Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC April 1967 Daily Egyptian 1967 4-22-1967 The aiD ly Egyptian, April 22, 1967 The aiD ly Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_April1967 Volume 48, Issue 129 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, April 22, 1967." (Apr 1967). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1967 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in April 1967 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SOUTHERN ''-'-'NO/S UNIVERSITY Ca,bon_'e, IIIinoi. Volume 48 Saturday, April 22, 1967 Numb"r 129 Pan American festival AF.REO $120 ~ICO ._. BRASIL CORREIO ", .. Jt.".1- ~D4"",,""~ DOI'OETA-""-¥.-­ l'laqos 1966 • AEREG Oct NICARAGUA RUBEH DARIO: SYMBOL OF LATIN AMERICAH CULTURAL UNITY is the theme of the fourteenth annual pon American Festival. The great Nicaraguan poet is shown as he is memorialized on a set of his own country's postage stamps and on those of other Latin American nations. In the background of each stamp are "ym­ bois taken from the poet's works; far example, the $5 stamp. lower right, has as its theme "optimism," man's triumplt over evil. (Story on page 2) Page 2 DAllY EGYPTIAN April 22, 1967 Ruben Darlo: Symbol of Unity In 1967 it sounds somewhat refuge in an artificial world of his "Marcha friunfal" that most too strange to refer to a literary beauty. In their opinion they formed people find the musicality of lan­ movement which began in the 1880's a group apart from the rest of guage predominant. as "Modernism". yet the most im­ mankind, cosmopolitan in character portant single event in the history because it included Frenchmen, Ital­ Why the swan? He is the sublime image of the decorative concept of of Sp~nish language poetry after the ians, portuguese, English, and North XVII century is still thus known. Americans. They even found kindred life, white, graceful, unperturbed, From the 1680's verse written in spirits in certain poets of bygone as he glides upon the still surface Spa:1ish suffered from the limi­ days. To distinguish themselves of a sylvan lake. tations of euphuism, neo-clas­ from the traditional, they used the The centaur? One might profitably sicism, and self-centered national­ word modern; from which their op­ search for an answer among the sim. Only the best of the poets ponents coined the term mod­ disciples of Freud. of Romanticism could be said to ernista. Kindliness, understanding and escape either the influence of ob­ goodness can calm and control the scure wordiness, narrow precious­ ''The expression now has a fairly wolf, until man's own wickedness ness, or sterile bombast which both­ precise meaning, because the spora­ turns him sour. ered the poets of the entire two­ dic poetic efforts of men in different So pervasive was the influence and hundred year span. Spanish American countries found so great the talent of Dar(o "hat he in Ruben Darlo a genuis for a became a true symbol of the inrel­ Fll~X l~~~~ ~~%7ag~~r;m~:~t~Z~~ leader. From his influence sprang lectual unity of Spanish America. 1867 in the village of I\letapa, pub­ a real literary movement with mo­ Probahl)l no single writer can be lished a small volume of verse and dernista poets abounding on all said to have gathered about him so sides. De;;pite harsh criticism, the great a number of disciples through­ ~~~~, \~~~~·L~~to.u~~gth~i;<; ti~~ movement took roO( in Spain itself, out the Spanish-speaking world since he was in Valparaiso and Santiago, where there developed a consider­ the independence movement took Chile, in the first of mnny periods ahle group of Spanish modernista place at the beginning of the 19th of exile from his nntive Central poets. century. When Dar(o died in 1916 America. lie had wnndered farfrom "A modernista poet is marked by none stepped forward to fill his the Rmall viJ1n~e and s"lf-seekin~ certain characteristics, his keen shoes as a unifying literary leader. politics of hi-; native land to what receptivity to SL'nsuou:; beauty in The dispersiveness characteristic was prohahly at the riml' the most nature, his feelin~ thar he is mis­ of the Spaniard again held sway. liheral and enlightened capital city understood by thL' ~enC'rality of man­ Cenainly no politican, statesm;}!], of Spani:<h !'-merie;]. lioth th,' prose kind, hi;; aloul"ncs;; frum the real novelist, nor philosoph" r ha,' hac! and poetry of 1 .. /11 LJI'''l't rhL,trad­ world, a:ld his dforT tu expr(':<s his so many do:<e il1t"IJecrual.~ymp:,thi­ itioni"ts. ,'motions in unu>,unl langu3f(e, often zers. compreh,'n"iblL- ot11y to Fe llow poets. These men were nut mere sycop 'fhe literary iti"tClri;II1 i\lfred ,\s :1 ma{[t.'r "I" faL'r, the Spanish hants, however; many of them WG',tld have fJeen great poets in their own right even if tht'y had not been politician, statesmann, novelist, nor philosopher inspired or influenced by Dar(o. One of the earlier associates in literary publishing ventures was has had so many close intellectual sympathizers." the Bolivian Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, whose discourse on poetics written as a result of nis profound study Coester, who at Stanford Universi[y American modernista movement iR of the problem is considered unique held the chair of Spani::;h i\merican part of a world movement that has in the modern era. r .iterature and pioneered in the study its roots in French romanticism and Two of DarlO's poems have been of the writers of the area, wrote the subsequent ParnasRian and sym­ well translated into English as ex­ concerning modernism: bolist schools. amples of his style and of his abilit~ "Young men in Spanish America to inRpire or excite as seen Dth~'r­ toward the end of the nineteenth "The modernista poets in their wise than in "poetry for poctry'~ century felt a keen joy in living. s<'arch for an outler for their feel­ sake." The first, "Symphony in ings discovered rhl' ,- .llue of music, The heauties of nature appealed to Gray 1\lajor" (')infonia en Grb all their :<enses with pa~an inten­ a Iways a form of C' xpression for 1\laY0r), provide" a ,~Jmple of VL'rsC' sity. The poets among them at­ deep and vague emotions. The in assonance (rhvmc of the- "owe I tempted to express their l'motions French poet Verlaine laid down in the altern;Jtc lines [IS th p"erry in verse hut found the traditional the rule: "i\1usic before all ('15e." is printed), g"ing back to one "f thc· Spanish form" too rigid. In the The r.. lexican Gutierrez Najera, him­ oldest typeR of Spani;:h versific3ti(,n, French language, howL'ver, they dis­ self a pianist of abiliry, and RubCn bur employing an U[["rly mudern sL't covered models which, adapted to Darlo auopred thL' rule soeffectivelv of ideas and images. Spani::;h, gave them l'ith.~r greater that they made Sp:lIlish verse musi~ freedom of expression or a novelty cal. Creater flexibility inform and a The other, "To Hoosevelt" (A of form that satisfied their artistic more music"1 quality in rhythm are Roosevelt) in its defiant tone ha,~ impulses. But their fellow country­ the gifts that the modernista move­ always struck a re:<ponding chord in men scoffed at their verses and ment conferred on poetry written the sentiments of other Latin Ameri­ condemned their sentiments 3', im­ in the Spanish language." cans for its defiant rom·, and chal­ moral. Certain symbols were utilized lenge to the concept of Yankee by Darlo in his poems: the swan, ;;uperiority. rr haf; not been sur­ "Being thus at outs with their the centaur, St. Francis of Assisi passed in this sense even today, social environment, the poets took and tpe Wotf, and other;;. It is in although it may have ken ,:,qualll:d. Ajlril 22, 1967 DAILY EGYPTIAN Page 3 Educating for Progress The progress that Lotin America is achieving is due in large measure to improved standards of education. On this page are two faces of education i., Eeuador, both of them seen and photographed by SIU President Delyte W. Morris during a reeent four.day va. cation trip in that eauntry. The photograph at top shows one of the modern buildings at Cuenca, Ecuador's new university eity. Other ties besides the building of new eam· puses unite Cuenca and SIU··SIU hold a an important library of Eeuadorean literary and other research materials, pureltased from the Sauth Ameri~an university's emeritus professor of medicine, Dr. Jose Mogrovejo Carrion. The materials have already served as the bases for two masters theses and two doctoral dissertations at SIU and Ohio State Universities. tes ~e:oki~de~:~~a~. ;~... rd~;g~d::=~ the budget under whieh the kindergar. ten operates and the school's name. MONTERREY TEC: Tltis mural in the Monterrey Tec Library was painted by Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, a native of Guadalajara. On the left is a mask of the tiger knight, symbolic of Indion culture, shottered by Spanish arms; in the center, a conquistador's helmet pierced by Indian arrows; to the right 0 Spanish missionary writes the ancient history of Mexico. The Mexican eagle, top right, clutches a writhing serpent and rises from the conflict as a ~ymbol of the new Mexican nation. SIU, Latin America: An Intellectual Bond By CHARLES EKKER same time that students are initiated language.