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The Darv Tar NeJ ...x-.'......:.:..-.-.-.'.'..'.-.'.v.'.-:-..-.-.-.-.-:.:.:.;.:-j Bruce Brooks Ken Ripley First Nabokov book graceful o 'hof n eeiin TuJrv. Sote"br 1-4. 1971 Somewhere along the line, so it seems, someone wanted to play it safe. "Never talk about religion, politics or women," ran the old advice, and avoid arguments. Doubtless a lot of arguments were avoided, as friends stayed friends by remaining mute on heated subjects, even if conversation remained somewhat superficial. No more. All three "banned" subjects dominate our lives, in practice if not in thought. Religious beliefs, whatever they are. touch our lives. Politics enmesh all of us as we become involved in the problems of war and peace surrounding us. The Victorians may have hushed up sex. but they couldn't abolish it. Nowadays no subject remains hushed up, not even Pentagon secrets. When we have feelings, we express them. When we have concerns, we do something about them. No matter how "hot" the issue, we go at it full tilt, as we should. Problems and controversies, we have painfully discovered, do not go away because we refuse to face them. They often get worse. Unfortunately, the conservative conversationalists of the past had one good point to make, intentionally or not. It usually isn't the issue that is "hot" as much as it is our feelings about them. We can't deal in issues; we become personal. We don't discuss; we fight. And we fight hard, no holds barred. Policemen, part of a system we object to, are "pigs." In those name-calling bouts, heads get bashed. All activist students, with or without long hair, are "Communists." The guv down the hall who disagrees with us is "pigheaded." The person who opposes us is an obscenity. We take our causes seriously, as we should, and our battles are personal. Hut all too often thinking stops name-calling begins. We forget the problem as we begin to attack each other. Thus no solution, just enemies. Many of the issues, of course, are personal, just as people and not issues can be the problem. Politicians, like anyone, can be crooks and should be opposed. People can be stupid, uninformed, lazy, incompetent. If someone is wrong, we should be able to say so, without spitting fire. Hut when we consistently look at people rather than the problem we run into trouble. When we meet anger with anger, we add fuel to hatred, intolerance, prejudice. Emotions are healthy. The many messes this country has found itself in should excite our anger and our passion to correct them. Hut not at each other, not when we've got to live together with our mistakes and work together to correct them. A campus like this is no different from anywhere else. Life styles clash, values and expectations differ. We have plenty to disagree on. But how many couples have broken apart in anger, how many roommates have hated each other unnecessarily, over petty arguments, simply because someone has said, in anger, something he didn't mean, or taken, in resentment, a position he didn't want to take? Can we hate the wrongs without hating each other? Can we work on the problems without working over someone else? There's a whole year ahead of problems, issues, controversial subjects. Is it possible, just possible, that we can learn that nothing is achieved by name-calling and hatred? I hope so. Religion, politics, and women can be fascinating subjects, if they don't poison us first. Inter-Varsity for Christians by Bunky Fbgler Feature Writer "Who is God?" "Jesus Christ: Insane, Liar or God?" "How do I fit in?" These are questions that the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship on the UNC campus plan to contend with this semester. Inter-Varsity, a national Christian group, is "an attempt to provide a place for Christians to get together and to mature spiritually," stated leader Roger Anderson. "To explore and to break out of preconceived ideas about Christianity this is our purpose. To stop cutting ourselves off from the academic world, to use our minds and to understand That's why our topics range from statisticians to psychologists to missionaries." The student leaders have planned a full slate of speakers and discussion groups, Bible study and prayer meetings. For Carolina Christian Fellowship, the undergraduate group, there will be linguist Richard Loving to speak of his experiences in New Guinea with the Wycliffe Translators, who translate the Bible into native dialects. Loving will be here at 8 p.m. on September 27. Also, in October, the Chief Resident Psychologist at Duke, Dr. Gordon Birch, will lecture on the complexities of interpersonal relationships. Evan Gough, a missionary from Subscriptions Plea! aty? latlg To Name StreetBox No $10.00 For the Year City State Name of Person Placing Subscription Campos Address Payment Enclosed Cash Money Order Check Wk1 fo Th Daily Tar, Heel Bui's CJH.e. N. C. 27b14 or JBrmq order and iiayinenl to Winston-Salem, has just returned from the Caribbean Islands and is preparing to leave for Australia. "Discerning God's Will for Your Life" will be his presentation in October. Focus, the fellowship for graduate students, faculty, and staff of the University, has also planned speakers and discussions. Its stated purpose is to expose thinking men and women to an intelligent presentation of historic Christianity, leaving the ultimate question of one's personal belief with the individual. With this purpose in mind, there will be committee-led supper discussion meetings on these topics: "Problem of Pain and Suffering," "Jesus Christ: Insane, Liar, or God?" and "Evidence of the Resurrection." In December, there will be the Sixth Annual Open Sing of Handel's "Messiah." "Instead of listening, we sing it," Roger Anderson said. Anderson, a second year graduate student in American History, agreed that there is some overlapping of Inter-Varsity with other groups on campus. "However, there are 20.000 students on this campus, and we all have the same goal. That is, to talk to as many of the students as possible," he said. The programs usually are held in the Union. Some of them take place at the home of faculty advisor Dr. Gordon Simons. Send alar IfM Zip Code CarolirM Union Bu'ldmq. UNC. OiaoH Hill. th DTH Business O'lice. Carolina Union. Mary, by YlsJi":ir .Vjr: Trsnzlatcd fron the Rususn by Ml Glenny in colhborzn .i:h the zu: Fxcett-Crei:. Sepxrrtf 1L pzzes. 5. So. h . r. This is Vlaijr.ir Naboko ntten in Russian in 19! Nabokov's adopted lar.gua; . first novel. . English is for his l-it several books (though he has sp since age five), and the language and patrons have stood him in good stead. The language has withstood and supported the brilliant bombast and hmit-stretching playfulness with which he has affectionately assaulted and probed it. Like the strongest yet most pliable clay in the hands of the most violent and imaginative sculptor. English has been inspiring and durable m the exhaustive semantic and formal experiments of his peculiar, thrilling gen as. The English-reading audience has certainly responded enthusiastically to its linguistic immigrant, making movies and plays of several of his works as well as giving him the respect and admiration he deserves. Why then have these wonderful people and this wonderful language been refused the grace of this wonderful little novel for thirty-six years? For this is the first translation of the book available. Mary, as its cover announces sedately, is an unconventional love story. Blessedly unconventional, in view of present conventions that have forced love into cutesy epigrams and outrageous 'novels" greedily eaten up by the literary coprophiles and washed down with their own silly tears. Mary remindsassures us that love as an artistic theme has much quality and imagination outstanding, and that the best man to put it in print is probably Nabokov. The novel takes place in Berlin, where seven Russian exiles have unhappily relocated in a boardinghouse. There are a grizzled landlady, two homosexual ballet dancers, an old heart-troubled magazine poet, a young busty secretary, an unpleasantly friendly and halitotic businessman named Alfyorov, and a twenty-five year old rolling stone named Ganin. The story begins on a Sunday. On the upcoming Saturday, two important events are scheduled: Alfyorov's wife. Mary, is to come from Russia, where she has been separated from him for four years, and Ganin is planning to leave Berlin where he found nothing but seedy jobs and severely boring love affairs. In a strange nocturnal meeting the excited Alfyorov pushily shows the disinterested Regular prayer meetings are held on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union. Wednesday night, Carolina Christian Fellowship begins a three-part Bible study, to meet on consecutive Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Student Union. Led by Ken Ripley, DTH "Soul Food" columnist, the first topic in the series is "What is God?" OHIZOPHRENIA SCHIZOPHRENIA SC C5 -r O 55 m Z CO o I N O a X 73 m ID cc X c o N T IS FOR TOPS! CO o IN O X X m CO o M o D Z CO n rsi O 55 m z CO n N O Our Schizo Shop is simply jumping with the best looking tops, with one important difference fully fashioned sleeves, completely washable acrylics, at only S10. Schizophrenia Shop at MILTON'S 3 m Z CO n N O Q. o NJ O ID rr o N u to in; - II u z ID CO n ,;fe. G-.r rcoer.:zes with a shock that Miry :$ riiv - r.i'.i lover of h: ei:l r - - - - - . .th a decisive break-cl! 2:: s h rrom her ur.p.ei To :ntens:f ir.d prepare his bve Situriay edification. Ganir. settles into :or.cser.:ious renewal of h:s lev- though memory and constant evocation -f Mary's lov.ng '-.age Nabokov is a master of anticipation. -Ada." "King. Q-eer.. Knave." and "Lohta" are eah largely composed of characters slowly approaching each other m a susper.sef ul passion of expectati n and premonition to be sudden!) and beautifully satisfied at the perfect moment of the nod. In Mary, this motif of anticipation is By Carolina Readers Feiffer subject of by Kathy Koch Feature Writer The social satire of Jules Feiffer. author of "Little Murders" and "Carnal Knowledge." will be featured in the Carolina Readers first production of the year. "Boy-Girl. Boy-Girl." Academy Award winner Feiffer is syndicated in over 40 newspapers and has his cartoons published in such magazines as Playboy and New Republic. The Carolina Readers will present oral interpretations of his humorous vignettes on October 1 and 2 in Gerrard Hall. In a cross-section of Feiffer's cartoons, "Boy-Girl. Boy-Girl" offers a taste of Feiffer's satiric view of male-female relationships. The Carolina Readers, formed under the direction of Dr. H. D. Doll of the UNC Speech Department, offers students a chance to get involved in all aspects of production from beginning to end. In Dr. Doll's words, "People join because they like to perform. I'm only there to advise." The group plans to include Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" and Flannel O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" in their presentations for this year. THIS IS THE RECORD & TAPE'S MANIC MANAGER'S STORE WIDE SPUR-OF-THE-MOMENT SALE A I I . K I II )( rh I A. Jk. c- M. A. A. Jk. ' List 2.98 ALL 4.98 LPs ALL 5.98 LPs ALL 6.98 LPs 1 DAY ONLY FOR OUR SECOND SUPER SALE CHECK OUR COMPETITOR'S AD AND GET IT FOR .10 LESS! ITBe fore a Possible 10 Hike on DGG LP' from Nixon's import tax ALL DGG LP's 6.98 List IN ENTIRE CATALOGUE W k i A 1 456 given .ts rr.cst ;n....ir.t term Gar it. spends each da torn between, two anticipations h.s mem cry -".iff takes him thro-th th? per.od hen. after his f.rst sight of Vary at age sixteen . he famed he is no 'es.s eager in h.s a:t for he: act-al arr: a! On Thursday hf finishes his mfmor.es of Mary up to the pom; of his last phsica! contact u:h her. on Fndav I i k Mta J i . A i t 4 V J t h . between this pom and thf.r last communication in mail: and on Saturda he goes to meet her in advance of Alfyorov. At the tram station where he wnts. he rf alines sicker.mglv that through his exhaustive time defeating affair with her i e m o rv i a f love, there is no room for the woman He leaves, unseen, hv Marv, who never A Halloween program of ghost stones, to be staged in Forest Theatre son;e weekend midnight, and an evening ot folklore and folksongs are also m their plans for the year. The Readers had a successful season last year with suh productions as "love Story," "The Andersonville Trial." "The Women." and "For My People." The first meeting of the Carolina Readers will be Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 4 p.m. in 103 Bmgham. It is open to all students, faculty and townspeople Concert rescheduled To allow as many people as possible to attend the recital, tonight's first concert of the Tuesday livening Concert Series, sponsored by the Music Department, w ill be presented in two performances instead of one. The recital, by Dr. Rudolph Kremer, chairman of the Music Department's Org3n Division, will be held at 7:30 and W p.m. in Hill Hall and not at 8 p.m. as originally announced. STOREWIDE SALE I I .ANSI! S ml THRU THURSDAY West Franklin Street appears m thf neve, Kegirc:'.e. of whether hf is dewr.'-.-g a cr.ppLrg piss. on or a chest of d:af:v NiboKOv i simp'.v fun to read. Mjr rich m mv:ge-itirg draughts from his immenstf ti.ent From scene-sttmg t character;:ation he conwientiouslv j writer and never a larv expositor This first-nov f I. vkr.ttfn with, thf relaxed pleasure of a confident ourg man w-.th all time before him to write wb.itever hf wants, is gracffu'.lv fmpt of the ten-c se . t -i n d u e n ce and urgent ironv thit detracted from "Xda." his Litest novel This long work seemed to unfortunate'.; inf.uencf J bv an old mar."s nervous c ompu'.sion to get ever, smattf ring of genius even mildlv relfv j- into whit hf feared could be his fmal w ork readings inter :sted m readme id to an a ad if n ; and m some of the technical aspects ot production. Ir-out dates for "Bo-G:rl. Box-Girl" will be this Wednesday and Thursday night from -10 p m m 10' Bmgham. The Carolina Readers is or.e of tw.- readers groups on campus and in not to re confused with Mrs Will, am llardv"s group, the INC Readers. Mrs. Hardy's group is composed of her Speech Ml class and will begin this year's season jn mid-October. A shift m auditoriums necessitated t!.-c change m schedule. Kremer will be playing a mostly modern program, including works by Lubeck and Krenek, on the department's fine reproduction baroque organ. Kremer s concert is the first of 10 concerts by different musicians and musical organizations Scheduled by the department to perform this semester Concerts normally will begin at S p.m. The concerts are free to the public. - ALL LABELS., Recoton Stereo Phones Reg. $18.95 This Week $12.95 u CO Open until 10 Daily OS VIN3UHdOZIH0S VIN3HHdOZ
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