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CO X w m *b ~e 41 L IX 41 o > J! *oo 'x o o 7?• U CO 41 Ll c » JC u < -X oL _co *> o 41 Cl c £ 7? 3 CO u o L L L o o 3 > CO _X o o od 41 u o Uli t < c < iCOl“O u 7* 3 CO T h u rsd ay, F e b ru a ry 1, 1968 3 S ex: m a g ic a l m a rk e tin g to o l By FR E D SHERW OOD “ T here a re few appeals In a dvertising that equal the fo rce o f sex,” says Stephen Baker, an adman who authored V isual Persuasion, an illu s tra te d discourse on the graphics o f adver­ tis in g . "Readership studies show th a th e re is o n e element which arouses the immediate in te re st o f both men and women.” B aker o ffe rs several reasons fo r the appeal of sex in advertising, other than the obvious physical a ttra ctio n o f beautiful models. "Sex makes the beholder feel young again,” he says. “ I t reassures men c-f th e ir m a scu lin ity and women of th e ir fe m in in (jy . Sex Is one of the m ost basic of human emotions, a way o f ‘getting away fro m i t a ll,’ and a status sym bol.” B aker cla im s that even fa b ric s can take on sexual connotations in ad illu s tra tio n s , ranging fro m the urban sophistication o f wool to the soft sensuous qualities of s ilk o r lace. Nude fig u re s can be toned down and d is g iflje d by photographic o r rendering techniques that reduce the blatancy yet re ta in the eye-catching appeal. Today, however, blatancy, o r at least ex­ p lo ita tion of more e x p lic it Sex, is becoming the new k ic k on Madison A venur, Messages re p re ­ senting today's new hip, upbeat society are put into hip, upbeat slogans such as ‘ T i f f any Eubank won’ t do it without her green s trip e ,” which could be taken as a pitch fo r a swinging new kind of green paint, o r “ Splash on R iptide and she’l l take the plunge,” a prom ise of ecstasy in the sand to lovelorn s u rfe rs i f they use the rig h t a fte r shave. A change in attitudes and m oral standards is taking place, ranging fro m the harm less e x h ib i­ tionism of m in is k irts and Playboy bunnies to a m ore perm issive view o f p re m a rita l sex. The mass media have covered the issue o f changing m o ra ls w ith an alm ost slavish devotion to' the e xciting details. In a society that p e rm its the near-general c irc u la tio n o f movies such as "U ly s s e s ,” the books o f T e r r y Southern and and dislike spending millions only to find they air-brushed, "akin you love to touch'* sex appeal H enry M ille r, It is not too su rp risin g to see a have offended and alienated mo st of their audience. .of the editorial gloss. relaxation of standards. F o r this reason advertising usually follows the Sex in advertising today Is more blatant because Advertising has keyed its approach to the new trail of changing standards rather than forcing openness offends fewer people than It did yester­ “ open” society. One might say it indicates what its own standards on an unwilling public. Play­ day. Somebody's grandmother may complain is becoming acceptable. Advertisers are ex­ boy magazine was accepted and successful long once In a while, but even grandmother s are getting tremely sensitive to mass culture and standards before the ads on its pages even approached the pretty hip. In a frequently shown television commercial a Scandinavian blonde purrs, "Take It off, take it all off,” as a handsome chap rips a razor across his face in time to a tongue-in-lathered cheek bump and grind while taking off Noxema Shaving cream. A spokesman for Noxema's ad agency said they intended the viewers to "get the pleasant feeling of being in on a Joke. We hope the au­ dience will laugh along with us and buy a can of Noxema.” T h e selling-through-humor-through-sex ap­ roa ch. a sort of reincarnation of die old-time traveling salesman’s off-color Joke, has been gaining popularity. A striking ad in the front pages of Playboy last fall featured a nude model reclining and covered by only a few sweater sleeves draped precariously ovar her. The only copy was a succinct headline, which threatened the return of male modela If the sweaters didn't sell. Nothing was said about what would happen if the sweaters did sell. Chateau Martin Wines adopted the leering vernacular of the day by presenting a partially washed face with their headline, “Had any lately?” Crestwood Advertising, which haailed the account, credited the campaign with a 48 per cent increase In sales, ‘ ‘ Was It him or his Ptytag Rock?” a girl who can only be described as neatly dissheveled a «ir» herself as she reclines pensively among some sheets. Fortunately, there Is a bottle of Piping Rock among die sheets wfth her to show readers It Is an after shave and avoid any speculation about just what a piping rock might be. One of the classic ads of last summer was "The Sony for Sun-Lovers” which featured a group of nudists, neatly camouflaged by g rass, a dog and each other, avidly watching a portable television. Doyle, Dane, Bembach , the agency made famous by its highly ¿restive Volkswagen campaign, ran the ad In Life magazine. The photographer used amateur models, including two people from the Bembach staff In order to give the ad a look of realism . Ernest Schwarzenbach, Sony’ s president, In a mastery of understatement, said the ad was “ un­ usual” and would draw a ttsu tta to the portable TV set. Theredidnot seemtohetoo much adverse reaction to the ad, hut Charlea Lewis, a DDB a c - (Continued on page 1 1 .) ■L 4 M ichigan S ta te N ew s, E a s t L a n sin g , M ichigan V ie tn a m u n d e r th e F re n ch B y L A W R E N C E B A T T IS T IN I C op y rig h t, 1968 After the British had obtained Hong Kong as a L a w r e n c e H. B a ttistin i, p r o f e s s o r o f s o c i a l naval base in 1842 as one of the spoils of an s c i e n c e a t MSU, w as e d u c a te d a t B row n Uni­ aggressive war against China, the French desire for a comparable base in or near China became v e r s it y an d T rin ity C o lle g e . B e r e c e i v e d h is irrepressible. At this time China to die French, P h.D a t Y ale. S p e c ia liz in g in U .S. fo r e i g n r e l a ­ as well as to Englishmen and Americans, began to be viewed as a limitless potential market for tio n s , w ith an e m p h a s is on U .S .-A sian a f f a i r s , the "surplus” manufactures which their in­ h e is th e a u t h o r o f s ix b o o k s in th is a r e a . dustries were unable to dispose of in domestic markets. In an e f f o r t to s tim u la te in fo r m e d d e b a t e on It was Louis Napoleon who laid die foundations U.S. in v o lv em en t in S ou th ea st A s ia , C o lla g e h a s of die French empire lnSoudieastAsia.Hisinitial a s k e d P r o f e s s o r B a ttis tin i to w r ite a s e r i e s objective was a naval base. Using die murder of a Catholic missionary a s a pretext, he dispatched o f f i v e a r t i c l e s on th e h is to r y o f V ietnam ?.nd in 1857 a punitive military expedition to obtain W estern p o w e r t h e r e , d ra w in g fr o m th e m anu ­ satisfactions and guarantees, and in the following year French forces seized die ports of Danang. s c r i p t o f h is n ew bo ok. (Tourane) and Saigon. Lacking effective military T h is is th e s e c o n d in th e s e r i e s . power to oppose the French, the imperial Anna- mese government at Hue in 1862 reluctantly con­ cluded a treaty which transferred Cochin-China — — — — — — f to France. This was die beginning of die piecemeal to the French presence and in general even p ro ­ On March 9, 1945, however, with their defeat dismembdkment of all Vietnam,1 fite d fro m it. However, most Vietnamese did not. imminent and the restive French no longer to be The treaty of 1862 did not, of course, put an It was from the very small middle class that trusted, the Japanese ousted Admiral Decoux and end to French military invasion. As the French many young men became greatly influenced by interned all French troops and administrators. continued their aggressions, die Annamese r e ­ French culture, especially its revolutionary con­ They opened the jails and released some eight to sorted to intensive guerrilla warfare and even the cepts of liberty and equality, as a result of at­ 10 thousand political prisoners. The Japanese also m assacre of Christians, who were regarded as tending French-operated schools in Vietnam or encouraged Bao Dai, the puppet emperor of being associated with foreign imperialism. The institutions of learning in France. It was mainly Annam, to proclaim independence from France main interest of the French at this time, however, from this class that die leaders of a modern and to reclaim Cochin-China and Tonkin as parts was not so much the conquest of Vietnam per se nationalist movement arose. One of these leaders of his realm, which became known by the ancient as its utilization for the development of theChina was the then youthful Ho Chi Mlnh. He, and others name of Vietnam. trade. They accordingly extended their military like him, in one crucially important respect, did At this time Ho Chi Mlnh was the foremost operations to Tonkin, whose northern borders are owe something to France. As Philippe Devillers, leader of the Vietnamese independence movement. contiguous to the southern provinces of China. himself a Frenchman, has written: "F ro m France By World War H he was already known and re­ Despite their "fanatical" (heroic?) resistance and they received die humanism of France—of Mon­ vered throughout much of Vietnam. As a young assistance from imperial China, the Vietnamese taigne, Descartes and Rous seau and down to Valery man he had visited many countries in the West, regulars and guerrillas could not cope with the and Malraux—which with its concepts of liberty, including the United States and France. It was modern weapons of the French, and in the end all reason, dignity and fraternity had truly fecundated while in France that as a result of his associa­ of Vietnam, as well as Cambodia and Laos, were Vietnam. The intelligentsia could not long remain tion with the French leftwing he became a Com­ conquered and became part of the new French indifferent to die physical misery which colon­ munist, believing that of all the competing rev­ colonial empire in Southeast Asia. Laos andCam- ialism seemed incapable of remedying and to the olutionary Ideologies only Communism could bodia, as well as Annam, were organized as pro­ spiritual disintegration of the national civilization really win freedom for the Vietnamese from tectorates. Cochin-China was made an outright before the Western impact . . . In assimilating colonialism. In 1925 he struck his first blow for colony, and Tonkin was organized as an admin­ French culture they rediscovered their equilib­ Vietnamese independence by organizing among istrative region with combined characteristics of a rium and their sense of purpose. It was around Vietnamese exiles in Canton a Vietnam Revolu­ protectorate and colony. 1925-30 that the most conscious elements of the tionary League. French rule was dictatorial, harsh and ex­ Intellectual class began to understand that the new Although a Communist, Hd Chi Mlnh has never ploitative, although there was some economic literati, like those of ancient Annam, had the duty been a doctrinaire one. He has always been, no development which resulted from substantial of being the ‘the guides of the people'.” doubt, a nationalist first and a Communist second. French investments in transportation, agricul­ Despite the rising tide of discontent and na­ At the end of World War II, for example, he ture, mining and certain other enterprises. A c­ tionalist feeling in Indochina, especially in Viet­ explained himself as follows: "My party is my tually, Indochina became economically important nam where serious uprisings broke out which country, my program is Independence." Since his to France, and in die peak pre-World War II were brutally crushed in 1930 and 1931, the French dedication to the cause of Vietnamese nationalism years returns to metropolitan France amounted up to World War II made practically no con­ and Independence in the late 1920's, he has com­ to between two and three hundred million dollars cessions to native nationalism. To increased pletely subordinated his personal life to them. annually. On the eve of World War II French political consciousness and agitation they almost Ho, of course, was a "number one” onthe wanted nationals reriding in Indochina numbered some invariably responded with increased repression. list of the French secret police in Indochina, and 40,000. For these colons, as they were called, Actually the civilian government of metropolitan actually It was not until October 1944 that he set life in Indochina was profitable and very pleasant, France was not in complete control of Indochina foot again on his native Vietnamese soil, after an as was the case with resident colonialists in al­ anymore than it was in France's vast colonial absence of some forty y ears. most any other colonial area. Away from their possessions in North Africa. And certainly the In early 1941 Ho Chi Minh organized under homeland, "liberty, fraternity and equality” found men who believed in the great liberal and hu­ Communist leadership a broad coalition of various practically no application in their interpersonal manistic traditions of France were not really elements, including men of democratic, liberal relations with die indigenous peoples, who in the ones who controlled the hand that held the and socialist persuasion, who were dedicated to general were regarded as inferiors. sword. Vietnamese independence. This coalition was The French, like other imperialists, were in called the Viet Nam Doc Lap Ebng Mlnh (Viet­ Indochina basically for the material benefit it After die German invasion and conquest of namese Independence Front, or League), which might bring to the "mother country.” They made France in the late spring of 1940, the Japanese became known in abbreviated form as the Viet- little effort to promote integrated economic de­ gradually moved into Indochina and soon brought minh. Meanwhile clashes with the French in velopment and die general welfare of the masses, it all under their control. At first the French Cochin-China had resulted in the outbreak of open and none whatsoever to prepare them for self- authorities in Indochina under Admiral Decoux, rebellion in December 1940. In an appeal to the government, let alone eventual independence. who had remained loyal to the Vichy Government people of Tonkin (Hi September 8 , 1941, Ho pro­ After more than eighty years of the French in France which was collaborating with Nazi claimed that the objective of the Vietminh was to presence, for example, only two per cent of die Germany, cooperated with the Japanese. Accord­ fight both Japanese and French imperialism and children were enrolled in elementary schools, and ingly the Japanese left the French colonial ad­ to obtain Independence for Vietnam. In southern there was only one sub-standard university in the ministration relatively undisturbed and made no China the Vietminh built up their forces and di­ entire country, located at Hanoi. Some 10,000 effort to exploit native resentment against die rected guerrilla operations in Indochina against Vietnamese, mostly large landowners,, commer­ French as long as the latter cooperated in making the Japanese and their French "allies.” Beginnln cial elements and officials employed by the food, labor and logistical support available to thé (Continued on page 5 .) colonial administration, made an accommodation Japanese armed forces. fL T h u rsd ay , F e b ru a ry 1, 1968 5 It b e g a n w ith a p riest’s d e a th (C o n tin u e d f r o m page 4 .) fro m A m erican forces based in Kunming, China, especially from officers connected with the O.S.S. In 1943 A m erican warplanes began bombing trans­ w hich parachuted them supplies and equipment. (Office of Strategic Services) mission In Tonkin po rta tio n fa c ilitie s and In d u s tria l targets in V ie t­ L a te r A m erican o ffic e rs operated among them to greatly encouraged Metmlnh leaders to believe a s s is t In the common fig h t against the Japanese. they could count on America to help them attain nam . By e a rly 1945, A m erican a ir ra id s had Some A m erican o ffic e rs operating w ith the V le t­ their Independence aspirations. In Hanoi, for succeeded In v irtu a lly is o la tin g Tonkin fro m the m lnh assured them they could count an the United example. Major Patti and other O.S.S. agents re­ re s t o f Vietnam . These A m erican actions g re a tly States supporting th e ir Independence aspirations ferred to the Vletmlnh as the "liberators of the encouraged the V letm lnh. a fte r the w a r was o v e r. In the sum m er of 1945, Vietnamese people" and assured them a t Ameri­ A fte r the Japanese coup o f M arch 9, 1945, A m erican m issions a rriv e d In Hanoi and Saigon can support. In October, however, there was some the V le tm ln h operations against the Japanese took and openly sympathized w ith the V letm lnh In­ clamping down on the political activities of Amer­ on m a jo r proportions in no rth e rn V ietnam . In dependence cause. Some A m ericans even made ican personnel, and they were forbidden to make fa c t, the V le tm ln h in Tonkin called fo r a national speeches at p ublic Independence ra llie s . No doubt any more speeches at rallies. u p risin g against the Japanese. A t th is tim e the the encouragement given by Am ericans In Vietnam , Despite the ousting of Admiral Decoux In March V le tm ln h began re ce ivin g considerable assistance 1945, and the establishment of the Bao Dai puppet regime In Vietnam, the Japanese had continued their campaign against the Vletmlnh, whom they regarded as allies of the United States. By the summer of 1945, however, as the collapse of Japan’s war effort was Imminent, the Japanese commanders In Vietnam acting on specific in­ structions from Tokyo permitted the Vletmlnh to enter the cities, Inchitllng Saigon and Hanoi, organize Independence demonstrations and con­ vene assemblies. A number of parties and groups participated In the Vietnamese elections that took place, and In Hanoi a national assembly, made up of many elements besides Communists but dom­ inated by them, drafted a declaration of Indepen­ dence. In August 1945 a provisional Democratic Re­ public of Vietnam (DRV) was established at Hanoi, which was actually In administrative control of a considerable p a n of the country. The puppet emperor Bao Dal, boring as usual to the pre­ vailing wind, on August 24 abdicated and trans­ ferred his powers to the DRV. He urged all elements. Including members of the royal family, to "support the Ebmocratlc Republican Govern­ ment wholeheartedly In order to consolidate our national Independence." A few days previously he had written General de Gaulle, then the head of the French Government, to the In­ dependence of Vietnam and "to renounce any Idea of reestablishing French sovereignty or administration" In any form . Within a few days of Bao Chi's abdication, ERV officials occtgded prac­ tically all government buildings in die country and took over effective administration. In Hanoi on September 2, 1945, H) Chi Mlnh, the president of the Democratic Republic of Viet­ nam, proclaimed Independence from France In a T h e fy iz y O th e r W a r/ document closely modelled after the U.S. Declar­ ation of Independence, ofwhlchhehadbeena great adm irer. "A ll men are created equal," said the Vietnamese declaration. "They are endowed by n o t f o u g h t w it h g u n s their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these a re life, liberty, and die pursuit of happiness. These Immortal words a re from the cadres to Bolivia and an invasion. All* are part Declaration of Independence of die United States B y M IT C H M IL L E R of the range of possibilities available to be used of America in 1776. Taken In a broader sense, in political warfare. these phrases mean: All peoples on earth a re barn "W e often hear fro m the hews media o f " th e In a p o litic a l w a r, action is not confined to the equal; all peoples have the right to live, to be O ther W a r" being fought In V ietnam , but what m ilita r y theatre o f operations, e ith e r, b also takes free, to be happy." The Vietnamese declaration that O ther W ar Is no one has c le a rly defined. place at conferences in Geneva, at the United continued: "These a re undeniable truths. Never­ Is It the pa cifica tion program? The "O pen N ations, a t demonstrations on college campuses, theless for more than eighty years the French A rm s " campaign? The " b a ttle fo r the hearts because a p o litic a l w a rrio r knows that creating Imperialists, abusing 'liberty, equality, and fra­ and minds o f the people?" enough confusion and dem oralization In h is op­ ternity,’ have violated the land of our ancestors Because o f the U.S. government’ s position that ponent* s home he can w in a w a r much m ore surely and oppr essed our countryman." Than, following o u r presence in Vietnam Is solely In response than by try in g to defeat his b e tte r arm ed and bet­ the UJS. model, the document want an to list the to the presence o f N o rth Vietnam’ s forces th e re , te r equipped s o ld ie rs. we have not been able to adm it that we a re en­ many specific wrongs that France had committed The m ost Im portant ru le Is , *’ P o litic s comes against the Vietnamese people. The document gaged In a p o litic a l w a r, a w a r that has many f i r s t , " says Mao. E verything Is p o litic a l, even concluded: "Vietnam has the right to be free and fro n ts , such as the "O th e r W a r" not the most down to dealings w ith stamp clubs. (The Com­ independent, and In fact has become free and In­ Im portant o f which is the m ilita r y . m unist Chinese re ce n tly ceased to send notices dependent. We a re convinced that the Allies who P o litic a l w a rfa re is not confined to a shooting to a West German p h ila te lic group because ita ls o recognized the principles of equality at the con­ w a r, however. It can be c a rrie d out in any p a rt received stamps fro m Form osa.) ferences of Teheran and San Francisco cannot o f a nation’ s fo re ig n p o lic y , fro m negotiations Trade and aid a re conducted so that not only fall to recognize the in risp on d f« of Vietnam." to espionage to an International Incident to an a ll- a re p ro fits m axim ized, but so a re p o litic a l However, Ho CM Mlnh and the othar Vletmlnh out w a r conducted by p o litic a l-m ilita r y means g ains, such as the Soviet building o f the Aswan to gain p o litic a l ends. leaders wore realists as wall as Idealists. They High Dam In Egypt— a p ro je c t the United States In th is kind o f w ar, the v e ry kind we are fig h t­ understood that A s m are proclamation of Inde­ abandoned. ing in Vietnam , m ilita r y conceptions o f gain pendence was one thing, and that recognition of Propaganda on an international scale is , o f and loss are not those by which the w ar is won, this independence, especially by France, was co u rse , a p a rt of p o litic a l w a rfa re , but so Is the and m ilita ry maps may not even re fle c t the tru ly quite another thing. On die same day that Inde­ spreading o f ru m o rs in a B ra z ilia n b a rrio and the key te rra in of p o litic a l ups and downs. pendenc e was proclaimed, Vo Nguyen d a p , then dropping o f hints at a Washington co ckta il p a rty . What is Im portant is not how many o f the enemy the Minister of die Interior, apoke of the "p a r­ The te r r o r is t bombing o f a bus in Vietnam a re k ille d , o r what positions a re taken, but the ticularly intimate relations" with the United Is p o litic a l w a rfa re , but so Is the m u rd e r o f an creation o f incidents o f sym bolic value, lik e the States and China (Kuomlntang, but also warned A m erican r e lie f organization w o rke r in Czech­ burning o f a refugee camp by the V ie t Cong, o r oslovakia. Ms countrymen thnt Francewas planning to invade the abandonment o f a v illa g e the United States and reconquer the countr y. WMle expressing a A Communist student s trik e in France is a said I t would never leave. W hile the refugees willingness to negotiate with France, he at die v ic to ry , but so is a Student M obilization Com­ a re ce rta in ly not com bat-effective s o ld ie rs , n o r sam e time made it d e a r diet, "If our negotia­ m ittee s trik e In the United States. the v illa g e an Im portant m ilita r y p ro p e rty , both tions a re unsuccessful, we shall resort to a rm s ." Not only can p o litic a l w arfare be the employ­ • ♦ * Incidents w ere p o litic a l w a rfa re battles the United ment o f agents, saboteurs, propagandists, organ­ States lo s t, because In th is w a r It Is m ore im p o r­ At Potsdam, In July 1945, the British had boon iz e rs and the lik e , but i t can be the maneuvering given the responsibility for enforcing the sur­ tant to protect the people on yo u r side fro m a Communist te r r o r squad than It Is to destroy a o f whole a rm ie s , o r d ip lo m a ts, o r positions and render term s on dm Japanese in all ef Southeast tre a tie s , as when the Soviet Union signed a non- battalion. Asia, except that part of Indochina north of tho aggression pact w ith the N azis during W orld War sixteenth parallel, where KuomhuaagCMaaweuld M easures short o f o ve rt h o s tilitie s are p a rt of p o litic a l w a rfa re , too, fo r th is kind o f w a r makes II, In o rd e r to gain strength fo r the tim e when the have the surrender reaponsiMlWep. The Kuom- pact would be broken. no d istinction between the seizing o f the USS Pueblo int.ng occupation authorities who entered northern and a naval battle, o r the sending o f a few g u e rilla ( C o n t i n u e d o n p a g « 12.) ( C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 12) 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan D e s p a ir , loneliness, disgust W h ile y o u ’ re re a d in g these le tte r s , th e man who w ro te th e m is s ittin g in th e Ingham C o u n ty J a il, s e rv in g a sen­ te n c e f o r s m o k in g m a riju a n a . H is nam e is Jan Deen, a f o r m e r MSU stu d e n t. H is le tte r s a re w r itte n to h is w ife out o f the agony and s e lf-q u e s tio n in g he is e x p e rie n c in g . T h e y b e g in as he is w a it­ in g to be se ntenced and c o v e r the f i r s t w ee ks o f h is te r m . A lth ou g h we have done som e e d itin g to s tr in g the le tte r s to g e th e r, th e y a re a ll h is own w o rd s . W o rd s fr o m s u ffe rin g th a t get p a s t the s m a ll- t a lk o f o u r liv e s . Darling, Sept. 16. M orning. Cemented between a peeling w all o f curses and the cracked slab o f my thoughts. Fragmented descriptions fro m the con­ tents o f other liv e s echo between the vib ra tio n s o f m y fea rs and boredom. T im e extended and tw isted into a d r ill, burrow ing into recollections o f the past, revealing the escaping ooze o f today’ s breakfast—brown m u rk and five stewed prunes. D espair rum bles beneath a fr a il skin o f serenity, w aiting to clutch a hand into a w all-beating bloody stub. The window v e ils a blue haze that m ust be the sky and that dubious freedom that is ’ ’ m y’ ’ A m erica. I f I m a il m y-self-thoughts as a le tte r I know I m ust endure the je e rin g eyes of some a u th o ri­ ta ria n automaton. A w o rld where a pencil fo r an hour is a p riv ile g e , a white sponge o f dough is its only answer to a ll hunger, and tim e is wielded lik e a weapon. A m u rd e re r w ith nine years on a chain gang in h is mem ory, a b u rg le r, an a lco h olic—my companions. Somehow they are c lo se r to me than that which represents the element o f ’ ’ good.” I m ust feel that ha ircu ts, lack o f food, h um iliation, and the feelings that ask m y soul to destroy i t ­ s e lf and its vessel are tasks to conquer and that Phot o by Bob Ivins 1 am not m e re ly th e ir v ic tim . Sept. 21. A flo o r—gray and yellow , m ottled and in d iffe re n t to the pacings of ragged cloth-covered feet, scattered cigarette buns, tomato seeds and to ile t-p a p e r shavings. Faded, lim p m attresses draped over neutral-brow n bunk g ird e rs . Two of " k in g of the m ountain" and I ’ m the mound of A Negro w ith huge hands, long fin g e rn a ils peeling open-Jowled commodes, hungry fo r the a t­ d ir t —I don’t hold up w ell in the pious ro le . ta lk s about violence. W hitney talks about screw ­ tention o f garbage and excrem ent. F ingers drum T h e re is always a feeling o f uselessness. Mean­ in g . Cards a re shuffled a ll hours o f the day. on a steel-slab table. Bodies lie on the flo o r, ing has substance only when future is presupposed. H illb illy m usic whines over the radio a ll a fte r­ disheveled in de a th -like repose. O ccasionally one I f future equals "n o w ’ ’ — "n o w ” is empty. I f future noon. s tir s — sound o f canvas against concrete. is postulated, 'Tiow ’ ’ can be used to plan, to evalu­ Darling?? Henderson struggles to fill his lungs with damp, ate, to dream . T he past is d iffic u lt to decipher. Why was th is fated fo r me? An awakening? I heavy oxygen. Nasal, strained inhaling, sound of I t is bathed in em otion. Each incident is regarded, am. clogged radiator emitting steam. H is hand ex­ not as having a specific consequence o r re s u lt in Sept. 24. I did not sleep w e ll last nig h t—m y plores bis naked shoulder, finds a blackhead, the present, but AS the present. T h a t is , the m ind focused on the snoring bunk next to me. squeezes it. His eyes examine the residue. strength of emotive content is greater than the I fin a lly attempted m asturbation—I became wet John, ly in g on the flo o r, reads aloud anecdotes stim ulus of the present, therefore past equals w ithout the sensations of orgasm —nerves? fro m the "R eaders’ D ig e s t". No one laughs. the shadow that is m y “ now.” I liv e in the dim B efore you come to see me on Thursday tr y Henderson walks tow ard him , leans s ile n tly valle y of m y recollections. to borrow money to get the bug serviced. Take against a bunk. H is mouth hangs open, the upper T he sm all events—generally negative in emo­ i t to S ullivan’ s. T e ll them at 6,000 m ile s they lip protrudes, stumps o f teeth hang fro m it. tio n a l content—in m y ja il life are exaggerated by prom ised to fix the tu rn signals. The w arranty Sept, 22. I flo a t helplessly in a deep, brown the o ve ra ll lack o f external change. When some­ pool. M y hands explore the mud bottom but a ll w ill cover cost. I thought about you fo r hours last night. We are thing “ occurs” i t b ites lik e a waking nightm are. holds ooze through m y fin g e rs. M y lungs scream I fe e l naked, defenseless and cornered in a w orld s ile n tly fo r a breath, yet a consciousness detains fortunate to have our love. Sept. 24. Evening. Thoughts o f love—hungry In which m y s k ills fa ll out o f context. I f one is the se lf-o b lite ra tin g act. M y eyes look to a su r­ versed in chess, i t does not follow that he w ill s tirrin g s in the flu id s of m y body. The iro n y of face that they fa il to fin d . succeed in a place where football ru le s are in tim e , the fo lly of men—m usic flow s in m y veins I am c h ille d beyond the aid o f a warm shower— o rd e r. as I fe e l m y fa cia l m uscles stra in to c ry /n o t -c ry . A mouse in a tra p without the lu xu ry of cheese. I t takes about anhour in the morning to separate I want you. A c ry s ta llin e desire. A fe a r that I am I asked today about your le tte rs . They to ld me what happened o r is happening fro m the night­ not in your thoughts and heart w ells through me— that only one had been held b a c k .T e ll m y apathetic m ares of sleep. T h is is a recent acquisition o f m y I le t i t pass. 1 have learned that hope can be a frie n d s to w rite . psychic life . I am not sure i f i t w ill continue, weapon against me. I want you. (1 think of Bob Today I woke up fro m not-sleeping and i t was (i.e ., I was SURE that H illm a n was arre ste d , I Dylan.) The ra d io —a woman’ s voice— " I ’ l l be s t ill yesterday. I woke up . . .b a rs , other people. rem em ber the photo, the by-lin e .) coming home to you, Love. U n til the day I do, 1 LOVE YOU. I think about you u n til It bothers me to the point Love, P.S. I love you . . . " Sept. 23. 1 cannot continue to w rite controlled where I w ill talk, read an a rtic le in R.D. o r pace F orgive me m y bitte rn e ss. Human waste and ig ­ le tte rs that make me feel to ta lly im prisoned by the c e ll. But soon I am back—thinking again. Je norance tends to tw is t one a b it. Looking fo rw a rd the untruths of th is place. In one sense, I feel t ’ aime. that adm itting that I am being destroyed is in its e lf to Thursday. Sept. 29. Y our le tte rs came about 2 hours a fte r Sept. 29. Afternoon. T im e —again 1 struggle an act o f destruction. Yet m y strongest feelings in its grasp. I t feels as if a day has passed since you le ft—they were so warm that my environment te ll me that confronting m y weaknesses and fears I w rote the last y e tte r to you. I dread the lo n e li­ became mere incident and our life together became is the only a lte rn a tive to complete despair. ness of the weekend. I hate to watch tim e being I do not want to burden you with the knowledge of the only im portant thing. I fe lt strong— suddenly the bureaucratic games, the petty sim ple psych tram pled, slowly, slow ly . . . m y anxieties, but I can see no other course o f ac­ I lay down on the flo o r a fte r finish ing the last tric k s became as laughable and tra n sie n t as the tio n fo r m y “ sanity.” A t six in the m orning the le tte r. I fe lt cold. I wanted to sink into the cement wallspeaker overlaps its waking nightm are upon antagonisms of a stubborn house-fly. You looked ve ry beautiful to me—I was startled flo o r and dissolve. the long night’ s sleepless images. "C le a n u p those Duke was talking about his kids today. He has w et-dream sl Out of the ra c k t” I lay paralyzed, to be confronted w ith the image of m y thought- hopes a fte r the schizoid happenings of the past fiv e o f them. I feel a desire fo r children but I fear sensing the u n re a lity of the situation but finding It fo r them. Is i t m y paranoia, o r is the w o rld a fis t d iffic u lt to rem em ber what anything else was lik e . few days—they are of such frightening conse­ that squeezes the life -b re a th fro m those that want 1 sleep in two or three hour stretches—night quence to m y em otional s ta b ility that I cannot r e ­ life most? and day differ only in the contrast of the shadow cord o r confront them while I am s till in c a rc e r­ I fe e l m y life hinging on the decision of one man of the bars on the mottled concrete. ated. — in diffe rent in h is w o rld o f pap»er laws. I ’m not J im is short w ith black greasy h a ir, two teeth 1 hope my ra th e r uncontrolled, fru s tra te d be­ b itte r, hon, don’ t w o rry . Perhaps i f 1 w ere older a re m issing in fro n t, tatoos decorate his a rm s — h a vio r did not d istu rb you o r my m other too and m ore settled I would not feel that such a "1 love U , M o m ," a heart, a dagger. D rin ks, g re a tly. I get tire d of covering m y feelings w ith v ita l chunk of my Being was threatened. peanut butter and honey. I feel lik e th is is a game screw s, fights. T h u rsd ay , F e b ru a ry 1 , 1968 7 . . . letters fro m a p riso n cell to yo u r accusation "Y o u a re b a sica lly v e ry weak It Is somewhat easier now — the hardships no 1 re read your le tte rs today—your dream makes longer seem infinite. I know they will pass with em otionally.” me tre m b le inside. I fe e l as i f we know so lit tle the melting of the snow. o f one another yet so much. I ’ l l adm it that I’ m o v e rly concerned about p ro ­ jecting certain images of m yself: professing What do I say to you from the starving void of I Sept. 30. Evening. T h e radio played the M ichigan by existence? I want to communicate but I do not] State football game. 1 thought about the c o lo rs of pseudo-independency: a concern fo r a freedom that 1 do not re a lly want and actually HAVE i f I want to burden your freedom with the heaviness the crowded stand, about High School football of my thoughts. 1 want to tell you how I love you would stop pretending I don’t; avoiding m ature games and how young I was. when I know that our need is not words. com m itm ents, liv in g fo r today not because I am I lay on the flo o r—hungry fo r your w arm th, the I think ahead to future frustrations, the glass fu lly aware o f today but because I do not want to pulse of my heart heaving in m y stomach. M y wall between us. How will I nourish you when my| neck tightens and m y heart gains in heaviness— consider future re s p o n s ib ilitie s . T h a t's p a rt of senses are deprived of stimuli, my thoughts and I r o ll over on m y stomach. I decide to stop th in k­ the s to ry —I don’t have the fa c ilitie s to compose words of •experience, and my body of even the] ing of you—I t r y to re la x, you reappear, b rig h te r, a voluminous discourse at presentl simplest demands. What will make a promise c le a re r, but you evade m y grasp. Oct. 6. 8:30 p.m . I Just returned to m y c e ll— more exciting to you than someone else’s im­ T he day passes its hours slo w ly—constipated a flu r r y of questions. The guys trie d to encourage mediate presence? and bloated in its lack of fecundity. m e—I guess I look p re tty bad. I hope work is going well. I hope the bills Sunday noon dinner— unusually edible. We can I got your note—m y throat constricted w hile I will leave you enough to buy something new. la y oh the bunks, so I do. I anticipate a nervous trie d to stop the tears fro m m elting what little Oct. 13. Sentencing Day. Thursday was a very] week, fo r I have thought about the sentencing co n tro l I had le ft. I t wa s beautiful —4 feel the power bad day — anticipating your visit, fighting my­ a ll m orning. I tr y to p re pare m yself to do m ore of your love as I s it here, calm ing now fro m the self and my fate, and worrying sleepless into! tim e , anticipate the w o rs t— I cannot. M y lip s a re mounting despair. the flourescent light. White glare of fears, chapped, m y skin Is d ryin g , peeling on m y fe e t. I I cannot ask you to suffer the physical depriva­ doubts. do not e xe rcise any m ore— I y ie ld slow ly to in­ tio n s I must face but I would feel g ra te fu l i f I . You were beautiful today in court) I like your] e rtia . Reasons to go on occur seldom. knew that you could attem pt to d iscip lin e y o u r­ new dress. Don't dare cut your hair. I have had many thoughts on destiny and death s e lf in that which is dear to us both. L ife has much My problems now are yours. I will not require in these weeks. I wonder why we let so many d is ­ to give us if, as you say, we do what we m ust do the psychic attention of the past month — I know tra c tio n s confuse our liv e s and c rip p le o u r love fo r that which is g re a te r than eith e r o f u s—our what I must do, I understand my environment, fo r one another. Sometimes I am able to find union. M its psychology, and my private fears. Ego remains solace in the fa ct that life is fin ite —conscious­ I was so tense in c o u rt that I g r it m y teeth and' strength — It no longer has to face an infinite, ness would be such a burden i f i t lasted fo re v e r chipped one in fro n t. M y tongue touches its rough incomprehensible darkness. I can advise you and we did not understand ourselves b e tte r than edge. Take care o f yo u rse lf, m y parents. Love guide you with my love-thoughts. I can assure you we do now. m y frie n d s fo r me. I love you w ith a ll that I am a future worth the living, securities I did not think I have dreams that I do not get out of ja il and o r w ill ever become . . . You’ re beautiful. myself capable or mindful of. Do not fear to dis­ go mad w ith the thought o f not seeing you again. Oct. 9 I reread your la s t le tte r and i t knots cuss your difficulties. 1 am strong — soon I will T h e re are beaded s ta rs on the window outside m y throat lik e the f ir s t tim e I read i t . I t r y to be free to give you my strength in return for the bars. The sun is going down and I want to see outgrow m y jealousy and m y fe a r of jealousy. your patience. it. I think of how you wanted to see the sunset in I keep thinking of the people and who w ill be able I am capable of working now — I know what I Farm ington but the stru ctu re s of " c iv iliz a tio n ” to see you, ta lk , s m ile , o r touch you. I t r y to want now. You, a child, a place by the sea . . . overshadowed it . I would do m y tim e e a sie r i f I grow away fro m these fe a rs — death thoughts My dreams no longer carry me, wandering alone, did not have so much to come out fo r. I think that make the tim e unendurable. If I think of asking myself that which I cannot answer ( I look back to la s t T h u rs d a y --! do not re c a ll feeling Thanksgiving, C h ristm a s, weekends, and nights, at you, there Is no question, no answer). as fru s tra te d as when I stood behind that glass m y nerves rage in to a m illio n tin y strangling I love you now with thoughts for a lifetime — w a ll. I rem em ber when I used to desire an image hands. I am try in g . education, travel, children, the passing of many on a movie screen and how m y chest would ache. Your la s t le tte r was so v e ry beautiful. I do not seasons, together. You ask yourself about its I could not sleep la s t night u n til around t h r e e - doubt y o u r love — I fe a r change. I am strong reality. Do you remember a haunting Philadelphia thinking, thinking . . . Under 100 hours u n til I ’ m enough now to bear w hatever p ris o n holds fo r me, night when I confessed that I had always wakened sentenced. but not what you could do to me. Reassure me. to the realization of love only after 1 had al­ D riv in g fro m P h illy to Lansing, try in g to cook I anticipate the visits from many demons. I lowed it to pass? 1 have caught up with my elu­ ham burgers by an old skeet-shoot range, taking hope that I am prepared sufficiently to bear sive love-soul, named her in my mind’s heart, 1 p ic tu re s . . . Planning fo r a fu tu re and fe a rin g them. and given her your image. ' it, calm ing down, ro llin g over, your face in golden Keep In touch w ith m y parents — lean on one Walt for me. sunlight, Donovan, B il l and his d irty room ; I love another. D riv e , w alk, liv e c a re fu lly . Do not le t P.S. Sorry, Hon — cats GO. you and w a it w ith what strength is le ft m e. carelessness separate us m ore than i t has. (Is P.S.S. Pick up my clothes and leave the shoes. * * • It chance7 Punishment? M oira?) Oct 16. Time does not hast'- despite the relief Oct. 6. I t is F rid a y —I was NOT on the court Somehow, I s t ill cannot B ELIE VE th is situa­ of knowing my sentence. The continual confronta­ lis t th is m orningl Questions overlap—are you in tio n . 1 ask m y s e lf "H ow did I harm society. tion of emptiness is something that will not cease court? M y lawyer? Why did they le^ve me? T h e y M M Why does i t punish m e ? " In " O r ig in and H ls - | jto anger and frustrate me. flK i p won t te ll me what’ s happening. Im potent anger H i to ry . . . " look In the Index under "H e ro a rche-1 Conversation consists of crim es, fights, bar­ paces in the constructed passages o£ m y thoughts. type” and ’ C h r is t a rch e typ e ." An explanation, room incidents, and the unfaithfulness of wives. What do I do? What CAN I do? W ill 1 be e te rn a lly but not reassuring. Alternative activities are pacing, thinking, and sentenced to be sentenced? (I thini, of Camus— I do not fe e l that there Is anyone here but me laying on the floor. "M y th of Sysiphus” ) and that I am not h ere. I am lo s t. F ind me. Try to understand my experiences while you I have a le tte r fro m you dated T h u rs . m om . O ct. 11. Things a re b ustling. I get up at 6:00 are free to divert your own energies. My thoughts In it, you ask some questions that are im portant. fo r oatmeal, lay around, eat soup at 11 :00, pace a lead me down strange and sometimes frighten­ "Y o u have laughed at s ta b ility because youhave b it, shower, lay around, eat potatoes at 5:00, ing paths. I always carry your Image with me — never h a d it.” Y e s,Id e s p is e th e a s p e c to f the word play a ca rd game, lay around u n til i t ’ s tim e to on occasion I will become Insanely jealous or pos­ sn ’ ’ s ta b ility '' thaf connotes the in e rt, the unrespon­ lay around at 8:00 p j n . when we’ re allowed to sessive. It is because of having NO way of know­ sive. I adm ire the strength that is re q u ire d to la y around on the bunks. Ah, social re h a b ilita ­ ing what is happening in the worUUof the living) w ill, co n tro l, and overcom e fear, however. I have tio n . I am In a coffin, dead to all purpose, but still f P r b confronted the raw m a te ria l o f fe a r In these D id you fin d the unposted le tte r? The locket? conscious. The fluids of life and need flow weeks and have passed through the dregs o f many I got m y h a ir cut because It’ s Im possible to keep through me — I can only answer with MORE “ selves” I have p re vio u sly been successful in me and m y h a ir a liv e at the same tim e . P re tty control. escaping. soon I ’ l l be able to squeeze between the ba rs. I have come close to myself in a way that is Yes, I must say that I have rationalized, o r de­ I am not sure how I am going to deal w ith the hard to describe. One way that may startle flated the value of, situations in which I have fe lt tim e ahead o f me — i f the past is any indica­ you because it seems contradictory to what inadequate. 1 have come to be much m ore honest tio n , i t w ill be v e ry bad. God, I feel so p re ­ you have known is my desire for a home and a w ith m yself. I have never R E A LLY suffered be­ tentious try in g to w rite a " c h e e ry " le tte r. I chance to be responsible. You may think it is fo re . I was always opening avenues of escape in ask m y s e lf i f I can keep liv in g in th is m u rk . because I am confined — I have examined that the fo rm of people, a c tiv itie s , philosophies. I t is I f I do not tr y to fin d hum or, m y lack o f It w ill th e re fo re not our o f defense that I can say “ N o l” destroy m y hold on m yse lf. (C o n tin u e d on page 10) 3 M ichigan State News, E a s t L a n sin g , M ichigan BO O KM ARKS Standing with 3 0 0 at Therm opylae, awaiting annihilation By DAVE G IL B E R T T he Hat G ates by W illia m G o ld in g P o cke t Books 1967 A v a ila b le at P a ra m o u n t News Actually, this started as a letter to M r. Golding In a most Inappropriate and non­ newspaper style. In fact, I started the re­ view (7) with a discussion of another book of M r. Golding's, "The Spire"« But before I seappred my carefully scribbled effort, I looked It over again, and discovered at least one merit: I had been so affected by both "The Spire” and "The Hot Gates” that I didn’t want to do an ordinary review. I wanted to do something vital, alive, with artistic merit, and not a mish­ mash of platitudes or an English major’s re ­ hashing of theme, plot, etc. Which is to say I found both books to be extraordinary. "The Hot Gates" is a series of essays, ranging in content from the personal crosses M r. Golding must bear to his position of fabulist in "The Lord of the F lie s " . It is an amazing little volume. F o r example, you are not sup­ posed to become passionately involved in a w riter's reminiscences about a trip to Thermo­ pylae, site of the defeat of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans (unless you tend to bleed green S z e ll d i s p l a y s p r o w e s s and white). But something goes wrong. You don’t just sit with Golding on the bitter moun­ tain, enduring the searing heat, nor can you snap a few picturesque mind-slides and com­ in M o z a r t s o n a t a s ment, "Ah, what a setting for a novel!” In­ stead, you feel Irresistibly drawn to the past, By JIM ROOS ft has been processed w ith lovtag care fo r and you feel as though you are one of the un­ spacious stereo sound and ideal ensemble balance. lucky 300 soldiers, waiting in the heat of a Despite another deluge o f M ahler symphonies, Speaktag of “ ensem b le", that Is a subject Stockhausen "e x p e rim e n ts ” and B ruckner behe­ upon which Szell Is nearly fa n a tica l, bdeed, mountain pass for the hundreds of thousands of m oths, a perusal o f new recordings fo r January his approach to chamber m usic fo rm s the very Persians coming to annihilate you. You find turned up two discs which Indicate that H e rr basis of his conducting technique. yourself In the mind of one of the long-dead M o za rt continues to hold his place in the a ffe c t- b an interview w ith m u s ic o lo g is t-c ritic Paul soldiers, feeling that somewhere, sometime, you tio n s of m usicians and music lo ve rs a like . Henry Lang (published b High F id e lity M agazbe), should have done something, but the chance is The records to which I re fe r (Columbia re ­ S zell noted: ” 1 personally lik e complete homo­ gone and your fate is decided. Worse, you leases) feature George Szell in his usual ro le geneity o f sound, phrasing and a rticu la tio n w ithin realize that even if you had done something, as conductor, and also in a less frequently each section, and then— when the ensemble is it wouldn't have made any difference. documented capacity as p ia n is t. Although Szell perfect—rthe p ro per balance between sections plus Or take the essay, "Digging F o r Pictures” , generally d iscla im s exceptional talents as an com plete fle x ib ility — so that b each movement an account of a "rescu e dig" by Golding and in s tru m e n ta lis t, he began his m usical ca re e r one o r m ore p rin c ip a l voices can be accompanied some other amateur archaeologists in the Downs as a p ia n is t, b fa c t, at the age o f 17 he acted by oth ers. To put i t sim ply: the m ost sensitive of Southern England. The area of the "d ig " is to as both conductor and so lo ist in a perform ance ensemble p la y b g .’ ’ be made into a runway for the world’s largest o f Beethoven’ s demanding “ Em peror” Concerto airplane, and the bulldozers are right behind w ith the Vienna P hilh a rm o n ic. S ze ll's method w orks w e ll enough w ith M ozart the archaeologists. Golding has an intensely Since then S zell has ra re ly displayed his and other composers o f the classic p e rio d , but personal experience of horror in his find of a he is occasionally c ritic iz e d fo r an u ltra -p re c is e p la n is tlc prow ess, w ith the exception o f a few small mound, containing the skeleton of an old recordings he made about fifte e n years ago and somewhat d ry handling o f Romantic and woman atop an ancient rubbish heap, the vic­ w ith the Budapest S tring Quartet and Joseph post-Rom antic re p e rto ire . tim of what "m ay very well have been a pre­ S zigeti. historic murder.” The impossibility of lingering Now, taking advantage of new stereophonic T h is is not the problem b his account o f over this occurrence is Impressed upon Golding techniques, he decided to have some fun at M o za rt’ s V lo lb Concerto No. 3 w ith Issac Stern, by the Impatient bulldozers, steadily advancing the keyboard again, and ta so dob g turned to which takes up h a lf o f the second disc mentioned to flatten the burial mounds. Golding conjures fo u r o f M ozart’ s lo v e lie s t v io lin and piano sonatas previously. H ere is an amazing example of up the picture of technological society after (K . 376, 301, 304 and 296). ju s t what Szell meant when he re fe rre d to the technological society, hurrying in " its petty As his c o lla b o ra to r, S zell chose none other juxtaposition o f o rch e stra l inner voices and what pace’* to the total disregard of individual human than the concertm aster of the Cleveland O r­ one m ight te rm tbe concept o f hearing “ a ll tragedy. The world’ s largest airplane becomes ch e stra , Rafael D ru ia n . ft was a good choice the m usic at once.’ * a symbol of destruction, preparing to destroy because D ruian—-an Impeccable v io lin is t and solo­ Despite pleasantly b ris k tempos b the f ir s t uncounted numbers of human beings and leave is t in his own rig h t—proves a com pelling p a rtn e r and last movements—as in the M ozart sonatas— them in so many rubbish heaps, where their fo r Szell’ s p e rfe c tio n is t approach. c la rity is preserved, yet the to ta lity o f the bones may o r may not be discovered by some F o r one th in g , both p e rfo rm e rs a re exquisite m usic’ s im pression is le ft uncomprom ised. future archaeologists, who may o r may not have executants. In S ze ll’ s hands a ll o f M o za rt’ s Stern turns b some beautiful p la y b g to be time to evaluate the dried bones and tell the * notes and phrases fa ll into the rig h t places s u re , ye t his in terpreta tio n s trik e s m e as a world to stop and reconsider before a new and a re bolstered by a b rig h t, resonant, pearly t r if le o ve rb e a rb g . T h is Is especially evident generation of bulldozer shoves our dreadful sound. Druian com plim ents the m aestro’ s tim b re b his angular and aggressive approach to the remains back into the deep plt. w ith a singing tone, suitably dim inished vibrato f i r s t movement cadenza by Franko. As Golding puts it, "T here is a sense in which and fru itle s s intonation. fa fa c t, the perform ance Is somewhat la c k b g I share the guilt burled beneath the runway, a O f course, ft takes m ore than technical polish b the type o f re fle c tio n and poise I have heard sense in which my imaginart« has locked me to to make M o za rt shine and, happily, both p e r­ Stern bring to th is w ork b concert o r to his them.” You come away from "The Hot Gates” fo rm e rs know I t . They have avoided the p it­ previous recordings o f the M ozart 1st and 5th feeling precisely like that. fa lls o f clipped A lle g ro s o r sluggish Andantes C oncertl w ith S zell. 1 read "The Spire" in addition to "T he Hot and somehow have managed to adopt a tempo The other side o f the d is c , however, is a G ates", chiefly because I couldn’t remember much fo r each movement that seems absolutely “ rig h t” . re a l le t down. Stern acts as both conductor of "The Lord Of The F lie s " , and I didn’t see and v io lfa ls t together w ith v io lis t W alter T ra m p le r much promise in discussing s novelist's essays T h is is p a rtic u la rly tru e o f the K . 296 Sonata and members o f the London Symphony O rchestra without knowing something about the way in where the duo achieves near pe rfe ct re a liza tio n b M ozart’ s SlnfonJa Concertante. To one who which he write* novels. As I read with passion o f M o za rt's A lle g ro vivace m a rkin g , without is fa m ilia r w ith Stern’ s splendid 1952 re c o rd b g the essays, so I read with what amounts to rushing o r b lu rrin g a single d e ta il. Both a rtis ts w ith W illia m P rim ro s e and Casals conductbg^ a strange fear the novel. The style flows smoothly seem to re lis h th e ir task and they produce a th is new re cord prom ises e x c itb g p o s s ib ilitie s . from easy-going c o n v e r s a t i o n to very fine u n ity o f conception w hile swapping prom inence, But few o f them have been realized. description, which is to say nothing about the phrase fo r phrase. F o r some m ysterious reason Stern chooses ■tark terro r that seizes you from beginning to b both the second and th ird movements too, excessively deliberate tem pi and consequently end. This is not to say that there are no flaws In tric a te ornam entation is kept lu cid without spontaneity is lo s t. T ra m p le r, an outstandbg in the novel. Certainly the technical language, s a c rific in g the awareness o f M ozart’ s melodic with regard to the building of the church spire, v io lis t, produces a so lid , but lig h tly shaded tone, lb e , nor the poetry o f expression. la incomprehensible other than symbolically to b the A lle g ro maestoso he and Stern w ork w ell b sh o rt, we have here a recording o f tru ly (C o n tin u e d on page 12.) rem arkable m usical team w ork, and fortunately (C o n tin u e d on page I I . ) T h u rsd ay , F e b ru a ry 1 , 1968 9 PO ETRY It ’s M i n e Caught in the rum pled m ind M y m uscle sweat permeates The tongue's taste. C itie s flo w , ebbing On the bed-sheet ground. C a rs ru sh , tangle, push T o im pregnate im m o b ile land. Nothing of m ine grows Except a lit t le flesh; And the ground encrusts the fu tile lunge. Each potent mind has conceived a visio n , T rie s to th ru s t It Into h e r, then fe lt H is s te rile g ro in . O f those m ile s o f love Passing through m y bedroom curtains, I have lie d ; fo r they w e re a ll made On th is sexless journey. In th is w orthless residue We fin d ourselves each sight O r day; in th is , o u r own. B u ilding to the clim a x a* o u r life . d o w n current i tipped in new ink the c ro w 's w ing q u ill« s w ift p ic tu re lines against a sky o f cold low clouds and curved around a down c u rre n t it tw is ts a thread law , i t c rie s and dies, decendlng cold a rro w stra ig h t s trik in g its claws on the hunter’ s c a ll II c u rle d around a down cu rre n t Photo by J im R ic h a r d so n a crow was lu re d his shotgun wound spreading and cu rle d around a down c u rre n t Coast, AM. a man was lu re d his parachute open and combat boots bent at the knees a match Pacific In p ra y e r above the w o rld lu re d towards the shotgun wound e a c h h a n d h o l d s that n e r v o u s b u r n i n g a love to c lo t the w o rld I t s s m o k e c u r l s the a i r In h is p ra y e r Y e sta rd a ys sunned-rocks a c u rre n t u n d e rlin e s Its m ovem ent A r e c r a c k e d open , c o l d m c o n n e cts o u r in n e r draft S h a n gh ie d on landscape a n d r o o m to p o m b u i l d s a fo g; R o l l e d in f o g do u g h . nothing is ille g a l In k illin g crow s t it s e e m s that f o l l o w i n g the s u n - B a r e f o o t ; li q u i d s a l t the re d leaves sillhouette laced boots c a n be a fu t i le hunt, s h i n y s w o r d s O n a r a w coast, and hunters brush the new snow s o o n lose g l o s s The wound b u rn s deeper ru bbed by ye llo w in g clou ds. In m y w o o l coat. wounded, the crow fa lls to his death th e m a n y t i m e s y o u h a v e lit up W a v e , w a v e o v e r w ave . d w i n d l e in c o n s t a n t p r o g r e s s i o n , W h a t c a r v e d in le t and wounded, the man fa lls to his earth T r a p s h e r w arm th. M y body a n d w ith e a c h n e w p a c k o p e n e d it s e e m s the l a s t tw e n ty ; L a y e v e r y bet o r is I t wounded, the man fa lls to his death and wounded, the crow fa lls a f e v e r b u r n s at e a c h c i g a r e t t e ' s e n d A m o n g se agu ll s w i r l s w a i t i n g f o r the l o o p i n g s u n s e t to be f l i c k e d . down on his lo n e ly earth R o y B r y a n , E a s t L a n s i n g jun io r, h a s Surface I Buy It, Everytime b e e n p u b l i s h e d in " Z f i t g e i s t , ” and la s t t e r m h i s w o r k a p p e a r e d in the O c t o b e r Tension Y e t , a s t r a n g e c a l l b e c k o n s c o n s t a n t ly , T h e r e - - s i f t in g th rough e lu s iv e h o le s (p u n c h e d 12th i s s u e o f " C o l l a g e . ” S k i m m i n g w ater, b u g s In t h e s e g r e y c l o u d s ) f a l l s H e ' i s c u r r e n t l y i n v o l v e d in o r g a n i z - F l i r t the s k i n ; The J o u r n e y 's sta rt; in g a p o e try re a d in g . Stu d e n ts and f a c - E y e s to u ch t a u g h t l y s t r u n g . Sturdy B e a m s u l t y w i l l r e a d t h e i r o w n w o r k s at T h e C ity cre ased, villa g e w orn of a sse rte d siz e s. P i t r e s t a u r a n t o n W e d ., F e b r u a r y 7, s t a r t i n g at 8 :3 D p .m . E y e s n e r v o u s l y hunt A t r e m b l e o f lo v e G r a s p one, i t ' s a o n e w a y t r i p T o w et s h r i v e l e d s e e d s . A n d th e s a l e s m a n i s s o s m o o t h . 10 M ichigan State News, E a s t L a n sin g , M ichigan Letters from a prison cell M e: " I believe that God is love — C h ris t is I do not want to ’ convey to you that I am (Continued f r o m page 7) a sym bol.” steeped In s e lf-p ity although there Is an ele­ possibility. If It was just a reaction to confine­ Chaplain: "T H E R E ’ S yo u r problem . U n til you m ent of i t creeping up m y spine, entering m y ment, my desire would be to try to "make It re a liz e you a re sin fu l and insignificant you w ill m ind fro m behind. up” by fast and Impulsive living. never be saved!” (angry) The chattering of the id io t inm ates, the bla re It is more than that and you are Inseparable W ell you know what the re s t of the dialogue is . o f the ra dio, the in a c tiv ity — I s t ill do not have from it. The prospect of another four more We talked about, w a r — he to ld me that God was books — a ll add to a m ental state that I know is months sickens and threatens me. I do not want on our side, that we had to destroy Communism. d iffic u lt fo r you to understand. Sometimes I to return to find tht you have skirted your role The fact that we would destroy the w o rld as the don’ t even want to te ll you. I wonder i f you In this situation. Handle the financial curse, re­ odds of nuclear w a r increased d id n 't seem to c a re . It’ s hard to su ffe r alone. gardless of what you would rather do. Accept the change his m ind. " I served m y two y e a rs,” he I do not masturbate. I don’ t feel I can expose one physical deprivation, I promise that you sa id . He than ran down to me his b e lie f that something that is a p a rt of us to th e in d ig n ity will not be sorry. At least you have food, friends, a ll college students who t r y pot should be locked that surrounds me. Occasionally, I awake find ­ music, entertainment, books — all of which up along w ith conscientious objectors. T here’ s ing that I have had a w et-dream , and loneliness seem like great luxuries to me. m ore, but I think you have the idea. pours into me. Evaluate your love — am I what you want? Do O ct. 18. F o r the la s t hour o r two I have been I do not know i f i t Is the calculated psych- you value my word? Most Important do you re s tle s s ly pacing the flo o r of the c e ll, rereading outs of this place, the sensual deprivation, m iss­ believe me and IN me? Excedrln and unemploy­ yo u r le tte rs , p e rfo rm in g m y d a ily ritu a l of ing you and the things we could be doing together, ment are in the past. I promise you more than self-evaluation, and using m y powers to com ply o r a combination — whatever — it 's w orking a shoulder for crying — trust me. If you want w ith the absurdity of m y fate, w aiting fo r the in to me. I fig h t, fin d m yself sta rtin g to harden, us, act for us NOW. If you don’t, don’t delude my communal pencil to a rriv e . A t la st i t comes hate — then wonder I f I'm not w rong In not re ­ time, my love, my thoughts. I have already and I reach fo r i t w ith hunger. m aining open to the sufferin g. M ost often, I realized that Owen is an Image you no longer F o rg ive me fo r the anxious le tte r of Monday. have no choice — I su ffe r. need strive to replace. I am not negating her as When I read your comments about human in­ Do you feel that I am weak because this brings a person. I am saying that I have a more com­ s e n s itiv ity and your charges against me, I be­ me such pain and I allow i t to? plete, honest, and realizable relationship with came v e ry upset. As you can probably under­ I think about how I w ill react when I am you. I do not need to worship you to love you, stand, lack of im m ediate communication, in an fin a lly released and discover you have le ft me idealize you to feel the pain of the lack of environm ent devoid of any p o sitive s tim u li, can in some way (fo r a moment, p hysica lly; emo­ your presence. be extrem ely fru s tra tin g . tio n a lly through lack o f empathy; perm anently 1 feel as If I bore you, sometimes, with my I do not want you to doubt o r question the through an im m ediate need). I t r y to build de­ prattle, praise, promises and pedantic ultima­ existence of m y love fo r you. You m ust under­ fenses but re a lize that it is only another face tums. I am a man out of my element. I have stand that the metaphor of "s in k in g ships” is of s e lf-p ity . sought to cultivate that which is most beautiful a phase in m y psychic life . It is one, I can as­ and human within myself, and it is Just those sure you that has passed into obselescence. It takes courage fo r me to not think of the qualities that cause me the greatest pain. T im e — s till m y enemy. ra zo r-b la d e when i t comes In . D istorted, violent I wonder at your world, your activities. The Y o u r le tte rs are m ore im portant to me than dream s haunt my sleep and waking. color of the window changes from blue to black, I can explain. The day centers around th e ir a r­ In the hole - - blood on the w a lls, death clos­ ever so slowly — the painted backdrop of the r iv a l. I am v e ry much alone. M y thoughts a re ing in — a fe a r o f one of us dying without the theatre’s worst play. w ith you continually. I ’ m not being fig u ra tive other! A dream — howling faces, teeth, eyes — Friday — waiting in the "bull-pen” — an old in the la s t statement. W rite , please. I f only i t ’ s many of them coming toward us — I stand In man has an attack, rolls his eyes, (dutches his to te ll me a few b rie f Im pressions. I am sta rv­ fro n t of you, shoot a few , then tu rn to you, heart, swallows his tongue, falls to the cement. ing fo r stim u lu s. I need to know your thoughts, p u ll the trig g e r to p ro te ct you — you m isunder­ L ater, a 17-year-old, skinny, pimples and red fe e lin gs. stand, shriek (your face!!). I waken, sweating, nose cries by himself. I am very lonely. O ct. 20. It is w ith the greatest d iffic u lty that shaking. Am 1 growing dim to you? Is a shade In a coun­ I do not become the anim al I am made to resem ­ Why must I experience so seriously? So in­ ty jail worth living for? February — skiing? b le . The lim its of m y thoughts and aspirations tensely? I want to be numb, to sleep fo r fo u r March — the fourthl April 28, May 201 I hope narrow w ith each hour. I have a ll I can do to m onths. 1 can look forward to them when the holidays prevent m yse lf fro m entering the game of Hate I love you. come. as I fe e l m y mind being squeezed, m y emo­ Y our husband I think the only way I will be able to do this tions choked. time Is to numb my mind — train myself not to think. If you have any Idea how to do that, let me know. I have nightmares — mostly about violent deaths. I wake up shakey, sweating. I fear that something will happen to take us from one C o v e r notes another. Moods — I’m learning about mine. I love you. Oct. 17. Today for the first time, I was let out In the hall to scrub the walls. I saw for the first time what the cell looks like from the "outside.” It was a very "shocking” experience! I looked at the pale, almost lifeless bodies lying P ic tu r e d on th e c o v e r o f C o l­ on the floor. It was a mausoleum,and I was one of the corpses. Nerve-heat, my knees cavedl (It la g e is M ic h a e l Jo h n s o n , I n k s te r , frightened me tp have such an Intense physical s o p h o m o r e , w ho is m a jo r in g in reaction.) Then, after I had been scrubbing an hour, try­ a r t . Jo h n s o n h e lp s e a r n h is w ay ing to calm down (God, don’t let me blow it throu gh s c h o o l d oin g p a s t e ls an d now!) the "chaplain” of the jail came to see me. s k e t c h e s o f stu d en ts on c a m p u s. He went to the counseling room next to the visit­ ing area. He Is middle aged, soft, with stark S o m e o f h is w o r k m ay he p a r t brown eyes behind lenses, dark hair, oiled and o f th e B la c k Student A rts F e s ­ waved. After he did not offer his hand, the following occurred: tiv a l, s c h e d u le d f o r th e begin n in g Chaplain: "A re you in on use or peddling of o f s p r in g t e r m , an d s p o n s o r e d marijuana?" Me: "U se. I need someone to talk to . . I’m by th e n ew ly f o r m e d B l a c k S tu den t having serious emotional and nerve problems. . . ” A llia n c e . He straightens his lapel, gives me an intent, authoritarian stare. A c c o rd in g to m e m b e r s o f th e Me: " I seem to be over-reacting to my en­ a llia n c e , th e p u r p o s e o f th e f e s ­ vironment. I do not 'Interact’ In any way — I tiv a l is to d e v e lo p s o c i a l c o n ­ find myself alienated and repulsed. My nerves and my thoughts are adding to my physical s c io u s n e s s a m o n g b la c k stu d en ts deterioration. I live mostly at the whim of h e r e , an d to d e s t r o y th e m yth my unconscious. I am preoccupied with death and morbidity. I'm becoming spiteful and I th at A m e r ic a n N e g r o e s h a v e no don’t want to. I notice many obvious schlzo- c u ltu re . | phrenic tendencies in myself.’ ' : Chaplain: "Have you ever received any psy­ T en ta tiv ely , th e f e s t i v a l w ill chiatric ca re ?" in clu d e a r t e x h ib its , j a z z s e s ­ Me: " I was suicidal for a period at school and went to an analyst. His reactions were s io n s , an d w o r k s h o p s . quite Shallow, so I didn’t see him again. Chaplain: "Have you received Christ as your Savior?” Me; "What do you mean?’* > Chaplain: "Do you belle*« that man Is de­ praved and can only find salvation through the Son o< God?" J T h u rsd ay, F e b ru a ry 1, 1968 |f M S U moviegoers find variety B y JIM Y O U S L IN G film s and an occasional dip into oddities like "F re a k s ” and "S um m erskin.” Two years ago, MSU was a motion p ictu re A fte r paying th e ir debts, however, they have wasteland. T h e re was an International F ilm started a second series as w ell. W ith the a rt film s S eries—an Establishm ent group that packed ’ em shown on F rida ys, they are now devoting Saturdays in at F a irc h ild fo r film s as good as "M a fio s o ” to Hollywood classics, offering Mae West and and as com m erical as ‘ ‘L illie s o f the F ie ld .” Garbo fe stivals. MSU had thenewM HA-W IC series which generally EXPLORING CINEMA SOCIETY (based at the showed tra sh lik e "U n d e r the Yum Yum T re e ” Union P a r l o r s ) : T h is group, supported by fo r only 10 cents. And fin a lly , there was the donations and the U n ita ria n Church, has constant­ struggling MSU F ilm Society which, under the ly presented excellent, obscure and shocking film s leadership of Doug Lackey, supplied the campus fro m the Underground plus an occasional goodie in te lle ctu a ls w ith film s that were v e ry old o r lik e W.C. F ields o r "42nd S treet.” v e ry eso te ric. W ith the exception of the F a ir ­ In addition to these m ajor groups, we find ch ild series, no one was making money. film s being shown at T H E SCENE. ACT II C of­ Then la s t year something happened: the film fee House, at the Edgewood Church, at in ­ groups began s p littin g , changing, try in g to be dividual dorm s, in JMC courses, and as a to ta lly heard. The International series outgrew F a ir­ unpublicized pa rt o f the PAC Season Coupon ch ild . T he MHA-W IC group organized, raised serie s. p ric e s to 25 cents and began to advertise heavily. Why th is sudden interest in film s? Why, when And the F ilm Society fe ll apart. F rank L e a h - two years ago you couldn’t find anything to do at ey, who had been helping out Lackey’ s successor, MSU, are you now swamped with so many film H arvey Goldman-, began to c ry s ta lliz e his U n i­ groups that you can’ t keep them a ll straight? ta ria n C hurch-supported E xploring Cinema So­ T he answer may be simple: an e n tire generation c ie ty . Due to a series of expensive, poorly-pub­ has grown on m ature, high-quality film s . Even lic iz e d and unsupported showings o f French a rt “ T im e Magazine” has noted that "cinem a has film s , the F ilm Society ended up the year $800 eration ot a rtis tic value. They are fo r those become the fa vo rite a rt fo rm of the young.” F o r in debt. who lik e "a good m ovie” at a low p ric e . the f ir s t tim e since the advent of tele vision, movie I t began to look lik e MSU sim p ly would not INTERNATIO NAL F IL M SERIES (based at the attendance is setting re cord highs. Even te le ­ support good film s unless they were backed A uditorium ): W hile not p a rtic u la rly knowledge­ visio n has turned into a movie dispenser. (Next and publicized by the U n iv e rs ity its e lf. able about motion p ictu re a rt, th is group does season NBC w ill have a p rim e -tim e m ovie every F in a lly , MSU became film conscious. Over an excellent job of finding unusual entertainm ent nightl) the summer, the off-cam pus theaters jumped such as the Nureyev-Fonteyn b a lle t s e rie s and Here at MSU, A r t W eld’ s “ H isto ry of the Motion fro m fo u r to six. T he on-campus film groups such tasteful " l i t t l e ” film s lik e "T h e Shame­ P ic tu re ” course has grown fro m a few dozen blossomed. Tw o years ago, h a rd ly anyone at less Old L a d y.” Only ra re ly do they s lip into students to over 150 in only two years. In fact, MSU knew who In g m a r Bergman and Federico the banalities o f something lik e "T h e Shaggy the film h is to ry department needs desperately to F e llin i w ere. Now, showing "T h é V irg in S pring” Dog.” be expanded fro m one te rm to a year-long survey o r " J u lie t of the S p irits ” seems alm ost as CINEMA GUILD (based at W ells H a ll): T h is lik e die A r t H is to ry series. Likew ise, the f ilm - co m m e rcia l and p ro fita b le as a D o ris Day movie. group, which serves as a fu n d -ra is e r fo r Stu­ making courses have swollen fro m a handful of Even the State T h e a tre has taken to holding a rt dents fo r a D em ocratic Society (SDS), was born f ilm enthusiasts to over 60 per te rm . film fe s tiv a ls . when the F ilm Society went bankrupt la s t spring. Whatever the causes, the effects are obvious. T o help the bew ildered keep the many series T hey show consistently good film s by such w e ll- MSU students are interested in the cinema as stra ig h t, here is the latest run-down o f local known d ire c to rs as Bergman, Antonioni and E isen- a r t as w e ll as the m ovies as entertainm ent. Our film societies: stein. film groups are, fo r the m ost p a rt, o f a f ir s t MHA-W IC (based at Brody, W ilson and Con­ MSU F IL M SOCIETY (based at Anthony H all): ra te quality and, fo r the f ir s t tim e, are doing rad): T h is 25 cent series supplies funds fo r Having cut a ll tie s w ith SDS, die F ilm Society a good business. And fin a lly , the campus can o ffe r M H A-W IC . They re ly exclusively on the newest was reorganized as a n o n -p ro fitg ro u p .T h e ir film film g o e rs some re lie f when the loca l theatres m oney-m akers fro m Hollywood ( “ T he Chase,” tastes have been alm ost identical to those o f the decide to hold "T h u n d e rb a ll” o r " T o S ir With "T h e Carpetbaggers” ), to ta lly w ithout consid- Cinema Guild, w ith m ostly w ell-established a rt Love” fo r an e n tire te rm . You name it, sex can sell it sedan and dream ing about owning a convertible. (Continued f r o m page 3 .) In A sla ,w h e re the advertising buslnessis boom­ ing w ith a 15 p e r cent y e a rly increase in volum e, Whether i t Is the symbols o r the s k irts that s e ll count executive, said i t was not repeated due to its "se a so n a l nature.” A July in se rtio n in the ads often use blatant v ir ilit y symbols and vivid products. It seems c le a r that sex is here to stay illu s tra tio n s o f busty m odels. E x p lic it advertise­ in a dvertisin g. Sex is used by the a d ve rtise r to New Y o rk T im es was scheduled, but when the ments fo r contraceptives a re not uncommon. draw attention to his product, to identify i t w ith T im e s saw the ad they turned it down fo r " to o Ads w ith sexy Japan models flopped in Thailand sex appeal and to put i t in a ttra ctive surround­ much cheek,” perhaps another understatement where there is a low opinion of Japanese sex ings to enhance its image. w ith pun intended. appeal. One wonders what the d is c rim in a tin g Thais The advertising w ith sex presents a w orld of The T im es was not so conservative in another m ight think o f Tw iggy. smooth skin and p re tty faces on the pages o f case when they ran an ad fo r a New Y o rk c lo th ie r A nude male model appeared in an underwear magazines and on the television screen where w ith a self-confident headline “ Howard makes ad in P a ris magazines w ith the copy surprlnted even black eyes a re painless lit tle black rin g s. clothes fo r men who make babies.” O ther New on his d e rrie re . " J u s t about where the eye would It is the w orld o f beautiful people doing beautiful Y o rk papers refused to run the ad and a fte r one n a tu ra lly be drawn by c u rio s ity ,*’ in the words of things, and its only danger lies in the chance that showing in the T im e s the ad was withdrawn at the the copy ch ie f o f the agency that did the ad. The someone re a lly m ight take i t se rio u sly, ft m is t be request o f the Im provement of A dvertising Consent ad was used because i t received a favorable re­ taken with a grain o f sa lt fo r its re a lity does not C om m ittee. action when tested w ith women, who buy 65 per extend beyond the printed page. Norman B . N orm an, president of . the agency that created the ad, said, "S e x has always been cent o f th e ir husbands' underwear in the low p rice a p a rt o f a d ve rtisin g , but it has uspajly stayed on bracket. the frin g e . Now we are encouraging o u r copy­ Admen sometim es c a rry sex as a means of w rite rs to ta lk m ore openly and lib e ra lly about sex.” persuasion beyond the obvious melange o f p ic tu re - p e rfe c t flesh and suggestive headlines into the Mozart- M o rt W im pie, a N o rm a n , C ra ig , and Kummel nether w o rld o f in n e r m otives and Freudian sym­ executive, said the idea o f the Howard clothes b o ls. (Continued fro m page 8 .) ad was to "s h o w men doing thingsassociatedw lth Norman B . Norman pops up again, th is tim e as together echoing each other’s phraslngs, but being successful.” the A jax knight in shining white a rm o r. Norman the tempo drags. The Andante too sounds A ll th is Is a fa r c ry fro m the H oleproof H osiery employed his w hite knight to s e ll cleanser when a over-calculated and studied, while the last move­ ads o f the e a rly 1900* s , which a re cre d ite d w ith psychologist to ld h im that 90 p e r cent of the house­ ment Presto lacks the joy and bouyancy one the introduction o f “ cheesecake” to a d ve rtisin g . wives in A m erica would lik e to supplement th e ir normally associates with It. The H oleproof ads had the audacity to show sex liv e s . The w hite knight supposedly symbolizes It Is interesting to note that although most drawings o f a g i r l re ve a lin g h e r le g s , including strength and power to meet ths need. performances oftheSinfonla last about 25 minutes. portions w e ll above the knee, hi addition, the legs In "T h e Hidden Persuaders,” Vance Packard Stern’s tempos have stretched the work to nearly w ere covered w ith , not the tra d itio n a lly accepted w rite s at length about the use o f m otivational re ­ 32 minutest w hite cotton, but ra th e r questionable black s ilk . search In a d ve rtisin g . The re s e a rc h e rs, says Thus, if you're looking for a completely satis­ The fla p p e r age cam e, and women began to buy P ackard, have examined consumers’ needs and fying record of this musical gem I don’t think s ilk stockings by the m illio n s , hi 1926 C hesterfield p e rso n a litie s alm ost to the point where consum­ you’ll find It in this soporific performance. put the f ir s t woman in a cig a re tte advertisem ent. e rs can be manipulated without re a liz in g i t . When For those who a re interested in a nearly She did not smoke but, looking adoringly upon the a couple Is looking fo r a house fo r Instance, ideal version, I refer them to Yehudi Menuhin, m anly fig u re d smoking next to h e r, m urm ured the man sees a house as a sym bolic m other and the Bath Festival Orchestra and the marvelous “ Blow some my way.” the woman sees the house as an extension o f her Russian violist Rudolf BarshaL Here Is music Today women a re in a ll kinds o f a dvertising own p e rso n a lity. The m otivation conscious adver­ making that mixes exuberance with abandon and fo r th e ir pow er o f a ttra c tio n , drawing attention tis e r , th e re fo re , should stress w a rm th , safety lyricism with understanding. Also, Barshal's to such highly sexed products as Alcoa Alum inum and co m fo rt to the man and s ty le ,d e co r and beauty burnished viola sound dovetails extraordinarily and A r t M e ta l F ile Cabinets. Those who t ir e of to the woman. wi t h Menuhin's Prince K h e v e n h u e l l e r the continuing exploitation o f sex appeal fo r com­ E rnest D lc h te r, president o f the Institute fo r Stradlvarius. m e rc ia l purposes may take some co m fo rt in the M otivational Research, has said that men see con­ As for the Mozart G major Concerto, 1 have fa c t that i t Is not e n tire ly an A m erican phenome­ v e rtib le s as sym bolic m istresses and sedans as yet to hear a performance as musically adroit non. fa ith fu l w ives. T h e re fo re , they end up buying a as that of Gioconda DiVlto’ s with Rafael Kubelik. 12 M ichigan State N ew s, E a s t L a n sin g , M ichigan T h u rsd ay, F e b ru a ry 1, 1968 V ie tn a m u n d e r th e F re n c h (C o n tin u e d fr o m page 5.) Vietnam promptly recognized the DRV aa the de facto government of their zone and cooperated im p e ria lis m .” However, there was mutual sus­ with It. The British, however, refused to do so in picion and d is tru s t between the V ietm inh and their occupation zone and in fact operated in .a Kuomlntang authorities fro m the beginning. The manner to make possible the speedy return at la tte r, no doubt, feared the peasant and revolu­ French control. tio n a ry orientation of the fo rm e r. Major Douglas Gracey was the commanding officer of the British occupying forces. Only 10 It soon became cle a r to Ho Chi M inh and his per cent of these forces were made up of English­ fo llo w e rs that none o f the victo rio u s A llie d powers men, the remainder being mostly Indian m er­ was re a lly much concerned about Vietnamese in ­ cenaries. The British forces began pouring into dependence o r w ith im plem enting the noble ideals South Vietnam on September 12. They delayed that had been proclaim ed during the w a r. P re s i­ the disarming of the large number of Japanese dent Roosevelt had m ore than once expressed his troops in their zone, and in fact even utilized conviction that the French had no rig h t whatsoever them in military operations against the Vietminh to be in Vietnam , but he was dead. Had he s t ill militia and police forces. The British also been a live, things m ight ve ry w e ll have been quite rearmed the 5000 French troops which had been d iffe re n t as fa r as U.S. Asian p o licy was con­ interned by the Japanese. Commenting (in Tokyo) cerned. H a rry S. Trum an, the new president of the on the British use of Japanese forces against the United States, a country on w hich Ho and other Vietnamese patriots, General MacArthur vehem­ V ietm inh leaders had come to place hope fo r ently declared to an American journalist: "If support, had no intention o f contributing to the there is anything that makes my blood boil it is demise of French control over Indochina. When to see our allies in Indochina and Java deploying the T rum an A dm inistratio n announced that i t was Japanese troops to reconquer these little people o ffe rin g France $160 m illio n w orth of vehicles we promised to liberate. It is the most Ignoble and miscellaneous equipment fo r use in Indochina, Japanese forces In the northern zone. According kind of betrayal.'* Ho re a lis tic a lly recognized that the United States to the A m erican JournalistH aroldlsaacs.w how as Among the people of the United States there was prepared to help the French bear the cost of there at the tim e , the Vietnamese "w e re at the was little if any understanding of, or interest in, reconquest. Sobered but undaunted, Ho sadly con­ m e rcy o f the Chinese, and w h ile the Chinese what was going on in the unhappy land of Vietnam. fided to an A m erican jo u rn a lis t: "W e apparently w e re m o m e n ta rily frie n d ly —at least not u n frie n d - By December of 1945 the French had well over stand alone. We shall have to depend upon ou r­ ly —no one In the V ie tm in h government, least of a ll 50,000 troops in South Vietnam, many of them s e lv e s ." Ho C hi M lnh, could m istake the rapacious Kuom­ m ercenaries. With these forces they were able to The French speeded up the w ithdraw al o f the lntang m ilita r is ts fo r apostles of fre e d o m ." reestablish complete control over Cochin-China. Chinese occupation forces fro m N orth Vietnam The Chinese occupation forces w e re under the North Vietnam, however, still remained under the w ith a p o litic a l deal concluded at Chungking on command of General L u Han, one o f the no­ control of the Vietminh. F e b ru a ry 28, l946.C onsiderlngC haingK ai-shek’ s to rio u s "Yunnan opium g e n e ra ls ." The re cord Kuomlntang forces began entering their occu­ many a n ti-im p e ria lis t tira d e s during the w a r, the of plunder, co rru p tio n, and "le g a liz e d " extor­ pation zone from neighboring Yunnan province In Kuomlntang w ith th is deal in effect sold out tio n o f the Kuomlntang hordes was one the China at the end of August, 1945. Their total Vietnamese nationalism to W estern im p e ria lis m . inhabitants of the areas probably never fo rg o t. strength reached 180,000 men—far more than F ran ce, however, paid a heavy p ric e . Among other N evertheless, L u Han cooperated w ith the V ie t­ were really needed to take the surrender of the things, Chinese nationals in Indochina w ere to en­ m in h and le ft them la rg e ly undisturbed in th e ir jo y the same rig h ts as F rench nationals re sid in g a d m in is tra tio n o f the no rth e rn zone. Vietnamese these, Chinese goods w ere to be exempt fro m and Kuomlntang flags flew side by side o ver public ft taxes and fees at the p o rt o f Haiphong, and France places. U nlike the B ritis h , the Chinese p ro m p tly was to surre n d er a ll ra ilro a d rig h ts in Yunnan d isarm ed the Japanese in th e ir zone, and the 3500 Other w a r’ F re n ch troops w e re kept disarm ed and semi­ in te rn e d . F o r a w h ile the V ietm inh leaders prob­ province. W ith the conclusion o f this ra th e r cynical deal, the Kuomlntang hordes departed. W ith th e ir departure, rapacious as they had been, the V ie t­ a b ly even believed that Chiang K ai-shek had (C o n tin u e d fr o m page 5.) namese nationalists lo s t th e ir only support and the meant i t when he said during W orld W ar II that And not only can political warfare be conducted w ay was paved fo r the attempt to re sto re French "th e end of the w a r m ust b rin g w ith i t the end of colon ialism by the sw ord. by nations or blocs of nations only, but it is practiced by members of the university com­ munity as they hold rallies,'write leaflets or at­ tempt to force the administration Into a mis­ step. P o litic a l w a rfa re , then, is the combatative maneuvering o f men, m a te ria ls, and events in * p o litic a l, economic, and psychological arenas to win v ic to rie s which w ill gain strength o r sup­ p o rt, o r weaken one’ s opponents. Paperbounds on your It is obvious fro m th is that aggressive p o litic a l w a rfa re on a worldw ide scale is directed toward the achievement o f longterm global goals. And it reading list? is s im ila rly obvious that in a com petitive w orld, GONE WITH where one side p ra ctice s offensive p o litic a l w ar­ T H E WIND fa re extensively and successfully, the o th e r side m ust do so a lso , o r u ltim a te ly It cannot su rvive . By M argaret M itch e ll Paperback ............ $1.25 G o ld in g review W inner o f the P u litz e r P riz e , GONE WITH THE WIND is m ore than a m ovel about A m erica— i t is a book (Continued fr o m page 8 .) that has become p a rt of the A m e ri­ anyone who has not had a course in English can tra d itio n . architecture. But this does not impair the impression the book makes. T H E 10 B E S T -S E L L IN G P A P E R B A C K S "The Spire" is the story of the building of 1. V a lle y o f the D o lls 6. Good 01’ Snoopy a spire to reach some 400 feet high in an era 2. T he Secret o f Santa V itto ria 7. The C ountry Team where more than a hundred feet was considered 3. W aiting fo r W in ter 8. H e ll’ s Angels lmpossiblle. It is also the s to ry of a p rie s t 4. The Adventurers 9. In Cold Blood obsessed with a vision, who carries i t out to the 10. Gone With the Wind utter destruction of the four people he loved most, only to find in the ferocity o f a storm that he has "traded a stone hammer for four people." The "stone hammer" of the spire is neither completely destroyed as a sign to tell the priest, OOKVOReS Jocelln, that he should have picked the world of men, nor does it stand firm on the sinking church foundations as a symbol that he was justified in adhering to the world of God. As Jocelln dies, he says, "Now—I know nothing at a ll." The realization that you can never know which choice you should have made is the theme of the essay, "The Hot G ates". There you feel, O v e r 100 Publi shers with the 300 Spartans, that you are making a Stocked in our Wa r e h ou s e choice , , and if it is the wrong one, no other choice would have been any better. Don’t Forget Our B ig What I mean to say is that M r. Golding has put us within the sphere of truth. We feel, after the experience of his work, the pull of Ufa and death ig>on our own threats, and we Pre-inventory Sale Journey through Joy and terror to the tethered Going on today & tomorrow ends of our own