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Poet’s Personality Felt
In Lattimore Readings

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printed page.

Dr. Lattimore read first three
poems, which he explained were
part of “Period A”, and which he
has since come to think of as
three different ways of doing
something. Of these, “The Matrix
from Memory” was perhaps the
clearest and most memorable. As
always in a_ reading, certain
phrases, particularly meaningful
or beautifully expressed, are re-
tained by the mind. Such was the
case with these, and the other
poems, among them “The Brink,”
“Tudor Portrait’ and “The
Wounded” “About the world’s
end was our lee shore”; “the fox-
trot toils on the victrola”; or
“Myth, Love, the idiot Hope” in
the grandeur of syntax on the
continent scale/ of grammar” are
of that type of phrase so sugges-
tive, so specific, that they evoke
from the listener’s mind “This is
poetry,” or “I like it.” Put to-
gether, they convey the melody,
spiritual wisdom, and consciously
connected images of a poet, in the
finest form of paper-communica-
tion. |
4In several of the poems, recur
the images of islands and waves.
There is a sort of loneliness ex-
pressed in the poems, a loneliness,
one supposes, imposed by imper-
fect means of communication, and
offset by the fact that the waves
can come in, but go out as well.
The verse is the remainder of
mental thought, of experience, and
of concentrated emotion. There
are odd and perceptive parallels
—New York and the mythological
islands that also recur and there
are precise poetic descriptions of
wonderful clarity.

“Triads on an Equation” was
one of the most interesting poems,
possessing a certain grammatical
fascination, in addition to its
poetic qualities, but with none of

the crescendo-begetting descrip-
tino of “White Harbor” or “Ar-
rangement in Nature” or “The
Wounded.”

The images, the verb-noun in-
version, the rhythm, the specifying
vocabulary and the poet’s person-
ality are all felt, and these things
endure in the space between the
first and last lines of a poem be-
ing read, giving a strong emotiou-
al reaction to the entire poem.
There is no greater proof or
tribute.

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‘“Orphee’’ Stage Tricks
Managed with Wit, Skill

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on a pillar where a marble bust
should have been—which were clev-
erly staged, and as surprising as
the candelabra of human hands in
La Belle et La Bete. The talking
horse (Satan? Evil?) was the sig-
nificant clue, for behind him sits
black death. The second scene
brought another trio to the stage
through the magic mirror: Death,
Azael and Raphael, played by
Elaine Marks, Emma Morel and
Gray Struthers (whose French
was less perfect than the other
actresses), to perform Operation
Death. It was macabre, in the
manner of a Thurber modern, rath
er than an old-fashioned, fairy
tale, and provided a_ transition
from the somewhat more serious
first scene to the broad humor of
the comedy team, Kennedy and
Hitchcock, who set each other off
superbly and couldn’t have been
funnier as the police major and his
lieutenant. Mr. Morris, between
giving last-minute directions, slap-
ping on last-minute makeup, calm-
ing, prompting, checking and sil-
encing every thing backstage, in-
terjected the masculine voice of
the postmen, and appeared costum-
ed for the curtain-call which fol-
lowed enthusiastic applause at the
end. ‘ :
(Matching the excellent acting
was Dr. Janschka’s equally excel-
lent set which foilowed the trian-
gular undercurrent and the geo-
metric stylization characterizing
the play, and yet displayed its
modernity modestly. Orphee as a
whole was entirely modern with-
out straining to be original or
avant-garde—a commendable vir-
tue. Many people behind the scenes,
working enthusiastically, were but
another reason for the play’s suc-
cess—“outside benefactors” Mrs.
Henry Clifford, Frederick Thon,
Pearl Edmunds, Pete Parkhurst;
French Club members and Wynd-
ham residents Pat Onderdonk, Ka-
thie Craig, Patsy Fahnestock, Joan
MeGeoch, Marianne Schwob; make-
up, Molly Allen and Di Forbes;
stage and lights, Janet Leeds,
Peasy Laidlaw, Myra Becker, Sally
Brown, Nancy Bolton, Sukie Ku-
ser, Sylvia Westerman, Ann Wyc-
koff, and Linda Bettman “model of
constancy”, plus the energies of
those who acted also, Elaine Marks
and Emma Morel.
-To say “Encore” to such pro-
ductions seems again to point out
the obvious.

 

 

Beds Above the Flick, Lunch at Local Esso
Inspire New Geologists with Call of the Wild

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Tamaqua, at the hotel that is over
the movie theatre. It really is, too.
We can just lie in bed and hear the
sound track, and watch the picture
reflected on the ceiling. Some-
body’s bound to give a party. Yeah,
guess the rock. You test, the hard-
ness by throwing them. At your
seat-mate on the bus. Remember
that one stop? The real pretty one,
‘where Dr. Watson kept climbing
e climbing? (And finally, we got
> sit down, and it was lovely—all
the green foliage, that lovely green
foliage all around. Mabel, please

don’t cry anymore, honest, poison.

ivy isn’t bad at all. Oh, Oh! I’ve
been drowsing — again! What
eomebody asked Dr. Dryden what
kind of rock we were striding on?
And he didn’t tell us a long, geo-
dogic explanation? He didn’t say

 

it was caused by extreme pene-
planation, or by the Taconic revo-
lution, or by a down-thrusting of
the up-faulting? He just — you
mean somebody said, “Dr. Dryden
what makes this rock flat?” and
he turned around and said, simply,
“Nature.”

Mabel, do you really think this
trip has been loads of fun, and
very interesting, and that all the
people concerned were terrific?

You know, Mabel—you’re abso-
lutely right!

 

-- Thirsty? Watch out for the
“Lemmobile” that will be sta-
tioned in Taylor every morning
at 11 and will cover the campus
every afternoon from 4 on.
This lemonade is sponsored by
the Alliance in order to send

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College Conference Discusses U.S.-U.N. Relations, Far East and America;
Backs “‘Left Of Center’? Views Favoring Red China, Liberality For Europe

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should guard the world from arm-
ed Soviet aggression, and prove to
the free world that we will stand
with them.

We broke up into discussion
groups. I was in the group on Eur-
ope. After floundering a bit on
small details, we worked out some
general propositions: 1) America
having the dominant position that
it does, should not base its policies
on fighting communism, but on
supporting democracy: a switch
from the negative to the positive.
Secondly, we wanted to attack the
causes of the present tension rath-
er than the symptoms alone. How
ever, we started with one of the
symptoms and voted for complete

 

disarmament on a world-wide scale.
We wanted a Four Power confer.
ence which would be free from
publicity while in session. We ad-
vocated impartial economic aid to
be administered through the UN.
Finally, we expressed the hope for
free cultural and student exchange
between Eastern and ‘Western Eur-
ope, plus free trade between them.
A specific program for disarming
and unifying Germany was dis-
cussed also.

The entire student body at the
convention had to pass the resolu-
tions which each group proposed.
This involved much time and pa-
tience, not because the group as a
whole really opposed any of the
propositions, but ‘because the us-

 

ual arguments dealing with parlia-
mentary procedure were constant-
ly posed.

The group was adamant in its
political views as in its insistence
on parliamentary procedure. With
few exceptions, they backed reso-
lutions that would be called ‘left
of center’. They wanted Red China
to. occupy the Chinese seat in the
UN, and they backed all the pro-
posals of the group which discuss-
ed Europe. Unfortunately, I had
to leave before the resolutions for
the other areas were considered.
However, these will be published
in the final report of the confer-
ence, so just watch the Alliance
Bulletin Board for news on the fin-
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