Oberlin Review (Oberlin, Ohio), 1958-11-07

              Friday November 7 1953 THE OBERLIN REVIEW Page 2 QTfje Ohtvlin ftetrieto Published by the uudenu of Oberlin College every Tuesday and Friday during the winter and spring semesters excepting holidays ana examination periods Subscriptions 5 for the full year 3 a semester ten cents a copy Entered assecond class matter at the Oberlin Ohio post office April 2 1911 Office 60 South Pleasant Street Telephone 44271 VOL 87 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 1958 Richard S Pacb Larry Steadman Carolyn Swisher Richard Steiner Caroline Cowman Tim Thomas Bill Hickman Ann Warren Michael Lipsky Paul Potter Sara Whitney Kay Michael Gochfcld Doug Sudcrdahl Barry Phillips Harry Patterson Steve Swaim Gary Johnson Ron Sweet Ron Giere Charles Delaplane Edituriul policy is determined by an editorial board composed of Caroline Cowman Mark Furstenberg Ron Here Mike Gochfeld Bill Hickman Gary Johnson Dick Page Harry Patterson Barry Phillips Art Russio Larry Steadman Richard Steiner Steve Swaim Ron Sweet Carolyn Swisher Tim Thomas and Ann Warren Opinions epressed in editorials are the collective responsibility of the Board members Initials at the end of editorials are given for the sole purpose of indicating the writer They do not indicate that the writer is iu any way more or lessresponsible for the opinions expressed than other members of the board TIM THOMAS Possible Unwise Action Student Councils Tuesday approval of Russia South America and the satellite countries as the three summer rep program areas to be submitted to the student body in a referendum was a quiet climax to a series of impassioned debates in International Affairs Committee and on the Council floor Vigorous and impassioned debate in this case isunderstandable however in light of the strong comparative advantages of all three areas Each of the areas possesses a special highlight which makes it valuable for arepresentative to visit it One highlight of a South American rep would beanalyzing the very powerful and oftexpressed antiAmerican feeling which pervades many South American nations If a rep were sent to Poland a prominent satellite country he could probably lay the groundwork for a yearlongexchange between the College and the University of Warsaw Another look at Russia this time from the student angle would undoubtedly be valuable especially in view of the fact that it would now be possible for a rep to travel in regions which were formerly closed In addition a Russia rep could take advantage of material provided by the five reps who preceded him Because of these comparative advantages we think it important that all students consider seriously thediscussions in the Review and the dining halls during the next two weeks Even more worthy of debate however is the fact that most students have not examined whether it is wise to send a rep at all From the beginning of this year we have assumed we should send a rep somewhere But sending a rep has become an allimportant good rather than ll means ioraining information about certain countries for setting up a possible exchange program foraccomplishing specific purposes such as attending the World Youth Festival to be held in Vienna in 1959 In fact the IAC rep program has become a glorified summer tour the rep has tried to cover as much territory see as many people do as many different things as possible There is little justification for such a program since realinsight into a nations culture into the mores of a people into a political situation can only come by concentrating on a small area and by focusing attention on particularinstitutions Student life in one or two countries is an obvious possibility for such concentration Now that three areas have been presented forstudent decision on a referendum it is essential that the merits of each area be fully discussed But something more an examination and evaluation of the entire rep program is needed too There can be real value to a program ofsending a student overseas for the summer but sponsoring a rep without defining his task without setting a specific purpose for his trip other than gathering information andreporting back by writing Review articles without considering possible disadvantages constitutes unwise action ex rsp eumppe nmn Now is the time to make reservations ASK ABOUT OUR ALL mtiTAiX TOUil CARRICK TRAVEL BUREAU Oberlin Savings Bank Building mm snows BLG1N EACH EVENING At 715 pm Always A TONITE Dont miss THE MUDLARK with IRENE DUNNE ALEC GUINNESS RAY ANTHONY SAT SUN MON viV rif TUES EVE ONLY William Falknrs with JOANNE WOODWARD X NO 16 Editor Business Manager Associate Editor Executive Editor Issue Editors Assistant Editor New EditOT Woodruff City Editors Sports Editors Forum Director Advertising Managers Circulation Managers Photography Editor Assistant Photography Editor ISSUE EDITOR GET MORE OUT OF LIFE GO TO A GOOD MOVIE OFTENI Good Show 3 EVES NOV 8910 Thornton Wilderi Greatest Comedy A REAL IAUGHMAKBRI TheMatchmalccr ShIkLLY BOOIh ANIhONy Mm SHIRLEY MIAINE FWiFORD DIRECT FROM BROADWAY Also NEWS EVENTS and CARTOON MAIN FEATURES at 730 and 935 pm Repeat Showing NOV 11 LONG HOT SUMMER PAUL NEWMAN ORSON WELLES Ninon The smashing victory for Governorelect Nelson Rocke feller in New York and the pnnnllv smashing defeat of Sen ator Knowland in California has raised greater problems for a man who did not run for office this year than for either of the two candidates VicePresident Richard M Nixon who has an affinity for the Presidential Suite in Chicagos Blackstone Hotel is probably and quite justifiably worried The KnowlandKnight druD bing in California at the hands of popular Edmund G Pat Rrnwn and Senatorelect Clair Engle eliminated some formid able personal roadblocks on Nixons Dath to the 1960 Re publican Presidential nomina tion At the same time itcreated an even greater hazard for him It is very hard for a can didate to do well when his home base of operations is in the hands of the enemy Despite all of Mr Nixons efforts in the closing weeks of the campaign his California is now solidly Democratic One cannot rightly say that it was Knowland alone that lost the election for state control Knowland is not that unpopular In 1952 he won underCalifornias crossfiling system both the Republican and Democratic primaries and went on to the general election unopposed Governor Knight was no lia bility He was a good adminis trator carrying on the tradition MidEast I EJ Xolc Donald Patterson is spending his junior year at theAmerican University in Beirut Lebanon Last week after a class dis cussion on the EgyptianConstitution of 1956 I happened to talk with a boy from the Gaza Strip Egypt He said I have many questions but I am afraid to ask them Upon my asking why he told me that this year he had had difficultyobtaining a permit to return to AUB American University of Beirut to continue his studies The government knew that he had been known to criticize its actions and they felt that was bad propaganda Now he is unwilling to ask probing ques tions in the interest of seeking truth for fear of having his name reported to the United Arab Republic Embassy The students at AUB come from all countries of theArabicspeaking world and few come from anywhere else Theyrepresent as wide a range ofpolitical views as exists in the Arab Do You Do you mmmeaamuu iu i I Knowland of Earl Warren It was just that somebody somewhere else goofed Mr Nixon stormed into his home state and immediately placed thenonetoowellappreciated record of theEisenhower administration before the voter Then Senator Knowland came out for righttowork which lost there by a ratio of 31 and made it the basis of his bid All this after they had in a very embarrassing manner shuffled Governor Knight into the Senate candidacy that he didnt want Along with a brokenRepublican organization whichNixon was unable to mend and an extremely strong Democratic organization and set ofcandidates the VicePresidents ship sunk from under him Although he may now be in possession of Californias delegation to the Convention he does not by a long shot control his states 32 electoral votes Nelson Rockefeller proved to be so strong in the New York race for Governor that he not only beat incumbent Democrat Averell Harriman by 500000 votes but he carried into the Senate Rep Kenneth Keating the underdog Republican All this despite a national Democratic landslide One of the highlights of the Rockefeller campaign was the day thatNixon came into town and was quite publicly snubbed by the gubernatorial candidateDespite a reconciliation at the Student Dilemma world and they are veryvolatile politically Long ago the AUB administration maderegulations which had the effect of prohibiting political action by the students If this had not been done the process offormal education would have been placed dangerously in jeopardy because of students taking part in demonstrations and other political activities At present students are full of great intellectualjustifications for different programs of national unity ie Syrian Arab Lebanese etc butunfortunately fewer have knowledge of the prerequisites of a healthy political system the solutions to social problems and thetechniques of constructive thinking for the benefit of the totalsociety Many perhaps by habitwithout realizing it treat politics as a constant struggle between people with different ideas of the truth The idea of struggle is not so bad except in the Think for Yourself Do you believe you could fool a Iie detector machine if you put your mind to it Do you believe society should adopt new ideas at the expense of old traditions Are you completely at ease when people watch you at work you judge your parents as do other people The Man Knows and Nelson Mike Codel breakfast table most observers seem to believe that Mr Nixon and Mr Rockefeller do notexactly appreciate each other Mr Rockefeller despite his monetarysounding name and as a matter of fact despite his monetary standing easily won in a state of factory workers and small farmers and businessmen with the outright rejection of aid by Nixon The Governorelect by his victory has proved that he who was considered by many to be the actual if not the titular head of the Republican Party last week was not necessary to the election of a Republican candidate and in New York not even wanted NelsonRockefeller played a very shrewd game by staying aloof from Nixon and the party Now in control of New Yorks large convention delegation and its 45 electoral votesRockefeller has ended the twoyear drought of possible opposition to Nixon in the I960Convention Mr Nixon went to California fought his hardest and lost to the Democrats He went to New York was snubbed and lost to Nelson Rockefeller In those states in which hecampaigned to his capacity the vote went Democratic He was a nuisance to the members of his party in the state of greatest Republican victory Apresidential hopeful does not give his all and lose it and still remain hopeful Pat Patterson way that the struggle is carried on The idea of governmentbeing part of a contrast between the people of a society is not the basis of the political system in the Middle East The element of compromise is even felt to be undesirable The Lebanesecompromises of this fall werereversals of a tradition whichreflects a change in societysimilar to that in western Europe after 1500 Nevertheless the tradition of autocracy remains with theimported party systemsuperimposed on top of it The political parties or movements whether disciplined or not show adependence on violencedemonstration and emotion Many parties maintain their own secret agents a militia like the Nazi storm troops and their own jails All this is to portray thepolitical orientation of the students and to show why politicalaction must be kept out of the See MIDEAST DILEMMA p 4 YES YES on YES ve8OD Who Thinks for Himself ONLY VICEROY HAS A THINKING MANS FILTER A SMOKING MANS TASTE I One more question Do you think about the filter cigarette you choose or just smoke any brand If youre the kind of person who thinks for himself you use judgment in your choice of cigarettes as in everything else Men and women who ouunc iluum neir reasons Best in the world They know the difference between fact and fancy They know that only VICEROY hag a winning man t juier ana a smoking mans taste IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED YES TO 6 OF THESE QUESTIONS YOU ARE A PERSON WHO THINKS eiuaa Brown KuiiamamTvtamCap Letters to Unit Utun to 300 words and to rtfuu fublicatum to Utlen of qmtticmabl tort eonunt or for which thtn it nrtci T iummi to iH offfc two dart htfon fublicafum Anonymout Utun cannot b jmMuhd hawnnZ ill withhold uvon reauait Not mora th turricwTw rwiOT will rrinud wftH any Uflar Drucker Points Out To the Editor Wp have read in our lime me Galileo story Once again a man has been made to recant tnevaiHitv and the undeniable merit of his work because this work ex shakv doctrines ol tne state under which he lives The fact that the novel Dr Zhivago which criticizes aspects of acommunist society was intolerable to tho Snviot government docs not explain the pity of what has hap pened to the writer lionsiasiernk We can only hope that Pas ternaks work like Galileos will ultimately stand or fall on its own merits The real tragedy of Pasternak is in his recantation In a pitifully abject letter to KhrushchevPasternak begs that he not bepunished for having written a great book Threatened with the worst punishment he can imagine that of being exiled from Russia I am linked with Russia by my He Who Gets Slapped MATTHEW For its first offering of the lo1 cal theatrical season the Oberlin Dramatic Association has chosen to present Leonid Andreyevs He Who Gets Slapped The choice is I think a good one although the current production at HallAuditorium does not consistently real ize the considerable merit ofAndreyevs provocative piece of work More specifically J StantonMcLaughlins troupe does poorly in the first two acts but shines in the third and fourth acts Even Lewis Perrys generally outstanding performance as He who gets slapped does not at tain sharpness of definition until near the end of the second act When the curtain rises theinteracting energies of the actors re fuse to get into full play and con sequently you the audience must remain patient while the actors shake off their academic skins and begin to create a small but whole world detached from out there A further example of thisinitial inertia is supplied by Tilly and Polly a pair of clowns played by John Patterson and Barbara Joseph Though both delightfully amuse us most of the time neither clown slips into the comic routine smoothly If Lois Thompson as Zinida would behave more like a fiery tamer of wild beasts than a sullen beauty ready for the grave and Roberta Siegel as Consuelo would replace some of her polished matteroffactness with theunpracticed responsiveness of an ordinary peasant girl no doubt much of the productions sluggish ness would be eliminated For once the production staff TAKE AND Do your emotions ever lead you to do yes something that seems unreasonable even to yourself Do you try to plan ahead rather than make snap judgment decisions If your roommate suddenly inherited a VES million dollars are you sure your relationship would remain the same Can you honestly say you pay more attention to political issues than to the personalities of the candidates think for themselves usually the Editor ngtuura Pasternak Tragedy birth life and work he write I cannot imagine my fate sen arate and outside Russia renounces the Nobel rrjze departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death and for that reason I re quest you not to take in relation to me that extreme measure What a triumph this must be for the Soviet government Much as he loves Russia Pasternak until now has always stood on his own feet Now the pride the fierce in dividuality of Boris Pasternak has been broken Pasternak who in his life and in his workmaintained the utmost inteiritv ui refused all his life with thegreatest courage to bow beforeanyone now crawls before the gov ernment that he hates Heconfesses mistakes and errors With my hand on my heart he offers I can say that I have done something for Soviet liter See LETTERS p 4 VON BAEYER has not called attention to itself as a result of oversights or poor planning Especially noteworthy is the handling of sound effects by Paul Marantz In fact all of the major technical problems were solved before opening night There was little question in this leviewers mind as to which member of the cast deserves most praise Lewis Perry is remarkably adept in a very difficult role and is chiefly responsible for the two most memorable moments of the evening namely in the lirtportion of the third act face to face with the dishonorable gentleman from the outside and in the final minutes of the fourth act shortly before Hes death Despite the fact that HarryRolnick as Briquet on orcaionbecomes overly histrionic and that James Stratton as Maneini does not appear quite hardboiled enough both Rolnirk andStratton along with Perry prove to be the most effective members of the cast I mentioned at the outset of the review that I considered ODAs decision to stage He Who Gets Slapped a good one Mostcolleges and university dramatic groups would probably shy away lrom putting on a play which like this one is both difficult toperform and totally unfamiliar to most students He Who Gets Slapped provides the audience with an unusual experience by means of the use of awelldeveloped dramatic symbolism ODA has done us a favor by presenting a play which forces us to think a little about a common problem the relationship of the intellectual man to his society THIS TEST FIND OUT OD FOR HIMSELFI 1jff YCSC I pack or I crush proof box