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Literary Supplement
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Vol. LX
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY. MASS .. DEC. 8, 1966
No. 12
Aid From Wellesley Students Senate
En Route To Florence Victims S ·
Approves Rule Changes·
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eniors to 1-"-eep ars on ampus
hy Susnn Sprau '68
LaitnO\'ecl to let seniors kee11 cars on
and off !'am1>u!'l. Senate's adions
u111ght up with the workmen over
the "eekend ho"·ever, when LhP
I3oard of Trustee:;' exe1·11t iYe 1·ommittee a Jl111·oyetl to havC'
them go into f'ffect at the bPginninp;
of Term IL
AC'ou1wil's
amendments "that su< 1·e:;sful bu>i
i;ervi<'e is maintained and that thf>
entire trnm1portation program is
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snpported without undue cost to t he
College" as prefacing remarks,
Senate agreemotor vehil'le regulation: "Degin.
ning in Term II a senior in good
acaof hPr 11arent may keep ·~ <·ar ore or
011 1·am1111s where spa1·e is available."
The office of the direetar of residente will coordir~ate the practical details involved in implementing this
new Grey Book regulation. Students
who wish lo keep a car O!l campus
for an extended period of lime must
make arrangements with the director
of residence lo rent a parking space.
Wellesley Educators Announce Success
Of Controversial New METCO Program
hy Tay Wilki11.1 '70
Wellesley's contributions to the Italian flood victims were "ma rvelous,"
according to Mr. John McAnthe Wellesley College Taxi Company, loads some of the boxes of clothing
donated by students and faculty. Over 50 boxes, containing more than
1200 pounds of clothing, were shipped this week to the Red Cross in
Rome fo r distribution. The book and print sale held last week in Jewett
netted over $600 for the Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art. A
percentage from the annual Christmas sale of Roten Gallery prints will
also go to C.R.l.A. The clothing dr1ve was headed by ~ e Fox '67.
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American Correspondent Moffet
Offers Hypothesis On Viet Nam
by Susan Sprau '68
cl*tes which have developed their
While he was 1965-66 editor of own traditions, their own social
the Yale Daily News, Howard Moffet values, and their own vested interbecame dissatisfied with the com- ests. · · And in a show-down many
mercial news media's coverage of in either group would be willing to
Viet Nam which concentrates on dissociate themselves from their own
publishing kill ratios, dramatic com- elite and exchange its culture for that
bat stories and publicity pronounce- of the other, so long as their own
ments for the publicity-conscious of- popular and private interests were
ficials of both sides. While travel- not seriously threatened."
Opposing Infra-structures
ling through South Viet Nam last
Both elites arc convinced that "an
August, he decided to sacrifice a two
year fellowship at Cambridge Uni- infra-structure (any system of organiversity to write about South Viet zed authority)-whether at the hamlet or national level--cannot exerNam.
"War Is Hell"
cise control over people without
Now, as Saigon correspondent for having their support in substantial
the Collegiate Press Service, Moffet
Continued on page eight
writes, " It is true that American war.. - - - planes are bombing and burning and
killing civi lians, more than you will
ever read about in the papers. It is
also true that the Viet Cong disembowel good province chiefs, and they
do run prison camps under condilions not so far removed from those
"There will be more Christmas
of Dachau." But, he emphasizes, spirit on campus this year," pro"The only thing these two statements mises Linda Cumberland '67, presiprove is that war is hell, and mod- dent of Wellesley Choir. That is why
ern guerrilla war is worse than any Christmas Vespers will be given later
other kind."
than usual this year-to be more
Quui-sociological Analysis
Christmas-like and to ge!leI'ate :oome
In "an attempt to step back a bit cheer before exams start. The an!lual
and establish a frame of reference" concert will be Sun., Dec. 11, at 8
against which the daily news stories p.m. in the Chapel.
about Viet Nam may be measured,
The Choir, under the direction of
Moffet presents a quasi-sociological William A. Herrmann, associate pr~
analysis of the conflict in Viet Nam.
fe~sor of music, will be accompanied
Moffet's hypothesis is that there
throughout the concert by the Chamare 'two separate societies, co-existing within the same geographical ber Music Society, also under Mr.
boundaries of South Viet Nam. Each Herrmann's direction, and the Madis trying to organize, strengthen and rigal group, under the direction of
sanction itself while weakening or Kathleen Chaikin '67.
Range of Music
destroying the other."
Both groups number several mil-1 The musical pieces range f.rom
lion but are "led by relatively small High RenaiS'Sance, with Victoria's
··we are all pleased with the way
the METCO program IS going. The
students themselves are very happy,"
Mr. Samuel Graves, principal of Wcllesley High School told News rcce!itly.
METCO, short for Metropolitan
Council for Educational Opportunity,
began Sept. 8 with the busing of
220 Negro students from South Boston, Roxbury, and North Dorchester
lo schools in Braintree, Lexington,
Lincoln. Arlingto!l, Newlon, Brookline. and Wellesley.
Much Controversy
The METCO pla!1 aroused much
controversy la.st spring. 11he Wellesley School Committee, which made
the decision to participate in the program, received opposition kom a n
outspoken minority k!lown as the
German Theologian to Speak
"Group of Concerned Citizens."
This group sponsa•red a poll which
showed that 80.6% of the re~ident-s
of Wellesley OP1l?5ed the busing of
Negro stude_nts mto the town, and
80.3% were in favor of a referenrlum
on the issue at some time in the fulure.
"Group" Criticized
The "Group of Co!lcerned Citizens"
was in turn attacked by supporters
of the School Committee, wlho oriticized it for not disclosing its mem-
I
vespers t 0 Arouse
seasona}Cheer wI•th song
Ch r1s
• l mas
ws and for conduclin~ a poll with
less than a week's notice, no time
for debate, and a confusing ballot.
They also pointed out that the decision to bus had been approved
three times i!1 open meetings, and
that the League of Women Voters
and the Unitarian Service League had
sponsored a well~publicizcd forum on
METCO.
25 Students
Despite the opposition. however, the
program went into effect this f.all.
Co11ti1111etl 011 pai:c twelve
Because the number of spaces is
limited ,they will be rented on a
"first-come-first-served basis." instrnctio!lS on page 43 of the Grey
Book will continue to apply to those
students who wish to br ing a car on
campus for shorter time periods. l
Moreover, any student who keeps
a car at college, even one who keeps
it off campus. must register it with
:he director of residence. Those who
do not rent a campus parking space
must inform the director of residence
about her car's off campus accomodalions.
Insurance
'fhc privilege of keeping a car at
college will be granted on the conditions "that the student have proof
of insurance be set by the College lawyers)" and
"that the student abide by all Mas!'achusctts State driving regulations."
l!l anticipation of patcntial difficulties. Senate made up several College
rules which arc more stringent then
Massachusetts driving rules. They
prohibit a student from registering a
car "owned by a student ineligible to
keep it. herself." Also, a student
may not lend her car "to freshmen
or sop-hom*ores at any time." I!l fact
she may "lend the car only to those
seniors and juniors who have permission from their parents to borrow
seniors' cars. and then only if the
Continued 011 paf!e eleven
Eberhard Bethge
became acquainted with its director,
Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Mr. Bethge was arrested in 1944
tfor opposition to the Nazi regime
in Germany, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
was executed in 1945 as a Christian
marly·r. Mr. Bethge was rescued by
the arrival of the Russian armies in
Berlin in April, 1945.
Present Status
After the war, Mr. Bethge served
as 1assistant to the biShop of the
East and West German church, studeflt dhaplain for Berlin University
in East Berlin and fur Technical University in West Berli.'I, and the German church representative to the
British Council of Churches.
Io 1949 Mr. Bethge visited American rolleges and universities to observe student and Christian campus
groups. From 1957-1958, he served
as visiting lecturer in theology 11t
Harvard Divinity School, and for the
first semester of 1966-1967, he has
acted as visiting professor at the
University of Chicago.
The lecture is sponsored by the
Biblical history department.
Rev. Eberhard Bethge, director of
the Pastor's Instilut"e of the Churoh
of the Rhineland in Westphalia, Germotet, "O Magnum Mysterium" and many, will speak on "The Way of
Scheidt's motet, "Ach Mein Nergli- Dietrich Bonhooffer to Non-religious
ches J esulein," to the Baroque, wiWl ChrisU:anity'' in Pendleton Hall at
Bach's " Das ist je gewisslich wa11r" 7:45 p.m. Mon., Jan. 9.
and Handel's "And the Glory" and
Mr. Bellhge will serve as Harry
· "O Thou That Tellest" from the Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor
"Messiia:h." Contemporabe represe!lted by Gustav Host's New York City for the second semes"Christmas Song" and "A Babe is! ter of 1966-1967. He is t~e editor of I
Bom," and his daughter Imogen the Collected Wor~ of Dietrich BonHolst's "A Virgin Unspotted." Mr. hoeffer and of a biography of BonHerrmann's "A Child This Day is h oeffer SIOO!l to be publishe d ·
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Born" and the "Holly and the Ivy"
aZI- ppos ion
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will be examples of more traditiona l
Mr. ew1ge, t e son o a erman
ed th 1
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carols.
pastor, studi
eoogy a
er m,
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With such a va:riety of musical Tubingen, and Halle-Wittenberg Umstyles including SCJlos by Madrigal versities, where he was strongly inmembers, polypho:iic arrangements, fluenced by theoifogians Karl Hein
and many unison numbers, the Choirr and Karl Barth. In 1934 he joi!led the
anticipates an enthusiastic response theological seminary of the Anti-Nazi
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to the concert.
Confessing Churdh, where he first
POINT OF ORDER
Whose order? McCarthy's order?
How parallel is the McCarthy era
to today? See actual films of the
Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954,
edited by Robert Duncan. "As
gripping as courtroom drama,"
Cue. Also shorts: "In the Street•
by James Agee and "The Story
of Margaret Sanger," leader in the
birth control movement. All to he
shown Fri., Dec. 9 at 4: 15, 7,
and 9 p.m., Pendleton. Suh·
scription ticket or 75 cents.
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Page Two
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS,
WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
Why Not Risk More R isks
The increasing number of young people now en;olling in college is news to no one. The fact has
become grist for the platitude mills; higher university enrollments are linked with new forms of communication and opening opportunities for travel to
produce the stock phrase, "The modern generation
has had more exposure than any other." But growth
in college attendance in this modern society has
hardly touched the groups which exist at the fringe
of that society - the underprivileged minorities.
Minority groups send only a small proportion of
students to <.~liege; yet the fault lies rather with
university admissions than with college scholarship
funds. Poverty alone bars few from college education: university endowments, Federal programs,
communi ty awards, and private scholarships enable
most needy students to attend college. But in the
American "other society" poverty rarely appears
alone. Many basically intelligent students are also
hampered by apathy toward education - Jack of
motivation stemming from overburdened teachers
nnd guidance counselors, little encouragement from
home, and simple ignorance of the requirements
and rewards of college. Lack of motivation often
combines with poor secondary school preparation
to produce a "risk" candidate - and to create a
dilemma for college ~dmissions officers.
Wellesley has no separate program for recruiting
"risk" students. The college belongs to the Cooperative Program for Education Opportunity, originated by the Ivy League and Seven Sister colle_ges
"to identify and support high school students who
may be qualified for challenging college opportunities but who need substantial or total scholarship if
they arc to take advantage of these opportunities."
Working through representatives in various communities. CPEO docs answer questions, remove
some of the load from the backs of high school
guidance officers, and suggest specific academic
programs to the student. A lthough the original
guiding spirit behind the program was the hope to
prove that "the exclusive colleges a ren't as snobby
as they seem," CPEO is expandi ng to include other
universities; this year the University of Chicago and
New York University joined the program.
If lightening financial burdens were the only
problem connected with underprivileged students,
CPEO would be a most admirable program. It even
offers to help the needy student overcome the hurdle of expensive multiple applications and the cost
of College Board registrations. But CPEO ignores
the crux of the matter, motivation. It is directed toward high school sophom*ores, juniors, and seniors with "a strong high school record" and "the
ability and motivation to do competitive work in
college." Trying to fill this gap is the Greater Boston Center of Opportunities for Progress in Education (COPE). Opened this fall on a $60,000
Federal grant, this Dorchester-based organization
"will try to seek out high school students and dropo uts from disadvantaged areas of Boston who seem
capable of college work." COP E's program centers
on active search for high school students in financial need, on diagnosis of academic failings, and on
the attempt to "motivate these youngsters to strive
for more education."
Unfortunately, Wellesley is not one of the 13
Boston-area colleges represented on COPE's central committee; college authorities say they have
not been asked to participate since Wellesley is not
located within the immediate Boston area. However, Brandeis University, located in Waltham, has
joined the committee and contributed COPE's acting director, William M. Goldsmith. Should
COPE's first year be successful, News suggests that
Wellesley actively seek membership in the program.
News also recognizes the need for Wellesley's own
program - given the failings in existing private and
Federal organizatior.s designed to aid underprivileged students.
Central to the encouragement of "risk" students
is the question of timing; CPEO, which deals with
high school sophom*ores, juniors, and seniors,
must find many bright students already enrolled in
non-college courses, poorly educated in English,
history, languages, and science, or soured by previo us academic experience. News proposes that
Wellesley seek out underprivileged students at an
earlier age - at the point when students can easily
enter college courses, participate in summer pro£>r<'ms, or even seek scholarships at private college
preparatory schools. Students can be directed toward Federal summer programs such as "Upward
Bound" or to community courses; the college might
also cons ider opening the campus in summer.
The problems surrounding the acceptance of
"risk students" are numerous; a competitive college
has d ifficulty justifying the rejection of qualified
students in favor of those whose ability and motivation for college work is in question. But we at
News would like to see Wellesley "take a chance"
if only for that "student heterogeneity" which
now exists more in platitude than in reality.
Where Are We Now?
As the wa r in Viet Nnm drags on. we at News
make the special plea for the academic community
to keep on top of the news. While the death statistics and tallies of battles won and lost in the
daily coverage may be tiresome for some, the situation is constantly changing. Our evaluation of the
situation must c hange according ly. Not to attempt
to eval uate t he situation seems inte llectuall y irresponsible. Students arc both qualified and obliged to
consider the question of our involvement in the
war and the direction in which this involvement is
leading us.
Where are we now? The lamentable fact is that
our military means seem to be determining our
policy ends. Wh'lt is militarily feasible may not be
politically advantageou s. For example, we continue our bo mbing of the North, though it is counterproductive. On the one hand. it has been estimated that the iPfiltrntion of men and supplies to
the South has tripled since the initiation of the
bombing. On the other hand , bombing the North.
if it docs not drive Hanoi away from~ the conference table. certainly brings it no closer.
In the South. s tatistics give us the military advantage in terms of men, materiel. and casualties.
In the air, allied force is indisputable. Transports.
bombers. and spotters move at will. Helicopters.
while more vulnerable. are able to counteract the
e lusiveness and flexibility of guerrilla warfare due
to greater mobility. On· the ground. one secs the
confidence underlyi ng the increased scope of allied
military operations. The Communists arc losing
th :i r popularly-based support. The average South
Vietnamese, desirin~ peace above all, is losing his
confidence in the protection afforded him by the
Vietcong. The South Vit:tn11mese are giving more
and better intelligence about enemy movements to
the allied troops. Vietcong assassinations in the
hnmlets arc running only I 3 to 1 5 of last year.
The number of Vietcong-North Vietnamese offensive att:-ocks have sharpiy dropped this year, and
any renewed efforts wil l be met by crushing superioritv. Furthermore, now our troops have the ad' :1nt·1!!c of knowin~ thev arc winning, an advantage
1h: Communists have had for twenty years. The
nun1hn of Vietcong defectors has also risf>n sharph . l h ~ Victcon!! must use more forceful rccruitllll'llt methods n<;w which means us ing younger and
less experienced boys.
Militarily. we have never had more cause for
optimism. So we win. Then what? A negotiated
victory may not bring reaJ 11ictory, it may just bring
more serious problems. Will we become an occupying power. on ly to gain the onus of new epithets
such as "imperialist capitalist neo-colonialists?"
Even now, without victory, the titles are numerous.
Wh ile our a ll ies support us, some of our friends arc
disowning us, while others limit their opposition to
a damning press. So we must ask what will victory
bring? Will it bring political, economic or social
stability? At the moment, the grounds for stability
do not appear to exist. The September elections are
considered a sham by many. Several members of
Ky's cabinet have since resigned. Divisive factions,
such as pacifist and radical Buddhists, will not be
reconciled with Ky's government. There is no real
indication of any increasing political awareness
among the population. only a greater desire for
security. A Vietnamese conccnsus as to the nature
of make-up of the central government seems even
farther off. The rural pacification program is failing
both to pacify the villages and to integrate them
into a national unity. Given a military standoff,
analysts predict at least a ten-year struggle to pacify
all the villages ...Subversives" will continue to operate at the local level. undermining the government. In the economic sphere. rampant inflation is
aggravated bv the black markets selling up to 40''
(in some estimates) of the U.S. military and PX
supplies sent to Vietnam.
We all sec the bloc:':'.ly gore each week in Life
and Time. What we at News arc pleading for is an
incrca.scd and maintained a'Varcncss of the forces
shaping tJio r fo~urc in Viet N'1m. We cannot blame
our lack ohnvolvement on lack of knowledge. The
amount of statistics available to the ~eneral reader
is stag:?cring. For those who care, enough facts are
available to rn :-- kc a sound evaluation of the situation. At the moment, Christmas truce arrangements
?re being mndc to halt hostilities for a total of six
davs. This opens the possibility of an extended cesS"tion d bombing in the North. which is one of
P anoi's prcrcouisites for negotiations. We hope
Chri•tmas will afford the opportunity for students to
bone uo on the news and take the responsibility of
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Donna n1ckenson '67
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Battle of Sexes Gets Laughs;
Barn Presents Aristophanes
by Barbara Schlain '69
The double entendre was ex:ploited
to its Cull possibilities on Wellesley's
stage last weekend, as Barn presen.
ted Lysistrata, Aristrophanes' incredibly Crank and incredibly funny play.
The plot of the fifth century B.C.
play, now a fumiliar one, has the
Athenian women join in conspiracy
with the women of the other Greek
city-states to put an end to war.
Under the leadership CJC Lysistrata.
they seize the Acropolis and importantly> agree to abstain rbut
Crom sex? l in order to exert their
wills over their husbands, thus opening a field day for all kiinds of puns
and physiological jokes.
Good Clean <?> Fun
The play, however, is not obscene;
it is merely funny. all, was a part of the fertility ritual.)
It is the unblushing acceptance of
the "aroma.I" side of man, b1 contrast to his grandiose ideas of glory
and war and male supremacy, that
causes tile laughter. Barn's selection
of a frank but not extreme transla·
lion was in keeping with this idea.
Arist(){>hanes' more serious idea.5
were not lost under the humor i.'l
this production, though. The seriousness of his ianti·war sentiments, the
eloquency of the plea for peace, the
universality of human problems, the
prejudice of man's unjust view of
woman, were all brought out clearly.
Overly Conscious Acting
The acting on the whole was excellent. Yet some of the actors seem·
ed to fall prey to an over-awareness
of the hidden meaning behind their
lines. While Lysistrata is always
aware of the Cull importance of what
she is saying, many of the other lines
should be delivered straight, and the
audience trusted to sense the double
meani!1g. Instead, almost as though
the viewers were incapable oC doing
so, the actors often leered with the
knowledege of their urbanity, and the
production occasionally took on the
air d a fraternity play. While they
were obviously enjoying themselves
so much that one wanted to join their
oavortings, it's rather questionable
whether this is what Aristophanes intended.
Sally MacKinnon '67 as Lysistrata
was strong, idealistic, practical, unwavering, brutal, feminist or seductive as the part demanded, and always wonderfully dignified, even
while uUeri!lg a crude line. Her
lovely, expressive use of her arms
called to mind a series of images d
Greek statues.
Good Supporting Roles
Sue Levin '67 as Lamito was properly Spartan, straighl!forward, and
provincial. Ginny Hammonds '69 was
charming as Kleonike, although she
might not have been quite so arch.
Loren Simon '68 as Myrrhina a'ld
J<>ho Cross a.s Kinesias performed one
of the funniest seduction scenes ever
written, and were, respectively, suitably procrastinating and impatient.
Free Wheeling Action
The staging w~ tlast and funny and
the action moved quickly. The choral
scenes were rother tedious, largely
because of their unintelligibility, a
factor whic+h also marred the finale.
Setting and costumes were excellent.
With the battle of tile sexes still
raging 2400 years later, the comedy
leaves one with an emotio!I which,
though m~voiced, the author
would certainly have found congenial
to what he was saying: Vive la dif.
ference. Non?
The Reader Writes
Sharing Shells
To the editor:
I should like to express appreciation of the review of the concert by
the Moscow Chamber Orchestra
which was presented by the Rebe<'<'a Ba<'hra<'h Treves Fund, and
also or the appraisal of the effectiveness of the acoustical shell.
But, in the interest of accuracy
and proper credits, will you please
Jet your readers know that it was
the Statler Hilton Hotel (not the
Sheraton Hotel as stated in the review) which generously loaned us
the shell?
The full measure of the Statler's
cooperation is indicated by the fact
that it for this one oc<'asion depar~
ed from Its policy of never lending
or renting the shell, and that it did
so despite the necessity of having
the shell reassembled on the stage
of the hotel ballroom by 8: 00 a.m.
the following morning for a "mornin~ musical." {The shell was there
at 7: Oil a.m., the movers having begun the job or taking it apart on the
Alumnae Halt stage at 2:00 a.m.)
Sincerely yours,
Jean Glassco*ck
Coordinator of S11e<'iat Events
Better Hours?
To the editor:
The hours the main library closes
its doors to Wellesley's students
hinders a convenient and compre·
hensive use of libr.:iry facilities.
Every evening ()f the week from 5:30
or 5: 45 until 7: 15-the library closes.
Every Friday, Saturday ,and Sunday
evening at 10: 00-the library closes.
Then there's Sunday afternoon-no
library until 2: 15. Commendable. It
keeps the bells busy.
In January, 1964, pressure period l library hours were
extended to include Saturday nights
and the dinner h<>urperiod. Although the library stare felt
that "this was a reasonable exten·
tion of library hours" only Saturday
night openings were maintained, ap.
parently bemuse the "32 people average attendance" a'ld "widespread
munching" did not warrent its use.
I feel that such an experiment
should be tried again-during a non-
pressure period-to also i:nclude weeknights until 12:00 and mornings from
8:00. The extension of libI'ary hours
involves more than the continuous
use <1F the library for it to rightly
function 6.5 one focal point of education on campus; it involves a!I ex·
tension of peI'SOOal responsibility. For
it should be our decision to return to
the dorm for dimer or the 11 o'clock
news, and our decision to sign out
for .a "one o'clock" to Cambridge
or to the library, a!ld NOT the
library hours'!
Sincerely yours,
Diane M. Tietjen '69
On the Calendar
To the editor:
Student academic a!ld campus life
are being re-evaluated ooross tihe
nation in an attempt to bring the sfu.
dent into a closer, more meaningful
relation to his world and his studies.
As part of this new approach, several organizations a'lholding seminars and discussions on
campus. With the discovery that the
same idea was being developed (or
many different purposes, we have de·
cided to coordinate our forces and
our enthusiasm. We are working on
the following programs for the next
term.
Forum Discussion Group on current
topics such as •'Social and political
revolutions in under-developed rountries" and "Is there a New Nazism
in Gimnany?" The purpose of the discussions is to bring students and
faculty toge!Jher to exchange ideas.
Resource speakers. either professors
or graduate students, will be invited.
The group will meet once every 2 to
3 weeks in Room C. Headed by Loma
Kane, Susan Spear, and Leslie Pick·
ering.
Discussion Group on Contemporary
Novels with an emphasis on recent
publications such as John Barth's
Giles Goat-boy, Norman Mailer's The
American Dream. Others will be
chosen by the group later. Meetings
will be h<?ld every other week. Head·
ed by Jane Michaels.
SDS Seminar on the New Left, a
general introducation a'ld specific isContinued on page ten
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS,
WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
THE BOOKSHELF: 1966
Social commentators have recently postulated the
appearance, in our time, of postliteratc man, man
whose perception is determined by mass electronic
communications rather ·t han by reading. Theologian Harvey Cox suggests that "the replacement of
book-and-print culture with a vision of reality arising from the grammar and metaphor characteristic
of the electronic image" will revolutionize culture
as much as the invention of writing. This prophecy
may amuse or frighten all of us raised in the tradition of the humanities and book-learning. But it is
not so far-fetched, and it is precisely our background that makes us ineligible to judge the importance of the electronic image.
In fact, the prediction is probably no news to the
fashionable year's end literary critics, to whom literature often appears to be going the way of cave
painting. Fiction is dead, dying. or at bes-t obsolete.
The market has become glutted with "non-books:"
fat glossy coffee table objects d'art and checkout
stand 'teasers" - 'Misery is . . .' And as for the
publishing industry, it is almost possible now to
print books without the touch of a human hand.
Despite all this, 1966 was a successful literary
year. It marked the return of two important novelists, Bernard Malamud and John Barth, as well as
the appearance of several promising newcomers,
for example Shirley Hazard and Robert Crichton.
A posthumous volume of poetry by Sylvia Plath
appeared with collected poems by Robert Penn
Warren and Gunther Grass. Biography, usually a
strong field anyway, produced an account of Robert
Frost's early life and a remembrance of Bernard Berenson. Art books proved they too can be read: The
Hours of Catherine of Cleves is both learned and
exquisitely illustrated. And, to justify the Jeremiahs,
more and better non-books - 'Whatever happened
to . . . ?'
For this year's "Bookshelf' News has chosen to
focus on a variety of works that may be generally
lesser known but are equally relevant. Besides Malamud, established writers May Sarton and Heinrich Boll published this year, as did Mary Renault
and Harry Petrakis. who both drew from the classic Greek tradition for subject and style. Two different views on the civil rights issue appear from
the Mormon church and a Southern schoolteacher.
Konrad Lorenz considers why men fight, while
Brooks Atkinson surveys the early 60's in a collection of his pieces. News is also fortunate to include
a recently-published poem by Meredith Fuller
(Mrs. James Luyten) '67.
How many of these works will sit next to the
reels of Shakespeare in tomorrow's microfilmed
" libraries," is anyone's guess. But each in its individual way represents the confrontation that will
always face man as long as he tries to interpret
reality through language.
Photos by
Nancy Eyler '69
Gale Munson '68
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WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
Russian Jew Faces Injustice
Bernard Malamud. The Fixer. New having denied his Judaism in order
to obtain a better job, is "found out"
York: Fan-ar-&l'aus. $5.'7S.
as a Jew and for no other reason
by Anne Mu"ay '61
but this is accused of the murder.
He is given many chances to save
At the age of thirty Yakov Bok, his life by admitting to the murder
handyman or "fixer," leaves his na- and denouncing "the Jews who made
tive village for the great city of him do it." With each chance to
Kiev. Carrying his bundle of tools, deny his innocence and betray his
upon a limping mare the Jewish fellow Jews, Yakov's "I am innopeasant picks his way toward the ful- cent" gains in significance. Finally
fillment of his poverty-inspired the ordinary, dream-dogged man bedreams. Having sought happiness in comes a hero of such proportions as
marriage in spite of wretched pov- to be barely recognizable amoug his
erty, he lost his barren wife to a former neighbors or our modem
man who promised her more excite- anti-heroes.
ment. He longs for wealth and comInjustice
fort, and with these for meaning in
Most of the book is an account of
his life.
the wretched prison life imposed by
Ritual MurdeT
gross injustice and ineptitude in the
Ruring the reign of Nicholas Il part of the legal bureaucracy. So
in the first decade of this century insubstantial are the charges that
the Russian cities and countryside Yakov is kept nearly two years in
were swept by waves of anti-semitism prison : chained, tortured, and innot discouraged by the Tsar's inept sulted nearly to insanity.
administration. When outside Kiev
The book ends moments before
the body of a twelve year old Rus- the trial as Yakov is brought through
sian boy was found brutally cut and the streets of Kiev in an open cart.
drained of blood, the Jews were ac- He has already "tried" himself on
cused of "ritual murder." The basis charges of opposing the state (who
of this accusation was the ironic be· am l to go against them?) and hi~
lief that Jews needed blood to mix own dreams (who am I to die?)
with matzohs.
so that the outcome of the sham,
This actual incident is the subject "legal" trial is immaterial. Yakov has
of Malamud's fourth and in many found himself innocent, and ends by
ways most masterful novel. Yakov, calling for "revolution" by innocence
in all who are oppressed.
There is no such thing as an unpolitical man, he thinks. "You can't
be one without the other. You can't
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. . . Long live revolution! Long live
liberty!" Victims who accept their
fate as victims and feeding themselves
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Imprisonment
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major heroes who is literally imprisoned, though all of them are in
metaphorical prisons. Because he
needn't draw them where there are
no visible walls, Malamud can concentrate on the marvelous humanity
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Boll Shows Depth of Perception
by Pat Wor~ley '68
Heinrich Boll. 18 Stories. New York:
McGraw-Hill. $5.50.
A "spiriluai communion" between
Germany's Heinrich Boll and America's Saul Bellow? Must be, since
both authors in establishing rapport
with their central characters convinci:igly support ~ observlalion
made by Saturday Review poetry
edit'Or John Ciardi. "Irony," Cianii
writes, "is more intellectual than
humor, and presupposes more feeling
~cynicism."
It is just this sense of the ironic
which makes Boll's 18 Stories both
unique and relevant. Just as Boll's
irony can be ide!ltified with that of
Bellow's in Herzog, so can its expression be distinguished.
Bellow's Herzog contentedly assesses. "My emotional type is archaic.
Belo:igs to the agricultural or pastoral
stages. . . . "
kl one of Bolls' 18 Stories, his
writer of "Bonn Di.ary" "Filled with a deep sense of happiness, I Cell asleep agaL"l, woke refreshed, and laughed ~ I looked at
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myself in the mirror. . . . "), gleefully observes: "It is heart-warming
to observe how powerless the vagaries of fashion are to corrode the
wholesome spirit of the people : the
homespun virtues, the heatry male
laugh, and the never-failing readiness
to share a good dirty story are still to
be fotmd."
strains ol Kafka
However, Boll's sense CJf the ironic
presupposes ttie deeper feeling which
pervades his work. As t'he Chicago
Tribune expressed it: "Boll's work
is alive with love."
Saturday Review echoes the Tribune's sentiment. "Boll has achieved
a prose with .a hi&b specific density
and richness of allusion that remind
one of Kafka and Samuel Beckett."
'To Understand'
The hypocrisy and emptiness chlar·
acteristic of modem life are underlyirlg themes in aD 18 of Bo1l's srories.
In "Like a Bad Dream," Boll's first
perso:i narrator with misgivings
"compromises" on a b~ deal.
However, his wife patiently explains
to him, "Life consists ol making com·
promises aod concessions."
Still mulling over the transaction
at the close of the story, the hm'band
coosiders his wife: " . . .and I knew
what she was dllnki!:lg; she was
thinking: he has to get over it, end
I have to leave him .alone; this is
something he had to ooderstand.
"But I never did understand. It is
beyond understanding," he conclude$.
Hatred of Sllam
I!! a passage from another story
Boll's hatred of sham is revealed as
the husband speaks of his wire:
Continued on page five
Sarton's Miss Pickthorn Adds
Mcgical Reality to New Fable
by Barbara Furne '69
May Sarton. Miss Plcldborn. and
Mr. Hare. Norton. $3.50.
When you first pick up the new
book by May Sarton, Mlss Plcldhom
and Mr. Hare, you notice three things.
First, the book bas a most unusual
title. Second, llhe book is not too long.
And thlrd, the book is subtitled "A
Fable," which hints at more than
surface meanings.
All three features have importoot
bearing on the novel.
The heroine of the fable is Miss
Pickthom, a Conner Boston school·
mistress, who was "built O!l large
lines, her features rough, her char·
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act.er prickly." Usually the lady was
bent over Horace, Satullus, or Virgil,
surrounded by dictionaries, the ghost
of her English Sheep dog, and Mc·
Intosh apples.
The townspeople, though, bad re·
spect for the solitary lady, and renderly dubbed her "Maiden Poreupi~. •• Miss Picktbom embodied those
absolute qualities of a positive character: she was determined to enjoy
life; she believed in self-relience, bard
work, and self-made fun.
Hero: Mr. Hare
The hero of the fable is Mr. Trum·
bull Hare, who moved into the vaoont
henhouse across the road from Miss
Pickttiorn. AMilougb Mr. Hare was a
quiet enough man, Miss Pickthom
wanted him ousted from the town.
So, bedecked in her "solemn state,"
Miss Pickthom visited ttie to"WD sel·
ectme:i, asking that Mr. Hare be removed before other h'Oboes decided
to come in and ruin their town. However there was no ordinance that fit
the problem, so Mr. Hare remained
and Miss Pickthorn went back to
Horace and imagmmg strange
thoughts about Mr. Hare.
Mr. Hare was very different. For
i!lstance, he looked at "chilthe only good time." Mention "popcorn" or "jacks," and Mr. Hare's
eyes would light up. He slept on a pile
of leaves . . . until he found an old
spring mattress at the dump. Mr.
Hare was as absorbed in the "treasures of the dump, the delirium of delicious trash," as Miss Pickthorn was
absorbed in Horace.
He would find old New Yorkers and
look at ads of Cartier's: $400 diamo!ld pins in the shape of turtles.
And then he would look at one ol the
rats who lived at the dump, or at one
of the blue jays ~o flew from tree
to tree.
Childhood Reminiscences
That was the big difference between
our heroine and hero. Miss Pickthorn
remembered her childhood as "an
illness from which she's recovered."
Mr. Hare lived in a perpetual child·
hood, where nobody could tell him to
Continued t0n 11aee seven
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS,
Sharing a Dream
Petrakis Forcefully Portrays
Unusual Greek of Cl1icago
WELLESLEY. MASS .. DEC. 8, 1966
Page Five
Greek Characters Battle Fate
by Beuy Dem_, '69
I
Dion is the soldier, the philosopher
~irccls his ~attles as one who
perceives perfection and cannot do
In fourth century Greece. in the without it. Dionysios, the young tyrof the Dream-to transport Slravos days of Pla to and the Academy, Dion, ant o'. Syracuse, who see_ms to care
by Nancy Ros.1 '69
Harry Mark Petrakis. A Dream of and himself back to his native Greece .:ind Dionysios of Syracuse. tlle story for hllle more than his frequent
Kings. New York: David McKay. where the "fetal and molten" sun of Nikeratos. a tragedian, unfolds
will ht!al tile boy.
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Description vs. Recognition
Mask of Apollo.
You open the book-whammo
Harry Mark Petrakis, author of
Niko, born to the theater, plays
spouts Homer, "Spring of the year.
A morning in early April like a Pericles on 31st Street and Lion At his role on stage an~ . be~n~ the
knife driven suddenly into the cold My Heart, was a candidate for the scenes. And always as his solcn\n ad·
n
strong heart of winter. His body 1 196.5 National Book Award. Nikos visor, the mask of Apollo guides him
sprang awake to the cries of birds. Kazantzakis is his master.
on his way to fame. a path not
But where Kazantzakis· works ooze devoid of personal and political inThey were the seagulls taking light
from his dreams, fleeing the winged the lovely comfortable recognition trigues.
ship that carried his soul through the feeling of "let's get back lo the roots
Respected by some of the most
vision of the night. With their de- of civilization." Petrakis pushes des- importa!lt men of the time. Niko
parture a truce of daylight lingered cription. On page two. he describes becomes the trusted envoy of Plato I
across the wine-dark 3ild turbulent Matsoukas. On page seven he pie- and Dion. He witnesses the tragic viwaters."
tures the Pinder Couselling Service sits lhe philosopher pays to SyraNext you notice shadows of 1-orba- through a sign on the door. There cuse. the rift which develops bethe widow: "he could not help think- was never need lo tell you who Zorba tween the already aged man and the
ing of her lush and lovely body de- was, because 1-orba was- Matsoukas philosopher soldier Dion. and he is
prived of a man's caresses"-and sadly isn't.
caught in the great holocau~l which
the dance: "He danced on, the rhyCurling, Curring
destroyed the tottering city of Syralhm growing wilder, tihe walls and the
Images, instead of blending un- cuse.
floors shifting with his whirling. . . . noticed. jut out as contrived : "A
Impractical Ideals
free. broken away into the arch of lament curled in his ears, an ancient
Mary Renault's knowledge of ancithe sky."
dirge, a wail carried over the cent- ent Greece is remarkable. yet the
Pinder In Swindle
turies t:hrough dreams, by the wind sophistication which she strives for
The king whose dreams we are th-rough peaks of trees, tmd by chi!- appears only too infrequently. She
sharing is Leonidas Matsoukas, wrest- led stirrings in the blood."
tells her readers nothing new. She
ling, gambling, love-making thunderer
Compounded woe-the author uses creates characters who desire life
who lives in Chicago with scowling favored inappropnate words over and but are denied it in 20th century
wife, more scowling mother-in-law, over: earth "curls and throbs against terms because they arc slaves lo
two daughters, and dying son, his flesh." "groce's lip curled," gui- the impractical ideals she has preStravos.
tarist's fingers curl, hands curl scribed for them.
Operating the Pindar Counselling around knees.
Niko is an actor who maintains a
Service, Matsoukas prescribes PinNobl~ Attempt
seemingly blind devotion to the a11
ct.ar for bedwetting, impotency, and
Yet the attempt is toward the and god he serves even when he
real estate swindle. His business most noble theme-life. Some of the hangs up his masks for the clay.
ventures however, are for ttie end humaness, the reader senses. With- Plato is a philosopher who must put
out once being mentioned, the Fate his ideas on trial and suffer Crom
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orgies, searclies in vain for the path
greatness. The conflicts which
evolve between the characters emphasize the unattain.ablility of these
ideals and white the reader may
Continued on page eigh•
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capezio@
Boll . . .
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Co111i1111ed from pa~e four
. .he was glad the darkness hid
the sight of her face from him and
allowed him to relax his own face;
there was nothing more exhausting
than to put on a face and wear it all
day, as long -as daylight Lasted, and
the face he showed in the daytime 1
was a put-on face."
Yet. another aspect of the complex
personality of Boll appears in his
"Action Will Be Taken: An ActiooPacked Story"-imagination and fun.
Inclined to Inactivity
The story begins: "Probably one
of the strangest interludes in my
life was the time spent as an emiployee in Allred Wunsiedel's factory.
By nature I am inclined more to
pensiveness and inactivity than to
work, but now and again prolonged
fi.na!lcial difficulties compel me-for
pensiveness is flO more profitable
than inactivity-to tialce on a so-called
job. Finding myself once again at a
low ebb of this kind, I put myself
in the hands of the employment office
and was sent with seven other fellowsuffers to Wunsiedel's factory . . . . "
Describing breakfast in the company cafeteria, he writes: "The
waitresses were so cheerful that they
appeared to be bursting with good
cheer. Only a strong effort of willso it seemed to me-restrained
them from singing away all day
loog. They were as crammed with
U.'lsung songs as chickens with unlaid
eggs."
Obsesstve Storytellers
His co-workers receive similar
treatment: "Wunsiedel's factory was
swarming with people who were obsessed with t.elling you the story of
their lives, as indeed vigorous personalities are fond of doing. The
story of thek' lives is more important
to them than their lives, you have
only to press a button, and immediate)y it is covered with spewed-out
exploits."
At the center of this action-paced
story is Wunsiedel, " . . .ooe al those
people who every morning, as they
open their eyes, make up their minds •
to act. 'I must act,' they think as
they briskly tie their bathrobe belts
around them. 'l must act,• they think
as they shave, triurnsirantly watching their bearo hairs being washed
away with the lather: these hirsute
esti es are the first dally sacrifices
r driving energy."
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Page Six
Girl, Zebra Affairs Ludicrous
by Barbara Schlai11 '69
Perdita Buchan. Girl with a Zebra.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
$4.50.
Can a beautiful Radcliffe biologist
from Phillida. India!la, named Emily,
a sensitive zebra named Gazebo,
and a Harvard social climber named
Blaise find happiness together?
Lest the answer to this quesion,
around which Perdita Bucha:1's Girl
With a Zebra revolves, be at all
unclear. the author, herself a recent
Cliffie, helpfully porvides numerous
hints.
Bathroom Narcissus
Hint: Blaise fatefully resembles a
statue of Narcissus kept by Miss
Figwort, for who Emily does housework, a genuine pagan, who burns
incense and hopes to breed a phoenix.
"Oh, I lrnew I Should never have kept
that statue," moans Miss Figwort at
one point.
Hint: At Blaise's coaxing, Emily,
zebra, and Cambridge participate in
a Dionysiac ritual, which does, like
oall Dionysiac rituals, get a little out
of hand.
Heiress Joins Triangle
Hint: Also vying for Blaise's affections is one Margot Mallet of
one North Hallow Junior College, who
has a propensity for getting stranded
on steeples and a fortune even fatter
than her waist. And so on.
Miss Buchan has attempted, with
not exactly notable success, to create
a tr.agi-comic fable. Is Emily merely
incredibly innocent, or is she, as a
classics professor st.ates, "a mortal,
but one endowed with that rare ability to move us without becoming
embroiled in our predicament"?
Whatever Emily's nature, it becomes
increasingly evident that she can not
live in a world of compulsive conformists who use her and each other
without being destroyed.
Occasional Sharp Wit
In dealing with an intentionally
ludicrous situation, Miss Buchan
often demonstrates a sharp sense of
realistic, or semi-realistic, humor.
While most of her characters are
mere caricatures, they often seem
amazingly like so many of the people
we koow only superficially. And
while not many of us may have
captured zebras to become idols of
the Cambridge community, not many
of us have not met, and loved, the
Bl.aises of ttiis world.
Some oC the best moments include
an only slightly exaggerated account
oC a party in Adams House t Miss
Figwort, after hearing Emily's description, notes that "the orgy was
coming back, or had never gone
out">. and ia clever recounting of
Emily and Blaise's first conversation,
where he winces at her illiterate use
I
of the words "major" and "lit." Miss
Buchan gives a familiar account of
Blaise·s attempt at seduction, and
takes a few gently humorous peeks
into the workings of the various characters· minds, with their prismatic
views of their experiences, as tlhe
time it occure to Blaise, watching a
Boston University student dance,
that "doing the twist at p.m. marked him inescapably B.U."
Heavy-Hoofed Humor
The burlesque, however, rapidly becomes heavy-handed, and loses its
humor, unless one finds the deification of a girl and a zebra by all
of Harvard intrinsically humorous
enough to last through 200 pages and
all kind of lampoonery.
1''urthermore, Miss Buchan reveals
her fortune cookies animal crackers> a bit too often.
Her explanation, early in the novel,
of Emily's pure and simple worsilip
of beauty, without concert for kindness or humor, may be valid, but
it implies the rest of tihe book.
All of which is intended to say
that the title 'annimal merits the
fate of his embarrassed relative:
black and white and red I not read>
all over.
Survival Demands Aggression
by Cami Sacln '69
animals. how do we account for the hib1ting appeasing behavior mechKonrad Lorenz. On Aggression. New existence of 1ove a!ld friendsfap? anisms" that are necessary if memYork: Harcourt, Brace and World. And how can the "instinct" of inlra- bers of a specios arc even to mate or
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specific aggression keep us today unite to fend off a commo!l foe. Any
To review On Aggression bdequate- from killing each other with the atom sort of cooperation within a species
ly, one should be at least a biolo- bomb?
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gist, anthropologist, criminologist,
Darwin's Answer
sion to some other target.
sociologist, and philosopher. Lorenz
Darwin answered the first ques"A personal bond, an i!ldividual
himself is a naturalist, a physiologist, a!ld a doctor of medicine and lion. When he spoke of "lhc struggle friendship, is found only in animals
philosophy. As an author he handles for existence," he was, accordi!lg to with highly developed intra-specific
with equal case a description of the Lorenz, referring to that struggle aggression." The more aggressive a
behavior of his frightened pel goose within a particular species. Aggres- species is, the more aggression must
Martina and the argument of pro- sion within a species serves to pre- j be inhibited, and the Cirma- will be
serve the species; it obtains for the the bond between the individuals who
position by Kant.
In On Aggrt'ssion Lorenz directs his fittest individuals their proper ecolo- enter into this sort. ol pact of moralily. Thus bonds of friendship or
attention to intra-specific aggression. gical nidle.
Lorenz po~ out that "it is ob- love grow out of the need to control
"the fighti!lg instinct in beast and
mani which is directed against mem- viously most expedient to spread aggress~oo. which is itself necessary
bers of the same species." Why, the individuals of an a!limal species for survival.
Varied mustraUons
Lorenz queries, docs this sort of ag- as evenly as possible over the availgression exist.? If it exists in all able habilal" i!l order to eiifect an
Lorenz's book illustrates these
equal distribution of the food resources. Thus members of the same fundamental principles a"ld shows
species will fight each other for their application to modern society.
territory containing the necessities His varied illustrations always prove
for theft- survival.
interesting; he describes c1an wars
among rats, love and mating among
Paradoxical Proposition
geese, ritual among flies. His re....... - - . ~
It is far from easy to accept this flections on the •applicatio!l of these
~-idea, which runs against the grain principles to twentieth century man
of human thought. That aggression open up new realms for thought.
:j}ould facilitate survival rather than
Through aggression has been misdestruction seems pardoxical . Even directed in man to become a destrucmore mysterious is Lorenz' proposi- tive tendency, Lorenz remains optition that out of aggression grows mistic. He CO!lcludes his book with
love and comradeship that rould a s~atement more couragous than
never have evolved but for the pre- the expression of the book's many
vious existence of aggression ..
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exist if individuals are even to co- reason as I believe in the power of
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The following poem by Meredith Fuller Luyten '67, written when
she was 18, was published in the autumn issue of "The American
Scholar.''
Page Seven
WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
Atkinson Observations Humorous
by Penny Ortner '69
I a compilation of intormal essays subversion."
Brooks Atkinson. Brief Chronicle., written for his column in the New
Atkinson's humor often results
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York Times from 1962 to 1965. At. from his ability to apply perfect
Brooks Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize- kinson's chronicles combine liter. spec!Cics to a general topic. For
winning reporter and respected ary, political, and historical obser- example, in discussing the pros and
Greenly soft and warmly w~apped in grass
drama critic, anticipates his own vatlons with an inviting travelogue. cons of the shorter workday and
I lie upon the ground and think of you.
critics in the forward to his newly
Atkinson travels with his readers more leisure time, he writes, "Bren.
To my hand a wing of maple seed is cast
published book Brief Chronicles.
to Dublin where they confront the dan Behan did some of his most
As I lie here with wings of thought for you.
He states, "Writing for news. legencls o! the Yeats brothers and pungent research In bars and pubs."
And too I think of me:
papers ls excellent discipline. It James Joyce, to London and Covent
Clear, Terse Style
Us two,
consists in communicating informa- Garden at Christmas, through the
Each article is a provocative
Casting out a seeded wing,
tlon or opinion as clearly and con. Soviet customs to Leningrad, and unit in Itself and can be enjoyed as
Catching on a bigger wind to bring
cisely as possible, for newspaper to the top of Nob Hill in San Fran. such. The reader can select single
articles are intended to be read clsco by cable car.
articles to fill an extra fifteen minUs to the cupping hand
quickly."
Taxes and Morauty
utes, but the author's crisp style
Of some great new creative plan
Follows Own Advice
He discusses tax deductions and and sharp humor may easily lead
Of seeds and wings, and wings and seeds.
Atkinson follows his own jour- presidents, Soviet religion and Br!- the reader Into subsequent articles.
nallstic advice in Brief Chronicles, tish morality. He comments on the
Although not a day.to-day jour.
For see, my Jove, how it is very much the same:
lives and works of Shakespeare, nal, the volume gives some general
If I lie here, my body on the grass,
Shaw, Wilde, Sholom Aleichem, perspective to the literary, politiMy heart's rivers running through the grass,
and Horatio Alger; he scrutinizes cal, and social events between 1962
The grass spreads over me, and surely in your name.
drama, television, and American and 1965. Its signiflcance and Inter.
Continued from page four
And must it not also be
est result primarily from the !n"stop that ~onsense." His life was a p*rnography.
it is not only the variety of the sight, both humorous and serious,
That when my heart &eats to the earth
beautiful series of "nonsense."
And when my arms embrace the earth
When "they" - !!hose people wh> collection that makes it so absorb- with which Atkinson sees each sitwore leather jackets, "scaring the ing. Atkinson perceives and records uation. He succeeds In selecting
The earth, as you, embrace me?
wits out of anything," intruded upon the humor In the people and the . significant topics, and he has a reMr .Hare's life of "noosense," he felt events. He laughs, for example, at markable ability to relate a present
Thus surely if I take the seed upon my hand
as if "someone had broken into his the possibility of deducting a lunch- situation to its origin In the past
And give it to the earth
. , .
secret pl<:ce." "They" were after eon date check from his income and Its effect on the future.
From its suggestive fall and mind s will
tax. He is both amused and annoyhim - "they" who desecrated hidThere will come a birth
ed by the resolution of the Los Aning places.
geles Fire and Police Research AsWithin two hands.
Magical Quality
sociation to Investigate Communist
Mi'Ss Sarton ha5 written a most subversion of hootenannies, and
For is not every seed upon the land
touching and artful book which is en- ends his article with the astute ob.
Caught in the wind upon the wing of two?
titled to be called "magic" in itself. servation: "Hootenannies tend to
Just as Mr. Hare is a "poet and a grow monotonous. In the entertain.
myth-maker," so too Miss Sartx>n, ment field, that would be genuine
with her simple prose slyle, rich, yet
succinct descriptions of her characters, ..-id her appropriate quotations
Crom Horace, is a magical poet with
her story.
insurmountable social, economic, and
hv Tav Wilkins '70
The moral of her fuble is one of llhe
The Child~en of the South. Margaret educational obstacles face them.
truths of life: "the name of the happy
Anderson
lells
her
story
not
Mrs.
hnder~lln. Farrar, Straus and GiroUJ:.
man is claimed more juslly by him
as a judge, or a jury, not as an inteS4.95.
who has learnt the .art wisely to use
~fany books have been written in grotionisl, bul as a teacher whose what the gods give." Miss Pick thorn
recent years about the South and Cirsl concern is fthe effe<"ts of cle:;iegregation, but lets the stories or the children speak and i£ one changes the character's
few have lhe in:;ilght and the im- for themselves.
name, "it is or yourself that the bale
Struggle tG Escape
pact of The Children of the South
is told."
There is Victoria, .a young Negro
by Margaret Anderson. In her first
More than surface meanings, unbook. Mrs. Anderson recounts the girl who could not withstand the usual names for univers.al people, is
years of :;itrnggle as experienced by shock of hatred, but who told the the key to Miss Sarton's delightfully
her :;itudents at Clinton (Tennes- teacher lhat "Maybe it will be easier
crisp new book.
see) High School, where she Is a for someone else."
teacher and guidance counselor.
Even more pathotic is the story of
Clinton High was one of the first Roberta, who for two years struggled
Attention all members of the
schools to be desegregated follow- lo escape from the circ*mstances of
Hortense . . . they're
Wellesley College Theatre and the
ing the Supreme Court decision of her birth, but ~ finally gave up. "I
playing our song!
AdGrs' Workshop: "The Zoo
1954. The aftermath of the ruling woke up one morning and Jooked
Story" will be presented in Jewett
She: Yes, Edgar, it br ing~
brought with it not only the Negro -about me," she said, "and I just deAuditorium at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Dec.
back thos e wonderful
children, but also the "rows of cur- cided it was too much to overcome."
days when we first met
9, and not 4:30 p.m. as announced.
sing hot-eyed men and vicious,
1n the lobb y of the
"Wasted Time"
DiMer will be held at tbe Rec
Sheraton-Atlantic Hotel
shrewish women."
Building at 6 p.m. Contact Katie
Most encouraging is lhe story of
.. . seven vears ago.
Chilling Descriptions
Marshall (Beebe) if you wish to
Sam, a white boy who had once VCJW·
In the turmoil that followed it ed tlhal "if one He: Seven wonderfu l years
attend the dinner.
was the children, both black and
. . . and every college
ever acts like he will bother me I'll
white who suffered. The book convaca t ion since then
kill him." He later came to regret the
we've been coming back
tains chilling descriptions of the
fact that, as he told Mrs. Anderson,
to New York and the
absolute terror In the eyes of the
"I wasted so much lime with hate."
Sher at o n·A t I antic.
Negro children as they braved the
This part of tthe book draws its
For Thanksgiving ,
screaming mobs to go to school.
Christm1s. Mid-years.
At the same time there are equal- main strength from the simplicity of
Spring vacations . . .
ly poignant moments when the au- the author's language. She analyzes
You're sure of yourself when you have
the
situation,
yet
avoids
preachi!lg
a
She:
And
the Sheraton
thor describes those first instances
Bidette. Here is a soft, safe cloth, preAtlantic has such con
of communication between a Negro sermon. However, at times she does
moistened with soot hing lotion, that
venience to theatres,
cleans and refreshes ... swiftly banishes
child and a white child. The dis- tend to become overemotional.
museums, libraries,
Future Objectives
odor and di~comfort.
covery and the understanding of
Lincoln Center. Fifth
Use Bidette for intimate cleanliness
The final two chapters in the book
these moments became the founda..
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As a Southemer Mrs. Anderson unweather stress or activity creates the
Negro will have the opportunity he
and d.1ncing n·ghtly and
derstands we11 the world into which
need for reassurance.
such low prices ... 110
Continued 011 page eight
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Page Eight
WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
Negro Issue Faces Mormons
I
by Robin Bledsoe '61
made possible by tithes, keeps most
Wallace Turner. The Mormon Est- of its poor members off public welablishment. Boston: Houghton Mlf- fare rolls. For conscientious memflin Co. $6.00.
bers, Mormonism is more tha!I a
Mention "Mormon" five years ago religion; it is a demanding, total way
and the average American thought of life. Through far-sighted planning
of polygamy, the Tabernacle Choir, and extensive irrigation, the Morand pi~rs. Now he thinks of fuose mons have transformed the Salt
things plus George Romney.
Lake City area into a beautiful,
It is probably no coi!lcidence that pleasant oasis i!1 the desert. They
The Mormon Establishment w~ are a honest, hard-working people
published a month before Romney who value work as service and honor
won his third straight gubernatorial to the Lord.
election in Michigan. According to
Despite this, Turner sharply critithe latest Gallup Poll, Romney is cizes portions of LDS ttieology, or at
the It-ading Republican presidential least official justification for church
ca!ldidate for 1968. He is also a positions. It is hard to argue with a
Mormon, a member and former of- Mormon, for his belief depends on
fical of tt.e Church of Jesus Christ progressing divine revelation. But
ci Latter-day Saints Turner !.>lames the Mormons for
"blaming God" for their policies.
Issue of Religion
As a national political figure RomPolygamy No_t . Dead
M
.
Turner focuses specif1cally on polyney 1·s not aI one ·m '-'
1us ormomsm:
d th 1 · I d. · · t"
Reed Smoot, Ewa Taft Benson, and ga~y an
eo og1a
1scqmina 1~n
Stuart Udall were or are LDS mem-1 ag~mst the Negro. Pol>'.gamy still
bers, as were llhree Senators a'ld exists, although the estimate that
eight Represetatives in the 89th Con- 30,000 Mormons _are. members of a
gress
polygamous family 1s probably exN~ertheless
g
ft
· . t
aggerated. The LOS church is patriar• va ue, o en s 1ms ec
.
th gh th . h b d'
myths still shroud the church's mam1Y rou
e~r us an s p~workings and theology. As the elec- chal, and wome!I gam eternal be~ef1ts
tion year approaches, the issue of gress on earth. Thus the doctrm. of
Romney's religion will inevitably ~lygramy, revealed to Joseph Smith,
emerge, probably proportionate to m 1~, ena~led as many ~omen as
that of Koonedy's Catholocism, and poss1~le to ~m t'he full ~nef1ts of_heated
. .
...... ven, mcludmg everlasting marriage.
eq ually d""""1.,.wr . 1n exammmg u11s
The reve1a t"ion was "d"1ssoIved , "
" uni·quel A
·
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W
y menoan re g1on,
a 1• h
· the
.
h
u h
lace Turner 'a former Pu1itzer Prize owever, m
1890 s w e!I
ta
winner and a non-Mormon) clarifies sohught Rstatehood, and a d~ade lat~~
w en
eed Smoot almost lost his
.
.
many Or these m1sconcep
1ions
"bee
·
ause of the doctrine.
'The Mormons iare Christia~. but ""'"ate seat
~-•--t
bee
..
don't
Negroes:
Servants
In
Paradise
not c•~•
ause we
.
protest against anything... They be- . A fiar more, seno~s problem to~ay
Ueve in the Bible a!ld the Book of is ~he ~ur~ s anti-Negro doctrme.
Mormon as th w d f ,..._.. Th While 1t claims Ix> support the Nee or o uvu.
e
, de _ .. f
. 1 . ·1
l·t·
Book of Mormon is a hi'Story of a gro s
mauu or. soc~·a • CIVI • po I !group of IsraeUt
ho
d . cal, and economic rights, the LDS
.
es w elpedpe~:e 10 church believes that Negroes of
North Amenca, as revea
..., pro- Af ·
d
t
d
d. ·
pbet Jose(il Smith, fuunder of the
ncan escen are 1111 er a 1vme
church in the 1820 •
curse. They may belo!lg to the
•
s.
church ra few dol, but males may
I
Even Johnson Listens
Presently numbering two and a
half million Americans, the LDS
murch is growing very rapidly, due
in large part to its worldwide missiOl'l'ary adivities. It is a voting
power: besides 80% of Utah's population, 50% of Idaho and 10% of
AriZO!la are Mormon. There are also
significant blocs in California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Mcntana. Turner
emphasizes that even President Johnson listens to David 0. McKay, the
92-year old Church Preside!lt.
Tumer frankly admires the selfreliance, faith, 1C1chievements , and
moral dlaracter of the Mormons.
The dwrch's own welfare system.
not join the priesthood, tbe hierarchy
that every white man is in and which
furthers his rank in paradise.
Nor may Negroes marry in a Mormon temple, wtiich is the only assumnce of an eternal celestial marriage. Negroes may indeed enter paradise, but only as serva!lts rthough
this doctrine appears to be changingl. The church has no mi5.sions
in black Africa; there are very few
Negroes in Salt Lake City.
Questionable Support
Mormons believe that one's position in this world depends on his
soul's conduct i!I its pre-existence in
Heaven. As some point lttere was a
struggle between the Lord and the
•
Devil; the Devil's supporters were
cast out of Heaven and cursed with
a dark skin. All Negroes are descended from Ham. who himse.C bore and
passed on the curse of Cain, that
none of his posterity could attain
the priesthood.
Joseph Smith supported this revelation with his OW!l translation of
an Egyptia.'l papyrus, which he claimed to be the story of Ham in the
Book of Al>raham. Scholars have
unanimously labeled this interpretation spurious.
Hotbed of Racism?
Because of this doctrine, and the
church's traditional political conservatism a!ld John Birchers. This option may
be extreme, but there is no doubt
that the Negro problem is a crucial
one for the Church as a whole, and
for its individual members, like
George Romney.
Romney's retice!lce on the Negro
question no doubt is partly respon>Sible for Turner's somewhat equivocal prediction of its political significance. He does quote Romney, however: "Any member of the church in
public trust has the right to determine for himself tbe application or
our principles to his official duty. . . •
"I have a feeling of obligation to
help Negroes far beyond that of
people who don't hold my religious
convictions."
Turner's hasty, sometimes rhetorical, style, and his failure to consider
more deeply the social and political
significance of the LDS church,
should not detract Crom the fact the
The Mormon Establishment is aft
accurate, intrigui!lg account of the
problems of a young sect suffering
growing pains in the process of becoming an influential religion.
Continued from page five
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Coincldenccs--0r Fate?
This is not to deny the sensitivity
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whim Plato and Dion could not have
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the novel seems more a character
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extamined.
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deserves. These are main1y in the
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civil rights in geoeral.
The Chlldrat of tbe South is perhaps as accurate a description of the
state of the Soulh ~ it is possible t.o
give. Mucb ol the stoey is not pleasant; parts are shameful. Yet many
episodes show the vast progress being made there.
The ratio of enemy troops killed
in action to the number of friendly
In recent interviews with Ambas- troops killed on the battlefield was
sador Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary running better than 6 to 1 in Sepof Defense Robert McNamara, and ttmber, and is increasing almost
U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, Gen. every month in our favor, according
William Westmoreland, U.S. News 1. to Gen. Westmoreland.
and World Report made public the
The total population of South Viet
following statistics on Viet Nam.
Nam numbers fewer than IS million.
Who is in Viet Nam!
20% of the population is under
There arc 325,000 U.S. soldiers in Viet Cong domination; and 6S% of
Viet Nam. These forces, added to the population is living in areas unthe Korean, Australian, New Zealand,, der secure South Vietnamese govemand Thai troops total 370,000 "free· ment control.
world military assistance troops"
Tbe Bulld-ap
which are presently in Viet Nam.
Next year 400,000 to 450,000 U.S.
The South Vietnamese government soldiers are expected to be in Viet
itself has over 620,000 men under Nam. Draft monthly totals have been
arms.
averaging about 33,500 for the last
Her enemy's forces in the field six months and are scheduled to
number nearly 300,000, including ap- drop by 50% (at most,) by the midproximately 50,000 North Vietnam· die of next year. For most of 1966,
ese regulars and 150,000 "terrorist overall U.S. military strength has
guerrillas." And so the South Viet- been growing by 25,000 to 30,000
namese troops combined with her men per month; U.S. strength in
allies' troops o u t n u m b e r their Viet Nam has been increasing by
enemy's troops by only 3 to 1.
about 17,000 men per month.
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Equivocal Predictions
Turner suggests that while Romney
"is not going to lead an apostasy
movement of the Negro question," he
will let his voters know that he stands
for civil rights and will work with!n
Uie church for a solution to the deadlock.
Greek Characters ..
LOOKING FOR A UNIQUE XMAS
GIFT FOR DAD?
How Many in Vietnamese War?
US Soldiers Number 325,000
Romney presently has the support
or the Negroes. At the same time,
despite the optimism of church liberals, the anti-Negro revelation is in
no danger of being "dissolved" within this generaiio!l.
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Moffet .•.
Continued from page one
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.
degre:: Yet both elites also ~heve
that 1f control can be estabhs~ed,
support may be develo~~ ov~r t:!11e
th~ough
~p~lar
a~~mistration.
'To gam its P?htt~al-and cul·
tural-end~, the clue ·~~ra·structure
on ~ach s1d~ has mob1hud a_ su~stanttal portion of the population 1t
controls. Each has developed wea·
pons-technological,
psychological,
logistical-which are being tested
wherever one side can find a weakness in the other. . . The skill in
highest demand (on both sides) is
that of employing the appropriate
weapon at the right time, whether
it be a mortar or a lie."
Regimented Anti-colonialism
Moffet explains the difference between the values of the elites, of the
Viet Cong and the government.
"One side claims a sincere anti-colonialism refined by fire through
twenty-one years of war. . . It stresses the necessity for social struggle,
and to wage this struggle it has built
up a system of authority which is
unified and centralized to the point
of regimentation."
"Discipline is strict, and apparently little deviation from the official
point of view is tolerated lest the
infra-structure's effectiveness be weakened. Personal freedom and ambition
seem to be subordinated (sometimes
voluntarily, sometimes not) to the
collective goal."
Factiollallzed Natloullsm
"The other elite claims nationalism. . . It lays greater stress on the
protection of personal freedoms,
fortunes and points of view. As a
result, differences often become outright dissensions... This elite, heavily
dependent on foreign aid because of
its own factionalism and widespread
corruption, is unified in opposing the
regimentation and loss of persona).
liberty imposed by the other elite in
the areas it controls. . . ''
Moffet emphasiz.es, "the convictions of the second elite run as deep
and sincere as those of the fint."
To support his analysis, Moffet cites
I
that Thien, a leading Vietnamese intellecwal, who wrote in a recent article in Asia M~gazine: "<?ne may
ask why the Vietnamese fight. and
what has sustained them for so Jong.
The answer can be summed up in
two words: Liberation and frtedom.
Those are the aims for which they
have fought, suffered and died, and
and for which, I think, they will
continue to fight, suffer and die..
Freedom and Liberation
"But the tragedy of Viet Nam is
that the Vietnamese are divided into
those who believe in the primacy of
liberation, and those who believe in
the primacy of freedom. . .Neither
the North's nor the South's government offers the Vietnamese people
both liberation and freedom. Each offers the Vietnamese only half of
what they want."
"This double half-offer, which
gives the Vietnamese a sense of halffulfillment and unfinished business,
is the major cause of prolonged division and war, with all its terrible
consequences. For not only is Viet
Nam divided, but each Vietnamese is
tom internally by violently conflicting desires. As a citizen, be aspires
toward liberation, as an individual he
aspires toward freedom. . . A man
is both citiun and individual, and
without both liberation and freedom
he is only half a man."
"It is against the above background
that one can appreciate the cruel fate
which has befallen the Vietnamese
people-a victim of the mistakes of
the statesmen of the sreat powers, as
well as the folliea of their own lead·
ers."
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A leCOlld semester pncr.. ,_.
college stadeata ~ la Ille
mental bealtb f1eW will be tftftoetl
by &be College Meatal HeaUla
Careen Program II& Me4lfkN
state Hospital. fte ........... wlll
begla oa February 7 M41 C!M •
May 9tb. Sophom*ores, JllllAen _.
senJora who lane some ~
In &be social sclellces wW be etiglble. Tboee who wbla .. apply
mus& aee Mila Wiiker la lbe
Placeme•t Office bd..-e Juu..,.
6, 1117.
Page Nine
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
Urban Planning Group Urges rOmbudsmen'
Considering People of Boston
I
by Lee Ma11hew '68
You can fight city hall - ask your
local ombudsman. Bor!l in Sweden in
A gadfly has bitten into Boston's
1809, this phenomenon has spread
current urban planning technique. A
throughout Scandinavia, England, and
group of professionals in city plan·
New Zealand, 811d presently struggles
ning, urban design, transportation, and
for practical acceptance in the Uni·
related fields is civically concerned
ted States.
with
the shape
of Boston.
Ombudsmanship emerges today,
Those
concerned
have formed a
mainly as a controversial idea. But
group called Urban Planning Aid. It
apparently it is also evolving as a
is, according to its statement of pur·
possible solution to the conflict, so
pose, "a voluntary, nonprofit organi·
·
•table ·
zation formed to provide planning
mev1
m an expanding modern
assistance to low income communities suspended for six months because society, between individual and or·
in the Boston area."
of opposition.
ganized bureaucracy.
Plan With People
The major conclusions and recomComplaint Department
Says the UPA, "The 'planning with mendation of the 4 t·page report
The ombudsma:t's general function
people' approach has often meant ;;:et~~·tB:S~~~n~~~~~posp~~~~i~~e~I~~! involves acting as a "'complaint dep1ann1·ng ror reople a--' then persuad
partment" for """ple who lack "'-•
'
"
:iu
obsolete and both technically and
.-~~
'""
time, funds, or influence to battle
J· ng them to ~ccept the plan " Jame
"
·
s socially unsound. Before investing well
Morey, director of the Disarmament over a half a billion dollars in a bureaucracy. By virtue of his posiand Social Change Program of the poorly conceived expansion of trans- lion the ombuds man achieves the
American Friends Service Committee
seemingly impossible: he cuts through
and one of seven members of UPA's portation facilities, thorough re-plan- th
d t
Hi · d
ning of the next stage (including the
e re
ape.
s tn ependence of
board of directors, explained how proposed inner belt and expressway both the complaintant and the burUP A is oriented toward "advocacy system) should be undertaken im· eaucracy i!l question assures an urtplanning"-pleading for representa- mediately. The need for replanning biased investigation, based on reation of the community groups affected is urgent because of the real possibi· son.
by government development plans. He Jity that more than 5000 families will
The ombudsman serves a commufeels that planning should begin with be displaced and Jong-established, nity. His activities may involve ei·
their needs, desires, and values-in- healthy neightborhoods uprooted to !her public or private organizations
volving people in the entire process build expressways which still do not or both. His operations have even
of plan creation and implementation."
The UPA prospectus points out fit in with the long-term transporta· I spread to the college campus - witthat "in the Boston metropolitan area, tion needs of the area.
ness Harvard, where an independent
"2. Because the deficiencies found committee pla:tS to investigate comas in many other cities, low income
families, a highly disproportionate in the present planning process result plaints against administrative bur· · anf eaucrats ·
num ber of whom are non-wh1'te, are .largely. from structural weaknesses,
consistently being asked to bear the intensive studr and reorg.a mzahon
Fighting Bureaucracy
heaviest burdens for the 'public state and r~g.i~nal planning ag.encies
As the nature of the community
0
good.' They are displaced by urban j should .be mittated wth th~ atmh. ~ varies, so do I.he powers, obligations,
renewal action, because they norm- dhevel~pmg a ne~/gf ncy 10 • w icss and qualifications of the ombudsman.
ally reside in places which the com- t ere! 15 !greater po ! !ca resdpo.nsivehn~ h Curtis Brewer, a private ombudsto oca commum 11es an m w 1c
.
.
·
·
mun1ty has deCJded are worthy of 1
h .
d
d t
man m New York City offers his
1
'higher uses'"
compre ens1ve an -use an ranspor· 1
.
f hir
. t'
t
.
talion planning are effectively in- semces or
e agams governmen
Cu~t Projects
tcgrated on a regional basis."
, and busi!less bureaucracy.
Mr. Morey ltsted four current UPA
projects: They are working with the
lower Roxbury community in devel·
oping plans to reserve 15 acres of
the 60 acre Madison Park High
School proposed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, for housing
400 displaced families.
Assisting the Highland Park Community Council in North Dorchester
with its own urban planning, UPA
has already presented an urban renewal course to 70 people. They have
lent technical support to Cambridge
community groups which oppose the
projected $3 million inner belt highway through Roxbury, Brookline,
Cambridge. Somerville, and Charlestown. UPA is also continuing the
"Critique of Boston Transponation
Planning" issued in October.
UPA Projects
This critique, endorsed by social
historian Lewis Mumford and 17
leading figures in urban affairs from
the Boston area, succeeded in pre·
·
sen 1·mg 1"t s en·t·1c1sms
of th e entire
metropolitan Boston expressway systern to the public through news media.
The plan of building the inner belt
through Cambridge has recently been
by Nancy Ross '69
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Gain US Footho.ld
For a valid complaint Mr. Brewer
uses every pressure at his disposal,
from telephone calls to personal con·
frontatioo in the oCfice or courtroom.
Earlier this month the Village Voice
expressed the basis of Mr. Brewer's
services: "one, there is a large and
confusing variety of public, private,
and governmenti->l
. . services a!ld benefits available to the individual who
knows about them; two, the people
not only need to know about the availbl
b t -•- eed he! ·
a e resources, u ..,.,.... n
p m
obtaining them."
American Scene
Govemme!ltal bodies find ttiat ombudsmen are helpful in reviewing
citizens' complaillts. This year Nassau County has called for 1·ust such
a "citizens' watchdog," and the same
concept may produce an altemalive
lo New York City's civilian review
board. defeated in the November
I t"
Ofr· · ls C I tha
h
e ec ions.
1c1a
ee
t per aps
this more positive approach, less
burdened by procedure. would avoid
the review board 's implicit assumplion of conflict.
Is the ombudsman co~pt relevant
to AmeriC'31l society? In an inter·
view with the Christian Science Moni·
tor, ombudsman student professor
Walter Gel\hom emphatically says
yes, for two basic reasons. Today
people are more aware of their
rights, and seek ways to achieve the
protecti<>n to which they are entitled.
In addition, our expanding society
llas vastly enlarged the number of
contacts betY."eell government the
citizen, thus increasing the probability of friction.
Pros and Cons
n-•'-- than "punishing" an indi""""'""'
vidool offender, tile ombusdman con·
cept locu.ses an indepen:lent, reasoned
investigation of a'l organization's policies and behavior. 'lbe idea emlfasizes preve.ttion of further wrongdoings by "changing departmental
attitudes."
Professor Gellhom analyses the
main objections to the ombudsman in
two books to be published this
mo!lth: When Americans ComplalB
and Ombudsman and Otbus. The issues consist mainly of organization
and size, in that our federal slruc·
ture and the large state populations
might render impossible a national
or sl'ate ombudsman. And, equally
important, would the expansion of
the idea on a large soale only establisfl another bureaucracy?
Professor Gellhorn feels that these
problems can be overcome, although
adapting ttte system to our country
would necessitate some modifica·
tiollS, including the appointing of a
number of ombudsmen across the
country, rather than having a single
national individual.
"Everybody doe• It; no one
will know the difference.'' With
this attitude, It appear•, some
students arc avalllng themaelvea
of the opportunity to ride col.
lege-aponaored buses, either to
Symphony Hall, or on the newly
scheduled routea, without pay.
Ing. Unfortunately, the difference is felt; we urge that atu.
dents not abuse the newly.
instituted bus system and that
they buy their ticket. In advance.
•
I
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Two national sdtolarships for
C411lege senior women are ottered
for 1967-1968 by tbe KailaartDe
Gibbs School. Eacb 9Cbolarshlp
comlsts of full tuition <•1.350) for
tbe secretarial training course,
plus an additional cub award of
$500, totaling ,1,850. Tbe wbmen
may aeled any oae vi tbe four
Gibbs schools for their tralaiagBoetoa, New York, Monclair, or
Providence.
Winnen are chosen by the
Scholarship Committee OD tbe
basis of college academic record,
liDaDclal need, and poteuHallties
for success la buslDess. AppUcaUOD blaD,ks my be obtaiaed by
wrUIDg to Memorial Scholarship
C om m I t t e e, KaUuwlae Gibbs
School, 200 Park Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10017.
Tbe Soroptlmlst Club ol I.GS
Angeles is offering Us aaaual Mary
Siaclair Crawford Award of '2000
to graduate women students.
Mini.mum requirements for the
award, which may be used for
graduate study ID the candidate's
chosen field, ls a Bachelor' s degree or the equivalent. Tbe com·
petition Is open to both American
and foreign women who are elthet'
residents of the Los Angeles area
wishing to pursue their studies ID
tbe graduate school of an accndlted university in the United States
or abroad, or wbo are not residents of tbe Los Angeles area, but
plan to continue their studies at
au institution within that area.
The application deadline is March
1. Information and application
forms may be obtalaed from the
Soroptimlst Foundation of Los
Angeles, 111 North HlD st., Rm.
317, Los Angeles, CaWoraia 90012.
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Page Ten
WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
Repertory Theatres Lose Money
While Spreading Culture West
TCB Presents Scottish Ballad
by Anne Martin '68
by Anne Carter '69
ceived coverage in the lead article of
Armstrong's Last Goodnight, by
Regional theaters are springing up the New York Times theater section
Briti~ playwright Jo'hn Arden, has
all over the country, and ''people recently. Dustin Hoffman and Jobeen called everything from "the balare beginning to notice that culture seph Maher arc currently playing
lad of a Scottish Robin Hood" to "a
doesn't end east of the Hudson riv- 1 there in Henry Irving's 'Eli?'
confused jumble oC Highland ~
er," remarked Miss Marsha Wishney,
"Staged Readings"
lish." The play, now in its American
publicity associate of the Theatre
TCB concentrates mainly on
ipremiere at tile Theater Company of
Company
of
Boston, lives up to both descriptions,
B
· ..Boston.
·
od" f
modem plays, and has a Roekefeller
and deserves a good word as well.
o~ton 1 ~ ~articu 1ar1 go t Mor grant to aid the staging of plays by
re~r ory t ea er ac~o; m~ 0
r. entirely new authors. Scripts are
Somewhere towards the end of the
Michael
Murray, arust1c director of continually being sent in to their
lengthy first act the spectator, hopethe Cha;les P.la~house. Here, he says, fo. under and director Mr. David
fully, begins to get his bearings. The
the "high incidence of educated
'
bellowing, r.ed..faced man who bas
"
d th ·
t d·u·
f Wheeler, who chooses the most prompeopIe,
an
eir
ra 1 on o ..
be~ charging up and down the stage
·
, ·
f h
t 1smg.
t heatre-gomg ma .. e ll on~ 0 t e mos
Likely new plays are often used
at various intervals is Joh.'l Armsuccessfu!
places
for
regional
theaters
in
the company's weekly "stagedstrong, Laird of Gilnockie, a sizeable
to establish th.emselves.
readings." Anyone may try out for
holding in the Scots border coontry.
Considerable Loss
these, and admission is free. In
He had murdered his neighbor,
But even with these advantages, this way, the author "gets a chance to
James Johnstone, Laird of Wamphthe companies must struggle for their hear his play," and to have it critiray, who has violatP.d the daughter of
living. In the last decade, two com- cised by the director, and hopeful
Armstrong's brother-in-law, Gilbert
panics, the Image Theatre in Bos- actors have an opportunity to prove
Eliot of Slobs.
Johnnie Armstrong, aa portrayed by Larry Bryggman, is an inhospitable ton, and the Poets' Theatre in Cam- their ability. Monday night readings
Mickle Fierce
host in John Arden's "Armstrong's Last Goodnight."
bridge have bad to close down. Both have not materialized so far this
The Eliots and the ~rongs
plioio by n. F. Herzo~ Milton
the Charles and TCB have run at season, due to the enormous success
are a mickle fierce buncti whose
'
a considerable loss until this year, of Marat/ Sade, but Miss Wishney
power, as the program note explains, Armstrong's character, to oote Ar·
But il is, happily, the TCB ptayers when federal aid has become avail- thinks that they will begin again
grew as English raids across Ille bor- den's sbatement that the play was )n.. who receive the congratulations. Lar- able f~r the first time.
.
.
der into Scotland became frequent. fluenced by Conor Cruise O'Brian's ry Bryggman, as Armstrong, is a I Until the $22,000 grant arnv~. m soon.
It was expedient, therefore, that the book To Katanga and Back. "The fine, blustering fighting co*ck, while Septem~er, the C~a.rles has ~en acCurrent Plays
Scottish King, James V, be assured characters and episodes in are not. I Charles Siebert, as Sir David, is c~"'!~latm.g a .def1c1t of considerable
TCB, a small company, can af·
of their "fealty" to the crown.
based upon originals from the Congo delightfully natural and polished. s1zc durmg its 10 years of ope~a- ford to be "more adventurous than
It was to this end that .James sent conflict," quotes a program note. 1bey are well backed up by Joseph tion.• and depended on the generos1~y most." Box office success rarely enhis herald, Sir David Llndsay of the "All I have done is to suggest here Hindy, p)aying Alexander McG•ass, of it~ patrons tn: /r~stee~ to i;:ake ters into the picture for either TCB
Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms, and there a basic similarity of moral, Undsay's secretary, Penelope Allen, up t eMannMua
e ichat.
otwh t otwhe. or the Playhouse, and for Miss Wish·t· I
·
. M Ell'
h
d ·
ever,
r.
urray opes
a
ney, the greatest concern is for "the
Royal Tutor. to the castle Gilnockie. rat er • an
1ot, w ose se ucuon causes
.d .11 .. 1
th
of
pol 1 10a , economic, or as cg
h
th
It is at this point that the plot cede3 racial problems."
a murder and drives her mad, John govhemmen~:a1 w1 .. c ose e gap
excitement that we create."
.... ~
...r th
eac operaung year.
The Charles has just opened its
to the personalities of the Scotsmen.
A. Coe, w hose po.... aya1 ua
e
TCB "Alumni"
and, if one pays close attention, two
Well Acted
Evangeli-st matches that of his intersecond production of the season,
's '-andl1'ng of the play is pretation of the Harold in TCB's
:res, too, was very happy to re- Genet's The Balcony. TCB extendand twn come together lo make four.
TCB
..
M t/ Sad
J
hi
La ·
ceave the grant. For both theaters, ed Marat/ Sade for two weeks because
Armstrong V. Lindsay
05
. e, ho~~ .ne f t ne
subscriptions form "the mainstay" of j of its popularity, and presented the
Sir David is a gey important man, highly commendable. That it is over- "L~rnda
1 say s '!' re -m ac ~1Y their existence, and allow them to American premiere of a new
long and frequently tedious is not
as one might deduce from his string
the fault of the acting. Nor b its everyone, right down to Roder~ck budget for the season on some kind play by John Arden called Armof titles. He is smooth and subtle, frequent. incomprehensibility; Arden n:iompson'. who. pla~s ttie bagpipe of reliable capital. TCB, says Miss stro11g's Last Goodnight. Arden is a
and posse>sed of a cert.ain endear- has written the piece entirely in dia- with a twinkle m htS ~ye.
Wishney, has twice as many subscrib· 1 British playwright, with several Loning humor. Thal his motives betray lect, and has ch:illcnged the audience
Equal!y commen?able as .Alexander ers this year as last, and she feels don successes to his name including
his be:iring. is, it seems as we watch to cut through the kens and gars Pertzoff s set design, winch meets that "people are getting more used to Live Like Pigs, and The Happy Havhim gogglc:cycd, of next to no im- sarks and rievcers lo discover what the problems posed- by the rvature of theater-going."
e11.
portance. The audience. like t~ un- is going on. One is hard put to de- the TCB sta¥e and Arden's .. d~si:e I Both theaters have a basic comAdventurous Season
fortunate Armstrong. is cager to be- cide whom to applaud-the actors, that the action be played w1thm pany of resident actors, and add 1
lieve in him.
for carrying off the language almost the medieval convention of 'simul- people for a particular play or ser- . Ard.en's play~ are ~oted for creatIn contrast lo Lindsay's cou·rtly flawlcssly, or Lhe audience, for Cigur- taneous mansions."" David Wheeler's ies. Three "alumni" of TCB are mg dilemmas m which the author
polish we arc given John Armstrong. ing out what in the devil they were directing is excellent, '8S we have at present in New York. Paul Bene- himself "never takes sides," explained
Blustery, apoplcptic about the gills, talk!ng about.
come to expect it to be.
diet, a resident actor last year, re- Miss Wishley, but he balances the
issue so carefully that the audience,
he rs in actuality a pathetic man.
too, "can't make up its mind." ArmHis concern is his equality in the eyes
strong's Last Goodnight, set in sevof the world; illiterate, hampered by
enteenth century Scotland, deals with
a speech defect, he jumps at the
a dispute between clans and the newchance to prove himself, whether it be
ly established Scottish court; intercttby seducing Lindsay's aging paraingly, it has a parallel in a recent sitmour, falling at the feet of a ragged
uation in the Congo.
evangelist, or accepting the King's
You can find jobs in Europe withBoth the Charles and TCB look
offer to a lieutenancy as a sign of
"Do not go to Europe to make abroad.
Have a Friend
out tbe -aid of ·a f~ or an oc- forward to a lively and adventurous
"fraternity."
money," advises Mrs. Elfriede MacProbably the easiest way to get a ganization, but it takes ingenuity anl year. This is the Charles' tenth anni"African Genesis"
lau1·in, placement counselor. "Most
But, s:1dly for him, Armstrong is the available jobs arc menial ones, and job through a friend, as did Ellen determmation. Susan Watt '01 got a versary season, and among its schedvictim of his own desire for stature will cover only your living expenses." Marram '68, who worked in London job as a typist and ass~ at a uled productions are Shakespeare's
in the eyes of the world. a!ld we
How do you get jobs in Europe? as an interviewer in industrial mar- summer school in Munich by placing Hamlet and Mother Courage, by Berleave him at the end of the play Each girl must answer this question ket research. "I definitely recom- an ad in a Munich paper. She re- toli Brecht. The enthusiasm and hard
swinging gently at the end oC the for herself. However, the best way to mend a job in London,•' Ellen de- ports that there are jobs available work of both theaters deserves every
success - and with the new federal
noose into which he walked with I begin job-hunting is lo read the in- dares. "Maybe you won't like your for girls who can speak Germa!l, for
aid, they may even look forward to
almost child-like faith.
formatioo in the placement office job, but it's great just to be there." example, with department stores and
a small material profit.
She
does
warn
that
it
is
diCficult
to
travel
agencies.
It is interesting m the light of and to talk to girls who h:ave worked
get a work permit in England.
"It's hard to get a job in France
If you do not know aoyone abroad, but ooce you are there the people
•te
there are organizations which will are wonderful," comments Marjorie
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find you a job for a fee. As Mrs. Sondheim '69. By writing directly to
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Maclaurin emphasizes, ttiese jobs are the French government, Margie got sues of the New Left such as cornunskilled l!"d ~udent ~atisfaction with a job caring f?r children at a govern- . munity organization in the North and
the organizations vanes.
ment-run farruly resort, an hour away university reform. Suggested weekly
Jobs for a Fee
from Paris. Of course, Margie speaks reading. Speakers may be invited for
by P11t Worsley '68
"You have to have the will to French fluently and she was mainly some sessions. Seminar wiU meet
Attacking another side of poverty's work," dedares Diane Denno '68, who working fur room -and board.
Publisher Melvin B. Miller's Bay
one day a week for about 7 weeks.
state BannCT couldn't have had a coin, the Banner effectively promotes worked 10 to 14 hours a day as a
Totally French
Headed by Davida Rubin.
greater impact than if it had an- ideas by linking its editorial policy waitress in Swit1.erland. Diane got
CIYarlotte Ward '68 worked in
Seminar 00 Contemporary TbeologiOOU!lced, "Look, look, the emperor's with a column called "Roy Rovin' her job through the American Stu- France this summer, too, as a coun- cal Issues, an examination of conCamera." For example, in the Sep- dent Information Service selor at a girls' camp about 45 miles temporary theorogical trends in rewearing no clothes.''
Armed with the slogan of "Let's Do tember 10 issue "Roy's Rovin' Oam- ~hicll requires each person bake a fr~m Geneva, Switrerland. She ob- lation to moral and social questions.
It Ourselves," Roxbury's reading era" questiuned men-oo-the>street: five-day tour of the Lwcembourg area. tained the name of the Crunp Coun- D"
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Last year the United States Na- selor International Exchange Proiscussioo
a ·~na ion, soc
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newspaper is convincing its citizens "Do you think Negroes are too apathey oan. Encouraging fellow citizens thetic to crime and vice in our com- tional Student Association IUSNAl ini- gram by writing to the French Cul- ~~1:!1::· and.fro a-adFreudical thFeology Bonwith
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lo do it themselves, a huge banner munity?" On the same page an edi- t1a
unskilled t ural Assocra
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J m Bald •· romm,
an! Altizerheadline L'l a special job supplenrent torial judged "Anything Goes," while jobs in Switzerland and Germany, completely isolated," Charlotte
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issue candidly advised: "Want a Bet- a cartoon entitled "Sunday in the resort and catering work in l.aldon, mits, "but that meant the environter Job? Try Looking!"
Park" pictorially depicted the Ban- and hotel, farm and factory work in ment was completely French."
ex en~o~: ~ norou:nD~ and
Holland for a $75 ff*?. The InternaIf you want to work in Europe next are~. e
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Appetite for Books
ner's answer.
tional Student Travel Ce!lter summer, st.art looking now. It will Tom Gause.
Beginning publication a year ago,
Not Just Words
Seminar on Vietnam, a study of. lhe
However, t!he follDders of the year- offers unskilled jobs :f'or approxi- not be easy, but as Diane says,
the Banner originated with Roxury
"I'm glad I worked because I met ~tory and current pro~ss of ~
natives, brothers Mel and Jack Mil- old Baruier have not let their action mately $150.
Trainee Programs
so many people who were traveling V1etnam~se war ~ Amencan po~cy
ler. At that time Mel was still em- stop with &logans arid words. To supStudents i'llterested in more skilled .and who felt useless by the end of toward it. The aim olf the seminar
ployed as an Assistant U.S. Atlx>mey, plement their unique advertising P<>is to acquire int'ormation Ix> serve as
Mlile Jack was teaclting.
licy, I.he brothers have organized a work might be eligible for two trainee the summer."
a basis for .an evaluation of the war.
In preparation for his new under- bus system which transports inter- exchange programs, the International
Speakers wiJI be brou~t from Hartaking publisher Mel devoured j<>ln"- ested job-seekers to these advertising Association for the Exdhange of Students for Technical Experiences
Plan to recreate during exam
vard and Brandeis. Once a weeknalism books and acquired an editor, firms.
week? The Recreation Building
meetings wittl suggested weekly
E. Bryant Rollins, political reporter
Other projects have included a'l and l!he Association Interwill be open as usual for badreading from sources such as Gettleoutdoor art exhibition, in co-spon- nationale des Etudiants Economiques
for the Boston Globe.
et
Commercialies
Mrs.
minton,
squash,
table
tennis,
and
man
and William A. Williams. HeadHow has the Banner worked - and sorship with the Bostnn Negro Artists'
swimming. Recreational swims
ed by Rachel Gorn and Elle!l Doblin.
is still working? Identifying itself Association, and a concert featuring Maclaurin notes that IAESTE is
will be held Monday to Thurswitli a ooique advertising policy I Ads the Fabuloos Lords, Doo Moors, and highly competitive especially for girls,
day 4 : 15 p.m.; Tuesday 8 p.m.
U you have questions, suggestioos,
l':ln-y announcements of job open- the Bachanalians.
Wellesley just opened its own local
The Mary Hemenway Hall
or a seminar ol your own, please
ing:; I. the Banner also keeps readers
In implementing its projects tile committee of AIESEC. To be eligymnasium is available for bascontact Barbara Arnold in Caz. at
,,·d\-inftirmcd of empk>yment oppor- Banner seems to have become the gible for this program a student must
ketball, volleyball, and fencing
237-9631. Specific plans and first meet.tunitil>s through a reguiar column, concept it promotes most effectively have oompleted her sophom*ore year
(for those having had class inings will be anoounced in eacly Ja!lu·'Till' Job Scrne. ..
and have had a year ol economics.
structioo).
ery.
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WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
At Newspaper Conference
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!Fine Arts Features ·Indian Art
Meredith Explains Difference There byis iane
canter '68
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something delightfully
h A • charming and satisfying about the
In Negro, Civil Rig ts _· ct1 on ~~~~rct:i~e~t~~~. ~~d e!~icb~t~~e~~i
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by Susan Sprau '68
and Tracy Tl10111pso11 "68
''The Civil Rights Movement will
always have a place in society. However, as associated with the Negro
Movement it will only have a small
place. Other things will be even
more dynamic. Just as horses and
buggies diminshed in importance
when cars were developed. so will
the Civil Rights Movement will diminish in mportance before the Negro
Movement." In this way, James
Meredith distinguished between the
Negro movement and the Civil
Rights movement at his press con·
ference with college newspaper
editors held last weekend in New
York City.
Meredith reviewed the history of
these two movements and commen·
ted on their future. He emphasized
that the Civil Rights movement has
always been "a coalition of uppermiddle class Negroes and white
liberals.'' Although he feels that the
Civil Rights movement has diminished in importance, he still sees a
role for the white liberal college student. He explained. "I don't see
where Negroes working to advance
their community should conflict with
whites trying to advance the community. All contributions are rele·
vant." However, he added that
whites should not expect to mono·
palize the leadership of either movement. "Just as it is unthinkable in
this country to have a Jewish representative of the Southern Baptists,
so it would be to have a Rockefeller
representing the Harlem poor in
Washington."
Turning towards the Negro movement, he characterized the current
slogan "Black Power" as a "way of
expressing generally what it's all
about." ''This cry is no more radi·
cal today, than that of 'we shall
overcome' or "freedom now, was in
Mississippi in 1960."
Meredith felt that "the biggest
problem the Negro has today is the
problem of the Negro male." He
noted that of all Negroes receiving
a higher education today, women
considerably outnumber the males.
He noted further, that one out of
three Negro women are either separated or divorced from their hus·
bands. He stated, "the Negro female
is at the head of the race. . . . This
would not be so bad if it weren't
the opposite in the rest of the so·
ciety." He emphasized that in order
to become a part of U.S. society
Negroes must shore up their malefemale relationships so that they
paraellel those found in the rest of
society.
When asked about northern colleges which enroll a relatively small
number of Negro students and whose
administrators complain that not
enough qualified Negro students ap·
ply, Meredith tersely commented:
'"They should reevaluate their method
of determining their qualifications."
He complained. "it's a convenient
excuse to say that you don't have
qualified people." After all, he pointed out, the military has clearly shown
that some members from all ethnic
groups will excel!. Therefore, he
~uggested that colleges :1cccpt more
high aptitude Negro students, even
though their high school preparation
may not measure up to that of
whites. Meredith, the first Negro to
enter the University of Mississippi
said, '"I never had a teacher in high
school with a college degree, but
there's nothing I can't do."
Commenting on the election of
Edward Bro~ke as Senator from
Massachusetts he said, "it showed to
me the completion of the process
of integration.. . . Integration has
accomplished all it originally set
out to do. That is, no person will
be denied the right to be a politician because he is a Negro." How·
ever, he feels that Brooke is "a
problem, probably a bigger problem
than Adam Clayton Powell. Clearly
Brooke does not have an ethnic
base. He is a Republican Senator,
elected by whites, who is '4/ 5
white.' Now he would try to move
into the Negro area, not just because he wants to, but because the
Republican party will probably do it
for him. Brooke's coming about is
sort of an irony, a paradox."
Meredith summed up the press
conference by outlining the still to
be fulfilled goals of the Negro move·
ment. Integration has been achieved.
Further development of the Negro
people, however, is neces.sary. To
fully participate in American society, the Negro must achieve full
participation in the elective political
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The New York Chapter of the
American Marketing Association
will sponsor its second annual
INTRO conferetti!e at the Park·
Sheraton Hotel in New York City,
on Feb. 9 and 10.
The object of the conference is
to bring together graduating students and prospective employers.
At the time of registration each
student will complete a personal
data form for distribution to ead1
attending company before the
conference, and will fill out a detailed resume, which will be prof ession ally edited. Fifty copies al
the resume will be returned to the
student.
Registration is open to seniors
and graduate students at a fee ol
$5. Forms may be obtained from
the Placement Office or by writing
to Elmer C. Landon, the World
Journal Tribune, 125 Barclay St.,
New York, New York.
Jan. 8 at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. Spanning over four millenia, the works represent one of the
worhl"s most important private col.
lections of Indian and Nepalese art. ,
The alien iconography and com.
plicated history of Indian art need
not deter viewers, for the charm
and beauty is easily perceived directly from the works, whether
bronzes, terra cottas, decorative
textiles or paintings. Nasli Heera.
maneck came to America from New
Delhi in 1927; here he opened a
gallery with the capital from the
sale of a 500 carat emerald cup,
and began collecting Indian objects.
Spiritual Content
Unlike much of Western art, the
function of Indian art is primarily
spiritual. A double-sided carved
brat·ket from the Great Buddhist
Stup;i at Sanchi, c.10-25 A.D.. for
example, illustrates the subtle com.
bination of naturalistic form and
religious concept which typifies
the works of sculpture.
Originally a pre-Buddhist folk
deity, Yaksi, the goddess on the
bracket, came to symbolize fecun.
dity and plenty in the Buddhist
faith. Her undulating and voluptuous form conveys her spiritual con.
tent as the Buddha's peaceful medi- Page from a Ragamala series, date
tation expresses his disengage. Heeramaneck Collection.
ment from worldly temptations.
Likewise deities with many arms ghal paintings from the mid-16th
suggest their varied and more than to the 19th century. Hajput painling
human powers.
originally religious and highly for.
Elephant Ears
malized, gradually assimilated the
Eyes looking down or not fot·us- naturalistic and secular character
ed, arms tightly folded, and legs of Mughal art.
neatly crossed suggest the introThe Muslim Mughals had invaded
spective mood of the Buddha, and India early in the 16th century and
convey his sense of inner satis- established political supremacy
faction. A first centUrY head of over the Rajputs, a caste of Hindu
Buddha from Mathura is a full, warriors. These two forces inter.
rounded solid, related in style to acted to produce a wide range of
the rhythmical Yaksi.
painting styles.
A later Buddha from Mathura,
Patterned Paintings
dated about 500 A.D., is far more
linear, and is marked by a strong
Delicate linear design and patOriental Influence, particularly in terns of pink, green, yellow, and
the narrow eyes. Artists used the blue combine to make the painting
stylized hair and elephant-like ears, extremely decorative. A page from
placed far to the back of the head, a Ragamala se1·ies of Rajput paintas part of an artistic formula for ing, dated c.1605, shows a servant
depicting Buddha.
fanning two women seated on a
small porch. The artist includes
Invasion With Changes
The other major division of the both exterior and interior views to
exhibition includes Rajput. and Mu- create an ambiguous flat surface
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S enat e . . .
Co111in11ed from page one
lender has permission from her parents to lend the car. . . "
Campus Driving
Senate also rnled that a student
may drive on campus "only lo and
from the parking space :issigned her
1 via the nearest entrance from the
highway l. that she may park on
campus only in the space assigned
her by the director of residence. and
that she must "purchase an::l display a sticker at all times. for this sticker will cover any and
all costs to the College of maintenance, plowing, lighting, security,
etc. >" Finally. Sellate required that
a student's car "have mow tires or
chains if the car is registered in
Term II."
At last week's meeting, Senate also
deleted the Grey Book clause whiclh
re.>trictec! students from driving their
own, as well .as rented, cars to
de•tinations less than 25 miles away.
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Double Mailing
According to CG president, Deborah
Davis '67, seniors and their parents
will receive instructions during winter vacation concerning car registration insurance 3'TKI the exact cost of
r;mtlng parking space on campus.
At lhe Senate meeting, it was suggested that those student who rented
campus parking space should decide
what snow.ploughing, lighting and
other services they must pay for.
When Debbie presented Sellate's recommendation to Miss Ruth Adams,
College president, She reported this
suggestion and explained that most
Senate members felt confident that
the College would keep the cost of
campus parking down to a minimum.
It was agreed at the Senate meeting
that those students not renting parking space on campus wou~d oot be
asked to help pay for overnight cam.
pus parking expenses.
Enforcement
In Ter~ II C~Jlege Court will enforce all rnft1act1on of the new regulat ions. Parking offenses will be re·
ported lo Court by the campus police
via lhe director of residence's of.
lice. Senate plans to review C1lurt's
enforcement system in Term II and
to consider revising its prese!lt penally guideline. This guideline permits
Court to revoke a student's permission to keep a oar fur the rest of
the year upon her first violation of
any car rule.
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After winter vaoatwn Sen~le will
discuss long-term car regulations fur
juniors and seniors as well as the
present car rental regulations. And
in Term m a car commilte_e will pre·
sent to Senate an evaluation of tJhe
Two Addorsed Tree Dryads, dated c.10-25 A.O.
whole transportation program.
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Court<•sy, Museum of Fine Arts
pattern.
In his collection, Heeramaneck
has also included a large group of
Nepalese and Tibetan tankas, dat.
ing from the 14th to the 18th cen.
bo b
tury. Because of their vitality
t
in color and drawing, these Budd.
hist banner paintings on cloth were
the origin for styles and subjects
often repeated in later periods.
Sharing a Dream
Continued from page five
of the ancie!Jl.s menaces. Whoo Mat·
.soukas tries to cheat her, he is almost
kHled.
His faith is not with the God or
the last two thousand yeare Ito
whom he says, • "Man have mercy
upon you." 'l, but with the gods
twice t'hat old Aphrodite sits on
his desk.
Swagger and Sex
Petrakis impressively portrays sex
and swagger. • "Take the game in
question, srud poker,' " Matsoukas
enlightens a self-i.!lflated fig tycoon,
" 'To suggest that I am a card carrpenter, that I have thimble-rigged
switched, palmed or stacked any
card is a stupid impertinence. To
suggest that you have been trimmed.
fleeced, flushed, and clipped requires an incredible pomposity. To
cheat in a game with you is to resort
to 011 enema for a sliver in my fin·
ger.'"
The earthy rollicking under the
sheets and on the staircase is also
delightful. And occasional laugh-outloud paragraphs localize colorfully "Since
she felt nakedness more indecent
tlhan murder, she wore black dresses
high around her throat and low about
!her ankles. She scorned all recreation except the death notices, which
she read wilh silent intensity until
the sight of a familiar name made
her quiver with the ardor of a
bride."
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We Have To Be Told
Or the Orthodox bisbop's sermon:
' "What is this curse of modem life
I speak of? This abomination that
ranks beside the trax collector, the
bikini, the cinema, the television. as
O!le of the foul pl:agues of our horrendous age. . . what is this evil
but. . .• His dark eyes curved aeross
the benches with a blade or scorn.
•... the life insurance policy !' "
The supposed purpose of it all is to
sh<>w us that, as Matsoukias' card
dealer, friend Cicero tells him
" 'In an absurd world you make absurd sense.• " But the trouble is
that we have to be told.
_Pa_g_e_T_w_e_lv_e_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _W_E_L_L_ES_LEY COLLEGE NEWS, WELLESLEY, MASS., DEC. 8, 1966
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Psychedelics End Dull Mixers
Viar-Light Baths,' Persian Bang
The opportunity tor contact with
the opposite sex has moved Into a
new dimension with the lntroduetlon of psychedelic mixer, to be
held at Harkness Commons Fri.
Dec. 9 at 8: 30 p.m.
Harvard student Jay Decker, who
dreamed up the idea, refers to.it as
"the anti-mixer mixer:• navored
with the air of a big, haJJpy party.
"We hope to eliminate the tenseness and dullness of the ordinary
mixer. The admission price ($1.50
for both men and women) should
prevent the usual mob scene."
Light Bath
From the sound of It, Decker's
mixer should certainly be different.
Couples will dance to the music of
three bands, one of which is a
three.piece Persian band, while a
kaleidoscope or polychromatic light
provided by a "tornado of fire" vortex machine and a Light Organ,
dances in the air above them. Movie and still projections of colors
and nature scenes will complete the
"light bath."
Tension-reducing tricks are to in.
elude "Ooating poets" reciting either their own or their favorite
poetry, personable "secret agents
of happiness" acting as hosts and
hostesses, and "find your match"
door prizes.
No LSD
The mixer, Decker is quick to
add, will be psychedelic by effect
only; refreshments will include
beer and food from the grill, not
LSD.
Anybody want a study-break?
the METCO students' marks is comparable t.o that of the regular sdlool
Continued from page one
population."
Wellesley High now has 25 METCO
Mr. Graves also noted that girls
students in addition to one regular from Wellesley O>llege laCt as tutors
Negro student, a soi:tiomore girl.
for those students who need help with
In a recmt article in the Patriot their studies. Debbie Hoffman '69
Ledger, Mr. Graves talked further ~utors in ialg.ebra, While Mary Hoe
about the status of the program at .68 and Marian Fe~guson. 'f>l tutor
Wellesley High. He reported that m geo~try. Dottie Rindels '67
the METCO studoots haven't formed ?81ps. with ~panish, and Carol Hunt
cliques, nor have they Shied aW1ay 169 with Latin. Mr: Graves ~uested
Crom their white classmates.
~hat any students mteresbed in tutormg contact Susan Spear '68, Tower
Studem Cooperation
The school he says, uses a "buddy O>urt W~. or Cherry Watts '69,
syst.em '' in which white students vol- McAfee, directors of the program.
1.1'1'.teer 'to spend time with the newIn the Patriot Ledger article, Mr.
comers to help them get acquainted Graves answered the oftoo~asked
with the school. The volunteers also question as to why the Negroes eninvite the Negroes to their homes rolled at Wellesley High. "I don't
and some occasionally stay overnight w.ant to knock the Bost.on school
after a school dance or football game. system," he said, "but they Mr. Graves also stated that parents Negroes> told me they felt they'd
of the METCO students have del'n()n,. get a better education at a suburban
school like ours."
strated their enthusiasm for the pla'l.
Many recenlly attended a "parents'
He d:ie£'.1't ~hink, however, that
night" program at the school.
ma!ly more Negro students will enProgre!jsing Well
roll at Wellesley High in the near
The Negro students themselves future, because METCO doesn't have
have become invulved in many extra- the funds. The project is partly run
curricular activities at the school. on a federal gnarit..
'l\vo boys are members of the junior
.
No Inc1de~ts
varsity football team a'ld one girl
In. spite or METCO s success, he
plays on foe field hockey squad admitted that "a few" white students
Still another girl is a reporter f~ ~ven:t completely adjusted to the
the school newspaper
s1tuahon, but stressed the fact that
Grade-wise, !11e METCO students ~ere. have ~n 00 inci~7!'lts. "l~'s
are progressing well. "111 the mark- "orkmg beautifully hei:e. he said,
ing period which has just ended,"
and I hear.~o complamts from the
said Mr. Graves, "the disttibutioo c( other school.
METCO ...
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Methods o' reporting
Any stuacnt who comes back late from
vacauon should report hen.ell promptly
to toe Court Absence Committee by notuyrni; the Chiet Justice.
1. Ji the absence is anticipated in advance. a lorm obtainable at the office
O• the Director oi Hesidcnoe should be
submitted to the Chiet Justice explainmi.; the reasons tor lateness by the be·
ginnin~ oi winter recess.
2. lr a late return is unforeseen: Excuse. ar' ~dctted by the Court Absence C'lmmitttt without penalty only
if the student reports to her Head of
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earliest possible moment and files an application to the office Justice within 24
hours of her return on forms available
in the office of the Director of Residence.
3. If the absence is for medical reasons: the student must have a fonn
signecl by a College physician or she
must present a letter from the attending
doctor to the Director of Health Services
before the fonn can be signed.
Excuses
Excuses are accepted by the Court
Absence Committee for the following
reasons. provided application is made in
the proper way.
l. Medical reasons, provided the application for the excused absence has
been properly countersigned and is presented to the Court Absence Committee
at the enrlist possible time.
2. Important family relUOns: serious
illnt'Ss. n~ssary legal business. marriage,
death. The family is defined as: parents,
brother, sist<'r, grandparents, husband,
children.
3. N<"cessary interviews and tests in
connt'Ction with jobs and 1traduate school
which cannot be arran1ted at any other
time.
4. Attendance as bridesmaid or maid
o! honor at R weddin)!.
1 5. Unfor;een travel complication only
· wher • sufficient mar)!in of time has
beer> allowt't1 in the oriBecause of the hazards and irre1tUlarity
of travel in bad veather and crowd<"1
travel conditions at vacation tinws. n sufficient marl'(in of time is definet1 AS follows:
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a. By plan<' or bus. an extra mar.inn
~f timr •houlcl hf' allowet1 for connt'Ci;on< at intt-nnrdi.1te airp<>rts or stations
anil at \east three hours hdwet'n the
,ch<.' Airport
or at nnv hns station in the Bo~ton nr<."a
nn" th" reh. Uy trnin, nn C'xtra mar.ain of t.ime
~h01 1 J c1. he- n11ow<."cl to mak<' connf"ctmn~
• .,..i morP than ample time ff> rrach the
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c. Bv n11tor>inhile. twie<' th<' nonnal
trP'"" t;,...,,. shnulcl he nllowc-d ...
fl . Diflicnltirs in trnvPlin<' outsid.- the
,......,tntn• tn lw with familv nt hnm~ ~ onlv
wher o limitl'd nmount of transportation
i~ nvnilahlr.
7. AttrnrlanC<' at mrPtinl!'• rl•cwhere
a• al' officinl clelt'cmtc of the- Co11el!<' nnd
with prinr approval of thr Dean of Sh1-
THEATRE
The Wilbur Theatre features
Agatha Sue, I Love You, a comedy
by Abe Einhorn, through Dec. 10.
The Shubert Theatre Half a Sixpence.
The Colonial box office reports
that Man of La Mancha, whjch continues through Dec. 13, ls sold out
for the entire engagement.
The Loeb features a 17th century Restoration play, The Man of
Mode, by Sir George Etherege. A
comedy, its action centt-rs around
the efforts of a man to leave one
mistress for another and his final
match with a third lady. It will be
I presented on Dec. 8-11 and on Dec.
1-------1 Penalties
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1. Late Return
a. If one hour 01 less: the case will
' ho handled by the House Council, which
will review the student's original plan.
l(rtlntinj.". an excuse only if the plan confonns to the specifications set by the
Cour: Absence Committee. Interpretation
of lateness of less .han 15 minutes is
left up to the House President.
b. Over one hour and in time for th~
student's first rel(Ularly scheduled class :
two weeks loss of social re1tistration privile)!es.
c. Late return after the beginnin11 of
the stud<'nt's first class and within 48
hour: of the requin'd re1tistration time:
thrPe weeks loss of social registration
privile2es.
2. Penalties for non-rt'sident students
wh" fail to restister at the required time
at the heginninsi of the tt'nn: reQuirt'd
attendanCP at all cl.uses. and sil0\in11
nntside thP office of the Oin>etor of R<'sidenoo on davs when the sh1dent hns
cla•
\w three weeks if the st~1dent n'tum<
within 48 hours from the he1tinnin1t of
he: fir;! class.
3. J.nte reh1m of mort' than 48 hour;
aftt'f th<" required r~giof mor. than thr~ wttk~' sociAl resdstmtio1.. tim<'. Los< of mnr~ than thn"f'
wN•k11;' J'f"Ouired att<-ndnnC<' of c1n~~t.o~
will he considered as a nos~ihl<' pt>nalt)',
1
t'xcmr< are to he aCCf'oted if
ha~~ on prnona1 COn\'t'"ni<"ne<-.. finnncial
aain. or mi~tnlcrl\ in mnkinf' travel n.rrr\nf!env•nt'i. Trnv("l anan'-temrnt, must
hr mnde well in advance of the vncn-
14-17, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets, $1.50 on
weekdays and $2.00 on weekends.
The Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan
Players will present The Pirates of
Penzance on Dec. 9-10 at 8:30 p.m.
in the Agassiz Theatre, Cambridge.
Tickets on sale at the Coop or at
the Agassiz box office from 2-6 p.m.
dally.
MUSIC
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Erich Lelnsdorf will present a special concert
Sunday evening, Dec. 11, for the
benefit of Its pension fund. Three
guests will participate in the program: Stephen Kates, celllst; Misha Dichter, pianist and Senator
Edward M. Kennedy, who will narrate part of the program. The concert begins at 8: 30 p.m. Tickets are
on sale at the box office.
ART
exhibition, "London, New
York, Hollywood: a New Look In
Print•," is being presented at the
Institute of Contemporary Art, 100
Newbury St., Boston, through Jan.
8. On display are works by British
and American artists working in
London, New York and Hollywood.
Admission is $.25. The Institute is
open every day except Monday.
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
presents "The Arts of India and
Nepal," one of the most important
collections of Indian Art in exist.
ence, spanning 4,000 years, from
2000 B.C. to mid-20th century. Admission $.25 for non. members.
MOVIES
Now playing at the Wellesley
Community Playhouse Is a Peter
Sellers comedy, The Wrong Box.
Evenings at 7: 45.
An
dePonrli'(l~ 01'
th(\ indivirlunl case.
4. Vrrv Int<' ..,.turn< will be referred to
th" ASnc-cial consideration will lw m'\d1• thi•
ln'lturv tf' students who minmd<-ntood
thi• nnlicv anti whn mndr trnvel plam
wt.io11 j., ,.rtvanoe of th!" announceme-nt of
thi1 policy.
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Community Playhouse
Wellesley Hills CEdar 5-00'7
Evenings at 7 :45
Sunday Continuous Beginning
at 4:30
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On l\ovember 17, the Administrative
8oar<1 votecl to transfer the responsibilities of the Absence Committee to Col1ege Court. Uue to the lateness of this
transfer, the Court is enforcing, for the
beginning ot 'fenn JI, traditional regulti.
lions conceminli late registration. (Sec
pagt: 19 ot the Grey Book).
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