College news, October 15, 1965

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Merion’s ‘Laundrama’ Conquers Undergrad in Inn Discusses

In Freshman Hall Play Contest

by Eleanor von Auw

Merion freshmen mixedthe soap
(and a good bit of the corn) of
soap opera with the ingredients of
melodrama to produce a “laun-
drama,’’ ‘‘Soddenly Last Sum-
mer,’’ that captured the flowers
in this year’s Freshm:n Hall Play
competition at Skinner Workshop,
October 8-9,

If somewhat modern in content
(its scene was a laundromat), the
Merion play followed the lines of
the original melodramas in form;
it was a lively pantomime whose
tempo was sustained by ‘strong
piano accompaniment,

The status of runner-up was
achieved by another eclectit effort
--that of the Pembroke Eastfresh-
men, who combined the three weird
women of ‘‘Macbeth,”’ the heroine
and basic plot line of ‘‘Little
Red Riding Hood,’’ some ‘“‘old
Bryn Mawr traditions’’ (hoops, tea
parties, etc.), and a dean in wolf’s
clothing into an artful and origin-
al dramatization of a particularly

bewildered freshman’s'§ rather
traumatic orientation and her
frustrated (adabsurdum) at-

tempts to meet the Haverford band

African Bushmen
Showing Tonight

. The junior and senior anthro-
pology majors of the Anthropology
Club, subsidized slightly by Under-
grad, are showing a movie, THE
HUNTERS, in the biology lecture
room at 8:30 tonight, October 14.

The movie is a documentary
presenting in narrative form a
few days in the lives of several
families of African bushmen. This

Sympathetic portrayal was filmed
in black and-white and is pri-
marily concerned with their hunt-
ing practices. It is accompanied by
a sound track of the bushmen’s
music, which, according to
Joanna Lewis, a senior member
of the Anthro Club, is ‘*just fan-
tastic, the kind of thing you’d
go out and buy on a record.’’

under the arch.

Two other plays dealt with the
difficulties of adjustment to certain
aspects of Bryn Mawr. Denbigh,
in its rather breathless produc-
tion of a very frenetic ‘‘Greedy
Griselda ang. Ner Day “of
Reckoning,’’ characterized (or
caricaturized) the Payday Mis-
tress as a being no less terrible
than ine Villain” ‘of _ -the
laundrama,

The inhabitants of Erdman, in
their ‘‘Erd-man of Alcatraz,’ put
in the mouth of amuch-beleaguered
architect some rather facetious
explanations of certain .of the
building’s structural peculiari-
ties (e.g., ‘I wanted holes in
the walls for. pencils and waffles
on the ceiling to remind me of
my mothe?-and .;.?’).

The remaining plays took their
audience from the thoroughly dis-
agreeable world discovered
through a magic tollbooth by a
little boy named Milo, whose story
seemed a modern counterpart of
the Horatio Alger stories (Rhoads),

to a ludicrous Ionescan world of
the absurd (Rockefeller).

The Rhoads. play, not too care-
fully put together, had its greatest
source of amusement in the tri-
cycle on which Milo reeled around
the stage. The Rockefeller pro-
duction of Ionesco’s ‘Jack’? was
distinguished by a very effective
scene and some fine handling of
exceptionally difficult roles,

Perhaps the most elaborate of
the productions was Pembroke
West’s version of ‘*The Thirteen
Clocks’*® by James Thurber, which
featured excellent costuming and
some good acting (if also some
forgetting of lines).

Certainly some of the most
uproariously funny scenes were
provided by the simpler Radnor
presentation, an adaption from ‘‘A
Midsummer’ Night’s Dream.’’
Surely it would be difficult to
remember without smiling This-
be’s honey-dripping southern
drawl or Pyramus’ ‘lusty: pro-
claiming of the fact that he was
dead.

Deanery Sale This Weekend:

Antiques, China, Silver, Prints

The Deanery will hold the first
of its three annual sales of donated
articles on Friday and Saturday,
October 15-16. The other two
Deanery Sales are on commence-
ment and alumnae weekends.

The sale will be open from
10:00 a.m. to about 10:00 p.m. on
Friday, and from 10;00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. Saturday. Besides the
usual silver, china, linen, and
antiques, it will feature some fine
pictures, prints, and picture
frames. These are donations re-
ceived in the course of the year
from alumnae all over the country.
The proceeds from the sale will
be used for necessary improve-
ments in the alumnae house,

Previously, undergraduates, ex-
cept seniors, have been able touse
the Deanery only if accompanied
by parents, faculty, alumnae, or





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“ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE SAGA OF BRYN MAWR BEAUT-

IES. . . Nancy Anderson (right); Spanish House senior, smiles
obligingly during half-time at the Army-Boston College football
game October 2 at West Point. Nancy was one of eight finalists
for the 1965 West Point Homecoming Queen title. Shown with
Nancy are Homecoming Queen Cheryl Lindman of Fort Wayne,

~And.; and their West Point escorts. Nancy represented the Ist,
Battalion of the 4th Regiment, U.S. Corps of Cadets. /

guest card holders. But beginning
Friday, October 22, the Deanery
will do its share to relieve the
notorious Friday night crush in
the College Inn. After this date
undergraduates can have dinner
in the Deanery (6:30 to 7:30 p.m.)
on Friday nights, but only upon
reservation, Reservations can be
made by phoning LA 5-1524,

The Deanery is also available
to students as a place to house
their guests. Cubicles on the third
floor can be obtained for $3.50,
single rooms for $8.00, and doubles
for $11.00.

H’ford Arts Series
To Begin Season

With Folk Group

The Haverford Art Series for
1965-66 offers a varied program
to tempt the most diversified
tastes.

Folksinging will open the series
with a concert by Ian and Sylvia
October 15. The mood shifts with
a November 19 piano recital. of
Bach interpretations’ by Rosalyn
Toreck.

Jazz enthusiasts will find them-
selves represented by jazz vocalist
Nina Simone at the April 29
“concert,

Drama_ is interspersed with
music. William Patersonwill bring
his dramatization of the life of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ‘‘A
Profile of Holmes,’’ to-Haverford
October 29.

“The controversial ‘‘In White
America?’ -is scheduled as_ the
December 5 presentation,

In a Class by itselfisthe modern
dance/performance of Jose Greco
which will be given March 17,

Tickets for any or all of these
programs (at $3 each) may be
obtained by writing to Box Office,
Haverford College, (phone: MI 2-
7644) and enclosing check or money
order and a self-addressed en-

‘velope.Yes, tickets can be charged
to payday!

All..performances are at. 8:30

“p.m, in-Roberts Hall, Haverford.

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Faculty Play, Lantern Losses

Undergrad President Popie Johns and Secretary Sarah Matthews









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conduct the first meeting in Undergrad’s new quarters in the Inn.

This week Undergrad held its

first meeting in new headquarters
on the second.floor of the recently
converted College Inn.

Joyce Blair gave an advance
announcement of a new service
for students which will soon be
available on campus. She will
sell membership cards for an
organization called VISA, These
cards entitle students to ten to
twenty-five percent discounts on
a variety of goods and services
at stores in the Ville, in Phila-
delphia, and all over the country.

Some of the local shops par-
ticipating are the Joyce Lewis
Dress Shop, thé Station Cleaners
and Jeannett’s Florist.

Undergrad President Popie
Johns stressed the importance of
warning the freshmen to be on
guard against lantern snatchers
on Lantern Night. There is tra-
ditionally more difficulty with red
lanterns than with those of any
other color.

A petition from the student body
is being sent to Dr. Berry, the
Faculty Secretary, requesting a
faculty show this year. Under-
grad decided to submit a similar
request, to place added emphasis
on the ,students’ desire to have
this tradition continued.

Last year the doughnuts that
Undergrad sold in Taylor Hall each
morning resulted in some
problems which will hopefully be
corrected by a new trial system
beginning next week. To avoid
congestion and noise in Taylor,
doughnuts will also be sold in
the science building and probably
in Dalton.

Myra Skluth and Liz Thacher,
in charge of the doughnut sale
this year, said that names will
be typed on posterboards. People
in a-hurry will be able to jot
down their. charge more easily,
and an accurate number of charges
will thus be recorded.

Last year Undergrad lost an
average of twenty dollars each
payday because of unrecorded and
illegible charges. The doughnuts
must be discontinued if the
situation does not improve.
‘Undergrad is starting selection
of the Undergrad Speaker for. this
year. A suggestion was made at
the meeting that astronaut Charles
Conrad, whose wife is a Bryn
Mawr alumna, be invited. This
possibility is being considered but
other suggestions are still wel-
-eome. »

-Margaret Edwards, Arts Council —
President, announced that a Bryn <

Mawr film series ‘has_ been
initiated in response to interest
expressed last spring. Films will
be shown at 8:45 every other
Tuesday night this semester.

If these are well received, the
series will continue. Donations
will be $1,50 for the five films.

Representatives at the meeting
reported ‘that the meal exchange
with Haverford at lunchtime is
working well, and the new College
Inn hours seem to be appreciated.
Faith Dreher in) Pembroke East
repeated that the Inn still needs
more waitresses, and Popie Johns

adjourned the meeting with the sug--
gestion that everyone, stay and
patronize the Inn.

Gala Homecoming

Included in Plan
Of Soph Weekend

This Friday and Saturday mark
the Bi-collegiate Sophomore
Weekend, Lantern Night is first on
the list of activities, beginning at
7:30 p.m. in the Library Cloisters,

Following hard on Lantern Night
will be a concert by the folk sing-
ing duo Ian and Sylvia at 8:30 in
Roberts Hall at Haverford.

Saturday is homecoming day at
Haverford, The day opens at 10:30
a.m. with a soccer game versus
Pennsylvania Military. College. At
1:45 p.m. Haverford will meet
Johns Hopkins at football. After
the game there will be a recep-
tion for alumni and students in the
Haverford gymnasium,

A free dance in the Common
Room at Haverford, with refresh-
ments and music by The Cunning
Ones, will conclude the planned
activities for the weekend,* Un-
planned activities rest upon what-
ever cunning and ingenuity the
students can muster



The College News an- |
nounces four additions
and adjustments in the
editorial board.

Elected at a meeting
of the staff last week
were Kit Bakke, member-
at-large; Darlene Preis-
sler, make-up editor;
Laura Krugman, copy
editor, and Nanette Hol-
_ben, managing editor. |






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In With the Inn Crowd?

Inch by inch, Bryn Mawr is realizing that long-pending dream, a
student union, Heartening sight of the week, possibly, is a former
dining room now transformed into a lounge with real couches, bridge
table and T,V, There’s a lot more to do, of course, before the lounge is
really satisfactory--for a starter, a rug on the floor and a few more
lights would cheer things up a bit--but nevertheless, there is a place
for us to go. :

The needs in the new lounge, however, point-up the crucial factor. in.
the whole Inn situation: the need for sustained student support, and we
don’t mean just having an occasional cup of coffee there. The Inn pro-
ject was begun by students and carried out at their urging. A few per-
sistent girls worked hard to gain benefits which we all enjoy, such as
the evening sandwich bar, better daytime service andthe student lounge,

It appears lately, however, that we’re in danger of losing our hard-
won benefits through sheer laziness, Prime example: one night last week
.when the. Inn was scheduled to be open until midnight, it closed three
hours before that time, because the waitresses--STUDENT waitresses--
didn’t show up,

Admittedly, the manager might have taken a more positive view of
the situation and tried to contact the Waitress and Inn committees
before simply closing up shop, But then--why should she? It’s our
responsibility, after all, Hopefully, this won’t happen again, Even more
hopefully, we’ll have a completed, pleasant lounge before too awfully
long, But we can’t expect any of it to fall into our laps, for, like a lot
of things at Bryn Mawr--and again, why not?--it’s really up to us.

: Starving Erdmanians

Now that final details, suchas mirrors, have been placed in the rooms
of-Erdman, students living there may gaze into the looking glasses and
watch themselves grow thinner and thinner as they await the correction
of one more situation in the new dormitory. That situation so direly in
need of adjustment is clearly evident in the dining hall, Not only are
the food platters ‘there smaller thaninother halls, but the amount of
food on them is smaller still, It is seldom possible to receive ‘*seconds”’
of any part of the meal. When the dessert of a lralf-dish of ice cream
or an inch-cube of cake or jello is placed on the table, it is difficult to
realize that the meal is actually over.

More distressing than the existence of the problem is the fact that
there appears to be no logical explanation for it. The shortage of food in
Erdman is hardly understandable. For a considerable amount of time,
the number of students who would reside there has been known, It seems
absurd that the amount of food to be served could not be planned ac-
cordingly. Erdman was, of course, completed only this past summer
and some plans for the organization of the hall were quite understand-
ably difficult to immediately put into effect. Students living there have
been very patient inawaiting several final additions to the building, How-
ever, a lack of patience where the food situation is concerned is com-
pletely justified.

A college dormitory is not erected as a topic of conversation or a
point of interest on campus because of its architecture. A dormitory
should first and foremost be a building where students may comfor-
tably sleep, study, and eat, That they must leave the dining hall still

' feeling hungry because their hall does not comply with those standards
is indeed deplorable.



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at four thirteen p.m. the other
day a particularly fine looking
young gargoyle (actually he was
more of a pseudo-gargoyle having
nary a water spout to his name)
turned to his neighbor and announc-—
ed

**they’re coming’’

*¢who?”’

responded his companion, a
rather lumpy looking griffin

**i think its the reds this year”
the griffin sighed (he had seen
many years of reds and greens
and shades of blue come and go)
and furled his granite brow.

‘*it?s almost too much for a gar-
goyle to bear’’ os.

screeched a salamander- like
creature carved rampant twixt two
arches

**j mean all that singing and
stomping about, don’t they know a
library is a place of quiet?”’

their shrill tones. echoed round
the ivy clothed arcade, the stony
creatures shook their heads, and
your poet flew off deaneryward
happy to be a feathered eaves-
dropper and not a pseudo-gargoyle.

happy lantern night,
applebee

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| Levi Knocks Toronto Teach- In

For Bias, Lack of Discussion

by Margaret Levi, '68

Over 6,000 people gathered in
Toronto this past weekend to par-
ticipate in the International Teach-

‘In. Another million heard the
sessions over. television, radio
or hook-up. Unlike Teach-Ins in
the U, S,, it was not intended as
a protest but as the ultimate in
intellectual__evaluation of facts,
ideas, and opinions.

Since the program was held in
Canada, representatives of Red
China, North Vietnam, and the
National Liberation Front--as well
as others whowould be denied visas
to. the- U, S,--could attend, But
the place made no difference.
Neither these countries nor. the
U.S. sent an official delegation.

The theme of *‘Revolution and
Great Power. Conflict’? meant a
scope much broader than the War
in Vietnam, and the size of the
Teach-In attracted ‘‘big-name’’
speakers suchas Patrick Gordon-
Walker, William Worthy, andV.N.
Nekrasov, chief foreign editor of
PRAVDA, . Moreover, such a
massive undertaking reaches many
more people than the usual Teach-
In even attempts to do.

The limitations presented by
its formality and size however,
outweighed the advantages of the
Teach-In, Time limits, question
editors, the sparseness of dis-
cussion groups all made it im-
possible for the audience to gain
a real feeling of participation or



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SAC Focuses Program

On Question of Vietnam

National student activity this fall
will focus primarily on the issue
of Vietnam protest. In an attempt

“ to unify all the various outbursts

of political feeling across this
country and abroad, the weekendof
Oct. 15-17 has been designated as
the International Days of Protest,
Speeches, a speakout, amarch, and
a fast are planned in the Philadel-
phia area. The pertinent infor-
mation about these activities is now
posted on the Social Action Com-
mittee board in Taylor.

On this campus SAC will em-
phasize the educational aspects of

the issue with lectures and dis-

cussion groups. Plans are not yet
definite, but SAC hopes to.broaden
the discussion from the particu-
larly student and particularly
activist business into wider fields
of peace and the moral repercus-
sions of political decisions,

Haverford is already workingon
a forum on the Chinese problem.
Bryn Mawr SAC is organizing

Ss a oe ae en A oie a a «Swit “appear “on the SAC “poard in” ~~

goal this year is an increase in
the dialogue among. students,
faculty and the local adult peace
community. SAC will sponsor
small informal conversation
groups at the Inu to discuss such
basic questions as the formation
of political opinions, the meaning
of taking a moral stand against
war, the value of certain forms of
protest, and possible merging of the
civil rights ‘and peace efforts.

These conversations are intended.

to present a continuous thread of
new questions for future hashings,
while decreasing the dichotomy
between adult and student views

of the movement. »

A group of area professors have
arranged an Open Hearing on Viet-
nam for Oct. 23 at the Bellvue
Stratford, At the meeting reporters
from the local mass media and
representatives from _ various
community organizations will
question area Congressmen in an
attempt to discern the effect the
Vietnamese war will have on the
Philadelphia area. More details

even to have a chance to challenge
the speakers on either validity or
clarity.

The panels gave the fallacious
impression of presenting the com -
plete picture in the most definitive
way when, in fact, some viewpoints
might not ‘have been presented at
all. In the discussion of ‘*Revolu-
tion and Ideological Conflict,’’
Nekrasov and Brzezinski of
Columbia University agreed that
Russia and the U, S, should split
.up the world, excluding China,
There was no way to challenge
the speakers on this or to present
alternatives,

The Teach-In_ also clearly
demonstrated the tremendous con-
trol excercised by the speakers.
For example, Professor Scall-.
opino, head of Political Science at
Berkeley and a major defender of
U. S. policy, refused to speak if

Michael Meyerson, a Berkeley
graduate student presenting the
Hanoi viewpoint, or William

Worthy, presenting the alternative
to. the? N.L.F., were on the plat-
form. ‘

‘Both’ Worthy and the Can-
adian representative took an active
part in the discussion, however,
and so Scallopino’s attempts to
stack the cards failed.

As an active protester against
the war in Vietnam, I made several
other observations, The naivete of
the Canadians about world issues
made me wonder about the level
of sophistication in the rest of the
world,

I also realized that, in order
to stop the war in Vietnam, action
must be taken on two levels--
demonstrations of the most vocal,
adamant nature and education of
the most thorough and analytical

‘kind. We need more Teach-Ins,

but they have to be small enough
so that the audience can partici-
pate, challenge, question, and
discuss. :

| LETTER |
Disappointing

To the Editor:

To those who have been’ and
since returned, and to those who
yearn towards shores unknown,
Lois Magnusson’s glib description
of her year in Geneva was a dis-
tinct disappointment. At the risk
of being banal, it is our impres-



» Sion that a year, a school, anda

life are exactly what one would
make of them. If the Unibar was
Geneva’s main attraction for the
members of the Smith group, what
would be the center of interest,
we wonder, in Paris - American
Express?

We feel little else than pity for

' those who found language classes

in Paris ‘‘the next best thing to
dullsville’’ and for those who ‘‘did-
n’t really go for Paris much,” And
what a tragedy to find oneself in a
‘quaint little provincial town’? with
a cathedral and no newspapers; in
Podunk, USA, you will find that the
town is not quaint, has no news-
papers either, and, in addition, no
cathedral!!

It may be that: Lois’ article was
nothing but an attempt at humor.
In any case, we hope that Lois
has returned to BMC with hap-
pier memories than those painful
six blocks from bus to class; the
mirror-image Smithies, the in-
human educational system which
demands a personal and mature
effort, and the backward social
customs of the natives, We hope,
too, that Lois learned more last
year than the fact that college
means high school in French,

Pat Klein, ’66

Cynthia Caldwell, ’66

Sharon Shelton, ’66
Ronnie Scharfman, ’67-
“<~;Mary Farrell, ’68
‘Caroline Foster, ’67


October 15, 1965

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COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Tom Wolfe’s Amusing KKTFSB

Views Postwar Teenage Culture

by Nanette Holben

A SATURDAY REVIEW er re-
cently suggested that Tom Wolfe’s
KANDY KOLORED TANGERINE
FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY has
the same “diarrhea of words’’ as
the works of his namesake.

Granted the Wolfe of TRIB and
ESQUIRE fame uses occasionally
frustrating esoterica and scatback
phraseology, but -- **Super Scuba-
man!’*? -- he’s entertaining if not
enlightening.

KKTFSB is a series of essay-
like observations On the postwar
teenage culture (‘‘no hung-up old
art history words for these guys’’),

Namely, Wolfe draws ‘‘the new
sensibility -- ‘Baby baby baby
where did our love go’ == ... out
of the vinyl deeps,’’ all the while
poking his prole pen at high society
on some precarious perch.

- Departing from the ‘‘chair-arm-
doilie Vicks Vapo-Rub_ Welt-
anschauung’”’ and the ‘‘tough-but-
wholesome, Mom’s Pie. view of
life,?? Wolfe characterizes the new

- culture, a reaction to the ‘ancient

aristocratic aesthetic.”’

There’s the new architecture --
*fno accident that Las Vegas and
Versailles are the only two archi-
tecturally uniform cities in Wes-
tern history.’? And the new art,
symbolized by baroque custom”
cars such as the KKTFSB itself,
And the new music, championed by

KKTFSB also cites Cassius Clay
(**The Marvelous Mouth’’), Cary
Grant (*‘Loverboy of the Bourgeoi-
sie’’), and CONFIDENTIAL’s pub-
lisher (‘*Purveyor of the Publi¢
Life’’), among its 22 chapters anda
**Metropolitan Sketchbook,’’ acol-
lection. of drawings by Wolfe the
caricaturist.

En. route in his KKTFSB, the
author (PhD Yale) makes athought-
provoking allusion to Haverford
College. ‘*Half of them (Greenwich
Village freakuenters, he means),
like Harry, look like the sort of
kids who. graduated in 1961 from
Haverford, Hamiltonor some other
college of the genre known as
Threadneedle Ivy and went to live
in New York City.’’

Harry Haverford/Hamilton is
also described as having ‘sly
intellectual pigeon-toed libido’
and “‘Searching’’ in a second-hand
bookstore for ‘‘a girl in therewith
pre-Raphaélite hair, black leo-
tards and. a. lambskin, coat,’? So
this is the way to a “Haverford
heart!

KKTFSB is “an” amusing,
perspicacious piece of literature,
though it is hardly a ‘‘Streamlined
Baby’”’ itself. When Wolfe enjoys
one of his phrases or metaphors,
he dehydrates it with overuse.
Notably, ‘‘arteriosclerotic’’ al-
ways accompanies _ businessmen,
and ‘*buttocks décolletage”’ or
‘Nike missile launcher’ chests

“The Fifth Beatle,’? Murray the K, “describe women and girls. Or,

All prole.

The upper crust (crusty uppers)
throws its anti in the pot. Custom-
buttonholes. Baby Jane Holzer,
‘The nanny mafia ... little old.
status pharisees,’’

he re-uses the same metaphor,
only masked, ‘Nike missile
launchers’? become ‘‘ack-ack’’
chests, or something will spread
over a crowd or the sky like
Newberg sauce at one place and

Two Short Avant-Garde Plays
Pound at Society Hill Audience

by Marcia Ringel

The Society Hill Playhouse is a
small, colorful theatre on South
8th Street, Philadelphia. Its off-
beat lobby -- red ceilings here,
walls of mirror there -- leads up-
stairs to the (250-seat?) theatre
proper. The stage is a fair-sized
proscenium arrangement, some-
what difficult to see because the
seats are not sufficiently graded,

Like little theatres elsewhere,
the Playhouse squeezes amofhg
garages and grocery stores in an
area not conducive towaiting alone
for a taxi. The location is as bold
as the plays chosen for the Play-
house’s sixth season, which began
last evening with LeRgi Jones’
‘¢Dutchman’? and Arthur Kopit’s
‘Chamber Music.’’

In the already grand tradition of
pedantic absurd drama, these two
belligerent avant-garde shorties
pound and pound, the first with
lengthy polemic and the second
literally with a mallet (supposedly
a gavel). This is hard to take at one
sitting, particularly for an audience
relatively fresh to such furious
stuff.

Jones spares us little in histale
uw a brief subway encounter be-
tween a young Negro man and a
young white woman of questionable
morals. We are treated to Racial
Conflict in no uncertain terms but
can forgive blatancy because, by
God, that’s the way Jones wanted
to say his say.

The playbill calls ‘*Dutchman’”’
an ‘Agit-Prop’” (agitation and
propaganda) play, comparable in
stature and statement to the social
declarations of Clifford Odets’
plays during the depression. The
current racial crisis, of course,

has bred its own pamphleteers..

Jones’ stark drama convinces -as

a pafnphlet: convinces: we recog-.

nize the cause and the bias, and
judge the verbal craftsmanship

—

from there,
The verdict is Almost Convinc-
ing. ‘*‘Dutchman’s’’ leads, Patricia

' Powers and Melvin Outlaw, deliver

lines in many kinds of language --
gutter, formal, casual -- with some
kind of élan. Physically, the two
are well cast. Miss Powers also
moves and laughs admirably. The
production as a whole is disap-

«-pointingly unscarring, due in part

to the static situation (Two People
Sit in a Subway and Talk Acidly)
and in part to a backdrop of poor
acting by others on the subway.
Arthur Kopit’s ‘‘Chamber Mu-
sic’’ is neither so witty nor so
pointed as his ‘*Oh Dad, Poor
Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the
Closet ‘and I’m Feelin’ So Sad.’
The play with the more wieldy
title is a slapdash little item in
which ladies claiming to be Amelia
Earhart, Gertrude Stein, et al
make merry at a ‘**committee
meeting’? in a mental institution
(thus, presumably, the ‘chamber’?
of the title). ‘2
Nothing about this production of
the Kopit play is outstanding; no

actress notable. The set is ade-.

quate, the costumes acceptable.
Once the ladies have made their
first entrances en costume, both
play and performance grow tedious.

It is clear that neither produc-
tion last night was extraordinary.
On the other hand, resident theatre
on a grand scale is a relatively
new and exciting thing in this
country. Such companies as the
Society Hill Playhouse are neces-
Sary as a beginning. This season,
the Playhouse has assumed. man-
agement of the former Neighbor-
hood Playhouse, West 22nd and
Walnut Streets. With the current
plays and plays by local play-

wrights. splanned for this...year; «
Stark, atsbest, and downright un- —
attractive; at worst;’on Goodhart

these two theatres will make-a

significant contribution to art in’

the Philadelphia area.



like Sherwin-Williams paint at an-
other. To read the chapters week
by week in a newspaper Trather
than en masse in a book would

probably lessen this impression ,

of repetition,

Then, too,
his not always-meaningful eso-
teric allusions,
necessarily erudite, but local.
Nevertheless his writing is clever
~though at times abashing, Gener-

ally well worth your while to hitch
a ride on Tom Wolfe’s KKTFSB

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F. Kermode’s Romantic Image



Studies Contemporary Poetry

Kermode, Frank, ROMANTIC
IMAGE, New York, Alfred A.
Knopf, 1957

So you think you know. what
‘romantic’? means. So does every-
one else, including contemporary
writers, ey say they are anti-
romantic, at least un-romantic;
Kermode says they are definitely
romantic: As you can see, this
could develop into a very serious
issue. And it does. (Mr. Frank
Kermode, the author of ROMANTIC
IMAGE and one of the foremost
English critics, will arrive at
Bryn Mawr on Friday. He will

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by Anne Lovgren

It is difficult, if not completely
presumptuous to attempt to
critically review a concert by
a group whose performances have
become in themselves criteria for
for the chamber music world. Such
is the case with the Thomas Mann
Commemorative Concert, pre-
sented last Saturday night by the
Juilliard String Quartet.

The concert may well be the
outstanding musical event of the
1965-66 academic year. The Tri-
College audience expected excel-
lence from the quartet, and, indeed,
it was not disappointed. A catalogue
of the musical ‘‘virtues’’ of this
group would be too lengthy to
write and too boring to read;
therefore, this review will be
limited to mentioning only the
most remarkable features of the
concert.

The listener was immediately
struck by the effortless precision
of the quartet in the very first
notes of the Mozart Quartet in
D Major. This precision continued
throughout the rest of the per-
formance so that the listener often
found it difficult (in unison or
close harmonic passages) to detect
more than one _ voice. The
tonal blend, coupled with this pre-
cision,» made the movements at
times appear to be played by a
single instrument, richly varie-
gated in tonal quality.

It was particularly remarkable
how four musicians could so -
pletely change the tonal~quality

and ‘attitude’? of their instru-
ments from the lightness heard
in allegretto portions of the Mo-
zart tothe majesty of the Beethoven
~Grand Fuge. To use a rough and
not wholly accurate analogy, it
was as if someone had switched
an organ stop from flute to full
diapason.

Only a few, relatively minor,
factors marred the evening’s con-
cert. The.first was the box set,

stage. Since such a set is

hecessary to keep the sound from
escaping back into the wings, it
seems reasonable that the college
might consider making it more
attractive, and hence, more suit-
able for musical events of this
caliber.

The second, and even more dis-
turbing, condition, was the number
of unoccupied seats both on the
main floor and in the balcony. It
is entirely possible that invited
guests who were unable to attend
failed to return their tickets, but
even so, it was a shame that
students.at Bryn Mawr, Haverford
and Swarthmore did not know about
the~possibility of ‘procuring seats
at least on a ‘Standby basis and
therefore missed an outstanding
musical experience.

give a series of six lectures on
successive Monday evenings, be-
ginning October 18,) And now, back
to romance...

In ROMANTIC IMAGE, Mr.
Kermode examining certain basic

. assumptions which underlie con-

temporary poetry and criticism.
First, he reviews the traditional
concepts of ‘‘romantic.’’ Of pri-
mary concern is a poet’s Image,
his apprehension of ‘‘a radiant
truth out of space and time,’’The
necessary corollary to the Image,
is the isolation of the poet. Yeats,
who-made both these ideas themes
for his poetry, is the object. of
Kermode’s’~ detailed study. In
Yeats’ poetry, one is acutely con-
scious of the problem of the poet
as a subjective individual: his-at-
tempt to reconcile the opposites
of action and contemplation, move-
ment and stillness, in his life and
work. Yeats attempts to find a
Symbol for synthesizing these op-
posites. He frequently . uses..the..
dancer and tree images as Sym-
bols for such a synthesis. Both
these images express, for him,
the fusion of distinct qualities
into a single ‘“‘reality of ‘the im-
agination which is a symbolic rea-
lity.”” Yeats, with the modernSym-
bolist poets; is striving to make
the ends indistinguishable from the

. means, to unite form and matter,

subject and expression,

Having demonstrated Yeats’
identification with the Romantic
Image, Kermode turns his attention
to 20th century writers asawhole,
He asserts that their so-called
Symbolist Movement is a lot of
fuss aqver very little. In their
concern for Symbols, they overlook
the Image central to Romantic
literature, Thus, instead of in-
stigating a new literary concept,
they’ are working right along in
the same old romantic rut. All
this can be pretty upsetting, es-
pecially if you are-a modern and
“think you are being original. But,
then again, Kermode does not
really care what you think of your-
self, or anybody else, just as long
as you don’t take it out on Milton.

Onthe whole, ROMANTIC IMAGE
is enjoyable aswell as informative.
The chapters on Yeats are es-
pecially good. One question lingers
after finishing the book. Mr. Ker-
mode says the contemporary poets
feel the need to ‘rewrite the
history. of poetry in Symbolist.
terms.’’ But, does his discussion
of 20th century writers show that
he feels a need to rewrite con-
temporary literature in Romantic
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October 15) 1965



Co-ed, Faculty Tourneys
Add to A.A.’s Playdays

The Athletic Association has
planstsrthis autumn that will
keep the Bryn Mawrters as *‘mus-
cularly athletic’? as TIME MAGA-
ZINE finds them,

The all-college tennis tourna-
' ment, now in progress, will con-
tinue ‘throughout the month of
October. This contest displays on-
ly student talent, since the faculty
had ample opportunity to show its
prowess on the courts inthe facul-
ty - student tournament.

Mr. Toscanni emerged victor-
ious, and Carol Friédman came
in second, Other participating pro-
fessors were Mr, Silvera, Mr.
Lattimore, Mr. Bolker, and Mr.
Kline,

The honor and glory of Bryn

Mawr now rests on challenges
from Haverford, A volleyball game
occupies this Sunday’s schedule
and a football gaine will follow
next week. Anyone interested in
playing should contact Melissa Mc-
Carty in Erdman,
_ Departing for “a. moment from
co-ed -activities, A.A, has plans
for some intercollegiate playdays.
Tennis and badminton players will
test theif skill against Goucher
October 30.

Bryn Mawr faced Swarthmore
at the second. hockey game of the
season October 12, Varsity gained
a 1-0 victory, but J.V. lost 2-1.

The hockey team plays three:
more Tuesday afternoon games,
all at four o’clock. The opposing



| Campus Events

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15
7:30 p.m. Lantern Night, the
traditional welcoming of the
Freshman Class, will be held in
the Library Cloisters, General
admission is $.60; student ad-
mission is $.30. The rain date is
Saturday, October 16,

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

8:30 pem. The Mary. Flexner
Lectures for 1965 will be given
by’ Frank Kermode, John Ed-

ward Taylor Professor of Eng-
lish Literature in the University
of Manchester, on ‘‘The Long Per-
spectives: The Theory of Fiction.”
The first of six lectures to be
given on suce@ssive: Monday nights
is entitled ‘Fictions of Apocal-
ypse.’’ The lecture will be in
_-Goodhart Hall.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

8:30 p,m. Victor Lange, Professor
of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, Princeton University,
will speak on ‘Brecht: Poetry
and Theater,’’ The lecture is held
under the auspices of the German
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Outing Club is sponsoring trips
to meet every interest. The week-
end of October 22-24 will find
Bryn Mawrters _ sailing with
Princeton, caving with Penn, and
climbing with Lehigh, There are
plans for a square dance to be

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vember.

Enslin Describes
Assets, Liabilities
Inherent in Bible

‘To love it you must know it,
to know it you must love it.’

These are the last words in Mr, ©

Morton S. Enslin’s book CHRIS-
TIAN BEGINNINGS, on which he
expanded during a lecture entitled

**The Bible: Asset or Liability?’ .

sponsored by Interfaith, Wednes-
day night at 7:30 in the Common
Room, Although he calls himself
a historian, rather than a theo-
Togiah, Mr. Enslin is visiting’ Pro-
fessor of History of Religion at
Bryn Mawr this year,

His primary point was. that the
Bible should not be regarded as
the final, absolute and entire word
of God, because, as such, it forms
a peculiarly dangerous kind of
tyranny over the reasoning capa-
cities of man.

Looking at the Bible as the
complete and entire revelation of
God’s will presupposes that it con-
tains no errors, commissions or
contradictions, It assumes that the

eprophets were not humanteachers,

but rather heralds. and tools of the
Holy Spirit. For those in the past
who have taken this view, it was
necessary, as life got more com-
plicated, to use interpretation and
allegorical meanings rather freely
to make each and every Biblical
word apply to their own lives. Mr.
Enslin’s implication was that this
use of allegory became quite fan-
ciful and completely misleading
at times.

The more rational point of view,
Mr, Enslin explained, was not to
consider the ‘Bible as a priorj
unique, but as a collection of the
human experiences of men and
women who lived hundreds of years
ago. As such, part of it certainly
can contribute an incentive for us
to meet. and solve our problems
courageously, but we must also be
alert to the blind spots and errors
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What did Billy Batson say to
change himself into Captain
Marvel? What was the name of
the Lone Ranger’s nephew? What
was the name of Superman’s father
on the planet Krypton?

No, these questions are not

assignments for freshman comp
themes, They are a few samples
from the All-Ivy-League-Seven-
Sister Trivia Contest to take place
this Saturday evening at host school
Columbia College. The trivia-
troupe representing Bryn Mawr is
the team of Lois Portnoy, ’68,
and Marcia Ringel, 68.

“Trivia,” according to the
Columbia Daily Spectator, “fis a
game which is played by countless
young adults who on the one hand

’ realize that they have misspent

their youth and yet, on the other
hand, do not want to let go of it,
It is a combination of ‘Informa-
tion Please’ and psychoanalysis,
in’ which participants try.to stump
their opponents with the ; most
minute details of shared child-
hood experiences,’?

Questions for the AILS8T. con-
test concern radio and television
programs, comic books, movies,

School of Social Work
To Celebrate 50th Year

The Graduate Department of So-
cial Work and Social Research is
celebrating its Fiftieth Anniver-
sary this year. Highlighting the
anniversary is a Colloquium to
be held Saturday, October 23, on
the Bryn Mawr campus,

Six morning sessions will be
held simultaneously, Catherine S,
Chilman, Ph.D,, of the US Dep't.
of HEW will speak on ‘**The Dis-
advantaged Family and the Impli-
cations for Social Work’’; speak-
ing on ‘‘Politics of Social Wel-
fare Planning’’ will be Charles
Gilbert, Ph.D., Associate Profes-:
sor of Political Science at Swarth-
more; the topic ‘‘Social Welfare
in the Public-Private State’? will
be discussed by Charles A, Reich;

LL.B., Professor at Yale Law
School.
“Community Mental Health:

Developments, Demands, Dilem-
mas”? will be presented by Bert-
ram S, Brown, M.D., Chief, Com-
munity Mental Health Facilities
Branch, “National ~ Institute of
Mental ...Health; ‘Education for
Public Welfare’’ is the topic chos-
sen by James R. Dumpson, M.A.,
LL.D,, Associate Dean - elect of
Hunter College School of Social
Work; Florence Hollis, Ph.D,

WBMC-WHRC Radio Station
Opens Broadcasting This Week

Radio station WBMC-WHRC be-
gan its first week of broadcasting
Sunday, under the direction of
Sue Nosco at Bryn Mawr and
George Bell at Haverford,

The new radio season is opera-
ting under a ‘‘block’ program-
ming’’ system, enabling listeners
to expect to hear a certain kind
of music at a certain hour each
night: 7-8, rock and roll; 8-9,
variety; 9-11, jazz, variety and
broadway; and 11-1, classical,

The bi-college station is on the
air 24 hours a day, with students
broadcasting from 7 p.m, to 1
a.m, Sunday through Thursday.
Other’ hours consist of rebroad-
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Professor of Columbia U, School
of Social Work, will ‘speak on
“Explorations with a Treatment
Typology.”

The morning sessions will be
followed by luncheon at Tread-
way Inn, St. Davids, at which
Alton A, Linford, Ph.D,, Dean
of School of Social Service Ad-
ministration, U, of Chicago, will
speak on ‘*The Future of Social
Work Education.’? All speakers
and commentators are graduates
of the Dep’t, of Social Work,

Mrs, Katherine D, K, Lower,
director of the department, says
that undergraduates will be. wel-
comed at the Colloquium, Any-
one interested should send a note
to her to get a registration card
by Monday, October 18, She warns
that it may not be possible to get
first choice of a session to at-
tend.

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Work and Social Research was
founded in 1915 and named for
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industrial field. Her work ranged
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