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Malin Lectures On Free Speech:

In a lecture sponsored by Dr
Roger Wells, Chairman of the
Political Science department,
Patrick Murphy Malin, Executive
Director of the |American Civil
Liberties Union, spoke on “The
Next Twenty-Five Years of Free
Speech, .Diie |Process and Equal
Protection Under the Law.”

The freedom of speech which
concerned Mr. Malin was the kind
of freedom mentioned in the Con-
stitution. "The main problem that
he foresees for the future is getting

‘correct and uncensored information

to the mass media. He stressed the
importance of the newspapers’ giv-
ing fairly complete information
from the government agencies to
the people, while still permitting
those agencies to function with a
certain amount .of privacy.

Radio, TV Problems

Mr. Malin also expressed concern
about the fact that neither radio
nor television was using its facili-
ties to the greatest advantage. He
does not believe that the contro-
versial problems of the day are be-
ing presented to the voters. The
partisanship of radio and television
stations which can be ‘seen during
a political campaign emphasizes the
difficulty of. running a privately
owned industry and still communi-
cating current ideas to the people
without bias.

Mr. Malin predicted a .more
severe testing of religious tolera-
tion to come in the next twenty-five
years and, more, important, the
effect of this on the educational
process. The number of those who
have religious affiliations has risen
and the conflict among the different
churches about religion in schools
is becoming more pronounced. Be-
zause religion is treated in the Con-
stitution as a private exercise of
judgment this problem will have to
be dealt with by the people and
will be more difficult to solve.

“Due Process” Discussed

In regard to “due process,” which
Mr. Malin defined as the formal
channels of freedom which are set
down in advance and regularly
used, the main problem will be the
intervention into the privacy of
people of instruments of govern-
ment attempting to carry out their

duties. Mr. Malin mentioned the

fact that what he called “enabling
acts” have given the federal agen-

cies increasing power of investiga-_

tion. Wiretapping and the treat-
ment of juvenile delinquents and
the mentally ill were cited as being
the primary manifestations of the
deprivation of due process of law.

The main source of the problem
of equal protection under the law,
which was defined as equal only
before the law and not in character
or personality, comes from the
treatment of alien groups, Ameri-
can Indians, and Negroes. Although
the most recent emphasis has been
on the judicial decisions about
school desegregation, other groups
beside the Negroes are also in need
of attention and equal protection.
Immigration laws and local dis-
crimination aggravate the alien

 

Annual Danrice
Held For Staff

Among the season’s most gala
events is the annual Maids and
Porters’. Dance, held this year on
Saturday, February. 7, in the gym-
nasium.

Under a canopy of red and white
streamérs, to the rousing tunes of

~~ John Whittaker and his band, and

while raspberry punch flowed like
wine, the merriment proceded. Stu-
dents decorated, handed round re-
freshments and distributed pro-

“grams, but the dance was for the}:

dancers,

Cupid presiding. ~~

Considers Mass Media Important

.|problem, and our lack of concern

for the rights of the Indians breeds
unfair treatment.

Dr. Wells introduced Mr. Malin
and gave some of his former occu-
pations which include a professor-
ship in Economics at Swarthmore
and the Vice-Directorship of the
Intergovernmental Committee on
Refugees. He also mentioned Mr.
Malin’s wide traveling experience
and the honorary degrees of Doctor
of Laws given him by Swarthmore
College and Howard University.
The lecture was followed by a ques-
tion and answer period.

A Brief Excerpt
From ‘King John’
To Be Repeated

The Philadelphia Arts Festival
is scheduling ten minutes of
Shakespeare’s King John on their
program “Youth Looks At Drama”
of February..13. Some of the origi-
nal cast may be unavailable, but
the re-creation will be as complete
as circumstances permit. It will be

performed at Temple University in
full costume, and perhaps even with
the playing-card sets.

The excerpt which has been
chosen is one of intense dramatic
interest, and may be difficult to
convey to the audience without any
build-up. It includes the scene in
which King John tells Hubert to
kill Arthur, and the following one
in which Kimg Philip, Lewis and
Constance express their various
griefs,'and Pandulph sees the mix-
ed effects of England’s victory.

Jane Parry, who plays Con-
stance, pointed out the effective se-
quence of O-sounds with which
the two selected scenes join to-
gether. In Scene 3, Act 3, King
John sweeps off the stage, shout-
ing: “On towards Calais, ho!”
King Philip then opens the next
scene with: “So, by a roaring tem-
pest on the flood... ”

The plot at the point where the
excerpt begins is in the midst of
intricate unfoldings which depend
on their causes and effects, and the
violent emotional state of most of
the characters, especially Con-
stance, may be difficult for the ac-
tors to achieve, directly plunging
into such a climax. However, many
who remember the excellence of
King John’s performance last sem-
ester will want to get another
gimpse of it, no matter how abbre-
viated.

Arendt Lecture
Continued from Page 1, Col. 1

man’s actions are inspired by this
principle, or goal, will he have
liberty. It is from this premise that
the Greeks derived their analogy
of government as a performing art.
In fact, the very root of the word
“politics,” the Greek term for mar-
ket place, connotes action or per-
formance. The Greeks, and later
Machiavelli judged the virtuosity,
or technical skill, of this action to
be freedom.

Politics is concerned, also, with
the maintenance of life, and it fol-
lows from this that courage is a
cardinal political virtue; it is, more-
over, the primary human quality
because it guarantees all others,
and imparts to man the lack of con-
cern for life which is vital for the
attainment: of world freedom.

The failure of the ancient phil-
osophers to associate freedom with
politics is due in part to their denial

lof Free Will. It was only after Paul

discovered this phenomenon of the
personality that philosophy could
embrace political freedom.

The Greeks failed to discover the
will, although they saw self control,
itself clearly a product of the will,
as a primary virtue and requisite
to leadership. It was by contemplat-
ing its impotence rather than its
power, an impotence resulting from
man’s inner conflicts, that Paul dis-
covered this will which now has
become almost synonymous with
will to power, the roots of tyranny.
Freedom thus become sovereignty;
it is this which is the most perni-
cious effect of the philosophical
definition of politics.

Freedom is created with every
new beginning; thus, to be born is
to be free. All that is new and un-
expected partakes in the miracu-
lous; the coming into being of the
earth and evolution should accur-
ately be classed as miracles. Man
has the capacity for performing
miracles, and it must not be con-
sidered superstitious to be prepared
for them in politics. The greatest
danger of totalitarianism is that it
can preclude these miracles; stop
natural processes, institute long
periods of stagnation. “Today,”
says Dr. Arendt, “Human freedom
depends upon the capacity of man
to perform miracles, to bring about
the unexpected as a reality.”

Engagements

Jan Aschenbrenner '59 ‘0 Don-
ald Winter.

Nancy (Cline ’59 to Robert Linde-
man.

Ruth Deitelbaum 69 to Sheldon
HH. Brown:

Anne Hill ’60 to Francesco

 

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Continued from Page: 2, Col. 5
wrote his early. plays for universal
appeal among the Irish people,
should eventually have turned to
this traditionally aristocratic form
and created drama for a very se-
lect public.

Noh-drama raises expression
from a personal to a symbolic lev-
el. Its staging is intimate, its
plot simple, and its emotion sub-
limated into bodily movement
through the use of masks and
dance. Music and dance, its two
basic media, appeal either jointly
or alternately to the eye and ear
of the public.

_ Comparison of Temperaments

Yeats’ affinity to this Japanese
art form is racial as well as indi-
vidual. Miss Suetsugu notes a ba-
sic similarity between the Celtic
and Japanese temperaments. Both
are imaginative in their interpre-
tation of the natural and spiritual
worlds, and place great emphasis
on emotional expression. Yeats
had a particularly strong inclina-
tion towards ritual and symbolism,

seem All of these are basic ele-

 

Graduate Student: On Yeats

ments of the Noh-play.

Although Yeats saw with re-
markable intuition ‘the essence of
the Noh form, his actual knowl-
edge of it was incomplete. It was
derived entirely from English
translations of the plays, and from
his acquaintance with Ezra Pound
and several Japanese friends.

Yeats Evolves Variation

Yeats’ use of the Noh-drama
in his own playwriting was at
first in the form of almost direct
re-creation or imitation. Later,
however, he evolved some varia-
tions of the type which enabled him
to incorporate in it beautiful lyric-
al speech and the dramatic con-
flict of philosophical problems.

Miss Suetsugu’s comparative
study of culture is fascinating in
its subject matter as well as. its
exposition. Although the study is
complete in itself, part of its vir-
tue for the uninformed reader is
undoubtedly that of stimulating
further investigation of. the plays
under discussion.

Continued from Page 1, Col. 1

French poetical theory in the period
from the eighteenth century to
Baudelaire.

The panel members are M. Vigée,
Mrs. Michels, Mr. Lattimore, Mr.
Nahm, and M. Maurin. M. Maurin
explained that the reason that
members of the panel are predomi-
nantly from the Greek and Latin
departments is that the topic of
Miss Gilman’s book, particularly as
it concerns the eighteenth century,
is very much influenced by Greek
and Latin Poetics. The book itself
does not treat the sources of its
ideas, therefore the discussion may
deal with them rather fully.

The panel, M. Maurin surmised,
will probably use Miss Gilman’s
book as a springboard, and enlarge
the discussion to one on the idea
of poetry in general. M. Vigée and
Mr. Lattimore, the two poets on the
panel, will be able to contribute
from their own creative experience.
In fact, the most exciting aspect of

H‘ford Presents
Biology Lectures

Haverford College is presenting
the William Pyle Phillips lectures
in Biology, a series on “Advances
in Cell Structure and Function,”
every Thursday from February 5
through March 19. The time is
8:15; the place, Roberts Hall, ex-
cept March 5, when the lectures
will'be held in Sharpless Hall.

The following topics will be dis-
cussed in forthcoming lectures:

February 12: On Protein Synthe-
sis. George E. Palade of the Rocke-
feller Institute and Paul C. Zamec-
nik of Harvard University.

February 19: On Mitochondria.
George E. Palade of the Rockefeller
Instiute and Albert L. Lehninger of
Johns Hopkins University.

February 26: On Chromosomes
and Deoxyribonucleic Acid. J. Her-
bert Taylor of Columbia University
and Montrose J. Moses of Rocke-
feller Institute.

March 5: On Striated Muscles.
Alan Hodge of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Andrew
Szent-Gyorgyi of the Institute for
Muscle Research.

March 12: Changes in Structure

 

ganelles during Cell Differentiation.
Don W. Fawcett of Cornell Univer-
sity.

March 19: Cell Structure. and
Function: Pumps and Prospects. H.
Stanley Bennett of the University
of Washington.

and Location of Cytoplasmic Or-'

“Poetry in France” Panel

the pane] discussion seems to be
that no one is quite sure what will
emerge from it.

At 8:30, in the Ely Room of
Wyndham, M. Vigée will speak on

three French poets of today—lIves |

Bonnefoy, Phillipe Jaccottet, and
Claude Vigée himself. M. Vigée will
probably read selections of poetry
as well as speaking about the poets.

Editorial Footnotes
Continued from Page 2, Col. 3

a conciliatory gesture on the ascen-
sion of Pope Pope Pius XII, but
was rebuffed. Said he, “It is a trag-
edy that religion cannot make peace
within its own family. How can the
spiritual world face conflict with
the materialistic world when it can-
not agree within itself? Religion is
behaving in a criminal fashion. It
is at war inside Christendom.” The
prospects for renewed cooperation
between the Catholic and Orthodox
traditions, then, seem good.

The role that Protestant leaders
would play in the prospective Coun-
cil is as yet a matter of conjecture.
Protestantism is, of course, by no
means unitary in itself, but has
been subject in the last three hun-
dred years to division and sub-
division, to fragmentation and to
internal conflict. However, the cre-
ation of the World Council* of
Churches in 1948, with sixty de-
nominations participating, has
strengthened Protestant solidarity
and is an important indication of

the new faith in the old axiom, «

“united we stand, divided we fall.”

It is unlikely that an Ecumenical
Council will be held before 1961,
and its details and functions are so
unclear as to make hope and even
conjecture premature. But even the
rejuvenation of the idea of an ecu-
menical council is a landmark in

the history of the Christian Church.
/s. 8

Campus—Fire is a problem peren-
nial, and crowded institutions are
peculiarly susceptible to major dis-
asters, as last fall’s Chicago school
fire made vidivdly clear. Bryn Mawr
has had three fires of its own in the
last year and a half, in Goodhart,
Park and the heating plant. None
of these held, however, anything
like the possibilities of tragedy

‘should a fire start in a dorm. Stu-

dents have the greatest part of
the responsibility, and any cajolery
or threats which would lead to an
adult awareness of the danger of
blocking a narrow hallway with
laundry or of using a hotplate in a
room seem to us well worth re-

 

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Arts Council's

Feb. 19 (Thurs.):
(Munch)

nd Francescatti

March, 2 (Mon.): Same as above

and Gerard Souzay, Baritone

tickets are not available
and John Delancie, oboe

Soviet Coloratura Mezzo

and Serkin
March 30 (Mon.): Same as above

April 20 (Mon.): Same as above
Program —
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Vol. 5, on December 10, 1958.

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March 11 (Thurs.): MANTOVANT,
March 12 (Thurs.): PHILADELPHIA FORUM, Van Cliburn. Note:
Tickets signed for before Christmas were ordered then; further

‘What's On

Feb. 12(Thurs.): MARIAN ANDERSON, Concert—Academy.
PHILADELPHIA FORUM, Boston Symphony

Feb. 26: (Thurs.): RENATA TEBALDI, Concert—Academy
Feb. 27-28 (Fri, & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy

March 65 (Thurs.): PHILADELPHIA FORUM, The American Opera
Society: MEDEA, with Eileen Farrell
March 6-7 (Fri. & Sat.):-PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy

Concert— Academy

March 13 (Fri.): PHILADELPHIA LYRIC OPERA CO., “La Traviata”
March 13-114 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy

March 20-21 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy
March 26 (Thurs.): PHILADELPHIA FORUM, Zara Dolukhanova,

March 27-28 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy

‘April 8-4 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy
April 10-11 Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy
and Erica Morini, Violinist—Russian Program

April 17-18 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy—
- (Berlioz, “The Damnation of Faust”

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April 24-25 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Request

Feb. 18 (Wed.): Ruth Metzger, Pianist from Curtis Institute—Ely

 

 

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