Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU The Gamut Archives Publications Summer 1988 The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 24, Summer 1988 Cleveland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Business Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Cleveland State University, "The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 24, Summer 1988" (1988). The Gamut Archives. 22. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Gamut Archives by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. First Prize $1 ,000 Three Second Prizes of $250 each The four winning entries will be published in The Gamut in 1989. MANUSCRIPT REOUIREMENTS Entry should be ashort story between 1000 and 5000 words long. Entries must be original , previously unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. Each entry should be typed (or printed in near letter quality), with adark ribbon, double spaced. Clear photocopies are acceptable. Pages should be numbered , with author's name or short title on each sheet. A cover sheet should include the title, number of words, and author's name, address, phone number, and social security number. , ENTRY FEE Each entry must be accompanied by a fee of $5 .00 . Make checks payable to The Gamut. One entry fee is waived for each subscriber to The Gamut. MAILING AND DEADLINE Mail entries or inquiries to: The Gamut· RT 1216· Cleveland State University· Cleveland, OH 44115 All entries must be received by August·19, 1988. Entries will be returned if accompanied by a stamped self­ addressed envelope. JUDGES The competition will be judged by Lee K. Abbott and the editorial committee of The Gamut. Winning entries will be announced on or before November 30, 1988. -.- ­ Number 24 Summer 1988 Leonard M. Trawick 2 Editorial The Darkling Plain Stuart A. Kollar 5 Presiding over Anarchy The difficult and mysterious job of college president. Robert Wallace 16 Light Verse: In Matthew Arnold's Shadow Let's stop taking poetry seriously! Bruce Metcalf 29 Sculpture That Laughs and Cries at the Same Time Works of a modem-day. sardonic Benvenuto Cellini. Stephen Slane 38 The Many Faces of Psychotherapy The choice is no longer just between Freud and Jung. John]. Grabowski 47 1.2 Million Words About Cleveland The funding, design, and writing of the biggest book ever written about Cleveland. Donald Tipka 57 Review of The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Ori. Z. Soltes 62 Ancient and Reborn: The Origins of Modem Hebrew The promotion and evolution of Hebrew as a viable modem language. Seven Poets for Summer Nola Garrett 70 In Photography Class Russell Atkins 71 Well-Being's Paradox David Graham 72 Wedding Portrait 73 Stinkers Marjorie Power 74 Introduction to Geometry Tim McCarthy 75 Vegetables for Breakfast A Word of Advice Ray McNiece 76 The Revenge of Cleveland Ron Houchin 78 The Age of Darkness Jerome S. Karaffa 79 Interstates in the City: Speed over Beauty for a Price The construction and hidden costs of Cleveland's highway system. Mariann Jelinek 90 A Paradigm for Changing Times: Beverly Winterscheid Implementing Strategic Management What corporations are doing to maintain economic growth in the flux of the '80s. Editor: Louis T. Milic Editorial Co-Editor: Leonard M. Trawick Managing Editor: Mary Grimm Circulation Manager: Susan Dumbrys Production The Darkling Plain Assistant: Margaret Rothacker . We are here as on a darkling plain Consulting Editor: Stuart A. Kollar Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight. Designer: Amy T. Jenkins Where ignorant armies clash by night. Intern Editor: Rajiswari Mohan -Matthew Arnold Portrait Photographer: Herbert J. Ascherman Just twenty years ago, in the spring of Advisory Board: John A. Flower 1968, I suddenly understood the French Joella Burgoon Revolution. Or, more precisely, I came to Robert Cheshier understand the relation between the William Gunlocke historical record of that turbulent era David Gura1nik and what must have been the experi­ Ronald Haybron ence of those in the middle of it I was Roberta Hubbard teaching at Columbia University in New Robert Jackson York. For various reasons-the university Marilyn Mason Victoria Neufeldt administration's high-handed treatment Reuben Silver of Black residents of the neighborhood, Katherine Torgerson its insensitivity to student needs, its sup­ Editorial port of the Vietnam war, and the beauti­ Consultants: Cheryl Brooke ful spring weather-groups of students Fred E. Ekfelt occupied several university buildings, Gary Engle including the administration building John Gerlach where they camped out in the presi­ Staff dent's office. It was particularly trou­ Photographer: Louis T. Milic bling to the faculty that most of our best The Gamut: a Journal of Ideas and Information is pub· students were in the buildings. Classes lished three times each year by Cleveland State Univer· were cancelled. People milled about sity. Cleveland, Ohio. Subscription rate: one year (three outside swapping rumors and organizing issues). SI2.00; two years, S20.00; three years, S25.00; lifetime, SI00.00. Library rate, S15.00 per year. Foreign groups for and against other groups. The subscriptions S3 .00 per year additional. Single copies, faculty held endless emergency meetings $5.00; back issues, $6.00. Claims for missing issues discussing what to do. The air was honored within six months of publication. The Gamut invites commentaries for its "Back charged with millennial visions and fears Matter" section and also the submission of new articles of imminent violence. No one knew and creative works, especially by Ohio writers and artists, on topics of interest to readers of this region. what was going on. Preliminary inquiries are welcome; detailed information One night word got around that the for contributors on request. Submitted material will be administration was calling in the city returned if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Address all correspondence to: The Gamut, police to storm the building. Kids were Room 1216 Rhodes Tower, Cleveland State University. going to get hurt. The faculty decided to Cleveland, OH 44115. circle the building with linked arms in Copyright " 1988 by Cleveland State University. All the hope that the police would for some rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. ISSN 0275-0589. reason respect this symbolic barrier of Typography and printing for this issue of The Gamut by intellect I linked arms with a white­ Schaefer Printing Company, Cleveland. Ohio. haired classics professor and somebody THE COVER: "Grace Under Pressure" (1986, 1l"x81/4" 1, a sculpture by Bruce Met­ calf. See pp. 29-37 for more of his work. from philosophy wearing thick bifocals. Aldous Huxley asserts that the mind 1Wenty or thirty yards off, a couple of innately knows everything, and that the dozen plainclothesmen, all looking like real function of the human brain is to defensive linemen from the Jets, began limit knowledge to manageable propor­ moving purposefully toward us. They tions. There is something to this view, went through our line as if we were a even if one does not accept its mystical string of paperdolls. A young French implications. It is said that our society is teacher was knocked down and his head moving from an age of technology to an spouted blood. Later that night my office age of information, and that we are suf­ mate, a British chap with radical-looking fering from an information explosion. hair, was chased down Broadway by a Actually there is not much more raw uniformed policeman who laid about his information in existence now than there head and shoulders with a night stick. has ever been: the same number of The next morning I looked in the atoms are spinning around producing New Thrk Times to read all about these the same number of leaves, clouds, stirring events. On one of the inside grains of sand, and living creatures­ pages a story reported that the students more than our minds can ever hope to had been removed from the building. comprehend. But we do have more Nothing about the faculty's heroic stand! recorded information. More people are Nothing about the French teacher's dipping into the vast reservoir of phe­ bloodied head! Nor did I ever see an nomena and selecting samples to notice account of the events of that night that and call to other people's attention. And had much resemblance to my own expe­ more journalists and historians are sift­ rience. ing through these primary records and If published accounts of such a selecting what seems to them important, small affair, which took place over a few so that they can abstract, summarize, days within one city block, could differ and put it into perspective. It is like the so completely from events I witnessed, food chain, the end being newscasts, how much more impossible it must be journals, histories, and encyclopedias, for anyone-least of all those immedi­ which feed on sources at one or more ately involved-to get a true picture of removes from the raw phenomena. an event like the French Revolution, The key word at every stage of the infinitely more complex and covering information chain is "selection": what many years and thousands of square distinguishes a good scientist or writer is miles. I wonder that every historian the ability to seize from a welter of doesn't immediately jump out of the details the few significant ones that nearest window. reveal an underlying pattern-the clue by which the epidemiologist links the encyclopedia makes an intrepid attempt different instances of a disease, or the to cast its net wider than the political gesture by which the novelist can con­ chronicles of earlier generations, it is vey a whole personality.