they were doing equal, a believer would be stupid to ~

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liMy primary drawing medium is pen and ink, and I try to exploit to the fullest the crisp line it produces by using as little shading as possible. This tends to eliminate any impression of deep space and knit the surface of the drawing together. with a network of lines. Because of its inherent beauty as a pure form, the human figure (often nude but not naked) is my main subject matter; the emphasis here is not on realistic depiction but on a harmonious configuration of lines and curves."

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(cant. f1"Om p. 11) With regard to the quality of the control of a film. "You try and walk collection, Porter maintains that, a thin line between your ideas and with the exception of the major mu somebody else's. Basically it's like seums, "We are very much on par being a referee. I enjoy producting, with most city museums and cer I guess. No, I never really enjoy pro "1 never really enjoy Pro tainly with most university mu ducing a film. There are always bat seums." tles. My Bodyguard was the first ducing a fil'!'lt. There are In establishing the importance of thing I enjoyed." The critics and the always Battles. 'My body .A the complex, Porter asserts that public are also eliciting positive re Snite is one of the three great mu sponses to the movie, which is shown guard' was the first thing 1 seums in Indiana, the other two be by favorable reviews and crowded enjoyed." ing the Indianapolis Museum of Art theatres. Preview- and the soon-to-be constructed mu My Bodyguard is Bill's most recent seum on the Bloomington campus of effort as a filmmaker. It is his direct the University of Indiana. ing debut with the public; however, Recounting the major headaches he directed a short film based on of the of the opening of the museum, the O. Henry's short story, "Ransom of Director cites the installation of spe Red Chief," a few years ago. My He developed the film into its final cial exhibits and the conservation of Bodyguard has been called a sort of appearance from the Alan Ormby the collection pieces as difficulties Catcher in the Rye about two teen screenplay, which he optioned with Snite which took much time and energy Dean A. Porter, Museum Director age boys. his own money. "Developing the this past year. In summing the pro film from the beginning is just more cess of opening the museum, Dr. The collection itself is laid out some unknown Western European fun. It's a different way of working. Porter relates, "It's like a jigsaw chronologically, beginning with the churches. You're in at the start, and it's just MuseUIll puzzle where all the pieces are on Gallery of Ancient, Medieval, and Moving to the Early Renaissance more fun. And r never felt the the floor . . . and there's a lot of Early Renaissance Art. Most strik Gallery, one is first struck by the difficulties, since I wasn't producing blue sky with no clouds, just flat, ing of the pieces of the ancient col gold backgrounds of the devotional the film. Melvin Simons was the blue sky. We try to put all the pieces lection is an Egyptian black basalt paintings of the renowned Kress executive producer who put up the by Paul McGinn, together, and happily, we're at a falcon. Standing over thirty inches Collection. On loan from the' Na money, and a friend of mine, Don point where we're seeing the blue high, the ever-searching eyes seem tional Gallery of Art in Washington, Devlin, was the producer. So we got sky all completed now." to conjure visions of the legendary these paintings greatly resemble along very well." In viewing the museum structure Maltese Falcon. Other pieces of this icons, but in actuality they are Bill is pleased with the response itself, one is first struck by the high collection come from Middle Eastern, gold gilt and paint works of the ! his film is getting from both the ceilings of the sculpture and paint Greek, and Roman cultures. fifteenth century. Another striking :' critics and the public. "Good re ing galleries which afford the ob Turning to the Medieval Collec work is that of a Madonna adoring ii views help, but I don't think bad "A museum is built because you server a celestial effect. The in tion, one encounters two eight-foot the Christ child by the Master of I'It I' reviews hurt a picture. Making have collections, and Father Sorin timacy of the Print and Drawing high Spanish columns of the elev San Miniato. In both the Kress i money is the bottom line in a cer paintings and the work of the Mas "I certainly was aware of having and Gallery presents an atmosphere of enth century flanked by a four tain sense. You can't make movies wanting art around him," states Dr. intensity which helps the viewer to teenth century German wood sculp ter of Miniato, one is fascinated by if they don't make money, because Dean A. Porter, Director of the Snite concentrate on the works before ture of a prophet, and by a thir the artist's adept use of the gold you won't have enough money to Museum of Art. "The idea of a him. Another great feature of the teenth century Madonna from the backgrounds to accentuate the ra make more movies." separate museum structure came to compex is the use of filtered natural Ile de France. Between the columns diant colors of the characters por . This approach seems to put the the University in the sixties. The light which enhances the collections stands a wooden Madonna and child trayed. The final superlative item power of making films into the hands collection dictated that we had to many times more than the conven sculpture. On either side of this con of the Early Renaissance Collection of the business executives, instead do something substantial to house tional artificial lighting. glomeration sit two capitals from is the "Coronation of the Virgin, of the creative filmmakers. Bill ex the collections which we had Flanked by Two Saints," which was plained the situation. "The power drawn." restored over this past summer. Two is in, the hands of the people who At present, the entire collection feet tall, the wooden sculpture is can be fired, and that's why they stands at well over twelve thousand, covered in gold gilt and paint. The make such inappropriate decisions. of which eight thousand are prints, expressions on the faces of the stat Anytime you can be fired for mak drawings, or photographs. At any uettes are remarkably explicit in ,de ing the wrong decision, you are not one time, 50 percent of the paint tail and cast a glowing imprint on free to make the best one. That's ings, 40 percent of the sculptures, the viewer's mind. why I'm not a studio director. I like and one hundred prints, drawings, Entering the Knott-Beckman Gal to make the films I'd like to make, and photographs will be on display. lery of High Renaissance and The film was shot on location in or at least try. And I hope the rest The only travelling shows to be Baroque Art, one is drawn to the Chicago, using mostly first-time teen of the world likes them, too." housed in the new museum will be grace and elegance of the collection age actors. Bill comments, "I en Asked about how he views the those on paper. These shows will and is moved to take up the entire joyed it, but it was difficult working horizons of the film industry in gen take place in the Print and Drawing spectacle at once. An exceptional with people who never acted before. eral, and himself in particular, he Gallery, located on the second level piece is "Repose on the Flight--.!nto It was like conducting an orchestra responded, "I don't know what will of the structure. Touring shows in Egypt" by Claude Gellee, the father which never had played together. happen to the industry. For me, I volving paintings or sculptures will of French landscape painting. De There were happy accidents. Chi don't know either. Someday I be shown in the five renovated gal picting the Holy Family guarded by cago was great. It was beautiful might write and direct. (He pauses). leries of O'Shaughnessy Hall. angels as the three rest on their his and it wasn't too hot that summer. You never know when it (the next By the addition of new ceilings, toric journey, Gellee produces a po I liked the looks of Chicago. As the idea) will hit." special lighting, and parquet to the etic landscape of, a northern Italian director, I wanted to survive the film. present O'Shaughnessy Galleries, the fortress and surrounding country I wanted to make sure it would be August Jennewein is a second administrators are attempting to pre side. The mist and idyllic evening a movie that would be released. And semester senior from St. Louis} Mo. sent the viewer with the concept of light produce a calm and 'soothing that it would be entertaining to His modus vivendi is ((A belief in an integrated complex, not that' of effect. people." self is the only way.') conjoined old and new structures. Steve Spiro, Museum Curator A large painting, "The Agony in 22 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 23 . "' . - ~~ ~ ~ "...... " - .

the Garden," by Jouvenet, or a mem determined expression of a confident As the only impressionistic paint to be a morbid and uninteresting ures seem to speak out against the double halo, from which extend ber of his school, depicts the passing and courageous hero, Marius chal ing on display, "The Beach at Deau work. On closer inspection, the sil divisions of society. feathers. To these feathers are con of the cup of death to Jesus on the lenges the Gaul to carry out the ville" by Eugene Boudin, is an ex ver hole, surrounded by black can Two examples of Josef Albers' nected carved animal-like appen Mount of Olives. While brilliantly deed. Presenting the account of the quisite presentation of harmonious vas, becomes a hopeful and joyous Homage to the Square series afford dages. Commonly, the mask was bedecked angels look on, John, event chiefly through the character color and design. As a great inter symbol as the hole casts its silver a look at the differences produced by used by a shaman, an Eskimo priest, James, and Peter sleep peacefully. of Marius, Tabar creates a severe and preter of the world around him, ness onto the dark background. The color harmony and position upon to journey into the animal spirit This seventeenth century work en austere atmosphere which makes Boudin instilled in Monet an intense addition of a heavy coating of black the simple square. The first, "Slate world. raptures the viewer by minute de this painting the greatest neo-clas feeling for nature~ The effect of the paint near the round opening also and Sky," is an exquisite combina Standing approximately eighteen tails of Christ's facial expression as sical work in the collection. light, sky, vibrant color, and reflec points to the fact that not even tion of three squares: slate grey, inches high, a mask of the Mano He agonizes over His impending An Aligny creation of the 1830's, tions on the water makes this canvas darkness· itself is totally uniform. sky blue, and white. The second, tribe of Liberia is a brown-tinted death. In the words of Curator Steve "Italian Landscape," provides a spec a joyful and eye-pleasing sight. "Blue Form," by George O'Keeffe, "Gutentag IV," is a more distinct creation used as a "judge" or "en Spiro, "It's really one of the master tacle of the classical grandeur of two . Gazing upon the Beardsley Gal is an example of the philosophy of conglomeration of squares of orange, forcer" of the rules of the bush pieces of French Baroque art." cliffs as they seemingly reach out lery of Twentieth Century Art, one this great modern artist. O'Keeffe's green, and white.3 school, proving ground for young Another beautiful landscape is by to each other. A cool coloring, is swiftly engrossed by the varied design simplicity and meticulous A presentation of the artistic men seeking admission to manhood. the Dutchman Jacob Van Ruisdael, united with the artist's monumental examples of truly fine modern art. brush strokes enliven one's interest achievements of the ethnocentric cul Tinted by rubbing the juices of the who is recognized as one of the lighting effects, produces a re By far, the most recognizable work in the rhythmical interplay of grey, tures, the Gallery of· Ethnographic cola nut on its surface, the mask fathers of naturalistic painting. En strained, yet still extremely impres is "Le Miroir,' by Pablo Picasso. blue, and white.2 Arts, curated by Doug Bradley, in also serves as the gatherer of the titled, "The Water Mill," the work, sive scene. As a surrealist and abstract accom Adolph Gottlieb's "Watching" is a cludes works from the American young villagers who were ready to in contrast to the Gellee landscape, is "La Marseillaise," an Ary Schef plishment, the painting presents the product of the 1950's, and is a fine Indian, African, pre-Columbian, and enter the bush for training. identifiable with a certain place (a fer oil sketch of the 1820's, was upper portion of the body of a illustration of the combination of Oceanic civilizations. An Eskimo Cocijo, the rain god of the Monte particular mill in the Netherlands), supposed to be a basis for a larger woman with a mirror behind the abstractism and realism to produce mask, perhaps a product of the Nu Alban civilization of western Cen a distinguishable climate (the low painting which never came about. A character casting her reflection. a surrealistic effect. Divided by grey nivak tribe of western Alaska, is a tral America, is portrayed by an clouds peculiar to Holland), and a truly Romantic effort, the work An Alexander Calder mobile, lines into many smaller unrelated driftwood carving of a bear or of a orange-colored clay sculpture. About distinctive type of lighting (shadows pours forth the spirit of the French "Crag with Red -Heart," consists of paintings, the orange and black fig- seal. Encircling the mask is a two feet tall, the figure is a funer intermingled with a natural light Revolution as the patriots march on a red heart connected by red wire ary work created around 300-400 which is common to the area). The ward behind the furling tricolor. to three white pedals, perfectly bal A.D., a time known as the Transi naturalistic approach of the paint While a soldier bids farewell to his anced on a black base. An almost tion Period (between the Early Clas ing is truly the basis for the impres love, the marchers turn determined humorous piece, it relates Calder's sic and Middle Classic eras). With sionistic movement of the nineteenth eyes toward their quest. With a fascination with the movement of Glyph C as his headdress, Cocijo century. stormy sky as the backdrop, the material objects.1 seems to ask the viewer to enter a . , As an example of a genre scene, ',: viewer almost falls into line to se· Jim Dine's "Little Silver Hole totally different historical perspec '''The Musicians," by Jan Breughel cure victory for France. with a Painting in It" at first appears tive and relive the times of the pre the Elder, is truly a superb represen Columbian Period. tation of the everyday life of sev The dreams of the enthusiastic ad enteenth century German peasants. ministrators and staff will finally The round painting, with a diameter be realized as Snite opens on Novem of about ten inches, portrays an old ber 9. But when the extensive collec woman ready to play her violin tion is unveiled, much more than fine while the accompanying old man works will be presented. Reaching tunes his mandolin-like instrument. out to each visitor, the paintings, As a comic work, Breughel brings sculptures, and prints will ask ques alive the woman's impatience caused tions, answer doubts, and comment by the man's fumbling. Besides the on reality. In essence, Snite will be fantastic character portrayal, come a center of learning, as it will Brueghel sensitively adds delicate present thoughts and ideas in the detailed foliage and flowers in the furtherance of the educational background. growth of the Notre Dame com Entering the Gallery of Eigh munity. 0 teenth and Nineteenth Century Art, one is immediately hit with the pan orama of an immense work, "Bac chus and Ceres," a late Baroque pro duction of Francesco De Mura. 1 Contemporary Artists, edited by Drawing together the drama of the Colin Naylor and Genesis P-Or High Baroque with the classical re ridge (New York: St. Martin's straint of eighteenth century paint Press, 1977), p. 158. ings, De Mura presents the god and 2 Ibid., p. 709. goddess as expressions of Greek 3 Ibid., p. 21. magnificence through the flowing gold and red .draperies which cover their flawless bodies. As the basis for the nineteenth Paul McGinn is a freshrnatnfrom century gallery, the Noah Butkin Ne.w Orleans. This is his first con Collection of nineteenth century tribution to Scholastic. French art is one of the finest ex amples of its kind in the nation. "Marius and the Gaul" by Francois Tabar seems to relive the historical drama . of when a Gaul entered Marius' quarters to assassinate the famous Roman general. With the "Le Miroir" Picasso Monte Alban rain god, from Ethnographic Collection 24 SCHOLAS'rIC OCTOBER 25

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enjoys the seemingly paternal as pect of Tirpitz and delights in his hints of possible donations to the Books Bellefleurs; but then she spots an envelope on the tray, and To Shock, Startle, and Awaken-Bellefleur: Leah let the card slip through her The Saga of an American Family fingers, whimpering with the sur Bellefleur by Michael Diaz prise-the shock-the distress of by Joyce Carol Oates it· She got to her feet, and fum E. P. Dutton; 558 pages bled to set down the glass; and then brought it up to her lips Joyce Carol Oates continues her arguing in bed, and she hurries down as a pet when she was at a boarding again and swallowed a large ongoing portrait of American life the stairs to answer the door, fol school, and whom she called "Love" mouthful of bourbon (p. 211). with the eccentric, wealthy Belle lowed by each member of the large (her suitor ultimately kills it); fleur family in her most Gothic Bellefleur family. The cat is wel lonely Raphael Lucien Bellefleur II But the Bellefleur misfortunes novel. Six generations of the Belle comed by everyone except Gideon. who secludes himself at his own haunt her: Jean-Pierre II, now an fleurs and more than a century of In the morning, the same "rat-sized" pond, only to disappear later along elderly man "pining away in a American history are intertwined creature magically transforms itself with that pond; Samuel and Uncle prison cell" ; the Bushkill Ferry skillfully-structurally and tempo into "an extraordinarily beautiful Arthur who befriend runaway massacre of five family members in rally-in Oates' twelfth novel of her cat ... with coppery-pink fur, puffed slaves during John Brown's aboli 1825; "the loss of the land, piece young, prolific literary career. and silky, and an elegant plume-like tionist movement; and Jean-Pierre by piece ... (p. 212)." Her clair In her first eleven novels and ten tail ... (p. 15)." The disappointing II, the convicted "Innisfrail But voyant baby is absent and cannot short-story collections, Oates is able fact about Mahalaleel's majestic ar cher" later pardoned by the gover help Leah, so the chapter ends ab to reach "a broad general audience rival is that the creature will later nor through Leah's tenacious efforts, ruptly at an indecisive moment, in and . . . the intense literati. But appear sporadically and sparingly The seemingly flimsy relationship a delicate tightrope balance. along with such abundance of in throughout the novel as a minor between the above diverse charac Oates leaves the reader in sus vention comes the risk of failure or "character." ters is solidified deftly by Oates in pense until four chapters later, after deep flaw." 1 Her latest ambitious Almost a year later, Leah gives the scene between the clairvoyant the blackmail/seduction and afte'!' Joyce Carol Oates attempt may well be her latest flaw, birth to Germaine (whom the pub infant Germaine and the insatiably Leah has bought sixty-five acres of though it does show her stylistic lishers of Bellefieur point out as the curious Leah. Perhaps there is a a sandstone quarry with the Tirpitz who pressured the timid young ally been "lonely characters search talents in tightly packed fragmented book's heroine). Soon afterward, minor flaw at this point of the nar money. The technique of "freezing" maid. The desperate, young, anemic ing vainly for love and self-knowl stories. The diverse sensational Leah senses strange "powers" with rative; Oates depicts the new a situation for a while and expound Garnet breaks her vow not to see edge in an indifferent world." events that she saturates each page mother as having been intensely Ii, in herself, first noted by her son, ing on it later on is one of Oates' Gideon again when she arranges a Readers unacquainted with Oates with are, of course, meant to shock, the child-scientist, when he graphs curious about the Bellefleur's past weaknesses in this instance, but it is rendezvous and throws "herself into should note that she has been la startle, awaken - many times for the probability of the frequency of empire before the scene with Ger a strength when interweaving the his :arms (p. 291)." He is unaware beled loosely as a naturalist writer. mere show. her card winnings. The new "pow maine in the walled garden. In any major subplot of her husband's that Garnet sacrificed her baby for But she counters the determinism The Bellefleurs are a wealthy and ers" instill in her the urgent need case, Leah privately "asks" her paramours. his sake, but Gideon is especially usually associated with American notorious clan who live in a moun to restore the once-glorious Belle baby daughter what her (Leah's) I think the technique is ill-used unaware that the infant is his. Near Naturalism. For example, in her tainous region in an enormous man fleur empire of 1780 to its original task should be. Germaine's babbling when interrelated events are spread the end of the novel, Garnet is to third novel, them (National Book sion overlooking Lake Noir. They state. is interpreted by her mother as a too far apart for the reader to ade wed a wealthy lord, and she ar Award, 1970), she writes the follow are landowners, business dealers, . I think the main story begins at . wish to have quately fuse them; however, the ranges yet another melodramatic ing remark: and manipulators of the govern this point, for the rest of the narra technique is powerful when a major meeting with Gideon which culmi ment. An eccentric and restless tive focuses on the said restoration. The family ... regain all the land subplot resurfaces conspicuously for nates in her pathetic, piteous pleas Nothing in the novel has been group, they include millionaires; a Oates bombards the reader with they had lost since the. time of adequate reader interpretation. to marry her. She implores him on exaggerated in order to increase mass murderer (Jean-Pierre II); a long, detailed, circuitous sentence Jean Pierre Bellefleur I. Not only The major subplo.t in Bellefieu1' her knees, stressing the following the possibility of drama - indeed spiritual seeker (Jedediah) who mazes to enrich her sinuous plot. must labor to prove the innocence involves Gideon's illicit sexual plea: the various sordid and shocking leaves Bellefleur manor for the Her nervously energetic style leads of a considerable empire! - but affairs, beginning with a maid. He events of slum life, detailed in mountains to search for God; a the reader into word labyrinths, they must labor to prove the in and Leah have been married for "If, at the very last moment," she other naturalistic works, have brilliant child-scientist (Bromwell); usually seen throughout the book as nocence of Jean-Pierre Bellefleur seven years when she gives birth said suddenly, her heart kicking been understated here, mainly be a wealthy noctambulist (Hiram) one-sentence paragraphs that some II as well (p. 142). to Germaine, while Gideon simulta in her chest, "if-even on the cause of my fear that too much who dies of a kitten scratch; a run times fill a quarter of a page. She neously makes passionate love to a church steps- Or after the cere reality would become unbearable. S away young girl (Yolande) who be couples such digressive prose with a Thus, Leah ardently begins her young maid, Garnet Hecht. How mony, when we [i.e., she and her comes an actress, and whose passion plot which purposely lacks chron quest to restore the old Bellefleur ever, the birth of their third child new husband] are about to drive Moreover, she admires Harriette for an uncle (Gideon) can only be ological consistency, a plan that estate of 1780, starting with the (Gideon and Leah also have twins) away- If, you know, you made Arnow's naturalistic novel, The acted out on the silver screen; a Oates explains in the "Author's Bellefleur men. causes him to become cautious with a sign to me-- Only just raise Dollmaker, and uses it as a spring vampire (Veronica) who has a pas Note." Thus, she darts back and She cunningly coaxes each of the Garnet when they are on a bluff your hand . . . you know I would board for them.o1 Oates claims that sionate but doomed love affair in forth among the six generations of men to join in on her scheme, but above Lake Noir, return to you!" (p. 4~3) her fictional characters who are her youth; a clairvoyant baby (Ger Bellefleurs with self-contained chap she unfortunately meets .up with a often troubled, neurotic, vioient. maine) born with her male twin's ters that are able to stand alone as banker and philanthropist who pressed mutely together . . . After the ceremony, Gideon does restless, or antisocial (e.g., Ger genitals protruding from her ab authentic short stories. blackmails her into a seduction. clutclii'ng each other, whimpering, watch the newlywed couple wave maine who is vexed by Leah's ob domen; and a lovely, young, strong In so doing, she focuses on the fol P.T. Tirpitz, a robust man in his Don't move, don't move, for if good-bye to assembled well-wishers, sessive maternal care; grandfather willed woman, Leah - Germaine's lowing characters: Jedediah, who mid-fifties "renowned throughout . . . nothing actually happens, and and he' partially raises a hand to Hiram who sleepwalks; Jean-Pierre mother, who I think is the heroine leaves for twenty years, beginning the state for his charitable dona no seed is released then Gideon scratch an. itching ear. He freezes, II who shoots eleven men; Raphael of the. novel. in 1806, to seek God among the tions," courts Leah until he feels hasn't been unfaithful, not pre "for he sees how the bride stares at who prefers to be a loner with his The book begins with the tedious mountains; Vernon, the bashful comfortable enough to invite her to cisely: 'and there wm be no con him" with hopeful eyes ... then he own pond) - such individuals are ly dramatic arrival of a "skeletal poet who is infatuated with Leah his hotel suite. She nervously waits sequences (p. 149). lowers his hand. ripe for liberation from their pres creature" from out of the depths of and later drowns when a furious for fifteen minutes for him to ap Such fine characterization breathes ent roles. She declares that these a drenching, late-September rainfall. mob throws· him and his "poetry" pear, sipping the bourbon that- a The sexual union produces a baby life into Oates' fictional people, people have outgrown their present Leah and her husband, Gideon, are into a lake; a spider that Leah kept servant has brought on a tray. She who is later "adopted" by. Leah, who in her past novels have usu- (cant. on page 28)

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with Eva Peron. The biography by style; they revelled in it. She was The chapters of his book read like Barnes succumbs exactly to what their "Lady of Hope." Everything articles in The Ladies' Home Journal Taylor described in Eva Peron, the that happened to her could happen on any first lady, praising her taste Myths of a Woman. "The Lady of to them. She cultivated this image in clothes, decorating a house, and Hope" is not the view the working by changing people's lives: arbitrar her opinions on family raising. The class had of Eva Peron, but the view ily picking a lucky contestant for chapter titles sound like episodes the middle- and upper-class thought the Foundation Eva Peron. This from a soap opera: "The Wrong the working-class had. person was given a house, a sewing Side of the Tracks," "An Aspiring It is also the view most widely machine,clothes, and had his chil Actress," "Teething Troubles," etc. The Three Faces of Eva accepted overseas: Eva Peron's popu dren sent off to college. This is a dangerously simple view larity was due solely to her hold on Barnes' biography is almost of Eva Peron. It concentrates on Eva the lower classes. She was an illegiti exactly what Taylor discusses in her Peron as a symbol of femininity, mate girl from the oppressed pampas work on "the Lady of Hope." Dis motherhood, and sainthood, while region who fled for the glamour of missing all other factors, Evita, denying her own savvy as a poli Buenos Aires, and soon climbed her First Lady concentrates on an illiter tician. As Taylor states, the Argen way up the social ladder by becoming Mark Hinchman ate working-class facinated with a tine working class is highly literate by a model, broadcaster, actress, first beautiful woman.· Barnes describes and well-read in political journals, lady of the nation, and almost a her as a "blond goddess in diamonds and would not be so captivated by a As a result of the success of the a member of the Department of An The validity of these myths is dem saint. Because of Eva's common and furs who dominated and hypno mere mannequin as Barnes would Broadway musical Evita, the Andrew thropology at the University of Cali onstrated in their applicability in background, the lower classes did tized a nation of 18 million people have the reader believe. Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice collabora fornia at San Diego. She did her categorizing the other books on the not castigate her for her swank life- for 7 years. . . ." (cont. on page SO) tion on Argentina's fiery first lady, fieldwork living with both a working life of Eva Peron. a number of books on the play's pro class family and an aristocratic tagonist have been published. family. Being in close contact with «The Lady of Hop~' the extremes of Buenos Aires society Eva Peron, the Myths of a Woman led her to see the spectrum of opin Evita, First Lady J.M. Taylor ions of Eva Peron, whose death in John Barnes (University of Chicago Press) 1952 of cancer has not dampened (Grove Press) her fame. The most credible of the post The public's view of Eva Peron The most accepted myth of Eva Evita works was started before the fell into three "myths": "the Lady Peron is "the Lady of Hope." The play was conceived; it is not cashing of Hope," "the Woman of the Black generally accepted myth, it is based in on the play's popularity. Taylor is Myth," and "the Revolutionary Eva." in the working class' fascination

(cant. from page 21) fillment through diversions. He tries is definitely not one. life roles such as social station, horse racing, gambling, womanizing, economic level, the marriage, the hunting the Noir Vulture, and flying. Footnotes job, the philosophical beliefs, etc. His childlike fascination with air 1 Louis L. Martz in The Yale Review "They must have liberation, room to planes, especially with the airborne· (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univer grow in.... "" freedom that flying promises, ulti sity Press, 1976), p. 114. Leah and Gideon each outgrow mately leads to his final love affair 2 Oontemporary Literary Oriticism, their static roles of bored husband with a stoic, female pilot. Flying Dedria Bryfonski . (ed.), . Detroit: and wife, so each seeks freedom in also leads to their death pact; with Gale Research Co., 1978, Vol. 9, p. different modes. Consequently, Leah a box of explosives on her lap, Mrs. 402. identifies. herself intensely with Rache and Gideon plunge kamikaze a Joyce Carol Oates, ."Author's "Germaine's wish" to restore the like onto Bellefleur manor. Note," them, New York: Vanguard Bellefleur empire, while Gideon be Oates continues to exhibit her Press, 1969. (Paperback reprint: gins his promiscuous affairs with a genius for plot control with her Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1970.) maid. Leah finds fuel for her "task" nervously energetic style.· She also 4 Oates, "The Nightmare of Natur in her clairvoyant daughter. "At continues to write superb potboilers, alism: Harriete Arnow's Tohe Doll these times the baby's powers [are] such as Belle/leur, and to indulge maker," New Heaven, New Earth: such that Leah [can] feel a heart in "lamentable verbosity" (e.g., Gar The Visionary Experience in Lit beat not her own . . . throbbing in net Hecht's stuttering pleas to Gid erature, New York: Vanguard Press, side her body (p. 141)." On her eon).<; This novel will probably be 1974, pp. 97-110. way to visit Tirpitz on one of her a very minor classic in light of its 5 Letter to Dale Boesky, "Corre numerous business trips, she argues rich, skillful plot control that often spondence with Miss Joyce Carol with Gideon that she cannot travel surprises the reader. However, if the Oates," International Review of , f ___' without Germaine. "She's my heart reader is acquainted with Oates' Psychoanalysis, 2 (1975), 482. - my soul. I can't leave her behind short stories that have been included G Joanne V. Creighton, Joyce Oarol (p. 205)." There is obviously an in the o. Henry Prize Stories col Oates, Boston: Twayne Publishers, invisible umbilical cord attached to lections for years, then one need 1979, p. 149. this mother gifted with "powers" only appreciate the masterful "jug and this infant who literally points gling" of separate story lines. Oates to objects preceding their destruc is in her prime and can afford to tion. satisfy the general public once in a Michael Diaz is a master's candidate In contrast to Leah's self-gratify while. She has yet to write a major in the Notre Dame English Depart ing "task," Gideon seeks self-ful- classic, though, because Belle/leur ment. Eva Peron 28 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 29 (cont. from page 29) either "the Lady of Hope" or its con La Razon De Mi Vida currently verse, "the Woman of the Black is out of print and only available in ((The Woman of the Black Myth" Myth" is an accurate representation Spanish, but it is not difficult to read of Eva Peron, but that there is some as Eva Peron was not highly edu Evita: The Woman With the Whip validity in each one. Certainly Eva cated, and she wrote in simple gram Reflections on the Game formerly titled The Woman With the Peron's background influenced her, mar for her people. Like the other Whip: Eva Peron and her physical beauty naturally two books, it must be considered as Mary Main affected the masses' opinion of her. a biased view of Eva Peron; in this by Tom O'Toole (Dodd, Mead) But a reader must be careful to un case, how Eva wanted to be consid derstand when reading either ered by the public. Originally published in 1952 to Barnes' Evita Peron) First Laily or J. M. Taylor's book is the best on Well, it happened again. This time "But look at all the people walk-' "alley oop" pass to Tony Hunter, cash in on the furor over Eva Main's Evita: The Woman With the Eva Peron, providing the closest the woe fell upon Bo and his Wol ing around who need 'em!" and two short "quicky" completions, Peron's death, this book has been re Whip that theirs is not the working view of the real Eva Peron. She verines, and the doom was dealt by "Don't worry, Tom. We'll get faces in the crowd still read, "too published to take advantage of the class' view of their first lady, but presents many views of Eva Peron, the terrible toe of our Harry Oliver. some. I've done it this way for 25 little, too late." For with four sec success of the musical Evita, with that of an adoring beauty-obsessed and says that they all have some But the situation was nothing new. years and haven't failed once." onds and 34 yards to go, a 51-yard the poor taste of changing its title American journalist and a disgrun validity. The true Eva Peron is prob But why, one may ask, do the Irish It was no use. Domer alumni just field goal loomed as our only hope. to emphasize its relationship to the tled aristocrat. Their books are use ably a combination of the three win so many close encounters of the have too much faith to face the But as we looked up at the flags play. Evita: The Woman With the ful only in showing the two ex myths: "the Lady of Hope," "the turf kind? Indeed, why Notre Dame? facts. So I waved good~bye to Mom and realized the 20-mph gust that Whip starts out with a new introduc tremes of the rumors that circulated Woman 'of the Black Myth," and Why Our Lady? Why, OUR LADY! and Dad and my little brothers and was making them flap, all hope tion referring to the play. around Eva Peron. Taylor proves "the Revolutionary Eva." Taylor did Of course! The answer's in the sisters, and went in to claim my was gone. With that wind, there Mary Main was born of British that many of their stories are lies. not attempt to write a biography question. safely established seat. was no way. parents in Buenos Aires. Her father's like Barnes' and Main's. She wrote The first inexplicable factor be position as a controller of one of an anthropological study of a polit Of course, a SEAT, per se, is a hind the Fighting Irish's fantastic hypothetical concept in Notre Dame ({What should I do?)) pondered Argentina's largest railways auto ({The Revolutionary Eva)) ical phenomenon. Her approach success is, of course, the fans them Harry Oliver at that point) quite matically placed Main in conflict Stadium, at least in the student sec gives emphasis to "the Revolution selves. Yet, as I watched them new to this type of situation. Never with the Perons. Eventually she was tion. For even if you can get to La Rzon de mi Vida ary Eva." Her serious attitude inad milling around the gates before the before hail he kicked a field goal of forced out of Argentina due to the vertently gives Eva Peron credulity your allotted two-foot block of (The Reason of My Life) Michigan game, it almost seemed as bench, the only thing you'll be able more than 38 yards in his life. changes the Peronist party brought Eva Peron as a politician and not as a mere if there were too many for the to use it for is to stand three feet ({Kick the hell out of it)" answered forth. Main has written a book that Ediciones Peuser figurehead. team's own good. True, the gaudy above the concrete. Now, there is the practical Mr. Crable) «and kick is a personal vendetta against Eva ( out-of-print) Eva Peron) the Myths of a Wom it straight." Peron. green-suited alumni whose green no rule against sitting, and it is an is influenced by current opmlOn backs keep this place in business all Taylor, in her book Eva Peron) the Taylor discovered when living of Eva Peron. Taylor did intense really a rather nice thing to do, if have their tickets way in advance, you like to look at legs. But if your They lined up, and all was calm. Myths of a Woman, describes this with a working-class family that the readings of the periodicals of Eva The wind stopped, the blocking held, categorization of Eva by the aris but many of the common faithful goal is to see the game, about the view commonly held among the Peron's time, but her emphasis on and the foot connected. "I knew I tocracy as "The Woman of the Black flock here with no way of getting only time you'll get to rest your workers was very different from "the Revolutionary Eva" is influ hit it good," Harry would say later, Myth." Incensed over Eva Peron's into the stadium, except a whim toes is at halftime. that widely purported. They had a enced by the current use of Eva "but I didn't know if it was that popularity, the upper-class wrote and a prayer. By halftime at this particular very realistic view of Eva Peron. Peron as a symbol in resurgent Per good." It was that good. The ball her off as a back-biting, lower-class onista parties. "The Pope can't help me, but game, we had squandered a two They did not see her as a goddess, maybe you can," proclaims one sign. fell through, and the place fell whore who slept her way to the Taylor's book also assumes a prior touchdown lead, as Michigan tied but as a political leader who had "I need six tickets," it challenges, apart. Casa Rosada and then devoted her knowledge of Eva Peron; it is not us and then passed us in the third greatly improved their lives. People were still floating on air life to collecting material posses a biography, and sadly the other as it waves in front of the "All ticket quarter. But after Krimm picked While watching a slide show on peddlers will be prosecuted" sign at when I met my family after the sions, and wiping out anyone who South American homes in my Ar books on Eva by Barnes, Main, and off a pass and proceeded 49 yards to Gate 14. As I walk through the game. had ever crossed her path. chitectural History class, I noticed Peron herself are not completely pay dirt, it looked as if we were Mary Main describes Eva Peron factual. midst of the stalkers and scalpers, going to even the score, only to "Did you get seats?" I inquired that one slide of the walled gardens more anxiously than usual. as "gold-digging," "notorious," and of Buenos Aires showed graffiti on Main's book was used by Andrew I see off in a corner an old man have some chump named Oliver "Sure did," said Dad, the after "unscrupulous." Main's personal the wall: "Si Evita viviera, seria Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice as the sitting on a parking block, his head blow the P.A.T. The crowd's com in his hands. He is crying. As I ap glow of the victory still very appar background interferes with her at primera" (If Evita were alive she basis for Evita. Evita opens Sep ments were predictable. ent in his smile. "Right after you tempt to write a book on Eva Peron, would be first). This is a woman tember 30 at Chicago's Shubert The proach him to see if there is any comfort I can lend, I see a sign by "That a--h---!" left. Some guy with extra tickets and Evita: the Woman With the who died almost thirty years ago, atre. The Broadway production of "That point's gonna cost us!" Whip comes off as nothing but Mary yet she is still a major personage in Evita won seven Tony awards, in his side, "I desperately need 20 walked right up and gave them to Main's opinions of Eva Peron, and Argentine politics, her name con cluding Best Musical, Actress, and tickets," it reads. I turn away; no But the throng was finally calmed me." not a biography. stantly surfacing. There was more Actor. The play is worthwhile, al further explanation is needed. when, with but three minutes left, "How much?" I grimaced, pre Main is incapable of writing ob to Eva Peron than being a first lady. though not historically accurate. The But as I turn back, a more fa "Concrete" Phil Carter cracked over pared for the worst. jectively; her every story on Eva How often does Mamie Eisenhower's music is good, the performers tal miliar sight strikes me, and it is from the four, and we went ahead "He gave them to us," he repeated. Peron is tainted with this affliction: , name appear in American politics? ented, and the visual effects power infinitely more painful than the by five. Bo's boys had put up a good "Took one look at little Danny For all her importance in Argen ful. last. It is my folks. It is almost in fight, but we had prevailed. Until sittin' on top of my shoulders and The hatred against Eva slowly tine politics, Eva was never elected Jesus Christ Superstar) Webber evitable that my dad wili come an excellent return, an unexpected said, 'Here. Take these tickets. I spread from the oligarchs and the to a post; her worsening cancer and Rice's earlier work, was not down for every home game, and he draw play, and a deflected touch want the kid to see the game.' After military, who were her first en and pressure from the military (she meant to replace the Bible. Similarly inveterately will have tickets for down pass deflated our dreams, and that I knew something was going emies, to the liberals and the labor would have been the army's leader) Evita is not to be a two-hour lecture none of them. As I trudge toward all but destroyed our team's hopes. to happen." leaders .... But the great majority caused her to renounce her cam on Argentine politics. J. M. Taylor's him, I am aware of the futility of As I looked down at the referee de -Meanwhile, I found out my sister of the working people were still paign for the vice-presidency. Yet book, Eva Peron) The Myths of a the fofthcoming conversation, but claring our demise with outstretched Kathy had devised her own plan. behind Eva Peron; few of them many feel that she, not her husband, Woman can provide an insight into after four years, I feei it is my duty. hands, four men in identical T-shirts Persuading a yourig vendor to lend knew that their fellows had been President Juan Peron, was the leader a modern-day society's reaction to a "Hi,: Dad. Bring any tickets this passed in front of him and then her his programs, she snuck in with tortured, for the Peronista press of the Peronista party. Because of politically significant woman. 0 time?" turned our way. The shirts had a bunch of the other vendors when and the radio carried no word of criticism of her interfering in poli "Nope. But we'll find some," he writing on them, and aided by the' guard wasn't checking so closely. it, and those whose relatives had tics, Eva dismisses all this influence Mark Hinchman) an architecture promises proudly. binoculars, their simple, prophetic But while her accomplice was hav also disappeared were often fright- in her autobiography. Her husband stUdent and Eva Peron «scholar/) is "Dad, tickets are going for fifty message became clear: "Never ing a hard time convincing the gate ened into silence. ' was the nation's leader, and her sole in Rome this year. bucks apiece!" Doubt." keeper that he was legit, my sister goal in life was to love and support "Well, we're not going to pay And yet, despite an interesting 30- passed the time by selling his pro J. ,M. Taylor does not feel that her husband, she asserts. that much." yard interference call on Kiel's grams for him. She had already

30 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 31 (cont. from page 29) either "the Lady of Hope" or its con La Razon De Mi Vida currently verse, "the Woman of the Black is out of print and only available in ((The Woman of the Black Myth" Myth" is an accurate representation Spanish, but it is not difficult to read of Eva Peron, but that there is some as Eva Peron was not highly edu Evita: The Woman With the Whip validity in each one. Certainly Eva cated, and she wrote in simple gram Reflections on the Game formerly titled The Woman With the Peron's background influenced her, mar for her people. Like the other Whip: Eva Peron and her physical beauty naturally two books, it must be considered as Mary Main affected the masses' opinion of her. a biased view of Eva Peron; in this by Tom O'Toole (Dodd, Mead) But a reader must be careful to un case, how Eva wanted to be consid derstand when reading either ered by the public. Originally published in 1952 to Barnes' Evita Peron) First Laily or J. M. Taylor's book is the best on Well, it happened again. This time "But look at all the people walk-' "alley oop" pass to Tony Hunter, cash in on the furor over Eva Main's Evita: The Woman With the Eva Peron, providing the closest the woe fell upon Bo and his Wol ing around who need 'em!" and two short "quicky" completions, Peron's death, this book has been re Whip that theirs is not the working view of the real Eva Peron. She verines, and the doom was dealt by "Don't worry, Tom. We'll get faces in the crowd still read, "too published to take advantage of the class' view of their first lady, but presents many views of Eva Peron, the terrible toe of our Harry Oliver. some. I've done it this way for 25 little, too late." For with four sec success of the musical Evita, with that of an adoring beauty-obsessed and says that they all have some But the situation was nothing new. years and haven't failed once." onds and 34 yards to go, a 51-yard the poor taste of changing its title American journalist and a disgrun validity. The true Eva Peron is prob But why, one may ask, do the Irish It was no use. Domer alumni just field goal loomed as our only hope. to emphasize its relationship to the tled aristocrat. Their books are use ably a combination of the three win so many close encounters of the have too much faith to face the But as we looked up at the flags play. Evita: The Woman With the ful only in showing the two ex myths: "the Lady of Hope," "the turf kind? Indeed, why Notre Dame? facts. So I waved good~bye to Mom and realized the 20-mph gust that Whip starts out with a new introduc tremes of the rumors that circulated Woman 'of the Black Myth," and Why Our Lady? Why, OUR LADY! and Dad and my little brothers and was making them flap, all hope tion referring to the play. around Eva Peron. Taylor proves "the Revolutionary Eva." Taylor did Of course! The answer's in the sisters, and went in to claim my was gone. With that wind, there Mary Main was born of British that many of their stories are lies. not attempt to write a biography question. safely established seat. was no way. parents in Buenos Aires. Her father's like Barnes' and Main's. She wrote The first inexplicable factor be position as a controller of one of an anthropological study of a polit Of course, a SEAT, per se, is a hind the Fighting Irish's fantastic hypothetical concept in Notre Dame ({What should I do?)) pondered Argentina's largest railways auto ({The Revolutionary Eva)) ical phenomenon. Her approach success is, of course, the fans them Harry Oliver at that point) quite matically placed Main in conflict Stadium, at least in the student sec gives emphasis to "the Revolution selves. Yet, as I watched them new to this type of situation. Never with the Perons. Eventually she was tion. For even if you can get to La Rzon de mi Vida ary Eva." Her serious attitude inad milling around the gates before the before hail he kicked a field goal of forced out of Argentina due to the vertently gives Eva Peron credulity your allotted two-foot block of (The Reason of My Life) Michigan game, it almost seemed as bench, the only thing you'll be able more than 38 yards in his life. changes the Peronist party brought Eva Peron as a politician and not as a mere if there were too many for the to use it for is to stand three feet ({Kick the hell out of it)" answered forth. Main has written a book that Ediciones Peuser figurehead. team's own good. True, the gaudy above the concrete. Now, there is the practical Mr. Crable) «and kick is a personal vendetta against Eva ( out-of-print) Eva Peron) the Myths of a Wom it straight." Peron. green-suited alumni whose green no rule against sitting, and it is an is influenced by current opmlOn backs keep this place in business all Taylor, in her book Eva Peron) the Taylor discovered when living of Eva Peron. Taylor did intense really a rather nice thing to do, if have their tickets way in advance, you like to look at legs. But if your They lined up, and all was calm. Myths of a Woman, describes this with a working-class family that the readings of the periodicals of Eva The wind stopped, the blocking held, categorization of Eva by the aris but many of the common faithful goal is to see the game, about the view commonly held among the Peron's time, but her emphasis on and the foot connected. "I knew I tocracy as "The Woman of the Black flock here with no way of getting only time you'll get to rest your workers was very different from "the Revolutionary Eva" is influ hit it good," Harry would say later, Myth." Incensed over Eva Peron's into the stadium, except a whim toes is at halftime. that widely purported. They had a enced by the current use of Eva "but I didn't know if it was that popularity, the upper-class wrote and a prayer. By halftime at this particular very realistic view of Eva Peron. Peron as a symbol in resurgent Per good." It was that good. The ball her off as a back-biting, lower-class onista parties. "The Pope can't help me, but game, we had squandered a two They did not see her as a goddess, maybe you can," proclaims one sign. fell through, and the place fell whore who slept her way to the Taylor's book also assumes a prior touchdown lead, as Michigan tied but as a political leader who had "I need six tickets," it challenges, apart. Casa Rosada and then devoted her knowledge of Eva Peron; it is not us and then passed us in the third greatly improved their lives. People were still floating on air life to collecting material posses a biography, and sadly the other as it waves in front of the "All ticket quarter. But after Krimm picked While watching a slide show on peddlers will be prosecuted" sign at when I met my family after the sions, and wiping out anyone who South American homes in my Ar books on Eva by Barnes, Main, and off a pass and proceeded 49 yards to Gate 14. As I walk through the game. had ever crossed her path. chitectural History class, I noticed Peron herself are not completely pay dirt, it looked as if we were Mary Main describes Eva Peron factual. midst of the stalkers and scalpers, going to even the score, only to "Did you get seats?" I inquired that one slide of the walled gardens more anxiously than usual. as "gold-digging," "notorious," and of Buenos Aires showed graffiti on Main's book was used by Andrew I see off in a corner an old man have some chump named Oliver "Sure did," said Dad, the after "unscrupulous." Main's personal the wall: "Si Evita viviera, seria Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice as the sitting on a parking block, his head blow the P.A.T. The crowd's com in his hands. He is crying. As I ap glow of the victory still very appar background interferes with her at primera" (If Evita were alive she basis for Evita. Evita opens Sep ments were predictable. ent in his smile. "Right after you tempt to write a book on Eva Peron, would be first). This is a woman tember 30 at Chicago's Shubert The proach him to see if there is any comfort I can lend, I see a sign by "That a--h---!" left. Some guy with extra tickets and Evita: the Woman With the who died almost thirty years ago, atre. The Broadway production of "That point's gonna cost us!" Whip comes off as nothing but Mary yet she is still a major personage in Evita won seven Tony awards, in his side, "I desperately need 20 walked right up and gave them to Main's opinions of Eva Peron, and Argentine politics, her name con cluding Best Musical, Actress, and tickets," it reads. I turn away; no But the throng was finally calmed me." not a biography. stantly surfacing. There was more Actor. The play is worthwhile, al further explanation is needed. when, with but three minutes left, "How much?" I grimaced, pre Main is incapable of writing ob to Eva Peron than being a first lady. though not historically accurate. The But as I turn back, a more fa "Concrete" Phil Carter cracked over pared for the worst. jectively; her every story on Eva How often does Mamie Eisenhower's music is good, the performers tal miliar sight strikes me, and it is from the four, and we went ahead "He gave them to us," he repeated. Peron is tainted with this affliction: , name appear in American politics? ented, and the visual effects power infinitely more painful than the by five. Bo's boys had put up a good "Took one look at little Danny For all her importance in Argen ful. last. It is my folks. It is almost in fight, but we had prevailed. Until sittin' on top of my shoulders and The hatred against Eva slowly tine politics, Eva was never elected Jesus Christ Superstar) Webber evitable that my dad wili come an excellent return, an unexpected said, 'Here. Take these tickets. I spread from the oligarchs and the to a post; her worsening cancer and Rice's earlier work, was not down for every home game, and he draw play, and a deflected touch want the kid to see the game.' After military, who were her first en and pressure from the military (she meant to replace the Bible. Similarly inveterately will have tickets for down pass deflated our dreams, and that I knew something was going emies, to the liberals and the labor would have been the army's leader) Evita is not to be a two-hour lecture none of them. As I trudge toward all but destroyed our team's hopes. to happen." leaders .... But the great majority caused her to renounce her cam on Argentine politics. J. M. Taylor's him, I am aware of the futility of As I looked down at the referee de -Meanwhile, I found out my sister of the working people were still paign for the vice-presidency. Yet book, Eva Peron) The Myths of a the fofthcoming conversation, but claring our demise with outstretched Kathy had devised her own plan. behind Eva Peron; few of them many feel that she, not her husband, Woman can provide an insight into after four years, I feei it is my duty. hands, four men in identical T-shirts Persuading a yourig vendor to lend knew that their fellows had been President Juan Peron, was the leader a modern-day society's reaction to a "Hi,: Dad. Bring any tickets this passed in front of him and then her his programs, she snuck in with tortured, for the Peronista press of the Peronista party. Because of politically significant woman. 0 time?" turned our way. The shirts had a bunch of the other vendors when and the radio carried no word of criticism of her interfering in poli "Nope. But we'll find some," he writing on them, and aided by the' guard wasn't checking so closely. it, and those whose relatives had tics, Eva dismisses all this influence Mark Hinchman) an architecture promises proudly. binoculars, their simple, prophetic But while her accomplice was hav also disappeared were often fright- in her autobiography. Her husband stUdent and Eva Peron «scholar/) is "Dad, tickets are going for fifty message became clear: "Never ing a hard time convincing the gate ened into silence. ' was the nation's leader, and her sole in Rome this year. bucks apiece!" Doubt." keeper that he was legit, my sister goal in life was to love and support "Well, we're not going to pay And yet, despite an interesting 30- passed the time by selling his pro J. ,M. Taylor does not feel that her husband, she asserts. that much." yard interference call on Kiel's grams for him. She had already

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h ern Cal game growing in his back Harry Oliver would say, "not giv cruiting, and Oliver came out as a I sold two by the time he got in and came to reclaim them. "So I made yard." Michael Molinelli, take note. ing up." placekicker his junior year. He was four bucks getting into the game!" But what does Harry have to say still only second string but the she exclaimed deviously. . ,x· ,x· about all of this? Two weeks after number-one man, who happened to be Junior Nabor (now a star at Soon afterward, we met up with the big event, the author of the Stanford), helped Harry immensely. members of the Taylor family. My Although that all was only my latest chapter of Irish grid lore is So, by his senior year, Oliver was dad had been a Domer with Hobie observation of the game, other still shaking his head. "I still can't (or Mr. Taylor for the unacquaint chroniclers were pretty much in comprehend the magnitude of that ready. ed), and our families now live in the agreement about the outcome. kick," he says softly. "It didn't seem That year, he performed well same town, so we knew each other Though the Detroit Free Press ad like it was something that important enough to catch Devine's eyes, and well. mitted only a "near miracle kick" at the time. But everyone keeps along with such Moeller greats as in "one of the greatest games in re telling me differently." Koegel, Condeni, Crable and Hunter, "Some game!" Mom greeted Oliver came to Notre Dame. Then, them. "I still donit believe it!" cent college history," the Michigan Harry's story is not that of the student paper was more adamant. average football hero, except per after two years behind the likes of "Only nonbelievers don't believe," "Michigan 27, Notre Dame 26, God haps at Notre Dame, where it fits Joe Un is and Chuck Male, Harry countered Hobie. "And we just saw 3" its headlines stated as the ob in rather nicely. Harry hated foot felt that he was again ready, only 20,000 Michigan fans heading to vious fact. Bill Jauss of the Chicago ball when he was young. He pre to come out of spring sessions sec ward the Grotto. You can bet they're Tribune said we "used a script too ferred basketball. When he tried ond to Mike Johnston. Even though believers now. Hey! Look what Fitz fictional even for the Gipper or out as a'cornerback freshman year he was extremely discouraged, he gerald gave me." Rockne," while Dan Devine, who at Moeller High, it was solely be didn't quit. Instead, he kept working, "What is it?" asked Dad, as his has been known to repeat himself cause of peer pressure, and he was and waited for a chance to redeem friend pulled out a little plastic bag on certain calls, called it "the all cut as being "too small." Then in himself. Which, in a nutshell, is ex with something green inside. time, all time, all time moment." a sophomore year soccer game his actly what happened to Harry in the "It's turf," he told us. "Fitz went Finally, Father Ted, who is always kicking ability was noticed by head Michigan game. down on the field after the game the last word on such theological de football coach, Faust, not unlike Though a quiet soul six days out and dug up a square from the spot bates, simply called it, "a whole Rockne's accidental discovery of of the week, Harry will tell you he's where Harry kicked the ball. He has new chapter in an ongoing tradi Gipp, who was booting drop kicks as emotional as anybody the day of turf from all the important games. tion." The tradition he was referring at the time. Like the "Rock," Coach the game. And yet, despite his tre Still has a patch from the '77 South- to was doing the impossible. Or as Faust was also successful in his re- mendous emotional intensity, Oliver, whose 37 of 39 set an Ohio high school record for extra point per centage, admits it was a simple lapse of concentration which made him miss one against Michigan and which almost cost tis a game. But again, he prayed for a chance to prove himself, and miraculously, it came. Miraculously, too, in more ways than one. "I didn't notice at the time that the wind had stopped, but so many people have told me so it must be true. I COULDN'T have kicked it Harry Oliver that far against the wind," he con fessed. before he kicked it," sums up "That's spelled D-I-v-i-n-e, right?" The secret of his success is much the "change" perfectly. His team He laughed. "Yes, but it was simpler. It's his faith. He prays mates now playfully ask if they can Coach himself who said we owe this constantly. He attends Mass daily. kiss his left toe, and Harry recalls victory to one lady. OUR Lady. I. He visited the Grotto before the that the Monday after the game, "It's like the prayer goes, 'now game, after the game, and probably just as he was coming out for prac and at the hour of our death.'" would have snuck out at halftime tice, the sky turned from blue to Harry continued. "And after that had it not been for the gospel music grey to green. Immediately a storm touchdown I thought we were pretty the band played that day. And he which was to uproot trees and dead. Everyone did. But I also had says his rosary always. Our Lady drench the campus fell upon them. the feeling something would hap is truly his first love. "Gee, Harry, if you wanted the day pen." Yet, it would be hard for us to off, why didn't you just say so!" "After that kick, do you think believe that all the hoopla has not they kidded him. Coach will let you kick off?" I asked changed his ways a little. "vvell; a And yet, they are only half kid while leaving. lot of girls call me up now," he con ding. 'rIle kick has boosted his con "Oh, Harry's above tltat," his cedes, "a:ild I get Ii lot more letters." . fidence, but has not shaken his roommate cut in. He received over 40 letters last week foundation.' When. asked why he "Yeah, he'd get creamed." offered from all over the country, not to thought the Irish came away with another. mention one from an alumnus in so many last second wins, he looked Nevertheless, Our Lady helped us Argentina. (Father Ted would be around for awhile as if to think up again. And this time, Harry Oliver pleased about that one.) some highly technical explanation, just happened to be her instrument. People who do not know him but finally just shook his head and o can't help view him differently. But shrugged. Tom O'Toole, a senior, is an English Coach Devine's comment, "Harry's "It has to be Divine Intervention," major and the Sports Editor for "Harry 0" Oliver boots home a shocker a heck of a nice kid; he was even he said. Scholastic. 33 32 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER

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Something that catches on the hinge, Beginnings by John. Thornton a passing tightness in the moving parts, left where you'll see it if you leave, I IV something like a Muddy Waters cluttered throat or The hare was held by Sweated, body without ballast, lusting for its foot slid the edge of His a dewed by Anthony Walton carafe of water. White against midnight, Thumb beneath the curl the yellow marble of the moon of four more nails, Blinds go Now get this: pale in the daylight, And the driftwood tree Moist-green dirt This old black dude throwing a grid of it curving its bones spun into a ball and Dark as night against the wall, One of them Mississippi, then slowly moving It dropped from His arched wrist, ill Set down upon a hill, Sharecropping all of it across, to finger and thumb curling shut pushed over the ridge Negroes counterbalance Into the water In a Life Magazine a drifting sun. And hurtled bleeding it dropped from the sky, Rolling and bouncing Upright muscles toward the ground, Still life photograph from down it went, Nineteen- thirty-four sink and merge Torn by the air, When the times was hard for a cleft, Quietly pouring like milk the wind in its skull Growing and pounding and· and the slow chore of over the earth's face And the life was harder, when beating it burst The man owned the land, owned effacement, And wrapping its slowly moving II You and the land spear-flight V And you was glad to get up to all of them across, ends with Drew with His Memphis once a month Broke with a smack Gives up, And listen to Beale Street the slam of door. forefinger the the roll of the wave, swats the ground Now, now that you got this Shape of a door Feet yearning Open-handed upon the ground, Old dude in your mind Frustration and Reconciliation beneath the rocks and turns His back Set him on a stool in a dark, smoky bar Sealed the last corner Put a big, old red guitar With Zen Poets Sea moss and shells, In disgust, In his hands, wrap them and slipped his hand shelters buried in sand rolling thunderclouds Waxy fingers around the strings by Tim Gulstine Beneath the dirt, And let him tell you all about life Rainwater gathers In three chords peeling back the crust in the hollows These timid poets herd their words in Topsoil and stone, Let him tell you about a life Of His fingertips Where pain cuts through you like a knife Groups of three, oil and water teeming and swirling Let him tell you how his best friend And spurn the stylus I have thought Done went and stole his wife Lava-hot bones were exhaled, With the mud, About a life of bad news, about a life of paying dues Should be the longest nail on any then crumbled to ash swelling and spilling over- What it's like to be a 'may-n' Artist's hand. What it's like to have the blues Have their yellow trees some purple Leaves to bleed in boiling water? And when the words This custom Can't tell it all . The guitar takes over Of commitment to the memory Axe with liries as fine Is confusing and vicarious. As a scalpel I have seen Slicing and snaking The halcyon eyes of these mystics And sewing The pain Vacated by preoccupations, C-F-G-or G-C-D Rolling up F-B-C' or A~D-E Into the chaos of tradition. Life I In three chords But together we find something Stands before I Us, not between us, so firm that' !

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don't find yourself skipping over off the album at you, and if it Donald the singer at his best, as he songs because you don't want to hear had been sung by McDonald, it turns in an inspired performance them. could have been a Doobies classic, that could challenge Teddy Pender "Real Love," by McDonald and "Keep This Train A-rollin'" is the grass or Al Green for soul styling. Patrick Henderson is the alb,um's only song written solely by McDon "Just in Time," "No Stoppin' Us The Doobie Brothers outstanding cut. It combines the mu ald, and it is another pleasant varia Now," and "Thank You Love" each sical complexity noted before with tion of his standard formula. Opt have their moments, but they exist a lyric that is one of the most se ing for funky gospel piano, a mostly as filler. "Thank You Love," One Step Closer rious and touching to ever be fea blazing horn section, and a driving however, would have been a hell of tured in a pop song. Lines like the beat, this positive love song succeeds an instrumental if the band could second verse's "Here, darlin' stands as the latest synthesis of several dif have left the lyrics off it. Written To What? another bandit wanting you, in and ferent styles by McDonald, and is a by Bumpus, it is an excellent tune, out of your life they come and they good change from synthesizers and but the lyrics are inane, and next by Anthony Walton go," and the final verse "When you mid-tempo ballads. (I also don't re- time he should collaborate with

" One Step Closer is the new album ! and too little direction: ber is a good singer, with Bumpus by the Doobie Brothers, the tenth in The Doobie Brothers are arguably and McDonald being great ones. Mc ten years. It marks yet another new one of the two best American rock Donald is probably the best male era in the long history of this band, bands currently playing. They have vocalist in rock today. Every mem as it is the debut of the latest edi outlasted all of the competition, with ber is a solid, if not great instru tion of the band. Cornelius Bumpus, the exception of the other great mentalist, and everybody writes. John McFee, and Chet McCracken American band, the Eagles. When They have a proven track record. join holdovers Tiran Porter, Keith considering staying power, creativ So the question is what are they Knudsen, Patrick Simmons, and ity, and commercial success while waiting for? Much of this problem Michael McDonald. The new line-up maintaining a modicum of integrity, could be explained in terms of the is a definite improvement over the I also consider these two bands to instability of the band, but that is old band, as the new members bring be on the same level as The Rolling no excuse for wasting the talents of fresh enthusiasm, technical improve Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Yes, and Jeff Baxter and eventually forcing ment, and instrumental diversifica they are way above the other major him to quit out of apathy. Why set tion to the group. With Bumpus on popular acts like Journey, Aero tle for the best AM band, when you saxophone, flute, and keyboards, Mc smith, and Van Halen. A direct com could be the greatest band in the Fee on "anything with strings," and parison of the two groups is diffi world? Until the Doobies, answer McCracken on drums, percussion, cult; because the Eagles have these questions, they will always be and vibraphone, the Doobies have stressed lyric development, while considered the most unfulfilled band the instrumentation to do anything the Doobies have opted for a more in rock. , they want, and the proficiency to do musical emphasis. This is my major One Step Closer does nothing to it with credibility. criticism of the Doobies and it also ,prove or disprove the promise of This is one of the reasons the new applies to the new album. They the 'band. It does mark a transition, album is something of a disappoint have never reached for the lyric in and I am willing to give them one ment. It seems that Michael McDon tensity of Glenn Frey, Don Henley, more album to cement the current Bumpus, Simmons, Porter, McDonald, McFee, Knudsen, McCracken ald has taken control of the band, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, band before expanding. The style of because the "McDonald sound" dom or Neil Young. If they didn't have the Doobies has developed from its inates the album. Even the composi say comfort me to anyone who ap member hearing a love relationship someone (McDonald?) or stick to the capability to do this, it would crude roots in the first album The proaches, ChaIkin' up the hurt, but being metaphorically compared to a instrumentals. tions by Patrick Simmons, the other be a different matter, but in Michael Doobie Brothers, into the equally dominant Doobie Brother, sound we live and we learn, well we've train). "South Bay Strut" is the only, ,In the final analysis, One Step McDonald they have one of the most rocky but more polished' eclecticism both lived long enough to know that instrumental, a good groove that Closer is not a band album, just a more like McDonald songs than any talented songwriters of this era of Toulouse Street) The Captain and thing else. The Doobie Brothers have we'd trade it all right now for just would sound at home on any David disappointing one. If it were by Am music, and probably the most influ Me) What Were Once Vices Are Now one minute of real love." It is hard often resembled two bands, in that Sanborn or Brecker Brothers LP. brosia or Pablo Cruise, it would be tial current musician. He is re Habits, and Stampede) concluding in to transmit the poignancy of this there was the urban funk sound of It's nothing special, but it's a very an excellent album, but the Doobies sponsible for such great songs as the California funk (with a few no song without reproducing the entire McDonald on half of the songs, and good tune, and it opens up yet an have promised more, and I for one "Takin' It to the Streets" and "You table exceptions) of Tcilcin) It to the lyric and McDonald's emotional other area of exploration for the would like to see them deliver it. the other half were either hard rock Belong to Me," but he has never Streets) Livin) On the Fault Line) vocal, but it stands as the finest excursions by Tom Johnston and band. It was written by McFee and , Yet, the album shows both develop tried to reach beyond the basic qual and Minute by Minute. ,Whereas song the Doobies have done, sur McCracken. ment arid solidification, so perhaps Jeff Baxter, or the easy country, ity of these' lyrics into something Takin) It to the Streets was rooted passing even the classic "Takin' It to "just folks" atmosphere of many of there is hope yet. If the band forges more ambitious. He has never tried in rock, Livin) on the Fault Line the Streets." It has been floated as One by One and Dedicate This one solid musical identity, perhaps Simmons' contributions. In a cold to do something as impressive as rooted in jazz, and Minute by Min the first single off the album, but objective analysis, it is hard to be Heart are good but formulaic ex it can concentrate on improvement. Hotel California. For example, con ute an amalgram of the two, One I will be surprised if it goes ex ercises in the McDonald sound. "One That's why the title is so ironic. One lieve that "China Grove," "Black sider both Takin' It to the' Streets Step Closer is a pure r&b-soul-jazz, tremely well, because of the nature vVater," and "What a Fool Believes" by One" has an excellent melody, step closer to what? The end? A and Limn' on the Fault Line. Both rock, which is a very awkward han of the lyric. It's a bit too serious and is only marred by its lyrics, are all by the same group. This new beginning? We will have to see were concepts that had a lot of po dle, but it is the orily way of de and sad for AM. It's also not quite which could have been written by a diversity has been both the success because the' jury is still out on them. tential, yet beyond the impressive scribing the sound. As stated before, fast enough ~o be a big hit, but I sensitive ten-year-old (the chorus is and failing of the Doobies, as they Will they remain a sophisticated title tunes, the band virtually ignored there are no "Pat Simmons" type will probably be wrong. slightly interesting). "Dedicate This have never asserted themselves in arena band, or will they become the the possibilities of the concept. songs on the album, no folksy blue "One Step Closer," "Keep This Heart" is a song, co-written by Mc first band to synthesize the musical anyone area long enough to gain Thus, we come to the legacy of grass banjo pieces, no hard electric Train A-rollin'," and "South Bay the credit that they deserve as a Donald and Paul Anka of aU people, advances of jazz and fusion with the the Doobies; one of squandered op guitar-oriented songs. The McDon Strut" are good tunes, and in no way that might sound great on an Anka vocal and lyrical potentials of rock group. Also because of this diversity, portunity and wasted talent. While ald sound predominates, and there the group is often criticized as be harm the album. "One Step Closer," record, but is a little too Las Vegas into the music of the future? As they have been close to awesome is even a jazz funk instrumental. by McFee, Knudsen, and Carlene for the Doobies. It has slightly in the music-buying public becomes ing shallow exploiters of musical simply on the basis of what they One Step Closer has one outstand styles they don't really identify with. Carter adds an appealing country teresting, though trivial lyrics, and more sophisticated, there will be a have done, they have not come close ing cut, three good ones, two okays, twang to the standard Doobies' a semi-decent melody, but a major market for this music; there already But, I see this problem as having to living up to the potential that and three fillers. As an album 'it more to do with too much talent feel. Earthy saxophone work by rewrite could have strengthened it is. It is up to the band. I'll tell you lies within the band. Every mem- stays on the turntable, in that you Bumpus makes this cut jump right considerably. It does show off Mc- one thing, I really hope they do it. 36 SCHOLASTIC OCTOBER 37 · . . ~~ - ...... ~ " - . I

swing reaches full force, everybody releases his Mr. Humphrey the additional push he needed, and arms, the object being to see how far each person Nixon continued to widen the gap. By the next day, . would be hurled. When we did it that day, however, everyone was either proud or dejected over the The the Democratic and Republican whips faced each prospect of the Nixons moving in downtown within other, and the object was to see how fiercely we could a couple of months. fly into each other. It wasn't too long before our fathers stopped Vincent was lucky; most of the big, bruitish third talking about politics, and Vince and I started talking Last gvaders were Republican by birthright. But my team to each other again. Our little venture into political made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in strength, activism was over, and it would not be until years especially when we heard that Nixon was starting to later (I think it was '78, when we realized that college pull ahead. . would finally split our academic paths) that either of Word I still have not figured out what the playground us would remember the incident. Now he's at Yale monitors were doing all this time, but they did not studying the classics, and I'm here witnessing the intervene until it was, from my point of view, too late. decline of neoclassical economic theory. It seems as if they waited long enough to let us And along with other first-time voters and a lot Democrets lose. First, one of my men defected to of other people, we have both grown into indecision. Vincent's side when he heard that Nixon was becoming by Chuck Wood On election day, I think I might skip classes and go a front-runner over Humphrey. Then we suffered the into town to find some parochial grade school. If I first and only injury. As soon as Democratic blood find one in time for the third-graders' recess, I'll watch was spilled, the monitors swooped in and broke up them to see if they are as politically enthusiastic as both whips. It was an obvious act of partisan bias. we were. Maybe there will even be a third whip for Our defeat, apparently, was a fairly accurate Anderson. And if a battle does occur, assuming that preview of what would happen to the party of the it will be as accurate as ours was, I will do ·the .little guy, on the national level. We failed to give conscientious thing and vote for whoever loses. D

People keep telling us that we are, on the whole, he was voting for Mr. Richard M. Nixon. So, Vincent apathetic about this year's election and uninspired was a staunch, eight-year-old Republican. As for me, by politics in general. It seems to me that there have I had the impression that part of the essence of being been a surprising number of hallway arguments and a Black American was voting Democratic. The dinner-table debates about the campaigns and the Democrats were, after all, the party for the "little state of American politics, and all that, for a generation guy." I had gotten this from my father (so strong I· that is not supposed to care anymore. was the impression, in fact, that I experienced a I Whenever experts on contemporary America get variety of psychological torments when I discovered together on this campus to convince each other that that Abraham Lincoln had been a Republican). the candidate they support is the one who can pull the Hubert Humphrey, then, had my full support. country out. of the depths, I feel "out of it." Yet The only reason I can remember the ensuing something is always expected of me because after all disagreement is that, somehow, we managed to get the I am an Economics major from Washington: D.C. I ' rest of our class and some older guys involved. We should have the inside track, right? If one of the became the captains of opposing factions. Looking "experts," surprised by my silence, asks me if I am back, I think Vincent and I simply provided them with uninformed or merely apathetic, I am tempted to a good excuse to terrorize the girls, the nuns, and answer, "I don't know, and I don't care." However, one another. Or perhaps we were all showing the I realize that such a flippant response would not con early signs of our being the first TV-as-babysitter tribute to the conversation, nor to my reputation very . generation, for we may have been reenacting the much. rioting we saw on television during the summer and The problem for first-time voters such as myself is at the Democratic convention in Chicago. that we are still growing up. We are just beginning to Whatever our inspiration, we certainly gave the appreciate the complexity and the far-reaching nature nuns and lay teachers at school a lot 01: trouble on of the issues and values involved in choosing a presi election day. They had made the mistake of using dent. And at the same time, only now can we begin to progressive teaching techniques as they cut classes understand human nature, the "adult world," and the short so we could follow the elections on TV, of course. inability of any man to handle the job of president. I'm sure they had no idea what violent passions they It was easier to choose a President when we could were stirring up within th.eir young men. By the time ", not really vote. And it was much easier when we still ...... we had lunch and were let out for recess, the unspoken ','.- relied on one .measure of a candidate's fitness to govern message had spread throughout schqol; the race be- - that was more important than his record, or his tween Nixon and Humphrey was close, so we would· stands on the issues, or his promises; we knew that . have to have "The Battle" to decide things. i" .','-', the best guy for the job was the guy our parents were I Even the girls seemed to have picked up on what i' going to vote for. Parental opinion was the measure was in the air, since they scattered to the edges of our of a I?an's ability. Though this made things simple, asphalt playground/battleground as soon as.recess be back In 1968 it almost broke up the best friendship I gan. At once, the young Republicans began to line. had in third grade (and which, incidentally, .still up, linking rarms. We immediately took up their survives). .. .'. . challenge to "Do the Whip." DOing the "Whip"· is ,'. '. ~ ',', ';'~. ", . Vincent was my best friend, and he had a Polish usually a noncompetitive act that involves, as many :-. American, free-enterprise-loving, up-by-his-own- . of you are probably aware, making a line of guys and bootstraps entrepreneur for a father. He had succeeded then running to swing that line (with a couple of guys in business, and the family was well provided for: And, at one end acting as the stationary pivot) ..When the 38' SCHOLASTIC

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