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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Monday, May 1, 1950





“Titan”? Uses No Actors,
Recreates Michelangelo
Continued from Page 5

Back in Florence, Michelangelo
began a work which took him four
years. It was the statue of David,
symbol of Medici supremacy and
the Florentine domination of the
Italian Renaissance. The photog-
raphy of this statue and Bacchus
were as breath-taking as that of
the Vingin and the dead Jesus. The
slow motion of the camera almost

made one think the figures were
alive. The details—veins of the
hand, folds in the cheek—were
shown close up. Here the sculp-
tor’s mathematical and minutely
perfect knowledge of human an-
atomy is revealed in all its unbe-
lievable splendor. No one could
fail to be impressed.

(Michelangelo was also a painter
though sculpture was his first
love. The Pope commissioned him
to design a mural for the ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel. A panoply of
pagan demi-gods and deities sur-
rounds panel after panel showing
every phase of the Creation of
Man, down to the time of the
Flood. Here the camera could ex-
plore more carefully than the hu-
man eye. It showed close-ups of
the faces of God the Creator, of
Adam and Eve, created, tempted,
fallen, and banished from Eden.

At the age of sixty, remember-
ing the vain attempts of Savona-
rola to stem the tide of Renais-
sance worldliness and debauchery,
Michelangelo began his Last Judg-
ment, a mural with the intensity
of God’s damnation in it.. His last
work was the sculpturing that
went into the tomb of the Medici,
with its figures of agonized Day
and lethargic Night indicating the
sculptor’s feeling that the Renais-
sance was corrupt and doomed.

One’s only regret about The
Titan, especially in the scenes of
the Medici palace, the Italian
countryside and the magnificent
murals, is that the filming was not
done in color. Otherwise there is
no fault to be found in a movie
that sets a precedent in movie-
making. There should be more
giants like The Titan.

Continued from Page 5

days. We cannot be often together,
so we will have a lot of talk, and
if there is fine weather we sure
will enjoy these days.

Some happy holidays we wish
you too and hope you are well and
that everything will work out like
you want it to.

We would be very glad if you
had the time to write us some
lines in return.

Yours very thankfully,
Gurlotte Matern
Annemarie Matern.”

The second letter is from a Hun-
garian student at Combloux, the
student chalet to which the Bryn
Mawr students last year sent $250.
Combloux is in Haute-Savoie in
France and is a rest and study cen-
ter for students who have long
been undernourished and suffering
the after-affects of war.

“Dear unknown girl-friends of Bryn
Mawr,

I have to tell you, that I was
particularly happy when I was in-
formed of your generous gift. My
best friend was a student in your
college and so I have some ideas
on the marvelous institution of
Bryn Mawr. It is because I learned
that Bryn Mawr represents the
finest values, the real ones, of the
States, that I thank you.

You are supposed to have some
information on the Chalet, our



THE NEWS REPLIES TO
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We don’t care where he went to
school,

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And picking up peas for the rest
of our life.

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home, but I am not quite sure if
the most important has been writ-
ten. It is a sort of program, some-
thing of an ‘idealogy’ implicated
in the everyday life of our home...
I will try to give a definition of
it because I am convinced that you
feel somehow in the same way.
lt is solidarity; everybody is in
some way responsible of the hap-
piness, tne heaitn and the intel-
1ectual evolution of the others. We
can’t leave somebody alone when
ne is depressed or simply helpless.
Somebody arriving his is awaited
at the bus station, somebody is
helping him to make the first
steps...
And this is very important in a
house where you find not only all
the political and religious opinions
but also every nationality.
And last but not least we want
to give something to everybody
who is coming to our home: some-
thing more than fine time, friend-
ship and. health. We would find for
all of us real human values, we
want to leave a little bit changed
the Chalet: with some new hope,
more optimism that is all.
It is certainly very pretentious,
too optimistic but we have to try
it and try it again. And when we
receive gifts or simply letters, we
know that we are not alone.
(Excuse me for my English, I
lost the habit of writing serious
letters in it.)
Yours sincerely,
Nicolas Plevy.”



Dr. Rhys Carpenter Will

Conduct Summer Tour

Throughout Europe, Greek Islands of Aegean

Continued from Page 2

important. The islands are land
which has sunk below the sea.
Only the tops of the mountains
still rise above. That is why the
jand slopes straight into the water,
like the mountains which surround
the fjords. You must have seen
photographs. The sight is both
magnificent and terrifying. Those
islands aren’t like the wretched
little sandbars we have off the
Jersey coast. If we subnierged the
Atlantic seaboard up to the Appa-
lachians, we could have islands
like that too.” Mr. Carpenter
paused for a moment, then con-
tinued, “The most important thing
about the islands is that through
the centuries most of them have
remained isolated, both from each
other and from the rest of the
world. Their inhabitants are by
descent almost pure Greek, and
their language has never been mod-
ified by those of other nations. The
people of each island have their
own distinct way of life. As you
travel from island to island you
glimpse a series of different
worlds. Each people has preserved
the same way of life for the last
thousand years. How do they live?
They terrace their hillsides and
plant a little wheat; they pasture
goats; in the valleys there are
olive orchards. They se a wooden
plow, tipped with metal: they can’t
plow deep. A tractor would be
quite useless. The. fascination of



the Aegean Islands is that they
are completely out of the current
of our civilization.”

“I asked Mr. Carpenter how ex-
tensive the archeological discover-
ies have been there. He replied that
on different islands remains from
the Neolithic, Mycenaean, Greek,
Roman, Byzantine, and Turkish
periods have been unearthed. As
I rose to go, Mr. Carpenter looked
at me keenly.

“Don’t make any mistakes,” he
said.

When in disgrace with the office

of the Dean

For not attending classes every
day,

And my professors know not what
I mean

When I, from terror, keep myself
away;

When I behold the door before me
shut

And picture visage of professor
dour,

If I forego the strong desire to cut

And inward slink at twenty past
the hour;

And therupon the crowning blow
doth fall,

(A truth of which I’ve often long
dispaired)

When I upon my courage have to
call

And tell the class that I am not
prepared.

How do I know, requested to recite,

That the professor, horrified, won’t
bite?





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