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(U7Sunm8io^r.sk9in),(A7Ca¬:e0sr, (7Pthoh&eneix Wilson) DITOnunroep,,(A78u.9d:3.)0,T(Ahereatnra) Out BFloighft rody) Antigone Blo d straion Bridge Union) FRIDAY, 9, Julius thony) Floighft 9, Turn Out Antigone Turn Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan COMMENTARY Social emphasis needed successful, my friends complain, is the level of tioned the possibility of an all-out war. The ex¬ By MILTON C. TAYLOR economic, political and social achievements. After planation for this appears obvious. While North Vietnam could be obliterated, with Russian in¬ more than ten years of being a client government, Fortunate are those who are either Doves or Hawks. It was because I had a more unhappy volvement so could South Vietnam. South Vietnam is still essentially an exploita¬ and uncertain middle position that I took the The essential reason why a limited war cannot tive society with a rising number of war profi-j be won militarily is that both the Viet Cong and teers In Saigon and landless poverty-stricken! opportunity to revisit Saigon In September of this year after an absence of seven years. My the North have demonstrated a continuing capacity peasants In the countryside. to escalate. Nor, it Is believed, will Soviet Russia A social revolution is held to be mandatory hope was that a conversation with a few Ameri¬ and Red China permita military victory.Thus each on two counts. It is first a necessary complement can and Vietnamese friends might either bolster to a military effort In a guerrllla-type war.Second, my convictions or shatter them. phase of UJ5. escalation Is followed by a counter¬ unless the basic fabric of VieUiamese life can be It has been observed that nothing remains to balancing escalation. And each advance also con¬ be said about the war In Vietnam that Is really vinces Hanoi that the UJS. Is impatient for a transformed, South Vietnam cannot have a viable and stable society after a political settlement. new. The debate goes on and becomes hotter, military solution, which understandably provokes generates no new Insights. For this reason, the a higher level of resistance. Despite this, there is constant repetition of the few observations whicli I am reporting impressed It is therefore not so paradoxical for my in¬ claim that "we are fighting the wrong kind of a formants to claim that the greater likelihood of war." Land reform Is cited as an example. Under me, not because they were unique, but because of Vietnamese regulations, the peasants must pur¬ their source. One cannot do much better under achieving a political settlement lies in a reversal conditions on uncertainty than to consider the of past (and present) policy. This reversal has chase the land and the landlords must be repaid. two components. One is to halt the bombing of the When some villages have been retaken recently, opinions of persons who are informed and intelli¬ North and further troop escalation, while the other the landlords have traveled from Saigon to re¬ gent. To begin on a broad note, my friends are Is to convince the Viet Cong and the North that establish their "rights" over land thay they had critical of the historical and political content of the United States will remain In Vietnam as long not seen for as long as 15 years. This policy as it is necessary to achieve a political settle¬ Is considered to be patently ridiculous in the con¬ the debate. While a priority should be placed on text of a war that is costing the U.S. over $20 bringing an end to the hostilities, much of the ment. debate in the United States is at the level of a What the Viet Cong and Hanoi fear most, In billion annually. continuing American presence. Who Is held to blame for this failure to introduce witch hunt. They argue that peace will come only other words, is a economic and social reforms7 Primarily the when the focus is on peace, not when it is on a If they were convinced that the United States would abandon Vietnam, they would be more in¬ United States. It Is argued that there Is a willing¬ search for scapegoats and with an eye to the not 1%8 U.S. election. clined to come to the conference table now In¬ ness on the part of the Vietnamese government to Not calculated to make the Doves happy, my stead of later. utilize ideas and to introduce changes, and even if " wait-it-out" -approach there was resistance, there is practically no use informants emphasize that the war Is now global This also involves of the Immense leverage at the disposal of the In its Implications rather than localized. At one abandoning the "search and destroy" policy. It means consolidating the gains rather than United States. time It was possible to view the conflict as one primarily involving the future of South Vietnam. taking the initiative. It Implies also a greater In brief, while no one that I spoke to is critical of American involvement per se, there Is pro¬ It was in part a nationalistically-motlvated civil assumption of responsibility oy the South Viet¬ military found dissatisfaction with the course that this in¬ war, hut directed and supported iiy the North. namese armed forces and a return to a volvement has taken. In the briefest possible Now the Implications are wider, even world¬ advisory role by the U.S. statement of the criticisms, there Is agreement wide. Now the war Involves the two super powers A guerrilla war has two fronts, and even less as well as mainland China, and thus the balance that there has been military over-commitment and economic and social under-commltment. of power In Asia. In fact, the attention of the world Is focused on Vietnam. It is argued that all All of this leaves me about where I was when of a unilateral Milton I arrived in Saigon—somewhere between a Dove of this detracts from the likelihood C. laylor, professor of economics, in Vietnam from and a Hawk, but with less uncertainty. But I L\S. withdrawal from Vietnam. was January 1959 to July 1960 member of the Michigan State University learned something else that Is perhaps more Similarly, not calculated to make the Hawks as a happy is the belief that the war cannot be won Advisory Group. As a result he has been in¬ Important. I gained the Impression thai the Viet¬ terested in the problems of Vietnam ever since, namese people earnestly long for peale. Time is militarily without engaging in an all-out war. No one that I spoke to in Vietnam ever men¬ and has done a great deal of writing on the subject. running out on their capacity of endure. Sources for Tomorrow temporary painting. A show with such a variety By RICHARD HAAS of styles and gaps In quality echoes the problem The current exhibition in Kresge Art Center Is that any viewer faces In the art world today, where drawn from the James A. Michener Foundation he finds himself surrounded by competing works and must fend for himself in making distinctions Collection. The title tacked onto this show between the significant and the mundane. "Sources for Tomorrow" Is catchy but preten¬ tious. It is an unnecessary attempt to give special Before focusing on specific paintings that merit attention, a few comments should be made about meaning to an exhibition which contains an inter¬ collectors and collections of contemporary art. esting, though highly uneven, selection of paint¬ ings ranging over the last 20 years of American It Is regrettable that more Individuals with the art. Significant works appear in this showand these means do not feel the urge to collect. Without offer a stimulating challenge to the viewer who Is the independent taste of private art collectors, art museums, corporations and public institu¬ Intrigued or puzzled by what Is happening In con- tions would be the artist's only patrons. Private collections generally are more Interesting be¬ cause they carry the personal stamp of the col¬ lector with his strengths, bias, and Idiosyn¬ crasies. Private collectors of great daring and taste have helped painters and liave occasionally Influenced the course of art. How can we measure the Importance of the aid given by the Steins to young Picasso, or the role of the Russian industrialist Schukin in encouraging Matisse's work? What would have happened to the daring and unpopular American painters John Marin and Arthur Dove without the help of patrons and Morris Louis — Watei—Shot, 1961 friends like Alfred Stieglltz and Duncan Phillips? The collector who trusts his eye and pioneers in collecting works that havenotyetacqulreda stamp the field and overlooks little. This attitude Is ctf critical approval is participating In a risk, similar to the modus operandi of most major taking adventure not too far removed from that contemporary museums In which the curators of of the artist. Not all collectors of new art are this today collect a bit of everything and leave to inspired, however. future curators the problem of weeding out the The majority of art collectors lack the In¬ mediocre. tuition and judgment to detect significant works In seeking out those paintings that I consider which have not yet received critical acclaim. significant, I am assuming the role of a curator of the future. This can be dangerous, but I find Many private collectors rely on advisers and critics to suggest which artist, style or "Ism excellent paintings in this exhibition,particularly to buy. Such collections usually survey the con¬ works by (Juston, Kline, Louis, Noland Francis, temporary scene or a segment of it and con¬ Marca Relll. Leslie and Bischoff. centrate on representative examples by popular Phillip Guston's "Alchemist" Is a painting artists. While I do not know what Mr. Michener's which most viewers would probably overlook; Franz Kline — Black and White, Nov. 2, buying habits are,, the exhibition appears to be a I960 sampling from a "consensus" collection; It covers (Continued on page 8) Thursday, November 16, 1967 Kennedy legend lives By JAMES D. SPANIOLO November 22, 1967 will probably be no different Kennedy in the future, and the myths are already so thick, that without doubt the man himself will snuffed out sassin's bullet. Most Americans in a matter now on of seconds remember by an as¬ only two dis¬ soon be lost In the myth." from any other day. Americans will go to work. tinct images. They remember the young President And thus It has been. Literally dozens of books Children will attend school. Babies will be born; on Inauguration Day 1961, the cheer and ebullience have been written about his or his family*s life. old people and some not so old will die. The of the occasion, and his most eloquent and most Nearly every significant acquaintance, and some bustle which characterizes the middle third of quoted address 111 which he asked Americans not so significant, have published articles or books the twentieth century will send Americans scur¬ to ask themselves not what their country could do relating their observations about the Kennedy they rying hither and yon with little time to think knew. In addition, with the assistance of the media for them, but what they could do for their country. about past events. And quietly it will mark the and' big time promotion, the Inevitable Kennedy And they remember the final days, the assassina¬ fourth anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's ascent tion, the hollow days before the funeral and the legend has been both exploited and distorted. to the Presidency. So, he is lost in the haze, the myth. He ceases strength displayed by the Kennedy family, par¬ Four years will have passed since that fate¬ to be viewed as a man, but rather as the Fallen ticularly Jackie, and finally the long procession ful and tragic day in Dallas. But there will be no Hero. to Arlington National Cemetery, a final playing of fanfare tills year. The public ceremonies will be "Hail to the Chief", then Taps, and the burial of fewer, the speeches more distant, and the maga¬ People do not remember that he was elected a President. zine and newspaper articles less prominently dis¬ President by only the narrowest of margins. So, this is where we are today, 1967; the memory played. In short, Americans have more important ^THey do not remember that he compiled only an still lingers but less emotionally. We try to things to consider than to rethink or relive the Average record as a U.S. Senator. They do not concern ourselves with the present but cannot death of anyone—even John F. Kennedy. remember how he stumbled through the Bay of escape the past. And we remember what we want But for some, the day will rekindle past sorrow Pigs fiasco, nor his initial reluctance to sjsek to remember. and renew a sense of void created by the strong civil rights legislation. They do not We look the at Presidency, in particular the cataclysmic events which sent a nation reeling remember his frustrations in dealing with a Con¬ person who now personifies the office, andwe do in tearful grief. But even for them, time has gress which balked at his major pieces of legis¬ not like what we see. Part of the explanation lies worked its way. The events are less clear; lation. And above all, they do not remember that in the personality and manner of Lyndon Johnson, the sound of muffled drums less poignant; and he was above all a politician who successfully a man haunted by the Kennedy legend. Obviously, the emotion Is further from the surface. sought a position of power which, by Its very Lyndon Johnson had a tough act to follow— Nonetheless, this generation will never be able nature, meant that he would exercise that power, especially from an Image standpoint. to forget those days In November, 1963. Nor sometimes ruthlessly. Of course, there have been the constant and will this nation forget John Kennedy, even though What people do remember is the Kennedy inevitable comparisons between the two men, what Is now and will be remembered, is embodied charisma, charm and style. They remember a some of which have bordered on absurdity. But In what has come to be the Kennedy legend, the vigorous young man who looked even younger, there are some striking contrasts, especially in Kennedy legacy. a Bostonian with a thick shock of brown hair, light of the circumstances in which one died and Theodore H. White In his book "The Making of a Jabbing forefinger, an articulate speaker with the other came to power. the President—1964" accurately predicted the ul¬ a keen wit and ready smile. And even more timate result. "So many things will be said about pointedly, they remember how all of this was (Continued on page 5) Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 5 . Where .although fanfare subsides (Continued from page 4) Kennedy was eloquent and distinguished, States armaments and Russia race continue to escalate the despite public statements to the the Senate legend. to it. He owes his election to the U.S. And whether he or the American contrary and the presence of a limited test ban public believes It or not, he owes his national Johnson is inarticulate and folksy. Where Kennedy treaty signed in 1962. And at home, civil strife. popularity and sudden rise to political stardom looked like a President, a statesman, Johnson Indeed war, has ravaged our cities, making It to this legend. appears every bit a politician. And while these painfully clear that lunch-counter sit-ins and And when Americans come to see Robert elements of style are Intangible, they are non- protest marches in the South, even the Civil Kennedy, they come not to see the Junior senator theless real and Important in terms of modem Rights Act of 1964 were only superficial scratches from New York but rather to'see the reincarnation American politics. at the real American race problem. of his brother. On a more concrete level, both men have their Perhaps all this was inevitable. Perhaps Lyndon strengths and weaknesses. The problem is that Johnson Is the scapegoat for problems he did not How far the legend will carry Robert Kennedy Lyndon Johnson's strengths are difficult to per¬ create and problems that cannot be solved. Per¬ and future Kennedys Is still unknown. Perhaps ceive while his weaknesses are all' too visible. haps had he lived, John Kennedy would have left In will lead to the presidency. In the view of For example, Johnson once said in a speech, the office of the Presidency a beaten and frustrated Lyndon Johnson, It has lead too far already. "... We're on the move; we're on the go; people man, nagged by personal defeat and a sense of But the fate of the legend will be decided In are eating, people are working. We're doing what inadequacy. future political encounters and ultimately In the a democratic government ought to be doing for a But It did not happen that way. It will always hearts and minds of the American electorate. democratic people." remain as one of the Imponderable "lfs" of And while the legend may lose Its magic In terms Another prime example of the problem is John¬ history. But the myth continues. And the legend of political output, its source will persist as a son's relations with the press. He has managed has become deeply Imbedded In the American symbol of what is good In politics, of what a to completely alienate the national press. Con¬ political scene. The most quoted man on the President should be, and of what a man should versely, Kennedy won Its favor and used It to his campaign trail whether it be for President or do In serving his country. advantage. Kennedy enjoyed Jousting with re¬ constable, In 1964 and 1966 was John Kennedy. porters at his frequent press conferences. He Future historians will have the task of And most probably, the same will be true in the parried difficult questions, and when verbal future. Almost every promising candidate for evaluating John Kennedy's performance as Presi¬ darts were thrown his way, he'd throw them right dent and his administration's policies In context high elective office claims to be In the Kennedy back, usually In the form of a witty reply. with mid-twentieth century America, free from tradition, whether Democrat or Republican. And the emotion which still warps rational Judgment. Johnson, on the other hand, has had few formal while some are more overt than others, it is press conferences. And ever since the honeymoon clear that the Kennedy style has permeated the John Kennedy was not a great president; his ended between the President and the press, he has political arena In terms of theme, in manner of time was too short, but greatness was part of the sulked when criticized, sometimes raging at a speech, mannerisms and appearance. man. He did not accomplish a great deal In terms reporter who wrote an unfavorable story, some¬ One man however, more than any other, stands of legislation or policy making; he did not move times resorting to unveiled sarcasm. to benefit most from this legacy, and In fact has mountains. But he did move people. This all leads to the often-asked, yet never- benefited substantially already, Iliat man Is And perhaps this was his most Important con¬ answered question of what would the situation be Robert Kennedy. Either consciously or uncon¬ tribution. He "turned on" a younger generation. like in the country today and in the world today If sciously, either motivated out of political astute¬ He was at least Indirectly responsible for the President Kennedy had lived? Obviously, no one ness or personal commitment, he seems intent trend toward greater involvement by this younger can answer the question. But it continually comes on fulfilling the promises and goals never com¬ generation. And by the freshness he brought to to the surface. pleted by his brother. American politics, he inspired a cut of thousands Recently someone asked John Kenneth Gal- Listening to one of his speeches Is much like to view public service, whether It be In the bralth, former ambassador to India and personal listening to the 1960 presidential campaign. It Peace Corps or in politics, as something worth¬ friend of President Kennedy, whether he thought almost Is as If a 1960 speech had been re¬ while, Indeed fulfilling. the U.S. would have been where it is today in activated, updating the problems, filling In the In his Inaugural address in 1961, John Kennedy Vietnam If President Kennedy had been in charge blanks with new names, and looking to new spoke of the office of the presidency and of the the last four years. Galbralth said he couldn't horizons. responsibility of every citizen. "1 do not shrink answer the question because there was Just noway In short, while emulating the style and ar¬ from this responsibility; I welcome It. And I do of knowing. ticulation of his brother, he has obliquely at¬ not believe that any of us would exchange places But what brings immediacy and relevance to thi s tacked the status quo, this time personified by with any other people or any other generation. Impossible question Is the fact that so much has Lyndon Johnson. Much like President Kennedy The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring happened in those four years. And in a sense criticized the Elsenhower Administration for not to this endeavor will light our country and all who everything seems so much worse. A nation has moving fast enough in the right direction, for not serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly lost confidence and faith in Its President and his meeting new problems with new solutions and for light the world." policies. A deepening and seemingly winlesswar not supplying vigorous leadership. Robert Kennedy It is this attitude, this legend which persists drags on indefinitely In Vietnam. Communist has similarly accused President Johnson. into the future. And their potential effects will China has Joined the nuclear club, and the United And so now, Robert Kennedy has become part of not be known for years to come. V Reproduction of a Tony Spina creation Thursday, November 16, 1967 MUSIC New rock: By JEFF WEIDNER a live. hard sound ..M.mml The most unusual cut, "Morse Tt /•nt' in free verse, is reminiscent of ''lJnrco I afi f11Hoc ' Latitudes," done the "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner." It is not easy to under¬ On the surface, the rock scene does not appear stand what all the words mean, but the effect to have changed significantly since the flower ( that the song produces is almost textual. One groups blossomed last year;'however, something feels that things are about to reach out of the in in the air and new things are happening. Perr dark and touch him. haps in reaction to complexity of instrumentation Hard blues is an area of popular music which in rock, the new groups, almost without ex¬ has long been dominated by Negro bluesmen. ception, are seeking to put forth music which There are several white bluesmen, however, who can be performed live on conventional rock in¬ are exceptional; Paul Butterfield, John Ham¬ struments, such as guitar, bass, organ, and mond, SteveWlnwood and Eric Burdon to name a drums. few. Two blues groups have attracted much at¬ The best example of pure rock among new tention in the past five months, Big Brother and the groups is the Paupers from Toronto. A side from Holding Company and Canned Heat. Canned Heat a twelve-string lead guitar and an act which translates the old solo blues and tradition! requires three separate drum sets on stage, they blues material into a traditional electric blues. are conventional. Their album is titled "Magic have something to say, mainly that all is not At the Monterey Pop Festival last June, Big People" (Verve) after a song of the same name. hearts and flowers in hippydom or in everyday Brother and the Holding Company was the rave The sound is reminiscent of the Byrds, especially life. The flower children have become dream of everyone present. Janis Joplin, their lead on a song called "Black Thank-you Package," children and have left the self-made zoos and singer, has been called the best white blues although they do not have the falsetto and complete psuedo-hippies behind to roam the hills and forests singer in the world. Miss Joplin has a raw and harmony of the Byrds. The best cut on the and commune more closely with nature. The exciting voice. The group has the ability to be album is "Tudor Impressions," which shows Doors' music oozes from the lilting organ of funky or bluesy and one cut from their album, good lyrics and counter-rhythms played on two Ray Manzarek and the guitar of Robby Krieger. "Call on Me," is quite lyrical. drum sets. Their songs have a lyrical quality Other good blues records are the "Blues Their new album, "Strange Days," (Elektra), comparable to the Beatles before they cut "Rubber Project at the Town Hall," a new album by puts its music-poetry across unassumingly. When Soul." lead singer Jim Morrison wails and shouts so John Mayall and the Blues Breakers called The West Coast groups are doing well generally, does the guitar, then when all is placid, the "A Hard Road," and a new album called "Earth although the Jefferson Airplane had some bad Music" done by the Young Bloods, Jesse Colin luck with their last single, "Ballad of You and Me, guitar vibrations merge with the fluid organ. The drummer, John Densmore, anticipates Young's group. Pooniel." Love is still much in the picture with potential happenings in the music long before The JlmiHendj-ixExperience is one of the groups groups such as the Airplane, the Grateful Dead, they crystallize. of the violent school of rock. Hendrix is billed the Sparrow, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby as playing the guitar in more positions than anyone Grape and the Doors. It is indeed strange that a West Coast group before him. He's even been known to make a torch Moby Grape is the finest of the West Coast should sing so little of happy things; all of the of his guitar and stamp out the burning pieces groups. It was quite a disappointment that songs on the album express a melancholy which on stage. His music is exceptionally brutal at their second single, "Omaha," did not make is accentuated by the music. Comparing their album with their first, only one song im¬ times but can be tender in such songs as "The the top ten. Moby Grape is one of a handful of new American groups that are excellent musically mediately stood out as a line between the two. Wind Cried Mary" (Reprise.) and also say something that is worth listening "When the Music's Over" is an eleven minute Which group deserves the title of the best is to. cut on "Strange Days", similar to "The End" also anyone's guess. Many would say the Beatles The Ooors lit everyone's fire with their last from their first album in composition and mood, are still on top.. As for their powers of innovation single, :nd appear to be doing well with "People although "When the Music's Over" is more and quality of material I would agree. However, Are Strange." But, like Moby Grape, the Doors thought-provoking than the Oedipal "The End." (Continued on page 11) BOOKMARKS Dickey leaves reader breathless By DAVID GILBERT scenes and situations," to quote Peter Davison "The War Wound" and "Fox Blood." of nothing so much as a feeling I They (Atlantic Monthly, October, 1967.) Dickey is remind me James Dickey will probably be listed in the totally absorbed in the themes of communion with once experienced of being inside a moving camera, Mentor book of "Major American Poets" of the dead and man's kinship.with nature, many of panning the horizon and watching the constantly his poems fit the progression of death-renewal- new view flowing into my line of vision. Suddenly 1980, or whenever they get around to revising themselves. He is really a fine soet. Though repetition-eternity. This is important. I was aware of the camera's having stopped, a modern writer of the South, Dickey Is caught To get down to specifics: my favorites in focusing on one object, but my mind had pro¬ in no regionalistic webs, but explores In violence "Buckdancer's Choice" are "The Shark's Par¬ ceeded to expand from the view of that one and in depth the "overgrown forest of archetypal lor," "Them, Crying," "Faces Seen Once," object, and had created a whole, flowing, unified sequence of events. In "Faces Seen Once," Pickey proceeds from an image retained: "SWEATING EXAMS?" Faces seen once are seen YOUR USED BOOK HEADQUARTERS To fade from around one feature. Leaving a chin, a scar, an expression . . . has a wide selection of to an, image revived and expanded through the mind's own fantasies and the poet's craft: STUDY GUIDES AND AIDS. Faces seen once change always To help you "bone up." Into and out of each other: An eye you saw in Toulon Is gazing at you down a tin drainpipe You played with as a dull child COLLEGE STUDY In Robertstown, Georgia. CLIFF OUTLINE NOTES MASTER SERIES Again, in "The War Wound," the poet focuses on one incident, the war wound received by a fighter pilot when his hand smashed into a AND MANY OTHERS tachometer, but the image expands, this time o\-^ backward and forward simultaneously, to link f the past violence with "my two children threaten acr°ss from olin themselves,/ wall-walking, or off the deep end/ off a county swimming pool . . . ." Thus, from the focused frame of reality, a war wound, we are taken through death, the dying act of coitus, ^^tudent^Jook ^^tore to renewal in the pilot's children, to repetition in "my two children threaten themselves," to, perhaps, an unexpressed thought. Similarly with "The Shark's Parlor," in which the boy t (Continued on page 1 1) Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan "J Romney: By MARION NOWAK a paradoxical man George Romney, ex-president of American Motors, presidential non-candidate, Latter-IJay Saint and governor of Michigan, represents to the voters of Michigan—and still very conceiv¬ ably to the voters of the nation—a personality that is sincere, square; confusing, confused; and at once both highly a competent andamazingly incompetent. Born July 8, 1907 in the Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) settlement of Colonia Dublan, Chihua¬ hua, George Wllcken Romney is the fourth son of monogamists Gaskell Romney and Anna Amelia Pratt, both American citizens. When Romney was five, he became, in his own words, one of the twentieth century's first dis¬ placed persons when Pancho Villa chased the Mormons out of Mexico. Since then, with ambition and drive typical of many Mormons, he has progressed from a Washington, D.C. Job as a tariff specialist in 1929, through a company presidency that revived a failing corporation, to governorship of one of the nation's larger states. The next step to the presidency will be made with more difficulty than the gubernatorial step required. A more attractive, magnetic personality than his opponent John Swalnson, Romney entered the big-leagues in 1962, and sustained his posi¬ tion in '64 and '66. Talking about the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, two-time loser Richard Nixon states; "This is going to be a hot five-man race between five non-candidates." Romney's refusal to place himself in the run¬ ning, while consistent with the theme of the can¬ didates, stems from his belief in a prolonged Photo by Doug Elblnger period of deep meditation on every major deci¬ sion, according to an aide of Lieutenant-Gov¬ ernor Milllken. Romney hasn't meditated on 1968 yet, the aide said. war has become largely Americanized, the gov¬ (Possibly Romney Justifies this position with a This should not be doubted. It is too much to ernor says "It would be a tragic error to take contradictory quote from the 26th chapter of expect the governor of any large state to take over 'the other war' as some have proposed." 2 Nephi from the Book of Mormon. The quote time out from touring national slums, lunching Is the advice of the Angel Moroni who gave the And, while he recognized we are fighting com¬ In Boston with New England's newspaper edi¬ munist forces in Vietnam and must still have Book to the Prophet Joseph Smith. tors, delivering a speech at Dartmouth College "For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; "a just peace," he refuses to endorse a coali¬ in the home state of the early bird primary and for he doeth that which is good among die child¬ tion government including the communist Nation¬ appearing on nation-wide television) to perform al Liberation Front, or even to endorse negotia¬ ren of men . . . and he inviteth them all to come such a time-consuming function as meditating. tions with the NLF. unto him and partake of his goodness; and he To say nothing of governing a large state. On his latest speaking circuit, one of Rom¬ denieth none that come unto him, black and white, Romney has declared he will announce his ney's major themes is the crisis of the ghettoes. bond and free, male and female . ..") decision within the next few days. Romney's high degree of personal involvement Romney's Civil Rights record has been quite If Romney does attempt the candidacy, his with church and church culture, both of which good. seemingly honest attitude could—against John¬ World War II, Victor Reuther and During have provided largely the impetus for his life, may son—very conceivably win the race for him. Romney worked together to combat segregated emerge to a greater degree in his current actions If he doesn't run, will he be content to be merely housing in Michigan^ When he was president of than he suspects. the governor of Michigan? Or will his go-power American Motors, the corporation was the only In 1963, proposing an "action-packed" legis¬ act as a catalyst to push him towards higher major company to actively support and lobby lative session, Romney unveiled his revolutionary offices? for civil rights in Michigan. He is largely respon¬ tax reform program. Calling for a personal in¬ Lenore Romney, in public speaking, has many sible for the Fair Employment Practices Act, come tax, the program was designedto supplement qualities the governor lacks.She is witty, dramatic and for setting up a Civil Rights Commission in the Michigan budget, then operated chiefly from and a highly professional platform performer. a new Michigan constitution. In 1966 he com¬ sales tax revenue with corporation franchise fees Romney lias referred to her as "the one person manded an estimated 30 per cent of the Negro vote. and gross business receipt taxes supplements. who can beat me in Michigan." She has been Unfortunately, though these measures are Under this sytem, the Michigan budget rose and known, in public speaking, to refer to the "four unique in one of his background, they have not fell with the state's economy, which in turn years we have been in state government." come through strongly enough in recent actions. largely rose and fell with the auto industry. This spring, her resignation from theWomen's Although one of Romney's major themes is Although continuation of the plan for' state Club of Detroit in protest of a club civil rights, his only current actions have been income tax was thought to be political poison, the policy of racial discrimination was a dramatic il¬ speeches made on his tour of national ghettoes, plan was pushed ahead, although defeated in the lustration not so much her pro-civil rights stand and during his current New England tour, and legislature overwhelmingly by both Democrats and as her shrewdness. She must be considered in any recommendations to the Michigan Legislature Republicans. In reaction to this, Romney pro calculation of Romney's effectiveness. to adopt an open-housing bill later this session. . posed an austerity budget including a layoff of Romney's honesty deserves examination be¬ It is more than possible, however, that his 2,500 state employes. This, on top of various cause it is one of the major criterions he wishes inability to make a truly, strong movement in this threats from some civil employees, plus Rom¬ to be judged on. direction stems from his religion culture. ney's promise the income tax would put a lid Most notably, his comments on Vietnam have The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day on rising property taxes, ultimately led to the led many to urge him to run for the presidency. Saints follows the Book of Mormon, revealed to tax's acceptance on June 30 this year. It in¬ The leftist newsmagazine, "The Nation," has the Church's founder Joseph Smith in 1823. cluded a flat-rate tax of 2.5 per cent on Incomes urged Romney to follow up his doveish and al¬ One major tenet of Mormonism, following the exceeding $1,200, a business income rate of 5.6 ternating actions by declaring himself a peace- Book of Abraham, emphasizes that all Negroes per cent and a gubernatorial promise to hold a in-Vietnam candidate, thereby forcing Johnson bearing the Mark of Cain are accursed. There¬ popular opinion vote on the issue of graduated into the undesirable position of the war can¬ fore, all Negroes are barred from the priest¬ income city and_state income tax. (Michigan's con¬ didate. hood in a religion that every man can become stitution now permits only flat-rate Income tax.) Romney's exact position on Vietnam is to the a priest. Romney deals largely in symbols—more so than public unclear. Playing the now-popular game Some Mormons use this exclusion as an excuse many other politicians. The symbols of morality of speech-referral, Romney refers all interoga- to deny Negroes any rights, privileges pr op¬ in social conduct and in religious conduct; vir¬ tors to his April Hartford, Conn, policy speech. portunities that place him on an equal basis. tually symbolic civil rightslegislature not power¬ "In the rip-tide of today's heated debate on the This distinction is being broken down. In the ful enough for complete success; and anti-ad¬ paramount issue confronting our nation," he South Seas, for instance, some islanders have ministration comments all are part of Romney's said then, "There is one incontestable truth: become members of the priesthood, although image. it is unthinkable that the United States withdraw anthropoligically they belong to the Negro race. A paradoxical man, Romney may become a from Vietnam." However, in a church where any deviation from symbol perhaps, to some, of the perfect president. The governor differentiates between the mili¬ church belief is punishable by excommunication, Says a Romney supporter, Romney, "has every¬ tary war and the "other war"—more commonly where church officials have been known to dic¬ thing Wendell Wilkie had—plus experience." known as the w i nn i n g-the -hearts-and-minds tate how politically-involved Mormons should Whether the analogy is accurate remains to be pacification program. While he feels the shooting vote, Romney is in a precarious position. seen. 8 Thursday, November 16, 1967 A small but fervent voice By LEE E LBINGE R In the first place, I make no pretense of being objective. When 1 was informed by friends that a demonstration was being planned In Hong Kong to coincide with the Oct. 21 demonstration In Washington protesting American foreign policy in Vietnam, I decided to attend as a participant rather than an observer. It was actually a mini-demonstration; only ten American students showed up on the lawn of the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong. This was due to poor communications and the fact that the demonstration was planned only one night in advance. Post-demonstration sympathy led us to believe that had we announced our intentions earlier, we might have gained another 30 or 40 students. The number of American students in Hong Kong is quite small, and Chinese stu¬ dents are prevented from demonstrating because it Is explicitly illegal for them to do so. Oct. 21 was a bright, sunny day In Hong Kong. This was refreshing because Typhoon Carla had recently pounded the city with wind and rain. The group of students, mostly from the New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, assembled at 11:00 a.m. outside the U.S. con¬ sulate. Not everyone was familiar, so intro¬ ductions took place and camaraderie developed. Photo by Lee Elbinger We decided what our aims were and we set to short meeting. The police were quite threatening, friendly convictions to be evidence of more than work to fulfill them. Two banners had been but it was doubtful that they could invade UJS. political freedom—he talked about lnnerfreedom. prepared; one. In English, said " End the War in Vietnam Now", the other, in Chinese, said property (the consulate lawn) and forcibly drag I smiled when he said, "Iam Impressed . . ." ten U.S. citizens off to jail. We did what most The demonstration, once underway, was quite American Students Opposing the U.S. Govern¬ Americans do when they are threatened abroad: orderly and successful (as, I later learned, our ment Policy In Vietnam". We decided to hold the we asked the consulate for help. counterpart In Washington was not.) Crowds of banners in front of the U.S. consulate in full view to the street. We would hold the banners for one The consulate was closed and empty because people gathered across the street to read our hour In a peaceful, silent demonstration of our it was Saturday. A Marine guard on duty told us signs and wonder about them. If the people were sympathy with those In the United States who he was in charge, so we explained the situation to Chinese, they stared In disbelief or smiled at our carried similar banners. him and asked him if the Hong Kong police could naivete. If the people were British or American, At 11:30 our plan got underway. Passersby abduct and incarcerate us. He was visibly sur¬ they signaled their approval or disapproval. prized and confused. He summoned an official Traffic slowed down slightly, but not enough to gawked In astonishment to see ten American students silently holding banners on the consulate who listened to our story carefully and grimly. cause a traffic jam. News reporters swarmed lawn. Most people smiled; we do not know whether After we explained all that had gone before, he everywhere, taking pictures, asking irrelevant they agreed with our viewpoint or found us frowned, turned, and quickly entered an office and questions, interviewing us. CBS took films which ludicrous. The Chinese people grinned the most— shut the door. We stood in the consulate lobby were later shown on Hong Kong television. A re¬ perhaps because our Chinese characters were so quite confused. Reporters snapped pictures all porter from Newsweek circulated among us and around us and asked for names, ages and ad¬ we were kept busy telling everyone who we were hastily drawn and almost Illegible. It did not take long to get a reaction. An dresses. The same official who had so recently and why we were there. armored car of Chinese police sped to the scene frowned at us shortly emerged from his office The demonstration was significant more for and dismounted, bearing awesome firearms and all smiles: we would be allowed to demonstrate local than for international reasons. Hong Kong disapproving sneers. They shot venomous glances peacefully and silently on the consulate lawn. ts a police state where diversity of opinion at us and wondered In Chinese what they were He escorted us, to the clicking of cameras and the smolders under a false facade of "Business as supposed to dr They finally decided to phone flashing of flashbulbs, down the consulate steps Usual." Political demonstrations here are usually their superiors, and that Is what was done. and out to the Hong Kong police. After he had a violent and result In swift and deplorable police Within three minutes, two very officious-looking short chat with the police, the demonstration once repression. This situation has escalated over a British police officers strode to the scene and again got under way. The policeman who had period of time to the point where police parade surveyed the situation. They were quick to threatened us before strode up to us and glared. everywhere with sub-machine guns (except in the register their disapproval and began making snide He stood there, a 200 pound tower of British shopping districts where tourists can see them.) comments about the personal appearance of the colonialism, and announced, in an impeccable Checkpoints are established at random where Chi¬ demonstrators. (Comments of the "Why don't British accent: nese drivers are stopped, searched and questioned you cut your hair?" variety that police in Alabama "The U.S. consulate has informed me that you without reason; naturally, European drivers are like to invoke. It Is depressing to learn that will be allowed to stand on consulate grounds for allowed to pass unquestioned. Teenagers who es¬ police are the same all over the world.) one hour and have a peaceful demonstration. pouse "Inflammatory" Ideas, either verbally or by We were then informed, in commanding tones, Very well. You shall have it. Iam merely possessing a poster, are sent to jail for not impressed." that due to emergency measures adopted because He then turned on his heel and strode away. years (this is repeated daily by the British of recent terrorist bombings, political assemblies We felt quite good about the way events had re¬ courts.) The British provide no public education of more than three people were illegal in Hong solved themselves--indeed, I was quite proud for the colony and are hard pressed to build Kong. Consequently, we were told to disband about the manner in which the consulate handled living quarters for Hong Kong's teeming masses. within five minutes or face arrest. the situation. It would have been easy to say that The incidence of discontent, while always at a This ultimatum posed quite a problem because we had caused a disturbance and to high level, Is exacerbated by Increased police request police Hong Kong police brutality in cases of political protection. Instead, Asians were allowed to view repression. Our demonstration was a model of activity was notorious and none of us relished first-hand what the American right to dissent serenity in light of recent Hong Kong events. the prospect of being beaten In a Hong Kong jail. meant when it was implemented. As one Chinese It Is believed to be the first anti-war demon¬ I was particularly concerned because I had been reporter said to me, "Chinese students would stration held by Americans In Hong Kong. taking pictures of the police scowling at us and never even think of doing what you have done. I Internationally, the Hong Kong demonstration I knew they eyed my camera menacingly. am impressed by your friendliness and your atti¬ added a small but fervent voice to the thousands tude of freedom. You people really are free." of cries for an end to the war in Vietnam. Although Reporters from various news agencies had arrived on the scene and badgered us about what This comment was made In reference to the cocky it will effect no major policy changes by itself. we Intended to do. That was an interesting and sometimes arrogant way we answered ques¬ It provides an interesting footnote to the struggle tions from the press, police and authorities. The between men and nations to achieve sane, healthy question, because even we did not know. We reporter, who was our age, felt our firm but relationships. dropped our banners temporarily and held a New roclc a ovation from live the audience at the end of their teeth and elbows. Eric Clapton plays with his (Continued from page 6) performance. heart and his hands. As exemplified by Cream, rock is becoming on the fifteenth on this month I had the op¬ The strongest point of Cream is the excellence of each Individual member. Initially, one thought simpler instrumentally speaking. More groups portunity to see the Cream live at the Grande consisting of a single bass, guitar, drums and Ballroom. Last spring the Cream released an that Clapton was going to carry the show, but both Bruce and Ginger &ker performed solo on har¬ possibly a lead singer are going to be seen. album entitled "Fresh Cream" on the Atco The music itself seems to be moving away from label. The album contains hard rock "black " monica and drums. Both performances were equal the recording studio and is becoming a perform¬ blues and something that can be best described to Clapton's amazing guitar in effect.Their show¬ ing art again, with emphasis being placed on the as "white" blues. I had not realized how read¬ manship is not contrived. Clapton watched the light show while Bruce and Baker joked with each quality of reproduction any certain group can ily their songs could be adapted to live per¬ achieve from their recorded sound to their live formance. On stage the Cream are fantastic. other, but by their last song each of the three sound. Rock is becoming harder, with less exotic Eric Clapton is undoubtedly the finest blues was enveloped in his own music and the spell instrumentation. Competition is becoming more guitarist around today. His nonchalance belles it had cast over them and the crowd. Their intense and fewer poor groups are able to slip his skill with his instrument. Jlmi Hendrix is music at times approaches the jazz idiom. A by and record. One parting shot: remember the the popular hero; he plays his guitar with his great rendition of "Toad" brought a standing Electric Flagg is coming. Michigan State News, Kast Lansing, Michigan 9 POETRY lost city the taut heavy lidded * eyes of night : leep I'll ■ • fully unaware of the tawdry sweet nu llow- dranui here in the lost city: the bars flashy neon graveyards where unrequited lovers go to die the rooms cluttered with sympathetic struggles of clumsy minds vs. overflowing ashtrays and once in a while an unassuming star or two Photo will stretch by John Knapp and solicit itself and the blue veined Memorial Day 5:00 A.M. eyeskin of night sleeps on Ignorant of the struggle knifed open the blue i walk veining into the wind of the pinkblue morning (pale nick the shrouded streets tender le moon of the city spirals of mist fitting neatly into lost hovering moor like over the water the freshly nicked fully unaware slot of sky) of the bars blasting down the highway slender stem of crocus morning the rooms vision sliced open to the subletting the struggles graygreen winging of grass begetting only looking the faint, moist in the crumpled streets and harlequin colors for a dream 1 once had chasing, of dawn. a dream saw the sun . 1 held on to flaming melon —for D. much too hard burst from the pod of night it broke in my hands dripping skyward and ran —Sharron Marks quick silver through my fingers into the eager waiting rain Oct of another woman belly cold wet and bruised resisting (in the lost city, closed upon the promise the implication the band played on) of a bright tomorrow of eager acorn eyes wind swells of icy air he sifts —Sharron Marks lash the tired trees his dreams into meek submission among the withered leaves and lovers eyes breathing in meet and lock between the drip the rawhide and day letting second m ping leaves. autumn color bleed angry —Sharron Marks beautifully his upturned orange and swollen moon on face and amid bursting with winter seed and curved the raucous disorder to fit the need that marks the dying season whining clear throughout the metal mesh of neatly fitted he laughs souls sucked while an adolescent wind from the pool of pain the orderly profusion calves its first of refrain flickering prisms tentative message diffuses from parting on the quivering skins and refracts upon touch of trees and try again. the tangible reality and mine. of a tiny snowbird —Sharron Marks veining through the disturbance —Sharron Marks of plump cotton air, clicking neatly into the sunken shrine of a love crept in wizened tree, trembling and throaty Sharron Marks Is a senior from love crept in flushed with warning- and whistled Detroit majoring in English. Her cymbal thru the chinks lzed clanging of poetry has appeared in the Midwest¬ of our argument ern University Quarterly and Zeit¬ breeze shattered crystal branches a wintered and mold geist. A number of her poems are was created & ing to be included in "Encounter: An 1 reached far holding Anthology of Modern Poetry," to a sweater shards of hope. be published by Idlewild Press, San (the Implication —Sharron Marks of your leaving Francisco, in May, 1968. made me chilly) —Sharron Marks 10 Thursday, November 16, 1967 The By ROBERTA YAFIE Do 'clean-cut' new b cities, where they are readily absorbed and, The flowering subculture has yet another new therefore, Domelc operations are facilitated. branch, which deftly defies traditional Establish¬ Their haunts are all-night Coney Island hot dog ment put-downs. stands—one can be sure to find the Major Domo Call them Domes. lounging at Nathan's—where they consume great Color them clean. quantities of hot dogs smothered in chili. The Domes are one of those lovely Inexplicable At a typical Dome soiree, they munch puffed social phenomena which popped from the heads of rice and, as previously noted,although they eschew hippies, flower children et. al., according to our various narcotics, have something of a fetish for overseas bureau. Britain, it seems, wasthefirst Hot Buttered Beer. to succumb, where there are fewer of the blossomy It Is here that, if it exists at all, the social breed than one would suspect. Concomitantly, problem lies. Hot Buttered Beer contains not as they began to wilt in San Francisco,the (tomes a drop of Bud but, rather, medicinal alcohol, began their ascent. which is heated and combined with a lump of In keeping with the Romantic Renaissance, the butter or oleo, orange juice, pineapple juice Domes are perfectly bald, sporting small,pointed . or any kind of juice, preferably with some rind, and waxed Prussian moustaches. They've learned seeds and the like. to make it without monocles; one would guess that This results in vast quantities of Domes seeking contact lenses, left over from the daze of middle employment as hospital orderlies and bed-pan class, would maintain on sheer materialism. carriers, where they pass up morphine for a In terms of dress, the Domes have revived the fifth. The repercussions, most certainly, are great charge account tradition. Suits vary in awesome. pieces; an occasional sports jacket appears on The future of the Domes, however, is com¬ the scene. Shlrtmakers, however, are out of luck, parable. For Domeination is the Holy Grail for and the $10 tie Is a ludicrous luxury, as far as every Dome, coming hand in hand with the Domes go. creation of Domeciles, a reversion to the early For beneatli that Brooks Brothers suit beats Christian mode of communal living. a Fruit of the Loom tee shirt. They stick with In understanding the Domes, supposition, re¬ white, another indication of keeping things clean. grettably, Is the only tangible. Still, a futuristic Socks and common shoes complete the portrait glimpse isn't terribly out of place. Ah, for the of the young man as a Dome. day of the Itomelnesl The Major-Domo's right The Domes have kindly uncluttered the language, hand men; It will be a time of Domeination, trend, Yul Brynner lo k^ like ' likely prospect returning to former graciousness. "My dear when Madams will decide if they want to be sir" is the catch-all, running the gamut from for favorite son, and could urreptitkHisly be a member right now. One .' ill ref ill Brynner*' Domeineerlng or, for a change of pace, be "My dear sir, I disagree with you entirely," to [term inated. Perhaps, in'tlmc, they will be able "That's a My-Dear-Sir thing to say to a chap." recent appearance on the He! Sulliv.nkfehow.whert to assert themselves In a manner which will Its constant usage has no regard for sex or he performed with a gyps> land, having sprouted a moustache for the occasion. readily bring "Madam" to the lips of those who grammatical form. see them. They, too, shall adopt distinctive Women are generalized by the Domes; every Generally, the Domes might serve js social pacification for the muddled masses* for above dress, wrapped ill loose, hooded Domelnos, their member of their sex is a "Madam." This faces concealed behind delicate Domeinicales. all, there really isn't anything objectionable abaut generalizing has carried over to the place of The Domeines (Random House may be consulted; them. They're clean, neat, and keep their bad the Madam in Dome life. Webster has since gone the way of all flesh) will • habits to a minimum. 'Twould be difficult, Female Domes, you see, are hard to find. each possess Domeinium—the complete power indeed, to find parents who wouldn't want their By physical standards, they can be easily mis¬ to use, to enjoy and to dispose of property at taken for flower girls. Basically, the only dif- daughter tcdfciarry one, Ut alone live in the same I >di\'l a ill, an Important factor which will no doubt ference between the two is the company they keep. -t rve to strengthen the Domelciles. Domes are no advocates of drugs; they're For thepossibilities .ire overwhelming.. It"•- And overseeing it all,theMajorltomo,Domeine basically clean cut. They're also the peaceful easy to imagine a nine-to-flve middle class of the Domeinion. sort, heavily swayed by the Indian influence. American hopping off the train and into the There will sit the Domes, appropriately The most Interesting aspect is that no one car and, back at the house, tossing his wig on the dressed, at their respective clubs, playing really knows what they're going to do; they sort bedpost. Domeinos and burbling Bertie Wooster English, of creep out of the shadows and, before you know- It should.also put a terrific dent in the toupee while in their more nostalgic moments reverting it, Domeination has taken place. business, not to mention barber shops. For after the initial shave. It's certainly more reasonable to Domelc verse, Tennyson, Byron and Shelley with Yes, fans, Domeination. the Domeic touch. for a Dome to have his: Madam trim liis pate. Politically, they're riding the fence, although The DoriK social sphere is earthy but nice, They're coming. Honest. it's suspected that they might regard Ronald Dome de Dome Dome ... Reagan as rather campy. Considering the going son of a hyp jet set. They tend lo settle in small Saturday night By JIM YOUSLING at the Last weekend, while touring lovely downtown she gasps, amazed at the simplicity of it. "We Lansing, I stumbled upon one of those wonderful all are our own drumbeat, searching... seeking!" off-the-beaten-track spots which our capital The word drumbeat takes op special significance abounds in: the Downtown Art Cinema. when we recall that there were drumbeats on the While I had never seen their advertisements soundtrack during each episode of Miss Tesar s in the State News, I took a chance and went in. educating experiences. To my surprise, the charming billboards out¬ Finally, Miss Tesar returns to Roger and, clad side had only indicated a sample of the exotic simply in white underwear and go-go boots(purity be luty inside. The main feature, "Come Play symbol!) expresses her love for him with a \\ irh Me," starring lovely CharlineTesar, turned ra/or strap, following which he expresses his ■ i' to be written, produced and directed by love for her in a more direct manner as she N ck Consentino, who is best .remembered for cries in her simple monotone voice. "You're hi• stunning film versions of "Psychopathi.i wonderful. Oh how wonderful you are." At last : e anlis,' .uid "Mondo Busto." she is spiritually fulfilled! "Come Pig," is a simple allegory of a young The second feature, Joe Sarno's "The Bed . . . 11 ly's fe r.! '< r normality. Opening with a taste- and How to Make It" exemplifies the manager"■ f..rce, the fil -eon whisks u excellent choice of double-features. W here "Come que world of alienation andlife'v Play" is built around a passive girl who is "seeking her drumbeat" in life, "The Bed" pro¬ Mi'1 enfides in her school-mateClaris - vides a neat contrast: it is the multi-leveled •s.: that e is troubled. Her boyfriend Roger has study of a girl who has found her drumbeat. i iciili j expressing his passion for her unless Her tragic flaw is that she tries unsuccess¬ i: is first encouraged with a whip. "Is that nor- fully to force her drumbeat upon her con¬ r.ial?" she asks. temporaries. Clarissa comforts her, saying simply, "Let Set against the highly symbolic world of Russ, you. Now get the strap and let's get this over with. a virtuous motel manager (showing the coming- me take your clothes off." I have a lot of studying to do." Matters get persistantly worse for the girl. Casually applying lipstick to her otherwise and-going impermanence of Life), 'The Bed" Everyone she knows seems somehow confused. unclad tells us of Ellen, a buxom juvenile delinquent body (to underline her freedom from Her psychiatrist, her English professor, her socio-cultural limitations), Clarissa discusses who, in her quest for truth, destroys both Russ friend Biff all want her to do these well and his alcoholic wife, and eventually, herself. . . . . . . "normality" with Miss Tesar. odd things. No one seems particularly interested "Then who is to judge what is normal?" quer¬ At this point I would like to explain some sim¬ in old-fashioned fornication. ies our heroine. ilarities between these two little-known master¬ The final answer comes from faithful Clarissa Clarissa wisely replies, "Just us, cookie." pieces and the works of our better-known art (the symbolic oracle figure), who said earlier, Suddenly all is clear to the wandering child. "You know I could never love anybody else but "You mean we all feel a different drumbeat!" (Continued on page 11) Michigan State News, East Lansing. Michigan' 11 Chicago By JIM ROOS opera heels house originates from floors of marble and in¬ P. reopens Morton were nominated for their offices, where President McKinley and Booker T. Wash¬ If you were tricately fashioned mosaics. Bronze balusters asked to name the greatest opera line the broad staircase which leads from the ington made their impassioned pleas for racial house In the world, which would It be? "La tolerance and where Teddy Roosevelt was main lobby to the grand foyer. The whole Interior Scala" or the "Met," perhaps "Vienna" or nominated for the presidency in the famous Bull is painted gold and Ivory, with occasional ac¬ iven "Paris?" Whatever your choice, It's not Moose convention. cents of onyx and fine woods. likely you'd say "Chlcagol" Yet, Chicago does Thus, the Auditorium echoes the sounds and have a great opera house. It's known simply a:, The house itself represents the brilliant col¬ of American events history. This is one reason "the Auditorium." And last week, after more laboration of architects Sullivan and Dankmar why it has been nominated for designation as a than 40 years of silence, the Auditorium's doors Adler. It has a seating capacity of about 4,300, national cultural monument by theU.S. National were opened again. is built low, and flares outward and upward from Park Service, and also why a model of the hall The Auditorium is housed in a massive ten the stage. is exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute in Wash¬ story structure called the Auditorium BuIMiin,. I*he boxes, only forty In number,are open aiul ington D. C . Built In 1887, it is a soot—laden fortress that' For arranged in two tiers at the sides of the parquet. today's music lovers and performers, how stands about two blocks from the lake front in the Auditorium is valued primarily for its Ferdinand Peck, the 19th century Chicago cul¬ ever, the heart of the downtown section. It's also tural leader who coordinated the original Audi¬ superb acoustical qualities, rather than for its a perfect example of American Romanesque archi¬ torium project, regarded boxes as "undemo¬ admitted beauty or historical significance. It is tecture; the crowning achievement of Louis Sul¬ cratic." He insisted that they be kept open and one of the few concert halls in the world that livan's so-called masonry period. at a minimum. Peck wanted the Auditorium delivers an almost echo-free sound; a sound that For the past 20 years the building has been is at once clear and mellow, perfect in balance to represent "the future and not the corrupt owned and occupied by Roosevelt University, but and past." exceptional in tonal warmth. It is the type the magnificent opera theatre languished behind of sound that allows every instrument of an Whatever Peck's hopes, the Auditorium did closed doors In a dilapidated state. Inl9t>0, how¬ orchestra to be heard in true perspective, while come to represent the finest in concert and opera ever, Roosevelt University took the initiative and maintaining over-all resonance. entertainment. Mary Garden, Galli-Curci, Pader- organized a council to raise funds for the theatre's ewski, Chaliapin, Caruso, Bernhardt, Mc- Great performers and personalities such as restoration. Thus, last week's re-opening marks tenor Jan de Re/ske and architect Frank Cormack, Prokofieff and other greats too Lloyd the return of one of the world's finest stages for VV right have lauded the Auditorium's numerous to mention, performed on its stage and incomparable the performing arts. acoustics. Now that it has once more been added rejoiced in its fabulous acoustical qualities. Walking Into the Auditorium is like taking a It was also on the Auditorium stage that Presi¬ to the ranks of the world's great stages, listeners trip back to the dimly lit splendor of turn-of- dent Benjamin Harrison and Vice-President Levi may judge for themselves. the-century Chicago. The clip-clap of visitor's "Sources for Dickey's poetry (Continued from page 6) pected bounces from one blended color bar to the (Continued from page 6) ' It does not reach out and grab you. Instead, next. Why did he slip that brown stripe in between who succeeds in It does quite the opposite. The painting might capturing a shark feels a the yellow and orange? It's unexpected but it communion with the bucking, maddened, blood- seem a bit dull at first glance, but I find it - works. The painting has none of the qualities of a challenging and demanding work that reveals spewing slimy death-shape of the shark in the brush work or texture found in Guston and Kline. death-house. itself slowly. The color is not bright. On the It is a phenomenon of highly controlled pouring contrary, it is a pale, almost dirty overlay of and staining that seems to have just happened. * There are imperfections in some of Ilckey's grey blue with clots of brighter blue, black and Sam Francis' "Blue in Motion" is softer, but poems. In "The Shark's Parlor," for example. red violet. The surface of the painting becomes has much of the appeal of the Louis. It is a soft Dickey gives a summing up at the end which is less and less monotonous as the subtle structure stained painting with globs of blue suspended In unnecessary to this essentially narrative piece. emerges. The surface and color are activated the well-controlled space of the canvas. The con¬ In "I-ox Blood," the poet seems to focus too much by the colors under the outer skin which work centric rings of Noland's "Spilt Spectrum" pre¬ on the one image, giving It a meaning or "bigness" their way out. Guston is a painter who deals sents a static and even simple-minded sym¬ which, as one Indiana critic put it, "Just wasn't in half-tones and transitional color. He is an metrical composition. The Intrigue occurs In the there and which the poem couldn't sustain." impressionist who understands what Monet was way the color rings interact, recede and advance, This "trying too hard" is not so much an about when he saw color and light constantly pulsate. It is a quiet experience, but one where indication of Dickey's failure as it Is of the changing In objects observed over a long period. a limited and defined problem allows for a great poet's unceasing effort to create art. Very Guston simply deleted the subject references deal of variation. few poets spring full-blown and mature, and and deals with the ambiguous properties of color There are several figurative paintings in the □ckey has worked for ten years to achieve the and painted surface. show, but the works by Pearlsteln and Bischoff position he has now. His imperfections reflect Kline's "Black and White No. 2" has a more are the most interesting. Phillip Pearlsteln's a striving for perfection. immediate Impact. His painting deals primarily "Two Nudes" carefully juxtaposes the figures To my way of thinking, then, the poet's Job is with the structural. It Is a play of perpendicular against each other. The value changes In the to create that image or series of Images which, elements that are thrown off by subtle breaks In figures, cloth and background are softened by- through the artistic rendering of form, focuses direction and variation In thickness. Morris avoiding clear shadow. The light quality emanat¬ the mind in one moment of eternity, and initiates Louis's painting "Water Shot," like Kline's, im¬ ing from the painting is more fluorescent than its expansion temporally and spatially. As mediately reveals Its simple structure. When we natural. Elmer Bischoff's "Breakers" is a sea¬ Dickey wrote in "Fox Blood": move beyond this to the color we notice unex- scape with a nude bather in the foreground amongst large brown rocks. The waves and sky merge in a solid interplay of shape anijl color, and the overall Downtown art' feel of the painting is heavy, dark and liquid. I have not covered all the paintings in tiie ex¬ To keep, not under, but over My thumb, a hammering day-and-night sign hibition that Interest me, and have consciously Of that country. (Continued from page 10) avoided some of the most problematic ones. I directors. First of all, there is the Orgy Motif. To be in Dickey's country Is to live for one hope, however, that I have aroused the reader This should immediately bring to mind such films of this article to become a viewer and maybe totally aware moment in the fantastic world of as "La Dolce Vita" and "Red Desert." The dif¬ In the future, a collector of the new. eternity. You are left breathless. ference of .course is one of complexity. Where Fellini and Antonioni utilize a great many con¬ fusing motivations and many more elaborate cam¬ COLLAGE era techniques for their orgies, Sarno and Con- sentino shun such affectations in favor of a much Feature Editor Executive Editor more honest method. 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