The Quill, March, 2014 Vol. 21, No. 4 See The Quill online at www.centenarycollege.edu/thequill never failed to dominate the American Activities Com- before his death. lific career as Hollywood’s screen or the stage. He could mittee and convicted in 1961 One story about Seeger says most adored, sought-after master any role. His range on contempt-of-Congress that a 24-year-old Bob Dylan child star—and winning a of characters was as vast as charges for refusing to name was scheduled to play at the special miniature Oscar in any actor’s could possibly be. the names of the Communists 1965 Newport Folk Festival. 1934—Black left the movie Whether playing a friend in and Socialists he had orga- But, stunning the audi- business and became a dip- Along Came Polly, the dutiful nized with and sung for in the ence, Dylan and his backing lomat. She ran for Congress brother and son in The Sav- 1930s and 1940s anti-Fascist band started into some new, in 1967 as a Republican, on Recent winter snow garden ages, a priest under convic- rallies. electric material. The band a pro-war platform. It’s hard Photo: Juan Arias tion of unspeakable acts in After his contempt played to a split audience of to imagine the girl who sang Doubt, a political campaign conviction was overturned boos and cheers. Dylan was “Animal Crackers in My We’ve lost a advisor in The Ides of March, by a federal appeals court in known for his folk/protest Soup” supporting the war in cluster of stars a rebellious DJ in Pirate Ra- 1962, the folk music boom songs and was there at the Vietnam, but there you have dio, an unscrupulous reporter of the 1960s was quick to festival for that reason. The it. After losing the election, Quill staffers share their in Red Dragon, an irate scam welcome Seeger back. By acoustic/folk-purist Seeger, she said, “I plan to dedicate sense of loss in the pass- artist in Punch Drunk Love, this time, the Civil Rights outraged by what he was my life and energies to public or a talented violin-player in movement was in place, and seeing, grabbed a fire axe service because I think my ing of several perform- country needs it now more ers in recent weeks A Late Quartet, to keep the Seeger founded the organiza- and threatened to chop all list short, he became those tion People’s Songs. Fea- the wires that were going to than ever.” Black was later ap- Philip Seymour Hoffman characters. He wasn’t afraid tured was the monumental the band, perhaps believing to depict the grittiness and- song “We Shall Overcome,” that any “technological aids” pointed to the delegation of By Jaclyn McCormack the UN General Assembly. “I’m afraid I’ll be despair and the humor of real which captured the ideals of had no place in this festival life. the movement. dedicated to folk music She served as our ambassador the kind of actor who thought to Ghana, under presidents he would make a difference As a passionate lover of In 1967, he agitated CBS Beyond his protest theater, he was a co-artistic censors as he sang “Waist music, Seeger taught genera- Ford and Reagan, and Am- and didn’t,” Philip Seymour bassador to Czechoslovakia Hoffman said in an interview director at the Labyrinth The- Deep in the Big Muddy,” a tion after generation how to ater Company in New York, protest song directed towards keep fighting the good fight during the dissolution of the on imDb. Soviet Union. This about- According to the media, which held a community Pres. Lyndon Johnson and and how to live an honor- prayer and candlelight vigil the American involvement in able and peaceful life with face of her life’s work is Hoffman was found dead in pretty impressive. She didn’t his West Village apartment to honor its friend. Many the Vietnam War. Seeger was his progressive, yet simple celebrities flocked to his fu- a true rebel-rouser, banjo- vision. hold any illusions about her with a hypodermic needle in previous career, either: “Sun- his left arm on the morning neral. The star was mourned picker, protester, activist, Shirley Temple Black by fans all around the world. energizer, fighter, and bringer nybrook Farm is now a park- of Feb 2. Police also found By Jessica Lordi Philip Seymour of the peace, who got under ing lot; the petticoats are in dozens of envelopes contain- Shirley Temple Hoffman was one of very few the skin of the ignorant and the garbage can, where they ing what they believed to be Black, who died Feb. 10 at actors that audiences could of capitalist powerhouses for belong in the modern world; heroin. The troubled actor the age of 85, managed one rely on to know the film generations. and I detest censorship.” had a well-known history of of the most unexpected of would be worth the watch Hundreds of Occupy Wall That’s a viewpoint I think we drug abuse. As a young man second acts. After a pro- can all get behind. attending NYU for drama, simply because his name was Street activists joined Seeger he was introduced to a world attached to the credits. on a 35-block march through of partying that caussed Manhattan in 2011; he was him to spiral out of control. Pete Seeger 70 years older than most, but After rapidly escalating from By Dan Casserly was still a part of social is- alcohol and prescription pain “This machine sur- sues as he has always been. medication to heroin, he rounds hate and forces it to A gentle spirit, but with sought help and got sober at surrender,” were the words a fiery soul, Seeger saw the age of 22. This experi- inscribed on Pete Seeger’s society succeeding with the ence led him to become banjo. Seeger, American folk emergence of “a lot of little a sponsor to many fellow musician and activist, died at things.” He espoused locally- actors suffering through the 94 on Jan. 27. A friend of the owned, small businesses familiar struggle. He spent working man, the picketer, rather than the big-business, his 23 years sober, not only and the hobo, Seeger influ- money-driven alternatives contributing to film history. enced musicians like Bob that put few people in charge Whether he took on a Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and control the rest of the small role such as Brandt, and Rage Against the Ma- population. in The Big Lebowski, or a chine guitarist, Tom Morello. “Too many things can go monumental leading role as In the late 1950s and early wrong with one big thing,” he Truman Capote, or Lancaster 1960s, Seeger was black- said with a smile in one of his Recent snows obliterating the view of the Equine Dodd in The Master, he listed by the House Un- last interviews on television barn. Photo: Prof. Sarah Simms VIEWPOINT! 2 Fashion Follies By Jessica Lordi This week it has brother shovel the driveway think I’ll stick with my ugly, snowed twice, with more on in a hoodie and work boots. yet functional, rubber boots. the way. There’s been sleet He always comes in shivering And leggings! Leg- and freezing rain, leaving and cursing the cold, but even gings are not pants. Leg- my car encased in ice. It after repeated insistences gings cannot be that warm. hasn’t been warmer than from our parents, he will not Leggings are fairly thin, and 35 degrees in I don’t even put on his winter coat. Mean- unless you’ve got the kind remember how long. I can’t while, every time I dare to that are lined with fleece (in remember what it feels like venture outside, I bundle up which case, lucky you), your to be warm. And I am still like the kid from A Christmas legs must be freezing all the seeing people walking around Story. I haven’t put my arms time. It seems to me like outside in clothing that can- down since Thanksgiving. going out in long underwear not be anywhere near warm with nothing over it. The enough: guys in gym shorts Another thing I can- uniform I see of North Face and sneakers, and girls in leg- not for the life of me under- jackets, leggings, and Uggs gings and Uggs. stand: girls who slosh around is cute, but is it really worth Now, I don’t want in puddles and slush in Uggs. it when you can’t feel your Winter fashion Photo: Jessica Lordi to insult anyone’s clothing Those things are expensive, toes? preferences, or clothes-shame and from what I understand, Take heart. Spring is My own not-so- most college students work anyone. But, really: shorts? fluffy. I can’t imagine that coming, despite all evidence part-time jobs that require a In this weather? It’s only Uggs are any good in wet to the contrary. Soon enough super Superbowl week or more notice to take men who seem to do this. I weather—unless they are the snow will melt into volunteer experi- off of work, and weekends understand if you’re running indeed waterproof, and I’ve puddles, and we can all go are the biggest days for most from your dorm to the gym, been clomping around in around in rain boots that look ence of these jobs. Although it was but walking around all day in heavy rubber snow boots for like frogs, or whatever.