Washington University Record, November 13, 1980
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 11-13-1980 Washington University Record, November 13, 1980 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, November 13, 1980" (1980). Washington University Record. Book 185. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/185 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON Published for the Washington University Community UNIVERSITY Property of ft**! u*rsit* NOV 1 ^ '80 i IN ST LOUIS Medical Ubrary ARCfrVES November 13,1980 W.U Sartre's Impact on Art, Society Honored During WU Colloquium Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre—whose revolutionary ideas and all-pervasive influence exceeded academia and fired the imagination of millions—will be honored at WU next week. Just as his impact transcended rigid, artificial boundaries, so will the colloquium, Nov. 19-22, on this campus. Entitled "The Legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)," it is an inter- disciplinary tribute to his memory by the WU departments of history, philosophy and Romance languages. Regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Sartre, who died on April 15, 1980, will be the subject of one of the most comprehensive symposia held in this country or abroad to examine his views on the broad range of humanistic problems to which he devoted his life. At this assembly, WU scholars and students will join three visiting academicians to present and debate Sartre's ideas. Organized by seven WU humanists, all of whom have writ- ten on Sartre, the program is under the direction of professors Gerald N. Izenberg, a historian trained in psychoanalysis, and Michel Rybalka, a specialist in contemporary French litera- ture. Rybalka is coeditor with Michel Contat of the classic, two-volume bibliography, The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Free and open to the public, this unusual colloquium is funded by the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, Inc., A seedy shorefront bar is the setting for Williams's Small Craft Warnings, the the state-based branch of the National Endowment for the next production of the Performing Arts Area. Above, the shiftless Bill (Nicholes Ghnouly) woos Violet (Debi Sinclair), a frail streetwalker, into a commitment of Humanities (NEH). food and shelter. Through discussion, films, an exhibit and a play (No Exit, one of Sartre's most famous contributions to the theatre), this Social Outcasts Find Rough Seas symposium will explore Sartre's role as a developer of existen- tialism, whose main doctrine, as a St. Louis Post-Dispatch edi- In Williams's Small Craft Warnings torial eulogizing his passing observed—"is that existence pre- A production of the rarely performed Small Craft Warn- cedes essence." Sartre wrote in Being and Nothingness, "Man ings, one of Tennessee Williams's later, experimental plays, will can will nothing unless he has understood that he must count be presented by the WU Performing Arts Area (PAA) at 8 p.m. on no one but himself; that he is alone ... in the midst of his in- Nov. 14-15 and 21 -22 in Edison Theatre. (See Calendar, page 4, finite responsibilities, without help . with no other destiny for ticket information.) than the one he forges for himself on this earth." Is the PAA production a "first" for St. Louis, where the This view, as the planners of this colloquium have noted, playwright lived for several years and briefly attended WU? "touched on the most personal and central concerns of indi- A telephone call to the New York office of the Dramatists Play vidual life—aloneness and anxiety, freedom, choice and re- Services, holders of the play's copyright, revealed that Small sponsibility." It also accounts, they have stated, "for Sartre's Craft Warnings, which opened off-Broadway in 1972, has also many-sidedness. He was a brilliant creative writer who had a been staged on the West Coast and in London. gift for dramatizing complex ideas in provocative and accessi- "You can say it's seldom been shown in the Midwest," said ble novels, short stories and plays, work which earned him the one of the firm's representatives, who begged off locating more Nobel Prize for literature . His characteristic refusal of specific information. that prize illustrates yet another dimension of his life—the Small Craft Warnings is, admittedly, a difficult work, said political commitment and activism which he believed to be director Herbert E. Metz, WU associate professor of drama. necessary to a full engagement with the world." Fragmented with nine soliloquies, and without the usual story- The New York Times, in a cogent commentary on his life, line, the play is "more like a mass or requiem than an opera," credited his existentialism with "such diverse manifestations as he remarked. The play's religious symbolism is elusive. More the anti-novel and the anti-hero, the New Wave cinema and the striking is the seaminess of the world that Williams portrays. notion of man's anguished consciousness. Also, implicit in it, "I'm expecting an exodus by some theatregoers at inter- was a call to action, in which man could vindicate his freedom mission," said the director with a smile, "but then people have and assume some control of his destiny." walked out on great plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Sartre was one of France's reigning intellectuals, but his The play's characters are some of society's outcasts who fre- social consciousness moved the hearts of the so-called "com- quent a seedy, shorefront bar, seeking an outlet for their continued on p. 3 continued on p. 2 Stix House: Vibrant with Activity, Kotler Opens Haven for International Students Lecture Series When headlines scream of revolution, military conflict and On Marketing political strife abroad, the WU international community re- Philip Kotler, who was mains unperturbed, observed William S. Stone, director of the chosen as the "Leader in Mar- WU International Office. keting Thought" by the aca- "Instead of seeing hostility among foreign students, I find demic members of the Ameri- that they're talking; there's dialogue," Stone said. "That's what can Marketing Association in makes WU such a special place for international students." a 1975 survey, will be the fea- Stone believes this congeniality is more apparent at WU tured speaker at a special than at other college campuses. His two years as an interna- event planned by the market- tional advisor at WU, and his work in international education ing faculty at WU's School of at Boston, Harvard, Tulane and Loyola universities make his Business. remarks particularly insightful. Kotler will speak on "The type of international student selected by WU accounts "Creating a Market-Oriented for this goodwill," Stone noted. "They have to demonstrate Organization for the 1980s," great academic strengths. They're thinkers, not radicals." at a 6:45 p.m. dinner on Mon- Stone predicts an increase in international students on day, Nov. 17, in the Whitte- Philip Kotler American college campuses. The number of international stu- more House. His address is dents enrolled at WU increased from 490 in 1979-80 to 552 this the first in an annual series of J. L. Kellogg Graduate year. "Demographic projections point to a decrease nationally informal lectures on School of Management, of enrollment by American students," Stone said. "Ideally, "Strategic Issues on Northwestern University, has qualified international students will take up the slack." Marketing" by some of the had significant impact on Stone said that Stix House, 6470 Forsyth Blvd., the scene of country's leading practi- marketing management international activity on campus, is ready for this predicted in- tioners and academics in through his writings, lectures crease. "Stix House can accommodate more than the 12,000 marketing. It is supported by and employment as a con- people who used the house last year," he said. a grant from the Kellwood sultant. He has pioneered in Co. of St. Louis. the introduction of market- The noted marketing ing concepts applicable to authority will also address nonprofit organizations, and students at 1:30 p.m. that day is the author of the only book in the Moot Courtroom of on this subject, Marketing for Mudd Hall. He will speak on Nonprofit Organizations. "Marketing Warfare: Moving Another of his books, Mar- from the Boardroom to the keting Management, is the War Room." most widely used marketing Kotler, Harold T. Martin text in MBA programs Professor of Marketing at the around the country. WamingS continuedfrom p. 1 dreams in drink. Besides the bar's good-natured proprietor (played by Philip Setnik), there is a rowdy beautician (Jessica Maria Goldstein), who supports a loafer (Nicholes Ghnouly) skilled in exploiting women, a frail streetwalker (Debi Sin- Janet Mendelson and William S. Stone review the International Office budget. clair), a short-order cook (Paul Larson), two homosexuals (Scott J. Scudder and Jim Doherty), and an unlicensed doctor Stone directs the diverse International Office functions, who still practices medicine between brandies (Trip Bates, a including student recruitment and admissions, advising visa WU alumnus). Todd Daniels and Danny Matalon portray a applicants, and supervision of the physical facilities of Stix cop and a watchman. House. His office also helps with the many intricacies of travel Before rehearsals began, Metz met at length with his cast to abroad by Americans. Eight WU year-abroad programs are discuss the work's complexities. Together they traced its motifs administered by Stone's staff.