lAGI TWO
THI DAILY TAR HEEL
Confusion
IImh- .ij)k.us to haw ban soim- coiifu
mi. ii .iImhii tin- leiu-i written hy Join Rami
v. huh .tit ( .iN an .uhcitisnnuit in vis
i. D.iiU .it let .
K. Hid ' Niui v.in not iffiM(l lor pnblica
noii. ihit h , .my Utter dining the entire
c.ii Ik i n it liiscd lor )iilli( ation because of
khmiimi ni iiu iliod n )U'seiitaiini. Indeed,
K.in.l ((Mild have had his leiler piinied lo
d i. i ii 1 1 i i w . hi an other time lint vester
d..
I he l).iil I .i i Mel operates under a con
n. u i with I he News. ln .. of ( '.a it horn, N. C.
I hi- ((mil. t stipulates that all editorial
p.ie mateiial w i t It the eeeption of the edi
i'i s (diiiiiial iintsi hi- at the piint sho) a
.iiul .i It. ill Keloie uilli at ion. Admitted
lh it this (cihi.ui is not alwas lived up to
l tiilu-t side i( the letter, both sides ny
to b( up id the spiiit of the contract. Hence
s 1 1 i U. .id tame late Sunday, the editor
iciiM do no inoie than sav he would be un
able to have it published in the Tuesday
( .! ii i' n.
U iiul was (m- l mam. A letter in siipji t
il oik miiioi lass olliccr failed to appear
in it so 1 1 1 1 it 1 1 In t a use this letter failed to meet
the deadline, but bctasiic the mateiial lot
i'k its! i.! the ).'r had been submitted prior
i the Itttti's anial. The letter writer of
ihis ! c i tt (.hi a 1st j;et his letter piinted in
.i 1 1 1 ci edition.
I he t tin. ii this Near has lelused exac tly
two Uticis lot publit at ion. I he liist was an
olenitis pi.IitK.' appeal hu oics lor junior
t 1 is (ilhuis ol the l'nicisit rally in the
I ill. a Ititt i hi(!i was not based on issues
bin w.i liisitl mi peisoiial appeal. I bis can
b( hmdltd in an ad ei t isement. Similarly,
hint in stippoit ol Norman Smith and
J i a i ( tow in ( i w.is ic lused publit atlon for
appoiiu.ucU the same icasons.
I he nub te.isdu that theie have not been
in. ie htttis in lax or of the jxisition taken
l. Rand in opjosition to deleued rush is
b.ius( i ne his wiitien any. The editor
it lust s to plax Dt xil's Adxocatc for this
pnl ii nl at ilex il.
Elections Board
No doubt the l let lions Hoard is oin to
lotet something, and no doubt theie will
be one oi moie mistakes in the hnwllin'j; of
the nj ii i 1 1 4 clt (lion. No doubt there will be
complaints and haie.
Uut as i. tit obstixer who has watched Hank
I. iteisou woik nijihl and day for the past
time weeks, and who has seen many others
itadx. willing and nble to do an election
114I11 on ihis campus, the editor offers his
thanks.
Ibis Mc(!ions Hoaid has cvetV riht to
be c oimratulated for a fine job. Hank Pat
itisou in paitiiular cleseixes n reat amount
of .it dit foi his eneiv and initiatixc.
IDC President
One small item escaped comment of the
e.limi dining the past couple of weeks. This
was the dec lion ol IDC. ollicers.
I he c oininentarx that is nec ess.try is a
woid ol piaise lor the job th;-t Uudy Kdwards
has done as IDC picxident. Otto runderbink
w ill have laie shoes to fill.
Thr official ntuoVll publication f thc Publication
R..rd of thr Univrnity of North Carolina, -mere l
Is published daily
enifpt Monday 4n.I
r lamination p-ri1
if.ct imnir trrnn
Entrrtd as second
cla matter in hr
f.t c.lficr in Chapel
!litl. N (. unlcr
th set of March P
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mtr $4 !V prr
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CURTIS CANS
CHUCK FbI!xJNF!R
STAN FISHETt
MMnrss Manaror ."TWALKER BLANTON
Advi-rtuina Manaifer
Nw Kditor
FRED KATZIN
ANNE FRYE
Sporti Editor RUSTY HAMMOND
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1.F.E A R ROC AST
Asst. A'lv Manager
Asst. News Editor .
ED RINER
Assistant Sports Editor
Circulation Manager
Subscription Manager
ELLIOTT COOPER
BOB WALKER
'. AoEJlYTnOMAS
Harper's Bizarre
We recall sometimes with pain, but more often with pleasure
the little incidents which marked our iniation into the Carolina
Way of Life.
We made the usual mistakes during our first week here. We
were to meet the orientation councillor first at Memorial Hall, then
at Graham Memorial, or vice versa. We were always late, having
invariably gone to the wrong "memorial" first.
Later in our freshman Fall, rush commenced, and we were right
in there, knowing no more of "fraternity" than a broad, semi-dictionary
definition. The major reason for our never pledging one
of the Greek organizations arose because of that gentle, misty
freshman haze which enshrouded us. Early in rush week we set
our heart on one, the one, fraternity. It was that one on the corner,
diagonally across from the "Scuttlebutt". We were never invited
to rush there. So, deciding to settle for none less, we retired from
the field, unpledged. .
And there was one incident during orientation that we'll always
remember. One morning in all innocence we asked the orientation
counsellor, "Where is the Y.M.C.A?"
"The what!" he cried.
"The Y.M.C.A?"
He looked as if he'd just recalled twently years' accumulation
of stomach gas. Minutes later he rallied: "You mean Y-Court!"
"Maybe," we allowed. "Anywhere, where is it?"
We were in front (or in back?) of South building at the time.
"Right there," he pointed. "That's Y-Court." He stiffened a
bit. and his eyes shone.
"There with the benches, or inside with the cokes and crackers?"
We cringed from the fury mounting within him. Then something
snapped. His eyes filled with tears, his shoulders slumped. In a
voice pleading for understanding he spoke: "Y-Court," his breath
caught. "Y-Court is not a geographical position." He braced for su
preme effort. "Y-Court is a way of life."
He stood slowly, shrugged off all thoughts of further counselling,
and stumbled off in the direction of the last booth in Harry's".
An old, almost completely bald gentleman smoking a pipe step
ped up and encircled our shoulders with an arm. "Someday," h
said, "you'll understand."
-J. Harper
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'Hear! Hear!"
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A Letter On The U. N. Mock Assembly
Chief 1-hotographers - BILL BRINKJIOUS
PETER NESS
Ni!u Editor
NANCY COMBES
Kdior:
The Collegiate Council of the
American Association for the Unit
ed Nations and the students of the
University of North Carolina are
to be congratulated on the holding
on the campus at Chapel Hill of a
model United Nations Assembly.
In preparation for playing the
parts of delegates of the member
nations, students develop more in
formed and authentic understand
ing of the history, customs, inter
ests and policies of the member
nations. They get an insight into
the principles and provisions of the
Charter and the policies, proce
dures, limitations and needs of the
United Nations.
Their own experiences in student
self-government equip them for
their participation in their Model
Assembly of the United Nations. I
was a happy witness of the lead
ing role played by student leaders
trom the University of North Car
olina at the last annual meeting
ot the dynamically valuable Na
tional Student Association in win
ning the hotly contested struggle
over the freedom of the student
newspapers to discuss vital con
troversial issues. Needless to say,
the student delegates from our
threefold University, in co-operation
with student leaders from the
University of Texas, decisively won
the battle for responsible freedom
el the student newspapers against
the arguments for administrative
censorship, political expediency
and financial security.
I trust that this Assembly in
Chapel Hill will grapple with such
L sues as. the need of the United
Nations for such developments as:
1. Long-range economic develop
ment programs in addition to more
adequate support of the specialized
ageiicie.s of the United Nations in
vliat William James called the
n.oral equivalent of war - the great
campaigns agaiast poverty, hun
ger, illiteracy, disease, discrimina
tion, colonialism, armaments and
the war system itself.
2. A stand-by arrangement for a
United Natioas peace force, not
rnly to salvage but to help prevent
disaster.
3. Promotion of progressive steps
in effective disarmament so as to
supplant the old vicious circle of
fear, armaments, war and annihila
tion with a new circle- of faith,
disarmament, economic develop
ment and international co-operation
in productive and humane pro
grams. 4. Other procedures failing, re
sort to and emphasis on the moral
power of a two-thirds vote of the
. General Assembly in regard to
membership, disarmament and the
settlement of international disputes
which keep hanging on year after
year with the world itself in
jeopardy.
5. Promotion of the consideration
for adoption of the covenants and
conventions on iiuman rights.
C Promotion of self-development
and the responsible self-determination
of colonial peoples and non-self-governing
territories.
7. United Nations jurisdiction
Vie w And Preview
Anthony Wolff
THE NEW LITERATURE. By Claude Mauriac. 251 pp. New York:
George Braxiller. $4.
M. Mauriac's concern in this new book is something known as
"aliterature" known as such, that is, to M. Mauriac, who seems
to be somewhat confused as to the exact meaning of his brain-child.
M. Mauriac feels that the term "literature" has taken on a pejorative
coloring from exposure to "hackneyed conventions," and that the
simple (and incorrect) prefixing of the alpha privative will restore
the word to its former potency. It becomes obvious even before the
body of the work is begun that "aliterature" is nothing more than
what has heretofore been quite adequately covered by the term
"aventegarde literature"; and plain old ordinary literature, in M.
Mauriac's heretical canon, is the same stuff that most critics have
been content to call simply "bad literature" ever since criticism be
gan. '
In short, the unifying thesis of this book is so obvious that-only
a pseudo-academic classification like "aliterature" could make it
palatable; and even the author himself, writing as though he' J
come to the end and found that he had nothing to say after all
finally declares his own word ill-coined, and returns us unspoiled
to the old usages: "aliterature" exists only in this book, and hope
fully it will never again be recoined to compete with "avant-garde"
and "contemporary" as convenient terms for what is simply new.
Between M .Mauriac's Introduction and his Conclusion there ar
seventeen short chapters, each devoted to a major European con
temporary ("aliterate"?). It is no criticism of M. Mauriac to note in
passing that only half a dozen or so of his subjects are well-known
in the United Slates, and of those only four or five (Kafka, Miller,
Beckett. Camus, and perhaps Simenon) are prominent enough here
to make brief criticisms such as M. Mauriac's very meaningful.
There arc, however, serious faults in this book, and they have
nothing to do with phony heuristics or obscurity. A passage from
M. Mauriac's treatment of Albert Camus best known in America
of all of the subjects should illustrate the difficulty.
In the middle of his discussion of Camus' work, Mauriac writes
of the sudden awareness on the part of the hero of La Chute (The
Fall) of his own guilt, "a secret evil . . . known by him alone, t
momentary act of cowardice for which he will never forgive him
self and with which he remains obsessed: one day, a young woman
had drowned herself not very far from him without his coming
to her aid. In the absence of a point of reference, the critic rnusi
remain discreet here and not try to imagine what personal matter
Albert Camus wished to express by this allusion to a fault which,
from the evidence at hand ,he did not commit and which one ought
tc attribute to his protagonist alone No doubt this invented trait
is there in place of a real one . . ." And so on.
It is only fair to say that M. Mauriac does, in fact. eonc'."'o
this particular statement with the admission that the guilt which
Camus invests in his hero is nolhing so simple and artistically use
less as some particular f.nnH of his own; but it is impossible to
avoid the uncomfortable fooKv fMf ,ifiiri;"-:r.n ic Snrd.wn.
and that ip author would like nothing better than to find in the
courco of his researches that. Cnmus .Ms w p'"'oik sin fov
which he has not atoned, and in expiation of which he writes
autobioTraphical novels. Even if Camus' guilt cnmnlX were Ideated
and explored, and it turned out that he had murdeo'l bis father
and marred his mother, criticism based on such clinical data would
be interpctine but useless.
This biographical annroarh to criticieni Ws of couia. have its
limited nlnc. and M. Mauriac it rfPtivelv in witirtf about
Kafka and Miller. Both write autobiography and so certain insights
into life history st quite illuminating, Still, thev cinot tp
place of pound criticism. wMch host -eh arts its cene bv something
more fixed and common than the dark secrets of an author's per
sonal life.
;
THE PICARESQUE SAINT: RenresentatJv Fioures In Contemoorary
Fiction. Bv R. W. B. LewU. 317 pp. Philadelphia and New York:
J. B. Llooincott Company. $6.
In this treatment of six mon author Voiav:s, SiVnfv r?""-.
Faulkner, Graham Greene and Malraux) Professor Lewis is involved
in the same outionable practice that fascinated M. .Mauriac TIPS
NEW LITERATURE: both are in search of some catch phrase which
will serve as a descriptive device for the analysis of modern
f Gail Godwin
It never fails. No matter how bleak and dry-cold
and rainy and depressing the winter has been in
Chapel Hill, all remembrances of the bad days
are shecNike defective chry salises once spring make;;
it debut.
Spring and Chapel Hill are, in a sense, synonyms.
Each enhances the other. Chapel Hill gives to this
particular season an abundance of raw material
and potential beauty. Spring takes it into her skill
ful hands as an expert hairdresser gathers together
a rich sheath of thick, colorful but unkept hair
and fashions it into a spectacle which will warm
the blood of the coldest, sourest human being.
Windows are flung open and the janitor wipes
soot from their frames in the late afternoon after
the students have gone. Two solid and stiff pro
fessors decide to get reckiess and take a Coke
break in Y court. A dedicated photographer equip
ped with all necessary supplies of his craft and a
few extra ones cranes his neck behind his lens
which is focused on a shocking white burst of
cherry blossoms on a tree. The Chapel Hill League
of Independent Dogs begin holding their meetings
out of doors, on the mall between the Library and
South Building, under the dogwood trees in the
Arboretum, in front of Silent Sam's quiet and
serious vigil. A host of youthful legs adorn the
sunny streets thin, scrawny legs, legs rippling
with muscles and gleaming with tan, legs which are
better or worse off from the extra exposure provided
by Madras Bermudas, khaki Jamaicas. Convertible
tops come groaning down into the seat covers. An
empty tennis court is as rare as a unicorn in the
Admissions Office.
People start feeling sentimental and descriptive
about Chapel Hill. Those of us who think we can
write are compelled to list the poetic evidences of
a Chapel Hill spring, quite as magnificent as April
in Paris, or springtime in Capistrano. This urge to
describe has been going on since there was such a
place to see and enjoy.
Here is one of the more successful efforts, writ
ten by one of Chapel Hill's remembered alumni,
who left these same cherry blossoms and "Ne
Greeky" architecture and statues and grass and
went on to make his way in the world, sending
visps of his fame back to this scene which in
spired some of his writing:
"In this pastoral setting, a young man was en-
over the international problems of abled to loaf comfortably and delightfully through
the polar regions and outer space, four luxurious and indolent years. There was, Cod
knows, seclusion enough for monastic scholarship,
but the rare romantic quality of the atmosphere, the
prodigal opulence of Springtime, thick with flowers
and drenched in a fragrant warmth of green shim
mering light, quenched pretty thoroughly any in
cipient rash of bookishness. Instead, they loafed
and invited their souls or, with great energy and
enthusiasm, promoted the affairs of glee clubs,
athletic teams, class politics, fraternities, debating
societies, and dramatic clubs. And they talked
always they talked, under the trees, against the
ivied walls, assembled in their rooms, they talked
in limp sprawls incessant, charmimng, empty
9 -me uVS46t-om P-ST-3
Frank P. Graham
Class of 1909
And, it hasn't changed very much, Tom.
A Letter
Editor:
It has come to our attention that a certain edi
fiction. M. Mauriac adopts a patently artificial device "aliterature"
to characterize the writing of a diverse crovd of twentieth cen
tury writers: Professor Lewis, on the other hand, is seeking within
the works themselves of a smaller group of authors a thematic de- Southe talk5 they talked with a lar2e- eay f,uen"
vice which is central both to the work and the world from which cy about God' the Devi1' and PhilosPhy. tne ir,s-
they immediately spring and to which they immediately relate. Pontics, athletics, fraternities and the girls my
t u;. xt T.r t God! How they talked."
'figures' in the subtitle refers to figures of speech, to the char
acteristic metaphors of the generation; as well as to the human
figures within the novels and to the figures of the writers them
selves. To detect those figures and to describe the world they serve
to compose is, as I understand it, a major function of criticism in
the present time." Such a statement as this, which accurately de
scribes the critical attitude of the whole book, starts the book off
with an air of worthwhile and deep seriousness which persists tion of the DTH, of Sunday, April 5, was not allow
right through to the excellent notes and index at the end. ed to go to press, but that a substitute issue was
If Professor Lewis has joined M. Mauriac in a dubious enterprise, printed. It has also come to our attention that cer-
then, he at least carries it off with more success. By going into the tain members of the DTH staff have resigned due
works themselves and isolating a common theme, rather than try- to your actions and possibly other minor reasons,
ing to superimpose on a mass of material an artificial descriptive As staunch supporter of the status quo, why have
device, Lewis ends up with something more than the seventeen you insisted upon continually aleinating factions of
critical essays and one leftover heuristic device which remain at the the university? We realize that the editor of a
end of the other book. paper must occasionally take stands that will arouse
What Professor Lewis is seeking in this book, using the recur- certain groups, but by the same token we also
ring character of "the, picaresque saint" as his mannequin, is the realize that the editor of a paper must have a
new image with which man has clothed his nakedness after the sense of responsibility to govern his actions. We
force of twentieth century disillusionment deprived him of tradition do not feel that 'ou show a sense of responsibility
al images, traditional guises (or, better, disguises). by your Partisanism and ideas. We hope that in the
Obviously, the figure of ''the picaresque saint" is limited in last days of 'our editorship you will show the
its application. There are a number of contemporary writers who responsibility that is essential for an editor.
derive from and contribute to the same "existentialist" mood which
holds sway over Professor Lewis' six, and many of them lack a
"picaresque saint" in their repetoire of characters.
Still, the figure of the hero who is at once a rogue and a
charmer, a character who demands admiration in the same breath
with condemnation, is a servicable device for revealing at least one
prominent strain in contemporary literature. Picaresque saints do
abound, both in contemporary literature and contemporary life,
characters whose morality is always questionable, and who are
heroes in art because the whole idea of morality is for them always
in question.
At the beginning of the book, Professor Lewis takes great pains
to exclude from his study the works of Joyce, Proust and Mann,
on the trumped-up technicality that the fictional worlds of their
heroes are "artistic' 'Such an arbitrary and often false, as in the
case of Mann's Felix Crull exclusion of heroes from the club
of "picaresque saints" seems unnecessary; particularly as these three
authors, alone with dide, have provided some of the most paradigm
exemplars of the theme.
As it is, Professor Lewis is forced to stretch his title phrase
at times in order to include such doubtful saints as Camus' Caligula,
to ue the most obvious example. (Nor is the play Caligula an ex
ample of "epic theatre." as Professor Lewis would have use believe.)
All in all, however, this book speaks of pertinent matters with
seriousness and authority, and the illumination which it provides of
modern authors, their work, and their times is most revealing and
valuable.
ALBERT CAMUS: A Study of His Work; By Philip Thody. 155 pp.
New York: Grove Press. (Evergreen Paperback) $1.45.
While this book will be reviewed at greater length in a future
column, it is worthy of at least brief mention here because it is
devoted to a study of the one author. Camus, who is treated in both
of the books reviewed above. Camus' career is still relatively young,
despite a considerable number of novels, essays, plays, editorial?
and short stories already to his credit! He is also a Nobel Prize
winner, and the subject of at least three critical works.
This latest book in the librarv of Camus criticism, excellent
though it is. cannot pretend to make any definitive assessment of
Camus', work. What it can and does do is to bring us up to date,
and yet allow for the probability that many of the critical judgments
will have to be revised in the future, as M. Camus continues to
produce and each individual work takes on a new coloring and a
new importance relative to the whole of the author's work.
WM. R. DAWES, JR.
RICHARD HENRY STEPHAN
HARRY M. PICKETT III
EDWARD L. BARRIER
JOHN G. TURNER
ROBERT HALL
TOA SMITH
ROBERT SHERROD JR.
(The editor is gladly willing to admit that the
paper that was at the shop on Saturday night
at 8:55 p.m. and the paper that finally hit the
press were not exactly the same paper. The editor
would also like to enumerate the changes he
made on that paper.
The editor changed an eight column one inch
high headline announcing the candidacy ot
Henry Snow to a two column headline because
no other candidate in any race has ever received
more than a five column announcement headline.
Furthermore there was Saturday, as there is to
day, a great amount of doubt as to the candidate's
legitimacy. So, on the basis of the fact that the
editor did not want to mislead the voters nor
mobilize a campaign for anybody through the
use of the ne s pages, he cut the headline down.
The editor further rearranged the paragraphs
in the story announcing Snow's candidacy so that
1) those who comorised Henry Snow were clear
ly known at the top of the story, and 2)f so that
the Election Board's opinion that Snow was not
a legal candidate would get prominent mention.
Both of these moves were undertaken with the
intention of clearly showing to the voters and
the readinq public who comprised Henry Snow
and the risk they might be taking if they voted
for Snow and their ballots were thrown out.
To my knowledge only one person resigned
because of my decision. This person is ex-managing
editor Stan Fisher, who curiously enough hap
pens to be one of the seventeen students who
comprise Henry Snow.
In closing the editor would like to add that
he hopes he will always exercise the responsibili
ty he has as wisely as he did Saturday night.)
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