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Editor Dave Satterfield Managing Editor SCt10LI\ST C Bob Southard Art Director Vol. 121, No. 5 December 7., 1979 Jim Hofman Notre Dame, Indiana THE' YELLOW production Manager Theresa Rebeck News Editor SUBMARINE lisa Hartenberger Fiction Editor Tom Balcerek FEATURES Copy Editor Anthony Walton 6 Revolt of the Lacerated Nigger: Politics in the 1970's Christopher A. Stewart Culture Editor . 18109' St. Rd. 23 Greg Solman 10 The Seventies: A Cultural Retrospect Just South-of Ironwood We Cater! Sports Editor Colonel Gail Bulmer Tom Westphal 22 Militarily Speaking Great Subs! 272-4453 St. Mary's. Editor. 24 Scholastic Top Ten: Basketball Anthony Walton Kari Meyer Kari Meyer Layout Editor 27 The 80's: Comes a Tide Clay Malaker. Photography Editor - Ken McAlpine REGULARS Business Manager " . Pahl Davis' 4 Perspective Anthony Walton CANCER Advertisement Manager' Tom Balcerek Kevin Murphy. . CAN 13 Fiction Harvey. Newquist Distribution Manager A GREAT CHRISTMAS IDEA! Jerry Murphy 16 Gallery Theresa Rebeck BI 18 Books: Mayday-The Last of the Best Gregory Solman Give a subscription. to Scholastic BlAT 20 Books: A New Look at an Old Isslle Theresa Rebeck and get a FOOTBALL REVIEW freel Like almost Staff 26 Perspective Tom Westphal 2 million people, John Maddog Muldoon, Don Schmid" Chris 29 .In Retrospect Tracy Andrus· Stewart,' Mary leavitt, Donna Teevan, Dave Satterfield Cathy . Wisniewski, Pat Worklan, Jim 20 Last Word is living proof Sommers, Michael Diaz, Ken Scarbrough, your contrihu Maryellen Bradley" Chuck Wood, David tions count. . ' N. Randall, Keith Caughlin, Steve Burk~rt, Please support Rick Keppel, Brendan Brown, Dodee Car ney, Michael Meisch, Ed Wimmer, Rich' our efforts. . Marcello, 'rim. Tedrik, lee Smolen, Tom Krueger,' Ann Bridget Clarke, Cecelia r------~------1 Susan labriola, Betsy Spinelli, Tom I Scholastic. ..' . O'Toole, Phyllis Washington, Kevin Paulson . 1 LaFortune Student Center i Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 American I Photos: 1 Cancer Society 1 Please send ...... years of Scholastic p. 14 Jim Hoffman, p. 18 Photo courtesy I " ' Random House, p. 20 Ken McAlpine, p. 1 at $7:00 per year to: 23 Ken McAlpine, p. 23 Ken McAlpine, p. 1 25 Sports Information, p. 2?Ken McAlpine, The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic p. 31 'Ken McAlpine and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of I Name '...... ; ...... ;...... ' Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student 1 Illustrations: p. 8 Paul Monardo, p. 28 Jim Hoffman body. I Address ...... ~ ...... I Front Cover: Chris Policinski . The magazine is represented for nationi!1 advertising by National Educational Advertising Services and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published fortnightly during the school year Back Cover: Original William Faulkner pen City ...... ,.. ~ ...... ~ ...... ~.... except during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria . I ' I and ink, courtesy of University of Notre Press~ This space C'ontribut~d as a pUbJil' st'r\'in'. Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $7.00 a year and back issues are 1 'I .Dame Press I State ...... Zip- I available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. - I .' , ...... I 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. ' L ______. ____ ...:.. _____1 Advisory Board copyright © 1979 Scholastic I all rights reserved Inone of the contents may be repro- Jim Winters, Mario Pedi, Edward Fischer. duced without permission. . '." . . 2 . SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER 7, 1979 3 a
Editor Dave Satterfield Managing Editor SCt10LI\ST C Bob Southard Art Director Vol. 121, No. 5 December 7., 1979 Jim Hofman Notre Dame, Indiana THE' YELLOW production Manager Theresa Rebeck News Editor SUBMARINE lisa Hartenberger Fiction Editor Tom Balcerek FEATURES Copy Editor Anthony Walton 6 Revolt of the Lacerated Nigger: Politics in the 1970's Christopher A. Stewart Culture Editor . 18109' St. Rd. 23 Greg Solman 10 The Seventies: A Cultural Retrospect Just South-of Ironwood We Cater! Sports Editor Colonel Gail Bulmer Tom Westphal 22 Militarily Speaking Great Subs! 272-4453 St. Mary's. Editor. 24 Scholastic Top Ten: Basketball Anthony Walton Kari Meyer Kari Meyer Layout Editor 27 The 80's: Comes a Tide Clay Malaker. Photography Editor - Ken McAlpine REGULARS Business Manager " . Pahl Davis' 4 Perspective Anthony Walton CANCER Advertisement Manager' Tom Balcerek Kevin Murphy. . CAN 13 Fiction Harvey. Newquist Distribution Manager A GREAT CHRISTMAS IDEA! Jerry Murphy 16 Gallery Theresa Rebeck BI 18 Books: Mayday-The Last of the Best Gregory Solman Give a subscription. to Scholastic BlAT 20 Books: A New Look at an Old Isslle Theresa Rebeck and get a FOOTBALL REVIEW freel Like almost Staff 26 Perspective Tom Westphal 2 million people, John Maddog Muldoon, Don Schmid" Chris 29 .In Retrospect Tracy Andrus· Stewart,' Mary leavitt, Donna Teevan, Dave Satterfield Cathy . Wisniewski, Pat Worklan, Jim 20 Last Word is living proof Sommers, Michael Diaz, Ken Scarbrough, your contrihu Maryellen Bradley" Chuck Wood, David tions count. . ' N. Randall, Keith Caughlin, Steve Burk~rt, Please support Rick Keppel, Brendan Brown, Dodee Car ney, Michael Meisch, Ed Wimmer, Rich' our efforts. . Marcello, 'rim. Tedrik, lee Smolen, Tom Krueger,' Ann Bridget Clarke, Cecelia r------~------1 Susan labriola, Betsy Spinelli, Tom I Scholastic. ..' . O'Toole, Phyllis Washington, Kevin Paulson . 1 LaFortune Student Center i Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 American I Photos: 1 Cancer Society 1 Please send ...... years of Scholastic p. 14 Jim Hoffman, p. 18 Photo courtesy I " ' Random House, p. 20 Ken McAlpine, p. 1 at $7:00 per year to: 23 Ken McAlpine, p. 23 Ken McAlpine, p. 1 25 Sports Information, p. 2?Ken McAlpine, The opinions expressed in Scholastic are those of the authors and editors of Scholastic p. 31 'Ken McAlpine and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire staff and editorial board of I Name '...... ; ...... ;...... ' Scholastic or the University of Notre Dame, its administration, faculty, or the student 1 Illustrations: p. 8 Paul Monardo, p. 28 Jim Hoffman body. I Address ...... ~ ...... I Front Cover: Chris Policinski . The magazine is represented for nationi!1 advertising by National Educational Advertising Services and CASS Student Advertising, Inc. Published fortnightly during the school year Back Cover: Original William Faulkner pen City ...... ,.. ~ ...... ~ ...... ~.... except during vacation and examination periods, Scholastic is printed at Ave Maria . I ' I and ink, courtesy of University of Notre Press~ This space C'ontribut~d as a pUbJil' st'r\'in'. Notre Dame, Ind. 46556. The subscription rate is $7.00 a year and back issues are 1 'I .Dame Press I State ...... Zip- I available from Scholastic. Please address all manuscripts to Scholastic, Notre Dame, Ind. - I .' , ...... I 46556. All unsolicited material becomes the property of Scholastic. ' L ______. ____ ...:.. _____1 Advisory Board copyright © 1979 Scholastic I all rights reserved Inone of the contents may be repro- Jim Winters, Mario Pedi, Edward Fischer. duced without permission. . '." . . 2 . SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER 7, 1979 3 happened. With the print media, of evidence point to. this. Where did The American society as we know it peQ/Pe:CTve there is a sense of removal from the the passion of the sixties' civil rights is falling apart. news. (There is a difference between movements' go? 'We now see terms Where does all this leave us? reading about someone getting his like "reverse discrimination" enter I don't know. It leaves me with the head blown off and watching it your into our conversation, ana watch as same sense of fear I had in the self.) Television brought all these the Ku Klux Klan attempts to em- sixties as a small child. Except the events to us. 'A good example of this bark upon a new wave of terror. We fear is much more acute, because I phenomenon is Nixon's denial of any sit by relatively impassively as large have an idea of what is going on this Jaded and Faded: wrongdoing in the infamous "I am percentages of two continents slowly time. What do' the eighties hold for not a crook" speech of 1973, only to starve to death. We ignore warnings America? A revolution? Possibly. resign in disgrace a: year later, all on of an energy crisis, because we don't The seeds are being sown now. As The 70~s national television in full view of the know whether to believe it or not. the middle class continues to be elim public. Events such as . this one, The attitude is "Well, if there is a inated, there Will. be . increasing coupled with the oversaturation' of crisis, I'll' worry about' it then. I'm tensions. It is one thing to have been bad news, created a: breach of trust, having my' fun now." No man is poor all of your life' and another to Will Do That To You first between the peOple and their "qualified" to be President. Carter is have been . middle-class and watch government, then between the people incompetent and we can't trust· the inflation destroy 'your ability to live and everything,' including them rest of them. A couple of them are comfortably. And I don't think the known liars. . people will' accept "conservation of selves. by Anthony Walton Americans have grown so tired of 'The list is endless .. Divorce is, . life-style." Not as long as there are bad news that it has affected our rampant. We have spiraling teenage David Rockefellers in the world. Will sense of community as a nation. Be pregnancy rates, VD is reaching epi- we somehow miraculously rebound cause of these problems (especially demic proportions in some cities; from our troubles? I doubt it. I You ask a poet to sing One other memory of the sixties is inevitable in a political system in there is a raging battle over abortion,' don't think the inner fiber is there Why sticks out in my mind. New Year's which freedom of expression isrela . the economic ones) we have become a nation of individuals, basiCally con and a general relaxation of the mores anymore for Americans. The. recent Even the birds are hoarse' Eve, 1969. It was the first time-I tively guaranteed. I could go on, but of the society. "Have a good' time" incidents involving Iran could be -Alan Bold cerned with'the advancement of our stayed up and welcomed in the New that is not necessary. The problems seems to ,be the new rallying cry. (continued on page 6) Year, and I was quite excited., I of the seventies are generally not selves as individuals. Several pieces I have several blurred memories of think I half-expected a cataclysmic unique to the American experience,. the sixties. One of the clearest is the happening to mark the changing but there is one difference. They memory of sitting with my family decade, and slightly disappointed have happened all at once. And now, watching television as the news bul- when nothing happened. I was still our culture has been so thoroughly letin about the assassination of glad, however, to be 'in' on the rocked that it seems to be dis Martin Luther King came on. The seventies from the .beginning, and oriented, unable to set upon a path initial bulletin reported only that looked forward to seeing what would to correct its problems with any de '1, r:~'Lwas, born:in·'the; fabuloifs5fifties j';:\~::J;I'm')no ~ old;hippy;o.though; ,In: factt\,larvae,:;a"giant: spIder; and; GOdzilla'si King had been shot. A strangely still' happen in the years to come. gree of certainty. The situation is silence. came over the room, broken Looking back, I. think I was in bleak, the prognosis is pessimistic. I only by my mother softly saying much the same position as the co un guess' the seventies will do that to "He's gone." About ten minutes try was in 1970.. I had experienced you. f;.ti!~~~\~~~l\~J[~!~~:~~~~l~'SW~~'1~~~~~~~~t~~~~~~~~f~ Z: of ;;( the .;" eightieS";::: w6ndering~·;what";';;Area:kS:. to.~ me:and dhey:. \. deserved ~ to i::;sibn:, on' me,'as';' a1 chIld;,' It'was' the A later, the anticlimactic news of a few strange things in the sixties, What happened to the seventies? King's death flashed onto the screen. and would come to understand them This decade had so much promise. Nothing was said, the room was en~ as the seventies unfolded. The coun The sixties were painful, but some veloped in a shocked silence. I didn't . try. had experienced very damaging much-needed lessons. were learnea, really understand what was going shocks during the sixties, and hoped and the benefits of .. those lessons on, but my strongest recollection of that the seventies would bring heal could be realized. Somehowit all got this incident is my sudden, Intense ing and understanding. In retrospect, lost along the way, and the American fear of leaving that room. I sensed it is ironic to notice how the sixties spirit was broken. I don't know if it some kind of danger. I was afraid in reality only set' the stage for the was the-result of the assassinations to go out o~ the light into the dark- events of the seventies. of the sixties, the problems of Viet ness of the rest of the house. I don't . There is no need to' go into a de Nam, or ·the realizations of Water remember how long this fear lasted, tailed account of the events of the gate. I have a feelingthatithad to or how I overcame it, but I remember seventies.. Watergate, Kent State, do with all three, and much more. n{hfnk'ol;ihIngs'Iike!dis'c'6',:aiid If The Historical Nigger: Women shock wave since the Stock Market sources. our greed does not end, (continued from page 5) it. The heart has, been taken out of with the "energy crisis." The more it will end ·us. construed as a renewal of the patri crash of 1929 was engineered at the the young people, even the children. you look at it, the more disconcerting behest of Saudi Arabia. They in :1 otic spirit, but I think, it is just a There is a sense of helplessness, of it gets. ' In unprecedented numbers, women are abandoning their total commit itiated the oil embargo against all Tlie Sexual Nigger: Homosexuals release mechanism, a way of direct not really being able to change I'll b~ there on New Year's Eve ...... -, Western supporters of Israel, which ing the anger of this country at things. Distrust and uncertainty 1979, ready to usher in my third ment to the family, home, and hub by. She is asserting, and justifiably was engaged at the time in the Yom The' 70's has seen the increasingly something else. We can be upset permeate, this society. No one or decade. But the feeling will be dif Kippur War against Egypt. This obtrusive emergence of homosexuals with Iran, but we can't use this as nothing can really be believed in. The ferent from the one I had ten years so, her right to psychic, emotional, economic, political and sexual equal embargo against Europe and the as a corporate entity seeking redress the scapegoat for all our troubles. realization of the fallibility, of' the ago. Instead of looking eagerly for U.S. was followed two weeks later for past indiscretions. Cosmopolitan No matter what happens in the human endeavor has struck pain ward to the future, I will be warily ity with men. After several thousand years of unabated exploitation, many by the quadrupling in the price of cities like San Francisco and New eighties, I foresee trouble for fully. The older generations have assessing the future of this country oil. The fledgling conglomerate of York have witnessed unequivocally America, and I wonder if we will be and the world. These problems can't women have concluded: enough is painted the society ,into a corner enough. They now comprise a stag oil-exporting nations, OPEC,. had vociferous, and sometimes violent able to rise to the occasion. ,Will we from which there may be no escape. go on forever. We can't let them gering 44%' of the American work discovered the Achilles' heel' of outbursts in the past year by mili unite behind Carter or whoever is For example, even if alUhe econom~ and' if \Ve stand, idly they wili b~; force, and that number' is climbing. Western industrialized nations: tant gays, over two highly explosive th~ elected president in the eighties? ic, social and political problems are reach' a crisis point sooner or later. black gold, Texas tea, oil. This issues. These were the murder of WIll the young people rise to the Naturally, the impact on the family solved, what about the environment? It's inevitable.. This past decade has is profound:' divorces have doubled abrupt tocsin ushered in the age of a homosexual supervisor in S.F. and ch~llenge that.is facing us to salvage There is enough nuclear waste in the jaded me and this, country, but I expensive energy. the filming of "Cruising" (starring thIS way of hfe for us, and insure since the beginning of the decade; ecosystem right now to destroy'the guess that had to happen. The day-care centers abound, thus allow The decline of the great imperial Al Pacino) in N.Y., a film dealing that it persists around the world?, I world. But nuclear power is the Oldy seventies will do'thatJ,o you. 0 powers-Britain, France, Germany, with sadomasochism in the gay bar don't know., Most of the time I doubt ing women the freedom and mobility quick technical fix we have to deal to enter the job market; and abor Holland, Portugal, andnow the U.S. circuit. tion is readily available. Even the -in the 20th century has not, oc Although ,homosexuals are per most chaUVinistic men are reluctant curred without serious dislocations ceived as a social threat to the fam ly admitting the necessity to reform and repercussions within the coloni ily and morality, their "coming out" their antediluvian attitudes and alized lands. The present political by the millions in this decade is yet another dramatic challenge to our sexist lingo. quagmire throughout Southern Af The 80's and 90's should see an rica is witness to that fact, not to secular, religious, educational, legal Revolt o{the Lacerated Niggers: increase in women's, political and mention the present' horrors engulf and social institutions. Their demand economic clout, which at present is ing all of Southeast Asia. But these for equality and full political rights have caused a furor and backlash still in the, training-bra stage~ Full colonialist adventures set the prece Politics in the 1970's . "womanhood", (politically' speak dent for the economic, opportunistic in some corners. However, the sig ing) will be achieved by the year gouging presently employed by nificant strides made in this decade 2000. I portend at least one or two OPEC. by this sexually oppressed minority, by Christopher Antonio Stewart serious runs on the presidency by' ',Symbolically, OPEC is the ven which numbers in the millions, will women before the end of the cen geance of all 3rd- and 4th:'World continue in the 80's, but not as overt "Those who profess to love freedom In nontotalitarian states like the rative connotation of the word nig tury. Would you believe a First Man, ' peoples that, have been exploited, ly. The country's slant toward con and yet deprecate agitation are U.S., it is through the shrewd orga ger refers specifically to a sub or First Sir, to complement the Fe raped, ravaged, and plundered in servatism will chill the' feverish ~hose who want crops without plow nization of pressure, or special in human being, even a nonhuman male Executive? discriminately by greedy European rush for full recognition of liberal mg. This struggle may be a moral terest, groups that political aims being. An ,example is the Negro My one reservation about the and capitalistic interests from the life-styles, one of which is homo one, or it' may be physical" but it favorable to those groups are prior to the Emancipation Procla~ women's movement is that women 16th' century to the 20th. Is it so ,sexuali ty. must be a struggle. Power concedes achieved. What has transpired in mation. An example of a nonnigger, avoid becoming male-baiters, and ironic that OPEC is now turning the nothing without a demand. It never the 1970s-the decade of apathetic' conv~rsely, is a white male, usually 'venomously antimale., They must screws on its former masters? The Ethnic Nigger: did, and' never will." ' affluence, decad~nt disco and politi Western and Christian.' " struggle to overcome the excessive- Power has that tendency to corrupt, ,Native American Indians -Fredrick Douglass (1857) cal Pollyannas-is the revolt of the , What I have discovered during ly tendentious radical wing of the and gives,' the beholder the tremen Spurred by the apparent gains of fringes, the erstwhile "niggers" who the compilation of this article on the women's movement, which tends to dously heady feeling of control and blacks via the, Civil Rights move Freedom is a dangerous commodi refuse to accept their inferior status politics of the 1970s are seven major be nothing more than inverted . destruction. ment, this long neglected group ty to forces of oppression. Dema and demand a new place under the ,categories of niggerdom which are macho femininst rhetoric, spicy but ,Through OPEC, the West has emerged 'as one of the most forceful gogues and dictators suffer from the sun. being rejected by various', groups banal. And very unfeminine. come to realize that it does not have ly led contingents of the 70's. Radi gnawing anxiety that those factions ~is lust, to share the power-pie, throughout 'America. Each group the power' that it once had. The cal leader Dennis Banks helped in society which are ruthlessly, sup t~ shce off. more pieces for the pre has its own unique elements. Cor The Economic Nigger:' ,pobrer nations, having the precious pressed may one day rise up in focus national attention on the VIously ~naccepted vestiges, of nig ,~orately, these seven groups symbo 3rd- arid 4th-World Peoples natural resources' that the West plight of the fiercely proud and pro wrathful indignation, challenge his gerdom, IS a radical, development in lIze a serious threat to the' male ,AmeriCans have had an incredi needs to survive, are now ready to foundly religious people. One prob authority and topple the regime. the history of the free world. Why? white American power structure, ~ reap their economic rewardS, which Therefore, it behooves him to pla bly difficult, time adapting them~ lem found on some reservations: Because it is who is clamoring for structure which I believe is not are phenomenal (Saudi Arabia alone the alcoholism rate among males is cate his potential adversaries, usual freedom that is making all the differ seriously attuned to the gravity of selves, their" thinking, and ethno ly the rich, the military and the in centric mythology (Le., America has accumulated $150 billion since as high as 75%. ' encethis time. this challenge to its power. 1973, most of which has gone into The book, Bury ,My Heart At telli~entsia. This is d~ne 1:hl-ough It is the voice of the grave.' Within America and throughout is the new Israel, God's Chosen Na~ , SpecIal treatment, illicit goods and tion) to' present reality. The world internal development)." Wounded' Knee,is "a heartrending The dead a.re rising, collectiveiy, the world, persons previously rele account of the innumerable treach plain old corruption. The end result for the first tIme in human history. is crueler to America than ever be America's response, again, must gated to the status of nigger, or non be a change of attitude. Thinking eries perpetrated by ,the U.S.Gov is the. consolidation' of aU power into The nigger is no, more. The nigger human, are revolting. They are de ,fore, because it is a time of retrench ment, reappraisal, and redefinition. from im aggressive, profit-oriented ernment in its treaty dealings with the avaricious hands of the despot. has .b~en rendered historically anach_ t,:rmined to gain a modicum of dig Now, power is a very' treacher We live not in· a world centered on mentality is, dysfunctional. It must Indian nations.' The indignities and romstIc. The nigger's final crucifix mty, of, respect" of legal recognition 'near genocide suffered by the Na ous aphrodisiac to the political ion, was portended in the upheavals America;' instead, we live in an in be transposed to one of mutual co- for their existences. " . operation, a share-the-wealth orien tive American' population, justified neophyte. Its, tantalizing fragrance of the 60's. The nigger's resurrec I believe 'that these groups repre creasingly interdependent world, a attracts all members of society, es world of finite resources. Americans tation which: understands the nu': by the white man's claim of "prog tion and rebirth happened in the ~ent an, epochal evolutionary jump ress" ,and "manifest, destiny," was pecially the educated members who 1970s. must realize that they no longer call ances of interdependence. To fail to In , the development of the whole do so, at this ,crucialjuncture of further illuminated by the activism happen to be oppressed. Too, much , "By nigger, I mean any definition human community. It is time to all the "shots in the economic and power .in the' wrong hands usually political order. We're a part, not the history, will ,be both economic sui of concerned third . parties, most of a human person heretofore re make, room for the nigger, to allow notably Marlon Brando. The Bureau results in brutal crackdownS against garded by the powers-that-be as whole. '" cide and political insanity. 'We must our collective Lazaruses out, of the recognize the rights of all· people of Indian Affairs in Washington _ those persons unsympathetic or' somehow not fully, human, arid coffin of racism; sexism classism 'This startlingly abrupt transfor.' philosophically/politically opposed . - , , mation, irrupted in October, 1973. on earth to have an equal entitle services the various . reservations, therefore not worthy of full respect ageIsm, ,and immoralism. ' but increasing encroachments by to the tyrant in power. and rights under the law. The pejo- At this,time, the greatest economic ment to the world's diminishing re- 6 DECEMBER 7, 1979, 7 , SCHOLASTIC c If The Historical Nigger: Women shock wave since the Stock Market sources. our greed does not end, (continued from page 5) it. The heart has, been taken out of with the "energy crisis." The more it will end ·us. construed as a renewal of the patri crash of 1929 was engineered at the the young people, even the children. you look at it, the more disconcerting behest of Saudi Arabia. They in :1 otic spirit, but I think, it is just a There is a sense of helplessness, of it gets. ' In unprecedented numbers, women are abandoning their total commit itiated the oil embargo against all Tlie Sexual Nigger: Homosexuals release mechanism, a way of direct not really being able to change I'll b~ there on New Year's Eve ...... -, Western supporters of Israel, which ing the anger of this country at things. Distrust and uncertainty 1979, ready to usher in my third ment to the family, home, and hub by. She is asserting, and justifiably was engaged at the time in the Yom The' 70's has seen the increasingly something else. We can be upset permeate, this society. No one or decade. But the feeling will be dif Kippur War against Egypt. This obtrusive emergence of homosexuals with Iran, but we can't use this as nothing can really be believed in. The ferent from the one I had ten years so, her right to psychic, emotional, economic, political and sexual equal embargo against Europe and the as a corporate entity seeking redress the scapegoat for all our troubles. realization of the fallibility, of' the ago. Instead of looking eagerly for U.S. was followed two weeks later for past indiscretions. Cosmopolitan No matter what happens in the human endeavor has struck pain ward to the future, I will be warily ity with men. After several thousand years of unabated exploitation, many by the quadrupling in the price of cities like San Francisco and New eighties, I foresee trouble for fully. The older generations have assessing the future of this country oil. The fledgling conglomerate of York have witnessed unequivocally America, and I wonder if we will be and the world. These problems can't women have concluded: enough is painted the society ,into a corner enough. They now comprise a stag oil-exporting nations, OPEC,. had vociferous, and sometimes violent able to rise to the occasion. ,Will we from which there may be no escape. go on forever. We can't let them gering 44%' of the American work discovered the Achilles' heel' of outbursts in the past year by mili unite behind Carter or whoever is For example, even if alUhe econom~ and' if \Ve stand, idly they wili b~; force, and that number' is climbing. Western industrialized nations: tant gays, over two highly explosive th~ elected president in the eighties? ic, social and political problems are reach' a crisis point sooner or later. black gold, Texas tea, oil. This issues. These were the murder of WIll the young people rise to the Naturally, the impact on the family solved, what about the environment? It's inevitable.. This past decade has is profound:' divorces have doubled abrupt tocsin ushered in the age of a homosexual supervisor in S.F. and ch~llenge that.is facing us to salvage There is enough nuclear waste in the jaded me and this, country, but I expensive energy. the filming of "Cruising" (starring thIS way of hfe for us, and insure since the beginning of the decade; ecosystem right now to destroy'the guess that had to happen. The day-care centers abound, thus allow The decline of the great imperial Al Pacino) in N.Y., a film dealing that it persists around the world?, I world. But nuclear power is the Oldy seventies will do'thatJ,o you. 0 powers-Britain, France, Germany, with sadomasochism in the gay bar don't know., Most of the time I doubt ing women the freedom and mobility quick technical fix we have to deal to enter the job market; and abor Holland, Portugal, andnow the U.S. circuit. tion is readily available. Even the -in the 20th century has not, oc Although ,homosexuals are per most chaUVinistic men are reluctant curred without serious dislocations ceived as a social threat to the fam ly admitting the necessity to reform and repercussions within the coloni ily and morality, their "coming out" their antediluvian attitudes and alized lands. The present political by the millions in this decade is yet another dramatic challenge to our sexist lingo. quagmire throughout Southern Af The 80's and 90's should see an rica is witness to that fact, not to secular, religious, educational, legal Revolt o{the Lacerated Niggers: increase in women's, political and mention the present' horrors engulf and social institutions. Their demand economic clout, which at present is ing all of Southeast Asia. But these for equality and full political rights have caused a furor and backlash still in the, training-bra stage~ Full colonialist adventures set the prece Politics in the 1970's . "womanhood", (politically' speak dent for the economic, opportunistic in some corners. However, the sig ing) will be achieved by the year gouging presently employed by nificant strides made in this decade 2000. I portend at least one or two OPEC. by this sexually oppressed minority, by Christopher Antonio Stewart serious runs on the presidency by' ',Symbolically, OPEC is the ven which numbers in the millions, will women before the end of the cen geance of all 3rd- and 4th:'World continue in the 80's, but not as overt "Those who profess to love freedom In nontotalitarian states like the rative connotation of the word nig tury. Would you believe a First Man, ' peoples that, have been exploited, ly. The country's slant toward con and yet deprecate agitation are U.S., it is through the shrewd orga ger refers specifically to a sub or First Sir, to complement the Fe raped, ravaged, and plundered in servatism will chill the' feverish ~hose who want crops without plow nization of pressure, or special in human being, even a nonhuman male Executive? discriminately by greedy European rush for full recognition of liberal mg. This struggle may be a moral terest, groups that political aims being. An ,example is the Negro My one reservation about the and capitalistic interests from the life-styles, one of which is homo one, or it' may be physical" but it favorable to those groups are prior to the Emancipation Procla~ women's movement is that women 16th' century to the 20th. Is it so ,sexuali ty. must be a struggle. Power concedes achieved. What has transpired in mation. An example of a nonnigger, avoid becoming male-baiters, and ironic that OPEC is now turning the nothing without a demand. It never the 1970s-the decade of apathetic' conv~rsely, is a white male, usually 'venomously antimale., They must screws on its former masters? The Ethnic Nigger: did, and' never will." ' affluence, decad~nt disco and politi Western and Christian.' " struggle to overcome the excessive- Power has that tendency to corrupt, ,Native American Indians -Fredrick Douglass (1857) cal Pollyannas-is the revolt of the , What I have discovered during ly tendentious radical wing of the and gives,' the beholder the tremen Spurred by the apparent gains of fringes, the erstwhile "niggers" who the compilation of this article on the women's movement, which tends to dously heady feeling of control and blacks via the, Civil Rights move Freedom is a dangerous commodi refuse to accept their inferior status politics of the 1970s are seven major be nothing more than inverted . destruction. ment, this long neglected group ty to forces of oppression. Dema and demand a new place under the ,categories of niggerdom which are macho femininst rhetoric, spicy but ,Through OPEC, the West has emerged 'as one of the most forceful gogues and dictators suffer from the sun. being rejected by various', groups banal. And very unfeminine. come to realize that it does not have ly led contingents of the 70's. Radi gnawing anxiety that those factions ~is lust, to share the power-pie, throughout 'America. Each group the power' that it once had. The cal leader Dennis Banks helped in society which are ruthlessly, sup t~ shce off. more pieces for the pre has its own unique elements. Cor The Economic Nigger:' ,pobrer nations, having the precious pressed may one day rise up in focus national attention on the VIously ~naccepted vestiges, of nig ,~orately, these seven groups symbo 3rd- arid 4th-World Peoples natural resources' that the West plight of the fiercely proud and pro wrathful indignation, challenge his gerdom, IS a radical, development in lIze a serious threat to the' male ,AmeriCans have had an incredi needs to survive, are now ready to foundly religious people. One prob authority and topple the regime. the history of the free world. Why? white American power structure, ~ reap their economic rewardS, which Therefore, it behooves him to pla bly difficult, time adapting them~ lem found on some reservations: Because it is who is clamoring for structure which I believe is not are phenomenal (Saudi Arabia alone the alcoholism rate among males is cate his potential adversaries, usual freedom that is making all the differ seriously attuned to the gravity of selves, their" thinking, and ethno ly the rich, the military and the in centric mythology (Le., America has accumulated $150 billion since as high as 75%. ' encethis time. this challenge to its power. 1973, most of which has gone into The book, Bury ,My Heart At telli~entsia. This is d~ne 1:hl-ough It is the voice of the grave.' Within America and throughout is the new Israel, God's Chosen Na~ , SpecIal treatment, illicit goods and tion) to' present reality. The world internal development)." Wounded' Knee,is "a heartrending The dead a.re rising, collectiveiy, the world, persons previously rele account of the innumerable treach plain old corruption. The end result for the first tIme in human history. is crueler to America than ever be America's response, again, must gated to the status of nigger, or non be a change of attitude. Thinking eries perpetrated by ,the U.S.Gov is the. consolidation' of aU power into The nigger is no, more. The nigger human, are revolting. They are de ,fore, because it is a time of retrench ment, reappraisal, and redefinition. from im aggressive, profit-oriented ernment in its treaty dealings with the avaricious hands of the despot. has .b~en rendered historically anach_ t,:rmined to gain a modicum of dig Now, power is a very' treacher We live not in· a world centered on mentality is, dysfunctional. It must Indian nations.' The indignities and romstIc. The nigger's final crucifix mty, of, respect" of legal recognition 'near genocide suffered by the Na ous aphrodisiac to the political ion, was portended in the upheavals America;' instead, we live in an in be transposed to one of mutual co- for their existences. " . operation, a share-the-wealth orien tive American' population, justified neophyte. Its, tantalizing fragrance of the 60's. The nigger's resurrec I believe 'that these groups repre creasingly interdependent world, a attracts all members of society, es world of finite resources. Americans tation which: understands the nu': by the white man's claim of "prog tion and rebirth happened in the ~ent an, epochal evolutionary jump ress" ,and "manifest, destiny," was pecially the educated members who 1970s. must realize that they no longer call ances of interdependence. To fail to In , the development of the whole do so, at this ,crucialjuncture of further illuminated by the activism happen to be oppressed. Too, much , "By nigger, I mean any definition human community. It is time to all the "shots in the economic and power .in the' wrong hands usually political order. We're a part, not the history, will ,be both economic sui of concerned third . parties, most of a human person heretofore re make, room for the nigger, to allow notably Marlon Brando. The Bureau results in brutal crackdownS against garded by the powers-that-be as whole. '" cide and political insanity. 'We must our collective Lazaruses out, of the recognize the rights of all· people of Indian Affairs in Washington _ those persons unsympathetic or' somehow not fully, human, arid coffin of racism; sexism classism 'This startlingly abrupt transfor.' philosophically/politically opposed . - , , mation, irrupted in October, 1973. on earth to have an equal entitle services the various . reservations, therefore not worthy of full respect ageIsm, ,and immoralism. ' but increasing encroachments by to the tyrant in power. and rights under the law. The pejo- At this,time, the greatest economic ment to the world's diminishing re- 6 DECEMBER 7, 1979, 7 , SCHOLASTIC too much, but those who care too However, we are cutting off a neces grisly slide shows) is as repulsive little. This neglect inevitably leads sary link to ourselves, to our per as the "scientifically" specious to a life of pain, misery and possi sonal histories and our purpose in claims on the part of pro-chokers bly irreparable damage to the child. life if we do not take advantage of (the fetus is not really human) or With economic fears heightened the experience of those who have that their. decision is totally their by 'double-digit inflation, children preceded us. Old persons' contact own and consequently .devoid of often bear the brunt of mom or with the young is crucial to the . social impact, and, therefore, none of , dad's financial frustration via verbal understanding .' of the continuity, society's business: I abhor the abor abuse or physical violence. In the growth and inevitable changes that tion mentality which is rampant' in last half of this decade, there has are inherent in life. If they are taken this country. The poor and indigent, been ,a great upsurge in the legal' away, and put into homes, and for I know, will suffer if the Supreme concern for children's rights, partic gotten, we again commit a grievous Court decision is reversed. But edu ularly. when it involves a hostile sin against the spirit within each of cation, not abortion~on-demand, is and potentially dangerous. homelife. us, the spirit which first infused life needed. It is a well-known 'fact that the into the' universe. . , I am fundamentally" convinced majority of child abusers were once Looking ahead,. the elderly's polit , that life from conception is sacred, abused children. It is a vicious cycle, ical clout will grow in the next two and, therefore, find it reprehensible one that can only be curtailed' by decades, although their economic to abort indiscriminately. I see this heavy doses of love and affection. leverage will suffer. the ravages. of issue continuing as one of the major But for some children, it is too little, inflation. I hope that the interest in ones in the 80s,and possibly beyond. too late. However, significant strides geriatrics, and concern spurred by The pro-lifers are well-organized are being made .to assist parents, persons like Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and have made great inroadS in the educators, social workers, religious will help reintegrate the elderly to past several years. Abortion will be and lawyers in their understanding a more purposeful life after retire-' an emotionally volatile topic for both of the responsibility they have to' merit. The elderly are as much a sides far into the future; ward insuring for every child a feel~ nonrenewable resource as children:. In conclusion, 1 have attempted ing of love, affection and being Their gift is wisdom, as precious> wanted in an· : 'increasingly hostile to highlight some of those groups, and priceless" as any jewel or nat from the Indian to the unborn; world. Children are naturally de ural resource. We'must learn to pendent, so it is up to us to use our which are or have been historically listen to them now, lest no one lis in the underdog position,' and are powers of love and reason to see that ten. to . us when we arrive at· their they grow into capable adult human now just beginning to make some stage. And how. hollow will be our headway into the echelons of power .beings. ' pleas for solace,. if we do not . lend and self-destiny. Since it is largely ours now. · a male-run world,the greatest chal Cultural Nigger: Elderly People lenge . I see' is the evolution' of The advent of the "Grey Panthers" MoreLl Nigger: The Unborn" women and her efforts for parity; and grey power in the second half The rights of the 3rd/4th World of this decade is one of the. most The unborn are the decade's only p'eoples, homosexuals, Native Ameri-' welcome developments in the domain .. constitutionally declared. nigger; The · can Indians, children, the elderly of citizen activism. The statistics Supreme . Court decision in 1973, and the unborn are all visible signs and reports about', declining . birth' , permitting abortion on demand, has that humankind is attempting to re- rates, the interest in gerontology, had far-reaching consequences on the · solve.some of its most pressing and various prognosticators indi- spirit and attittidesof this nation. moral, philosophical, economic, cating the national age level is in- Over 7 million abortions have been social, and political problems at this creasing are just a few examples ~ performed since the decision,' with unique time in history. of the increasing influence of the' 1.2 million estimated for the present It is a monumental task, to try to aged. . ' year of 1979. Translated: approxi- grant full humanity to each sector One of the great scandals of our· ' mately 3,300 daily. . . of society, without infringing upon technological, mobile 'society is the' The" most insidious aftereffect of the rights of other members of· that disposability of the aged, of the lack the decision is what I call the very same. society. of compassion we have for those "eraser mentality.".' By 'this, I mean who no longer participate in' the' that whenever'we:make"a mistake, The' battle will continue, well into production process, be it goods or we try to blot it out of. our mind, the 80s and beyond. The battle services. The aged are a national erase it, rather than face the respon- to' secure human' 'dignity 'amidSt , resource that is being underutilized. , sibilitythat goes With one's actions. chaos; to secure 'human: love and . Their wisdom, experience and ideas Although I am in full support .of compassion amidst : indifference, are valuable educational tools to, birth control, and even for abortion ' prejudice and hate; to secure the the goveriunent and private ind~stry that they have' retained a' semblance abuse (physical,', psychological), truth, even when the darkness'ap- upon Indian landS' is . a continual ,of dignity, 'pride, honor and faith the young. ' .' ,. ,in very limited circumsta,nces (rape, s:xual. abuse of children, the pro , Ours is a very efficient society, an incest,' threat to mother's, life), pears to be the only beacon we can affront to these people. ..: ' Their place in our society, like th~ liferatlOn' of porriography specializ · follow. " .' Unfortunately, ' substantial' gains action-oriented, y(nith~idolizingarid', I cannot accept 'tbenotion that urban ghetto, is ,a perpetual indict ing in "kiddie porn" and other social Even in the darkness, we' can pray m .the,status, educationaloppor ment and spiritual crime that will ills,the law isn't such a.bad idea. death-denying culture. Even though'·' whenever "an accident occurs; I'll , we ,'know we must grow old, and get an abortion." The entire.idea of and hope for the light,' however tumty and economic capability of Jo~evermarour nation's heritage. That is; if the child surviveS his/her the Native Indian people will, re childhood. ' ,., one' day die, we pretend, that we the validity and. sanctity of life, and faint and dim it might be: main unchanged' in '. the . upcoming , Parental Nigger:' Childr~ 'The child· has .long been regarded can. fool nature, our friendS;': and 'the act of love which is sexual union, , even ,ourselves.'But in the end, we, is diminished if the' obvious result Dedication ' '. decade. For a: people to have been Recently;. a law was proposed in as the property: of the 'parEmts,~.the so. grossly ,tossed" aside, ,forgotten, . grow old, orie. day to die: So wliy 'of any act of intimacy~a" human ThiS iLrticle is dedicated to aU of my Sweden which would allow children chattel which .is, molded, to; the friends, and enemies,' cit du LaC. And ' ..treated with ,utter impunity and the ,right to divorce their parents. whims and desires of parents;'The do _we pack our parents and grand- fetus"':"'-can be so eaSily' disposed of. contempt, and .corralled into con . parents off to nursing' homes, ,to" . Although I think' that the obses most especially to MOm. And Tracy; ~on t lau~h,because when you con major difficulty in this matter nat for being who you are.' Merry Christ" fining reservations, it is· amazing Sider themcreasing figures of child urally, is. not with parents ,wh~ care : sterile homes for., the.- aged? For, siveness of some i-ight-to-lifers - " medical and professional care, yes; (bombing abortion clinics, showing mas to all. 8 '" ',:: , SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER '7, 1979 ' 9 too much, but those who care too However, we are cutting off a neces grisly slide shows) is as repulsive little. This neglect inevitably leads sary link to ourselves, to our per as the "scientifically" specious to a life of pain, misery and possi sonal histories and our purpose in claims on the part of pro-chokers bly irreparable damage to the child. life if we do not take advantage of (the fetus is not really human) or With economic fears heightened the experience of those who have that their. decision is totally their by 'double-digit inflation, children preceded us. Old persons' contact own and consequently .devoid of often bear the brunt of mom or with the young is crucial to the . social impact, and, therefore, none of , dad's financial frustration via verbal understanding .' of the continuity, society's business: I abhor the abor abuse or physical violence. In the growth and inevitable changes that tion mentality which is rampant' in last half of this decade, there has are inherent in life. If they are taken this country. The poor and indigent, been ,a great upsurge in the legal' away, and put into homes, and for I know, will suffer if the Supreme concern for children's rights, partic gotten, we again commit a grievous Court decision is reversed. But edu ularly. when it involves a hostile sin against the spirit within each of cation, not abortion~on-demand, is and potentially dangerous. homelife. us, the spirit which first infused life needed. It is a well-known 'fact that the into the' universe. . , I am fundamentally" convinced majority of child abusers were once Looking ahead,. the elderly's polit , that life from conception is sacred, abused children. It is a vicious cycle, ical clout will grow in the next two and, therefore, find it reprehensible one that can only be curtailed' by decades, although their economic to abort indiscriminately. I see this heavy doses of love and affection. leverage will suffer. the ravages. of issue continuing as one of the major But for some children, it is too little, inflation. I hope that the interest in ones in the 80s,and possibly beyond. too late. However, significant strides geriatrics, and concern spurred by The pro-lifers are well-organized are being made .to assist parents, persons like Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and have made great inroadS in the educators, social workers, religious will help reintegrate the elderly to past several years. Abortion will be and lawyers in their understanding a more purposeful life after retire-' an emotionally volatile topic for both of the responsibility they have to' merit. The elderly are as much a sides far into the future; ward insuring for every child a feel~ nonrenewable resource as children:. In conclusion, 1 have attempted ing of love, affection and being Their gift is wisdom, as precious> wanted in an· : 'increasingly hostile to highlight some of those groups, and priceless" as any jewel or nat from the Indian to the unborn; world. Children are naturally de ural resource. We'must learn to pendent, so it is up to us to use our which are or have been historically listen to them now, lest no one lis in the underdog position,' and are powers of love and reason to see that ten. to . us when we arrive at· their they grow into capable adult human now just beginning to make some stage. And how. hollow will be our headway into the echelons of power .beings. ' pleas for solace,. if we do not . lend and self-destiny. Since it is largely ours now. · a male-run world,the greatest chal Cultural Nigger: Elderly People lenge . I see' is the evolution' of The advent of the "Grey Panthers" MoreLl Nigger: The Unborn" women and her efforts for parity; and grey power in the second half The rights of the 3rd/4th World of this decade is one of the. most The unborn are the decade's only p'eoples, homosexuals, Native Ameri-' welcome developments in the domain .. constitutionally declared. nigger; The · can Indians, children, the elderly of citizen activism. The statistics Supreme . Court decision in 1973, and the unborn are all visible signs and reports about', declining . birth' , permitting abortion on demand, has that humankind is attempting to re- rates, the interest in gerontology, had far-reaching consequences on the · solve.some of its most pressing and various prognosticators indi- spirit and attittidesof this nation. moral, philosophical, economic, cating the national age level is in- Over 7 million abortions have been social, and political problems at this creasing are just a few examples ~ performed since the decision,' with unique time in history. of the increasing influence of the' 1.2 million estimated for the present It is a monumental task, to try to aged. . ' year of 1979. Translated: approxi- grant full humanity to each sector One of the great scandals of our· ' mately 3,300 daily. . . of society, without infringing upon technological, mobile 'society is the' The" most insidious aftereffect of the rights of other members of· that disposability of the aged, of the lack the decision is what I call the very same. society. of compassion we have for those "eraser mentality.".' By 'this, I mean who no longer participate in' the' that whenever'we:make"a mistake, The' battle will continue, well into production process, be it goods or we try to blot it out of. our mind, the 80s and beyond. The battle services. The aged are a national erase it, rather than face the respon- to' secure human' 'dignity 'amidSt , resource that is being underutilized. , sibilitythat goes With one's actions. chaos; to secure 'human: love and . Their wisdom, experience and ideas Although I am in full support .of compassion amidst : indifference, are valuable educational tools to, birth control, and even for abortion ' prejudice and hate; to secure the the goveriunent and private ind~stry that they have' retained a' semblance abuse (physical,', psychological), truth, even when the darkness'ap- upon Indian landS' is . a continual ,of dignity, 'pride, honor and faith the young. ' .' ,. ,in very limited circumsta,nces (rape, s:xual. abuse of children, the pro , Ours is a very efficient society, an incest,' threat to mother's, life), pears to be the only beacon we can affront to these people. ..: ' Their place in our society, like th~ liferatlOn' of porriography specializ · follow. " .' Unfortunately, ' substantial' gains action-oriented, y(nith~idolizingarid', I cannot accept 'tbenotion that urban ghetto, is ,a perpetual indict ing in "kiddie porn" and other social Even in the darkness, we' can pray m .the,status, educationaloppor ment and spiritual crime that will ills,the law isn't such a.bad idea. death-denying culture. Even though'·' whenever "an accident occurs; I'll , we ,'know we must grow old, and get an abortion." The entire.idea of and hope for the light,' however tumty and economic capability of Jo~evermarour nation's heritage. That is; if the child surviveS his/her the Native Indian people will, re childhood. ' ,., one' day die, we pretend, that we the validity and. sanctity of life, and faint and dim it might be: main unchanged' in '. the . upcoming , Parental Nigger:' Childr~ 'The child· has .long been regarded can. fool nature, our friendS;': and 'the act of love which is sexual union, , even ,ourselves.'But in the end, we, is diminished if the' obvious result Dedication ' '. decade. For a: people to have been Recently;. a law was proposed in as the property: of the 'parEmts,~.the so. grossly ,tossed" aside, ,forgotten, . grow old, orie. day to die: So wliy 'of any act of intimacy~a" human ThiS iLrticle is dedicated to aU of my Sweden which would allow children chattel which .is, molded, to; the friends, and enemies,' cit du LaC. And ' ..treated with ,utter impunity and the ,right to divorce their parents. whims and desires of parents;'The do _we pack our parents and grand- fetus"':"'-can be so eaSily' disposed of. contempt, and .corralled into con . parents off to nursing' homes, ,to" . Although I think' that the obses most especially to MOm. And Tracy; ~on t lau~h,because when you con major difficulty in this matter nat for being who you are.' Merry Christ" fining reservations, it is· amazing Sider themcreasing figures of child urally, is. not with parents ,wh~ care : sterile homes for., the.- aged? For, siveness of some i-ight-to-lifers - " medical and professional care, yes; (bombing abortion clinics, showing mas to all. 8 '" ',:: , SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER '7, 1979 ' 9 c Fl!1 -Fifteen Favorites of Miles Coiner-' The Most Celebrated of the '70's A Notre Dame Film Fan, Favors Fabulous,.,,' Foreign Flicks, The following are the fifteen fa vorite films of Dr: Miles Coiner: pro fessor of' Speech '" and' Drama, film and'theatre cognoscente, part-time playwright" and avid pipe smoker ("I don't know how many'rve got right now . . . probably arourid' thirty"). His list' is' hardly of the "Jaws" and "Network" genre, ,but then, Coiner doesn't see'all of his films in ,South Bend-:-in fact, judg ing from this, list, he's sees dapt few of of them here,' ' " , ' "That's strange," he remarks 'to his class in Film Theory and Criti cism, "I sawall of the American films on this list when I was in Dr. Dennis Moran, an adjunct Paris." _ assistant professor of English and To this' 'list, 'Coiner would add the Managing Editor of the Univer three more if possible: Fassbinder's sity's Review of Politics, is held in "The Life of the Mind" uAli: Fear Eats the Soul" (,74), Cop high regard by those sophomores, pola's "The Conversation" ('75) juniors and seniors who, during their and-just to prove that he does in freshman year, had Moran for two Dominates a Decade of deed see pictures in town-"The semesters in Humanities Seminar. , , Rocky Horror Picture Show.". - .. " His "alumni" include three Scholastic editorial board members-Greg' Sol Seventies Literature' man, Clay Malaker and Tom Balcerek Fifteen Favorite Films of the 1970's --:-sports writer FrankLaGrotta, Jim Name- Director Year' Byrne of the Hunger Coalition, and Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi ',1978 the Senior Class President and Vice Aquirre, The Wrath, of God Werner Herzog 1973 President, 'Nick Schneeman and Wim ,Wenders -' 1977 Author 'Name ,', Year The American Friend Mary Pat Reppa. In fact, the poem Seven Beauties Lina Wertmuller ,1976 printed elsewhere in this magazine Hannah Arendt The Life of the Mind, "1978 Edvard Munch Peter Watkins 1976 was Moran's annual Christmas poem John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1976 Nightmoves Arthur Penn 1975 in 1976. Ernest Becker The Denial of Death ' 1973 Cries and Whispers Ingmar Bergman 1972 Moran was full of disclaimers upon Paul DeMan ,Blindness and Insight .:;", 1971 The Marquise of 0 Eric Rohmer 1976 completion of this project. "Fred E. L. Doctorow Ragtime 1975 Three Women Robert Altman 1976, Crosson and I had to flip a coin to William H. McNeill Plagues and Pe'ople .. ,.. '-. ' 1976 That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Bufniel' , 1977 decide the last one . . . it was be Robert Pirsig, ' Zen and Art of Motorcycle l\laintenance 1974 Interiors Woody Allen' ' , 1978 tween Wicker's book and Fire on the John Rawls ' Theory of Justice ,1971 The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni 1975 Lake!' Nonetheless, his list slowly Lewis Thomas Lives of a Cell ,1974 Lacombe, Lucien Louis Malle 1974 metamorphized into "The Ten Most Tom Wicker' A Time to Die 1976 The Wild Child Francois Truffaut 1970 Celebrated Books of the Seventies." Amarcord Federico Fellini 1974 10 DECEMBER 7 j 1979 11 '.' SCHoLAsTIC c Fl!1 -Fifteen Favorites of Miles Coiner-' The Most Celebrated of the '70's A Notre Dame Film Fan, Favors Fabulous,.,,' Foreign Flicks, The following are the fifteen fa vorite films of Dr: Miles Coiner: pro fessor of' Speech '" and' Drama, film and'theatre cognoscente, part-time playwright" and avid pipe smoker ("I don't know how many'rve got right now . . . probably arourid' thirty"). His list' is' hardly of the "Jaws" and "Network" genre, ,but then, Coiner doesn't see'all of his films in ,South Bend-:-in fact, judg ing from this, list, he's sees dapt few of of them here,' ' " , ' "That's strange," he remarks 'to his class in Film Theory and Criti cism, "I sawall of the American films on this list when I was in Dr. Dennis Moran, an adjunct Paris." _ assistant professor of English and To this' 'list, 'Coiner would add the Managing Editor of the Univer three more if possible: Fassbinder's sity's Review of Politics, is held in "The Life of the Mind" uAli: Fear Eats the Soul" (,74), Cop high regard by those sophomores, pola's "The Conversation" ('75) juniors and seniors who, during their and-just to prove that he does in freshman year, had Moran for two Dominates a Decade of deed see pictures in town-"The semesters in Humanities Seminar. , , Rocky Horror Picture Show.". - .. " His "alumni" include three Scholastic editorial board members-Greg' Sol Seventies Literature' man, Clay Malaker and Tom Balcerek Fifteen Favorite Films of the 1970's --:-sports writer FrankLaGrotta, Jim Name- Director Year' Byrne of the Hunger Coalition, and Tree of Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi ',1978 the Senior Class President and Vice Aquirre, The Wrath, of God Werner Herzog 1973 President, 'Nick Schneeman and Wim ,Wenders -' 1977 Author 'Name ,', Year The American Friend Mary Pat Reppa. In fact, the poem Seven Beauties Lina Wertmuller ,1976 printed elsewhere in this magazine Hannah Arendt The Life of the Mind, "1978 Edvard Munch Peter Watkins 1976 was Moran's annual Christmas poem John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1976 Nightmoves Arthur Penn 1975 in 1976. Ernest Becker The Denial of Death ' 1973 Cries and Whispers Ingmar Bergman 1972 Moran was full of disclaimers upon Paul DeMan ,Blindness and Insight .:;", 1971 The Marquise of 0 Eric Rohmer 1976 completion of this project. "Fred E. L. Doctorow Ragtime 1975 Three Women Robert Altman 1976, Crosson and I had to flip a coin to William H. McNeill Plagues and Pe'ople .. ,.. '-. ' 1976 That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Bufniel' , 1977 decide the last one . . . it was be Robert Pirsig, ' Zen and Art of Motorcycle l\laintenance 1974 Interiors Woody Allen' ' , 1978 tween Wicker's book and Fire on the John Rawls ' Theory of Justice ,1971 The Passenger Michelangelo Antonioni 1975 Lake!' Nonetheless, his list slowly Lewis Thomas Lives of a Cell ,1974 Lacombe, Lucien Louis Malle 1974 metamorphized into "The Ten Most Tom Wicker' A Time to Die 1976 The Wild Child Francois Truffaut 1970 Celebrated Books of the Seventies." Amarcord Federico Fellini 1974 10 DECEMBER 7 j 1979 11 '.' SCHoLAsTIC A~1",_. kL A Decade of Collecting-:--, ____ fCTon Perhaps there is no one who had a smouldering flames of burning bUildings. The power tougher time picking a list of '70s plants all shut down last week because, the volunteers 'highlights than Steve ~ Spiro-and that had run them for the past few months just gave up. with good reason. In the past ten O,ri: The, Day So now there's no' way to get electricity anymore. I've years, the Notre Dame Art Gallery been living up here now for three months, and walking now the Snite Museum of Art, ha~ all those stairs the last, few days has been no picnic. collected well over 1,000 pieces. I But at least I'm safe up here. ' In their semester~long display, /lA We Went' ,-- Decade of Collecting," Spiro, the It's been really, funny these past few years. I mean, curato.r, and Dean Porter, the direc we all knew the end was' in sight, but all the bullshit tor, dId, however, narrow the field A"\'Vay' really started about two years ago. Up till then every , down to 150 important pieces~ "Even thing went fine; governments were stable, businesses cutting the last fifty was nearly im carried on as usual, and NASA had plans on shipping possible,'! recalls Spiro. everyone up to space stations, so everyone was happy. , Swimming through the possible by, Harvey Newquist Then two years ago NASA announced that there was art ,currents of the 1980's was a less no way it coi.Ild get all the people off the planet in formidable task for Spiro. He fore time. That's when everything went berserk. I guess sees "a more relaxed, less doctrinaire ;' There's not much time to write this. Actually, there most people were shocked at the sudden revelation of Curator Steve Spiro lords over Notre Dame's Art Museum ••• attitude toward 'modernist' pre is, but not really, if you know what I mean. Since certain death on a definite day. So about half a million cepts," i.e., Bauhas' design prin tomorrow is the last day and all, I' can't write after people marched down to Cape Kennedy in Florida where ciples, abstract art, etc.' "Also it that, but I can finish as much as, possible tonight. As they had planned on shooting the rockets off from, and looks as if more artists will be'in long as the candles and matches hold out. blew the goddamn place right into the sky. Same thing volved in different modes' of realistic happened in Houston where NASA's headquarters were. art," he prophesies./lThere will prob Whoever and wherever you are, 'reading this, I And from there, the whole world just' got messier. ably be more eclecticism and diver imagine I will be little more than molecular particles People didn't care what they did anymore. They figured sity than there will be, coherent floating through space. We all will be probably; I guess that God had let them down and that it didn't matter movements such as Pop' Art and op you just disintegrate after your immediate universe if they killed or burned or destroyed or anything. Some Art." , , explodes out from underneath you. I don't even know of them asked me to help restore order, but I couldn't. " The new addition to the Art if this will survive or why I'm even writing it. ,Just I don't know why, but I just couldn't. I wanted to Museum'is due to open in late fall of ' to kill time maybe. But I'll go down first thing in the devote the time I had left to doing what I wanted,not 1980-none too soon for the vibrant morning and put this in a steel canister down at the what they wanted me to do. All of which brings me,up 38-year-old Spiro, who: will soon bank drive-in window, and maybe it'll be preserved after to today, with just a few hours left until tomorrow. receive his doctorate from the Uni we're all gone. Either way, I'll never know the dif I've got to write this a little faster I guess. ' versityof North Carolina at Chapel ference. Hill." ,', You know, the end is nothing like Asimov or Clarke But, that's all in, thefuture. : . You;re wondering what happened to us, where,our or Bradbury or any of those science-fiction writers said here is Spiro's 'view of the past ten world went" why the human race no Jongerexists. ,It's it would be. There are no Martians in the sky, no new years in collecting for Notre Dame's all quite simple really; And though you're reading this messiahs marching through, the flames, no blue spheres Museum:, ,','," ,', after the fact, I'll have to refer to it in the future. The , settling upon the clouds, no battle of good versus evil, earth, is going, to die, just give up. But unlike us or any of that. There're just millions of scared people, humans" the earth, will not consent to being, put to , and I'll admit to being one of them. Christ, even Orwell rest peacefully. ,It was discovered five years ago by a was off the mark; this is 1986. Actually, I did see a copy group of scientists that the world was coming to the of 1984 yesterday lying, in the street, all, ,beat up and end, of its proverbial rope, and in a few years" time, kicked around. I almost wish I had time to read it nuclear reactions would start within the core. Well, again; that few years finally caught up with us this year, With Spiro. on O'Keeffe: If••• certainly 'on~ of'the mo'st important, Amencan 20th century artists." , , the ,end, result that tomorrow an explosion with the" , This building has been my refuge for a while now, intensity of a galactic supernova is going to rip the and I don't think anyone will try to blow it up. Hope- earth apart and scatter its remains across the universe. " , fully not anyway. The Sears Tower across the way was Artist There've been a few earthquakes this month, but tomor~ dynamited by a bunch of kids about six months ago., 1 , Name ' ,,' Year Eduard Steinbrucke ' row is going toendit all. I don't know the rest of the heard they got hold of some constru'ction dynamite and Adoration of the Magi' . 1838 Alphonse LegrOS A Cardinal and His Patron technical details, but no matter. There's nothing we sent about t\'{,o tons of it up in the elevators, then boom, Saint circa 1860 can do to save ourselves. that was it. Rightin broad daylight. The explosion was Jean Baptiste Carpeaux: the most tremendous sound I've ever heard in my life. Flore Accroupie 1874 Edgar Degas. ' Portrait Study of ' It's very quiet outside. By outside, I mean 80 floors It was really very pretty,to watch; 110 stories of metal , Giovanna Bellelli circa' 1862, down. Right now I'm living in an' executive office on crashing to the ground, splashing glittering glass into Georgia O'Keeffe 'the top of the Standard Oil Building herein Chicago. , the sky, like, the spray from a waterfall; all the while Blue I 1958 Master of San Miniato I just sort of moved in to escape the maddening crowd Madonna and Child 15th cent. knocking other buildings down with it. I imagine that Francesco de Mura ',' , as it were,and made this my home. It's getting late Bacchus' and Ceres ' 18th cent. whoever concocted the event died in the process, because Thomas Couture out, and' tlie sun is setting, in a' blaze of, orange an'd Portrait of Count lUimerel 19th cent.' downtown Chicago was like dominoes there for a few 'Paul Storr blood-red, leaving a purple darkness behind it. The last Presentation Cup ", , , 1809 seconds, just building after building. I, thought it was " Hans Memlinc Madonna and Child' with ' sunset over the horizon.' Forever. ' fairlyspectacular~ , " Two-Angels , Ca'rpeaux:" Renaissance breadth" of 15th cent. design!; ,18th century grace, 19th cen- The only light in the cities as the blackness of night The lunacy gets out of hand of course. Some asshole 12 , t~ry vigor of ,re~Ii~~.. '" '_,' _ " . sets in comes from bonfires in the streets 'or the walked down Michigan Avenue with asubmachine gun SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER ,7, 1979 13 A~1",_. kL A Decade of Collecting-:--, ____ fCTon Perhaps there is no one who had a smouldering flames of burning bUildings. The power tougher time picking a list of '70s plants all shut down last week because, the volunteers 'highlights than Steve ~ Spiro-and that had run them for the past few months just gave up. with good reason. In the past ten O,ri: The, Day So now there's no' way to get electricity anymore. I've years, the Notre Dame Art Gallery been living up here now for three months, and walking now the Snite Museum of Art, ha~ all those stairs the last, few days has been no picnic. collected well over 1,000 pieces. I But at least I'm safe up here. ' In their semester~long display, /lA We Went' ,-- Decade of Collecting," Spiro, the It's been really, funny these past few years. I mean, curato.r, and Dean Porter, the direc we all knew the end was' in sight, but all the bullshit tor, dId, however, narrow the field A"\'Vay' really started about two years ago. Up till then every , down to 150 important pieces~ "Even thing went fine; governments were stable, businesses cutting the last fifty was nearly im carried on as usual, and NASA had plans on shipping possible,'! recalls Spiro. everyone up to space stations, so everyone was happy. , Swimming through the possible by, Harvey Newquist Then two years ago NASA announced that there was art ,currents of the 1980's was a less no way it coi.Ild get all the people off the planet in formidable task for Spiro. He fore time. That's when everything went berserk. I guess sees "a more relaxed, less doctrinaire ;' There's not much time to write this. Actually, there most people were shocked at the sudden revelation of Curator Steve Spiro lords over Notre Dame's Art Museum ••• attitude toward 'modernist' pre is, but not really, if you know what I mean. Since certain death on a definite day. So about half a million cepts," i.e., Bauhas' design prin tomorrow is the last day and all, I' can't write after people marched down to Cape Kennedy in Florida where ciples, abstract art, etc.' "Also it that, but I can finish as much as, possible tonight. As they had planned on shooting the rockets off from, and looks as if more artists will be'in long as the candles and matches hold out. blew the goddamn place right into the sky. Same thing volved in different modes' of realistic happened in Houston where NASA's headquarters were. art," he prophesies./lThere will prob Whoever and wherever you are, 'reading this, I And from there, the whole world just' got messier. ably be more eclecticism and diver imagine I will be little more than molecular particles People didn't care what they did anymore. They figured sity than there will be, coherent floating through space. We all will be probably; I guess that God had let them down and that it didn't matter movements such as Pop' Art and op you just disintegrate after your immediate universe if they killed or burned or destroyed or anything. Some Art." , , explodes out from underneath you. I don't even know of them asked me to help restore order, but I couldn't. " The new addition to the Art if this will survive or why I'm even writing it. ,Just I don't know why, but I just couldn't. I wanted to Museum'is due to open in late fall of ' to kill time maybe. But I'll go down first thing in the devote the time I had left to doing what I wanted,not 1980-none too soon for the vibrant morning and put this in a steel canister down at the what they wanted me to do. All of which brings me,up 38-year-old Spiro, who: will soon bank drive-in window, and maybe it'll be preserved after to today, with just a few hours left until tomorrow. receive his doctorate from the Uni we're all gone. Either way, I'll never know the dif I've got to write this a little faster I guess. ' versityof North Carolina at Chapel ference. Hill." ,', You know, the end is nothing like Asimov or Clarke But, that's all in, thefuture. : . You;re wondering what happened to us, where,our or Bradbury or any of those science-fiction writers said here is Spiro's 'view of the past ten world went" why the human race no Jongerexists. ,It's it would be. There are no Martians in the sky, no new years in collecting for Notre Dame's all quite simple really; And though you're reading this messiahs marching through, the flames, no blue spheres Museum:, ,','," ,', after the fact, I'll have to refer to it in the future. The , settling upon the clouds, no battle of good versus evil, earth, is going, to die, just give up. But unlike us or any of that. There're just millions of scared people, humans" the earth, will not consent to being, put to , and I'll admit to being one of them. Christ, even Orwell rest peacefully. ,It was discovered five years ago by a was off the mark; this is 1986. Actually, I did see a copy group of scientists that the world was coming to the of 1984 yesterday lying, in the street, all, ,beat up and end, of its proverbial rope, and in a few years" time, kicked around. I almost wish I had time to read it nuclear reactions would start within the core. Well, again; that few years finally caught up with us this year, With Spiro. on O'Keeffe: If••• certainly 'on~ of'the mo'st important, Amencan 20th century artists." , , the ,end, result that tomorrow an explosion with the" , This building has been my refuge for a while now, intensity of a galactic supernova is going to rip the and I don't think anyone will try to blow it up. Hope- earth apart and scatter its remains across the universe. " , fully not anyway. The Sears Tower across the way was Artist There've been a few earthquakes this month, but tomor~ dynamited by a bunch of kids about six months ago., 1 , Name ' ,,' Year Eduard Steinbrucke ' row is going toendit all. I don't know the rest of the heard they got hold of some constru'ction dynamite and Adoration of the Magi' . 1838 Alphonse LegrOS A Cardinal and His Patron technical details, but no matter. There's nothing we sent about t\'{,o tons of it up in the elevators, then boom, Saint circa 1860 can do to save ourselves. that was it. Rightin broad daylight. The explosion was Jean Baptiste Carpeaux: the most tremendous sound I've ever heard in my life. Flore Accroupie 1874 Edgar Degas. ' Portrait Study of ' It's very quiet outside. By outside, I mean 80 floors It was really very pretty,to watch; 110 stories of metal , Giovanna Bellelli circa' 1862, down. Right now I'm living in an' executive office on crashing to the ground, splashing glittering glass into Georgia O'Keeffe 'the top of the Standard Oil Building herein Chicago. , the sky, like, the spray from a waterfall; all the while Blue I 1958 Master of San Miniato I just sort of moved in to escape the maddening crowd Madonna and Child 15th cent. knocking other buildings down with it. I imagine that Francesco de Mura ',' , as it were,and made this my home. It's getting late Bacchus' and Ceres ' 18th cent. whoever concocted the event died in the process, because Thomas Couture out, and' tlie sun is setting, in a' blaze of, orange an'd Portrait of Count lUimerel 19th cent.' downtown Chicago was like dominoes there for a few 'Paul Storr blood-red, leaving a purple darkness behind it. The last Presentation Cup ", , , 1809 seconds, just building after building. I, thought it was " Hans Memlinc Madonna and Child' with ' sunset over the horizon.' Forever. ' fairlyspectacular~ , " Two-Angels , Ca'rpeaux:" Renaissance breadth" of 15th cent. design!; ,18th century grace, 19th cen- The only light in the cities as the blackness of night The lunacy gets out of hand of course. Some asshole 12 , t~ry vigor of ,re~Ii~~.. '" '_,' _ " . sets in comes from bonfires in the streets 'or the walked down Michigan Avenue with asubmachine gun SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER ,7, 1979 13 a couple of weeks ago, just spraying lead into anybody need from an abandoned store. It's a very common My mind is beginning to 'feei like an overcrowded on the streets. I couldn't stop him and there are no practice. Everybody quit working about a year ago and all looks t60 much like that scene out of the movie, "War of the Worlds," where the guy runs down the street warehouse, there's so much to know and recall, remem more policemen. He ended up slaughtering almost fifty things like TV, trains, radio, and telephones were all people before someone rolled a Chevy Malibu down the looking for his girlfriend, but no one is around. It's all ber and learn. I used to run across friends just as all switched to computer operation. People just did what the crap came down and we'd talk of the end of the hill and it ran right over him, crushing him into the they wanted to do. . kind of gray, and there's a lot of paper that gets swept pavement. He was probably pretty shocked to see a around by the wind, piling into dirty brick corners, or world while sipping martinis and bourbon on the rocks. skittering along the cracked sidewalks. Just really de Now that the end' is here I have two quart bottles of car moving at all. There hasn't been any gas available I can see Gary, Indiana, from way up here. It's burn serted. You yell in the streets at the top of your lungs warm 7-Up to carry me through until tomorrow, and in over three years. ' ing now, like the eternal flame over someone's grave. and your voice echoes off of everything, reminding you no one to talk with. I felt the tremor from the blasts yesterday; and rushed I have done one really absurd thing in all of this. I of how small you are inside the concrete walls of the up her to see what the hell was going on .. Sure enough, It's funny: I want more than anything right now to set a disco on fire on the North Side. I always hated 7 city. one spIre of flame after another shot into the sky, all have a Big Mac with a side order ·of fries and a large that kind of music and it seemed like a fun thing to do. those huge Oil. refineries with their useless fuels, pouring root beer ... There was no one around so I said what the hell. It's black stench mto the air. God, there must be a lot of Sometimes I wonder whatever became of my family. one of those last great acts of defiance that mean so I ran here to be in the city for my last few months, and closet pyros in the world, because something is always I cut my arm this afternoon on a pane of glass that much to the little people of the earth such as myself. blowing up or being set ablaze. then I tried to call them back in San Diego, but I never got an answer. Now the phones are dead for good. I was broken down at Marshall Field's. It was sort of jutting out of a display window, most likely where . -Don't think we all ended up as madmen all of us It's weird looking down at the streets. No cars,. no hope my folks are okay, I haven't seen them in almost scared mice humans. Most people just sta~ at home two years. I wonder if they ever think about me, or someone had smashed it to get at the jewelry case in people, no --streetlights. No neon marquees and no side. I just sort of grazed it, but it's stin-bleeding a now with their families, then steal the food that they blaring horns, just shadows clinging to the darkness. It even if they still remember who I am or what I was. I wonder if they even care anymore. Somehow, through little bit. Maybe I should try and find a Band-Aid. all of this ... I still do. . So what does man have to show for himself as our world comes to a close? Broken cities and shattered From here I can see a few of the churches down dreams, littered streets and torch-lit towers. Dustin town. A lot of people still go to Mass and go to worship, Hoffman and Alan AIda. ,The Who and Tchaikovsky. but just as many go crazy instead. I guess it's just as Led Zeppelin and Mussorgsky. ,The Beatles. Lyndon B. easy to lose your mind, and anyway, we'll all find out ., Johnson and Rutherford B. Hayes. Idi Amin. The Ford for sure whether or not there really is a God after :~ Pinto and the Buick Estate Wagon. Amtrak. TWA. Sony tomorrow. TV's and Westinghouse refrigerators. Skippy ~ean)lt Butter and Stouffer's Stove Top Stuffing. .. I had to bury Susan day before yesterday. She had just left here to· go pick up a few things, and somebody You know, I never had enough time to Write my , somewhere blew up a section of the overpass while she memoirs, but I guess this is as close as I'll ever get. was walking on it. I could see it all from here, but there My 1 Hi%.@&i1fh.,f¥9W#4U; '7"7'-·--- ... :c~-··----,,--~:·--:-:"~tt·~-::;::::"=:~·~p.·' ~":".~--..,--.. ' .-- .~--.::.: Theresa Rebeck ..... ,",,~, ... " .-. :' . , .. -- .•.. _---_. 16 17 GALLeQY---:---,~-:------.:.-~- Hi%.@&i1fh.,f¥9W#4U; '7"7'-·--- ... :c~-··----,,--~:·--:-:"~tt·~-::;::::"=:~·~p.·' ~":".~--..,--.. ' .-- .~--.::.: Theresa Rebeck ..... ,",,~, ... " .-. :' . , .. -- .•.. _---_. 16 17 u ---Jvtlllldllll: rite ,cllst 0/ tlte 11est-- Maydayj by William Faulkner/ Alas, a "missing link" has ren- MOllJday, literally). Each ends with University of Notre Dame Press/ dered that scenario inaccurate, and the protagonist's death by drown 96 pages/Introduction by Carvel with the January publishing of May- ing, having been led to his demise Collins/$8.95. - - day, the chronology may need never indirectly by a female. be changed again. ' In a well-researched and fascinat- Reviewed by Gregory Solman The University of Notre Dame ing introduction by Notre Dame's Press, notably lauded in a recent eminent Faulkner scholar Carvel The following - critical review of article in the Neiv York Times Book Collins, several other deeper con Faulkner's Mayday is· the first to be Review, has launched its ship into nections are revealed that show published anywhere, and, with the the 1980's by christening the bow Faulkner's work to be of. psycho possible exception of some poetry with a veritable Veuve Clicquot, logical,' not 'simply soCiological, im and sketches, it is the last of the '1929; for all aboard and ready to portance. unpublished works of the Nobel sail is Faulkner's Mayday, which One such assertion by Collins is laureate to be printed for trade appears to be the last unpublished that the' psychology of both Jung use. - Mayday, the only surviving work of the author who many, rep- and Freud, as well as the early 20th Faulkner piece fOr which he painted utablecritics and readers have century fiction writer James Branch original watercolor illustrations, was dubbed the greatest American. fic- Cabell, had direct bearing on' some dated by him at January- -27, 1926, tion writer of our time. of Faulkner's works. Jungian disci- and presentedas.a gift ,to Helen Mayday may well be of critical pIes will surely recognize the mythi Baird, a: romantic, ,interest of importance to any serious afficionado cal "girl" of Mayday as the focus of FaUlkner's. of the "Grand Old Man of American Galwyn's "anima," i.e., the uncon Scholastic was given permission letters," for the book can be seen scious; eternal image of woman to review one of only twenty-five as a formative stage indeed, may be which every man projects upon the printed presentation copies, which the "angst," of one of Faulkner's person of the beloved, and according are exact duplicates of the original greatest novels, The Sound and the to Jung, one of the primary rea book, in its handwritten form. Fury. . sons for passionate attraction or For their cooperation in this and Mayday is allegorical in form, and aversion.1 This destructively power- other endeavors, and for generously , tells the fable of one Sir Galwyn of ful love relationship expressed by allowing us ((first reviewing" privi Arthgyl, who enraptured by a vision Jung is realized by Faulkner in the lege, and the rights to reprint the of a. "face all young and red and girl's equation with death at the pen-and-ink shown on the" back white, and. with long shining hair book's end. cover, we wholeheartedly acknowl like a column of sunny water," is in Moreover, Freudian psychology edge the University of Notre Dame 'search 'of her, accompanied until appears to have actually bridged Press' Staff, and especially its direc the end by his companions Hunger the gap between Mayday and The tor, Jim Langford, for their ,kind (a small green design with a hun- Sound and the Fury. In the latter, ness and support. dred prehensile mouths,") and Pain Benjy Compson can be seen as rep -Dave Satterfield, ("a small red design with a hundred resentative of "Id," Quentin Comp , Editor-in-Chief restless hands.") , - son of the "Ego," and Jason Comp- Along the path, Galwyn meets son of the "Super Ego." Collins Any respectable chronological ref three princesses-Yseult,· Elys and rightly points out that even the order erence to William Faulkner's work Aelia-who, despite their remark- in' which they are presented-Benjy, might read like this: able beauty, are not the girl of Gal- then Quentin, thEm, Jason-is the ((1926: February 25,Soldier's Pay wyn's vision. At the story's conclu- order of the development of the per published: Finished second' novel, sion, Galwyn is introduced by Saint sonality according to FreUd. In May Mosquitoes in Pascagoula, Missis Francis to "Little Sister Death," day, it is Pain that plays the role of sippi." (a sibling of Hunger) and is hence Super Ego,Hunger the role of Id, The chronologer, serene in his relegated to the land of "shadow," with Sir Galwyn mediating the two assurance that the seemingly endless as, the tale ends in Galwyn's suicide. countervailing forces as Ego. stream of "impublished" Faulkner 'Faulkner sardonically calls it May- If Faulkner considers Galwyn in literature had finally run dry, would , day-knowing his fascination, with some way a paradigm of himself then go on to list Sartoris and The aeronautics, probably to signify dis- in quest of Helen Baird, then is his Sound and the Fury. ... tress-juxtaposing the historic opti- admission of a weak Ego concom mism and joy of that day with the itant? A weak Ego that, to press almost doleful nihilism of the nar- , the Freudian analogy further, ,was rative. '.destroyed by stronger and harsher Once alerted to the possibility, powers of the Super Ego and Id? several components, of Mayday be- Textual evidence, does not, of come" obviously referential to The course, necessarily support this, Sound and the Fury. Both books though it does point toward Collin's ," - ~ - L~ft ~~". Friiu~1jer;:: ·t~~.- , - open in familiar fashion, with the integration of Freudian theory into '((Grand OldMan of, , dawn of a glorious day, the protag- his analysis. Indeed, Faulkner him :"AmeriCan Letters.'" ';<',. onist having spent the previous self made it indirectly known to -:j?hoto by' Ralph Thompson:". '" night in contemplative vigil. There Collins that he did not disapprove is an obvious preoccupation with " ~,~.~' .. :" ....,~~.'1~:':." ...... ~,~,..:~ .>_.~..;..",..... ,'", !...,\.",..." ~ ,~., .,.."~~,'., 4 .... ,~. ,~~ -".~ time (in one, used figuratively; in (continued on page 28) DECEMBER 7, 1979 19 ' u ---Jvtlllldllll: rite ,cllst 0/ tlte 11est-- Maydayj by William Faulkner/ Alas, a "missing link" has ren- MOllJday, literally). Each ends with University of Notre Dame Press/ dered that scenario inaccurate, and the protagonist's death by drown 96 pages/Introduction by Carvel with the January publishing of May- ing, having been led to his demise Collins/$8.95. - - day, the chronology may need never indirectly by a female. be changed again. ' In a well-researched and fascinat- Reviewed by Gregory Solman The University of Notre Dame ing introduction by Notre Dame's Press, notably lauded in a recent eminent Faulkner scholar Carvel The following - critical review of article in the Neiv York Times Book Collins, several other deeper con Faulkner's Mayday is· the first to be Review, has launched its ship into nections are revealed that show published anywhere, and, with the the 1980's by christening the bow Faulkner's work to be of. psycho possible exception of some poetry with a veritable Veuve Clicquot, logical,' not 'simply soCiological, im and sketches, it is the last of the '1929; for all aboard and ready to portance. unpublished works of the Nobel sail is Faulkner's Mayday, which One such assertion by Collins is laureate to be printed for trade appears to be the last unpublished that the' psychology of both Jung use. - Mayday, the only surviving work of the author who many, rep- and Freud, as well as the early 20th Faulkner piece fOr which he painted utablecritics and readers have century fiction writer James Branch original watercolor illustrations, was dubbed the greatest American. fic- Cabell, had direct bearing on' some dated by him at January- -27, 1926, tion writer of our time. of Faulkner's works. Jungian disci- and presentedas.a gift ,to Helen Mayday may well be of critical pIes will surely recognize the mythi Baird, a: romantic, ,interest of importance to any serious afficionado cal "girl" of Mayday as the focus of FaUlkner's. of the "Grand Old Man of American Galwyn's "anima," i.e., the uncon Scholastic was given permission letters," for the book can be seen scious; eternal image of woman to review one of only twenty-five as a formative stage indeed, may be which every man projects upon the printed presentation copies, which the "angst," of one of Faulkner's person of the beloved, and according are exact duplicates of the original greatest novels, The Sound and the to Jung, one of the primary rea book, in its handwritten form. Fury. . sons for passionate attraction or For their cooperation in this and Mayday is allegorical in form, and aversion.1 This destructively power- other endeavors, and for generously , tells the fable of one Sir Galwyn of ful love relationship expressed by allowing us ((first reviewing" privi Arthgyl, who enraptured by a vision Jung is realized by Faulkner in the lege, and the rights to reprint the of a. "face all young and red and girl's equation with death at the pen-and-ink shown on the" back white, and. with long shining hair book's end. cover, we wholeheartedly acknowl like a column of sunny water," is in Moreover, Freudian psychology edge the University of Notre Dame 'search 'of her, accompanied until appears to have actually bridged Press' Staff, and especially its direc the end by his companions Hunger the gap between Mayday and The tor, Jim Langford, for their ,kind (a small green design with a hun- Sound and the Fury. In the latter, ness and support. dred prehensile mouths,") and Pain Benjy Compson can be seen as rep -Dave Satterfield, ("a small red design with a hundred resentative of "Id," Quentin Comp , Editor-in-Chief restless hands.") , - son of the "Ego," and Jason Comp- Along the path, Galwyn meets son of the "Super Ego." Collins Any respectable chronological ref three princesses-Yseult,· Elys and rightly points out that even the order erence to William Faulkner's work Aelia-who, despite their remark- in' which they are presented-Benjy, might read like this: able beauty, are not the girl of Gal- then Quentin, thEm, Jason-is the ((1926: February 25,Soldier's Pay wyn's vision. At the story's conclu- order of the development of the per published: Finished second' novel, sion, Galwyn is introduced by Saint sonality according to FreUd. In May Mosquitoes in Pascagoula, Missis Francis to "Little Sister Death," day, it is Pain that plays the role of sippi." (a sibling of Hunger) and is hence Super Ego,Hunger the role of Id, The chronologer, serene in his relegated to the land of "shadow," with Sir Galwyn mediating the two assurance that the seemingly endless as, the tale ends in Galwyn's suicide. countervailing forces as Ego. stream of "impublished" Faulkner 'Faulkner sardonically calls it May- If Faulkner considers Galwyn in literature had finally run dry, would , day-knowing his fascination, with some way a paradigm of himself then go on to list Sartoris and The aeronautics, probably to signify dis- in quest of Helen Baird, then is his Sound and the Fury. ... tress-juxtaposing the historic opti- admission of a weak Ego concom mism and joy of that day with the itant? A weak Ego that, to press almost doleful nihilism of the nar- , the Freudian analogy further, ,was rative. '.destroyed by stronger and harsher Once alerted to the possibility, powers of the Super Ego and Id? several components, of Mayday be- Textual evidence, does not, of come" obviously referential to The course, necessarily support this, Sound and the Fury. Both books though it does point toward Collin's ," - ~ - L~ft ~~". Friiu~1jer;:: ·t~~.- , - open in familiar fashion, with the integration of Freudian theory into '((Grand OldMan of, , dawn of a glorious day, the protag- his analysis. Indeed, Faulkner him :"AmeriCan Letters.'" ';<',. onist having spent the previous self made it indirectly known to -:j?hoto by' Ralph Thompson:". '" night in contemplative vigil. There Collins that he did not disapprove is an obvious preoccupation with " ~,~.~' .. :" ....,~~.'1~:':." ...... ~,~,..:~ .>_.~..;..",..... ,'", !...,\.",..." ~ ,~., .,.."~~,'., 4 .... ,~. ,~~ -".~ time (in one, used figuratively; in (continued on page 28) DECEMBER 7, 1979 19 ' write her book from a: Christian main demand she makes on the androgyny and autonomy are neces viewpoint, but this does not limit the church is a demand for flexibility. sary if women ever are going to pro work's appeal to a select body of Kolbenschlag is most interested in gress beyond the most elemental A New Look at an Old Issue readers. She discusses Catholic emphasizing the necessity of attain stages of ethical development. She DC)OKf- teachings which affect the feminist ing personal "autonomy"-"The uses theologian Paul Tillich's three movement, such as those on divorce threshold of religious, theonomous levels of experience: heteronomy, by .Theresa Rebeck or homosexuality, but her concern existence is won only at the expense autonomy, and theonomy as a basis is not to reiterate these teachings. of achieving ethical autonomy," as for explaining the stages of growth A look at the seventies would not made themselves evident in the 20th present, so Rather, she examines the effects they she writes-and she believes that men and women go through, em be complete without a review of the century. From there, she branches as part of are having on those who come in this autonomy in turn necessitates a phasizing that most women have feminist movement and the changes out and discusses the political,social contact with the church. In many societal emphasis on androgyny. In remained highly heteronomous be it has instigated across America; in and economic structures which .! instances, she questions the validity Kolbenschlag's terms, "androgyny" cause of societal conditioning. deed, across the world. Affirmative have encouraged these stereotypes of these teachings, poiriting out that does not mean bisexuality or asexu Women have been trained to move, action programs have begun to throughout history. they often obstruct the moral and ality; rather, it is the "precondition in their lives, from one form of de-: slowly grind into effect. Women have Kolbenschlag's ,treatment of this ethical development of those who are of the liberation of a personality im pendency to another; first they begun to find places for themselves material is thorough, so thorough supposed to benefit from them. Kol prisoned in a sex role." She supports depend on their parents, then. on in the political world-Chicagoans that at times her work threatens to benschlag's stand in regard to the her call for androgyny with a refer their husbands, and then occasion~ elected their first woman mayor; the become redundant. She does not· church's.use of power is 'radical; be ence to' scripture, "There is neither ally ontheir work. It is the only way English elected a woman prime min quite fall into this trap, however. She cause her main interest is the full Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave they know to find an identity, and ister. The women's movement found . deals with many.. overanalyzed development of the human soul, any nor free~ there is neither male nor dealing with this problem is Kolben support in the arts; women· poets issues, such as .how patriarchal power structure, any structure which female, for you are all one in Christ schlag's main point. In Kiss Sleeping and novelists such as Denise Lever-· familial patterns stilt a woman's is somehow overseeing that develop Jesus" (Galatians 3). Beauty Good-Bye she tries to show tov and Ann Beattie have risen to development, how male-centered ~ent, is looked at critically. The Finally, Kolbenschlaginsists that women that it is not riecessary to prominence in literary circles. Even political structures in the business spend their lives. clinging to another for support. She also tries to show male artists-film directors such as world . deny women· entry to· this "'>:~ "~~/:.. "'-r-,~.~,- ('.::,,~ ':".~.' :~~;·~";:;·:~.~~r.'A!; ',,~ ... ~.!.~.~ : :-::-.; '.~'.-I.V:~_ ~':'" men that they should not look for Robert Altman and writers such as world, and how the "soft and pretty" ,-"",-,,/.< "\",;. "':"":-. ~~:.<~"_~~}\" .. ~,J_":J. __ ., William Styron-have begun to ex female image encouraged by the a new such dependency .. in women .any plore the intricacies of the feminine media works on the psyche of adoles many longer. . '; .···';\A::··~j~eriiii~~&1it~Wom£z:fi . Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye is psyche as well. cent. girls. Although these issues o :'~: .• ~_~~•• ',,'.;·.'.;t_./~;!·/:';~::~·~, :~~,~.~ ~')" ., ':".~-' ~.' :'. ';:)\~' ..'-"'.:~,. Many think that the woman's of the .~< ~-" ~(·~··;: THE 80's: peQfPeCTVe by Tom' Westphal by Kari Meyer Rolling onto the shore of the Feel like a gangster? Dress like new wave is the music of the 80's. Sports in the seventies, although blend of personality and talent that Comaneci in gymnastics, women all American music scene is a new wave. one. Feel like Paul . Revere-go The Knack, The Clash, Joe Jackson, marked by occasional moments of sparked the interest-initially in the over the world are beginning to en This new wave has been swelling ahead. Feel like Betty Rubble of the and The Police are slowly invading extreme controversy and exceptional form of Pele and followed by Eur joy some of the same advantages in steadily in the late 70's and is fore Flintstones? Dress the part and en the top 40 scene. Is new wave the performances, will be most notably opean turned American' stars J ohan sports that men have. enjoyed for cast to crest during the 80's. The joy it., New wave fashion is a must music of the 80's or is new wave remembered as a decade of stability. Cruyff and Georgio Chinaglia. But years. Money purses for women's wave consists of many attractive for lovers of Halloween. Dress up as simply another fad? Certainly expansion was highly in soccer in the states has grown not events increased from practically particles; but its main attraction 'is something you're not and attempt to What spurred new wave into exis evidence in the world of sports, espe- only from without, but also from nothing in the sixties to seemingly the offer of an alternative to the be yourself. tence? Perhaps it was a combination cially in media coverage but the within, where youth leagues have astronomical amounts in .the late disco, punk and rock of the 70's. The music industry tells us that of many things. Hard rock was trend in professional sports, at least, sprung up everywhere and native seventies .. For the music buff the new wave going into a slow fade in the late 70's is for contraction. Witness for ex- talent is emerging. Highschool and The Olympic Games surfaced in is a mixture of rock, punk and and with that fade emerged punk ample the merging of the AFL with college soccer is both more :sophis the past 4ecade as a highly con reggae. It has a hard-driving bass, rock and'disco-two opposing poles . the NFL, the ABA with the NBA, ticated and better publicized ..The troversial area, encompassing prob . a frantic lead guitar, good beat with Punk gave us musical revolt. Punk the WHA with the NHL, the rise and sport, known as "futbol" to many,' lems ranging from the professional vocals and lyrics that even the tone was masochism and the glorification fall of the WFL and the Pro Track has made great inroads in the seven amateur distinction to. race-related deaf can imitate. Besides the usual of. rottenness. Disco, on the other tour. So the push outward for more ties but its real imprint will be in boycotts. The pot boiled over in 1972 guitars, drums and keyboards of hand, was synthesized electronic other bands, the new wave utilizes and more teams and players clashed the eighties .. ' when terrodsts killed eleven Israelis, sound for the purpose of. dancing. with the pull inward generated by When reflection leads us back to Many important questions still need electronic game noises 'and lots of Disco was glitter, polyester and the the increasing costs of maintaining the, major sports of baseball, football to be answered before world com feedback. It is moving music. When glorification of the macho body. a winning team. and basketball, the constancy that petitions achieve their proposed you listen to new wave you definitely From all of this music of the Expansion, probably the more in- marked. the· decade becomes readily goals. are moved; either you move to leave, seventies we get the new wave. New teresting of the two occurring pheno- apparent. For, in essence, nothing , As we enter a new sporting decade move out of enjoyment or move with wave is not punk and definitely not mena, manifested itself most vividly has really changed! Sure, each of a trend, is forming toward more in nervous tension due to the beat. disco, but more a combination of in two sports previously hidden from the leagues has added a team or two expensive forms of entertainment For the dancing fanatic, new wave punk, electronics, rock and a bit of the public eye: tennis and. soccer. through merger or expansion but the considering the inexorable inflation offers an outlet for freedom of bodily reggae. Actually the new wave is For these two sports, though still not nature and fan appeal of each of the besetting. us all. For young people expression. Forget the Latin hustle not new at all, it is merely a rehash a match for the biggies yet, rose to sports has not changed at all-col soccer will soon assume a place right and throwaway your John Travolta ing of a lot of old music styles. This un imagined heights in popularity lege or professional. This is not to next to ·football and basketball in learn-to-dance kit. There's no need regrouping is reflected not only in and profits. say that any of the major sports lack popularity, for the costs of both par for lessons in the new wave. Unless the music, fashion and dancing, but you were raised in a B.F. Skinner Tennis provides the best story to either excitement or quality-for the ticipation and organization are mini~ in the basic energy which is gener box; you surely know how to hop, relate. Before the early 1970's, seventies has seen increases in both mal. Tennis, I would wager, will stay ated. It is the same type of energy skip and jump. New wave dancing tennis had been snubbed by most of these areas. My point is simply popular, ,for virtually the same that the Beatles music provided in people as a "country-club sport." The that the big revenue sports have not reasons. is the most uncomplicated thing since the early sixties. It is direct, un label, scoffed at by the few tennis been significantly modified. during The future of professional sports the twist. leashed, almost revolting energy. What is the dancing about? purists at the time, was nevertheless the decade. ,will be based . primarily on the New wave is excitement cranked out remarkably true. A combination of Orie possible exception, contested media's (mainly' TV) . broadcasting Motion! Fling your arms, rubberize in a seemingly new manner. events served to help shed the label by league commissioner Lawrence decisions. Sports without sufficient your legs, fake the guitarand neglect New wave. is. attracting a broad and make tennis into the most popu- O'Brien but substantiated' by the media acceptance will likely be your partner if you like. Think of range of audiences, from the teens lar "participatory" sport· of the media and the public, is the conten doomed to failure as the almighty new wave dancing as therapeutic. of the sixties to the teens of the seventies. tion that pro basketball has fallen dollar rules 'supreme over the land. Throw your head back and relax. seventies and now on to the children Controversial and talented per- upon hard times-in its attendance, Both hockey and football must pre Unlike disco, no one is' watching .of the eighties. The new wave au formers such as Jimmy Connors, media coverage and most important pare for impending lawsuits as in YOU-dancing is no contest. Move diences are clearly people looking for Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert and Billie ly the composition of· the league it juries increase liabilities to a pos the way you are moved by the music. a new outlet, a new mode of identi Jean King greatly triggered the self. For with blacks comprising the sibly prohibitive degree. (Be sure to Even if you are "a limburger" and fication, a new fad. Perhaps new boom. With the assistance of ex- majority of the teams, a predomi- . check the February Football Review no one will dance with you, you can wave will thrive and grow into a tended TV coverage, people all over . nantly white America is having. for a related in-depth story.) dance alone. No one will notice. new sector of music, but perhaps, the United States began to see tennis trouble identifying with the players' I don't mean to point an overly New wave dancing requires its like most fads, it will simply swell as an easy, inexpensive sport to try: on the teanis. Consequently, TV bleak picture for sports in the own fashion and dress. Slinky disco up and die out. Masses of new racqueteers invaded coverage and game attendance have eighties. Collegiate and professional dresses and silk shirts would become There are not many new and excit their local public tennis courts and dipped considerably. Another prob sports will likely prosper amidst any . distracting and probably torn to ing music trends around at the pres the tennis. industry blossomed as lem the league must alleviate is the surrounding turmoil.' There are shreds when dancing to new wave ent time. The new wave is rolling in never before. The sport thrived ridiculously long schedule that drags enough people with money and aspir music. With new wave, the fashion at a very opportune time indeed. A throughout the decade until the tail into June, alienating fans of other ing to make money to ensure that; freak has a number of disguises to , bored audience of music listeners is choose from. Grandma's old -trunk end when interest died off a bit, due sports as well. One seventies' phenomenon sure to very justified in taking notice of perhaps' to the realization of many One new development in the remain popular in the eighties is jog of clothes is just loaded with fashion. this new approach and "joining the Skinny ties, tiny lapels and lacy that a few times on the court do not· seventies that deserves special men ging. You can't beat the price and bandwagon," so to speak. Will the a master make.tion is the growth of women's sports. there is no accompanying anxiety of necks mix well with the 1960's hot new wave last· into and through the Soccer, on the contrary, is virtu- Spearheaded by the charismatic per lawsuits and failures. But then jog pants and leopard skins. Feathers, eighties before music. fans tire of it . beads, go-go. boots, mini-skirts, ally coming into its own, at least in sonalitiesof Chris Evert and Tracy ging is not really a sport, is it?! too? That question remains to be an the U.S. (worldwide it has been . Austin in tennis, Nancy Lopez in Touche! saddle oxfords and plastic Ben swered. Perhaps in the eighties we popular for years). Again it wasa. golf and Olga Korbut and Nadia Franklin gl~sses are classic touches will discover how long. a wave can of new wave garb. .. last once it reaches the shore. 0 26 ,SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER 7, 1979 27 .. • THE 80's: peQfPeCTVe by Tom' Westphal by Kari Meyer Rolling onto the shore of the Feel like a gangster? Dress like new wave is the music of the 80's. Sports in the seventies, although blend of personality and talent that Comaneci in gymnastics, women all American music scene is a new wave. one. Feel like Paul . Revere-go The Knack, The Clash, Joe Jackson, marked by occasional moments of sparked the interest-initially in the over the world are beginning to en This new wave has been swelling ahead. Feel like Betty Rubble of the and The Police are slowly invading extreme controversy and exceptional form of Pele and followed by Eur joy some of the same advantages in steadily in the late 70's and is fore Flintstones? Dress the part and en the top 40 scene. Is new wave the performances, will be most notably opean turned American' stars J ohan sports that men have. enjoyed for cast to crest during the 80's. The joy it., New wave fashion is a must music of the 80's or is new wave remembered as a decade of stability. Cruyff and Georgio Chinaglia. But years. Money purses for women's wave consists of many attractive for lovers of Halloween. Dress up as simply another fad? Certainly expansion was highly in soccer in the states has grown not events increased from practically particles; but its main attraction 'is something you're not and attempt to What spurred new wave into exis evidence in the world of sports, espe- only from without, but also from nothing in the sixties to seemingly the offer of an alternative to the be yourself. tence? Perhaps it was a combination cially in media coverage but the within, where youth leagues have astronomical amounts in .the late disco, punk and rock of the 70's. The music industry tells us that of many things. Hard rock was trend in professional sports, at least, sprung up everywhere and native seventies .. For the music buff the new wave going into a slow fade in the late 70's is for contraction. Witness for ex- talent is emerging. Highschool and The Olympic Games surfaced in is a mixture of rock, punk and and with that fade emerged punk ample the merging of the AFL with college soccer is both more :sophis the past 4ecade as a highly con reggae. It has a hard-driving bass, rock and'disco-two opposing poles . the NFL, the ABA with the NBA, ticated and better publicized ..The troversial area, encompassing prob . a frantic lead guitar, good beat with Punk gave us musical revolt. Punk the WHA with the NHL, the rise and sport, known as "futbol" to many,' lems ranging from the professional vocals and lyrics that even the tone was masochism and the glorification fall of the WFL and the Pro Track has made great inroads in the seven amateur distinction to. race-related deaf can imitate. Besides the usual of. rottenness. Disco, on the other tour. So the push outward for more ties but its real imprint will be in boycotts. The pot boiled over in 1972 guitars, drums and keyboards of hand, was synthesized electronic other bands, the new wave utilizes and more teams and players clashed the eighties .. ' when terrodsts killed eleven Israelis, sound for the purpose of. dancing. with the pull inward generated by When reflection leads us back to Many important questions still need electronic game noises 'and lots of Disco was glitter, polyester and the the increasing costs of maintaining the, major sports of baseball, football to be answered before world com feedback. It is moving music. When glorification of the macho body. a winning team. and basketball, the constancy that petitions achieve their proposed you listen to new wave you definitely From all of this music of the Expansion, probably the more in- marked. the· decade becomes readily goals. are moved; either you move to leave, seventies we get the new wave. New teresting of the two occurring pheno- apparent. For, in essence, nothing , As we enter a new sporting decade move out of enjoyment or move with wave is not punk and definitely not mena, manifested itself most vividly has really changed! Sure, each of a trend, is forming toward more in nervous tension due to the beat. disco, but more a combination of in two sports previously hidden from the leagues has added a team or two expensive forms of entertainment For the dancing fanatic, new wave punk, electronics, rock and a bit of the public eye: tennis and. soccer. through merger or expansion but the considering the inexorable inflation offers an outlet for freedom of bodily reggae. Actually the new wave is For these two sports, though still not nature and fan appeal of each of the besetting. us all. For young people expression. Forget the Latin hustle not new at all, it is merely a rehash a match for the biggies yet, rose to sports has not changed at all-col soccer will soon assume a place right and throwaway your John Travolta ing of a lot of old music styles. This un imagined heights in popularity lege or professional. This is not to next to ·football and basketball in learn-to-dance kit. There's no need regrouping is reflected not only in and profits. say that any of the major sports lack popularity, for the costs of both par for lessons in the new wave. Unless the music, fashion and dancing, but you were raised in a B.F. Skinner Tennis provides the best story to either excitement or quality-for the ticipation and organization are mini~ in the basic energy which is gener box; you surely know how to hop, relate. Before the early 1970's, seventies has seen increases in both mal. Tennis, I would wager, will stay ated. It is the same type of energy skip and jump. New wave dancing tennis had been snubbed by most of these areas. My point is simply popular, ,for virtually the same that the Beatles music provided in people as a "country-club sport." The that the big revenue sports have not reasons. is the most uncomplicated thing since the early sixties. It is direct, un label, scoffed at by the few tennis been significantly modified. during The future of professional sports the twist. leashed, almost revolting energy. What is the dancing about? purists at the time, was nevertheless the decade. ,will be based . primarily on the New wave is excitement cranked out remarkably true. A combination of Orie possible exception, contested media's (mainly' TV) . broadcasting Motion! Fling your arms, rubberize in a seemingly new manner. events served to help shed the label by league commissioner Lawrence decisions. Sports without sufficient your legs, fake the guitarand neglect New wave. is. attracting a broad and make tennis into the most popu- O'Brien but substantiated' by the media acceptance will likely be your partner if you like. Think of range of audiences, from the teens lar "participatory" sport· of the media and the public, is the conten doomed to failure as the almighty new wave dancing as therapeutic. of the sixties to the teens of the seventies. tion that pro basketball has fallen dollar rules 'supreme over the land. Throw your head back and relax. seventies and now on to the children Controversial and talented per- upon hard times-in its attendance, Both hockey and football must pre Unlike disco, no one is' watching .of the eighties. The new wave au formers such as Jimmy Connors, media coverage and most important pare for impending lawsuits as in YOU-dancing is no contest. Move diences are clearly people looking for Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert and Billie ly the composition of· the league it juries increase liabilities to a pos the way you are moved by the music. a new outlet, a new mode of identi Jean King greatly triggered the self. For with blacks comprising the sibly prohibitive degree. (Be sure to Even if you are "a limburger" and fication, a new fad. Perhaps new boom. With the assistance of ex- majority of the teams, a predomi- . check the February Football Review no one will dance with you, you can wave will thrive and grow into a tended TV coverage, people all over . nantly white America is having. for a related in-depth story.) dance alone. No one will notice. new sector of music, but perhaps, the United States began to see tennis trouble identifying with the players' I don't mean to point an overly New wave dancing requires its like most fads, it will simply swell as an easy, inexpensive sport to try: on the teanis. Consequently, TV bleak picture for sports in the own fashion and dress. Slinky disco up and die out. Masses of new racqueteers invaded coverage and game attendance have eighties. Collegiate and professional dresses and silk shirts would become There are not many new and excit their local public tennis courts and dipped considerably. Another prob sports will likely prosper amidst any . distracting and probably torn to ing music trends around at the pres the tennis. industry blossomed as lem the league must alleviate is the surrounding turmoil.' There are shreds when dancing to new wave ent time. The new wave is rolling in never before. The sport thrived ridiculously long schedule that drags enough people with money and aspir music. With new wave, the fashion at a very opportune time indeed. A throughout the decade until the tail into June, alienating fans of other ing to make money to ensure that; freak has a number of disguises to , bored audience of music listeners is choose from. Grandma's old -trunk end when interest died off a bit, due sports as well. One seventies' phenomenon sure to very justified in taking notice of perhaps' to the realization of many One new development in the remain popular in the eighties is jog of clothes is just loaded with fashion. this new approach and "joining the Skinny ties, tiny lapels and lacy that a few times on the court do not· seventies that deserves special men ging. You can't beat the price and bandwagon," so to speak. Will the a master make.tion is the growth of women's sports. there is no accompanying anxiety of necks mix well with the 1960's hot new wave last· into and through the Soccer, on the contrary, is virtu- Spearheaded by the charismatic per lawsuits and failures. But then jog pants and leopard skins. Feathers, eighties before music. fans tire of it . beads, go-go. boots, mini-skirts, ally coming into its own, at least in sonalitiesof Chris Evert and Tracy ging is not really a sport, is it?! too? That question remains to be an the U.S. (worldwide it has been . Austin in tennis, Nancy Lopez in Touche! saddle oxfords and plastic Ben swered. Perhaps in the eighties we popular for years). Again it wasa. golf and Olga Korbut and Nadia Franklin gl~sses are classic touches will discover how long. a wave can of new wave garb. .. last once it reaches the shore. 0 26 ,SCHOLASTIC DECEMBER 7, 1979 27 (continued from page 19) n·······~lT~OSpe(T··.. ~--'---- of Collin's interpretation of his Many have argued that Faulkner the Fury. On November 18, '1969,' ten Notre social and political effect. in'rec- a single administrator the functions , If I'm wrong, I won't be the first work. is at, his worst when purportedly Dame stUdents staged a sit-in at the ognition of this fact, church 0.£ police officer, prosecutor, judge, deeply imbedded symbolism risi;!s or last critic to be so (remember the entrance 0/ the Placement Bureau in groups and others in recent years jury, and academic firing squad. A more obvious bridge between, reaction to A Fable and The Reiv the Administration Building. Their have been withdrawing their in- The parallels between this procedure the two works mentioned is that too close to the surface. How, then, does one assess Faulkner when the ers)? That's unlikely because May purpose was to protest Notre Dame's vestments from companies whose and martial law have been pointed while Benjy Compson thinks about day is Faulkner; and he who justi .allowing the. Dow Chemical Corpo- policies . on race, . war, or ..' social out' frequently.. What is the reason St. Francis during his monologue, symbolism is overt and readily ac cessible by design? Despite the fact fiably sits in ,the pantheon of ,gre~t ration and the Central.Intelligence conditions. they cannot condone. for this severity? ... Sir Galwyn actually encounters him writers, .needs no defense by this Agency to recruit on campus; and to . 2.) The University.in its coopera- The only answer we can surmise twice: ' that A Fable wasn't really vintage Faulkner,as the 1954 critics (and the critic.· , physically obstruct the placement tion with the military for the pro- is that the' Administration sees The tree was an old man with a Pulitzer Prize' Committee) thought Above and beyond all of, this, .' interviews with these two employers. duction of junior officers is at the something much more important at long' shining beard like silver cui it was, Faulkner's undeniably ec though, Mayday works . . ., whic? Fat1ier 'Hesburgh;' iSsued:' an ulti- very least professing that iUs not stake when those actions are di- rass and the leaves were birds 0/ a centric style seems to me aptly put somewhat disarms Faulkner of hls matum to these students,;i/ they did. unreasonable to affirin thenioral rected at the political stance of the thousand kinds and colors. And he to the, task of writing parables, ungallant weaponry; for the story's not'" disperse ivithinfifteen minutes, . acceptability of the current activ- University than when they merely replied to the {Tees, saying, ({What fables and allegorical novels of May- success ultimately suggests that love they' 'wo1ild ' be immediately sus~ ities of the military, a position that "infringe on the rights of others" sayest thou, good Saint Francis?" day's genre. ' , , of a woman, as the artist's most pended'/romthiJ.,c'University. The can hardly be described as any- with no overt political motive. And But the good Saint Francis an As this book becomes more read affective motivation, is not so bad students .remained seated in front 0/ thing but· political. ,. what isat stake is the perpetuation swered only: ({Wait, it is not yet ily available to the public, one valid after all. ' .the Placement Bureau, and HesbUrgh 3.) The University in its modern .of the University as a service station time." , objection to this work is sure to in~ camed out his threat.' function as a knowledge factory for a system that lives' 011 domestic Sir Galwyn can in my view be . volve Faulkner's use of rather glib EditoT's note:. This December 17, . Tne10llowingiSan edited version .. in cooperation with industrial; and':'foreign' countries' repression. seen' as a classic tragic hero, in the anachronism' sprinkled throughout. Dr. Carvel Collins, professor emer o/u:letter 0/ appeal written by Mr. governmental, and military orga~ .. :. The University's' constituency tradition of Colonel Sartoris in Not only does he ,make reference to 'itus at Notre Dame and ,illithor of Charles McCarthy/then apio/esBor nizations must assume that these is; in short,not'thecommunity of . dare we' mention a book so widely "emigration laws" in the aforemen Mayday's introduction, Will be part in 'the 'collegiate seminar program, . . organizations are engaged in mor-teachers.aridstudentSwithin it, but disniissed by critics as trivial----:-The tioned passage, but Princess Ysuelt of a Public Television, program en :. on benii!Fotthese students.: It was '. ally 'acceptable activities. rather thatUoutsideconstituency," U1ivanquiShed; Joe Christmas of says, "I am distressed yousho~lld titled "William Faulkner: A. Life I' sent to Fr. Hesburghand themem- . 4.)~FiIlally, theUniven;it'y as a the political and economic'system Light in August and Thomas Sutpen have seen me with my hair done lIke on Paper/' ., ,,'" r' .bers'o/a tripartite 'appeals board, stipplierof" manpoweractivelY'represented bythe'Board of. TI-us~ of Absalom! Absalom! also qualify. this, butthen, you know what maids , Mayday,will be published January !, . " who were to 'review ,the· case on .channels its second major product· tees! ... '. ',' "...... " ' .. By Aristotelian definition at~east, are in these desperate days," and 27, 198O-exactly ,54. years after '.":.,,:,,.·· f December12;~1969. The appeal was . ~ducatedmeri-into positions cOn November 18, 1969, the Notre the embellished language replete Time refers to "any standard mag Faulkner dated it:' "0 t . refUsed. '. '" ". ,...' ... ..,.. of' government and'· industry. , It Dame" Administration, . fully ':cog- with artistic ornament is evident, azine" and of eliminating "the mid , ..... We'at Scholastic 'were struck: by mUst accept as 'reasonably ethical nizant of. the yearlong "debate if not glaring. ,And though Poetics dle man." Apparent attempts at . . the'sirnilarityb'etween the questions the arrangements that it: facili~ . concerning, University.complicity, would insist that the narrative style playfulness, none of which, strike L .'. raised in thisdoeurnent and those tates; for it is 'obvious that only presented. us with: an ominous alter~ " of Mayday is Wrong, certainly the me ,as being true to the dialectic of "raised by' many',memberso/the some organizations' 'are' allowed native: either :(a) we rimst acqui; book elicits a sense of katharsis or, that day or to the form that Faulk .. Notre Dariiecammunitytoday cOn- . to recruit on'campus' (e.g~, it is esce in the Administration'sendors~ the "purgation of the pity and fear ner elected to use. I find this dis ,cer~ing such issues as tenure deci~hardtoimagine the:Placementment' of'Dow,;-the'CL\; and.'the necessary to tragedy.'~2 In fact, many tracting, because neither the medium sions'anath'e p'resence 0/ ROTC prO- Bureau's.' scheduling: interviews structures.' and· assumptions' . that critics have argued, that Faulkner's nor the message is in any way puer grams oncampUs.:"1t.se~ that in fo·rtheKu. Klux Klan, the 'Pro'- they represent by. the simultaneous.· vision as 'a writer per se is quintes ile witness this speech by Hunger . the 'Past tiin years Some things' nave gressive : Labor Party; the Law~ scheduling "of; recruiting by : these sentially tragic, though not in a form , , which. aptly summarizes Galwyn s cha1!ged very li~tl~,.,:, ...... : .' ' yer',s' G,,.,uiId; a 1,.,o,pal;, b,r, ...oth,.e~, . etc.,); two,· organizations--':';'squarely , tinder as ostensibly axiomatic as many of dilemma: . " ... . the' Golden Dome;: literally. arid fig- the Greek' tragedians~ " «[ remember to have remarked "Our actions bn Noverrib~r 18 ~ere Nowthe'poirit of these examples is urative;::or«b)iwe, must:,prevent' Certainly, Galwyn possesses that once that man is a buzzing insect n~essitated by 'the political pOsition to show tha(the University actS'in this affirmation of a viCious system; indefinable quality of self-knowledge blundering through a strange world, assumed and steadily; rriruntained a politic:aFfashion' imdmanifests'a '. even if it 'meant that the Draconian of the tragic hero; he has a sense seeking something that he, cannot by'the Uruversityof Notre Dame . coherenfpolitical' pOsition. And the rules for'the protection of this, per~ of the inevitability of his charge, name nor, recognize, . and probably ", "Adritinistrntion: 'In ,'the 'following position thattheUniversityAdmiri~ verse" political., relation ,would :, be " and, of course, virtue" valor and I.;-··.·J'.···.·. " we will try to discuss that position; istration has chosen' by. its' actions' used agaInst' us. We. could, firid ' no will not want. I think that [ will . .' perspicacity. The ineluctable end to .... the rulesthat'defendit; 'and itsrela~ is to affirinthe'structures and third ' alternative: : ,we therefore refine this '" aphorism to: Man is a . "'\ . .',' as-" his quest is not seen by' Galwyn buzzing fly beneath' the inverted tio'ri' to the' University' asari' aca~' sillnptions~indeecI/theAdministra':chos·e'thelatter,'course. ".'.. "":,'- , until he kneels' precipitously before 'glass tumbler 0/ his i,llusions." ,,~. "\' . deihiccommunity~ ';. ;<:,: ,; , :; ,"."., 'tion" affirms' the very> institutions, " Th~ Universi'tY· assumes a pOlitical ' the river' of death, yet 'he resigns , Brilliant prose : . . and what one , "Wis:'irriportarit,to'realize)that . (such 'as' the Dow. Chemical·,Com~ ". position'·byits.Jnufual : supPort for " himself to that denouement: 'the origirisafthecUrrEmt iinbroglio ."'pany and' the Central:, Intelligence' the socialand,'economic system'rep" . The gray boatkeeper" who 'ap~ would expect in a genuine literary find; . which Mayday most assuredly lie:iii thEi'palitical'position'assumed 'Agency) that' are', responsible ,for' resented'lly'Dowand: CIA and is ' . pears near the end' of the fable, by ,the ' University 'of Notre Dame:' 'the Vietnamese; wars and the Con- responsible; for' repression: and ex-,' answers a query of GaIWyn, which is. Without hesitation, I am 'willing to . place Mayday among . the few , ',. Now iitis often argued that univer--· , spiracy: Trials; for Song My."inck ploitatiori.' at, home' and abroad; The foreshadows of his fate: , ~::' ,sities:do:~ot~aIld"should not-tak~ , dents" and Fred Ham'ptori··affairs'~.; . University uses rules to protectithe ,. "As I have already told you, you books of vital imp'ortance to a com plete' understanding of Faulkner as ~" politi,cal .:: positions: ,~hat· '··they··'-, .are ' . a:ri~ 'for sY'stematic. exp~oitatiori:~of, ~ ~~<'~no~a~ ~:'a~tiyitie~~ 6f:";' the~:Universi- ' . will be a shadow subject to all ~, "neutral", on political : questions. But, the poor and repression of legitimate ty"~stensibly:' in:' defense of: iridi- ' shadowy ills-hunger and pain arid a whole, and as the only logical pref- ace to The Sound and the Fury. ,. ;, :", we iargueithafuniversities;,assig-: ,desires'i\for'social ,reform ,~both 'at, viduaL'rights~which "are: invoked ' bodily discomforts, and love and nificant institutions. in oursociety, " ,hamel-and abroad,: in : the name of: 'only 'against> effective interference It hate and hope and' despair. And you is not' often that an author cannot avoid . having political' ef~ profit,: corripetitiCin' .and;anticoni- ,with this. political stance.:;: ' ',' leaves' behind' an. artifact' so per a will know no better, how, to combat ; feet; : and: since the administrative '. munism. :;.; (:: Instead .. of.' exercising ~, ": ". It is our contention' that theman~ them' than you did on your last sonally revealing of himself and 'so .~, '. /". - decisiohs~ 'thaf.,'deteririine \ the nature "a: criticaf function, oveI\" this', sys~em, '. ~ ner :in": which < ~th'e .... no\v~famous :;:15..; '.' journey throughout the world" for central to another of his great ;, .•. ,of that ,: effect. cannot: be, considered "',this IUniversIty'chooses toco.operate'niinutey rule ',was ':promulgated;: and" ' works. Mayday affords. the serious my emigration laws prohibit Ex~ , " :to. be taken'blindlyor~ai>riciously;::,' with" and even.,avidly'seek',favors the manner in:whichit'was'applied . Faulkner scholar the rare' opportu~ perience leaving my domain. And :,.: they.• , :'Clearly::represent: a ·:political ,.from:that:sy~tem!> .. '.' .">'.,,>": int the. instance' of: the:j,Dow~CIA: " besides, man should beware of Ex nity ,to view in textual form" the / /; positiori;:For example: . . ',::': ..Now let us 'turhito:the rule Under.:, demonstration:) of N ovember18:.: is.: psychological machination,.~, the perience as he should beware of all ,; , '1.);, ,It :is' obvious ,:that: thednvest-·,·: which we have. been. summarily . sUs~ '" totally'inconsistent . the entire holiday, they never were lies the answer. Sure, Adam and upset; they had a great time, regard Eve messed things up a bit but that less of Iran or the nuclear, power doesn't mean we should all take a plant that stands five miles away. bite of that apple. We can do our by Dave Satterfield Through them, I realized that there best to avoid losing that innocence were people who fight the system,_ and make others aware of the who fail to fall into what we call powers of innocence. After all, a Korea, Vietnam, and now, Iran. "progress," who manage to maintain well-known Gentile once preached The Cold War, bomb shelters, ciga or retain their innocence, who stay the powers of innocence and told' rettes are hazardous to your health, young. For example: his disciples that everything He had Watergate, and, now, Harrisburg. I have two widowed grand whispered in their ears should be Willie Mays-the say-hey kid, mothers. One lives in a senior citizen proclaimed on' the housetops. He Brooks Robinson-the human apartment complex, knits quite was no fool. ,Of course, he was vacuum cleaner, and now, Reggie often, drinks tea and plays solitaire. crucified. Jackson-the million-dollar candy My other grandmother lives alone There was another man who failed man. in a nice apartment, works eight to "grow up and join the real 1980 is knocking at the front door hours a day, drinks Budweiser and world." . Don Quixote deLa Mancha, and it seems as though 1960 hasn't dates married men .. They are the an old man, fought imaginary foes' gone out the back door. Somehow, same age, yet one is at least thirty in the name of good, honor and time blindly moves on and essen years younger than, the other. innocence. While others sat and tially, nothing changes. People grow, Recently, I watched a group of laughed at him, he rode. While they learn, they participate, they high school kids play a pickup others complained, he fought. Up protest, they settle down, they com basketball game. There was a tall, until his death, he remained a young plain, they endure and eventually, lanky kid wearing an inverted rain man. they die. The circle remains un bow smile throughout the entire The secret is to never grow old. broken, by and by Lord, by and Dy. game, who flowed up and down the Stay young, which doesn't mean that And often, the only optimism is the court, pouring, the ball through the you have to collect baseball cards belief that there's a better home hoop. He rarely spoke. There was or play jacks. Staying young in awaitin' in the'sky Lord, in the sky. another kid who walked up and volves keeping an open, yet wise Newspapers, television, novels and down the court barking the score, mind, it means being able to laugh film reflect that pessimistic notion barking about fouls and barking and giggle,. to kiss and love, to ques- that things are going to hell and about his team's lack of hustle. I , tion authority and respect it at the there is not much we can do about would guess that the two kids were same time.. Staying young involves ' it. There's no question-we live in a the same age, yet one was thirty playing the game,not watching or . world where pessimism is not only years older than the other. refereeing it. With harvest close, children are put in easy to adopt, it is accepted. A while ago, I became involved Ponce de Leon never found the Mind of holidays to come, of. rain So, as we wave good-by to the in an argument with a fri,end con fountain of youth but we can now That soon becomes the ground of joy seventies, I'd like to do so on an cerning a fight we had both wit see that Florida was the wrong place Merry. Christmas They'll fashion snow images from, optimistic note because I honestly nessed. I told her that fighting was to look for youth. Th,ere is no magic Of visits froni family they know believe that there is hope. For the inevitable and she said no, it didn't potion .or special book that. will Will bring surprises, and' thinking past month, I've been searching for have to be. I told her to be sensible make anyone young. We mustall Of how it is Christmas began signs of that hope., I consulted my and confront reality. She said I was make an effort, a conscious effort, to from the Begin to expect it again. Ouija board but the vibes were inter too, pessimistic and I realized that stay young and remain innocent. ,I rupted by a 747 flying overhead. I maybe she was right. ' think we can.. In conclusion, I would But what assurance a child has Concerning things regarding Christmas ' . tried to make contact with Mark Shortly thereafter, I was involved, like to quote Bob Dylan. His mes~ .Scholastic' Editorial' Board Twain, figuring if anyone could in a discussion concerning nuclear sage has been made before,' possibly Most astounds us ,in having more make sense of the seventies, he could. power and nuclear. disarmament a bit more profound but never so To do with Delief in coming days After burning a box of candles with a fellow student. He claimed simple and sincere. Than expectations of ,future while waiting on hold, I decided to that there was no conceivable' way May God bless and keep you Enjoyment: For he bears a cross hang up the telepathy. I was losing in which we could abandon nuclear always, . In waiting out the uncertain hope and I had yet to find it! So power or nuclear arms and survive. ,may your wishes all come true Goodness of things' to be, carrying I went home for Thanksgiving and I told him that I thought we could May you always do .for others, See You in the 'Eighties All the while the weight of what is borne 10 and behold, hope greeted me at try, and maybe it would be in our , and let others do for you In our salvation as children. the door. in the form of three little best interests to do just that. He May you build a ladder to the Christmas 1976 . kids. " countered by claiming that I should stars, !" Dennis Wm. Moran Now, little kids can, without a grow up and join the real world. . and climb on every rung. doubt, be painful.to certain areas of No thanks. And may you stay the human body. But throughout The innocence of youth. 'Therein Forever young; , DECEMBER 7, 1979 30 'SCHOLAS'I'IC 31 » Tt1t: LAST VvORD the entire holiday, they never were lies the answer. Sure, Adam and upset; they had a great time, regard Eve messed things up a bit but that less of Iran or the nuclear, power doesn't mean we should all take a plant that stands five miles away. bite of that apple. We can do our by Dave Satterfield Through them, I realized that there best to avoid losing that innocence were people who fight the system,_ and make others aware of the who fail to fall into what we call powers of innocence. After all, a Korea, Vietnam, and now, Iran. "progress," who manage to maintain well-known Gentile once preached The Cold War, bomb shelters, ciga or retain their innocence, who stay the powers of innocence and told' rettes are hazardous to your health, young. For example: his disciples that everything He had Watergate, and, now, Harrisburg. I have two widowed grand whispered in their ears should be Willie Mays-the say-hey kid, mothers. One lives in a senior citizen proclaimed on' the housetops. He Brooks Robinson-the human apartment complex, knits quite was no fool. ,Of course, he was vacuum cleaner, and now, Reggie often, drinks tea and plays solitaire. crucified. Jackson-the million-dollar candy My other grandmother lives alone There was another man who failed man. in a nice apartment, works eight to "grow up and join the real 1980 is knocking at the front door hours a day, drinks Budweiser and world." . Don Quixote deLa Mancha, and it seems as though 1960 hasn't dates married men .. They are the an old man, fought imaginary foes' gone out the back door. Somehow, same age, yet one is at least thirty in the name of good, honor and time blindly moves on and essen years younger than, the other. innocence. While others sat and tially, nothing changes. People grow, Recently, I watched a group of laughed at him, he rode. While they learn, they participate, they high school kids play a pickup others complained, he fought. Up protest, they settle down, they com basketball game. There was a tall, until his death, he remained a young plain, they endure and eventually, lanky kid wearing an inverted rain man. they die. The circle remains un bow smile throughout the entire The secret is to never grow old. broken, by and by Lord, by and Dy. game, who flowed up and down the Stay young, which doesn't mean that And often, the only optimism is the court, pouring, the ball through the you have to collect baseball cards belief that there's a better home hoop. He rarely spoke. There was or play jacks. Staying young in awaitin' in the'sky Lord, in the sky. another kid who walked up and volves keeping an open, yet wise Newspapers, television, novels and down the court barking the score, mind, it means being able to laugh film reflect that pessimistic notion barking about fouls and barking and giggle,. to kiss and love, to ques- that things are going to hell and about his team's lack of hustle. I , tion authority and respect it at the there is not much we can do about would guess that the two kids were same time.. Staying young involves ' it. There's no question-we live in a the same age, yet one was thirty playing the game,not watching or . world where pessimism is not only years older than the other. refereeing it. With harvest close, children are put in easy to adopt, it is accepted. A while ago, I became involved Ponce de Leon never found the Mind of holidays to come, of. rain So, as we wave good-by to the in an argument with a fri,end con fountain of youth but we can now That soon becomes the ground of joy seventies, I'd like to do so on an cerning a fight we had both wit see that Florida was the wrong place Merry. Christmas They'll fashion snow images from, optimistic note because I honestly nessed. I told her that fighting was to look for youth. Th,ere is no magic Of visits froni family they know believe that there is hope. For the inevitable and she said no, it didn't potion .or special book that. will Will bring surprises, and' thinking past month, I've been searching for have to be. I told her to be sensible make anyone young. We mustall Of how it is Christmas began signs of that hope., I consulted my and confront reality. She said I was make an effort, a conscious effort, to from the Begin to expect it again. Ouija board but the vibes were inter too, pessimistic and I realized that stay young and remain innocent. ,I rupted by a 747 flying overhead. I maybe she was right. ' think we can.. In conclusion, I would But what assurance a child has Concerning things regarding Christmas ' . tried to make contact with Mark Shortly thereafter, I was involved, like to quote Bob Dylan. His mes~ .Scholastic' Editorial' Board Twain, figuring if anyone could in a discussion concerning nuclear sage has been made before,' possibly Most astounds us ,in having more make sense of the seventies, he could. power and nuclear. disarmament a bit more profound but never so To do with Delief in coming days After burning a box of candles with a fellow student. He claimed simple and sincere. Than expectations of ,future while waiting on hold, I decided to that there was no conceivable' way May God bless and keep you Enjoyment: For he bears a cross hang up the telepathy. I was losing in which we could abandon nuclear always, . In waiting out the uncertain hope and I had yet to find it! So power or nuclear arms and survive. ,may your wishes all come true Goodness of things' to be, carrying I went home for Thanksgiving and I told him that I thought we could May you always do .for others, See You in the 'Eighties All the while the weight of what is borne 10 and behold, hope greeted me at try, and maybe it would be in our , and let others do for you In our salvation as children. the door. in the form of three little best interests to do just that. He May you build a ladder to the Christmas 1976 . kids. " countered by claiming that I should stars, !" Dennis Wm. Moran Now, little kids can, without a grow up and join the real world. . and climb on every rung. doubt, be painful.to certain areas of No thanks. And may you stay the human body. But throughout The innocence of youth. 'Therein Forever young; , DECEMBER 7, 1979 30 'SCHOLAS'I'IC 31 · .. 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