Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan BOOKMARKS Prison Break, by R. Wm. Bryan Lilith Press, 1968, $1.25 Available at Campus Books R. Wm. Bryan's first volume of poetry- opens like a prison break: quietly, with much skilled planning and the tense sweat¬ ing of men with something to risk. The im¬ ages are suggestive, casual, unalarming; they aim at taking by surprise. The opening poem. ' Coastal Poem, es¬ capes in just that manner; the only flaw is why Bryan wants it to escape The poem is about storms, with both natural and Director David Gilbert sexual allusions. The images are sensual, Executive Editor Michael O'Neal the associations clear to anyone with Graphics Sandy Moflat enough time to sit down and figure them Cameron Phillips. Doug Elbinger, Paul Car out. But the language is hard, harsh, rick. Robert Magnan. ADD. Howard Brody, moving in bursts and gaps: Marion Nowak, Wes Thorp. Alan Schulz, 26924. Grit in our hair, our skin. Jim Dukarm. Jennifer Hitchcock. Mary Beard. With water ear rings dripping Stephanie Vaughan. The gaps in "water ear rings dripping'' calls attention to the image, but it halts Copyright 1969 Michigan State News the poem, as do the grating sounds of "Grit," "skin," "curls." and "cliffs." The stop-and-go sound makes us dig for meaning: Why this particular tone0 The EDITORIAL last stanza. Catch us Involved on the sand, Failures at drawing angels, escapes in like fashion. The image is ob¬ viously very complex, with its hint at dis¬ The kid's homicidal, illusioned children playing in the sand, Softly, when no one's looking, sexual intercourse that is more skin than / put bars on the Jnces that they said at my trials sharing, the curious contrast of "in¬ sick and psycho, volved" and "failure." But is the poem pass. Like child ho slices put 'ini on ice. worthy of the complexity? Is a prison a u sees I nd all I break worth the risk, if you escape only ever wanted to do offaces into a dark-prisoned self? was slip a little needle out si rle his crib, I remember under my skin and maybe smoke some lawn, jailed nights with and lake my time to grow the slice-faced warders in If) myself pacing in the block; and not slice and turning the bars into razors, which ketchup-covered people in rice and ghetto paddies s 11 c d them int(t ribboned to prove my place of birth. boned "Fishing" is perhaps the most satis¬ Drugs and draft and somehow fying poem of the volume, though his frag — people — ments until they Jell apart antra Is— "Lichen at 13.000 Feet and Wreck on U.S. 2" are striking pieces of work slice by breaded slice they put me in a cell, until "Fishing" opens with monumental forces with the slice by slice, striking. tomato ketchup / bar them out The Pacific and Oregon blood spilling over Are and slip my mind stymied - their conflict the sandwich floor. Remains on the beach. on ketchup floors With unprecedented clarity. Bryan moves and slide, slide, us to the couple - the fisherman and Ma¬ ria - who are the remainder "on the slice. beach." Bryan sets up the conflict care¬ —David (filbert fully, contrasting Maria in isolation with herself, atop the cliff, removed from reality and the fisherman, numbed in rea¬ lity, at the bottom of the cliff, equally isolated. The red coat invites violation as the numb feet invite hands to warm Bryan steps thoughtfully back from the poem in the next section, again relating the two on the beach to the monumental forces of the first section, restating the conflict. The last section defines the situation, but does more than make images: we learn about the hopes and fears of the protagonists. On this front-line Is where we shall talk of truce; And we gather Maybe in ambush. The poem emerges clear and memor¬ able. the double roles of stalked and stalker are left full of potential, for all of their * kinetic force. The volume is worth buying for this one poem. Bryan is certainly one of the more im¬ portant voices in poetry to be heard in East Lansing. He knows what he wants to say, and he says it the way he wants: po¬ werfully, subtly, intricately. But com¬ plexity can get in the way of the poem the." sum total of difficult images is equal «..y u, images. ' " *** • Once Bryan sits down to enjoy the sim¬ ple process of fishing rather than waiting just for the difficult fish, he will give us many more "catches" like his poem "Fishing." Tuesday, January 28, 1969 3' The By HOWARD BRODY sent; New the movement of the second Mc¬ McC Seventeen years ago the United States Carthy was, on the surface at least, a was involved in a land war on the Asian triumph of dissent. But let us for a continent Due to political and military moment forget the differences and look for similarities. factors beyond the comprehension of a One obvious similarity is that both good part of the public, clear military victory had been excluded as a possible McCarthys were essentially one-issue outcome. A mood of frustration arose out public figures. What the first McCarthy of the absence of that definite, decisive thought about anything other than Com¬ conclusion which Americans had come munism is today completely forgotten. As a senator, the first McCarthy could to expect in their wars, and out of the apparent unwillingness of the Adminis¬ legitimately confine his interests in this tration to do all in its power, one way way. The second McCarthy, as a Presi¬ dential candidate, could not. and he made or the other, to end the conflict. The an attempt in his campaign to make state¬ time was right for a leader who could ments not only on Vietnam but also on call for some definite action. who could do something to "shake things up' domestic issues, notably civil rights and in complacent Washington, and a previous¬ poverty. But. considering the awareness these statements generated in the public, ly little-known Midwestern senator named the attempt was a failure. For all practi¬ McCarthy came to take up this role. He achieved national prominence and a follow¬ cal purposes, the second McCarthy's one and only issue was Vietnam. ing that cut across a wide range of political It further appears that these two issues affiliations. Soon, however, the established forces reasserted themselves, and McCarthy are essentially emotional ones. The United States embraced the issue of the "Com¬ dropped from sight. The mood of 1968, and of today, bears munist menace" with an orgy of irrational enthusiasm; and, when it came to the morn¬ tarian-minded colleagues over to the many resemblances to the mood of seven¬ wolves. teen years ago. Today's liberals are ing after, tended to look back upon the destruction as a bad dream. Fortunately The second McCarthy had a smaller quick to point out trends that smack of but equally diversified base of support. what has come to be called McCarthy- the dove stand on Vietnam has never It was disconcerting to some that Mc¬ ism-a willingness to ignore infringes on become quite so frenzied (or perhaps the destruction was avoided only because of Carthy's largest support off the campuses civil liberties and an equation of dissent lack of power to wreak it), but the basic came not from the ghettoes, where the with treason because of some imagined elements of irrationality are there. Since academic community's sympathies lay, moral advantage it gives to the enemy. but from the white suburbs. (Of course Lyndon Johnson's attacks on the "nervous American policy in Vietnam has been characterized by step-by-step escalation it was in these upper-middle-class Nellies" who are not supporting "our rather than by major policy changes, a suburbs that most of McCarthy's student boys" have been enough to arouse anyone followers were raised.) And the polls who values the ideals of dynamic democ¬ debate on the legitimacy of the basic indicated, as the Atlantic Monthly pointed racy and the right to dissent. policies eventually ends up reviewing de¬ cisions made under Eisenhower and out in November, that many of McCarthy's Today's liberals and radicals are much Truman; and indulging in historical hind¬ independent and conservative supporters less likely to see a more subtle analogy of the spring could be found five months between 1968 and the early 1950 s. In sight is a satisfying but generally unpro¬ later in the Wallace column. The Atlantic some ways this more subtle analogy is ductive activity. The real rationality of the issue, in the sense of broadness of comments. "The two men's natures and actually more obvious, because it also ideological distance from each other involves a previously little-known Mid¬ perspective. was emphasized in 1968 only by Nelson Rockefeller when he urged appears to be less important in terms of western senator named McCarthy. This this sort of support than the fact that new McCarthy, coming to prominence in a total review of American foreign policy to insure "no more Vietnams." both stood against the status quo and a year of frustration, became the hero of 'Washington'." This comparison of But to listen to many of the "doves" is to a widely divergent group of followers who McCarthy with George Wallace is re¬ get the impression that somehow every¬ thing will be all right if only this evil vealing. since Wallace is often cited as a war can be ended. modern counterpart of the first McCarthy. The McCarthy campaign of 1968 was a moral repudiation of the Vietnam war. The first McCarthy surely based his Many people applauded this development, movement on irrationality. But was not saying that it was about time politics de¬ the major appeal of the second McCarthy veloped a conscience. These same people his low-key. intellectual style? Indeed forgot that the first McCarthy movement it was, and this in itself an emotional was also a moral repudiation of a (sup¬ appeal; the academic community and the posed i evil. If history has proved any¬ upper - middle - class suburbanites in¬ thing. it is that moral fervor is more con¬ stinctively felt more comfortable with ducive to burning witches than it is to someone who spoke their own language dealing with political realities. Furthermore, rational style and rational Politics surely ought to have a con¬ content are completely different matters. science. But here it is important to dis¬ The fact that the second McCarthy did tinguish between politics based on prin¬ not shout or wave his arms does not ciple. which, while pointing out desirable mean in itself that he and he alone had and undesireable actions, is still flexi¬ grasped the true logic of the matter. ble; and politics based on morality, which is absolute and does not allow for debate As the McCarthy presidential cam¬ or compromise. Morality has a tendency paign wore on. its emotional basis be¬ to exhibit itself as arrogance and self- came more and more clear. For example, was McCarthy's convention strategy based righteousness. which toward the end of last summers campaign became more upon convincing the delegates that both and more characteristic of McCarthy's reason and popular opinion demanded his statements. Indeed the McCarthy move¬ nomination'.' Hardly McCarthy's hopes ment. itself an expression of dissent, were based on preventing anyone from contained all the elements that end up were disturbed over the actions and or inac getting the first-ballot nomination, after stifling all dissent when they come to which the panicked delegates, like .fright¬ tions of Washington. The Establishment man¬ ened sheep, would reach out for the first power. The attempts of a few, hopefully aged. in due course, to thwart McCarthy's de familiar face in the crowd. And McCarthy's non-representative McCarthyites to deny signs, but not before he had had at least one Administration figures the right response to the invasion of Czecho¬ major effect on the national scene, by convinc slovakia reflects much less a dis¬ to be heard are a case in point. They do ing the incumbent President not to seek a sec not have the right to speak because what ond term Ever since the Establishment pushed passionate approach than it does the de¬ sire of a man to deny the existence of they are defending, the war. is "immoral." McCarthy aside, he has been gradually fading It does not take much imagination to see whatever conflicts with his own view of the out of the picture. where this sort of reasoning leads. world. There are. of course, profound differ¬ To those who say that the McCarthy A diversity among one's followers re¬ ences between the two McCarthys. First flects broad appeal, and often the broad campaign of 1968 accomplished nothing of all. any person of liberal bent will of benefit, I point again to President appeal is the emotional one. In the late Johnson's decision to stop the bombing and assume that their motives were com¬ Forties the conservatives were with the to withdraw from the race. But now that pletely .different In addition, the first first McCarthv from the start, and some McCarthy .espoused an essentially liberals staunchly condemned him tUrough- the passions of 1968 have died down, some negative > cm {//rowing o)it J R'vt ,many bul still I realize ^ 1 ^ W ' - } unit more '"\ Vjy-e. • , and the Church. time completely cut off Jrotn' file NUttliir, n is definitely a struggle lo continue to con¬ To pacify people, I came to MSU to begin with, having won National Merit and MHEAA cern myself with the outside, ' because the "down times" come when I realize where scholarships - but only intended to stay until I am not. I turned 18 and could enlist. 6 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Official Guide to Drugs Eldon R. Nonnamaker, associate dean of students. Dick Bernitt, director of public safety: the University does and doesn't K "I suppose "We dealing with the limited juris¬ s are have an official position Basically, vio¬ lation of statutes as they apply is the ■ diction of campus law enforcement. Our same for students as for anyone else. A problem is not primarily due to the exist¬ ence of the University. It is localized in statute applies to everybody If a student or any other person breaks the law he is the metropolitan area of Lansing. It is. however, a largely college age-group in the subject to the punishment the law pro¬ vides. The University in this case greater Lansing area Marijuana experi¬ leaves punishment to those agencies which ence is expanding generally in urban com¬ handle this. That doesn't mean that the munities even without a university. My university doesn't have a responsibility Bill Barr, asst. director of residence halls: personal observation is that this is a toward the drug-using student. The .uni¬ "You know more about it than I do. You significant problem. Marijuana merits versity's role is one of prevention, edu¬ know how to get hold of it. you know who uses more research. The penalties for LSD cation and, if possible, rehabilitation. it. you know the safest times. It's absurd for were recently changed. I believe, to equal me to tell you about it. those of marijuana. It is my personal feeling that we do have "As for the fairness of the laws, they a certain responsibility to develop an The penalty for marijuana use and sale is educative program on drug use and abuse absurd, it's ridiculous. Marijuana is rela¬ are laws nevertheless and must be en¬ . . . "The current state law especially tively harmless, and it's definitely non¬ forced. It is our job to do so. The Univ¬ with respect to marijuana, makes it very narcotic. There are some here, of course, ersity police do participate with area difficult for some judges.* If the student who feel otherwise. I think the drug laws will police in solving crimes. Criminal act¬ is apprehended and convicted for sale, probably be changed in a while. But maybe ivity knows no jurisdictional lines. When there is a mandatory 20-year sentence in they won't-who can tell?" it crosses these lines, joint investigation ensues. Michigan. Many judges, reluctant to sentence a first offender to 20 years in Yes, the use of marijuana, if personal jail, reduce the charge to possession. views have any merit, is definitely a social MIRANDA WARNING The penalty under the sale law is too thing. The use of alcohol by those of my unrealistic. It should be left to the judge s age, in my era, probably fit the same 1. You have the right to remain silent. discretion, his hands shouldn't be tied general pattern. Those whose lips tested with mandatory penalties. The law's con¬ 2. Anything you say can and will be used alcohol didn't necessarily become alcohol¬ cern should shift away from the puni¬ against you in a court of law. ics. One unfortunate thing with marijuana 3. You have the right to talk to a lawyer and tive and toward the rehabilitative and pre¬ is that experimentation on the part of have him present with you while you are ventive. This is our own concern. most of the users leads to experimentation being questioned. with other dangerous drugs. Because this is "I must emphasize that, in all this, 4. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one not done under experimental conditions, an the university is not a sanctuary. The will be appointed to represent you before student is just as responsible as anyone overdose could lead to addiction or consider¬ any questioning, if you wish one. able harm. else in the society."' by Joel Fort. M D Former Consultant on Drug Abuse, United Nations and COMPARISON CHART OF MAJOR SUBSTANCES USED FOR MIND-ALTERATION World Health Organizations Potential for Potential for Tolerance Potential for Legitimate Medical Usual (Leading to Physical Overall Potential Uses (Present and Psychological Official Name of Increased Dosage) for Abuse** (Psychologi Slang Name(s) Projected) Dependence* Dependence Drug or Chemical Yes Yes High CNS depressant. Re la: Alcohol Booze Rare High Drowsiness. Impaired Whiskey, Gin, Hooch Sometimes used as a and emotional control, Beer, Wine sedative (for tension). ing accidents. Moderate No No Moderate Relaxation, euphoria, Cannabis Treatment of depres¬ Pot, grass, tea, time perception, possi (Marijuana) weed, stuff sion, tension, loss of ap¬ nation. (ProbableCNS petite, sexual malad¬ justment, and narcotic addiction Narcotics (Opiates, Analgesics) Opium Op Heroin Horse, H Treatment of severe CNS depressants. Sec Morphine pain, diarrhea, and High Yes Yes High intellectual functionir Codeine cough. Percodan Demerol Cough Syrups (Cheracol, Hycodan, etc.) Experimental study of Minimal Yes No Moderate Production of visua! Sug^r mind and brain func- r * (rare) > *» I ■ uviia. O- i** ' .. [ ness-expansion. Mescaline (Peyote) ( Cactus •The term "habituation has sometimes 1 creativity and problem solving. been used to refer to "Drug Abate (Dependency) 1 properly means (excessive, i "'Always to be considered in evalrating the effects of wi psychological dependence; aid the term "addiction" to refer often compulsive) use of a drug to an extent that it damages these drugs is the amount consumed, purity, frequency, the ch to the combination of tolerance and an abstinence (with- an individual's health or social or vocational adjustment; or interval since ingestion, food in the stomach, combinations t« drawal) sy"^*wne is otherwise specifically harmful to society • Tuesday, January 28, 1969 Drugs: Interview By MARION NOWAK Collage Staff Writer ONE: it was Also, recently in the State News stated that there were no accounts of accidents in traffic caused by either all Editor's Note: the following comments are from a conversation with two MSU hallucinogens or marijuana, I'm not sure which . . . coeds who have had considerable ex¬ TWO: Most people when they're stoned perience with marijuana and LSD. These don't want to drive. Like, it's a hassle comments are representative of the at¬ and it will bring them down. titudes held by the majority of the fifty drug users interviewed. ONE: They can't prove that anyone is ONE: stoned-unless they confess. I can't ma' Okay, maybe it shouldn't be legal¬ that previous statement honestly-I ima; ized, but then neither should booze. Mari¬ e some accidents have been caused by sor juana is less harmful than cigarettes if one falling asleep from prescription dr you're using the straight pure stuff, it doesn't affect your judgment as much as or something. My mother isn't allowec drive when she's on antihistamines. booze, like driving . . . with marijuana you know you can't drive. It's not a TWO: Marijuana's association with hard judgment suppressant-with alcohol your narcotics comes from research showing judgment is down. that some 75 per cent of those hooked TWO: And someone accustomed to using on heroin started on marijuana. This is it can control it act normal under the often used against marijuana-it's assumed influence, which a drunk can't. to be inversible. It just doesn't apply. Marijuana and other hallucinators have Less than 7 per cent of smokers now turn no significance as far as leading to hard to heroin, to hard narcotics, and not be¬ drugs-most of the users avoid hard stuff. ONE: I had some heroinated-grass once- cause of marijuana. They want escape, not hallucination. I didn't like the high and I didn't like Dick Does, counselor: the day after . . My contact can get ONE: Also another common misstatement My perspective is not a realistic one at H but there's no demand here for it. is that all marijuana users start on cig¬ all. At the Counseling Center we're just There isn't anyone I know that'll trust arettes. I know a number of people who interested in being of service to people it. have never used tobacco, and who use who feel they need help. Problems caused TWO: Using grass is releasing tensions from home work. Most marijuana smokers marijuana. by the side effects of drugs are, of course, no exception. At times we are associated don't like alcohol. Students don't have The laws should be set up on the same with the legalistic position . . . the time to get hung up on something basis those for as drinking minors. These "In the past few months we've realized narcotic, and could easily become alcoholic are unfair, too. In Europe, where there's that there more students perhaps but don't want to. are generally no drinking age limit, there's than is commonly known in the community ONE: Marijuana is absolutely not a a lower rate of alcoholism and it's also having drug problems. Hence I want to narcotic-absolutely. The dictionary de¬ socially unacceptable to get drunk. I've never make it clear to anyone with a concern finition of a narcotic is an addictive drug, had a big desire to get drunk. My parents that we are willing and able to help. in which increased usage increased the would say "There's booze in the cabinet, Kids with drug problems specifically have tolerance . . . Marijuana is the opposite. if you want it, take it." The possession not come often; the problems that are When you smoke grass, there is no physical laws for marijuana should be the same as presented are not just drug concerns but dependency-increased use brings decreased possession laws for alcohol. They could the corollaries, sometimes the results tolerance. And when you smoke grass then concentrate on the big pushers of of a bad trip or excessive usage of al¬ you get so hungry and thirsty-better the hard stuff. There are no true sta¬ cohol or amphetamines. There is a cer¬ than getting malnutrition from alcohol. tistics on this drug, a relatively harmful tain elementary and understandable fear You'll eat almost anything. There is no one, and on LSD. More than two cups of such thing as withdrawal symptoms from among users of speaking freely with any¬ coffee a day brings about the same chromo¬ one not in their circle. marijuana. I was straight for three some breakage as LSD. There are many "Confidentiality is the key word in our months this summer with access and with common drugs whose effects are unknown¬ relations with our students, our clients. sources. like aspirin ... We are being perse¬ As far as we're concerned, we're here to TWO: The biggest danger-bigger than cuted, and I mean persecuted, while people be of personal counseling service. I can alcohol, worse than cigarettes-is if you can't walk around Lansing, or the college make no diagnostic interpretation of mari¬ get caught. The laws are outrageously campus, in a relatively small town, safely. harsh. Most people I know that smoke juana's effects.Most students using drugs All this police power used in drug raids don't seem to be having problems-they marijuana know what they're risking with and to track down marijuana really pisses can handle drugs. the law but are resigned to the risk. me off. Copyright by Joel Fort, M.D. National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Reprinted with permission by Drug Education Project Usual Long-Term Effects Form of Legal Regulation*** Usual Short-Term Effects*** and Control (Psychological, Pharmacological, Social) (Psychological, Pharmacological, Social) Diversion of energy and money from more creative and produc¬ Available and advertised without limitation in many forms with depressant. Relaxation (sedation). Sometimes euphoria, tive pursuits. Habituation. Possible obesity with chronic exces¬ only minimal regulation by age (21, or 18), hours of sale, loca¬ siness. 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Other manufacture, sale or possession prohibited depressants. Sedation, euphoria, relief of pain, impaired under state and federal narcotics laws. Severe penalties. Ex¬ lectual functioning and coordination. Habituation, addiction with unpleasant and painful withdrawal tensive illicit traffic. illness. Available only to a few medical researchers (or to members of duction of visual imagery, increased sensory awareness, Usually none. Sometimes precipitates or intensifies an already the Native American Church). Other manufacture, sale or pos- 1':....*..'- -~rs»cious- existing osych(\i>s rowe comnxonlv ran ryr<\Hiv«» » tya<\u? row. -- 5 ( susit Ucitigereas drug oc^ederal drug s-exparision. - C,. - ,'^rc improperly prepared. y■ ao'use laws'. Moderate penalties. r^,*ifensive linen traffic. 1 ' the effects of with other drugs, and most importantly, the personality or chart are based upon the evidence with human use o se habitation programs (usually prison tmpitals) exist for frequency, the character of the individual taking it and the setting or con- drags rather than upon isolated artificial experimental situa- narcotic addicts and alcoholics (usually out-patient clinics) i. combinations text in which it as taken The determinations made in this tions or animal research with for ^ oUlei.„ except sometimes prison 8 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan The By CAMERON PHILLIPS Unimportant 'Stanley.'' your mother whispered. "Stanley dear, it's time to get up. Stanley, come on now. son. "Her hand on your shoulder, gently encouraging you to arise and face the day. But then she walked away, out of the room, down the stairs, you could hear each of Stanley "Stanley, why don't you ever look at me. footstep on that creaky old stairway, into the why can t we talk"" Oh • poor, dear old kitchen, she slammed the cupboard door Mother. Stanley, if you roll over you can go back to A dream of Los Angeles. That's where you sleep. should be Stanley. That s where the artists Your mother is shouting from the bottom go There no one tells you what to do. when of the stairway. "Stanley! Please dear, get to do it. how to do it. or to do it over again. up or you'll be late for work again. Stanley There what you do is a part of yourself, and Ohhhh respected. You are a creator of. art. .aqd • Yes. Mother. I'm coming.'' you say. Too everyone knows it. You go to the beach each late to save poor Mother another trip up the morning to become inspired. You later drive stairs. to your office and write. You send the manu "Now Stanley, she's in the room with you. script to your friend. Mr Sweeney at the "your uncle has been very kind to us. But he Studio, and he phones you up to tell you how told me that if you were late once more he'd much he likes it. how much he'll pay you for have to let you go. Please get up And in¬ it. You could care less No one gets the deed Stanley, your uncle is a hard man; he rights unless you can direct it. It's yours. would let you go. "Look. Sweeney" you say. "111 discuss this "Alright. Mother. I certainly wouldn't with you later on today, can you meet me at want to lose my position at the bookstore ." my club for cocktails about four-thirty? You climb out of bed. Mother waits to make I'm really quite pressed at the moment " Of certain. You are up. Good. course he can. certainly, and you hang up You stagger down the hallway to the bath¬ without saying good-bye. Because there is room. Shave today'' No. Shower0 Brush your work to be done. teeth And you hurry to the bookstore. Work on a Broadway play. yes. and you Mustn't let Mother down "again. want to create a beach on the stage In "Stanley!" your heavy-jowled uncle bel¬ order to do that, you'll need sand. Real lows. "you're late again, damn you. How sand, sand from your beach, and you'll long do you think I can put up with this non¬ have to ship it to New York. Call your right- sense'1' He clutches hold of your shoulders hand man. "Harold you say. "I want 5000 and bounces you off a convenient shelf It cubic feet of sand from the Venice beach Why Stanley! How have you been'.'" Eager hurts. He approaches you angrily Stanley, shipped to New York, tomorrow. Take care to crush her in your arms'" I think not. eh. if your father were alive today, he'd-why of it." And you hang up. The play must be Stanley'.' he'd vomit out of sheer disgust for the way completed this afternoon. Quite well.' you mutter. "And you? What you've turned out. You're just no good, no Damn phone ringing again You know it's have you been up to "" damn good to anybody." Mr. Sweeney calling to ask where you are. Mary Jane re-arranges herself on the Your father was a good man. Stanley. He Nicely of course, but a bit upset that you piano bench "Oh. you know Stanley, rush, was kind, but firm. He would always listen failed to meet him. "Yes. yes, hello, yes. rush, rush, music lessons, projects, activi¬ to you. try to understand your problems But this is Stanley. Oh. Mrs. Ralston, just a ties. pursuits. Such is life. I suppose. Hee he would have expected you to earn your keep moment. I'll call her." Hee." as a human being Stanley. Yes. he would Stanley, do you need air'' Your face is turn¬ have. Look your uncle in the eye. So. Stanley, call your mother to the phone ing purple' "Mary Jane, why don't you play "Uncle Harold." you say. would you like And stop dreaming of being something you something for me'.' Something soothing, ro¬ will never be. You are no good Stanley. An me to begin by sweeping the floor'1' But mantic. can you. sweets!" Mary Jane lifts idle dreamer with absolutely no potential. you're so tired Stanley No. you re exag¬ her head and smiles. The worthless progeny of two perfectly good gerating You've got your job Be grateful "Well Stanley, how nice of you to... and do it. Do it for poor Mother, for Father's parents. Vomit out of sheer disgust for the "And now, ladies and gentlemen. I am very way you have turned out. memory. pleased to introduce direct from a ten- Walk to the back room, pick up the broom, country tour of the Middle and Far East. Mr. walk back out. sweep, back and forth, there s "Stanley". Mother is calling to you. Jazz himself. Stanley Carr'" You sit cooly the corner you always miss, between the "Stanley. I want you to drive me over to behind the closed curtains and listen to the Mrs Ralston's house. Do you mind '" No. of rows of shelves, up and down, toward the thunderous applause. This is it. Stanley. course you don't mind, of course not. door, closes behind you. shut your eyes Stan- Carnegie Hall. Not bad for a nineteen year lev keep the broom moving, down the street, "Stanley, won't you come in' Mary Jane old who never had a lesson in his life. Nod has been wanting to see you for such a long across the field, down the river banks, back to the man in the wing, the curtains open. Nod time. It's a shame you two don't see more of and forth, don't miss a speck Don't you dare to your bassist, your drummer, your mother miss a speck' You are no good each other, you know, since you grew up next in the front row there, count it off. The world door and were such good friends. She has lost "Stanley'.'" awaits your music. a lot of weight since you last saw her. Quite "Yes. Mother a young lady now. I must say. Oh please, do "This city was shaken to its very founda¬ "Stanley. Mrs. Ralston told me today that tions last night by the pianistic magic of one come in." Yes Stanley, the Ralston Family she often sees you down by the river, walk¬ heretofore nearly unknown Stanley Carr. a ing alone, dear. and. she says it appears to Reject awaits. Do go in. say hello to Mary nineteen-vear old from the Mid-West whose Jane. her that you're talking to yourself. Is that first engagement in New York was at Carne¬ The Ralston's home is without any sort of healthy. Stanley. I mean, to do that?" Poor clutter. It makes you nervous. There are no gie. Carr is truly unique in this age of Mother, her face looks so old. so tired. You musical mediocrity. He is master of his in¬ windows, no pictures on the walls, no ash are killing her Stanley, killing her with your strument. master of his group, and master selfishness. trays or magazines on the tables, and the air of his music. You simply must hear this "Eat your supper, dear. I'm sorry if I up¬ is totally without odor. A vacuum. Mary Jane young man." sits waiting for you in the other room. You set you. I'm just so worried about you. Why- "...how nice of you to ask me to play! don't you ever see her hunched over the badly beaten up . . . Stanley"1" I'd love to." Stanley, walk over and mas¬ grand piano. She speaks as you enter. "Yes. Mother." vou saw sage Mary Jane's young, strong back. Gently, so as not to disturb her playing. That's it. Now bend over and kiss her on the nape of her neck, soothe her. excite her Stanley, but very gently. Squeeze her shoulders, kiss her again, she's playing a bit faster now. don't you think'' Sweet, charming, gracious, involved Mary Jane. Too sweet, too charming, too gracious and involved for you. and Stanley, there's a bit of a turmoil in your stomach no"1 Excuse yourself. You are just no good. "Stanley. this is Dr. Meadows Very —" well. Mother. this is Dr. r , y( m Stanley *? vie *tnat **\Vay i >>r Meadows wants to. help you. dear. He can if you'll just cooperate. Please. Stanley ' Well Mother. I would be happy to be helped, delighted, absolutely. ' Yes. by all means. Dr. Meadows. Help poor Stanley. (continued on page 9) Tuesday, January 28, 1969 9 (continued from page 8) "Come on Stanley. You've taken enough of ARTS IN SOCIETY, V. ii (Univ. of "Mrs. Nichols, why don't you leave Stan¬ this sort of abuse. Walk out the door, quickly, Wisconsin. Madison. Wise., 537061, $150. down the street, there, keep walking Stan¬ Available at Paramount News. ley here for about an hour. We'll talk and see if we can't get to the bottom of this. ley " This issue of Arts in Society is en¬ Fine, doctor. Now Stanley. I'll be back "I'm happy I tell you. I am happv'" But titled THE ARTS AND THE BLACK REVOLU¬ soon. You stay with the doctor." Stanley, stop that screaming. You do have a TION, and its concern is to "reflect the condi¬ Dr. Meadows looks much like your father history of mental illness, now please, I know tions and roles of the Negro creative artist in what's best for you! and for everyone else. contemporary life, to suggest the special cul¬ did. doesn't he Stanley? Of course, he is bet¬ Come on. down to the river Stanley. To the tural problems of the Negro community, and to ter looking, but the eyes are similar, and the chin. He paces around the room like your river where we used to talk. We need to talk delineate strategies and programs which might father did. He smokes a cigar, perhaps a Stanley. We haven't for some time you know. help to accllerate the abolishment of those little more expensive than Father's, and he I think I've been rather big about this whole forces which isolate and victimize the Negro wears the same sort of suits, drab, a bit too situation. I've let you set the course of your in our cultural life, and forestall the realization life for years now, too many years. And what of his talents and creativity " large in the trousers. Dr Meadows is talking to you. have you done9 What precisely have you done This is a weighty concern, and to get "Now with it? You've, married that disgusting hulk sense of the Black cultural di¬ Stanley" he says. "Your mother some of a woman, you've moved into your mother's mension dozen artists were asked a tells me that you got a little carried away a home, you've somehow become a bookstore series of questions: Does the Negro have while visiting some friends yesterday, that you were sitting with your girl friend, a operator, you've given birth to a son who has a special relationship to American so¬ all of your qualities. And that's what I would ciety9 Is there a psychic split between girl by the name of Mary Jane, and suddenly call a poorly run life. What do you think Stan- Negro and White cultures9 Are you a you ran out of the house, for no apparent reason, vomited on the front porch, and lev9 Stanley' Stop that insane laughing and Negro artist, or an artist who happens to drove off in your mother's car at a rather answer me. Whay do you think about your be a Negro9 (Julius Lester: No one asked this life? What do you think Stanley! Stanley! question of Sean O'Casey, Yeats, or Joyce. high rate of speed. Now Stanley, what do you think about that kind of behavior?" Stanley! Stanley! "They were Irish artists, proud of being Irish I think we should go for a cleansing dip and would have branded the questioner as Yes Stanley, what do you think about that kind of behavior"7 Dr. Meadows would like Stan. Wash off all the useless years of your a swine q? an Englishman ") life. Into the river Stanley, and please stop To these to know He's staring at vou, waiting for intelligent questions one no¬ that laughter. Come on boy. wade out. slowly, your reply. Answer him Stanley, answer him. tices, first, the wide variety of answers-- savor it. this is a rather religious experi¬ from the highly militant to the nearly "I don't remember any such thing. Dr. Meadows. I was visiting some of my moth¬ ence. you know that of course. The years indifferent. Second, one notices the names are being eaten away by the water. Stanley. of successful Black artists who seem un¬ er's friends with her. and I did leave, but I The dreams are returning. You could have known: Arna Bontemps. Wm. Grant Still. excused myself first. I told Mrs. Ralston how been a writer Stanley, you could have lived Hale Woodruff. Earle Hvman. Norman de much fun I had had with her daughter, how in Los Angeles. You could have been a Joie, etc. These much I had enjoyed the recital (Mary Jane are people who either played her piano for me), and then 1 left, pianist., You were born with the talent. Wade remain out of the White arts or who go on foot, not in the car." Well. Stanley that out. Stanley. Wash yourself clean of your¬ unnoticed-but then one only has to look at was just excellent. You spoke almost like a self. Your poor mother. Stanley. Your poor almost any important anthology of poetry normal person. Almost, but certainly more father. Your uncle who was so understand¬ of a decade ago to see that the Black normal than your mother. Terribly excited ing. Wash yourself, Stanley. Think about poets were obviously excluded. It is dif¬ about the whole situation. "Doctor, why do your life. I think you've made quite a mess of ficult enough being an artist of anv kind it. Quite a mess indeed. Deeper, Stanley. I'm and the questions here investigate the special you think my mother lied?" Dr. Meadows sits there smirking, playing holding you, deeper, clean your whole being. difficulties of being a Black artist. with his pencil. He is not sure who is the Let the current take you. Stanley. Your body To indicate what the Black artists are must be limp. Your mind must think of the liar. Lie back and relax. Stanley. Look doing there is a section of Afro-American normal. years that are leaving you. Wasted years, Art, and to point toward the future there "Well, Stanley. I just don't understand worthless years, horrible years. Say good¬ is Programs for Change: A Symposium. this. Now, your mother and Mrs. Ralston bye to them. Stanley. Say good-bye to it all. 4JUL said that you drove away, very fast. Are you sure you didn't drive?" "Yes." "What did you leave for?" "Mary Jane was upsetting me." "Oh, in what way?" "She was playing badly." "But Stanley, just a minute ago you told me Paperbounds on your that you had enjoyed her playing, didn't you9" "Not at all. I told you that I had told Mrs. reading list? Ralston I enjoyed the playing. I didn't enjoy it at all. I could have done a much better job THE W.A.S.P. myself." By Julius Horwitz I see. Stanley. I didn't know that you played." Paperback 95$ "I don't." The W.A.S.P. is a blis¬ "And yet you still could have done a tering reading experience; better job?" a karate chop . . . Those "Yes." who read the W.A.S.P. will "But how. if you've never played be¬ pray that it is not true fore?" and yet know that it is. "Because I was born with the talent." What really happens down "You were born with the talent9" those mean streets? A- "Yes. I was." trocities, murder, rats, Stanley. Stanley, oh Stanley, you had such addiction, homosexuality, a good start, and you ruined it all with that right down to black babies insane, that ridiculous little dialogue. Now being tossed out of Har¬ he knows who is the liar. Now he knows what lem windows—it*sail here. everyone suspects. You will spend many Anyone who reads The more hours with this man. Stanley. W.A.S.P. must be prepared The spirit died in Stanley, the voice no to know more than most care to. "A remarkable longer came. And without it. and with the help of Dr. Meadows. Stanley became a accompli shment.'' rather normal, happy person. He grew to THE 10 BEST-SELLING PAPERBACKS enjoy his life at the bookstore, he enjoyed talking with his mother at the supper table Topaz 6. The Exhibitionist He enjoyed listening to Mary Jane Ralston Coffee, Tea or me? 7. Call Me Brick play the piano, and spent many evenings Christy 8. Rosemary's Baby 8. with her. Stanley began to appreciate the com¬ Five Smooth Stones Myra Breckenridge 9. forts of his home, the television, the soft Boston chair in front of it. the large basement where Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet 10. Strangler he could refinish furniture for his mother's friends. Stanley was happy, and as the years streamed by, he remained happy. The year his mother died, the year he married Mary Jane, the year he bought half interest in his uncle's store, the year he and Mary Jane took their son to school for the first time, the " 'th^.year hf had his gall sioaes- tanvfr mi. years v*.- - ~ passed by. happily, silently, swiftly, >OQK\rOR«5 interminably... Didn't they Stanley. Bit of a turmoil in your stomach0 Excuse yourself. Now Over 100 Publishers Stanley. Now. Stocked in our Warehouse "But Mary Jane is about to play her favorite concerto." 10 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan » = • I i = 11^ ! I \ i s 2 i 5 A - | I § I I" | I I in •3 ! - ' tI i f I I; j , -J HIS ■M ii ii| it Ii s j is : i5 I? -,1E : tIliif OS ifl 3s^:ej° ^ if sHi 1PIIII ? i F 5=s -i .5- •>. -I— I p I Ii I ill : 5i i i? i|5* I is «.1?! ij !{& i 2*1 s " ! ! !! ' I? Is1 I f! i ;,a.k II l«s I I'till WSMi SI IfiltltSli triliilili Tuesday, January 28, 1969 11 THE LION THE BURP AND OTHER THOUGHTS A cry rang wild from the lion herd- my cigarette eats the gurgling drummer's beat Step by step, the jungle's kings prance forward, Dust dry-for days, their throats ache 'water.' FLOWER CHILDREN "can't get no sat-is-fact-ion" Gentle death blows in the calm sun air . . . Sitting, listening to the hippies talk a girl hobbles by with a white cast leg "Beasts, pray for life and water Petals fall in circles on the floor she leaves the bar on crutches as you step'" Closer and closer: the mud mirage is sickening. Voices i down my beer Lion fur exaggerates to twitches of satiety stop and start like morning rain- That will always be a dream; never live to water. Words and words, laughter heats the room knowing Against the zebra stripes that hike the walls: she cannot be helped -Paul Carrick High overhead the buzzard's shadow White/black, black/white, white black In circling death, sweeps upon the lion's mane; white/black Zebras huddle-waiting in revenge Against the kings who savored red-striped blood. Out-of-doors the ground is wet But here the candles burn Now green webs of humid leaves enclose A certain peacefulness. the herd. -Paul Carrick Watch: the dry-tongued lions die before their peers; Laughter overtakes the waning zebras, huddled; The lion finds himself among the fed. -Paul Carrick TWILIGHT Memories of nightfall and Lake Michigan . . . Your sand, soft, dampness at my feet, Barefoot in a dialogue with Nature; I feel heartbeats as the waves roll in First harsh, then gentle - the seagulls Moon-glistening in a rendezvous ; First harsh, then gentle - moon breathing, and lovers in the twilight too in love to hear The weeping driftwood, weeping, weeping. -Paul Carrick Disaster and the frescoes By DAVID GILBERT The Heroes face. with the canvas still attached. All the Collage Director inionaco must be removed from the back until Editors Note: They arrived in dozens, some students, some the thin layer of color is reached. This thin lay¬ David Gilbert, Collage Director and English craftsmen, some with a string of degrees be¬ er of color is then glued to a canvas and mount¬ major, journeyed to New York to cover the hind their names. They reached into the muck ed. . Finally, the canvas covering is removed, exhibition of frescoes rescued from the Floren¬ of a city, and painfully pieced together a from the front of the painting. tine flood of 1966. This is the first of a three- scratched and somewhat veined mirror from The strappo method differs only in degree the scarred art. from the above. The adhesive between canvaS part series on the frescoes and their relation to modern life. and painting must be stronger than that between The Terror painting and plaster. The canvas must be In November of 1966, the river Arno gathered completely dry; then it is gradually and care¬ its haunched fury and heaved a flood of terror Of all the massive work done, perhaps the fully pulled from the wall. Afterwards, the on Florence, most exciting, dangerous and imagination- inionaco bits adhering to the painting are care¬ Italy, burying the new-drowned dead with some of the finest examples of fres¬ gripping was the removal of the frescoes fully removed from the back of the thin layer co painting from from walls and ceilings everywhere. of color. the 13th - 16th centuries. Tons of mud and silt squatted in the streets For a start, many of the frescoes are "real" under the mirror of oily water. frescoes: that is, they are painted on wet plas¬ ter, so that a chemical bond forms between the There is another story behind how these fres¬ The Absurdity paint pigments and the wall. That means a coes made their way to the United States for " To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature." real" fresco sinks some 3 8 of an inch into a unique exhibition. There is yet another on how Art has traditionally held up the " mirror to the plaster itself. In removing frescoes, one is an intrepid Collage director got to New York to nature.'' whether realistically or symbolically. tempted to take the entire wall away. But be¬ see the exhibition. The second part of this Florentines stood, stupefied, before the des¬ sides being exceptionally bulky and difficult series cover the exhibition itself ; the ef¬ truction left by nature's swollen madness, as to move, the water-soaked Florentine walls fect of seeing the frescoes, not in churches or the Arno smashed the mirror of the capital of presented the restoring experts with a monu¬ palazzi, but in a museum with squalling chil¬ renaissance art into flaked and soiled .frag¬ mental problem, the wet walls carried ni¬ dren and lecherous-eyed art historians. And a ments. trates and other salts which destroy color, journalist or two. causing it to crack and flake. Following technique developed in basic form at least as far back as 1690, the restorers em¬ ployed two methods of removal. The first, called the stucco method, was used where the damage was not too serious, that is. where the color and the plaster (or inionaco) form a unit that is not easily separable. In those frescoes where the thin layer of color has begun to de¬ tach itself from the plaster, the sirappo method is used. To quote Professor Ugo Procacci, Superin¬ tendent of the Gallery of Florence and Pistoia: in both cases it is necessary first of all to affix canvas over the color, but there is a dif¬ ference in the way the adhesives are treated. Those particles of color which are about to come loose must be temporarily fixed beforehand The canvas, generally of double thickness, pre¬ vents the color and inionaco from cracking and . faJling off at the moment of detachment.' Tite-{/fester is theft removed from the arricio^ .~y.xn t" piaster spreau m> masonry by pounding the inionaco with a rub¬ ber hammer until the adhesion between the inionaco and its underlayer is weakened. Procacci continues: "The fresco is then laid down on a flat sur¬ Tuesday, January 28, 1969 12 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan HiJJllUK'S NOTE: Doug Elbinger, Justin Morrill sophomore, spent last summer studying at Leningrad State University. The pictures on this page and the cover were taken in farming country between Lenin¬ grad and Moscow. Elbinger found these people to be expressive of his general impressions of the USSR. The land steps under their feet; these are steppe people. Their flowered hands dream on buttered days when the roots of trees unfastened themselves and strode about like houses on chicken legs --houses of Russian grandmothers- whose terrible magic- spun spells on days of children -the sound of mortar and pestle the sound of fear