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Wednesday, October 26, 1960

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five





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turned on their radio .
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When the state
troopers arrive...









Note: Bob and Pete knew that rocks in a
stream often take up water; when these
racks are heated, the water turns to steam
+and the rocks explode!

YOU SURE THINK.
FOR YOURSELVES!
TUL

Viceroys got it
at both ends







© 1960, BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP.











Mr. Kline And Film Form

Engaging ‘Double Feature

by Berna Landsman

The Soviet Union Today was
the title of the excellent Julian
Bryan documentary film shown in
the Biology Lecture Room last Wed-
nesday afternoon, but Mr. Kline’s
comments after the film were, for
many, the most interesting part
of this unusual “double-feature.”
Mr, George Kline, a new Associate

‘Professor in Philosophy and Rus-
sian this year, has traveled exten-
-Sively~ in the UiS:S.R., once very
recently, and thetetore had many
first-hand experiences with which
to illustrate his points.

Living Conditions

Although the Russians have a
“functioning system,” there are,
Mr. Kiine contended, many incon-
sistencies within it. First, there
is a great contrast between high-
ly-developedscience ~and~ technol=
ogy and the primitive way of life
of the people. Although housing
conditions are very poor, with few
people having running water and
not even the wealthiest having hot
water, the Russians spend tremen-
dous sums of money on rockets

‘and missiles. “But since Sputnik,”
added Mr. Kiine, “many more peo-
ple have become aware of this
sharp contrast.”

Russian Women

The Soviet attitude toward wom-
en, he pointed out, is also quite
inconsistent. Women do manual
and many other types of labor
right along with men, In the field
of medicine, women have distin-
guished themselves. ‘“Albout two-
thirds of the doctors are women,”
he said. “Yet there are few women
professors, writers, or orchestra
members. And of course it is un-
feminine for women to smoke in
public, or drink.”

There is also an ambivalence in.
cultural matters. One finds_a rev-
erence for older Russian art, but.
not for such moderns as Kandin-
sky or. Chagall, who are rarely, if
ever, shown. Yet the works of the
French Impressionists, and some
16th and 17th century art is shown

-—but not reproduced and hung in
students’ rooms, for instance, as
here. [The government’s attitude
toward Pasternak ‘was typical;
Doctor Zhivago was denounced as
“depressing,” yet new editions of
Pasternak’s translations (of “ap-
proved” writings) have recently
appeared. (No mention was made
of Pasternak’s death in the Soviet
papers. “Despite continuous at-
tempts,” added Mr. Kline, “I was
unable to wisit Pasternak’s grave.
Apparently it is feared that its
opening to the public might result
in its becoming a sort of shrine,
which would be ‘most undesirable’
‘from the government’s point of
view.” ’

Mr, Kline also spoke of the “cul-
tural underground” which “came
close to the surface until after
Hungary in 1956. In such regions
as Georgia, outside Russia itself,
it is still quite close. Lyric poetry,
painting, and, to some extent,

__seulpture,are—circulated broadly.’
He told the story of a young, and
of course unpublished, new poet,
who, in giving a poetry reading
before a large audience, fongot the
next line, and hesitated a moment
to look down at his notebook. Tears

aulience in unison recited the
next line.

‘Public signs giving social advice
are prevalent. Typical ones say:
“Shine your shoes. It will length-
en their wear and improve your
political appearance”; “Don’t drink
while boating.” And in the Lenin
library. there-is- a~ sign, “intended
for staff members to read, “Clean-
liness and order will help you to
live longer and serve your country
better.” —

Mr. Kline reported an “increas-
ing vitriolic campaign against
Americans. It seems that the So-
viets,” he said, “want to have their
tourists and eat them too.”

After the Powers’ trial, Mr.
Kline did not notice much change
in the attitude of the Russian peo-
ple themselves. In conclusion, he
cited as an example the humble
and unreported act of a typical
Russian peasant, who, on seeing
the grief-stricken mother of Lt.
Powers after the trial, hastily
thrust a small flower into her cab
and said, “We can appreciate how
much you must be suffering,” and
then disappeared in the. crowd.



Campus Poll

will be conducted this week by
the Alliance for Political At-
fairs. Ballots will be distribut-
ed to all students, faculty and
campus staff and will include
questions on party preference
and favored candidates. The
Alliance urges everyone to
express his political choice and
cast his ballot by Friday night,
October 28. Ballot boxes will
be located in each hall, in Tay-
lor and near the Faculty mail
table in the Library.
will be announced in the College
News next week.)







A campus ‘presidential poll f

(Results }



Friends Of Music

»Sponsor Concerts,

Provide Workshops

_by Alison Baker

The “Friends of Music” was
started six years ago, by a group
of people who thought that there
was too little stress on music at
Bryn Mawr. They wanted to have
concerts and also workshops in
which the artist would give an in-
formal talk followed by discussion.
This would provide a more intim-
ate.view of the artist, his instru-
ment’and music. -

Mrs. Lewis, chairman of the
Friends of: Music, who explained
all about the group and its pur-
pose, stressed that these workshops

are for anyone, including those].

who_know_very-—little-about~music:
They are not serious seminars, as
the title might imply.

The members of the Friends of
Music fall into two categories.
There are about fifty alumnae, in-
terested in furthering the cause of
music’ at Bryn Mawr, and about
two hundred members who live in
the area and like to go to the con-
certs, It is through this member-
ship that the concerts are financed,
and as a result there is no charge
to students for either the concerts
or the workshops.

The program, which is chosen
by a planning committee, depends
partly on finances, but it is also
designed to try to give as varied a
program as possible in a four-
year period, or a student’s term
at college.

The first of the two Friends’ of
Music concerts this year will take
place on November. 2. The program
is not yet definite, but the artists
are Mr. Kincaid (flute), Mr. Bru-
silow (violin) and (Mr. Sokoloff
(piano).
bers of the faculty are encouraged
to come to the concert and to a
workshop given by Mr. Kincaid
on November 3.

All students and mem-

by Ellen Rothenberg

“The role of the philosopher of
science,” explained Mrs, Marjorie
Grene, Lucy Martin Dornelly Fel-
low for this year, who will be
working at Queens College in Bel-
fast, “is to examine the thinking
of scientists and to try to. deter-
mine the influences: which direct
their work.”

Mrs, Grene believes that a sci-
entist begins his work with certain
pre-established conceptions of what
he will find. These pre-supposi-
tions are what determine his ini-
tial hypotheses and lines of inves-
tigation. |
_ Year’s Events

Mrs. eons s particular field of
inquiry is evolution. She hopefully
confided her intention of complet-
ing a book on this subject during
the coming year. Her presence at
Bryn Mawr is only temporary. It
is customary for each year’s Lucy
Martin Donnelly Fellow to visit
the college briefly and deliver a
lecture or two.

“TI particularly enjoyed the tea
with the Philosophy Club,” she said
in typically exuberant fashion.
“After I had read my paper we
had a wonderfully stimulating dis-
cussion, I am very much im-
pressed with the students here.”

Personal History

(Mrs. Grene’s paper was on “Cause
es” and dealt with the importance
—or unimportanice — assigned to
“cause” by philosophers and sci-
entists. The night before (October
19), she lectured on “Kant and His
Contemporaries.”

Turning for a moment from phi-
losophy, Mrs. Grene sketched some
of her history.

‘I am a Wellesley graduate,



if you want to go back that far,”
she began. “Actually my mother



Continued from Page 1, Col. 2
carnation doctrine symbolic, the
decision of the individual in the
present might come to be as im-
portant as it is to Christians, but
the majority of Buddhists still be-
lieve that through a succession of
existences they will eventually get
out of this life into Nirvana. Hence
Buddhism has not the goal of so-
cial transformation which has be-
come so important in \@hristianity.

> Zen and the Ultimate

The East has not yet affected
the West very much except per-
haps in the case of the liberal
Protestants who now look to Zen
Buddhism to exchange the object-
ive Christian symbols for the non-
objective, non-concrete symbols of
the East. Zen dhism can also
give an ultimate dimension to daily
life, and for many people it is also
a release from moralistic Protes-
tanism. However, Mr. Tillich point-

\gadgets.of the (West.

Tillich Touches On Nationalistic, Godless Religions

sionary activity largely a thing of
the past, the effects are now chief-
ly indirect,

Today the most important en-
counter is between the Eastern
religions and secular Western
ideas. ‘As'the Brussels Fair show-

ed_after 1850—there-was—a—break-

in the native art, religion, and
culture of Asia and ‘Africa; now
they are imitating the technical

Nationalism is the first of the
quasi-religions of the West whose
great impact is being felt in Africa
and Asia. Attacking other re-
ligions as colonialist, it has replac-
ed religion since it has what con-
cerns the people ultimately. This
is already the case in Europe.
Nazism and Fascism show the ul-
timate expression of the doctrine.

Russian Prophets

Communism, the second of the

quasi-religions, has conquered Rus-

| day,. but, the problem is not. that

in danger of being overcome by
this quasi-religion aggressive in
the name of social justice just as
Russia was.

Liberalisni! the humanism we
represent, is the.third secular force
from the West. This needs a spir-
itual-base-as*the situation of dem-
ocracy in Japan shows.

Survival of Religion

Religion is on the defensive to-

non-religion might prevail, for
there is no ideology that does not
have ultimate concern for some-
thing. The question is ; will re-
ligion survive im a form that rec-
ognizes the importance of the hu-
man personality ?

We have brought our technical
culture to the whole world, and
we have perhaps succeeded in keep-
ing it without losing the vertical
dimension (question of the mean-
ing of life), but can a technical

Donnelly Fellow, Mrs. Grene,
Describes;,Visit, Future Plans

wanted me to go to Bryn’ Mawr,
but my father said I wasn’t bright
enough, so I went to Wellesley in-
stead.”

She affectionately described her
studies abroad after college and
added that she had returned -to
the United States in 1985 to work
for and receive her Ph.D. degree
at Radcliffe.

“Since then,” she remembered,
“I have been at the University of
‘Chicago, at Queens College in
Belfast and, last year, at Leeds in
England.”

On the subject of education, the
-scholar-“was vehémeéent in her dis-
approval of science-conscious
schools,

“We must acquire knowledge of
the world and its people, by study-
ing the humanities, to balance our
abstract knowledge,” she declared.
“It is wonderful to have an atom
bomb, produced by scientific gen-
ius, but we must also have the un-
derstanding to use it well.”

Regarding public feeling towards
American politics in Great Brit-
ain, Mrs. Grene-said-that most peo-
ple are anxious to seea Demo-
cratic victory in the coming elec-
tion.

“Naturally their interest is in
foreign policy,” she said, “They
eel that the Republicans are not
ina position to improve interma-
tional relations. Most of them are
really Stevenson supporters,” she
added. “They can’t see how we
can choose anyone but the best
man.”



Prof Poll

Continued from Page 3, Col. 5.

but I can understand the difficulty
of a mam of his education and .
background getting into the White
House ... Mr. Kennedy’s educa-
tion is only one of the rather com-
plicated reasons why I support
him. I agree with his stand on
Quemoy and Matsu. They are in-
defensible. We did not agree to
defend them, and if Chiang could
get out of the Da-ch’en Islands a
few years ago, we can get him to _

' {get out now as this is much the

same. kind of problem.”



Miss Clayton: “I represent a mi-
nority of the Bryn Mawr faculty,
but not, I hope, of the nation. 1

am for (Nixon; nevertheless, I
think both candidates are alert,

responsible men. Four years ago,
I felt that Senator Kennedy might
well be a primary figure in the

1960 election. I consider him a
worthy opponent for Nixon.”

_

Mrs. Benjamin: “I am for Ke





”-ed-out; it is imposible to get what

you are seeking with non-eascetic
Zen.

In summing up this part of his
talk, Mr. Tillich stated that there
has ‘been comparatively little influ-
ence of Eastern and Western re-



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sia and the Russian sacramental
religion which had no prophetic
self-criticism. We can perhaps
hope that the non-resistant com-
bination of the secular and sacred

in Chinese religion will some day

undercut Communism in that coun

try, but what about India? It is' like.”



culture in a* technical democracy
elsewhere without the. spiritual
values that brought forth our lib-
eral democracy survive? “If we
have given only the tools without
the ultimate goal, the history of

the better foreign policy. I agree
with Kennedy that the United
States should not be complacent,
and that there is danger in refus-
ing to change old ways. I have
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