The Daily Tar Heel
Friday. March 26, 1971
Quarterly editor answers review
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SAIGON-U.S. forces left their Lang Vei armored base two miles from the
Laotian border Thursday and started pulling back deeper inside South Vietnam,
their withdrawal covered by U.S. B52 bombers that struck in waves across the
frontier into Laos.
Signs were growing that the North Vietnamese counteroffensive that cut short
the South Vietnames3 invasion of Laos was still moving into South Vietnam.
A 10-man U.S. infantry patrol operating northeast of the big American supply
base at Khe Sanh, 12 miles within South Vietnam, ran into a platoon of
Communist sappers probing toward the base, according to field reports.
Four Americans were killed and one wounded in the fight that followed. U.S.
helicopter gunships were called in.
In Washington, the Pentagon said U.S. aerial reconnaisance showed that North
Vietnam had moved big guns and rockets inside the Demilitarized Zone between
North and South Vietnam in the biggest buildup there in years.
The Pentagon indicated this posed a possible threat to Khe Sanh, which is 20
miles south of the DMZ.
American soldiers were pulling out of the Khe Sanh base Thursday for the
second time in two years. U.S. Marines withstood a 77-day siege in 1968 and later
dismantled the base.
The Pentagon conceded Wednesday that the Laos campaign was broken off
early by the ferocity of the North Vietnamese counter-attack.
U. S. may sell SST program
WASHINGTON As the federal government and the Boeing Co. took steps
Thursday to dismantle the U.S. supersonic transport program, the State
Department acknowledged that a Japanese trading company had expressed interest
in buying America's SST assets.
The White House said that "no firm offer has been received," but other officials
said the possibility of a Japanese bid to acquire the U.S. government's interest in
the abandoned'program was "one of the things that is in the wind."
The State Department received a telegram from the Ataka Trading Co. of Tokyo
expressing interest in the SST program a few hours before the Senate voted 51-46
to halt federal subsidies for SST development.
One White House official said the Japanese had signaled an interest in obtaining
government-owned SST technology tools, drawings, research and development
data, titanium and the like for about 10 cents on the dollar.
White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that "if no way is found to
proceed with the SST, in the termination process, the Department of
Transportation would try some way to get a portion of the taxpayer's dollars
back."
Government officials said Thursday it is legally free to try to recoup its losses in
a sale of assets once penalties and other closing out costs have been paid costs
totalling $145 million in penalties and refunds to investors.
Black wins USG presidency
COLUMBIA, S.C-Harry Walker, the first black Student Body President at the
University of South Carolina, says he never doubted that he would be elected.
"When I finally decided to run for office," said the 21 -year-old Greenville
native, "I just concentrated on winning. If I had lost, a lot of people who
campaigned for me would have been destroyed."
Walker, a political science major at USC whose father is a Greenville auto
mechanic, received some 54 per cent of the votes cast in Wednesday's election.
Walker said he realized the vote did not represent a majority of the 14,000
students on the campus.
Walker said race was never an issue in his campaign. He said the only thing he
promised students in his campaign was a change.
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(Editor's note: A DTH reviewer recently wrote a review
severely criticizing the Carolina Quarterly. Tlie DTH is
providing an opportunity for a representative of the
Quarterly to answer that review. Jack Hicks, poetry
editor of the Quarterly, wrote the following story. )
I would like to comment on the "review" of the
Carolina Quarterly which appeared in Tuesday's Tar
Heel, signed by a "Mr. Leaven." I use quotation marks
because it is in no sense a review of the contents of the
magazine, ignoring all of the Gction (4 stories), the
artwork and design (layout, cover and graphics), and
three long book reviews. He ignores as well, six of the
twelve poets, and of those six he does treat, three are
consigned to a single sentence each. His "review," our
second in the Tar Heel, is based on about ten per cent of
the magazine's contents.
I set "Mr. Leaven" in quotation marks because there
is no "Leaven" in the University-faculty, staff or
student according to any of the records currently
available. I assume "Leaven" is a pen name, one taken,
sadly enough, not as a basis for the creation of a critical
persona, but as a curtain, behind which to hide, out of
fear, for purposes of protection.
"Mr. Leaven" takes us all to school, reader and
Quarterly staff alike, and does so in the most imperious
of tones. This is a review delivered from great height,
written against the backdrop of all literature -a scar
slashed across the face of history (gasp!) Reader and
staff are both willing to take education where they find
it, this being the American way, though perhaps not to
the full urgency of "Mr. Leaven's" relentless didactic
needs. His tone is doughy, pedantic, and becomes
downright annoying when one discovers the absence of
critical standards or knowledge behind his olympiads.
(1) "Leaven's" attack on the Quarterly is because the
writing shows a "solipsistic . . . almost mannered
self-consciousness, caters to tastes rather too refined; or
perhaps rareified is the word." His choice of words leads
one to conclude that he has not read much of the
poetry, or chooses to ignore most of it: Tom Walters'
poem on a popular film classic; Geof Hewit's brutal
confessions of a bachelor; Judith Greenberg's
"Agreement," which speaks of an experience common
to all of "Leaven's" straw "average readers"-marital and
social separation; Mike Culross' poem about King Kong
and his white mistress, reconsidered as a, racial-sexual
relationship, and his shorter poem considering fellatio as
an act of love ; and the comic basis of Rush Rankin's two
poems, which "Leaven" misreads, but Ekes anyway.
These are many things, but not-ever "mannered
. . . refined" or "rareified." "Mr. Leaven" later implicitly
links the poetry with that of T. S. Eliot, contrasted to
his own ideal of the public poet, Lord Byron. This has
no basis in the evidence of the magazine.
(2) We are told, early, as "Mr. Leaven" speaks for his
"average reader," that the poetry is too "introspective,"
and later, that "the best poetry has almost invariably
been communication on a large scale." As to what this
means exactly, I have no clear idea, and I must assume
"Mr. Leaven" shares my confusion. The only
contemporary poets I can think of who communicate on
any sort of large scale are Rod McKuen and KahlH
Gibran. While I have on occasion listened to the warm, I
am hard-pressed to raise them above other less-public
modern poets: Stevens, Eliot, Pound, Yeats, curnmings,
Roethke, Thomas. "Leaven's" argument is difficult to
pursue, especially in view of the evidence, and the
evidence is that the story of modern literature is pretty
much one of introspection and social disengagement. I
take "Leaven's" admission that Terhaps modern poetry
disproves my assertion (of 'communication on a large
scale'), as a confession that his dictates have no basis in
what is. He attacks the Quarterly out of his own private
notion of what poetry ought to be (and that is never
very clear). When he is forced to dispatch all of modern
poetry because it will not learn the lesson he has come
to teach, it makes me -well, it makes me wonder a little.
I mean, gee, "Mr. Leaven."
(3) As for his criticism of the poets' "faith in the
efficacy of concrete description," this is bound to his
criticism of the introspective element. For most modern
poetry, the way OUT, toward society, will come only
after a move inward, toward the self and small things:
small gestures and concrete objects. Like William Carlos
Williams says: "no ideas but in things." What you
demand, "Mr. Leaven," and let me repeat this, grows out
of your own private judgments of what poetry ought to
be. And your sense of what it ought to be either ignores
or is ignorant of most recent American poetry. Go read
Williams, or Roethke, or more recently, Charles Simic's
fine book of poems, or read our most public poet Allen
Ginsberg and discover the import and meaning of what
you term "faith in the efficacy of concrete description."
(4) While our reviewer grandly judges us on the stage
of all of literature, our own hopes are much kss lofty. A
literary magazine, at least as I see it, is not an eternal act
on the stage of history. Rather, the little magazine's real
value is in the very fact that it is ephemeral. History is
cluttered enough, filled with pretenders, and once one
accepts this, the function of a little magazine is clearer.
We are inexpensive, appear often, and disappear often, as
welL As to whether or not the Quarterly's poetry acquits
itself on "Mr. Leaven's" little historical stage is not of
immediate concern. More important, we are a journal of
contemporary writing, and while it is nattering to think
that "history will absolve us," who cares? I insist on our
rieht to perish, to be a "botched job," as "Leaven"
terms it. My own sense of obligationus to help edit a
or
masrazine with a distinct personality, an angle
vision," if" you like, one that serves as a forum for a
variety of styles and ideas of writing, especially by
young writers. Publishing in this tormented country is
difficult enough for a young writer, unless he is willing
to be a new literary fad, and if little magazines can help
at all, they can do so if offering space for a wide variety
of younger writers, making their work available to a
sympathetic, educated audience. I suggest that your
"Mr. Leaven's" review places him in the strange position
of denying the reality of the history' of modern poetry
and little magazines as well. Given these limitations, can
one expect anything more than a hatchet job?
I would conclude by saying that "Leaven's" Utile
sally against the Quarterly is like nothing so much as a
rejected suitor's frantic attempts to claw her ex-lover's
eyes. Surely the ravages of emotion account for "Mr.
Leaven's" many and varied critical lapses. Hysteria and a
desire for revenge are negative, restrict the mind's
powers, and I ask readers to consider his review in the
light of my observations. Unlike "Mr. Leaven," I can
advise people to buy the Quarterly. I certainly hope
they'll look over the current issue, available on and
off-campus.
I ask the editors of the Tar Heel to consider carefully
the assignment of all future renews, particularly those
possibly untaken with base motivations. Your "Mr.
Leaven," assuming this is not all a horrible put-on, is
distracted, or worse, tormented, and thus driven to
reject most of his own time. "Mr. Leaven" strikes me as
a pedant and an hysteric, and worse, he is utterly
ill-informed as to his subjects. Is it any wonder his words
cannot possibly appear under his own name?
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searching for new home
The Switchboard house was torn down by city officials Thursday and the Drug
Action Committee is looking for a new home.
The house had been scheduled for demolition for several weeks. Switchboard
officials have been unsuccessfully looking for a new location.
Switchboard is an organization which helps those with drug problems, problem
pregnancies and any other problem which people bring to the group.
Anyone knowing of a house the organization may use are asked to call Rev.
Banks Godfrey at 929-1560.
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