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VOL. XLIV—NO. 17 °

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961

®) Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1961

PRICE 20 CENTS



Miss Rodgers Selects Twelfth Night
Acting Highlights,

by Catherine Rodgers

I went to the opening night of
the College Theatre’s Twelfth
Night. Their performance of
Shakespeare’s comedy was notable
for its fine casting and nice pace.
Here I offer only a sampling of the
many good things I saw and heard
last Friday.

Andy Miller, who shaped Feste
in this play, makes wonderful fac-
es. Faces are a _ responsibility.
Once you start making them, you
have to keep them up and this
Mr. Miller did with both energy
and tact. The device worked par-
ticularly well in the Sir Topas
scene and also helped to make
some of Feste’s complicated puns
and jokes really funny. Mr. Mil-
ler sang, too, not impeccably, but
with a simplicity that seemed
right. Jane Parry’s Olivia was a
triumph. Her looks were dazzling,
her costume elegant and her move-

~ ments most graceful. Ardent and

yet not at all immodest, her woo-
ing of Viola4Sebastian was well
thought out and constantly cred-
ible. Sebastian deserved her. Peter
Lary is one of the few Sebastians
I have seen who by his bearing
and his speech made it seem pos-
sible that he could command the
love of both Olivia and the eA
Antonio.

Other Delights

- I am not a Leveller: I did like
these three best. Yet there were
plenty of other delights, Ted
Hauri, as Sir Toby, timed his
belches most delicately, and laugh-
ed and stormed well, Cisca Duran-
Reynal’s Maria was indeed a Pen-
thesilea, dainty and yet energetic.
Her pleasure in Malvolio’s confu-
sion came across very nicely. Linn
Allen played Sir Andrew Ague-

_ cheek with the right degree of un-

gainly enthusiasm for the jokes
he could not understand;-and Dan-
ny Turner’s Fabian with his side-
burns and genial smile comple-
mented neatly the windmill motion
of Sir Andrew and the drunken
dignity of Sir Toby. The singing
and laughing of these characters
brightened everything.

I tend to be partial to the high

life of the less stately estate, yet.

the Duke and Viola had great. vi-
tality, too, on Friday. Rob Colby
as Viola “and Andreas Lehner as
Orsino were at their best when
their roles demanded intensity of
feeling. ‘Miss Colby was fascinat-
ing fn her concentration, and her
willow-cabin speech moved me
very much. Peter Garrett played
Malvolio with galvanic energy.
The ecstasy with which he caper-
ed before Olivia in his yellow
stockings made that scene one of
the high points of the performance.

Smaller Parts

The actors of the smaller parts
had the same sort of eagerness
that seemed to prompt Mr. Gar-
rett’s lavish expense of energy.
Jeffry Larson in the role of An-
tonio portrayed the honesty of
that character with vigor. Chris
Shillock as the priest sprouted a
wonderful and opportune smile—
quite a change from ‘the sobriety
of his captain in Act One.. Curio
and Valentine, played by Robert
Elmer and Stephen Ward, were
properly sturdy and Olivia’s ladies,
Moyra Byrne, Julie Metz, Sue Ste-
venson and Natasha Zvegintzov,
sufficiently feminine, The comings
and going of the music-makers,

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Finds Set Dismal

John Davidson and Marian Davis
were accomplished easily and with
dispatch,

Permit me to carp for a few
moments. I read what the College
News had to say about the color
scheme last week, and I heard a
friend praise the blues, greens,
greys and blacks of the costumes
and set very highly. Neverthe-
less, I found them depressing on
the whole, and it seemed to me
that the interpretations of the lov-
ers took on the same colors: where
I wanted them to be a little pleas-
ed and amused by their passion,
they were too consistently soulful.

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

Besicovitch Gives
Definitive Solution

For Kakeya Query

On Thursday, March 16, at
8:30 pm., A. S. Besicovitelt lectur-
ed on the Kakeya problem. under
the auspices of the Math depart-
ment in the Biology lecture room.
Professor Besicovitch, formerly
of Trinity College, Cambridge, is
Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Pennsylvania.

The problem, proposed by the
Japanese mathematician Kakeya
in 1917, is to find the smallest area
in which a needle of length one
can be rotated through 360 de-
grees in the plane. : Similar in
wording to the problems involving
maxima and minima which begin-
ning calculus students tackle, the
Kakeya problem is, according to
Mr. Besicovitch, one of those sim-
ple problems which defy solution.

The most obvious solutions are
a circle of diameter one and a tyi-
angle of height one. A more so-
phisticated possibility is a hypo-
cycloid with three cusps, drawn
within a circle of diameter 1%,
and for many years this was
thought to be the correct answer.
Mr. Besicovitch, however, has
been able to show that the prob-
lem has no minimum, and that the

rotated, while remaining positive,
may be made as small as wished.
Principle Shown

The principle by which the area
is reduced is that, if an angle rep-
resenting part of the total rota-
tion is considered as the vertex of
a triangle of height one, then the
needle may be swung within the
triangle through that angle, But
the area of the triangle may be
reduced by dividing it into many
small triangles and allowing them
to overlap by sliding them along
the common base. The discontin-
uity which is thus introduced is
corrected by sliding the needle
away from the triangles on a
straight line (which has no area)
until only a very small ation
will bring it almost to its next
position. If this overlapping,
which proceeds by pairs of tri-
angles, is repeated often enough,
the area saved will be much great-
er than that used in the small ro-
tations necessary to make the path
of the needle continuous. The en-
tire process may be repeated
enough times to take the needle
through 360 degrees.

The strange path described by
the needle in each portion of the
process resembles a tree, called





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BMC Economist

Treats Kennedy's
Financial Policy

Mildred Northrop, Acting Chair-
man. of the Bryn Mawr Economics
Department, lectured on “Ken-
nedy’s Economic Policy and Unit-
ed States Balance of Payments,”
‘Monday evening.

The problem at hand was the
deficit in the U.S. balance sheet,
which has been in excess of three
billion dollars since 1957, This is
a special problem for the United
States as economic leader of the
western world, Since the Amer-
ican dollar is the key currency,
it is important that it remain sta-
‘ble and that the U.S. reach a bal-
ance.

In an explanation of how money
is leaving the United States, Miss
Northrop enumerated transactions
on curent accounts, imports, ex-
ports and U.S. tourists abroad.
However, she-stated that the big-
gest drain involves military and
diplomatic expenditures abroad,
and economic and military aid to
foreign countries.

‘ Gold Equivalent

Miss Northrop stressed that be-
cause the U.S. dollar is the gold

equivalent for the western world,
any disturbance in the dollar is
a threat to Western stability. The
proper course of action in regard
to domestic policy.would be to low-
er interest rates in short term
capital investments and thereby
get more foreign investment.

After analyzing various propos-
als Which have been offered, Miss
Northrop ended on an optimistic
note by saying that she thought
the Kennedy administration under-
stands the problems involved and
is attempting to solve them.

by Marion Coen

Max Lerner, speaking in Good-
hart Tuesday night under the aus-
pices of Undergrad’s Distinguish-
ed Speakers Fund, called the fos-
tering of creativity for the direc-
tion of powerful social forces “the
purpose and task of education”,
and to this end, proposed a replace-
ment of the traditional three R’s
with a new pedagogical trio—‘the
three knows”,

“Know your country, culture,
and world”, he advised . “Recog-
nize the forces in them. . . Know
your field—with precision and mas-
tery ... and finally, know your-
self—learn of the contours of your
own being”.

The forces loose in the world
today can be reduced to four: the
arms race, revolutionary nation-
alism, the Soviet “grand design”,
and the incipient growth of a world
order.

The realization that these forc-
es, outside of the control of the in-



Famous Historian,

Toynbee To Speak

Arnold J, Toynbee, famed Brit-
ish historian and presently Visit-
ing Lecturer at the University of
Pennsylvania will speak in Good-
hart Auditorium at 8:30 on Tues-
day, April 4. The topic for the
address has not. yet been decided.

‘Mr. Toynbee has lectured from
the Goodhart stage before. In
1947 he gave the Flexner Lectures
on the broad subject of “Encoun-
ters Between Civilizations.”

The last volumes of his now
famous ten-volume Study ‘of His-
tory appeared in 1954. Since then,
Mr. Toynbee has also written An
Historian’s Approach to Religion,
East and West and Hellenism.

Recently, in conjunction with his
appointment at Penn, Mr. Toynbee
has been meeting Haverford sen-



iors at informal discussion groups.



Clarence Pickett Points To SANE
History, Peace Policies and Plans

Clarence Pickett, former execu-
tive secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee, Nobel
Peace Prize winner, and current
co-chairman of the Committee for
a Sane Nuclear Policy, spoke about
Sane’s origins and aims in his
Monday evening lecture in the
Common Room.

Organized in 1959 to encourage
arms-control negotiators to agree
to stop nuclear testing, Sane
branches soon sprang up in major
cities across the nation. Although
Sane was organized to “do an ad
hoc job,” (ane’s ultimate goal
now is to achieve toeer disarma-
ment.

Immediate Objective

Sane’s immediate objective is to
encourage successful negotiations
at the current Geneva conference
for nuclear disarmament. Since
seventeen out of the original twen-
ty-four points under discussion
were favorably completed, Mr.
Pickett feels that this is grounds
for hope that: further agreement
between the United States and the
Soviet Union is possible, although
the Russians are “cooler to having
an agreement, settled now because
France, who possesses a bomb is
not included in the negotiations

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Earlier, however, Mr. Pickett
thought that the Russians were
more enthusiastic about’ reaching
agreement than we were.
Must Disarm

Mr. Pickett, in reply to a ques-
tion as to whether the whole strug-
gle for disarmament is but a fight
against symptoms rather than
causes and thus futile, stated that
this is the case, but that be-
cause we “live in real danger we
must have nuclear disarmament if
the human race is to continue.”
Economic and political problems
must eventually be brought under
control, but disarmaments must be
reduced while we build this peace-

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Communist Bloc

Asked whether the aim of the
Communist bloc was world con-
quest, Mr. Pickett replied that
some Communist coutries ‘“main-
tain that myth, but that from my
own experience in the Soviet
Union, I found that the predomin-
ate motive in Russia is to improve
her own standard of living.” He
felt that the Soviet Union does
not want to conquer the world, but
rather to settle her own problems.
This he did not find to be true in
other communist countries, how-
ever. Communist China, for in-
stance, still retains world domina-

Lerner Looks To Creative
Minority As Future’s Key

dividual, “can pick up ‘a private
universe and crush it like an egg-
shell”, the understanding that “we
are living at the edge of an abyss
and have no idea how long we
have” make this the best of all
known eras in which to be born;
for these realizations provide a
challenge, “a kind of edge or tang
to the whole enterprise”.

We of this generation will have
a chance to do something with
these forces, “but”, noted Mr. Ler-
ner, “we will need mastery and
precision in our work. Mastery
here must include creativeness—
the innovating capacity which
masters and transcends tradition.”

America already has a revolu-
tionary culture, “a silent revolu-
tionary tradition accepted even by
conservatives as part of our land-
scape. Our problem now is to di-
rect these creative - revolutionary
forces rationally”.

The feeling is that in Washing-
ton with the beginning of the Ken-
nedy administration this purpose-
ful, rational mustering of forces
already has begun. America is re-
turning to its intellectual heri-
tage; abandoned temporarily at
the beginning of the Western
movement, picked up at the start
of the twentieth century, lost sight

al respect for “‘the life of the mind”
is again emerging as a_ positive
national force, It is manifest in
Kennedy’s appointment of men of
intellect to positions of power and

Nations,

America’s creativity should not
ibe judged on the basis of the
hpmogenity of-its mass culture, a
necessary concommittant of a high
production society; creativity lies
not in the mass but-in the minor-
ity culture which springs from it.
In every historical movement there
is a creative minority that is able
to transcend tradition, and the key
to the Creativeness of culture in
America must now lie in the pre-
cision of her creative minority.

It is this group, rather than
from the power elite (with which
it may sometimes intersect) that a
national élan may spring. Elan
is a sense of purpose, but more
than that; it is a contagious spirit,
the kind that was present during
the Revolution, the Civil War and
the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
eras. ~-The -reaction-of-college stu-
dent to the Peace Corps is a. sign
of the rebirth of this. élan.

We now have a chance for de-
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Orientalists Confer Here,

The American Oriental Society,
which will hold its 171st gathering
March 28, 29, and 30, will be
the guests of Bryn Mawr College
on the afternoon of the 29th. The
visitors will have lunch in the

‘Deanery and then hold-a~ session

in Goodhart, The rest of the meet-
ings will be held at the Univermty
of Pennsylvania,

Athough the orientalists will
come and go during vacation,
they will leave’ behind them an
exhibit in the Rare Book Room.
It will be there for a week after
the close of the meeting and will
include Egyptian artifacts, pot-
tery from Tarsus and cylinder
seals. Some of these items are



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