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Page Four

THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, January 16, 1952



Counterpoint Judgment
Lacks in Real Appraisal

Continued from Page 2

Since I have no fault to find
with what the critic himself calls
his “doctrinal - quibbling”’, and
since I agree with him that Miss
Wei’s translations are “the best
verse in the issue’, I turn to his
paragraph on “The Star”. Here Mr.
Berthoff leaps to a conclusion for'
which I am unable to see any
basis. He says “... the end (is)
unwisely entrusted to two small!
boys...” Nowhere in the Coun-
terpoint text is the age of these’
boys stated; but it.is implied by:
the words they speak — words
which the reviewer, groundlessly
assuming the boys to be “small”,
says are “unwisely entrusted” to
them. Here again I fear that Mr.
Berthoff is criticizing what Miss
Forbes did not write.

The paragraph on “Lightly
Turns” opens with a_ sentence
which led me to hope at last the
review was becoming construc-
tive. It reads “‘Lightly Turned’
sets aside the most difficult tech-
nical problem and is consequently
the best piece so far”, But the
critic—who_ incidentally appears
to be uncertain of the title of the
piece he is reviewing — does not
continue. He does not tell us what
he considers the “most difficult
technical problem” to be, so that
we too may set it aside as Miss
Holbeck has done; nor does he
explain how she succeeded in do-
ing so.

All in all, I feel that Mr. Bert-
hoff’s review of the Winter Coun-
terpoint ended where it should
have begun; for I think a review-
er is shirking his job whose only
idea of constructive and clarifying
criticism is the statement that
“ .,. unless Counterpoint’s editors
understand the kind of difference,
we may as well abandon hope
whenever again we enter here”.
Evidently they do not; and I do
not think that Mr. Berthoff’s re-
view will help them.

Sincerely,



Elizabeth George Foulke, ’52

Bachrach Asserts Positive Progressive Program

Will Form Greater Civil
Continued from Page 3

tion free speech certainly have not
adopted the McCarthy-Soviet posi-
tion, but are simply rejecting a
fundamental tenet of liberalism
under present conditions. -Mr.
Bachrach’s point is that on the

basis of the forementioned prin-
ciples, all unorthodox thoughts be-
come suspect as reflected in gov-
ernment purges and loyalty oaths.

In consideration of the second
point, man’s irrationality, Mr.
Bachrach questions whether the
average man gives any considera-
tion to complex policies and is-
sues of the day. He also suggests
vhat man’s rationalization may re-
flect his class interest; but social
scientists say that individuals are
poor judges of their own interest,
and, for example, join a political
party “to relieve their own dis-
orders by irrelevant palliatives.”
But whether man can settle his
problems intelligently or not, what
use is there in seeking truth by
discussion if one charge by a pro-
fessional informer can ruina man?
If the men who talk in the market
place decide to favor policies un-
favorable to the government and

they are accused of irrationality, | -

it is then unconstitutional to re-
strict free speech if the people
wish it. Mr. Bachrach’s point was
that there should not be both free
speech in the market and uncon-
stitutional declarations of free
speech restrictions simultaneously.

Mr. Bachrach feels that the lib-
eralists should realize the irra-
tional force in man and make
their objective “to utilize this
knowledge of the irrational in an
effort to broaden the area of ra-
tionality in society.” For example,
if the people fall into hysteria it
can best be combatted by destroy-
ing its roots and not by simply
using “rational argument against
its manifestations.” The cause for
such hysteria Mr. Bachrach be-
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It appears to him to be a reac-
tionary .trend toward an isolation

of ourselves from the ideas of

social revolrtion and not an un-
controllable fear of military pow-
er. What really is evolving is an
insistance of the people for broad-
ening and intensifying democracy.
Because some individuals fear this
change they deem such considera-
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that this hysterical fear, the ob-
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