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PAGE 1 Welcome to Parents Weekend Alreaiy registered to attend New College's seventh annual Parents Weekend beginning Friday, Nov. 3, are 121 parents from twenty one s.ates, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Ishnds The special weekend to which more than 100 parents have come each year in the past several years includes a panel discussion on education, student pre sentations of academic work, conferences with faculty, social events and class attendance Highlighting the weekend activities is the Parents Association luncheon on Saturday, .,._ Nov .. 4, with :>r. John Ott, incommg president of the associFACULTY MEETING: OVERTIME SESSioN Dort, Paster To Check Books At yeaterday's faculty meeting (covered elsewhere in this '<>sue) the CR C represented by Dr Soo Bong Chae, reported on the state of the Campus Book Shop. In view of facts recently reported in these pages, the situation is nearing in Board chairman Dallas Dort's terminology, "a showdown ". In response to the revealin;;; of tlJe bookstore's ;mpovcrir.'>ed condition (large debts) Saul Paster, recent owner, will meet Friday with Dort, Bussimess Manager Charlie Harra, and Jim VanderVeen. h that time, they will peruse the records of the said busimess, attempting to sort out the state of affairs. Dr. Berggren then raised a question many people have been pondering: why was Mr. Paster given the contract, when two SEparate committees had op posed him? Harra replied, "it was only fair to give them a chance to pay off creditors" ( Catalyst 10/26). Dr. Berggren mentioned Mr. Paster's use of ftmds, which "bordered on the illegal", and closed with a request:"get them out of the bookstore". Mr. Dort replied, "He may be out day after tomorrow". Mr. Harra ventured the pledge that, "11sometl1ing will be done". The faculty met Wed in the third monthly of this school year Dr. Smith annotmced that there would be no facultv meeting Mon Nov. 6 Dr Buri in troduced physics instructor, Dr. William Barnum, who will be here for the rest of the year. Robert Drabik, head of development, said that the mounds of dirt in front of the library is really the beginning of a Found, ers' Circle, to be dedicated on Founders Day. He also ann.ounced that the college now has $317, 496..50 towl!rd the Ford Challenge Grant Various major foundations and corporations are aho being-oug" -<><>ntribute mout>y to the school. The faculty voted to pass the E.PC's guidelines for the relation between tl1e Environmental Studies P:ogrem and other ele ments of the college Many objections were raised concerning several of the rules about the academic status of the ESP The most controversial was rule IV 3, which states, "regulnr faculty members working in the ESP may not ev duate for acAdemic cred1t any work done by a student on the ESP except those activities designated by the appropriate divisions. 11 Dr Knox explained that a faculty member working full time may not sponsor any contract, tutorial, or ISP, un less it has been approved and 1 isted in the course catologue Dr. Kirtley called this a "clear violationof faculty since it denies the right to sponsor tutorials to some faculty. Dr. (continued on page 2) ation, presiding Dr Ott is dir Davidson Convicted of Nude Swimming SENTENCE CARRIED OUT as student politico Ron Davidson recieves playful jibes from unseen well-wishers. The amiable young SEC Chakm an, hailing from Des Moines, was found guilty of malicious violation of the Nude Swimming Act of 1972, which Davidson reportedly co-sponsored at the time of its proposal. He was sentenced to be botmd to a tree with 11/4 inch coaxial cable and left to rot for ten minutes in the plush Court of Palms on the Pei Campus. Davidson refu.,ed comment beyond a terse "The sentence of the Court was just." ector of the Environmental Light and Health Research Institute in Sarasota, and father of N C student Henry Ott Welcoming the parents will be Dati. as W Dort, chairman of the N C Board of 1 rustees, and Ted Sperling, board member, will address the group. Throughout Friday, Nov. 3, parents may attend regular classes and tour the library, lab oratories and other college facilities Friday evening, a ial hour and dinner will be fol lowed by a concert uy the New College String (Juatrtet with student musicians Bruce Hutchison, Janet Cannon Richard Rognstad and James Sick An original composition by student Hutcheon will be heard, as well as music by Schubert, Mozart and Kodaly Saturday rooming, Nov 4, is given over to a coffee hour and individual conferences with faculty That afternoon students Melissa Birch and Leslie Ki1Uley will present slides taken during their seven month offcampus study contracts with the Experiment in International Liv ing in Guatemala, where they attended an intensive language institute and then lived with IJ1dian families in an Indian village, sharing lives of the families, working in n agricultural demonstration project and collecting dat:1 on Indain dialects. (continued on page four) WNCR Manager's Case Refered to SEC The Student court, at their meeting last Monday, announced that last hear's student chair selections were unconstitutional, but the contracts which the selected speak en; signed are legal. This was in answer to concerning the constitutionality of the elections. The next issue discussed was a petition submitted by roah y.mich questioning the right of WR C manager Tom Sommer< to cancel Noah's radio show. Br}an Reid, court prosecuter, relt the JS sue is whether Torn, a nollstudent, has the power to de ny Noah (Who was a student at the time of the dismissal) the use. of a student-Lunded .... \u ... h s the Tom felt his position of manager gave him this right, and pointed out a section from the student code that he claims gives a manager freedom to set up hi.s own editorial policy. Tom said the SEC ap-Founders Day Dedication Set proved his bemg manager in that the check made out to WR:t\C was given directly to him, and Ron Davidson, SEC chairman recalled that last year's chaix,voman had told h1m to refer to Tom in an} matters concerning WR.'C. K. C. Greene summed the matter up, ad' i sing the SEC to e stablish a defi n ite set of modes of p rocedure to cover cases concerning services such as the rad1o station, which a ffect a J ,nge p a rt o f the student Br)an Reid next read a statement submitted b y Matt Korol stating that 011 october 26, wlule hfeguardi ng, he saw Ron o:..v :m lu 1 11 Ue t tt college swimming pool. Ron was given one week to prepare a defense but wai\ ing that right in order to deal with the case immediate ly, he pleaded not guiltr because of extenuating circum stances. He admitted he had been in the pool nude, but ll had been dark, and he had thought the pool was officially closed. He had not v1olated the rule intentionally, and always wore a suit when he knew the rule was in effect, that is during the da). SEC PROPOSALS SENT TO TRUSTEES On Wednesday, Nov. 8, the New College Community will hold a Founders' Day Celebration in front of the library to honor those persons who contrihted time, money and effort to the founding of the school. To provide a more pennanert. reminder of these persons' efforts, the circle before the library steps The court then went into executive session and all but three students no members of the court left the room. Ron Davidson was found in violation of the nude swimm ing rule, and he was sentenced to be tied to a tree m Palm court between six and seven PM on saturday, wearing swimming trunks, socks and a sign reading PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH. The court later reconvened and reduced the sentence to ten minutes (6:00--6: 10) on Wednesda) night. Ron Davidson announced at the SEC meetmg Tuesday night that elections for a student court Judge and fin;t year SEC delegate would be held Friday, and that Thun>da y would be the deadline for submission of names of nominees. Bryan Reid, student court prosecuter, discussed the court's recommendation that the SEC draw up a policy in regard to student-financed organizations and suggested that a board of trustees or directors be formed that would have final policy say over the managers of such organizations. The issue was tabled until next week in order to work out a resolutiQn that would be satisfactory to all SEC members. Ron announced two meeting; the faculty meeting on Wednesday, and a special faculty meeting on MOnday to discuss tenure and government. (Ed. Note: The meeting has been postponed) Ron tlien asked approval of the two policy recommendations he had postt:d in Hamilton Center, one on governance policies and one on tenure. It was unanimousl)' agreed by SEC members to present the first of these at the Monday meeting with the change that the College Resource committee would remain at six faculty and three students instead of the proposed s1x faculty and one student. At the suggestion of Earl Helgeson, the SEC voted not to present the tenure recommendation at Monday's meeting, but to inform the faculty that they would present this paper to the Board of Trustees meeting on November 9, and to recommend that the faculty prepare their statement on tenure for the same time. The results of the Faculty Evaluation poll were made public. (See adJacent table.) Noah yanich was given a one week extension of his guest priviledges. The meeting then adjourned. A total of 270 responses were recieved from the students. of students who eva! uated Bud Shartar approved of his being retained, 71% approved of his recieving tenure. of Marshall Barry evalua tions approved of his retention, 70% approved of his receiving tenure. onascaleof1-10, 10 being the highest possible evaluation, the two men rated as follows, category Barry Shartar academic l".inge 6.0 8.6 academic strength 8.4 8. 7 academic accessability 6.4 8.5 non academic accessability 6.4 8.5 capability as a teacher 7.7 7.8 accuracy in stu-dent evaluation 6. S 6.5 flexibihty 7.2 9.0 hum a ness 7.9 9.5 innovativencss 8.7 8.3 structured courses 6.7 7. 1 is being relandscaped into an ordered garden, and e plaque bearing the names of the 76 New College Founders will be erected. The ceremony. beginning at ll:OO am, will feature as speakers founding Chairman of the Board Phillip Hiss, founding President George F. Baughman, and representatives of the charter class and the present student body. Dallas W Dort, present Chaiman of the Board, will preside. Afterwards, areception will take place in the Music Room. In addition to the 76 honorees BOO persons who have contributed to 'ew College in varying amounts during its existence, and all faculty, staff, and students have been invited. The offices of Development and Public Relations (the organizers of the Founders' Day Celebr::r tion) expresses the hope that students will attend the scremony and reception and meet some of the people who gave their time, energy, money and solid support to the creation of the New College ideal. During the executive ses sion, the court also drew up several search w a rr ants L n order to determine i f certain students were keeping firearms in their rooms i n v iolat1on of the student constitution. IN THIS ISSUE: Editonals 2 Fashion 'ews 9 Guest column 10 Halloween party 11 Letten; 2 Literal) Supplement S-8 Parents Weekend Schedule 4 Questions 4 12 Strike 9 This week 3 PAGE 2 Page two THE NEW COllEGE CATALYST P 0 Box 1958 Sarasota, Fh. 33578 NEW COLLEGE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Daniel F Chambliss and Douglas G. Stinson co-editors Sherri Mcindoe-editorial assistant Lee Harrison-Advertising and Circulation Manager Staff Tom Sommers, Kirk Kerekes, Sally Stephens, Eddie Katz man, Marie Sprayberry, Amy Schachter, Stuart Levitan B.ruce Need, Marilyn Math, Ira Halberstadt, Polly ling, Robert Kornman, Ron Barrett, Charlotte Meriwether Lisa Ohotzke, Mike Spaletta, Beth Brown, Laura Gode, Noah Yanich, and Pat Wasz. Tom Campion Editorials At Wednesday's faculty meeting Mr. Dort, chairman of announced, in the wake of a CATALYST The CATALYST Dear Sirs. I wanted to thank the student body for having brought Dr. Ross Terill to the campus and especially for their courtesy and kindness in shring that extreme ly interesting speaker with the rest of the college commt:mity. Sincerely, Hildegard Bell (Note: Dr. Terrill. considered to be one of this country's fore most experts on Cltina, appeared here on Oct. 27-28 tm.der the auspices of the Student Chair, funded entirely by the student bodv.) Gentlemen, At the request of cer tain editors who shall remain nameless, I am writing concerning the recent faculty meeting in which tl1e EPC guidelines for the Environmen tal Studies Program was voted on The EPC document vras fairly irmocuous. except for one section. In this section, conccming academic credit for student work in ESP, it was stated that the division involved would have to ap prove any activity undertaken in the ESP for credit. The implication is that an individual faculty member would be unable to sponsor a tutorial of November 3, 1973 FACULTY--from page one I / \ \ I -\...' Knox responded that if someone should now have gotten to the eleds to wo(k full-time for the faculty. This (eport has not ESP. he should accept the acabeen approved by the faculty, demic limitaions After much only the FSC; the report states discussion in which these two this: Kirtley called for a fac-pcints were reiterated by dif-ulty meeting to discuss tenure ferent faculty members. the two weeks from now, and ex-motion was fin ally passed Fryr plained that the meeting for an tm.animous voi"e vote. A Monday was cancelled to give nother motion to determin.a! the faculty more time to con-if the faculty was in favor of sider the subcommittee's the summer school if possible report. received an affirmative vote The EPC reported that they Concerning the Presidential are considering the problem of Search, Dr. Smith reported the drop in enrollment second that several candidates have and third term. Dr. Knox visited the campus recently requested that the faculty not for a short time. None are sign any more requests for still being seriously four year option or off campus to sponsor a tutorial or Inde-Dr Fuchs will return the week-study that were due yester-pendent Study Project in ESP end of Nov. 17-19 to talk with day. He also asked tl1at the without divisional approval. more of the college commtm.ity. faculty decide what to offer This is a somewhat unusual Smith also announced tilat any as courses earlier (in Jan) situation in that a faculty reported delay in Dr. Fuchs so that students may decide membe( .is more limited in availability for the position whether to stay or go on off-sponsoring on .. us P y, I an contract<: 1 m o ege Resource Committee e term. r. Berggren remm-he was personally meeting Frida}' with Mr. saul Paster, owner of the bookstore, to discuss the situation. Also present at the meeting will be Mr. ;an van der veen, Economics instmctor. We commend Mr. Dort for his personal interest 1n this vital aspect of the college's academic function and urge that he and other Board members demand an adrnmistrative fiscal responsibility without which the college can hardly maintain a reasonable level of efficiency. The New college Ira Glasser Memorial Fund and Miscel-laneous Mischief society announces its first event: a pre-election bash for the sarasota county Sherrif and his department Monday night November the sixth. The society will present cold Turkey cuts with vanous non-alcoholic and there will be live entertainment in the palm court and most other dorm areas provided as a Joint venture between the Sherrif's men and selected 'C students. All students are urged to begin preparations for the celebration as early arrivals may be expected. one might think that the election does not warrant such an affair, but somebody obviously does. If you would like to advertize your business in The CATALYST, contact Lee Harrison, New College Student Publications, P .O. Box 1958, Sarasota Fla. REPllESENTED FOil NATIONAL ADVDTISING BY National Educational Advertising Services, Inc. 360 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017 was discussed at length in the reported that the problems of ed the faculty and students of the meeting with the result that the bookstore are still being coffeehouse every Tuesday this proviso was left in the considered (for further details night in Peggy Bates" apartmen1 document, on this, see the adjoining col-Dr Ross reported that a report This is in itself t:minterluron). on the 4-1-4 calendar will be esting and to be expected of Dr. Kirtley, speaking for the forthcoming. Dr, Stcphens also the faculty. What is inter-Faculty Status Committee, said that a report on the position esting is that as the discussion said that a report from tile sub-of women at NC would be made progressed, battle lines were committee on tenure is to be sometime in the near future;! drawn between the Natural put before tile trustees, and and asked for any suggestions or Sciences staff and the EPC. information. This is unfortlmate for a var-iety of reasons. First,_ the dichotomy between Nat Sci and the rest of the school was pointed out rather sharply. My feeling was that there was a fear that 'at Sci would take over the school. While tllis is not necessarily a bad idea, it is in no way close to The ESP is not strictly a N atural Sciences program. Indeed, if it .is to become a viable program, it must expand beyond the division, Expertise is needed not only in biology but in a large number of areas, The legal aspect of the program .is an important one. Legal studies at NC are almost nonexistent. Perhaps ESP shall provide tile impetus to develop a law program at NC. In the process of changing peo-ples' attitudes about conser vation, a tremendous amount of m aterial for sociologists and social psychologists would hP. made available. Everything a person does is done in the context of his envixionment. (Try breathing in a vacuum.) Environmental studies is not necessarily a narrow field of scientific en deavor; rather it .is something with which we must all be con-cerned. Not only is a polluted environment a problem to be worked on by scientists, it is a problem in human realtions, and it is decidedly counteresthetic. Everyone can, and perhaps should, do something to reverse the trend presently moving us toward the destuction of a livable environment. Sincerely, Donald G. Crenshaw TO the NC Newspaper: It's 4 o'clock in the after noon in sarasota now --Tonight I've found the Stones, Laon Russell a d Simon and Garfunkel on the Radio-Johnny walker's with me--I'm on the balcony of my hotel overlooking the pal!ps and a 16th century Rocca--enough Ira Halberstadt touches--now its my turn--I'm nostalgic, I want to know what the new class is like--want to know how my old frien_ds are (and how many of them there are). classes, parties, Revolts, a frantic pilgrimage to D. c. a few years ago--all these occur to me--how was Marios this year? This message is from the Novo-collegians who were willing to expatriate in order to compensate for the attrition vote. We're doing well--have seen 1, 586 churches, exposed 2. 6 miles of :film and devalued the dollar to live in our efforts. Advice: Look to Buddy Shartar for a friend, Ken Sim coe for money, Lee Harrison for what to do with it, Hope Austin on Mondays, and J Walker after all of these. scotty sorrento oct. 20, 1 o PM Dear Friend, I am a high school (senior) chick who is seriously thinking about coming to New college in '75 (after 1 take a year off.) I don't trust catalogues or admissions offices and I can't afford to come down to visit your school. Being pretty much in the dark, I would like to contact some students and get some of their thoughts on New college. I'm really looking for academic and social community living and a creative and involved group of people (I put myself in that category.) Do you think I can advertise in your paper? please write back and I can send you $ if you want it. Thanks, Addy :rn.ai nly Sl'. ARMANOS KEY SARASOTA, "l Phcne: Jtf.l]CI Special Orders taken cheerfully -filled promptly ... ;z () 0 v. 0 () w YOUR GOOK ANC. PAGE 3 November 3, 1973 The CATALYST CALENDAR Phi l o s ophy Conference Presenting a paper at the 18th annual meeting o ( the F'lorida Philosophical Associaltion at Rollins College Nov. 2-4 is Dr. Btyan G. Norton, assistant professor of philosophy. Dr. Norton's paper is entitled "Verification, Linguistic Frame works and Ontology. Past president of the association, Dr. Douglas C. Berggren, professor of philosophy, will chair a panel discussion on the teaching of philosophy at the meeting. Dr. B Gresham Riley, associate professor of philosophy, is currently vice pre s!dent of the association. Next President? or. Lawrence Fuchs, can didate for president of New college, will be on campus November 17-19 to meet with the college community. His agenda will be published in a later number of the CATALYST. THE MILFORD (N.H.> CABI N E T Somehow we think of Doug Stinsnn as always running. At least he was always running when he worked here at the Cabinet Press, until he went off to college in Florida ,u more than a year ago. Doug jogged down from S<'hool each afternoon, or rode his bicycle. in time to sweep floors, chores around a prmt shop, and when summer vaca ti o n came, h e pitch e d in full time. Thi s week we had a chance to see copies of the Catalyst, the newspaper of New College in Sarasota, Fla. Listed as one of the co-editors is Douglas G. Stinson of Milford. We think of him as an alum nus of The Cabinet, and we'll bet he runs from classroom to newspaper office, and never slows down until his paper is safely at the printer's. Fri 11/3 ISP signu.r forms diie"' Parents Weekend begins: reg istration, tours, class attendance. -x:ial hour for parents, fac ulty and staff, 30-5: 30 pm, South Hall. <;oncert by New College Strmg Quartet with student artists, 8 pm, Music Room sat ll/4 parents' weekend contmues, coffee hour and con ferences with faculty and staff 10 am, south Hall Parents Association Luncheon 12 noon, Hamilton Center Student proJect presentations l: 45 pm, audi. panel discussion "New college Today", 7 pm, HC Trustee'.; reception for parents follows, in court of paln. sun ll/5 Parents weekend concludes with mdi. !dual ac of friends (Quakers) dtscuss1on 10 am, worship llam Music Room film series, The Rise "'' Louis XN" French dialosue English subtitles, directed b y Roberto Rossellini. "Among the best films of 1970u NYTimes 7 and 9 pm, Tch A udi discussing the work Leonard Euler, f amous Swiss 18th c e n tury mathem aticain. 7:30pm, :-t Sci Bldg Study Group Topic Social Science Study Group: Mary Jo Neitz Wright will speak about her research on marriage and the nuclear family from the perspectives of women in the women's movement. Wednesday, 5:15 pm in the Fishbowl NEW P U B L I C A T I 0 N SOUGHT CATALYST editors Dan cham bliss and Douglas Stinso:r are hoping to assist in the formation of two "alternate" publications next term; a lit erary magazine and a "rag", or loose 1 y organized opinionoriented newspaper. "1 JUSL think it's drag having nothing but a straight newspaper .. face facts, the CATALYST is not exciting news," says Editor chambliss uand we see a valuable func tion in the existence of a high class rag ... The editors also want to separate the pr esent literary supplement from the news paper, or at upgrade the quality of the paper stock used so that high quality graphics would be possible. Chambliss emphasized that the emergence of these new periodicals would in no way affect the operation of the CATALYST. "We want to serve all the needs of all segments of tne NC commun ity, says Chambliss, "and we simply cannot do this with JUSt the CATALYST." He then noted that the CAT AL YST might be able to provide partial financial support for both publications but that some funds were going to have to come from outside sources, probably the SEC Tues ll/7 ELECTION DAY ConveJ:Sation and Coffee, for faculty and students, 9 pm, home of Dr. Margaret Bates Wed 11/8 Founders Day: New ('ollege will honor the men and women whose E pport and work provided the impetus for the college during its f01.mding uears, 1961-1964. A plaque honoring the major folDldeJ:S will be lDlveiled and the circle ont the er-st side of the libraty will be landscaped and redesigned as a Fol.llders' Circle, llam Sarsota-Manatee Phi Beta Kappa Association: Dr. Justus D. Doenecke, assocaite professoT of hise :>ry speaks on "The Isolationists and the Cold War'' 8pm, home of Mr. and Mrs. C H. Hoppin, 1212 Center Place, Sarasota, Lecture on occult by Dr. Marcello Truzzi fourth of series. Special guest, Gundella 7:30 pro, Music Room $5 per lecture Asolo film: "The Fifth Horseman is Fear'' Czech, 1966. English dialogue dubbed in. 2:30, 7 and 9 pm. Thurs 11/9 Board of Trustees cLNC meets The Woman's Library Association for New College: "Ikebanb: Japenese Floral Art'' by Lily Bishop, professor lkenobo School. :offee, 10:15 am, College Hall Christmas card sale, 9:30 am NC fUm series:"The Red Desert" 7 and 9:30pm, Teaching A ud Apprx one d olla r Doenecke Papers Professor Justus D. Doenecke is preparing an article for the issue of The Jomnal of Popular Culture which will be edited by Professor Marcello Tru.zzi. Dr. Doenecke's atricle willlsrc on the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It will be a profile of the fair particularly tellin" of its reception of indus trialization. Dr Justus D Doenecke has commitments to give two pap ers during the first half of 1973. In February he is scheduled :o read a paper before the Soc iety foe Historians of American roreign Relations meeting in Atlanta, The p:-;--er "Isola tionism Reconsidered, is based on his bibliographical essay on the literature rill! iso lationism, published in the fall. Later in the he will give "Harry Elmer Barnes: Forermmer of the New History and the New Sociology," before the Southern Sociolog ical Assn. also meetiu;;; in Adanb Swap Houses ? The Institutional Research Director at Goddard College and family would like to swap houses with a Sarsota cr St. Pete area family for about two weeks beginning midFebruaty. ffheir house in Plainfield Ver. (near Montpelier) is very close to the campus and has four bedrooms, two baths, rec. rm. washer dryer dishwasher, parlor grand piano. They have four children and would need a sizeable house. Might be a nice opportunity for a Florida famiJ y who misses skiing, for a faculty member on sabbatical who could use two weeks of the north woods, etc, Contact Jim Feeney for details, Social Sciences' New Secretary The Social Sciences Div ision has a new temporary student secretary, chaitwo men or. Margaret Bates an nounced wednesday. Stanley Ivester, third year student from Andrews, North carolina, will begin work immediately and will function during the noon hour for two weeks. At other times, informed sources re port, he will not function. young rvester, a former bookstore employee, will allegedly answer the telephone and assist with typewriting duties. Trustees to meet The Board of Trustees of New College will hold their Nov ettlber meeting next Thursday NeW college students may purchase lickets to the ccleb_rity concerts at half pnce thts season. The series will have four Monday night concerts at van wezel single events. celebrit) concerts will present: Nov. 27, 1972 -Alicia de Larrocba, pianist feb. 121 1973 j\;eW orleanS philharmonic orchestra, werner Torkanowsky Musical Director feb. 26, 1973 -sherrill Milnes, baritone Mar. 26, 1973 Birgit its son, soprano Information in regard to tickets is available at the Blue pagoda, Civic center Monda) through Frida)from 10.00 AM to 2:00PM or by ph.one during those hourS: 959 4000. SARASOTA !7/orr() 1 /Jltof "Moke it o habit -not on occos10n" 1219 lsi 955-4287 Page three Klappert Article An article adapted from the address delivered by Peter Klappert at ew College's Sixth Commencement, ]lDle lli, 1972, appeared in the Oct. 7 issue of Saturday Review of Literature. It bears the same title:"Let Them Eat Wonder bread," Klappert, who is currently Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard University, taught creative studies in poe tty here in the college's first summer session. He was 1970 winner in the Yale Series of YolDlger Poets competition. Art Show Mr. Robert Perkins, Presi dent of the Ringling School of Art, has issued an i-nvitation to New College commWlity to _come to an art show, exhibiting works by the faculty of the Ringling S. o..hool of Art, which will be held at the school on Friday evening Nov 3 ::.-;m 7:30 to 9:30pm. School Relations Committee meets aere Representatives o fourteen Florida colleges, universities and state eduaation offices who are mem'-ers of the Florida School Relations Committee will meet on the ew College campus Friday (Nov. 3). The school relations ca:nn i\:tee helps to coordinate and assist. -in the devc.lopTnent o1. Assistant for New College. To be represented at the meeting are such institutions as the Univ eJ:Sities of Florida, 'orth Florida and 5 PAGE 4 Page four Galapagos Expedition Organizing Cota Mesa. Ca The Charles Darw1n Institute. a notl proltt sctenttfiL research orgamta tion. in cooperatton with the In stttuto Hidmgrafico \' O.:eanoe.ra co de la bel Ecuador toda) announced the formation of a research expedition ll) the lsl3ml departimt earl) in 1 g73_ The lgtuftcance of the arcllilies in its unique natural history-the large variety of plants and antmal tltat make the Gala pagos and equatorial Land of Oz. Located 650 miles west of Ecuador. the i lands form ex..:ellent natural laboratories for the study of insular btology and the evolutionary pro ce St udie will be offered on a credit basis to undergraduate stu dents with a graduate level pro gram available to quaiJfied individ uals. The concentrated program consist of ll weeks spent on site with 52 hours weekly in classroom. lab and field projects in Applied Island Ecology. Tropical Manne Biology & Invertebrates. B10logy, Geolog). Volcanology, Botany. Ornithology & Terrestrial Inverte brates, Oceanology (aboard ship and class). Herpetology, unique island survey project and a cult ural exchange program with participat ing Ecuadorian students. Details mav be obtained from the Expedition Director. Charles Darwin Research In titute. 3001 Red Hill. #Vl-203. Co ta \1esa. California 92626. PARENTS --from page one Also to discuss off compus study projects are students Steve DuPrey, candidate for a seat in the 'ew Hampshire legislature on both the Republican and Democratic tickets, and Ron Davidson, Steve's campaign manager, who is also chairman of the student goveming body at NC Student Jeanne Beaird and her acting class of thirteen studets will demonstrate "Varia tions on Stm Excercises Saturday evening, a panel discussion on ew College Today" moderated by Ted Sperling, of the college's Board of Trustees, .ill be heard Panel members are division c 'airman Dr. Margaret L. Bates, social sciences; Dr. Peter F Buri, natural sciences. and W Lyndon Clough, humanities together with student participants jennifer Adair. Stan Skuvic and David Smith The trustees reception for parents will follow Coordinating Parents Week ens activites is Mrs Daniel G Dobbins, who Sl!id she hoped the schedule would give parents a bird"s -eye view of as many aspects of campus life as possible, G RE.EHWICh VILLA PAGE 5 An Apple in Your Eye Why Translation? "P' Ity spareth so rn any an e vii thing --Ezra Pound from CANTO. XXX /\ man should not approach any ente rise Wlt11 l ess than the highest ideals of whichrphe is however limited his practical tat10ns may b Wh expect] e. atever lllfm1tesim Rl value ns_supplement will have lies in how effectively Jt .disseminates ideals, tP.chniques and a con SCiousness of the history of literature at least among writing at New College. do not suffice, nor imitations of lthe residmg poet or prose Ia tre ate of New Colege. That is why I have chosen to dedicate this tSsuc to translation, not only to counterbalance the monolingualism and temporal provincialism prevalent within the New College S chool Of Poet_ry, but to suggest an alternative to a dese cratiOn of the hwnan faculty of speech: creative poetry workshops. Based upon acrostics and shuffle words into fmally trymg to mflate images into poems what .can lead. to but people searching for emotJOns to f1t the1r vocabularies? What models can provide other than the fads in the little magaLmes, where editors, primarily because they h?ve formed their tastes according to little :nagazmes rather than according to classics, are mcapable of overcoming tha t taste for fads and at best average, ssfe, and ultimately me work? Where success for a writer is the ab1hty to publish anything he churns out regardl e ss of quality? I cannot condone it I 'will not it, and if I were in power i would not permit 1t. English is the only language acknowledged to ex1st by th.e .New Colle g e School Of Poetry. The opm10n of translation is that it is "some to. do when you are in a dry spell and lack And smce there is so much good or1gmal writing arow1d here Sure. provides both apprentice work and subject matter for masterpieces. Marlowe translated Ovid's A mores. Fitzgerald translated Omar Khayyam. Chaucer, Jonson Dryden Pope, and Browning were not translating nor were Catullus, Baudelai re or Mallanne Pla y s prose fiction, and have been L. Andronicu s tran s lated the Od y sse y mto Latm in about 250 B C But w hat c on cerns is the v alue o f 1:ranslatton a s on exercise. whom an translates is -Carla Cohen Pag e five November 3, 1972 ly going .to be one of the bette r writers in a language, S1nce apprentice probably would ot beard of h1m othe rwise. ChanLes are that ;; as developed a style, a coherent manner of ought, that the apprentice has not yet d e v e loped. One learns to feel by W'lltching others feel. Second t11e translation of 3 poem from one language mto another is closely analogous to translation of an emotion into a poem Third and most important, translation can be an.al.yzed to an extent that you cannot analy1e an orJgmal poem, primarily because an emotion is in an ori&in a l poem, an emotion to only. the. author has direct access, while It IS the. objective text that is interpreted in 9 tran sla tlon. As for temporal provincialism, there actually were writing b e fore Sylvia P lath. Somewh e"e m the collective sha d o w o f the contemporary w riters are rumored t o exist Homer, Dante, Vergil, Villon, Goethe a n d a cas t of includ ing a c erta in c'reek l ad y o f peculiar sexual predilection s all o f w h o m are of c ourse irrelevant t o the m u c h m ore sophistimodern writer R i g h t ? m deluding mys elf a bout what I'm do mg m th1s supplement, I can' t pretend t o edit o f t h e quality o f a m a g a >ine which is say, three time s a y e a r. A n d I my self certaml y h o v e n o t been w r i ting important poetry s .inc e s chool.' I can't e v e n pick out a m wh1ch e v e rybody else will have to wr1te 1n order t o get published. Any o n e w h o serious l y appli es c ritical standards re g ardless o f the cano n o f cliches known a s the wisdom" soon e r o r l a ter meets w1th 0 e accusatio n that h e i s tearing ?thers d own m order to build himself u p. This lS at best a mis c onception. Isn't it obvious that one m ust app l y the same critical stand ards to a s o n e a pplie s to others? The harder one ;udges ?the rs harder he judges himself. If the deSire d end JS s elf-inflat ion, what bette r mea.ns are there for it than indul g ence back and brownnosing? Critidsm is not an of poetry, but mutual admiration socie ties are. John Edward Horn From the Allegory to the Novel From the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges Published in OTHER INQUISITIONS 1960 Translated by David L. Smith For all of us, the allegory is an aesthetic (My first version was written "is nothing other than an error of aesthetics, but then I noted that my sentence entailed an allegory. ) As far as I know, the allegorical genre has been. analyzed by Schopenhauer (WELTS ALS WILLE UND VORSTELLUNG I SO) by DeQuincey (WRITINGS, XI, 198) by 'Francesco De Sanctis (STORIA DELLA LETTERATURA ITAUANA, VU), by Croce (ESTETICA 39) and by Chesterton (G. F. WATTS 83) 'in this essay I shal limit myself to the cond.em.ns allegorical art, Cheste.rton It; my opinion is that the truth lies With the former, but I would like to know how it possible for a form that seems to us unjust ifiable to have enjoyed so much favor The words of Croce are crystalline: it is suffi _cient fo: me to quote them: "lf the symbol 1s conceived as inseparable from the artis-tic intuition, it is synonymous with that intuition has an ideal character. If the sym: bol 1s conceived separately if on one hand the symbol is able to express and on the other the thing symbolized, it leads itself into intellec error; the supposed symbol is the expositan abstract concept, it is an allegory, it IS science, or art that imitates science But we also to b_e fair with the allegory and to pomt out that m some cases it is innocuous From JER USA LEN LIBER TADA one can extract some moral; from tjle ADONIS of Mario the of lasciviousness, the reflection that excesSl ve pleasure ends in pain ; on the front of a statue, the sculptor can place a placard saying this is Clemency or Bondage Such alle add to a conclusive work, they do not dam llge 1t They are expressions that extrinsically add themselves to other expressions. To JER U SALEN one adds a page in prose that expresses other thoughts of the poet; to ADONIS a verse or a strophe that expresses what the poet wants to be understood; to the statue, the word 'clemency' or the word 'bondage. 1 On page 222 of LA POESIA (Bari 1946), the tone is more hostile: is not a direct mode of spiritual manifestation, but a sort of writing or crypto grap.e.,." Croce does not acknowledge the distinction between content and form. The btter is the former, and the former is the latter The allegory seems monstrous to him because it aspires to abbreviate in one form two contents: the immediate or literal (Dante, guided by Virgilio, reaches Beatriz), and the figurative (man finally arrives at faith guided by reason). He reasons that tllis manner of writing entails la borious enigmas. Chesterton, in order to vindicate the allegory! begins by denying that language exhausts the expression of reality. "Man knows that in tlle soul there are shades more disconcerted more innwnerable, and more am:>nymous the colors of an autumn forest He believes, however, that those shades, in all their combinations and conversions are representable with precision by an arbitrary mechanism of groans and screams. He believes that from the interior of a stock broker noises that signify all the mysteries of memory and all the agon.es of desire really come. Language declaxed insufficient, there is a place for other things; the allegory ought to be one of these, as is architecture or music. It is formed of words, but it is not a language of language, a sign of other signs of the brave virtue and of the secret illuminations that this word indicate I t is a sign more precise than the monosyllable, richer and happier. I cannot very well say which of these eminent disputants is right; I do know that alle gorical art at one time seemed enchanting (the labyrinthine ROMAN DE LA ROSA, which survives in two hundred manuscri pts, con-sists of twenty-four thousand v erses) and now it is intolerable. We feel that besides being intolerable, it is stupid and frivilous. Neither Dante, who depicted the history of his passion in VITA NUOVA ; nor the roman Boecio, writing in the tower of Pavia, in the shadow of his executioner's sword DE CONSOLATIONE, would have understood this feeling. How can one explain this discord without resorting to a plea based upon the principle of changing taste? Coleridge observed that all men are born either Aristitotelians or Platmists. The second intuit that ideas are realities; the first, that they are generalizations; for the latter, language is nothing but a system of arbitrary symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe, The Platonist that the universe is some sort of cosmos, an order; that order for the Aristitotelian, could be an elTOr or a fiction of our incomplete knowledge. Across tlle latitudes and the ages, the two immortal antagonists changed in dialect and in name; one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoz a, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitis, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James. In the arduous schools of the M iddle Ages everyone invoked Aristotle, master of human reason ( Convivio, IV, 2) but the nominalists are Aristitotelians; and the realists Platonists. Georg e Henry Lewes has the opinion that the only medieval debate that has any philosophical value is on nominalism and realism; but that a sentence from Porfirio, trans-lated and commented upon by Boecio, provoked a debate at the beginning of the Ninth Century which Anselm and Roscelino maintained at the end of the Eleventh Century and which William of Occam revived in the Fourteenth Century points out the importance of this persistent controversy A s might be supposed, over the years the number of intermediate positions and distinguished figures has multiplied toward infinity It is possible however, to assert that for realsim universals are basic (Plato would say ideas, forms; we, abstract concepts), and for nominalism, individuals. The history of philosophy is not an empty museum of distractions and word tricks; quite likely, the two theses coiTespond to two ways of viewing reality. Mauric e de Wulf writes: "Ultrarealism gathers up the first adhesions The chronicler Heriman (Eleventh Century) denominates .antiqui doctores as those who teach the dialectic In re; AbelBido speaks of it as an antigua docirui'ii:; and until the end of the Twelfth Century one applies to his adversaries the name of modemi." A iliesis now inconceivable seemed obvious in the inth Century, and in some form persisted until the Fourteenth Century. Nominalism, previously tlle novelty of a few today encompasses everyone; its victory is so vast and fundamental that its name is useless. No one declares himself a nominalist because no one is anything else. We m1 PAGE 6 Page six from the Chinese of Li T'ai-Po translations by Dr. Elling 0. Eide THE HARD ROAD TO SHU Ay! Ay! Ay! So So high! The road to Shu is hard, harder than climbing blue sky. Silkworm Thicket and Fishing Duck Founded that nation --somewhere when --But forty-eight thousand years have run, And smoke from homes of settlers does not reach the frontier of Ch'in. There used to be a bird road from the western slope of T'ai-Po That one might travel straight across to 0-mai's peaks and spires, But the earth collapsed, the mountain split, the muscled warriors died, And only then the ladders to heaven were hooked together by stone and timber. Up above is the towering beacon where the six dragons turn the sun; Down below on the twisted river colliding waves explode on the turns. The trip would even be too much for the wings of a yellow crane; Gibbons and monkeys hoping to cross climb and tug in despair. Green Mud Summit, tortured, twisting, With nine turns to a hundred steps, you thread the jutting crags. Grasp the Triad, pass the Well Stars, look up and heave a sigh, Press your hand against your chest, sit down to gasp and moan. I wonder, as you travel west, when will you return? I fear a road so harsh and high is impossible to climb. All I see is a sorrowing bird that cries from an ancient tree, And the cocks fly in pursuit of hens, circling the Yet again I hear the cuckoo call in the moonl1t rught, sorrowmg over the desolate mountain. The road to Shu is hard, harder than climbing blue sky. Letting a man just hear of this wilts his youth away. The peaks rise in unbroken rows short of the sky by less _than a foot, The withered pines hang upside-down, supported by vertical walls. The flying chutes and tyrannous current clash and like swine, Pounding the cliffs and spinning the stones to thunder m ten thousand ravines. The perils, they are really so And woe to the man so far from home, why should he come this way! The Swoni Gallery looms above with its storeyed crags and spires. One man at the pass, Ten thousand cannot break through. And if the guards are not our people, They can change into jackals and wolves. In the morning avoid fierce tigers. At night avoid long snakes. They sharpen teeth for sucking blood And cut down men like hemp. There is pleasure, they say, in Brocade City, But best of all is to hurry back home. The road to hu is hard, harder than climbing blue sky. Turning back I gaze at the west with long and deep sighs. by Barbara Mellen THE BAllAD OF LONG BANK DRINKING ALONE IN TiiE MOONUGHT Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone. I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned to my shadow, and we became three. Now the moon had never learned about drinking And my shadow had merely fo!lowed my form, But I quickly befriended the moon and my shadow. Whenever I sang, the moon swayed with me. Whenever I danced, my shadow went wild. Drinking, we shared our together, Drunk each went off on hJS own. But agreed on dispassionate revels, We promised to meet in the far Milky Way. When my hair was first in bangs, I used to pick flowers and tease from the door. And you would ride on a bamboo horse, Circling the well-shed and throwing green plwns. We lived together in the Village of Long Bank, Two little children, no doubts or mistrust. At fourteen, I became your wife. My bashful face could never smile. I would droop my head and face the dark wall And not once turn for your thousand calls. At last, fifteen, I tmfurrowcd my brow, And vowed to stay with you like ashes with dust. If you cling to your promise like a man in a flood Would I ever be climbing the Widow's Watchtower? I was sixteen when you went away To Rough River Rock in Threatening Gorge. In the Fifth Month there is no nmning through, And the cries of monkeys arc sad in the sky. The tracks by the gate where you slowly departed, In each one now the green moss grows. The moss is deep and will not sweep away; Autumn wind is early, there are falling In the Eighth Month the butterflies came And flew in pairs through the west garden flowers. When I think of this, my heart starts breaking, I sit and grieve. My face grows old. Whenever you are ready to come back from the west, First send a letter to let us all know. I will go out to meet you, no matter how far; I will go right down to !.eng Wind Shore. WHITE WAlNUTS In her red gauze sleeves you see them distinctly. On a white jade plate, you glance at them and they are gone. I think of an old monk intoning at When the Emp<:ror dwelt in the Night-Is -Young Palace, I came as a maid to fold away clothes. I had never been favored by the Purple Hall, Yet I ventured to brush off the golden bedstead. The flood may come, but I will not flee; Let the bear approach, still I shall remain. Frail body supporting the sun and moon, Like the trembling light of the firefly. I hope that His Majesty, gathering turnips, Has not been displeased w'::h the parts down below. from the Spanish of Hguel Heman de, from THE PERPETUAL BOLT Translated by Dru Dougherty Sonnet 14 A silence of metal. sad, echoing. swords congregating with love at the tip of wrecking bones in the volcanic region of the bull. A dampness of feminine gold, smelled, put blales in his blood and to his bellow, a hurricane cry, he gave refuge among the flowers. The grief of a thousand lovers is covering the young clover with hot, loving gorings. Beneath his hide the harbored rages are thoughts of death erected in the nubs of his sprouting horns. Sonnet 21 Do you remember that neck, call to mind that gift, that something which parapetedly beautiful and white was a rotating battlement of cream? I remember and can't remember that tale of ivory expired on a hair, where the swan neck learned to entwine and to shout the transitory snow. I remember and can't remember that stalk of strang1able feminine ice like a short and milky way. And I remember that propless kiss that stayed between my mouth and the road of that neck, that kiss, and that day. -C aria Cohen Sonnet 25 As your voice pours out its mildness of honey .in th.e mouth, and at the pure rock of your hips, m my tcrrestial hands desire places its roses on the customary fire. Exasperated I arrive at the summit of your island breast, and circle it with an ambitious sea and a stamping of exasperated petals of fire. But you defend yourself with walls from my tremors, covetous of submerging you in dirt and oceans. Of virgin rock, indifferent, silent: the silence of stone, that rose upon rose places and replaces in my hands. from the French of Tristan Corbiere translated by John Horn THE TOAD A song on a muggy night The moon electroplates in chrome a somber forest of cut outs A song like an echo Quick! on the ground, there beneath the bushes. l. Silence Come on, there, in the shadow A toad! Why so afraid of me, your comrade? Look at him: a nightingale of the mud, a poet clipped of his wings Horrible? He 1 s just singing. Horrible? But why? Can I see his eyes? No. He's creeping back beneath his rock, chilled. Good night, The toad? That's me. Final Sonnet For plucking the feathers of glacial archangels the lily snowfall of slender teeth is condemned to the weeping of fountains and to the grief of mountain springs. For its soul through the metals, for glVmg Its pearl-gleams to to the pain of inclement anvils 1 fire is dragged by torrential blacksmiths, To the painful dealings with the thorn, to the fateful depression of the rose and to the rusting action of death see myself hurled, and this disintegration 1s for no other misfortune or reason than loving you, only loving you. PAGE 7 I from the German of Rainier Maria Rilke from SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, Part I translated by Pauline Mead Those symmetries .. oh, more than boughs and shade Orpheus singing. Arbor in the ear. And all was still. As solitude increased, his hand began to beckon while it played. The creatures of that silence were released from trees that had been nesting place and lair and it was not from cunning, not from fear that they were hushed and moved with so much care, it was from listening. Bellow, cry and bark diminished in their hearts. And though their hearing was lowly as a hut, a place of dark longing they'd raised upon the darker ground, Orpheus welcomed them within the clearing, And built them temples hl their sense of sound. II Almost a girl, beginning to appear as he began so joyously to sing; and clearly shining through her veils of Spring she made herself a bed inside my ear. And slept in me, and all things were her sleep: The trees I found so wondrous, newly mown meadows I walked, the skies that felt so deep, and all the passing marvels I had known. She slept the world. You sang her as that rare and perfect being, not desiring most to be awake. Ah, see -she rose and slept. Where is her death? Is this a theme you've kept until your song consumes itself? 0, where does she dissolve from me a gi:rl almost vn Praising, that's it! His mission was to bless, emerging like a silver vein from rock silence. His heart, a transitory press that endlessly supplies the hum an stock with wine, such wine! A voice that never scrapes across a scar, but when it parts his mouth all turns either to vineyard or to grapes that grow and ripen in his sentient South. i v v f ............ ._. ____ = or shadows that the warring gods have shed cannot destroy the jubilance he sings. Orpheus is a messenger who stays to prop ajar the doors seal the dead. with bowls of fruit diffusmg sun and pra1se. XIV We tend the flowers, vineyards and the fruit. These speak to us not only of the season, but through their brightness we can sense the root of jealousy, perhaps a gleam of treason in those who now invigorate the earth --those countless dead. How can we know their share in growing things? For their decay is worth our livelihood, but do they really care, we wonder. Are they glad in doing this? Or do they toil like countless heavy brutes who, forced against their will, must slave for us? the masters, sleeping with the roots, and granting out of their immense surplus this thing that's part dumb strength and part a kiss? from the German of George Trakl translated by K. Logan DECLINE Over the white pond Wild birds have flown. In the evening An icy wind blows from our stars. Over our graves Bends the night's shattered forehead, Under the oaks We're caught in the tossing Of a silver skiff. The white walls of the city ring out, Under arches of thorn Oh, my brother We climb the blind hands Edging toward midnight, from the Latin of Catullus translated by Dr. Corinne Wilson CIX Caesar, I'm not so eager to wish to please yer, Nor does it matter if you're white or mulatter. xvn Under all else, the first to be born -the mysterious roots of all they erected --the source that none of them saw. Shining helmet and hunter's hom -wisdom in graybeard's law brothers in raging force -and women like lutes. Branch crowding on branch is a tree. Not one can be free One! Oh higher .. higher! Still they break in the winds. At last, though, the topmost bends into a lyre. FROM THE BOOK OF TRAVELS: SPRINGTIME ON THE POTOMAC Ah, George Washington: you chop down tree of cherry and dream of wisdom. --Bok Foy -Carla Cohen translated from the Japanese by Norman Stein AN IMITATION OF CATUllUS, VIII Wise up Catullus. Call a spade a spade: She's gC:Ue. You had the limelight for a while. Wherever she would go, They say you used to trail her like a puppy on a leash. Nobody's gonna love her half as much, And while she played around with you, you asked -She gave: you didn't need to twist her arm. You had the limelight for a while. She's rnllkmg Someone else: you better, too. You weakling, heel! Quit whining over what is gone for good And curb yourself instead. Resign yourself. So long girl. Catullus is resigned. He chase you-he can take a hint, He won't come now to pester you at night, Bitch now you'll be sorry. What is left For in life? Who'll come to flirt with you? Now who will call you beautiful? And who Will love you now? Who will they say Whose lips will you stick your tongue between now? But you, Catullus, take it like a man? --John Hom Page seven XXVI Divine Orpheus, still building in us your tree of music, till it was shattered by the shriek of frenzied maenads, who destroy the grace they seek, shall we demand of them your symmetry? Yom lyre they long ago abandoned to the wind, The pieces af your body which they kept as channs are part of Dionysus, they're undisciplined and menacing, like everything he banns. Still, there are times when deep beneath om own reflection in peaceful inlets, we can just discern your face. This is your third, most fleeting resurrection. 0 you lost god! 0 you unending trace! Only because you have been tom and scattered, we are handed moments of eternity. from the Spanish of Garcia Lorca translated by Allison Atkinson BUSTER KEATON'S WALK Characters: Buster Keaton The Owl The Cock An American Woman A Negro A Young Girl Cock: Coc-a-doodle -doo. (Enter Buster Keaton leading his four children by the hand) Buster Keaton: {He takes out a wooden dagger and kills them) My poor little children. Cock: Cock-a-doodle-doc, Buster Keaton: (Counting the bodies on the ground.) One, two three and four, (He sei-es a bicycle and leaves, ) (Enter the old rubber tires and drums of gasoline, a Negro eats his straw hat, ) Buster Keaton: It's nice to go for a ride on a bicycle, The Owl: Who, who, whoo. Buster Keaton: How well the little birds sing, The Owl: Wboooooo Buster Keaton: How touching, (A pause. Buster Keaton ineffably crosses the reeds and the tiny field of rye The countryside grows smaller between the wheels of thr, machine The bicycle is one dimensional, It can go into the books and stretch itself out in the bread oven. Buster Keaton's bicycle doesn't have a carmel seat and sugar pedals, as the evil men would wish It is a bicycle like all bicycles but it is the only one drenched with innocence. Adam and Eve would run terrified if they saw a glass full of water, but on the other hand they would c aress Keaton's bicycle.} Buster Keaton: Oh love, love! (Buster Keaton falls to the g=und The bicycle bicycle I"UIIS crazUy, :&.aH a m1UJmeter 11om ground.) Buster Keaton: (Getting up.) I don't want to say anything What am I going to say? A Voice: Silly. (He continues walking. His eyes, infinite and sad, like those of a newly born animal, dream of lillies angels and silken sashes His eyes,, that are the ':>ottom of a glass. A silly child's eyes. That are very ugly. That are very beautiful His ostrich eyes. His hum an eyes in the sure balance of melancholy. In the distance he can see Philadelphia. The inhabitants of this city already know that the old poem of the Sing er sewing machine can circulate among the great roses of the greenhouse, even though they won't ever understand what a subtle poetical difference exists between a cup of hot tea and another cup of cold tea, In the distance shines Philadelphia,) Buster Keaton: This is a garden. American Woman: Good afternoon, {Buster Keaton smiles and takes a close-up of the woman's shoes. Oh what shoes! We shouldn't allow such shoes. It takes thret' crocodile skins to make them, ) Buster Keaton: 1 wish American Woman: Do you have a sword decorated with myrtle leaves? {Buster Keaton shrugs his shoulders and raises his right foot, ) American Woman: Do you have a nng w1th a poisoned stone? {Buster Keaton slowly closes his eyes and raises his left foot. ) Ametican Woman: Well then? (Four seraphim with wings of celestial gauze dance among the flowers The city. girls play the piano as if they were rtdmg blcycles The waltz, the moon and the canoes shake our friends's precious heart, To everyone's surprise, autumn has invaded the garden, as water invades a geometrical lump of sugar,} Buster Keaton: (Sighing) I might have been a swan, But I can't, even though I might have wanted to be. Because, where would I leave my hat? Where my feather collar and my moire tie? What a misfortune! (A Young girl, wasp-waisted. comes by riding a bicycle. She has the head of a nightingale. ) Young Girl: Whom do I have the honor of addressing? Buster Keaton: (With a bow.) I am Custer Keaton. (The girl faints and falls off the bicycle. Her striped legs tremble on the grass like two cly.ing zebras. A gremophone says in a thousand SJmul taneous voices: "There are nightingales in America,") Buster Keaton: (Kneeling, ) Miss Eleonora, forgive me, it wasn't me! Miss! (Lower.) Miss! (Still lower,) Miss! (He kiss.es her, ) (On the horizon of Flnladelpha gleams the flash ing star of the police. ) PAGE 8 THE CIRCULAR RUINS From the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges Published in THE CARDEN OF BRANCHING PATHS, 1941. Translated by David L Smith "And if he left off dreaming about you, --THROUGH THE LOOKING CLASS, VI No.one sa.w him disembark in the unanimous night, no one saw tiE bambo o canoe sinking in the sacred mud, but in a few days no one was unaware that the taCiturn man had come from tJ1e south and that his home was one of the infinite villages up river, on the violent flank of the mormtain, where the Zend idiom is not corrupted from Greek and where leprosy is rare. It is certain that the grey rna n kissed the mud, started uphill with out dislodging ( probabl}', without feeling) the c ortaderas that lacerated his flesh and dragged himself, seasick and bloody, UJ? to the circular inclosure that rings a tiger or horse of stone, which was sometimes the color of fire and other times the color of ash This circle is a temple that ancient conflagrations devoured, that the marshy jllllgle had profaned and whose god does notreceive the honor of men The stranger stretched out beneath tlle pedestal. The srm awakened him. He noted wiiliout surprise that the wounds h a d healed: he closed his pal e eyes and slept, n o t from weakness of the f lesh but by detennin ation of the will. He knew iliat this temple was the place that swnmoned his invincible purpose; b e knew that the rmceasing trees had not succeede d in strangling, down the river, the ruins of an other favorable temple also of the dead and burned gods;he knew that his immediate obligation was the dream. Toward midnight the inconsolable cry of a bird awakened him. Tracks o f bare feet, some figs and a jug revealed to him that the inhabitant s of the region had respectfully spied on his sleep and sought his favor or feared his magic. He fel t the cold of fear and looke d f o r a s epulchural niche in the delapidated ram-part and concealed himself with strange leaves. The design that guided him was not impossible, altllough it was supernatural. He wanted to dream a man: he wanted t o dream him with meticulous integrity and t o impose reality upon him. This m agical project had take n u p the entire space of h i s s oul; if someone had sake d him his own name o r any detail of his prior life h e would n o t h a v e been able to answ e r The uninhabite d and ruined temple befitted him beca use it was a minimum of the visible world: the proximity of the peasants did also, because they were entrusted with supplying his temperate needs The rice and fruit of their tribute were sufficient food for his body, which was dedicated to the single task of sleeping aud dreamiD5 dreamed himself in the center of a circular amphitheater somewhat like the burned temple: clouds of taciture students w earied the of seats; the faces o f the hindmost hrmg at many centuries tanc e and a t a stellar altitude but they w ere all prec ise. The man dictated them les sons in anatomy, in cosmography, in magic : the f a ces listened with anxiety and tried to answer with un derstanding, as if they divined the importance of that examination, which would redeem one of them from the state of mere apparition and interpolate him into the real world. The man, sleep ing and waking, considered the attributes of his phantoms, not letting himself be tricked by the impos1Drs, divining in certain perplexities a growing intelligence. He sought a soul that deserved to participate in the universe In nine or ten nights he realized with some bitterness that he could expect nothing from those pupils who accepted his doctrine passively. unlike those who risked, at times, a rea soJable contradiction. The former, although worthy of love and good feelings, were not able to develop into individuals; the latter preexisted a little more. One afternoon (now the afternoons too were tributaries of sleep, now he didn't stay awake but a couple of hours at daybreak) he permanently discharged the vast illusionary school and kept only one student. He was a taciturn lad, melancholy, wayward at times, with sharp wits that reflected those of the dreamer. The brusque elimination of his fellows did not d isconcert him for long; his progress, at ilie end of a few private lessons was e-nough to astormd the m aste:r;. However, c atastrophe occurred. The man, om: day emerged from sleep as if from a viscous desert, looked at the dim light of evening which he at first confused w ith dawn, and reali1ed that he had not dreamed. All that night and all the day, the intolerable brilliance of insomnia fell against him. He wished to explore the jungle to weaken himself; tiS soon as he entered among the hemlocks. some weak s i gns of dream fleetingly veined with visions of a rudimental type: useless. He wanted to bring together the school, and hardly bad he articulated a few short vords of exhortation, it disintegrated, it vanished. 'n s almost constant wakefulness, tears anger .>urned in his old eyes, ; He realized that ilie endeavor to model the diz t:y and incoherent matter of which dreams are composed is the most difficult tha t a man can undertake, although he might penetrate all the of the higher and lower order: much more diff1cult than to weave a rope of sand or than to coin the wind without face. He realited that an initial failure was inevitable. H e swore to forget the enonnous hallucination that had turned him aside at first and he looked for another method of working, Before exercising it, he dedicated a month to the recovery of the strength that the delirum had wasted. He abandoned every premeditation of dreaming and almost right away he succeeded in sleeping a reasonable portion of ilie day, The rare times that he dreamed during this period, he didn't pay any attention to the dreams. In order to reco mmence the task, he waited rmtil the disk of the moon was full, Then, in the afternoon, he purified himself in the waters of the river, worshipped tl1e planetary gods, uttered the licit syllables of a powerful name and slept. Almost immediately, he dreamed of a beating heart. He dreamed it active, secret, the siz e of a closed fist, the color of garnet in the penumbra of a hwnan body, though without face or sex; with meticulous love he dreamed it, for four lucid nights. Each night he perceived it with gretlter palpability. He did not touch it; he limited himself to attesting it, to observing it, perhaps to correcting it with his glance. He perceived it. he lived it from many distances and many angles. The fourteenth night he touched the pulmonary artery with his index finger and then the whole heart, from outside and inside. The examination satisfied him. He deliberately did not dream for a night: then he rematerialized the heart, invoked the name of a pianet and nndertook the vision of another of the principal organs. Within the year he reached the skeleton, the eyelids. The innumerable hair was perhaps the most difficult task. He dreamed a whole man, a youth, but this latter did not sit up nor talk nor could he open his eyes, Night after night, the man dreamed him asleep, In the Gnostic connogonies, the demiurges kneeded a ruddy Adam who was not able to stand up; as useless and crude and elemental as that Adam of dust was the dream Adam whom the nights of the wizard had fabricated. One evening the man al most destroyed all his work but he repented. (Better iliat he had destroyed it.) The offerings to the gods of the earth and the river exhausted, he threw himself at the feet of the effigy that was perhaps a tiger and perhaps a colt, and implored his unknown succor. This evening he dreamed of the statue. He dreamed it alive, tremulous: it was not an atrocious bastard of a tiger and a colt, but both these two impetuous creatures at onc e and also a bull, a rose a tempest, This composite God revealed that his earthly name was F ire, that in this circular temple (and in others like it), that they had offered him s a crifices and worship and tha t he would llll.gicall y animate ilie dreamed phantom, so that all the creatures except Fire himself and the dreamer would think him a man of flesh and blood. He ordained that once instructed in the rites, he would send him to the other ruined temple whose pyramids persisted down the rlver, iliat some voice might glorify him in that deserted edifice. In the dream of the sleeping man, the dreamed one awoke. The wizard executed the orders. rle devoted a time (that finally amounted to two years) to disclosing to him the secrets of tlle Wliverse and of the cult of fire. Intimately, it grieved him to give him up With the pretext of pedagogical necessity he extended the hours dedicated each day to sleep. He also remade the right shoulder, which b y chance w as flawed. A t times he had the disconcerting impression that all that had happened before In generd, his days happy! upon closing his eyes he thought: Now I wlll be w1th my son. Or, less frequently: The son that I have be otten :waits me and he will not exist if 1 do not o. Gra ua y e was acquamtmg 1 m w1 rea 1ty. Onc e he orde'red that he adorn a distan t summit with Page e ight a flag. The next day, the flag fluttered on. the swn mit. He tried similar experiments, each t1me more audacious. He realized with a certain bitterness iliat his son was ready to be bom--and perhaps impatient. That night he kissed him for the first time and sent him to the other temple whose remains bleached down the river many leagues of inextricable jWlgle and swamp away. Beforehand (so that he would believe himself a man like the others) he instilled in him a total forgetfulness of his years of learning. His victory and his peace remained sullied by disgust. At twilight and at dawn, he prostrated himself before the stone figure, perhaps imagining that his unreal son executed identical rites in other circular ruins, down the river; at night he did not dream or he dreamed ::ts do all men. He perceived with a certain pallor the sounds and forms of tl1e universe: the absent son now-ished himself upon these dimunitions of his soul. The purpose of his life had re acl1ed its culmination; the man waited in a stllte of ecstasy. Finally, at a time certain narrators of his history prefer to compute in years and others in lustra, two oarsmen awakened him at midnight: he could not see their faces, but tl1ey spoke to him of a magician in a temple in the north, who could tread upon fire without burning himself. The man suddenly remembered the words of the god. He remembered that of all the creatures that com posed the world, fire was the only one who knew that his son was a phantom. This recollection, calming at first, began to torment him. He feared that his son would meditate upon this abnormal privilege and in some way discover his condition of being a mere phantom. Not to be a man, to be a projection of another man's dream, what incomparable humiliation, what madness! Every father is interested in the son that he has procreated (that he has adrn itted into existence) in a mere confusion or happiness; it is natural tl1at tl1e wizard should fear for the future of that son, thought out organ by organ and trait by trait on a thousand and one secret nights. The end of his anxiety was abrupt, but certain signs foreshadowed it. First (at the end o f a long drought) a remot e cloud on a hill, light as a bird; then toward the south, the sky that had the rose color of a leopard's gwns; then the clouds of smoke that rusted the metal of the nights; finally the panicked flight of tl:te beasts. Beca use what happen e d many centuries ago was repeating itself. The ruins of the sanctuary of the god of fire were destroyed by fire. On a morning without birds the wizard saw the concentric fire close in against ilie nm parts. For an instant he thought of taking re-fuge in the w a t e r, but then h e understood that death was c oming t o crown his old age and to absolve him from h i s works. He w alked t oward the tongues of flame, These d i d not nibble at his flesh, they caressed i t and inundated it wit h -out hea t and without combustion, With r elief. with humiliation, with terror, he realiled tha t he also was an apparition, that someone else was dreaming him. from the Russian of Anna Akmatova translate d b y Eile e n Murphy READING HAMLET I A bare plot powdered the air at the churchyard. Behind it the river twisted blue. You said to me, "All right then, get thee to a nlll1l1ery, Or if you must marry, marry a fool." Princes always talk that way, I Memorized the speech. Let it hang a hundred centuries From your shoulders like an ermine mantle. II The sun's memory fades in the heart. The grass yellows, The wind flurries early snow, Barely, barely. In narrow channels Cold stops the water. Nothing is going t o happen here. Ever. A threadbare willow Fans empty sky. I didn't marry you. Maybe it's better. The sun's memory fades in the heart, What? Nightfall? Maybe. A single night Establishes a winter. AN APPlE IN YOUR EYE, a literary supplement to the CATALYST, will appear on a semi-regular basis. The editors encourage everyone to submit photographs, graphics, poetry, prose, translation, and especially criticism, There will be no strict or comparative process of selection, If you have suggestions or would like to help edit AN APPU IN YOUR EYE, speak to one of the editors: John Hom, Carol Levenson, David L. Smith, or Norman Stein. PAGE 9 November 3, 1972 The CATALYST Page nine SUGAR STRIKE by Marie Sprayberry II. group of about 35 New college students, under the leadership of currently -on leave ecooomics instructor Marshall Barry, spent Tuesday and wednesday of this week working with the cleeviston, Fla. branch of United farm workers for an end to the United states sugar corporation's discrimination against American sugar cane cutters. Although unable because of time limitations to carry out their original plan of being hired as cutters and then going on strike, the students distributed UFW leaflets in and around the cleeviston area and JOined UFW members in a picket of the USSC centra I offices. The sugar cane situation as vutlined by Barry before the trip and by UFW organizers Elisao Medina in a brief talk Mon day night, is briefly as followS: UP to now Jamaican cane cutters have been hired in preference to American cutters because of their willingness to submit to more depressed working conditions (any Jamaicans who protest can instantly be de ported, and the unemployment rate in Jamaica is so high--about most of them simply submit.) This eliminates about one -fourth (10, 000 out of 40, 000) of the available cane-cuttmg JObs for Americans. This year the UFW has begun to protest this situat.on and to take steps to force USSC to put an end to it. A a result the union has been subJeCt to 1 ll kinds of hassling "from the corporation: union members have been charged far higher rents than usual for company housing; several members have been arrested for "tresspassing" after coming to migrant camps and distributing leafle ts; and m embers (and other American c utters as well) have been put through a great deal o[ red tape. wee w en ng for JObs. It was as an indirect result of this "hassling," indeed, that the students' trip was postponed from its original date: planned for Tuesday through Thursday, oct. 30, thanks to USSC's postponement of the beginning of the cane harvest in order to gain more time for stalling UFW efforts. The NC crew left sarasota at approximately 6:30PM Monday night and arrived in cleeviston about9:00, where they were welcomed by Elisao at the Harlem HeiRhts community center (affection ately remembered for its ':"ooden floors, its mosquitoes, 1ts vocal retinue of roosters and dogs, and its nearby freight trains) near the USSC plant. After a restful night spent on said floors, the students split into two groups Tuesday morning: fifteen healthy, eighteen-and-over specimens JOined other UFW members in demanding JObs at USSC, while the rest distributed leaflets in the Belle and south Bay commun ities and various migrant camps throughout the area. The former group encountered a good deal of the already mentioned red tape: they had to fill out an intensively detailed four page "general" application and submit to half hour interviews in groups of four with a company official (and this after a considerable waiting period.) They were then told to return at nine the next morning for a physical exammations. tn view of the two-day time limitation faced by the students, it was decided that the fi(teen would not return for physicals and that the strike planned for Wednesday would, instead, become a demonstration directed largely at the red tape. The Wednesday picket began at about 10: 30 AM The icketers were composed of about students and UFW members; the demonstration was a generally peaceful but vocal march outside the USSC offices, lasting about two and a half hours (chants ranged all the way from "We shall not be moved" to n y iva la Huelga!" to"fredd'yisasc ab!") The press turned o u t i n c onsider able numbers; it was observed that the personnel of the clee viston News seemed particu ptece of news going on accross the street from their office. The cleeviston police, not to be outdone, sent four or five squad cars to keep the picket under observation but afforded no other harassment. 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ORDER NOWI Send $1.00 to cover postage and handhng fot your catalog. TERMP APER Ll BRARV. INC. 3160 .. 0 .. Street. N W Washngton. 0. C. 20007 PAGE 10 Page ten The CATALYST November 3, 1972 Guest Column Peace .and Education by tom yon Ed. Note-The CATALYST welcomes submission of interpretive column material from any of its readers. Selection for publication will be at the discretion of the editorS. Sub missions should be typed, and all material sent in will become property of the CATALYST. somewhat less than two years ago, between christmas 1970 and the feast o! the Epiphany, 1 was home again, one of those dying high school graduates that people John Updike's early novels. As usual, the holidays turned into another bout of aimless barhopping night after night, where we would all seek each other out and drink towards one o'clock. There was a limited number of places where they served minors, and these were always wall-to-wall sweat houses, the college kids on the make (JUSt as we used. to a year or two before.) It was depressmg, but we went home anyway and looked each other up, glad to sit around drinking beer with people we never rea 11 y I iked that much in high school. The idea was growing on everybody that it wasn't worth it after all; we really didn't have anrthing to say to one another. we weren't unique, we didn't have anything to learn from each other. or to teach; we were JUSt like the millions of other people our age, sliding into debts and marriage: what we wanted, after all, was some kind of acceptable ratification as human beings. The Revolution had been cancelle?, and those few of us who had subscnbed to 1t ... well our demands/ expectations of "accept were JUSt a little more idealistic, that's all. But we were learning. And that was how I ran into Danny, _be tween Christmas and the feast of the Ep1phany. Danny and I had played together on th_e same JUnior high basketball team, and occas10na lly on city pia ygrounds. But I stopped pla ymg basketball in high school when I couldn't make the team, whereas oann) turned out to be a prett) conststent sixth or seventh man. With some other agmg classmates, we left one ..,.....,...._....,. __ o the o\ lace m a.., or of someplace quiet, knowing Lhat notillng was gomg to appen a hadn't already l1appened. It was quiet and cold inside, but warmer than outside, and we could hear each other talk. The talk didn't mean anything--JUSt time-passmg stuff. Everybody, it turned out, had been doing his Hud Finn obligatto around Amertca, his Holden caulfield, his Henry Adams in the nether regions of his soul. I got m} comments in about the Rockies and Utah, the orth" est forests, gad, how big those trees grov;. (This was something radically different from the Appalachians, the treeS: It takes forty or tift; years for a stand of timber to reach full height, and it may take closer to a hundred for it to realh let \oOU know what it's about. Wit is slow our wa;. or, as Henry Adams put it, "The Penns)ilvania mmd, as minds go, was not complex; it reasoned little and never talked; but in practical matters it was the steadiest oi all Amencan t)pes; perhaps the most effic1ent; certainly the safest." Prudence thus dictates irrefutably that the hills be chewed over eve f) thirt; or forty ; ears, and the wood is ground to pulp and offal, like the people. ) Danny, for his part, kept mentioning signs the hoboes used in their arcane world: where to get a meal, where to sleep, where to avoid. He said that he ran into a lot of them in the hospitals, and T was going to ask him how he happened to be around the hospttals so much. Since I had ver} recently been a war hero in canada, a Vietnanese refugee, I assumed that Dann; had somehow crooned magic words to our adamant draft board and was serving hos two 'years carrying bed pans and doing good works. But the topic passed to other thins;(S and b\ the time 1 elbowed m} w;.; back into 1he conversation t -.,as far afield and we wand.;>-ed verbally in the group lurch l!ntil closing tim e. I n.:>tice I oann; 1 mping a little bit but I wasn't feeling that go d myself. There was ice on the ground and I was afraid of dropping my-self and crunching a bad knee. Then a bad hit and we slipped off the mountam while 1t was m a state of emergency, one lane opened on four lane htghwa ys, cars stranded and all that. Penn State W'!S in the orange Bowl that year and I was bumming a ride to Florida w1th some revelers. o sooner did we get near Richmond that their Hollywood souther:1s started to bloom, loud you-ails in the restaurants, all that. (t was awful. And one of them told me about Danny's limp. ...._.OSEMARY -Creative Cooking heads off about the war long before I believed them (long before I didn't believe they were He won it in the Nam. He was tail bums) and nobody paid any attention. The gunner on a chopper (I could see those logic that you be there: then you'll eyes that used to be so good finding the see what it's lil<'e.'SO'flie Vel:Sffirew"'ffi'eer bucket, swing the machine gun around to medals over"ff'le''arbed wire and some congress-pick them off as they ran on th< 15round); men were rubbing their eyes (What? lS it pesbut his ship went down and Danny lost sible they have seen yet not believed?! J But a leg. the common folk tend to group them w1th evThere was another friend, Jimmy. In erybody else (a cab driver in cambridge told elementary school, we used to walk home me that he would have been convinced if they together every day, giggling obscenities. had tossed their GI bennies over the barricade; I will never forget the time that Jimmy he was quite luc1d 1n explaming that medals and I stood on the comer where we usually like the vets had could be picked up in any parted, debating the spelling of a certain pawnshop.) The chant goes on on. Shut four-letter wcrd which made us break into up, shut up, shut up ... only th1s JS not my hysterics whenever we dared utter it. cheer. It's the cab driver's. Jimmy lost both legs below the knee. yes, all the nonsense will go on no matter Danny and Jimmy were both Nixon casual what. And yes, it's easy to get priggish when ties, I should mention; there was another life in these United States gets too disgusting to elementary school friend, a Johnson tolerate, to easy to mimic core Vidal at his casualty. We were childhood fellow-worst. And criticizing the p esident has become warriors armed to the teeth with Matte! so fashionable that, as Norman Mailer observed, goods and such; this one was a shoulder-it may ultimately drive us to defending himchest-liver lungs JOb. perhaps he lived. even liking him. Moreover, it is true that morNow, it is all of about ten days be-fore Election, 1972, and I he<>C" peace alizingTtij'ected into the broth of politics makes being trumpeted from the tubes. There a cloying brew, fit only for those who affect is no cause for gjlfprise, as early as 1968 the saccharine. I admit all that. cheerfully, you could regard Mr. Nixon and predict even. no peace settlement coming until two So I admit that it was within Nixon's perog-weeks before the 1972 electbn; I am only ative to go to Russia in an election year, or sorry that I never committed this view to to China in an election year -even, by God, paper. Why the hell should Nixon end the to go to both places in an election year, ob-war with no election to pat him on the vious though he was being. Let us forget the head? Forget all the newsy items that ABM businesS: politicians, after all must be would have us believe that peace was tough. But by God, it was not in his peroga-never possible until this time; Nixon only tive to put off ending the war until election saw one JOb ahead of him for the next time. I choose to feel moral outrage. I four years and there was no force in choose to believe the president. .. never mind. heaven, hell, or the United States that I believe I despise him, that's all. I certaincould have moved him to squander this ly can't believe a thing he says. move two, three years before an election, I don't know what it takes to be believable leaing the Democrats a chance to prompt in this country' and I don't want to say things the public to demand, "What have you about my parents and neighbors that I would done for us lately?" Forget such incidental find embarrassing in a few years, or in bad items as packing the supreme court with Judgement or bad taste. And, you have to ad-less than the best, forget about Nixon's mit, the loyalty of the American people to their leaders these last eight, ten or so }ears, habit of pumping headline mileage ot..t of b"lls he ent to co ess and len them had been rcasourin& (lf you ha pen t.o be iL d1e there hke illegitimate children. Forget do not choose our best to lead us and where about the New, All-Improved, Lowest the president employs enormous powers of deAmerican casualty rates ever! What we ception, this loyalty is misguided. Americans behold is a leader of our country who has ask to be deceived, and our presidents are ondelayed fulfilling a campaign promise long Tytoo happy to oblige. one dirty hand rubs enough to insure his own re election. The the other. The result is called cleanliness. cost has only been in the nature of I would leave, disliking my home so much, twenty thousand additional lives. And of except for one important fact: it is my home course, some legs here and there. too, my country. And as John Ciardi said when philip Roth once asked how one is to he was placed on a list of "subversives" by_ the write fiction in a country where ixon House Internal secttrities committee, "It 1s my could make the checkers speech and get flag, too., so it is; and if the arm that clutchawa'l with it. 1\S fiction, no one would es the pole finds itself too dispirited to wave believe it, btt the Nixon -these days it is not because I wouldn't like to are all too real. well, this delayed peace i[ 1 could.' yes, I was inC nada for a while, is wuy real too. But when I made my f bl but I didn't go there to get out o trou e; I private forecast, it was in a fit of cynicism h 1 a d 1 de d h though about home an amazing amount w t e n .ow press1on, an now events ave d made that of frames of mind the only I was there cas most of the people I met seeme viable frame of mind, the only realistic one. to do), and upon returning, the best thmg philip Roth, in effect, wonders if there seemed to stick and fight it out. It took three can be an}'l.hing elevating, anythimg possibly years and it wasn't worth it. I could have gone redeem in g. in this little world of ours. to prison, but that wouldn't have been worth 1t MY question 15 more like, ,_. t how much am either. or I could have done what the maJOr-! demanding after all, ;n looking for an ity of people did, which was to trump up a acceptable way of life. I wonder if there minor physical defect and beg out, or JOlD_ed is any comprom1se at all short of complete the National Guard, or some such other thmg. surrender. But that wouldn't have been worth it either. B_ecause, you know and 1 kno\\, the public It is this last thing that is the worst ot all. Js gotng lo swallow this charade like a hungry MY friends from pennsylvania tended to regard group_er and say, "Good ole prez., he keeps his me as lunatic for pursuing the only course 1 promses." The fact that tt is 50 obvious as felt possible. There was the ethic of indiffer-to be sickening, so as to be shrugged ence, of doinv ::.c most expedient thing. "Shut off as nothmg but typ1cal politics, ,0 casual up, shut up, shut up ... If McGovern IS to _be 1n regard for human life as to be despicable-soundly tro11nced in the elction, it does not 1n all thts w1ll make no difference. They will dicate that the American people really repu buy It and bcll.eve 1 0 t d diate the anti-war movement and that the anti1 an a certam portion of us who make no difference will wander a-was movement has never hada truly democra-round shaking our heads daz.edly as though we tic impact on the country, nor that we have have JUSt run afoul the policeman's stick once had a voice out of our proportion. No, it in'll d dicates that a vital portion of America is ill agam. we_w1 re_a the Book of Jeremial and or dead. grow shnll m publtc detestation of our country. d I know, 1 know. It is elitist to make You can sec young people like me, an nmses like this; it is trite, it scorns the good younger, playing the game of Cynic, trying to sense of the Amencan people and in the end outdo each other in assuming brutaliled poses. things may not be as bad a' all that; we will Indeed we learn early and we learn it wel1. muddle through affairs for better or worse and there's nothing you can do and it doesn't math ter anyway: of course we get the worst; naturalt e Apocalyse shall be postponed again and ly we are the worst--this is here and now, baby. again while we shrill ones remain glued to our f front row seats by the Tantalus of retribution Everywnere you go, you run into this kind o abdication of responsibility, this abdication of and ustice. Finally, making noises like this, concern. you can see a whole generation of chantmg these cheers, 1s useless because those h people being thoroughly educated in the busiw o do are in the minority and minorities as ness of surviving America. It shall probably we know them in this Democracy are nowhere. our cousins and aunts and uncles don't want to prove to be the most enduring legacy of Sirs hear this puerile drivel and this empty mora lizJohnson and Nixon, and of course older A meringbesides, we have gone to the best univer-ica. d Thank you very much. sities and we on't appreciate it, we are ... bums. Bums like me were screaming the1r OUDEN'S Cooki-ng School -Limited Enrollment FOR INFORMATION CALL: 388-3244 PAGE 11 November 3,1972 The CATALYST ANOTHER STUDENT AFFAIR JULES' MUSIC CENTER Fine Clasical Guitars Dulcimers, Lutes, Harps, Recorders and Musical Accessories, "EASY TO DEAl.. WITH" 152., MAIN STREET SARAOSTA. 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I COST PER PERSON $1. 50 **BUT** Pin ball machines pay 75 You pay 75 TICKETS ON SAI.E IN THE SNACK BAR FOR 75 SATURDAY SUNDAY AND MONDAY. MEMBERS OF THE NEW COlLEGE COMMUNITY ONLY. SORRY NO GUESTS PLEASE. PAGE 12 Page twelve Tiffany: Jw;t as I was getting up a lecture on coral reefs and listening to incomparable Alice Cooper, I thought I'd like to turn oh the world to some obsctn'e albums that are nice to study with, or just enjoy. Glass Harp (Decca DL75261) There are fevi'nara rock trios on the commercial record market today that produce a penetrating, but not obnoxious sound. For instance, Grand Funk is penetrating--they cut you in half with dissonance and eat-splitting commotion. the other hand, Glass Harp tests your auditory range witho intruding on your sanity Phil Kcaggy on guitar and voc ls probably provides the basis for the group's mane. His guitar solos, along with his voice, intermingle to produce a series of beat notes that you can actually feel reverbing in your thorax. Perhaps much of the effect is produced by good rechanneling and mixing, but the end result is definitely and exper ience not soon forgotten. Bassist, Dan Peccbio and John Sferra on percussion complete the trio. They also do lead vocals on their own songs. Much of the album is into Christ-oriented lyrics, but again, as is the case with the backing instrumentals, they don't push the lyrics down your throat. In fact, none of the cuts on the album are actually Christian-types, but are rather "love your brother" oriented. Glass Harp lyrics are all into changing the system through nonviolent encounters: .. Listening to the sounds of hate/ Asking if it's not too late/In the heart of my own true love/ Oh, the changes they seek aren't for me." They don't at tempt to offer alternative plans to revolution, except for peaceful resistance. Anyhow, their raps really ease the mmd, even if only until you walk outside. Glass Harp is the smoothest and most together rock group I've heard since a lot of the Moodie Blues' early songs. This is a dynamite album for crashing, or for getting into old friends, or for following a Cat Stevens album. Besides, it has a nice cover and lyric sheet. Pick up on them free tum blers, gang! Empff, Sky/Elton Jolm (D}M403) For all you Eton John freaks, there is an old (but difficult to obtain) album that beautifully combines the seemingly limitless talents of Elton John and writer Bernie Taupin. The al bum is on DJM label, only regionally distributed in this col.mtry. Maybe you can get it in Sarasota, but if not, Sam Good y's in Atlanta will order it for you. This album was pressed prior to any of Elton John1s American-typed albums, but it is not being released in any quantity here. Ever wonder why we can never obtain all the good albums a group puts outit couldn't possibly be that no American distributers can get royalties on them, could it? Any how, Empty Sky is a mind trip, even if its special order price may not be. advace tickets on sale now : students 75 NOVE1v1BER IS THE PERFECT TIME TO The CATALYST On Record Simpson/Simpson (Columbia C30476) Have you ever tried to figure out a way to encourage the local Wallceites into opening their minds to other life styles and opinions without putting your own life on the line? I strongly suggest hardcore propaganda--namely Simpson. Pick up a copy of their latest album (brilliantly entitled Sim son) and give it to your local neighbor. He'll dig it--sow you. This countl)-rock group integrates Byrds type (c. maniax) instrumentation with heavy lyrics sung in typical Fruitville demeanor. Their album is a trip through changing positions on contemporary politics. They start off lcrw key with words that tend to suck in any loyal Dixiecrat ... all my friends headed south, and I believe they ought to know." Guitatist Dave Olney even lays down an outasight acoustic version of "Dixie." Then, when you're all into hot todies and cotton fields, Bland Simpson kicks you in the cajones with a series of heavy verse: ... I plead disloyal to a country full of secrets/ and watch my confidences tom away by night/ trusting a man too much can drive my soul right back again/ and too much help could send me down ... Can ya dig it? Probably, but can your local buddies pick up on it? The only real anomalie on the album is a harmonica run and song by Olney called "Black Betty. 11 It really so1.mds like a racist rip-off, but it doesn't fit into the context of the rest of the vocals. Oh well, as I said--probably just an anomalie. One sure thing--Simpson are not Jesus freaks (" ... I'd rather drink/ than hear a church 'bell ring anytime. 11) What else can I say? If you're into good country-rock, Simpson are masters both instrumentally and vocally in that much abw;ed area of music. And if you're into subtley turning people on to realizing what's going on around America, this is good propaganda. Just think--Nixon has Oral (anal) Roberts and his Youth For America Singers--you have Phil Ochs and Simpson (not to mention your own mind.) How can you lose? Frog City/Southern Comfort (Capitol ST800) Again, if you can dig good country-rock and country-ballad, you'll really get llito Southern Comfort's first lead singer/writer Ian Matthews (formerlyCilled Jiiratthew' s Southern Comfort. ) All cuts on the album are writ ten by Southern Comfort, except for Randy Newman's "My Old Kentucky Home. 11 For those of you who may not be familiar with Rru1dy Newman and his style, you'll appreciate the treatment of his song here. Frower structure of America? Did you evet stop to think that the Roman Empire waa destroyed by miscegenation? Mr. Alexander us with the fact thiit "there is established evedence of the existence of inferior races, that is, races incapable of developing or ever abolishing cjvilzation and cvJtu.re" And, as we all know, the race most firmly devoted to themselves are tl1e Jews. Mr. Alexander, tmlike many defenders of the white race, does not ask us to become more Christian. Indeed, he considers the brotherly love ideals of Christianity one of the main caw;es of racial mixing. After all, didn't Christianity destroy tho> R<'>m:m F..moire? Here are two examples of Mr, Alexander's lucid and precise writing style, botl1 quoted from the book jacket: "he determined on some research and to expound his findings 1 "that there violent denouncers of racism are the more racism of all. 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